Waterflow

On the Dutch photography website Nederpix quite a few pictures have been posted over the past weeks that have been taken with a long shutter speed. This gives a really nice effect on running streams as you can capture the movement of the water that way. Today I tried to get the same effect for the first time. The major problem was in this case that there wasn't much movement in the water, which made it hard to capture. As you can see in the above picture, I took the first steps, but more movement in the water and a longer shutter speed (now 2,5 secs) would have been better. At home I realized I should have put the iso value on 100, so I could have used a longer shutter speed.

Gives me at least something to work on :)

This is one of the first pictures I've taken with live view. This way I could get my camera close to the water, without having to be in the water myself.

Polar Wadden Sea

For me its quite common to see a sea being partly frozen. On Spitsbergen I see this every summer. However I had never seen such a thing in the Netherlands. Even though we had quite a cold period for a while here, I was really surprised to see the Wadden Sea being partly frozen. Not heavy pack ice of course, but still large ice floes covering large parts.

On the first day of the new year most of the sea ice had gone already, but the salt-marsh was still largely frozen, giving a it bit a polar desert look.

More icy pictures can be seen in the December and January galleries.