This Sunday was the last day we were able to ice-skate on the Dutch waters/ice. Even the IJmeer (see here) was covered by a skateble layer of ice. Just before sunset I was able to make these photographs.

This first photograph really shows the beauty of winter in my opion. I love the cold colours. The next photos were taken lying flat down on the ice, using my Canon EF 17-40mm L f/4 USM wide angle lens. I managed to capture this beautiful wind influenced ice structure.

This Saturday my brother and I visited Kinderdijk, the Dutch village famous for its mills. We had arrived before dawn, to be able to capture the most beautiful lights and colours. During the holiday season Holland was captured by a nice severe frost. After twelve year, we finally had ice again! These were all terrific ingredients for nice photography work. Standing on the ice, we were able to capture this moment just before sunset.

This photograph is presumably one of the best photo’s I have ever made. It’s one of the pictures I’ve printed on canvas and it currently hangs in our living room. The photo is shot using my tripod standing on the ice. I used a quite long focal length for a landscape photo at 115mm using the marvellous Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS USM lens, to capture a better part of the beautiful red/orange colour. I used a graduated filter to lighten the snow on the foreground a bit. Furthermore an exposure of 0,6 sec at f/11 was used.