Reversing the front element of Helios 44-2 lens takes a couple minutes and results in extremely soft, ethereal, almost underwater pictures. Definitely going to explore this style further.
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Gooi Heathlands
Every August ’t Gooi turns purple for a few weeks, and then it stops. Half the province walks through the heather with a phone in hand. By late September the fields go rust brown again. They are not wilderness at all, but a very old mistake that everybody decided to keep. The Goois Natuurreservaat calls it “illusielandschap”.
I published a new photo series and an article in my Journal about the place. This is a second piece in what I hope becomes a longer run of Dutch landscape work, after Soestduinen.
▶ https://talala.photo/journal/gooi-heathlands
Every August ’t Gooi turns purple for a few weeks, and then it stops. Half the province walks through the heather with a phone in hand. By late September the fields go rust brown again. They are not wilderness at all, but a very old mistake that everybody decided to keep. The Goois Natuurreservaat calls it “illusielandschap”.
I published a new photo series and an article in my Journal about the place. This is a second piece in what I hope becomes a longer run of Dutch landscape work, after Soestduinen.
▶ https://talala.photo/journal/gooi-heathlands
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Solar Eclipse 2026
On 12 August the moon covered 88% of the sun over the Netherlands. It was the largest eclipse seen from here since 1999, and the next comparable one will be only in 2081.
I watched it from an open field in the Goois Natuurreservaat not far from my house, with a camera, a telephoto lens, a folding chair, and a solar filter that arrived exactly 1 day before the eclipse. Most of the evening I sat there alone, listening to insects in the heather. Closer to the maximum a few families turned up next to me and I passed my solar glasses around.
Take a look at all the sun’s phases and read about my experience of shooting the eclipse!
▶ https://talala.photo/journal/solar-eclipse-2026
On 12 August the moon covered 88% of the sun over the Netherlands. It was the largest eclipse seen from here since 1999, and the next comparable one will be only in 2081.
I watched it from an open field in the Goois Natuurreservaat not far from my house, with a camera, a telephoto lens, a folding chair, and a solar filter that arrived exactly 1 day before the eclipse. Most of the evening I sat there alone, listening to insects in the heather. Closer to the maximum a few families turned up next to me and I passed my solar glasses around.
Take a look at all the sun’s phases and read about my experience of shooting the eclipse!
▶ https://talala.photo/journal/solar-eclipse-2026
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How can it be real photos?
Capture in the Dark 2026 contest:
https://darksky.org/what-we-do/events/photo-contest/capture-the-dark-2026-winning-photographs
Capture in the Dark 2026 contest:
https://darksky.org/what-we-do/events/photo-contest/capture-the-dark-2026-winning-photographs
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World Pride March 2026
Amsterdam hosted World Pride for the first time this year, and I photographed the closing event: the WorldPride March on Saturday 8 August. It set off from President Kennedylaan at 16:30 and ended at Museumplein just after 18:15, with thousands of people walking through Amsterdam Zuid in between.
It was more a demonstration than a parade. Participants carried flags of countries where homosexuality is still criminalized. Alongside those, rainbow flags of every size, a few of them several meters long, and signs that people kept holding up so I could photograph the text.
It was the easiest crowd I have ever worked with. Nobody minded the camera, and it was not only the community out there. Allies, friends, entire families with kids walked the route. Check it out!
▶ https://talala.photo/journal/world-pride-march-2026
Amsterdam hosted World Pride for the first time this year, and I photographed the closing event: the WorldPride March on Saturday 8 August. It set off from President Kennedylaan at 16:30 and ended at Museumplein just after 18:15, with thousands of people walking through Amsterdam Zuid in between.
It was more a demonstration than a parade. Participants carried flags of countries where homosexuality is still criminalized. Alongside those, rainbow flags of every size, a few of them several meters long, and signs that people kept holding up so I could photograph the text.
It was the easiest crowd I have ever worked with. Nobody minded the camera, and it was not only the community out there. Allies, friends, entire families with kids walked the route. Check it out!
▶ https://talala.photo/journal/world-pride-march-2026
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