Yes! Finally my website has had a complete make-over. After many months of hard work it was ready to go online. I apologise to have to deal with the old version that long 🙂
So happy to announce an upcoming phototours to Svalbard in Winter in April 2017 aboard MS. Origo and the possibility to join us for some extra days in snoowscooter to photograph the wonderful white winter landscapes of Svalbard and it’s wildlife such as Polar bears, Arctic foxes, Svalbard reindeer, whales,.. I will be guiding companied by a fantastic crew of expedition guides. We will travel both with expedition boat and snowscooters.
My grandfather had quite a good collection of nature encyclopedia. As a child I use to look at all the pictures in these books over and over, and of all the places described in his books, it was always the enchanting islands of the Galapagos that drew most of my attention. They seemed as almost not part of the world, and definitely not as a possible destination to get to…
Too much travelling last year…so I ended up having a great backlog in editing and publishing my pictures. Probably many will not see daylight in the first years, but hey…as long as we are having fun in the field and shoot fantastic wildlife and nature! And that we did last summer in Svalbard! I was guiding on the MS Origo for a group of 12 photographers, spread out from various places such as Belgium, US, Denmark and even Singapore.
IN IN IN! That was the signal to jump in the water, given by our Scottish captain, Cam. Loved his accent! With water in my ears, it was even harder to understand, but eventually we got to talk quite a bit. IN! The signal I waited for, fully prepared sitting on the side of the boat, dressed up in a warm wetsuit, flippers on, diving mask on, snorkel in the mouth and the underwater housing ready to shoot…
So this is what icebergs look like! That was my first thought when we reached Greenland coast. I’m pretty familiar with Svalbard’ glaciers, and they are really stunning. But nothing compared to the huge glaciers of Greenland! This was my first visit to Greenland, so I was very very excited.
My record for fastest trip ever. Not really proud of it, but I just didn’t have more time. I arrived in Akureyri on the 12th of September, and had to leave on the 14th. The 15th I had to guide a group to Finland. Anyway, that gave me roughly 24 hours of light to shoot. I had planned too much as usual…
I just had to look at the map and measure the distance: the closest nest to my home was a merely 3,5 kilometer away! What a situation! OK, I had seen Short-eared owls in winter in my home region, but breeding, who would have expected that??
Of course I didn’t only photograph Great crested grebes in Les Dombes (see last blogpost), but was quite amazed to see so many species! The breeding season was slowly ending and already the first waders were arriving…
In june I spent two weeks in France photographing birds from the floating hide. Thanks to my friend Sylvain Hellio I was able to guide two groups in the lake-rich area Les Dombes. Sylvain arranged permission to enter the lakes with the floating hide. These articial lakes are managed to breed Carp fish since the Middle Ages, and are now also rich in birdlife. Several species of grebes, herons, ducks, waders,..
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