harmenpiekema

A perfect Storm

Where many people prefer to stay at home when a storm is nearing, for me as a photographer it's an amazing opportunity to shoot epic images. Last week Eunice hi...

Photography in extreme winter weather

While it is a standard in most European countries, in the Netherlands it always remains a big surprise: "Will we get snow and ice, or will it be a bad winter". ...

How to check whether your exposure is correct?

In this article, we are going to talk about how to check whether your exposure is correct, and how to get the perfect exposure for each image. .jpg) To correctl...

Land of Water | Photography Lovers End of Year Contest

I want to dedicate my "End of Year contest" post to the country I am from: the Netherlands! A densely populated country, but despite that, we still have some be...

On a cold Winter's day (Video)

On a cold winter’s day, I jumped in the car and drove 4,5 hours to the Harz in Germany. The day before I had been reluctant to go, but the conditions were reall...

Killerwhales!!

This story is about the day I met my favorite animals for the first time! During my 5 weeks on the Lofoten this definitely was the best day! I could not have wi...

It's not alway easy!

As a landscape photographer and nature lover, I love to be in the mountains! The clean air, the incredible views, the rugged landscape and the tranquility make ...

Sometimes you're in Luck!

Because I love snow and ice, I am going to take you to a lake in the Netherlands called the IJsselmeer earlier this year where, after a few weeks of sub-zero te...

The mountain Express!

In this post, I want to talk about how I made one of my all-time-favorite images. It had been on my mind for quite some time. This all started after I had been ...

Gale force winds

For this blogpost, I’ve chosen an image taken on one of my Lofoten trips. It is a long-exposure pano, consisting of 8 images, of a very beautiful mountain range...

How to predict the Aurora Borealis

Because it is the Aurora season on the Northern hemisphere, I would like to explain a bit more about this beautiful phenomenon, what causes it, and how to predi...

How I planned this shot!

In the Behind the photo series, I want to go into more detail on why and how I took a particular photo. For this post, I’ve selected an image that I took in 201...

Using Apps to predict the weather

In this blog, I want to talk about the apps I am using to predict the weather, fog and cloud coverage. I want to keep this blog short and simple. Therefore I wi...

Let me introduce myself!

My name is Harmen Piekema (1982), I was born in a little village in the Netherlands called Koudum. A small Frisian village surrounded by fields, lakes and fores...

Freezing at 543 meters above sea level

Read this post on TravelFeed.io for the best experience Join us on our epic hike to the summit of Ryten (543 m). A beautiful hike that starts at sea level, clim...