The moon shining in the daytime sky always feels a bit magical.
A quiet reminder that beauty often appears unexpectedly – you just need to look up.

#moonlover #daymoon #skywatcher #lunarlove #naturemagic #skyporn #blueskyday #astronomyphoto #moonscape #travelmoments #naturephotography #quietmoments #discoverearth #minimalism #celestialbeauty

Beneath Orion

#photography #ttartisan #ttartisan10mmf2

#nightphotography #astrophotography #starscape #nightscape #stargazing #milkywayphotography #longexposure #nightskylover #skywatcher #astrophoto #cosmicwonder #darksky #nightshooters #universeexplorer #celestialbeauty #starrynight #ig_astrophotography #naturesky #nightview #skylovers

Winter sunshine #morecambe #lancashire





☀️️ #sun #sunny #sunnyday #toptags #sunnydays #sunlight #light #sunshine #shine #nature #sky #skywatcher #thesun #sunrays #photooftheday #beautiful #beautifulday #weather #winter #goodday #goodweather #instasunny #instasun #instagood #clearskies #clearsky #blueskies #lookup #bright #brightsun

Pink mood
#shanghai #pudong #orientalpearltower #china #twilight #crescentmoon #eveninglight #cityscape #urbanphotography #travelphoto #moodygrams #architecturelovers #skywatcher #minimalphotography #photography #pixelfed

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

Face of the Night (Super Moon)

Canon RF 100-400mm F5.6-8 IS USM

#photography #canon

#moon #supermoon #fullmoon #lunar #astrophotography #moonphotography #nightsky #space #astronomy #skywatcher #stargazing #moonlovers #moonlight #celestial #universe #cosmos #nightphotography #moongazing #moonshot #moonmagic

Experimenting with Double Filters

Yesterday morning I woke up at 5 a.m. It was dark, cold, and quiet — the kind of silence that makes you wonder if you should just crawl back into bed. But the sky was clear with some clouds forming near the horizon, and experience told me this could become one of those fiery sunrises worth losing sleep over.

So I packed my Canon 5DsR with the Sigma Art 24–70 mm and headed to the Loonse en Drunense Duinen. Besides chasing light, I had something else in mind — a little experiment. I wanted to see what would happen if I combined a polarizing filter with a transparent plastic petri dish (from Corning).

If you’ve ever looked at a car’s rear window through polarized sunglasses and seen those oily rainbow patterns — that’s birefringence at work. When two polarizing surfaces interact with certain plastics, they reveal hidden stress patterns in vivid colors.

So I rotated both filters until the sky exploded into gradients of purple, turquoise, and gold. No Photoshop tricks here — just light, plastic, and curiosity playing together.

Sometimes, science and art meet right in front of your lens.

#ExperimentalPhotography #CreativeFilters #PolarizerEffect #OpticalPhenomena #Birefringence #PetriDishExperiment #ScienceInArt #NatureAndLight #SkyPhotography #ColorPlay #OpticsInNature #PhotographyExperiment #LandscapePhotography #AtmosphericLight #SkyMagic #MorningGlow #NaturalLight #PhotographyArt #ExploringLight #CreativeProcess #FieldExperiment #AbstractNature #PhysicsOfLight #Canon5DsR #SigmaArt2470 #DutchLandscape #LoonseEnDrunenseDuinen #NaturePhotography #VisualExploration #CuriousMind #ArtOfSeeing #PhotographyIsScience #ChasingLight #SkyWatcher #ExperimentalArt #BehindTheLens #ColorInspiration #LightAndShadow #OpticalArt #ByMaikelPhotography