Schwanzmeisen am Tallesee in einer Kiefer #fieldnotes #birds in #watercolour

Bei der Wasservogelzählung heute morgen das Highlight: ein Tüpfelsumpfhuhn 😍😍🙌#Porzanaporzana im niedrigen Schilf am Ufer der #Heder, hinter den Schlehen, gegenüber vom Sportplatz
Das ist das 2. Mal, dass ich ein Tüpfelsumpfhuhn sehe und das 2. Mal an der Heder. Das 1. Mal ist 3 Jahre her. Eventuell überwintert die kleine Ralle regelmäßig dort.
#birds in #watercolour Zeichnung aus der Erinnerung und nur so ungefähre #fieldnotes für mich

[ARCHIVES 2021] English Below
1/1 : La guerre l’Algérie / the Algerian War
Durant 6 mois avec Nabila Halim nous sommes allées à la rencontres des habitant•e•s de la ville de Longwy.
Lors de nos rencontres, ielles nous racontaient, questionnaient, témoignaient leurs rapports à l'Autre.
Ce travail est pensé comme une chambre d'échos, un reflet plus ou moins réel et sensible des habitant-e•s de cette ville si particulière: terre transfrontalière, terre d'immigration, terre d'espoir et d'abandon.
De leurs mots, nous en avons tiré 7 grandes thématiques: l'arrivée à Longwy, le racisme, la guerre d'Algérie, la fermeture des usines, les souvenirs, le chez soi, et enfin, le rapport à l'Autre aujourd'hui. Cette dernière thématique est issue de nos rencontres, mais aussi des rencontres faites par les élèves de 4eD du college Vauban lorsquielles sont parti.es à la recherche des habitant.es en sillonnant leur ville, et en réalisant de courts entretiens avec les passant.es.
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For six months, Nabila Halim and I went out to meet the residents of the town of Longwy.
During our meetings, they told us stories, asked questions, and shared their experiences of their relationships with others.
This work is conceived as an echo chamber, a more or less realistic and sensitive reflection of the residents of this very special town: a cross-border land, a land of immigration, a land of hope and abandonment.
From their words, we drew seven major themes: arrival in Longwy, racism, the Algerian War, factory closures, memories, home, and finally, the relationship with the Other today. This last theme emerged from our encounters, but also from those made by the students at Vauban College when they set out to find residents, criss-crossing their town and conducting short interviews with passers-by.
#longwyvivra #journaldeterrain #visualanthropology #anthropology @photographer #documentary #war #art #FieldNotes

I made a few more #fieldnotes cover mock-ups. #design #mockup #edc

2/2 : L'arrivée
For six months, Nabila Halim and I went out to meet the residents of the town of Longwy.
During our meetings, they told us stories, asked questions, and shared their experiences of their relationships with others.
This work is conceived as an echo chamber, a more or less realistic and sensitive reflection of the residents of this very special town: a cross-border land, a land of immigration, a land of hope and abandonment.
From their words, we drew seven major themes: arrival in Longwy, racism, the Algerian War, factory closures, memories, home, and finally, the relationship with the Other today. This last theme emerged from our encounters, but also from those made by the students at Vauban College when they set out to find residents, criss-crossing their town and conducting short interviews with passers-by.
More info: the previous feed shows the daily journal of this residency. A lot of work was also done and documented via stories (see featured story): encounters, preparation of the exhibition, etc.

#journaldeterrain #visualanthropology #longwyvivra #documentaryphotography #socialsciences #fieldnotes #edition #womenphotographers #photography #exhibition #art

Some mornings feel like stepping into a story long before you take the first photograph. A week ago, after a long cold night, I woke up long before sunrise with that familiar excitement buzzing under my skin — the kind that only a camera, a quiet landscape, and a promise of light can create. I pre-heated the car, stepped into the darkness, and let the road guide me toward the Kampina in Noord-Brabant. While most people were on their way to work, I was on my way to chase a sunrise.

And nature delivered.

After a 30-minute walk through the dim early light, the world suddenly shifted. The entire atmosphere turned black and yellow — not just the sky, but the mist, the air, the ground. Low winter sunlight scattered through moisture particles, a phenomenon called Mie scattering, which often produces this rich, glowing yellow hue under the right angle and density conditions.

In the foreground stood an old, gnarled tree — twisted by years of weather and time — silhouetted against a backdrop of dark, leafless woodland. It felt like a character stepping forward from the shadows.

Captured handheld at f/6.3, ISO 640, with my Canon 5D Mark IV and Sigma 100–400mm, this image is a reminder that sometimes you don’t just photograph a sunrise… you walk into it.

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Rotdrossel zwischen Wacholderdrosseln gefunden. #fieldnotes #birds in #watercolour

Yesterday morning felt like one of those quiet bets you make with nature. The night had frozen everything solid, so I suspected there might be low-hanging fog waiting somewhere between the fields and the treelines. As I walked in, part of me was afraid I had already “mist” it — but as the sun crept closer to the horizon, the air began to thicken, soft and silver, like the world taking a slow breath.

Just before sunrise, something unexpected happened. High above the forming fog, an ice cloud lit up in iridescent colours — mostly red, orange, and yellow, with subtle hints of green and blue. Ice crystals at high altitude can refract sunlight much like tiny prisms, creating these fleeting rainbow glows known as irisation. It felt like a quiet scientific miracle happening in real time.

That’s when I saw the leafless tree. Stark, skeletal, patient. And suddenly the composition clicked: a tree seemingly losing its last colours into the sky, like a gentle puff of smoke drifting upward. It’s not my most dramatic image, but there was something special in its simplicity — a moment where winter, light, physics, and imagination lined up just long enough to press the shutter.

Photography, after all, is just another way of studying light and life.

#wonderinglens #ByMaikeldeBakker #NaturePhotography #LandscapeLovers #MorningMist #IceCloud #Iridescence #AtmosphericOptics #WeatherPhenomena #TreeSilhouette #WinterLight #DutchNature #LowlandsMagic #SunriseGlow #ColorInTheSky #FoggyMorning #PhysicsInNature #ScientificStorytelling #CanonPhotography #OutdoorLife #NatureStory #MagicalRealismInNature #NaturalWonder #SkyWatcher #EarthObservations #LightPlay #WanderingWithACamera #DailyExploration #MomentOfCalm #VisualPoetry #CreativeVision #PhotographersLife #ArtOfSeeing #NatureMood #WinterVibes #FieldNotes #MindfulPhotography #NatureIsArt #ChasingLight #StoryThroughLens