Excursion

Last Sunday I had the pleasure of taking part in a photo-excursion along with a whole group of fellow students of a photo-trainingclass I’m attending. We were to spend a whole day at Nieuwkoop Europe (www.nieuwkoop-europe.com), a flower and plants wholesaler. This location is normally not open to the public, but they made an exception to a group of excited photographers. Unbelievably many and large greenhouses where they have small (and very old) Japanese trees, but also huge palmtrees. Then there is this (also very big) location where they have accessories, like vases, artificial flowers, candles and so on.

So, as a location, it was absolutely most impressive. As a subject not quite my cup of tea, so to speak. If you’re in to macro-photography or structures it is heaven. After an hour or so, somehow, it starts to bore me. A closeup of the structure of a palmtree, and then the structure of another tree, and another one, well I seem to lose interest after a while. Fortunately, I brought my SB-900 flashlight with me and my Elinchrom Skyport transmitter and receiver. So I could do some playing around with an extra off-camera lightsource.

Like I said, more or less out of boredom, I started playing around with the flash and put it in the tree. Not the world’s greatest pictures, but I’m sure everyone has taken pictures of the structure and I’m the only one who thought of putting the strobe inside. So at least I get bonus point for originality!

If you’re really interested to see more of the shots I took that day (if the two pictures above haven’t killed your interest), please click here. It will take you to a seperate page where other images can be enjoyed…