Some nice cloud drama over the corner of a building. Swipe for an experiment where I rotated and cropped to give an abstract effect. Cross-posting the latter to my new @edintrevabstract account.

#urbanphotography #building #sky #skydrama
#blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography
#monochrome #monochromephotography
#monochromemonday

A Morning in Layers

Yesterday’s morning light was something else — the kind of light that shifts the entire mood of a landscape. I started early, camera in hand, watching as the first rays of sun broke through the horizon at the Loonse en Drunense Duinen. The Canon 5DsR with the Sigma 24–70 Art captured that dance between storm clouds and sunlight — a fiery sky meeting cold, dark clouds above a golden line of dunes.

Later that morning, a flash of movement caught my eye. Perched high in a tree, a Lanius excubitor — the Great Grey Shrike (Klapekster in Dutch) — scanned the landscape. A master of patience and precision, this bird is both predator and poet of the heathlands. Just as I focused, it launched into flight, wings twisting into the sunlight — a single frame of balance between control and freedom, taken with the 5D Mark IV and the Sigma 100–400.

Before heading home, I found a small Mycena mushroom rising from a bed of moss, surrounded by acorn caps and fallen leaves. Humble, delicate — yet part of the same story. The sun, the bird, the fungus — each a layer in nature’s quiet symphony.

#ByMaikeldeBakker #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #MacroPhotography #LandscapePhotography #CanonPhotography #SigmaArtLens #5DsR #5DMarkIV #DutchNature #LoonseEnDrunenseDuinen #GreatGreyShrike #LaniusExcubitor #Klapekster #Mycena #FungusAmongUs #MushroomPhotography #AutumnVibes #ForestMood #MorningLight #NatureStorytelling #ScientificPhotography #EcologyInFocus #FieldObservation #NaturalHistory #Heathlands #SunriseGlow #SkyDrama #BirdInFlight #AvianBeauty #MacroMagic #MossAndMushroom #ForestFloor #NatureDetails #CanonLover #Sigma100400 #Sigma2470Art #PhotographyJourney #DutchWildlife #ByMaikelPhotography

Dramatic sky over the Royal Mile. I straightened the perspective and cropped, but the sky is just as it came out of the camera.

#Edinburgh #Scotland #Royalmile
#sky #dramaticsky #skydrama #clouddrama

From my window ІІ

📷 Canon R6 | 🎞️ Digital | 📍MN

#DigitalPhotography #StormySkies #Cloudscape #EveningLight #Landscape #NatureMood #Minnesota #SkyDrama #WeatherWatch #FieldsAndTrees #sky #storm #sunset #clouds

“Where the sun greets the sky and the day begins its poetry.”
Golden light breaking through the green stillness.

#fensterfreitag #windowfriday #GoldenHour #SunsetGlow #SkyDrama #NatureLovers #photography #amateurphotography #trending #nature #discover #explore #art #photooftheday #pixelfed

Ein atemberaubender Frühlingsabend in der Natur – dramatische Wolkenformationen strahlen vom Horizont über ein weites, sattgrünes Feld. Der Himmel scheint regelrecht zu explodieren und schenkt diesem friedlichen Moment eine kraftvolle Dynamik.

#Sonnenuntergang #Himmel #Wolken #Naturfotografie #Landschaft #Frühling #Abendstimmung #Feld #Weite #Pixelfed #Cloudscape #SkyDrama #NatureLovers #outdoorphotography #naturfotografie #nature #naturephotography #germany #brandenburg #lausitz #landschaft #landscape #green #clouds #sundown #sunrise #pixelfedphoto

Granite giant.
No matter how many times you see El Cap in Yosemite, it never feels any smaller. Just raw, vertical majesty lit by a sky that couldn’t care less how many jaws it drops.


#ElCapitan #YosemiteNationalPark #GraniteMonolith #SunsetSkies #ClimbersParadise #YosemiteVibes #EpicLandscapes #NatureIsArt #RockGiants #CaliforniaViews #NationalParks #MountainGlow #SkyDrama #PixelfedAdventure #Landscapephotography

Guardians of the Tiber: A Glimpse of Eternal Rome

#Rome #CastelSantAngelo #TiberRiver #PonteSantAngelo #HistoricArchitecture #Cityscape #SkyDrama #EuropeanTravel #ItalianHeritage #TravelPhotography #UrbanExploration #OldMeetsNew #ArchitectureLovers #CulturalHeritage #RiverView #CloudScape #TimelessViews #WanderItaly #RomanStreets #PixelfedTravel

🤞hope this works .... paused this morning's run for some sky drama .... 🤩

had to compress for Pixelfed to accept 🤞




#Jacksonville #Florida #Nature #AmateurPhotography #Pixelfed #StreetPhotography #Moon #UrbanExploration #GalaxyS23+ #Sunrise #BlueHour #SkyDrama #Lightning