The May 2017 cross-over

 Once again I show you a tiny bit of my disgraceful digital life.
Starting with the Jays that were born in my bedroom, (yes, also this year they enjoy my hospitality) a Cybershotpic, and then all the other birds I like so much, with the Sigma.

Pentecost bird

Once a year around Pentecost I show you a tiny bit of my secret, digital life, a kind of démasqué...
With my humble, old Rebel, or the even older Cybershot.

The Pentecost Crossover

 Once a year I show you my darker, secret, digital side.
Nobody is perfect.

Click on the label BIRDS for the older stuff

Wild Ponies

This year's peek into my digital life isn't about birds, but about Exmoors and Koniks. I àm a twitcher, but these ponies are always so friendly to me, they deserve to be mentioned. Look at their beauty, look how wild they play and how calm they "educate" their children, and allow me to watch!

The Pentecostal cross-over

As you know, once a year, in May, I reveal tiny bits of my secret, digital life.
No "tutorial" on bird-photography; I own the cheapest Rebel plus 250mm combination, added some iron so I can handle it with my wrecked hand, put my boots on and start walking in the fields. With some breakfast: apple-juice,  cheese.
The birds don't take me seriously and I think they are right: I will never be a real sniper.

Nevertheless: I love those hours outside, sun, rain, mud, wet grass.

From top: Godwit, Blackcap, Blue Tit and Robin. The Blackcap reminds me of the late Herman Brood, one of my favourite artists.

MINIS 2 the cross-over

This blog is about analogue photography, but, like Walter Mitty, I do have a secret, digital, life.
Birds.
And once a year I show you some of it, this time (look below) minis.
All made with the simple Canon Rebel and the haze-bitten 55-250.

(Ornithological details on my flickr photostream erwinruys.)

BLACK AND WHITE (and red) 2

COMPOSITIONS IN B&W. (and red)

In the spring/summertime I'm more the birdwatcher than the light-addict. Sorry! But I do not forget my black&white roots. Never. So here is a (rather desperate, poor thing) oystercatcher in black and white. And some red. In an also b&w&r asphalt desert where some time ago his home was...
And the Common Tern, elegant as ever, also in b&w&r.

Bird-watching

This spring I spend a lot of time photographing birds (and nature). Did that in the sixties, with a 135mm Komura + Fodor (?) extender, but at the moment I use a 250mm AF IS repeater. So I thought it would be nice to try the 1984 Sigma again.
Well, good old Van Tienhoven (picture, with the Astro 500) was better. I know my lapwings, but can yóu actually see them?

"My" wildlife on: http://maasproject.blogspot.com/