Varanasi and return to Delhi
This is the final part of my india blog, follow the links for part one, part two and part three. After a night with small beds and almost no sleep we arrived in Varanasi. We were picked up at the station, by the guide for the up coming two days, and brought to our hotel.
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Agra, the Taj Mahal and birds
This is the third part of my india blog, follow the links for part one and part two. To get to Agra from Jaipur we had a long, about 5 hours, car drive. During this drive we saw on multiple occasions women harvesting in the field, we asked the driver if we could stop, so
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Jaipur, The pink city
This is the second part of my India blog, U can find the first one at here After our morning in Delhi we headed to Jaipur ( Jaipur is called the pink city because of the pink/red stones/dye that is used), it was about a 5 hour drive.After approximate 4,5 hours we stopped at a
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The start of my journey to India
As U might have read in one of my other blog’s I had won a trip to India in a photo contest. That trip took place from March 29th – April 7th. I travelled to India with Marcel and Gonnie (Also winners of the photo contest) and Kim (journalist of ZOOM magazine). Our flight was
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Great Crested Grebe
A few weeks ago i started searching for Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus) performing their mating ritual. I visited a few places looking for Grebe’s that were easy enough to photograph. I had found two couples in the klinkenbergerplas, its a lake in Oegstgeest, the Netherlands. This couple didn’t show much of the mating ritual
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A unexpected encounter
About a week ago I started searching for Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus) couples, so i could photograph there mating display. I found a few couples at the klinkenbergerplas that were giving signs of there mating display. On my way back to the car I passed some reed’s. I noticed movement in the reed, so
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Snow animals
While we had snow for over a week, I didn’t have time to make use of it due to work. One day before the thaw came in I finally had time to make some photo’s. I had a few things I wanted to photograph but i had to make a choice, I wanted to make
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And the winner is ….
Recently I have entered a photo competition on ZOOM. I had send in a photo of a hummingbird feeding on a flower. Today I was announced one of the three winners out of 1700 entries. With this I won a 8 day All-Inclusive trip to India. I will also get a publication of the photo
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