Bas Meelker Landscape and Wildlife Photography

Last Friday evening and Saturday morning I was invited to Leeuwarden's center for arts Pernas for a guest lecture on landscape photography. During my stay in Leeuwarden I couldn't resist a photographic visit to the historic town center for some twilight shots. It seems like Leeuwarden forgot to turn off the Christmas lights...

As you may already know, I will be one of the guest speakers at the 6th international nature photography festival 2012 in Burgers' Zoo in Arnhem. The festival will be held from February 10 till 11. The Saturday program is already sold out (including my seminar) but there are tickets available for the Friday program. Other speakers are Paul Nicklen, Frans Lanting and my Dutch colleague Ruben Smit. It is a festival you don't want to miss!

The theme of my presentation will be 'Writing with light' and why in my opinion the light in many cases is more important than the subject. I'll be talking about what I call the 'Bird on a stick-virus' and how to cure yourself from this 'disease', commonly spread amongst nature and wildlife photographers. And of course I'll be showing a lot of my work, the story behind the images and the choices I made while taking them. During the festival I will also be selling and signing my latest book.

You can download the flyer with the complete program here. For more information please visit the NVN website. I'm looking forward to seeing you all on the festival! It will be fun!