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Born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Greatly invested in nature, especially birds. Also in the visual arts, music, movies and literature. Photography is my greatest creative passion.
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Dominique Evrard, master of shadow (opens the original)
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Around the year 2000, I was checking out photo books in the rather well-stocked photography section of a municipal library. There were always a few new books that sparked my interest, but rarely anything that blew me away completely. In those days I still only shot film, mainly color (Fuji, Kodak and a cheap film called Revue), but also the occasional B&W (Agfa and Ilford), which was “my first love” and even in those days, much closer to my heart. The photographers I liked then were all film sho
Birds in the Netherlands - August 2026 (opens the original)
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A little behind on my monthly bird photography updates (which isn’t important of course), I have put in some extra effort to get this one up. Last month was so full of encounters with birds (you’ve probably seen my post about a diving kingfisher ), I didn’t come around to doing other photography stuff (I take photos of everything that inspires me) than sorting out and editing bird photos. The editing workflow-part of my photography has changed, which made it less tedious, and I think better-look
A kingfisher’s dive (opens the original)
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Just having returned from my road trip to France, I returned to bird photography in my surroundings as well. The first thing I noticed was the difference of birding in an environment that is familiar to you vs birding in a new environment. Maybe it’s mainly because you’re very focused on certain spots and biotopes that you know have yielded the most sightings and photos in the past, but the richness in species kind of surprised me, even without griffon vultures, black kites and bee eaters. You c
Birds I saw and heard in July 2026 (opens the original)
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As some of you will have noticed, I spent some weeks abroad, on a solo camping trip in central and southeastern France, and passing shortly through the south of the Belgian Ardennes on the way back. I did something similar last year, but this year’s experience was still very different. I don’t mean there were life-altering events, wildfires that were near, runs of bad luck or car trouble, just visiting (mainly) different places, even though I’d been to some of them before. But traveling tends to
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