As a child, I devoured books about mountains and mountaineering. Of course, I also fantasied about climbing the North Face of Eiger some day. My grandfather even had a book of this specific mountain. But […]
Tag Archives: Notenkraker
The ‘real’ Cracker
After meeting the famous Dutch Nutcracker, you may think that shooting these birds is easy. Well, I can tell you: it’s not. During our stay in the Swiss canton of Wallis, I was surprised how […]
Fall Nutcracker
As written in my earlier blog on the Spotted Nutcracker, I was a little taken aback by the fact that the bird had chosen to spent most of its time between bricks when I was there […]
Nuts and Walls
Some two weeks ago a Spotted Nutcracker was reported in Wageningen, The Netherlands. And that wasn’t all: it seemed unafraid of people and let itself be photographed very easily. Since a long time this particular […]
Crunchy Birds
While snowboarding this morning, I heard a Nutcracker calling. Since I had never been able to frame this bird, I decided to go back to the place with my camera in the afternoon. Not that […]