Jurgen de Boer

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A beautiful sunrise lightpillar in Amersfoort, Netherlands today.

Filmed and photographed with a Canon EOS 500D + Tamron 55-200mm telelens + 12mm Soligor extensiontube. Put a metal cup with boiling water in front of a Halogene lamp and you can see a wonderfull world of colors.

On Friday the Full Moon shined at it brightest it was 14% bigger and 30% brighter than a normal Full Moon. The photos were made with a Canon Eos 500D + Sigma FD 400mm f5.6 APO + 1.4x converter ring (680mm eff.) 1/200s. at 100 ISO Full Moon in Color. Full Moon in Graytones. Full Moon in Graytones negative.

4 days ago Polar Stratospheric clouds colored the sky Orange in Amersfoort, Netherlands during sunset. enjoy.

The first few photos are made in de city of Hengelo, Netherlands. This is the cityhalltower is and is 65m tall (Sigma 18-200mm 3.5-6.3). A 3 photocollage of the Moon trough my 15cm Skywatcher Newton telescoop. And a few photos taken in Amersfoort Zoo (Sigma 400mm APO).

Looking at a nice colored Sunrise and Sunset warms me in these cold times. Enjoy!

At the time it was about -2 degree Celcius so not trying to breath when i took the photos.

This morning just a few nice snowflakes fell in Amersfoort. I took these photos with a Canon EOS 350D and a Tamron LD DiII 55-200 1:4-5.6 Macro telelens also Canon extension tube 25mm and a set Soligor extension tubes (12-20-36mm). I shot them loose in hand (No mono or tripod). Oh birds are having enough of the cold.... so this bird sat on the chimney for half an hour..... nice and warm.

Great storms look spooky. :unsure:

These past few days a lot of snow fell in Amersfoort, Netherlands. In measured 22cm of snow and temperatures of -5 degree celcius in daytime and -12 at night. In the morning it stoped snowing and i enjoyed a wonderful sunrise. Enjoy the pics. Jurgen de Boer

After a long time of dark and rainy weather in the Netherlands i photographed this wonderful sunrise with a small sunpillar. Enjoy. ps. the temperature outside was a freezing -12,5 degree celcius.

Contrails, Sunrise, Moonrise and a rainbow.... Mother nature was kind to me past week. Enjoy the show.

Great photos, wonderful landscapes and beautiful cathedral. :lol: :lol:

Very unusual to see, hole-punch clouds like this are still the topic of meteorological speculation. A leading hypothesis holds that the hole-punch cloud is caused by falling ice-crystals. The ice-crystals could originate in a higher cloud or be facilitated by a passing airplane exhaust. If the air has just the right temperature and moisture content, the falling crystals will absorb water from the air and grow. For this to happen, the water must be so cold that all it needs is a surface to freeze on. The moisture lost from the air increases the evaporation rate from the cloud water droplets so they dissipate to form the hole. The now heavier ice crystals continue to fall and form the more tenuous wispy cloud-like virga seen inside and just below the hole. Water and ice from the virga evaporates before they reach the ground.

Something special in Amersfoort, Netherlands this afternoon. Enjoy the pics.

Hi Phil, Thanks for the great coments. I use a Canon EOS 350D with a 4Gb CF Extreme III card and a sigma 18mm-200mm f3.5-6.3 telelens Iam not totaly heapy with the lens because autofocus is a bit slow at 200mm. The panoramas are stitched with autostitch.

Woah couldn' t stop taking breathtaking photos (in just 8 days i took 1250 photos). Great island and spectacular nature. I love it. Enjoy the Show. Almost in to space. Below us. Pico del Teide looms ahead. Just before landing. Arrived. View from my appartment. Waves. Santa Cruz. Mountain in the clouds. Stormy day. Waves crashing on the rocky coast. Me enjoying the scene. Blowhole. Waves getting closer. Roque de los Muchachos. 10.4m GTC 2.5m NOT 4.2m WHT Dutch open telescope. On top of the world. Raven. Into the caldera. Caldera de Taburiente. On top resting on the crater wall. Weather change. The volcanotrail 21.5 km long and exausting. Some panoramas. Cooled Lava lake. Beautiful sceneries. Great forestfire of last August. Nature is coming back. After the hike, leters imprinted on my feet. Atlantic Sunrise. The appartment building where i stayed was the orange one on the left.

Today began with a nice Sunrise....... with contrail vortices. All photos taken in Amersfoort with a 400mm APO (630mm effective) and a Canon Eos 350D. Enjoy the show!

After the beautiful sunset nice contrail vorices could be seen. Same photo but enhanced. Later in the afternoon darker clouds with nice Mammas apeared. A flok of Jackdaws (Corvus monedula) getting ready to leave the country.

A beautiful Sunrise this morning.

Wow beautiful storm!

Yep and again only this time from a distance. I only saw 1 lightning bolt the rest were flashes, but stil very beautiful to watch. Enjoy the show!

Last evening (28-08-2009) a stormfront passed over the Netherlands. Just before that happend a beautiful CB dumped its load. Then the Whalesmouth came. After that the lightshow began.

Enjoy the show!