After Dark (3)

Pictures in the dark often reveal more than the darkness can hold back. The mood is different from the same shots during daytime. Over the years I have taken quite a few nighttime shots. Identifying them all was a bit of a hassle, but I found a way.

Konotop, Ukraine

Or at least a Lightroom plugin found a way. It found around 7000 pictures that were shot between 10pm and 7am. Most of them were night shots.

Weekend with silence

A weekend with a friend is more like it. Yet silence was a lot on the menu. It was time to take a break from the city’s noise and humdrum. The incessant sirens of emergency vehicles on business trips had started to work on my nerves. Even more when only for a short time you can sleep with your window open. That doesn’t happen much in this part of the world.

View to the south from the campsite

So when a friend of mine proposed to go fishing for the weekend, I thought I’d go for it. Yet my fishing is more with a camera than with a rod. To each his own, I’d say.

Hazy days

The end of the summer is near. Nights are cooler and days are still nice and warm. Now is the time to go camping, nights that don’t make you float away in sweat and no more mosquitoes to speak of. Perhaps a few hungry stragglers, but hey, we’re on the prairies, right? Since my first photos taken with a camera, I have liked shots in the mist.

Національний музей Голодомору-геноциду

Ok, the first camera used 120 film (6x9cm negatives), and that was expensive, misty shots were not allowed. After that, the hunt was on. Yet in Holland mist is fairly rare, there is usually too much wind to form it. Only in the deep of the night it fogs up any roads or bridges. Hardly the time for me to go out and get some pictures.

Going southwest

Much of my time in Manitoba is spent in the centre of the province. For a change, I wanted to check the southwest of it. With a friend who knows the area, we left early in the morning. Early enough to see the sun rise in the rear-view mirror.

Sunrise in the third system

That morning was a very foggy morning, as is often the case in August and early September. When it was safe to do so, I put the car on the shoulder and took some shots of the sunrise.

Hunting for Flora

By now you may have noticed that I post a lot of pictures of birds. It has become a habit to shoot them and then post the better pictures here on my blog. Yet birds are not the only subjects that I shoot. Plants, flowers, insects, landscapes and even people come across my lens.

Meadow Blazing Star

Yet birds are what I post most about. Is it a coincidence that I know a little about birds and practically nothing about plants and flowers?