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Fun fact about Niagara Falls, Canada/USA. The falls are a powerful source of hydroelectric energy, producing over 2 million kilowatts of electricity to power homes and businesses. #Hydropower #NaturalWonder #trvljourney Image Credit:@niagarafalls_statepark on instagram

Fun fact about Bolivia Salar de Uyuni. This vast salt flat contains around 10 billion tons of salt and transforms into a giant mirror during the rainy season. #SaltFlat #NaturalWonder #vctnrun Image Credit:@santiagolsv on instagram

Fun fact about Bolivia Laguna Colorada. The lake's unusual red hue comes from red sediments and microorganisms thriving in its mineral-rich waters. #NaturalWonder #UniqueLands #trkinsp Image Credit:@kkappss_footstepping on instagram

#GreatBarrierReef #NaturalWonder #AustralianNature #ReefFacts #OceanLovers #MarineLife #CoralReef #ExploreAustralia

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„Tree Avenue“ (2011)
Photo ©️ Dietmar Bachmann
📍#Bayreuth #Germany

#Baumtunnel #Naturpfad #Waldweg #MagischeLandschaft #Naturfotografie #Geheimnisvoll #SchwarzWeissFotografie #Waldliebe #StilleNatur #Naturwunder #Natur #Fotografie #schwarzweiss #Treetunnel #Naturepath #Forestpath #MagicLandscape #NaturePhotography #Secret #Allee #Avenue #BlackandWhitePhotography #Forestlove #StillNature #NaturalWonder #Nature #archway #Photography #blackandwhite #bnw #bnwphotography #LeicaM9 #Leica

A black and white photograph of a tree-lined pathway, forming a natural archway with dense foliage. The path is surrounded by tall, textured trunks and scattered leaves, creating a serene and inviting atmosphere.

Fun fact about Icefields Parkway. It passes through a UNESCO World Heritage site and offers access to over 100 ancient glaciers. #EpicDrives #NaturalWonder #trpbff Image Credit:@newbystickettotravel on instagram

Perfect end to a busy day, watching a starling murmuration at a local lake.
#NaturalWonder

Yesterday morning felt like one of those quiet bets you make with nature. The night had frozen everything solid, so I suspected there might be low-hanging fog waiting somewhere between the fields and the treelines. As I walked in, part of me was afraid I had already “mist” it — but as the sun crept closer to the horizon, the air began to thicken, soft and silver, like the world taking a slow breath.

Just before sunrise, something unexpected happened. High above the forming fog, an ice cloud lit up in iridescent colours — mostly red, orange, and yellow, with subtle hints of green and blue. Ice crystals at high altitude can refract sunlight much like tiny prisms, creating these fleeting rainbow glows known as irisation. It felt like a quiet scientific miracle happening in real time.

That’s when I saw the leafless tree. Stark, skeletal, patient. And suddenly the composition clicked: a tree seemingly losing its last colours into the sky, like a gentle puff of smoke drifting upward. It’s not my most dramatic image, but there was something special in its simplicity — a moment where winter, light, physics, and imagination lined up just long enough to press the shutter.

Photography, after all, is just another way of studying light and life.

#wonderinglens #ByMaikeldeBakker #NaturePhotography #LandscapeLovers #MorningMist #IceCloud #Iridescence #AtmosphericOptics #WeatherPhenomena #TreeSilhouette #WinterLight #DutchNature #LowlandsMagic #SunriseGlow #ColorInTheSky #FoggyMorning #PhysicsInNature #ScientificStorytelling #CanonPhotography #OutdoorLife #NatureStory #MagicalRealismInNature #NaturalWonder #SkyWatcher #EarthObservations #LightPlay #WanderingWithACamera #DailyExploration #MomentOfCalm #VisualPoetry #CreativeVision #PhotographersLife #ArtOfSeeing #NatureMood #WinterVibes #FieldNotes #MindfulPhotography #NatureIsArt #ChasingLight #StoryThroughLens

A 1mm mushroom carrying an almost-as-big droplet

Sometimes nature hides its most extraordinary scenes in places most people never look. While walking through the Kampina near Oisterwijk with my wife Christel and my sister-in-law Hanneke — a birthday walk and lunch gift from last October — I noticed something no taller than a grain of rice. There, growing out of the lush green moss on a tree trunk, stood a tiny Mycena adscendens. Barely 1 mm tall, delicate as a whisper… and balancing a raindrop almost as large as its cap.

Photographing something that small is always a technical puzzle. Tripods were impossible on the tree bark, the light was miserable — wet, grey, and sleepy — and the mushroom itself looked like shiny plastic thanks to the moisture. So I relied on my Canon 5DsR paired with the MP-E 65mm, shooting handheld with a flashlight as an improvised lightsource.
1/250s, ISO 3200, and the fixed aperture of the MP-E — a setup that pushes both the photographer and the camera to their limits. At this magnification even your own heartbeat becomes camera shake.

But somehow, everything aligned. The droplet clung to the cap with perfect surface tension, turning the whole scene into a tiny physics lesson: cohesion, adhesion, and gravity negotiating their delicate balance on a 1 mm stage.

Moments like this remind me why I love macro photography — you don’t just take a picture; you discover a world that was already there, quietly waiting.

#MacroPhotography #MicroNature #TinyMushrooms #MycenaAdscendens #FungiFriday #FungusAmongUs #NatureCloseUp #ExtremeMacro #MacroWorld #MacroMagic #Canon5DsR #CanonMacro #MPE65mm #HandheldMacro #NatureIsArt #ForestFinds #DutchNature #Kampina #Oisterwijk #MossAndMushrooms #RaindropArt #WaterDroplet #SurfaceTension #MicroWildlife #NatureWalks #PhotographyJourney #StoryBehindTheShot #NaturalWonder #TinyLifeBigWorld #ForestMagic #NatureLovers #ScienceInNature #PhotographersOfPixelfed #MacroCommunity #HiddenWorlds #ByMaikeldeBakker

I just think #lupines are beautiful, and I was lucky in #Iceland at the time and found a late bloomer.

#Photography #Fotografie #Nature #Natur #NaturalWonder #Blooming #WildFlowers #PurpleBeauty #NatureLovers #NaturePhotography #FloralPhotography #FlowerMagic #ScenicView #OutdoorAdventures #hicking

Purple lupine flower with green leaves in the foreground, set against a blurred, grassy landscape and a cloudy sky.

Inside the World’s Deepest Oil Lake 🇹🇹

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Birka Green

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Vibrant green moss covers the surface of a large rock, with patches of the rock visible through the moss. The background is dark, creating a contrast that highlights the texture and color variations of the moss.

Fun fact about Rainbow Mountain Peru. Its striking colors are a result of mineral deposits from erosion which took place over millions of years. #NaturalWonder #ColorfulLands #roamfit Image Credit:@a2asafaris on instagram

A patch of green and splashes of red and white.

Taken with my Canon 5DsR and Sigma Art 24–70 in Surea, between Gilze and Oosterhout — a gray day, yet the forest was alive with colour and quiet stories. On a bed of moss and fallen leaves stood a single Amanita muscaria — the fly agaric — but not as we usually know it. Its brilliant red cap was covered in a delicate white layer that resembled a dusting of snow. Only later did I realize: this wasn’t weather, but another fungus growing upon it. A fungus infecting a fungus — a rare and fascinating encounter.

In mycology, such infections occur when parasitic species like Hypomyces invade the fruiting body of another mushroom, spreading their hyphae through its tissues. They slowly consume the host’s nutrients, altering its colour, texture, and even shape. This quiet struggle plays out unseen, yet it’s part of the forest’s endless cycle of decay and renewal — nothing in nature is truly wasted.

I crouched low in the moss to capture it, trying to show not just a mushroom, but a story of resilience, interdependence, and the hidden wars of the microscopic world.

#AmanitaMuscaria #MacroPhotography #NaturePhotography #FungalInfection #FungiOnFungi #Canon5DsR #SigmaArt2470 #Surea #BrabantNature #NatureReserve #ForestFloor #MossLovers #Mycology #WildNetherlands #Ecology #MicroEcosystem #DutchNature #AutumnForest #ForestMagic #Biodiversity #MacroWorld #PhotographyAndScience #CloseUpNature #NaturalWonder #InterspeciesConnection #RareFind #FungalDiversity #InTheField #NatureStories #Mycophile #HiddenWorlds #MushroomLovers #FlyAgaric #ForestResearch #NatureEducation #StoryInLight #MacroLife #ForestDetails #EcoBalance #ByMaikelPhotography

The Language of Light and Leaf

Sometimes, beauty hides in the smallest and simplest things — like the way sunlight passes through a single leaf. During my walk in Surea, I noticed how the low morning sun lit the trees from behind, turning their leaves into glowing jewels of orange, yellow, and green. I raised my Canon 7D Mark II with the Sigma 100–400mm lens and focused on a single leaf, backlit by the warm sunlight.

But what you see here isn’t just colour — it’s chemistry in motion. When autumn arrives and the days grow shorter, trees start reclaiming the nutrients stored in chlorophyll — the pigment that gives leaves their green colour and fuels photosynthesis. As chlorophyll breaks down, other pigments emerge: carotenoids, responsible for yellows and oranges, and anthocyanins, which add red and purple tones. These pigments have been there all along — just hidden behind the green curtain of summer.

So, in a way, autumn is nature’s gentle way of revealing what’s always been there, waiting for the right light to be seen. Through my lens, it’s a reminder that endings can be beautiful too.

#AutumnMagic #BacklitBeauty #MacroNature #LeafArt #AutumnColors #NatureLovers #CanonPhotography #Sigma100400 #MacroShot #NatureMacro #LeafLover #BacklitLeaf #ForestMagic #LightAndColor #SureaForest #NatureInDetail #MacroPhotography #Canon7DMarkII #FineArtNature #AutumnVibes #ChlorophyllBreakdown #Carotenoids #Anthocyanins #ScienceInNature #NaturalWonder #SeasonChange #ForestWalks #DutchNature #NetherlandsNature #NaturePhotography #NatureArt #WildernessBeauty #ColorfulNature #ArtInNature #MacroDetail #HiddenBeauty #LightPlay #PhotoStory #ByMaikeldeBakker #ByMaikelPhotography

Giant's Causeway at Sunrise. #giantscauseway #sunrise #irelandtravel #northernireland #causewaycoast #uniquelandscape #geology #basaltcolumns #naturalwonder #dramaticscenery #sunriselovers #coastalliving #traveldestinations #wanderlust #smartphonephotography #photography

A wide-angle, low-view shot of the Giant's Causeway at sunrise. Hexagonal basalt columns fill the foreground, with smaller, broken columns receding into the distance towards a large cliff face. The sky is a blend of soft orange and yellow hues, with a few clouds scattered across the horizon. The overall mood is serene and dramatic.

Orange Rosehip

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A single, red rose hip on a thin, curved stem against a blurred background of warm orange and red hues. The focus is sharp on the rose hip, highlighting its texture and vibrant color.

Auch wenn gerade viele Monde die Runde machen, möchte ich doch noch eine Variante ergänzen.

Gestern Abend haben wir unser Abendessen eingepackt und uns auf ein ruhiges und vor allem lichtarmes Fleckchen begeben. Das Essen konnten wir beim Sonnenuntergang genießen, dessen Ende aber direkt die "Arbeit" einläutete.

Zunächst war ich etwas enttäuscht, denn es war sehr bewölkt und kein Mond zu sehen. Naja, zumindest ein Abendessen "with a view", wie meine Frau gerne sagt. Doch dann die Überraschung. Binnen Minuten ziehen die Wolken ab und wir sehen einen sternenklaren Himmel mit einem roten Mond. Für mich ein absolutes Traumfoto.
Plankenfels, Bayern Deutschland

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Ein roter Mond in der oberen mittigen Hälfte des Bildes umrahmt von einem blauen, wolkenlosen Himmel mit Sternen. Am unteren Bildrand sieht man verschwommene Gräser, die den Blick auf das Motiv darüber ziehen.

Ancient Columns. #giantscauseway #northernireland #basaltcolumns #geology #volcanic #coastalliving #naturalwonder #travelireland #discoverireland #visitireland #exploreireland #ireland #uk #scenicireland #smartphonephotography #photography

A monochrome, medium-angle shot of the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland. The geometric basalt columns, some standing upright and others fallen and scattered, fill the frame. Sunlight casts strong shadows, highlighting the unique hexagonal shapes and rough textures of the rocks. In the foreground, fallen stones are covered in patches of lichen, and a clear sky is visible in the top portion of the frame.

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