You might not think so at first, but Drenthe also turns out to have beautiful ‘water nature’. The proof can be seen in the new book by photographer Karin Broekhuijsen: Drenthe Waterland. “I like photographing water. It reflects, maybe I’m a little magpie.”
Of course, Broekhuijsen did not leave Drenthe for it, but walked and drove around half the world to find and make the most beautiful images. All photos in the book obviously have to do with water, including the defecating buzzard and the fox, because they live in a stream valley.
The amazement that the book evokes starts at the front cover. No, it is not a drawing: all those different colors on the cover can be seen in the water. “It is seepage water in Oudemolen,” says Broekhuijsen in the RTV Drenthe radio program Cassata.
She talks about more special places that she has sometimes visited and sometimes just encountered. You see Nieuw-Weerdinge with the canal – taken from a hot air balloon. “You see the typical shape of a peat colony: a canal in the middle, and houses along the canal.”