January 17, 20259 Comments

Floating On Frozen Silence

It's early in the morning. It has been snowing all night, there is no one else in the forest. Carefully you take a step into the fresh snow….

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January 14, 20256 Comments

A Dreamless Sleep

A beautiful winter sunset in nature reserve Overasseltse & Hatertse Vennen, close to my former hometown Nijmegen in The Netherlands.
It is a small but beautiful nature reserve, a landscape of fens, small groups of trees, heather and grassland.

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January 13, 20257 Comments

Awaiting The Evening (2)

I have been to the sea at many different times. All seasons, all times of the day, under many different weather conditions.
Yet every time I'm surprised by the light, never the same and always providing fascinating and enchanting colors.

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January 8, 20256 Comments

Winter Sunset (10)

The fields are covered with a thin layer of snow. The world waits in stillness for the night to come.

It was so quiet that afternoon, just before sunset... No wind, no birds, no cars... Nothing.
As if the world had been completely abandoned.

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January 7, 20258 Comments

The Dawn Of This Day

Even in the darkest forest, the light will find its way to the ground....

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January 6, 20256 Comments

A Winter Morning

A winter day awakens, the colors growing brighter, more intense, as I slip out of a dream...

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January 5, 202510 Comments

Carried By The Winds

It is a beautiful, sunny and windy winter day when we climb the high dunes on the coast of the North Sea. Reaching the top of a dune, we sit down, in the sun and a bit sheltered from the wind. The horizon is barely visible because of a haze of fine drops of seawater. Even the wind tastes salty...

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January 4, 20256 Comments

A Frisky Flirt

The part of Denmark where we live is known for the beautiful Nordic light. The sunsets over the North Sea and the fjords and lakes in autumn and winter are magical, at least: if there is not too much cloud cover. When I made the photo for this artwork, the conditions were perfect: a humid atmosphere and veil clouds.

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January 1, 20258 Comments

Into A New Day (2)

A cold and stormy winter morning on the beach of the North Sea near Agger, North West Denmark. Seagulls hover on the wind, waiting for the sea to bring them something to eat. Diving down, sometimes landing on the water, and not always successful in catching something edible...

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December 31, 20248 Comments

Winter Dream

Winter morning, the smell of a new day. I stroll along the path between sleeping and waking, I don't want to let go of my dream yet. A cold breeze through my hair, the sunlight touches my face...

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December 29, 20246 Comments

Towards A New Day

At the end of a beautiful sunny day, there are often some clouds over the sea. Does that make the sunset less beautiful? Often it doesn't, or it even makes it more beautiful. The clouds make the colors even more intense.

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December 27, 20245 Comments

Nordic Sunset (1)

It is very cold, the sky is clear and the meadows are frozen. The ideal conditions under which a Nordic sunset shows itself in all its splendor.

The light along the long coastlines of Nordic countries is special: clean air, bright sunshine interspersed with wind-driven clouds and rugged coastline. This light has inspired many artists, especially impressionists from more southern European countries loved to come to the Danish and Norwegian coasts.

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December 26, 20244 Comments

Birth Of This Night

On the same night as the artwork I posted yesterday... A quiet winter evening in a swampy area. We made a long walk through this beautiful area, and now that we are on our way back to the parking lot, it is almost dark...

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December 25, 20248 Comments

A Poem For This Night

The dying sun
colors the sky with a poem
to welcome this night

A quiet winter evening in a swampy area. The sun sets behind the trees and colors the sky as if it was on fire. A poem to welcome this beautiful night.

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December 21, 20246 Comments

This New Day – Midwinter Wish

Light. Hidden
behind a veil of silence
of the fading darkness
Celebrate this new day
Every day

The past year for us has been about tearing down, and rebuilding. Demolishing what was rotten or no longer served us, and considering what we wanted to keep and perhaps reuse.

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December 18, 20246 Comments

Dressed In Blue (2)

It's early on a cold, dark winter morning. At dusk, everything seems to be the colour blue. Then the sun rises, coloring the world in an amazing palette.

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December 12, 20246 Comments

The Yellow Umbrella

A dark evening in a city where it is raining briskly. The street is almost deserted, shopkeepers have just turned out the lights and closed their stores. Two people are walking down the street talking and laughing under a yellow umbrella. I feel a strange desire to know what the two are laughing about....

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December 11, 20248 Comments

Dream Of A Disintegrated City

When Laura Ann Reed, a friend and poet from the US, sent me a new poem she had written, her words spoke to me so strongly that I immediately had a vision that for me matched her words. Moreover, I also immediately knew which two 10-year-old photos I had to put together to make the image I had in mind.

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December 10, 20248 Comments

A Lonely Morning

Fresh snow, as far as the eye can see. The forest looks spacious, light, and larger than usual. It is quiet, and the world feels deserted. Only the muffled crunch of our footsteps in the fresh snow.

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December 8, 20248 Comments

Hidden Summer Dreams

Soft waving reeds in a chilly breeze. The ripples on the icy water make it hard to see anything below the surface. An ideal hiding place for dreams…

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August 13, 20243 Comments

Winter Dreams

Just as I sometimes dream of spring or summer while it is still winter, I also sometimes dream of winter on a warm summer day.

It is a kind of vague longing for peace and quiet, for moments of reflection. Summer is a hectic time of blooming, ripening, harvesting, processing and making ready for storage...

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August 10, 20242 Comments

Evanescent

Late in the afternoon on a clear winter day, two barnacle geese fly towards the low sun. The sunlight seems to dissolve them in the cold winter air.

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August 6, 20242 Comments

Disturbed Souls

Out for a walk early in the morning on a beautiful sunny winter day, I see a group of gulls fight each other for a piece of bread....

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June 18, 2024No Comments

White And Silver

Winter retreats
dressed in bright white and silver
arranging the fresh green

A blue sky and the fading shades of white and silver of the trees, welcome the beautiful green of the arriving spring !

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