About the Challenge: Minimalist photography is characterized by a large portion of negative space, a fairly monochromatic color palette with good contrast, and an interesting subject that is able to stand on its own to capture the interest of the viewer. At first thought, it may seem like it would be easy to shoot an engaging minimalist photograph, when indeed it can often be the opposite. A minimalist photo can also effectively tell a story, in spite of its relative simplicity, and it is anything but “plain”.
Yes, I am a minimalist snob… since I could post dozens of minimalist photo’s and was not able to stick with one. But the stork gets the honor of being the main character, flying home after a hard days work (delivering at least as many babies as minimalist photo’s I wanted to post…).
Russels Lof 
I really like these photos.
Thank you Cee!
Schitterend. Een maximale buiging!
Haha prachtig compliment in stijl! Dank Jaap!
Beautiful. I thibk your link does not work over there, so I’ll try to fix it…
I think it does work (now). Thank you… twice!
Always excellent!
Thank you Bente!
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These are beautiful.
Thank you!
These are exquisite images.
That’s a wonderful compliment, thank you!
Maximum fascination…. and such adorable stories told !
Thank you Peter!
I like the last two photos…they’re so cute ones!
I agree. If they weren’t so little and if I did not know for sure they wouldn’t appreciate it… I would have cuddled them 🙂
And I just love your long legged ants picture, where they manage to lift a piece of cake with a great team effort like a piece of cake 🙂
Thank you very much Noortje…I am still not good at macro photos. But I’ll try again later.
Wonderful gallery. I like that first silhouette photo and I also love the shallow depth of field and colours in the other shots.
That’s no minimal compliment… thank you so much!
Oh yes, you had such an original entry… very nice!
Your photos are beautiful and perfect for the theme!
Thank you pike!
beautiful Noortje. you have been very true to the minimalist theme (i cheated a bit, i know) – and your captures are delightful as always. sheer eye candy! thanks for sharing.
i should also say – that stork image is especially heartening, considering what a battle they have to survive with their nesting places becoming a challenge to maintain.
Well, you don’t always have to do it by the book… and everyone has it’s own interpretation of these weekly photo challenge themes, so don’t apologize! You posted soms beautiful photo’s, that counts!
Luckily storks are doing well now in the Netherlands (unlike a few decades back).
And thank you for your nice compliments!
Pffff even gewoon in mijn moers taal mooie foto’s Noortje 😉
Dank je wel Peter!
Enne balans….daar draait het vaak om in het leven… dat lieve heersbeestje op je laatste foto heeft dat prima in de smiezen 😉
Haha, zo kun je het ook bekijken. Zelf denk ik bij het zien van die foto altijd dat het lieveheersbeestje klaar is ‘gespannen’ om zo gekatapulteerd te worden. Hm, wat zegt dat nu weer over mijn kronkelige geest?! 😉
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mwah de verschillen in perceptie zijn niet per definitie een kronkel, en een kronkel kan ook een vette meerwaarde zijn, Simon Carmiggelt koos zijn pseudoniem met zorg 😉 !! Voorlopig maken jouw hersenspinsels en je abnormaal mooie foto’s je wel een heel intrigerende vrouw.. in ieder geval kijk ik met veel plezier op je blog !
Kijk, jij weet mijn kronkel nog eens mooi recht te praten 😉
(en op je complimenten teer ik nog wel even hoor, poehee!)
minimaal commentaar. Prachtig!
Dank u zeer 🙂
mooi prachtige foto’s, wat kan klein toch zo mooi zijn!!!
Dank je Jeany, en ik ben het helemaal met je eens!
Je hebt maar weinig nodig om je gelukkig te kunnen voelen, kijk gewoon naar deze foto’s.
Klopt helemaal. Als ik ‘in het veld’ aan het fotograferen ben en al deze juweeltjes zie, voel ik me de koningin te rijk!
i just liked your blog no chance of going back just like that.
so i clicked the follow icon.
but first i was bit confused as to how to go into your blog inside the pages,
and your blog is of a different language.
which discouraged me first.
but whatever the language.
its just beautiful.
would please visit mine.
Shiva
What a nice response, thank you Shiva. It’s a pity you can not read Dutch, but hopefully you’ll enjoy the pictures enough to compensate… 🙂 I’ll definitely come and visit your blog as well!