Jos takes photos

Nature can be something powerful, enormously impressive, make you feel small, make you be small, but above all and usually beautiful, oh my goodness beautiful.  All this in a superlative degree when you are still a small person.  Fortunately, there is always the hand of your father, who is quite big, fortunately. Stay happy, healthy and optimistic!

  Sometimes during my walks I see something that makes me smile. It’s a little story, a funny situation, mostly just for a short period in which I can take my camera or iPhone and take the photo.  This is an example and I think it doesn’t need more explanation. Keep smiling, optimistic and healthy as long as we can!

Thought some bird pictures would be nice. I’m still no birdphotographer, don’t have the patience I think. But when I see one ore more and got the chance I’ll give it a go. But they are so quick and unpredictable  in their behaviour so it’s not easy to take photos of them, no, no, birdphotography ain’t easy certainly not for me. But it’s a funny game, trying to catch the birds in a frame in a way they look at their best and sharp too. Luckily these modern cameras do it got job in autofocus so the photography is more like a hunt, but in a very peaceful way.  Stay happy, healthy and optimistic. We all need that!

The wind that blows through the trees, or even blows over.  Rain that hits the windows.  Water that blows over the dike.  High waves. That is stormy weather and yes, they have that here too and we were allowed to experience it. Sometimes we liked it and sometimes, mostly when we were wet, we didn't like it that much.  It shows nature's power and how little we can do about it, so better enjoy it. Stay happy and healthy and optimistic because the world seems to need it now more than ever.

  I can't help it, but I still have a soft spot for carnival.  I come from that part of the country where carnival is instilled in you with your mother's milk, so that can be seen as a mitigating circumstance.  So now that we are in a sunny southern country and there was carnival here too, we had to go and it was worth it to experience the colours, the joy, the music, all. Loulé, Loulé, la la la Stay optimistic, happy and healthy as long as possible but at least till the end.

Last year I saw him for the first time. Simply laying on the sidewalk, not reacting on my talking, just a glance when he saw me taking his picture. In the days to come I saw him more often, always alone, this old dog. They told me he once had an owner who passed away. Since then Henry, that’s his name. walked and still walks from the harbour to the old town and back, day after day. Restaurants supply him with food and water, vets take care for his health, winterers give him dog cookies and keep an eye on him.  There have been attempts to find a home for him, but he just wants to be in the outside, walking when he feels like it, sleeping if he feels tired and eat if it’s available and he is hungry.  He’s a loner, one might say, unable to make friends, but I see freedom, absolute freedom. Freedom just what the world needs now, freedom, just what people need now. Freedom just what we are in need of. So be careful and proud of them who found or search for freedom, like Henry, and ...