They go out with their camera all year round, sometimes they get up before dawn or don’t come home until after sunset. Enthusiastic amateur photographers send their weather photos to Omroep Brabant almost every day. Four of them selected their best photos from last year.
Spring and autumn are the favorite seasons for photographer Martha Kivits (82). She gets on her bike and rides all over the region. She used to even drive to Breda and Den Bosch, nowadays she usually stays in her hometown of Waalwijk or drives to Drunen or the Loonse and Drunense dunes. “Spring with the blossoms and autumn with all its colors, I love that,” says Martha. “I don’t have a favorite photo, but I do have a favorite time of the year.”
The photo of the mushrooms was taken in the Platloon nature reserve near Waalwijk. That of the riders was taken in the Drunense dunes.
Breda Floats
Almost every day, 77-year-old Henk Voermans from Breda submits a photo, usually taken in his hometown of Breda. He took hundreds of weather photos in 2023. His preference: a photo he shot on July 23 during Breda Drijft. “Made from a boat, between these connoisseurs. After two corona years, the event was finally able to continue again with plenty of sun and 23 degrees. Then I met the ladies of Buske in Brabant.”
The second photo that Henk chose was taken in the fall in the Mastbos. “I can be found there or in the adjacent Markdal about forty Monday afternoons a year. Enjoying mother nature and photographing walking I love. What do you see a lot while walking. This photo is of a school class.”
Henk took up photography after his retirement. “I worked in construction and had no hobby, then it became this.”
Enjoy moment
Ben Saanen from Budel found it very difficult to choose two weather photos from his collection of thousands of photos. He opted for a ‘time of enjoyment’. “A beautiful serene calm at sunrise on March 22 around 7am. With fog banks with hardly any wind.”
The second photo was also taken in Budel, an action photo of two horses frolicking. “It was taken at the end of June around 9 o’clock in the evening. It was a warm and sunny day in summer. In the evening it was still time for a little romp.”
Anja Bastiaansen from Made chooses a beautiful photo of the sunset in her hometown. But she also goes out during the day. She opted for a picture ‘with a beautiful blue sky, so that the houses reflect in the water’.
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