The following pictures were taken 3 weeks ago while walking through the area called Kamspheide in Balloo, which is a place in Drenthe, a northern province of the Netherlands. The weather was good, sunny and partly cloudy but with a chilly wind.
The colors where spectacular, the reddish brown of the heath, the green of the trees and moss and the deep blue of the sky look amazing together.
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Another item acquired by chance. This lens, a 28mm 2.8f macro lens by Super Danubia, was embedded in an industrial control system. My father brought it home, encased in a larger housing. After some effort we managed to extract the lens itself.
Tagged with lens, m42, macro, slr , 2 CommentsFollowing up on my previous post “bees and butterflies”, here are some more photos I took this summer of what are in fact flies. They are sneaky little buggers as they pose as bees. This is a natural defense you see in a lot of different species.
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These photos were taken in 2006, I don’t know why I never got around to posting them. I took them when we were on vacation on the dutch shoreline. The Oosterscheldekering, as it is called, is a storm surge barrier built as part of the Delta Works after the devastating floods in 1953.
Tagged with barrier, beach, sea , 2 CommentsSome time ago I submitted photos of my workplace on Figure.fm for inclusion in the book Otacool 3, which covers worldwide workplaces. The book was published recently and this week I received my copy.
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