Ran a beautiful Landscape Photography workshop today. Just with one client so the whole program was really custom and flexible. We did go to the “Leudal” which you probably know by now. My local forest and little nature reserve with beautiful woodlands, a forest stream and a big variety of flora.
Autumn is around the corner and the colors in the landscape were just starting to turn, nothing too vibrant yet, still very green. But you could see, feel and smell that Autumn is not far away now. Below are some shots of the day, if you want to join these workshops check out this link
Forest Photography - Fog & Soft Light - Fujifilm XT4
Early morning in the local forest with a nice amount of fog and beautiful light. I had a rough night sleep, woke up way to early. And heading out in the forest was medicine for body and soul. When wandering out in the nature with these conditions you just calm down. Slow down and just start to feel better straight away. All shots were taken with my FujiFilm XT4 and a 16-80mm F4 lens, handheld.
Drone Photography - The Tuspeel
The Tuspeel measures 29 hectares and is probably the southernmost toponym that still contains the word 'peel'. With raised bog as the main feature of the area, the name is not so remarkable. Where 'tus' comes from is a mystery. It is a name that has been used for a long time; it was already called that at the beginning of the 20th century. From the very wet core of the area peat has never been dug away to disappear as peat in the stove. As a result, a number of characteristic species of a raised bog vegetation still occur here. The special area can be experienced from the edges. There are several freely accessible footpaths around the wet core.
The Tuspeel remains moist because of a loam layer in the soil. Peat formed in the depressions, but was not extracted as peat as in most of Limburg. This meant that the characteristic bog flora remained intact. This includes one-haired meadow grass and peat moss, white beak rush, sundew and in the pools floating pondweed and water thrift. Small cranberry, heather and lavender heather are also found. In the dry parts of the reserve one finds, among other things, spiny broom and sand blue.
The animal world includes: small green frog, two salamander species, more than ten species of dragonfly, greenhorn and phegea butterfly.
In the immediate vicinity of the area there are large ponds created by gravel extraction, in particular the Lange Vlieter, today a basin for the water supply company, and the recreational lake Lange Peel.
High drifting dunes around the bog core are planted with Scots pine and American oak. This is where the great spotted woodpecker and the green woodpecker nest. A small herd of horses graze the dry areas throughout the year, ensuring that most of the area does not become overgrown with birch forest.
Photographing wild Garlic - Savelsbos
It is spring right now and it is the time of the year where everything is growing and coming back to life in nature. In the south of the province I live in there is this beautiful forest that has wild garlic in it and this time of year these plants look really nice when they are blooming. The forest floor is covered in white and it just looks so nice something that is really interesting to photograph and to portray spring. This forest is called Savelsbos and it's located outside of the town of Margraten.
Some areas inside of this forest are off-limits because they are protected. As I was walking through the forest I noticed a few damaged plants and newly made tracks through the plants. This is something I just can't understand people do. I am all for trying to get a special shot in order to get a unique composition but I won't go as far as obviously breaking the rules and damaging plant/wildlife. There is plenty of awesome shots to take here even when you just stick to the marked roads and paths.
Luckily there was not a lot of damaged plants and wildlife t spot aside from a few places. The wild garlic is actually a protected plant and it is obviously forbidden to take them away, or destroy them.
These flowers will only be in this state and have this look for the next coming weeks and when summer comes the white flowers will be gone. The forest really smells like onion and garlic during this time of year and we don't have a lot of forest around where this plant grows. Below you can see a couple more shots that I took in this forest. I really liked strolling around here taking it easy and enjoying nature.
This shot below is a panorama made up of several vertical images. All handheld shots stitched in Adobe lightroom
Hatertse en Overasseltse Vennen - Photo Gallery
If you are visiting this page, it is probably because you’ve seen my silent hiking video of this location. Here is a gallery with more photographs from that trip. Thanks a lot for watching. Friendly reminder: all my photographs are available for custom printing, reach out if you are interested.
A nice and cold morning, with freezing temperatures. I love these crispy mornings. I got up early, had to drive one hour to get to this area, and missed sunr...
