Travel Stories

Last week I tried to photograph short-eared owls at the famous location in Uitkerke at the Belgian coast. Thousands of people come here every winter to observe the owls hunting at dusk. If lucky, they start foraging before sunset. Which, again, wasn't the case when I was there. …

A scenic image of our garden feeder(s)... This was a one off effort (putting all feeders in one tree), trying to make the ultimate bird feeder picture...

This week I spent several days at sea testing new fishing gear. We did some testing around the winmill parks, where around a dozen ships were working.  

It brings a lot of satisfaction I reckon, to photograph topics or subjects that remain rarely seen. Maybe that is why I like to picture smaller mammals such as bats and mice. Unseen by most people, yet they occur in and around every house. Pieter-Jan and I have been working on …

What me and Pieter-Jan love doing most, is high-speed photography on bats. This takes time, skill, lots of gear and quite some practice, but after several years and many tips from René, we finally start getting decent flying bat images. Some of these I wanted to share with you. …

Last weekend I visited my friend Jean-Marie who lives in the Lorraine (France). His specialty is the European wild cat. You can see he knows his area just by listening to him talk. \"Là dans ce secteur il y du chat. C'est un male qui se trouve souvent dans le fossé dans ce …