When I am photographing, most of the time I look….I find….I see….I feel….I think. And at the end I press the button. It is the essence of making photographs that stand out and are beyond the snapshot. I have learned to not only look, but to see. And I have learned to feel the emotions that an image-in-making is provoking inside me. I try to convey these into my photos. This photographer in my ‘backyard’ nature reserve is not touching the camera, he is looking and thinking….

Cheers, Niels

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I have just returned from my holiday in Sweden. I did take it easy considering photography, but there was a morning when I could not resist to rise. There was hardly any wind and the sun was covered by a diffuse blanket of clouds. … I decided to go to the coast. The clouds created a natural neutral density filter, but because they also changed, the light was changing as well. I choose a vantage point that had no disturbing subjects and waited for the moment that some greylag goose would pass by. Retrospectively I see here a gathering of elements: the rock solid, unchanging, the water rhythmic, repetitive and the geese volatile, passing. Speaking of a metaphor for life!

Cheers, Niels