In early spring, the previous year's reeds have been cut and only the stubble still protrudes a little higher above the damp soggy ground of a stretch of low-lying Dutch polder landscape. A natural landscape whose layers of peat harken back to the primeval days of the Netherlands. Everything is damp and swampy.
Plants, grass and reeds can only just keep their heads above water. Above them, a wide sky stretches to the horizon. The water is not deep, but moves with every gust of wind, precisely indicating the direction of the wind, and those ditches and canals will be inhabited, when spring is a little further along, by flocks of geese and ducks that build their nests on the narrow patches of land together with the meadow birds. Pieces of ground that will then replace the brown and yellow hues of winter with the green of young plants. But now still a limited palette of yellow, brown and shades of blue and steel grey. Dutch nature on dde edge of land and water.
My great loves are the water and everything about it. Ships, travel, history and photography. The combination is therefore very common in my photographic work. Most photographs are created intuitively. It is an image that strikes me, usually a combination of form and color in which a.. Read more…
Netherlands
Germany
Netherlands
Germany
Netherlands
Germany
Germany
Netherlands
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany