Hiddenplanet

I know, I know, it has been ages since I wrote something here or even posted some work. I just have been busy but the good thing is that In June I had a good trip to Wales wher I was able to shot some good stuff. The first half of my ten days trip I spent in Snowdonia National Park and ofcourse climbing Snowdon (up from one side and back from the othre side and no not by train) was in my schedule. The second half I moved over to the South of Wales where I camped not far from the Breacon Beacons National Park. The waterfall walks here were very special next to the beautifull rugged landscape with some towering hilltops peaking out of the mist.

First of all I want to wish all my DA friends a happy and healthy 2011 with lots of fulfilled wishes. May good adventures and close friendships create a year not to forget easy! 2010 Was an adventurous year for me but also there were some sad events that will not easy deleted from our memory. In May my aunt, the oldest sister of my mother and also my god aunt, died unexpectedly at the age of 92. Although she was staying in a caretaking place at the time, she was still very bright and interested what was going around in the world. The extra sad thing was that she died at the moment I was over in the US for a visit to my mother in law. Luckily

Do you know the empty periods that now and than appear in your artistic life? Some say it is necessarry to charge the creative battery again. Some others say that peaks would not exist without the valleys around them! For sure I suffered one over the last couple of months. Not that my life was boaring though. I sailed around the Cornish coast in June and I lead a climbing expedition with nine friends up and around the Mont Blanc in France. During these events I did take photo's of course but I still have to think if the photo's I took are DA material. I guess time will tell. Another creative period might start at the end of October when I go