Fotosoep Blog

On Queen’s day I went to the Keukenhof with my mom, to appreciate (and photograph) the flowers. That is, I just take pictures of the flowers, my mom also takes pictures of the weird looking tourists-and they are almost as abundant as the flowers . I think  the best image of that day was this [...] […]

A week after the tulip fields in Lisse I went to Flevoland province, to see if I could get better pictures of tulip fields and perhaps a modern day windmill or two. Well, I wasn’t disapointed. I cranked up the candy factor on the picture, to make the flowers look more colorful than they already are. [...] […]

I went for a ride to Alkmaar to see the flower bulb fields there, but they were a bit of a dissapointment.  I want a windmill behind my field of tulips. And I just couldn’t find the right one. So I drove my tiny car back to Lisse, where I decided to take some shots [...] […]

The new “tradition”, the annual so called “bollenrit” was held again in the little village where I live. All sorts of cars, from the very old to the very new gather at the local square and then roll out for a spin amongst the flower-bulb fields. The pictures were more of a registration of the [...] […]

The Japanese Cherry trees (Prunus serrulata) were in bloom, so I grabbed my Nikon D700, slapped the 105mm Micro VR on it and shot some pics. The wind occasionally moved my subject about, so it was quite hard capturing the flowers. As far as the picture goes, I can do better, but the one below is [...] […]

I was going to photograph another sundown at my favorite spot, when I spotted this deceased majestic bird and it’s equally dead mate. No idea how they died, but somehow black and white seems more fitting for this image than color. I upped the contrast and tweaked the conversion, it is not a [...] […]