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I have a slow start in 2016, but let us hope that will help quality. Went for an easy subject, ducks in the park, but the weather was not helping (shutter speed gave very low keeper rate).

 

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Second outing, just at lunch heard some birds, picked up my ready kit out of the car and positioned myself with the sun in the back:

 

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Got some good weather in the morning and took a detour to a boat lift (On youtube: [h=1]Belgian Boat Lifts: The Ronquières Inclined Plane)[/h]
This is the control tower:

 

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Drive by shooting and the subject was not happy with it (had to go out of the sun to hide):

 

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Took some time at lunch today:

 

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Luxembourg town this morning:

 

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Had some trouble with this one, decided on a lot of editing:

 

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In a minimalistic mood:

 

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More car details:

 

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Jaguar XK150

 

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Horse Power:

 

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Valentine day, I shot what nature had to offer:

 

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The garden is still confused, still some autumn scenes:

 

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Still winter in the Belgian Ardennes, was trying out my Sigma 300mm f4, still not convinced it adds enough over my Nikon 70-300mm:

 

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Spent some time in an animal park of a farmer:

What do you do when you do not have a finger, but you do have an itchy nose?

 

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The main attraction last week where these, we were staying in their park:

 

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Went to Trier today and spring is starting (in the background the gates to the Roman town, the 2200 years old Porta Nigra):

 

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This weekend I went on a Champagne buying and photography week-end:

 

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Still have to work through a lot of the pictures, an easy one:

 

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Got out with the macro lens yesterday:


nature is waking up