Just after the winter, when snow has fallen and faded, the colours in the landscape are most pretty– both soft and strong. NMM

A while ago I visited the Huis Marseille (foundation for photography) in Amsterdam to see the photo exhibition on the theme *OIL* by Edward Burtynsky. Burtynsky’s large-scale landscape photographs deftly allow us to see oil– Monumental and highly detailed images, a beautiful use of patterns and colour, and how to combine nature with the man made (and what man has made of nature). I combined them w/ photos I shot over the years of Ameland, a municipality and one of the West Frisian Islands off the north coast of the Netherlands.