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It took a while, busy months with a lot of fieldwork, photography and writing for my book … publishing a new blog can be delayed in these circumstances. But I have a good reason to publish one now. I have written an article in the August-issue of the german nature photography magazine Naturfoto about my trip to Minnesota in 2010 (see the blog of October 2010). I attended a workshop with Jim Brandenburg and spent a week in the wilderness in a canoe. This trip was one of the most special events in my life. I write about the landscape, the encounters with animals (wolves!), my relation with nature and about wilderness as a source of inspiration. I have begun to realize how important the wilderness is as a place for getting connected to our roots, to think about the source of life and as a source of inspiration for a sound way of living with our planet. The magazine is available in the better magazine-stores (at least here in Wageningen at the Bruna).
Have fun reading! Niels
Here is link to a scanned pdf of the article!
At last I have succeeded! After two years of preparations and trial-and-error I have captured the, maybe ultimate, symbiosis of military use and nature. Let’s introduce this case. On the military training area Leusderheide a population of approximately 24.000 sand lizards have their domicile, probably the largest population in The Netherlands. This massive occurrence is for a great part due to the design and the use for armored vehicles and tanks. The vehicles make use of the numerous sand roads and barren plains and maintain the openness and dynamics. The lizards depend on the open sand for laying their eggs in and moreover, they benefit from the large length of borders – the edges between heathland and open sand. For years I envisioned an image with a sand lizard and a rolling tank. In 2011 I put a lot of effort in making the image, but in vain. To cut it short, yesterday I did it! Here you see one of the images, in this case with a female and a CV-90. The best images are with a stunning green male, but these I will publish in the book! There I will also explain how I did it. Follow the book on MissieNatuur.
Cheers, Niels