Almost every month new photos will be published on this photo blog. These photos are not been taken on my travels, but on small trips or on bike or walking tours in the region or in my hometown Lommel.
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Some macro photos of dragonflies, beetles and grashoppers.
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Some nature photos of a walk in the national park of the Eifel in Germany.
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Last weekend my hometown Lommel organized the 3th European Contest for Living Statues. Several wonderful living statues and street artists from all around Europe, Cuba, New Zealand and Brazil were invited and during 2 days they demonstrated their skills.
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Also this year a couple of blue tits (parus caeruleus) have been living in the birdhouse in my little garden. The whole day they were flying in and out and feeding their young ones yellow caterpillars. The last few days the small blue tits have fledged.
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Some photos of the beautiful historical centre of the city of Ghent.
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Some photos of winter time in my hometown Lommel.
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Close-ups of the amazing marine and land iguanas on the volcanic Galápagos islands in the Pacific Ocean.
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A few photos of seals (common and grey) and birds (herring gull, pheasant) on the Wadden island Texel (The Netherlands).
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The spring new-borns are beginning to grow up. These photos were taken during some walks in my hometown Lommel and in Turnhout.
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A few photos from different spots in Lommel during the snow white but ice cold second week of 2009.
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Photos of Lommel Sahara on the freezing cold but sunny morning of the last day of 2008. The Sahara is a small nature reserve with ponds, woods and some small sand dunes.
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It's autumn in Belgium and so a lot of fungi are appearing again. Here some photos of peculiar fungi like the colorful fly agaric (Amanita muscaria).
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In September I travelled through the southwest of the USA. A common bird in this region is the Stellar’s Jay. It is a beautiful blue and black bird with a wonderful crest. Here are some photos.
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Last weekend my hometown Lommel organized the European Contest for Living Statues. More than 45 beautiful living statues were invited and during 2 days they demonstrated their skills. Hereby a few close-up photos of some of these artists.
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Photos of the German war cemetery in my hometown Lommel on a freezing cold and white Saturday morning in December. It is one of the largest soldier cemeteries from WOII and 39.091 German soldiers are buried here.
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Some photos which show the rich range of colors of a winter sunset.
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Almost all the leafs have now fallen from the trees, and every now and then there is already a heavy frost. Below are a few colourful pictures from the autumn.
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In September I went to Uganda, the 'pearl of Africa'. The most fascinating day was the gorilla tracking in Bwindi NP where we met the Nkuringo gorilla family. Here the most beautiful photos of the mountain gorillas Karibu and X-mas.
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The most characteristic aspect of the landscape in the Kempen (region in Flanders) is the heathland. From mid August the heather (calluna, Scotch heather) blooms. We went to the Mechelse Heide in The Hoge Kempen National Park to enjoy the rich colour of the purple flowering heathland.
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For several years my home city Lommel organizes a sandsculptures festival in summer. The theme for this year is the Greek mythology. There are 15 big sandsculptures of the horse of Troy, Poseidon, the Cyclops, Homerus, Achillus, Damocles, Bacchus, Icarus, ...You can visit them until 16th of September.
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A couple of blue tits (parus caeruleus) have been living in the birdhouse in my little garden for a month. The whole day they were flying in and out. In the beginning they were feeding their young ones yellow caterpillars. The last few days all kinds of insects and seeds were on the menu. Now all 4 small blue tits have fledged.
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