- Flatey“Nothing’s open on the island right now”, the staff at the ferry station in Stykkishólmur warned us. That was perfectly… Read more: Flatey
- Winter FloraEven in February there are nice things to see for plant ecologists in Iceland, as long as you don’t mind… Read more: Winter Flora
- Sled SkillsMy Icelandic family has a summer cabin. If you’re willing to plough through the snow, it can of course also… Read more: Sled Skills
- Frozen FallsThere is something very magical about frozen waterfalls. They are amazingly blue compared to other forms of snow and ice… Read more: Frozen Falls
- Winter walksWe were not too lucky during my two week vacation in Iceland last winter. A broken car, slushy days and… Read more: Winter walks
- UnderdogsI love underdogs. For us plant ecologists, the more cryptic species groups, plant families that are hard to distinguish, or… Read more: Underdogs
- Arctic FloraThe Svalbard tundra seems bare and greyish as it emerges from under the snow in early summer. But one by… Read more: Arctic Flora
- Chasing Geese on StorholmenDuring my fieldwork visit to Ny-Alesund I got to join Maarten Loonen, Mo Verhoeven and their team on a boat… Read more: Chasing Geese on Storholmen
- Ny-AlesundWas it the bustling international community of researchers that made my visit to Ny-Alesund so wonderful, or was it just… Read more: Ny-Alesund
- Polar CreaturesI will admit immediately that I am not a good wildlife photographer, but sometimes I try.. A selection of many… Read more: Polar Creatures
- A Season on SvalbardThis fieldwork campaign on Svalbard in the summer of 2023 was perhaps my most significant Arctic research trip so far.… Read more: A Season on Svalbard
- Unraveling IWhat if we stop thinking of biodiversity decline and extinction as yes/no, linear and additive things? Between all those living… Read more: Unraveling I
- Polar night photographyThe lack of daylight on Svalbard in January and the beginning of February forced me to get creative with very… Read more: Polar night photography
- StrandirDriving up the Westfjords in the Strandir region took us past amazing coasts, abandoned herring fishing towns and the most… Read more: Strandir
- ChokurdakhOn our way to the Kytalyk field station for tundra fieldwork in 2018 and 2019 we stopped in Chokurdakh to… Read more: Chokurdakh
- Weird WaterOn a snow scooter trip through Adventdalen and Helvetiadalen for the UNIS course in Climate Change Biology 2022. This part… Read more: Weird Water
- PyramidenThe place looks just like an abandoned Wes Anderson film set, with its faded nostalgic luxury and pastel colours. Pyramiden… Read more: Pyramiden
- Auroras on SvalbardI’ve never had so many good opportunities to shoot auroras as during my 5-week course on Svalbard in winter 2022.
- Around KytalykThe place I have done most of my Arctic fieldwork, the Kytalyk reserve. It takes two regular planes (Netherlands to… Read more: Around Kytalyk
- Twilight HikeIn February the daylight had returned to a sufficient extent that we could hike from Longyearbyen to Bjørndalen on Svalbard.… Read more: Twilight Hike
- Svalbard Summer FieldworkIn my world fieldwork is most of all work. A lot of it. When you work in remote or faraway… Read more: Svalbard Summer Fieldwork
- WestfjordsPhotos from a trip around the Icelandic Westfjords
- Catching AurorasCatching the beautiful aurora borealis on camera is a fun game. I usually use a tripod, very slow shutter speed… Read more: Catching Auroras
- De HondsrugDe Hondsrug area is a great place to hunt for traces of the past in the landscape. This long ridge… Read more: De Hondsrug
- Revisiting ÞórsmörkI think I must have been 10 or so when I first visited Þórsmörk, an area of mountain ridges and… Read more: Revisiting Þórsmörk
- VeluweMy entire youth we had a caravan on a campsite on the Veluwe (Netherlands). We lived in a city, but… Read more: Veluwe
- Svalbard fjordsProbably the best way to get around Svalbard in summer; by boat. On the way to Pyramiden and back.
- Driving SprengisandurI don’t really enjoy driving so much. Unless it’s like this. Just me and the terrain, crossing rivers, no traffic.… Read more: Driving Sprengisandur
- TidesThere is something very exciting about hiking in salt marshes. You have to time your journey with the tides and… Read more: Tides
- Raw Earth PowerSeeing a volcano erupt is a true once in a lifetime opportunity. Actually seeing it, on the cloudy and often… Read more: Raw Earth Power
- Sun and Moon Halo’sIn skies that contain many ice crystals, sunlight gets refracted, and the sun shows a halo. Slightly rarer are “sun… Read more: Sun and Moon Halo’s
- HjalteyriA tiny fishing village in the north of Iceland, once home to a large herring processing industry.
- Traces of Glacial PastThroughout the Netherlands there are traces in the landscape of former ice ages and times when the Netherlands was a… Read more: Traces of Glacial Past
- SnæfellsnesIt was a very rainy and misty period in summer on the Snæfellsnes peninsula in Iceland, which made every picture… Read more: Snæfellsnes
- Sometimes life’s a beachThe Wadden Islands are among the most beautiful places in the Netherlands. Especially in early summer when all plant life… Read more: Sometimes life’s a beach
- Fossil relicsA bizarre thing about Svalbard, or at least the areas surrounding the settlements, is the constant reminder of the coal… Read more: Fossil relics
- PeopleI don’t take photos of people that much (or pose for photos myself). But I really enjoy it, I should… Read more: People
- KampinaA two-day hike in the Netherlands across the Kampina and Oisterwijkse Bossen. Sometimes you need to wander for a few… Read more: Kampina
- Faraway VillageMy father is renovating an old shop in the harbour of Raufarhöfn in the north-east of Iceland, to become a… Read more: Faraway Village
- Scenic pit stopParts of a trip from the south coast to the east of Iceland, and onwards to Mývatn. Includes the most… Read more: Scenic pit stop
- HvalfjörðurRemnants of an old WW-II naval base in Hvalfjörður, Iceland
- Shutting up for a weekendin November cold air suddenly struck the northern parts of the Netherlands, where I was staying at the beautiful Maanhoeve… Read more: Shutting up for a weekend
- Summer houseMy father’s side of the family (the Icelandic side) owns a small cottage up a mountain valley. The cottage has… Read more: Summer house
- JapanPhotos from a trip to Japan in 2019, after visiting Hokkaido University in Sapporo.