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Home Ground

The Netherlands, photographed close to home.

Series note

Home Ground is what I photograph when I'm not travelling. These thirteen pictures come from Rotterdam, Kinderdijk, Etten-Leur, and North Brabant, the places I know best.

Kinderdijk comes up three times: once in frost and pale winter light, once in golden winter mist, and once in grey fog. I keep going back to the windmills because Dutch light over them is never the same twice. In autumn it is flat, in winter it turns white and hard, and now and then it goes amber along the horizon for a few minutes. Rotterdam is the other side of the series: the stacked blocks of De Rotterdam, the red towers at Katendrecht, a storm building over the Kralingse Plas.

The Etten-Leur pictures took the most waiting. Geese crossing a clouded sky, a mallard close up, a lane under autumn leaves, a single tree in fog. None of them needed a plane ticket. They needed me to be there when the light turned.

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Home Ground13 frames

  1. High-key black-and-white photograph of a lone tree in thick white fog in Etten-Leur, Netherlands.
    Ethereal Sentinel: Tree in White Mist
  2. A hot air balloon silhouetted against a red sunset in North Brabant, Netherlands.
    North Brabant Sunset Serenity
  3. Monochrome geese flying in V-formation across a clouded sky over Etten-Leur.
    Geese in Formation, Etten-Leur
  4. Kinderdijk windmills under pastel winter light above frost-covered Dutch fields.
    Kinderdijk Windmills in Winter Light
  5. Black-and-white photograph of the Kinderdijk windmills in mist.
    Windmills in Monochrome Mist
  6. Dutch windmill in golden winter mist at Kinderdijk, silhouetted above a frosted field.
    Windmill in Winter Mist, Kinderdijk
  7. Close-up portrait of a male mallard duck.
    Emerald Gaze: Mallard Study
  8. A weathered tree trunk bent into a natural arch near Kaatsheuvel, Netherlands.
    Weathered Arch: Tree of Resilience
  9. Autumn landscape photograph of a tree tunnel in Etten-Leur, Netherlands.
    Autumn's Golden Tunnel
  10. Black-and-white photograph of storm clouds over the Kralingse Plas lake in Rotterdam.
    Turbulent Skies Over Kralingse Plas
  11. Close-up of barbed wire in front of blurred autumn foliage in Etten-Leur, Netherlands.
    Autumn's Edge, Etten-Leur
  12. Black-and-white abstract of the facade of the De Rotterdam building in Rotterdam.
    Vertical City: Rhythms of De Rotterdam
  13. Two reddish-brown residential towers at the 2e Katendrechtse Haven in Rotterdam.
    Red Giants of Katendrecht

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