Thursday 30 April 2015

Dutch tulips (and flowers) fields 2015...




This year, as of mid April the Dutch flower fields around Haarlem,Noordwijkerhout and Sassenheim became an amazingly colourful mosaic again! Happily for us, photographers, most of the bulb flowers (daffodils, hyacinths and all sorts of tulips) decided to come out and bloom at the same time. From white to dark purple, from light lavender through yellow and orange till flashy red and romantic blue, the Bollenstreek-area and parts of Flevoland are currently magical places to visit! Have a look for yourself...A lot of my visitors have difficulties to believe that most of the flowers are simply cut as the reason why they are planted is to get the bulb, not to sell the flower themselves.Once you are in the flower field the question comes: how to take the best pictures. Some love to take the lines, otherwise go for close-up/ carpets of colours. This year I tried more exotic positions, such as going down on the ground for a full portrait of flower+blue sky and for some macro fun with my toy (35mm, f 2.8)...











 

... and a quick preview how all this beauty looks from above! More pictures from the tulip flight 2015 soon here :-)

4 comments:

Filip and Kristel said...

Always nice to see tulip fields. Enjoy your holiday.

Greetings,
Filip

Erika said...

I was there me too this year...Wonderful! Kisses from Italy.

Rosemary said...

Thank you for your recent visit Jana and it is nice to see that you are back.
The tulip fields are always lovely to see - I shall be showing some tulips from my trip to India soon

Karen @ Pieces of Contentment said...

Absolutely gorgeous!