A couple of days ago I biked by the Philips de Jongh park in Eindhoven, and I saw this photo. Well, I saw a tree and a park bench and then I saw in my head how this could look as a photo. So, I got of my bike and made the photo.

I usually go to work on my bicycle, which gives me the chance to stop and make some photos along the way. A couple of days ago it was sunny pretty early on in the morning, and that makes for ideal circumstances to take some pictures. The color of the light that is present has [...]

Here are some more photos from my sister’s farm. “Chico” is Linda’s dog by the way.

I don’t see my sister, Linda, very often because she lives outside of the city these days. Last weekend she celebrated her birthday so we had a good reason to visit her. Linda lives on a very nice old farm, and there’s always a lot of things to photograph out there. One of the things [...]

I asked Kailea if she wanted to help me with a photo, I was in luck, she didn’t mind helping me out this time. I’ve seen several photographers use the following technique on a regular basis. Have your model, Kailea in my case, hold an object in front of them, that would be Mickey Mouse, [...]

My sister has a new little kitty, eight weeks old. Very cute. I’d almost want to have one myself. Almost… too bad there’s so many reasons not to get one. Unfortunately I don’t live on a big farm like my sister. Ah well, you can’t have everything. It’s one cute little kitty though.

I have to admit that I am afraid of black and white photos. Not that I have a phobia or anything like that but I am always afraid that if I convert a photo from color to black and white that I will lose something, that I will degrade the photo to something of lesser [...]

Bokeh is a term that describes the area in a photo that is not in focus. In the photo that is posted below you can see a number of nice looking “rings” in the lower left corner. Those are glitters on Kailea’s dress, which are not in focus. Talking about focus, the area that is [...]

I have a lot of good memories from my youth. One of those good memories is about a routine that we had at the time that I was attending elementary school and high school. When I got home from school my mom would have tea and a cookie ready for me. We would talk about [...]

As I was saying a couple of days ago, I now have a renewed appreciation for the Fall. Here’s a photo of two trees that are behind each other where the contrast between their colors is nicely illustrated.

Last Saturday I bought a “real” camera. A fully manual SLR camera, designed in the 1970s. I did my best to find a camera that I find aesthetically pleasing because I think that i will make more photo off it, than with it. It is a Praktica MTL3, made in East-Germany and bought in Eindhoven [...]

Last sunday I wanted to take some pictures of my daughter Ella in her cute yellow dress. She is at an age where she wants to see everything, feel everything and put everything in her mouth. She always seems to be on her way to explore something. The best way to have her sit still [...]

I used to have a strong disliking for the Fall (I don’t like using the word “hate”) because it signaled the end of the warm weather and the start of the colorless winter. These days I’m starting to enjoy Fall. The trees really show a rainbow of colors. Autumn is colorful. Near my house I [...]

I like photos where the subject is in focus and the background is very much out of focus. To make a photo like that you need a lens that has a small depth of field. I regularly use the

Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of photos on blogs that have a Polaroid look to them. The Polaroid look seems to be back in style. Ironically I heard that just a couple of years ago Polaroid closed their last factory where Polaroid film was still produced. Just a tad too early. They should have [...]

I read a number of wedding photographer’s blogs. These photographers have a unique style. I would classify a lot of their work as art. One of those blogs is Jose Villa’s blog. Jose Villa is a wedding photographer based in Southern California. There’s probably thousands of wedding photographers in Southern California, which means that there [...]

I was able to take a lot of fun pictures during our vacation in Spain. Lots of photos of all sorts of objects but also some good family pictures. At some point I was playing with Kailea en I “just happened” to have my camera on me. Kailea was running around the house and I [...]