Türkiye. Landscape around Safranbolu: Black Sea area.

This is the landscape in the black sea area of Turkey. Hills and mountains, covered with trees and shrubs. It's all very lush and green. The top photo is me with our rental car. (Click on the photos to see them bigger)

Türkiye 2009 - Zonguldak

These evening shots were taken in Zonguldak in the Black Sea region. Zonguldak is a mining town with a harbour. The black Sea region is the less visited side of Turkey which is totally incomprehensible as it is such a beautiful part of the country. And I've seen only a tiny part of it. I watched the Turkish movie Sonbahar the other day (bought it on DVD) with scenery from the far north east of the Black Sea region which is also stunningly beautiful. Anyway, more shots of this region to follow soon. (Click on the photos to see them bigger)

Sunset in Istanbul

I'm back from a two week stay in Turkey. What a wonderful country. I spent one week near Zonguldak in the Black Sea area and a week in Istanbul. Met with Turkish friends I made through the internet and hopefully they are friends for life now. I will be posting more Türkiye photos - landscape and people shots - soon. (Click on the photo to see it bigger)

On a rainy spring day.

This is a shot I took during a downpour in the city of Limerick. I managed to stay pretty much dry under a shop front. This shot got a lot of comments on my flickr page and until now, 25 people call it a favourite. They must really like it. :)

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Macro shots

A few macro shots I took a few days ago when there wasn't too much wind.

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Me and my wacky ideas 1

And now for something completely different.

Don't know what has gotten into me lately. This sentence, the one I used on the photo, just popped into my head and I knew I had to do something with it. I'm not on any drugs, I swear. Well, coffee and dark chocolate but that's not so bad now, is it?

Taking the shot of the car was the easy part. Editing out the car's background, looking for a good sign, editing out the background and putting together another galaxy was most of the work. I had a bit of a chuckle putting this together. I hope it brings a smile to your face as well.

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Water, rocks and light.

Well, it has to have a title, doesn't it?!! Anyway these are close-up shots of streaming water on rocks and one with a broken branch as well.

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The magic forest.

Once upon a time....

Anyway, I love forests with a stream going through them. It creates its own magic: the water, the light, the trees, the sounds and smells. The last two I can't add but I can try and capture some of the visual magic in photos.

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Spring flowers

I posted shots of flowers before and every time I try to do something a bit different. Here are three shots that I took yesterday.

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Update (no photos)

Hi everyone.

My blog was set up so you could scroll down and see all the photos on one page.

Some people with a slow connection pointed out to me that my blog was slow loading because I have so many posts on the one page.

So from now on there will only be the maximum of 10 posts on the main page. You will have to click on the links on the right hand side of the page to see the older posts. They are arranged by year and month. You can also scroll down and click on "older posts" at the bottom of this page.

Hallo allemaal.

Mijn blog was zodanig van opzet dat je gewoon naar beneden kon scrollen om alle foto's te zien. Een aantal mensen liet me echter weten dat de pagina erg langzaam laadde door de grote hoeveelheid foto's op de ene pagina. Vanaf nu verschijnen er maximaal 10 berichten op de voorpagina. Voor de rest van de foto's moet je op de links aan de rechterkant klikken. Ze zijn per jaar en maand gerangschikt. Je kunt ook naar beneden scrollen en op "older posts" onderaan deze pagina klikken.