Photography by Willem van den Ende

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Thunderclouds over the Strabrechtse Heide (near Heeze)		15 Aug 05
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Summer seems to have gone here already. Yesterday I went for a stroll at the strabrechtse heide after the weather seemed to have cleared up. After about ten minutes these thunderclouds blew past. The light was pretty though, with alternating bands of sun and shadow passing by.

The weather is different on the other side of the pass

27 Apr 05

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I have quite a backlog of images, I hope to upload some more in the coming months. In June 2004 I was travelling around the alps and dolomites. I visited Barbara Weber and Werner Wild near Innsbruck, Austria. This is what it looked like over there:

meadows with hayrolls and an austrian village near innsbruck

With rain, and on the mountaintops still freezing, not very nice weather to go camping. So Werner suggested to go and continue my trip on the other side of the Brenner pass, in Italy. When I had driven over the Brenner, and looked in the rearview mirror, I had to stop for this:

Sunset over the brenner pass, seen from the italian side

Strabrechtse Heide, near Heeze

11 Mar 05

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I've not been posting as many photographs as I want to, especially not selecting and describing them. Charles Vermeulen was asking me about my photo's I made at the Strabrechtse Heide (Heide is Dutch for Heath) at the end of 2004. It was nice frosty weather, and the sheep were almost having an aura at sundown:

sheep on the Strabrechtse Heide near Heeze

Lighted sheep from another angle:

sheep on the Strabrechtse Heide near Heeze

I like lens flare, so I took another picture of the sheep with a wider angle:
sheep on the Strabrechtse Heide near Heeze, now with more lens flare

And a wide view of the heath from beneath a range of trees, with rainbow colored lens flare:

Further down the path, my sister spotted these frozen leaves:

Strabrechtse Heide near Heeze - frozen leaves and grass

And some 'kattjes' (I'm not a biologist. If anyone knows the correct english for these things, feel free to let me know)
closeup of a tree on the strabrechtse heide

And a partially frozen pond with an open pond and some trees behind it: pond with trees

Spring is here, here I am :-)

05 Mar 04

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I'm currently recovering from knee surgery (metal pins and a plate were removed - which is a good thing). So it is learning to walk... again.

Haven't been blogging for a long time. I have been procrastinating about giving the blog more focus, or make it more personal. I decided on the last, so from now on, I'll also anounce e.g. new photographs here. So here it goes:

Yesterday I went on a photo-hunt with Charles Vermeulen, in the surroundings of Rhenen. It was very nice, somewhat sunny spring weather with a cool breeze.
Fruit tree with old blosoms, with the church tower of Rhenen in the distant background
Tree (probably apple or pear) with old blossoms, Rhenen in the background

View on Rhenen, cuneralaan, with blossoms and the bicyclepath along the Rhine on the foreground

Until late in the afternoon, the light wasn't that nice for shooting landscapes, so we made some macro images in de blauwe kamer (the blue room) which is a small wetlands reserve behind the grebbeberg. 'Berg' means mountain... it is just a hill but in Holland we aren't used to much :-).

Some kind of fly on a leaf Buttercups and barbed wire (Blauwe Kamer, near Opheusden, the Netherlands)

Some kind of fly on a leaf Insect hanging upside down from a flower(Blauwe Kamer, near Opheusden, the Netherlands)

Some kind of fly on a leaf (Blauwe Kamer, near Opheusden, the Netherlands)

More photographs from this session....