As a full-time landscape photographer, I travel the world in search of striking scenes—but photographing my home country, The Netherlands, during tulip season never loses its magic.
This year, I spent the entire tulip season at home and captured a wide range of moments: dramatic storms and lightning, sweeping drone perspectives, and serene, mist-filled mornings. Every tulip photo in this collection was taken this year, showcasing the incredible variety and beauty of the season.
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1-Before I captured my lightning shot, these clouds were approaching me!
2-Strike! A once in a lifetime shot. I always keep trying and finally captured this spectacular shot this year!
As a professional landscape photographer, I’ve explored many beautiful places around the world—but photographing my home country, The Netherlands, never gets boring. Knowing the seasons so well and being able to anticipate the weather after years of experience helps me choose the right place at the right time for the perfect shot.
Of course, returning to the same locations again and again makes creating truly original images more challenging—but that’s part of the fun. I’m always pushing myself to improve my Netherlands portfolio, whether by capturing familiar spots in a better way or discovering entirely new ones. Even after all these years, I still find new places worth photographing every single year.
3-The last bit of the sun is behind a tulip standing above them all.
When photographing tulip fields, the challenges are mainly to try to still come up with original shots. As I have photographed them for almost ten years, you would think I have shot every possible composition and condition. But that’s not the case! I keep trying to do new things. This year, I captured a beautiful lightning strike above a red tulip field where the lines pointed precisely to the middle. I never managed to do that in all my years of shooting. It just proves there are still new shots to be taken for me. And every year, I try again if I am around.
4-One of the most beautiful sunrises of the season: A thin layer of fog and little dew drops on the tulips. Worth waking up for at 4:30 AM.
5-A beautiful afternoon at Aartswoud. With this particular light, it looks like a painting.
For me, the most memorable evening this year was photographing tulips as a dramatic shelf cloud rolled in, followed by powerful thunderstorms. You could say the overall theme of the season was storms. A freezing spring meant the tulip season started slowly—but the weather drama more than made up for it. I loved capturing the contrast between dark, brooding clouds and brightly colored tulip fields; it created incredibly striking scenes.
This year, I also focused heavily on drone photography, especially over picturesque villages in the northwest of The Netherlands. I spent countless hours flying my drone to capture these charming towns, and seeing the tulip fields wrapped around them adds an extra layer of magic to the images.
6-Red tulips and dew drops: My favorite to photograph during tulip season.
