belgium

wild fox

One evening I see this small owl on the road. I first tried photographing it and then I kinda realised that something was wrong because what owl would just sit there 1 meter from me. It was getting dark and cars, bikes pass by, so I stand infront of the owl. The thing still not move and then I put it in the grass. Then I thought the cats that are here too and if it would crawl back ont he road... So I picked it up and put it in my box I have on my bike where I usually put my backpack. At home I put it in a box and it got through the night. In the morning I put the owl outside the box, in the sun and it seemed to be really enjoying it.

a dinosaur

Just as while photographing jumping spiders, I also think these things are very intelligent; i DUNNO you can see it in their eyes ? shot next to the road when i took a bike pauze, this is so nice about macro, i still remember the cosey safe feeling i had shooting this, it was somewhere in the agriculture zone between bruges and ostend, that entire area is amazing to bike or hike, there are few small towns you cross but for the rest its all nature and agriculture (semi nature)

Only a very small amount of these babyfrogs will become adult frogs. Most will get eaten or dry up in the sun if they are too far from the water on a hot day.

project squirrel. I want to get them sharp in flight, but it will need to be a very bright clear light day. The squirrel should have been sharp, my shutter speed was simple not fast enough, i think it was the fastest I could use, could crank up iso but then it will start to get ugly. Buying an f2.8 500mm for 7000 or more euro is not an option, so need better light :D

Lappersfort

" M*enaert is een os, want hij verkocht het bos... " In een land dat al bijna geen natuur heeft, moest er nog een stukje bos meer weg !

personally, I haaaate these cobbelstones. Well , to be precise, when I need to bike over them. Sooo annoying. It does look nicer then plan concrete, but it is NOT practical and autists like it practical :p

I usually keep myself busy biking in and around Damme, to the coast from there . Also the other side of the Bruges Ommeland, also to the coast. My area I roam in is from Cadzand to Ostend, untill Ghent. That is as far as I can get with my bike and go back the same day, max 110 km. Normal bike eh, no ebike or no fancey sport bike, just citybike with photogear. Lots of the times I just go to bike in the countryside and no longer take photo's. The subject needs to interest me, I don't shoot things that are in nice light solely no more, it needs to interest me...

I wasted lots of time in shitty buildings like this, not only to photograph, i even had my own squat for a couple of months, during winter, with no heater or electricity :) . So glad I changed to nature photography. Because of the Autism problems I lost myself a couple of years. I have no connections with any of that scene or people. I have a new life and I'm glad about that. And I'm Not an anarchist. I still have respect for the Lappersforters, the eco activits, who stand up for the tree's against big corporations...

Woody

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