I had a lovely Easter morning, with trees, with my man, with my two nieces, and with sun! 🙂 That makes a happy photographer! We visited the nature reserve Kampina and while I’ve been there before, I couldn’t remember seeing this specific part. There is some awesome woodland, with sloped grounds (which is not that common in the Netherlands), that made me jump for joy.

I don’t know what it is with trees. I love the photo above, although it is technically not that complicated. In fact, I wish I would have used a larger aperture to create more depth, to make the one odd tree stand out more. But even as it is, I just love this one tree being different among the other trees. And while I am anticipating spring and summer with nice green leaves, here the beautiful shape of the branches is visible because of the lack of leaves.

We walked no more than about a mile before arriving at a little lake, but we saw different types of woodland on this short stroll. And with the different types of woodland there are also different colors. The photo below demonstrates what I mean: yellow sand, brown/purple heather, green grass, and that’s just the bottom!

Of course I couldn’t get enough of the trees 😉 , also varying in colors.

After this little walk we arrived at the lake, and we could enjoy the open area and the clear blue sky. The only downfall was that there was some really swampy area around the lake, limiting me in how close I could get to the water, and the small trees in there.

After taking some photos my man reminded me of my polarize filter. I have it in my bag, but I don’t use it very often, and the weather hadn’t been right for it. But today was a perfect day to use it. You can see the effect of the polariser best in the two photos below. The first one was taken without the polariser, the second one with the polariser. The sky becomes much more saturated, and the contrast with the clouds is much higher. You can also see the effect on the water, as the reflections are partly blocked, the water-surface has a more smooth finish, almost as if a long exposure was used.

In the photo above you can see that the polariser effect depends on the angle with the sun, as the sky is more blue on the right than on the left. In the photo below the effect is much smaller as the long focal length has a smaller angle of incidence, so the variation in angle with the sun is smaller. The contrast in the sky is still very clear though!

Most of the time I enjoy exploring on my own, but today the company was very welcome. Looking forward to many more photo expeditions!

Thanks for reading!