Time for an update of sorts.

Been taking lots of pics, but the posting of said pics was lagging behind....

Our lovely new kitten Obi; Enjoy...

Test shots..

Got the amazing 70-200mm L IS USM II last week... It is every bit as good as advertised. Made these two collages with Diptic. A very nice tool for presenting your photos.

Lens test..

Went to the EOS lens discovery event in Rotterdam last week. Got a chance to play with the entire lens line-up that Canon has these days, and follow two workshops. One on wildlife photography and one one macro photography. Best of all; free of charge if you have an EOS camera. Came to the conclusion that i still missed one lens to complete my own set. The 70-200mm.. Picked it up this week, and, to coin a phrase.. im happier then a pig in sh*te. What an awesome piece of equipment.. See for yourself; Ill be using this one a lot. I cant recommend it enough.

Time for an update...

Took the little man to the goat farm. And ICECREAM!!!

Texel island, the Netherlands.

Time to take a much needed break from work.. A vacation was in order! We went to Texel island.

The last one in stylish black and white... A great island for photography! Lots of birds, very nice beaches and overall lovely scenery.

Re-shoot

We decided it would be fun to do some re-shoots of the pics we took during the 365 project. Just to keep us busy and to show how Mini-man has grown over the year. We chose this photo to re-shoot as nr 1. Since Mini-man is in less then a cooperating mood when it comes to taking pics these days we resorted to bribery with some raisins, a scenery change and a move outdoors. It kinda worked. Here is the result; That wasn't all we did today.... We went for an early morning walk in the Amsterdam Drinking Water dunes. Mini-man walked almost all the way with us. When he needed a rest we put him into his chariot..



We did a quick snapshot shoot with him on a branch of dead wood;



During the walk we ran into this young buck fallow deer. An awesome specimen.


When you have something like this in your crosshairs, its when the investment in the 300mm F/2.8L pays off.

Another background

Got another lastolite colapsable! I think these things are awesome!

A misschievous miniman posing in front of red brick plastered wall.


When used right these backgrounds are indistinguishable from the real thing.