So... what else is new?
31-08-2025:
Problems have been resolved and proven stable. Added a page with actual situation around the Aurora to the Aurora section.
26-08-2025:
Major issues with either the software of my site or the hosting...
04-08-2025:
Added extensive information about the relevance of the moon phases and how to read them when planning for an Aurora tour.
02 and 03 08-2025:
Added live albums on the main photography and Aurora Addict sections. Purpose is to offer photos taken on the go at any given time. Sounds familiar? Yes it is like social media but then without the commercial rubbish. I am still polishing the albums and direct links will be placed in them so you can very quickly move in and out of the two pages. Further more I have been busy with streamlining menus and other cosmetic enhancements.
31-07-2025:
Due to unclear legislation the nude albums have been suspended.
26-07-2025:
Ongoing construction on the Astrophotography section.
20-07-2025:
Renewed the album with the most recent images.
Lots of work done on the Astrophotography section.
19-07-2025:
Added multiple items on Astrophotography
03-06-2025:
Added text to my homepage.
Initiated the first operational preparations for trip 17 to the Aurora.
25-05-2025:
Quite busy on the Astro section.
First preparations for my 17th trip to the Aurora Borealis have been taken care of: pages for blog and daily pictures are ready for action.
05-05-2025:
Added an album about the re-enactment of the crossing of the river Waal at Nijmegen as part of Operation Market Garden. Colours are muted to create an atmosphere that takes you back in time.
04-05-2025:
Added a dedicated album about the John Frost Bridge which was the objective of the closure of Operation Market Garden on 17 September 1944. The blunder of Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery and General Frederick Browning.
25-04-2025:
I've been quite busy expanding my Youtube channel in order to place timelapses and videos here on my website in the Aurora section.
05-04-2025:
New menu item and page added to the Astro Section: Glossary
02-04-2025:
Back from Finland and continuing publication of newly processed images and timelapses on the aurora section of this website.
06-03-2025:
I've been ill this week so all came to a stand still (see my astro photography blog). Further: my trip to Rovaniemi is nearing. The blog for Rovaniemi has been structured and is ready to be filled.
19-02-2025
Added a new complete section on Astro Photography
Added viewing conditions to the (SPACE)WEATHER menu on the Aurora menu.
18-02-2025
Added 'Skytonight' in the left sidebar of this page.
17-02-2025
Added a blog about my astrophotography. Find it in my Gallery menu under Astro or under 'Blog' in the main menu.
15-02-2025:
Opened an account on Reddit
You can also find it in my 'Contact' menu.
My Facebook account has been suspended for 180 days because I replaced my banner and profile photo with these:
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That means that they scan every file on critiques and they show exactly their 'Freedom Of Speech'
I could file an objection to that suspension and had to make a 3D scan of my face. While uploading that I realized my stupidity and when they asked a photo of my official ID it ended there. Never ever will Meta get that from me, specifically with the MuskGoons and their utterly shady activities ignoring every bit of privacy.
Creating a new account AUTOMATICALLY LEAD TO MY OLD ONE AND WAS DENIED UNLESS... I GAVE MY OFFICIAL ID...
08-02-2025
Added a photo of Venus and of Jupiter. The last ones shot by my entry level. In the upcoming weeks I will start with my new astro set.
The two photos I added of our moon is passed entry level. A CLS-XT filter from Astronomik in Hamburg bought out colours of minerals.
I also renamed the workshop 'Astrophotograpy' into 'The basics of astrophotography' and I will start building a new workshop named 'First steps into serious astrophotography' in which I will elaborate on my choices of equipment an I will share a ton of youtube links that hit the core of absolutely needed knowledge so you can find your way much easier than I did.
07-02-2025 01:32 hrs...
Solved the astrophotography puzzel and placed the order. A great many videos have been studied and it feels like getting a drivers license. Now making an easy start and learn to 'drive' when the delivery gets home.
Very occupied with studying astrophotography and selecting my telescope equipment. Have watched some 12 hours of video to grasp the whole concept on a beginners level though I have been doing it on a real infant level for the past 6 years.
26-01-2025:
I am in the middle of transitioning from X, IG, Whatsapp and Fakebook to BlueSky and Signal. My photography page will seize to exist somewhere on Tuesday. That implies that my website is getting way more important in showing my work and reporting my travels.
Find me on BlueSky
September Finland has also been booked. Due to very favourable positions of the moon and the fact that the solar cycle is on its maximum and the equinox is there, I will be a full three weeks in Rovaniemi from 15 september till 4 october (returning on the 5th)
02-11-2024:
Added Florida and Spaceshuttle Atlantis 2023
Expanded Finnish Lapland: Rovaniemi Autumn and Vikakongas
26-10-2024
Finished a completely new section about the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights)
18-08-2024
Added page "SALE" to the "current" menu item with camera and lenses no longer in use for sale.
29-07-2024
Updated the Emergency Package page and added a subject menu.
17-07-2024
Added page 11 may 2024 to Aurora Borealis
21-06-2024
Updated the page: Transferring from Sony A-mount to Sony E-mount
16-04-2024
Added a page with info about the transfer from Sony A-mount to Sony E-mount.
Documentation -> Workshops
12-27 March 2024:
Daily updates of my travel blog in Finland.
08-03-2024:
First entry in the travel blog 2024
10-02-2024:
The page about emergency packages is updated
28-01-2024:
Changed 'Links' in the main menu in 'Links & Things'
Added a page about emergency packages
11-01-2024: Picked up astropphotography again. Shot 545 shots of Orions belt and sword last night. Now waiting for the moment to purchase Astro Pixel Processor.
30-12-2023:
Added blog about the insanity in 'chasing' the Aurora Borealis. Except for very specific environments it is just plain bullshit.
29-12-2023:
Added an explanation about mRNA to my Links menu. If you travel a lot or meet many nationalities you'd better be vaccinated. The inventors of the mRNA vaccine technique received the Nobel Price for this much safer and much faster technique.
27-12-2023:
Started preparations for Rovaniemi 2024 and 2025 as in these two years the top of the current solar cycles will happen.
Finally added 2023 to the aurora pages but except for the panoramas, they will need a special page and that will be made soon. Actually there are already two panoramas on the page but They contain much more details so a dedicated page will be constructed for them.
Further I placed nudes in the 'nude at home' project. Elle from Cocoa Florida in a special form of black and white.
29-08-2023:
Been writing the workshops Measuring Light and Basics of photography. The latter one I had started and got under my radar...
28-08-2023:
Started writing the workshop Measuring Light.
18-08-2023:
Added a fresh processed shot of planet Jupiter in Astro
17-08-2023;
Added Croatia to Travel (Geo)
16-08-2023:
Added an album on Meteors and a workshop describing how to do that yourself.
Working on the blog structure.
30-06-2023:
Added album Arnhem in Cities
Added album Garden to Flora and Fauna
Moved images from the new images page to their album pages
Added new images to the new images page.
02-06-2023:
Added the next exposition page in 'Current'
Added 'Denise' to the nudes and 'Project Nude At Home', more is to come, processing in progress
Added to Bodyart which is also renamed and now is 'Bodyart And Jewellery'
Added to the VIP page
Many more albums need to receive updadtes, they will follow shortly.
Added experience provided by Denise at the Models References page.
12-03-2023: Updated the Finland 2023 blog and the Biography page
11-03-2023: Changed the blog pages. The old version is parked beneath the new version and remains accessible Did a ton of management changes to keep the website running
19-02-2023: Reconfigured the contact pages.
18-02-2023:
Upgraded my website software to a major new version.
There may appear login boxes here and there where part of the images have been published only for a select audience.
I.e.: visitors to an event or a view behind the scene.
Other new features will be added in time.
16-02-2023:
- Updated the link to the Aurora webcam in Yellowknife Canada
- Prepared all pages for daily results of Finland 2023
- new images under updates
- repaired some broken links
14-02-2023: Added Workshop Batteries
30-10-2022: Updated the Tripods Workshop. Corrected earlier adapter topic and added the right one. Also: future updates on any workshop page will be recognized by timestamp at the top of the left column
29-10-2022: Added the workshop page: Transition, Storage and Backup
13-04-2022: I moved the images from the travelpage to the page aurora march 2022.
05-04-2022: Finally added 2019, 2020 and 2021 to my aurora albums and very busy with processing 2000 photos of my 2022 trip to Rovaniemi. That will take a while so in the mean time enjoy what I published during that most recent trip.
15-02-2022: Tripod page finished.
09-02-2022: Started a new workshop page about selecting tripods
04-02-2022: Mail forms have been fixed. New domain name is now fully active and stabilizing.
02-02-2022:
The mail forms on the website do not function at the moment.
The domain name has changed into www.donaldburghardt.photography but the old one will remain active.
19-01-2022:
- Finished info on the page about APV en NS Stations. Dutch info on municipality law and dutch railway stations for streetphotography
- updated info on the workshops Astrophotography and Aurora Borealis
- updated the home page
10-01-2022: added stuff to the Workshop Astrophotography
09-01-2022: Added Microscopy in the menu Flora and Fauna.
03-01-2022:
Added the start of the workshop Astrophotography.
Added the workshop Sensor Cleaning
31-12-2021: At the last day of 2021 I have updated the Tabletop album with the images of our christmas village 2021 and I have updated my astro photos with a beautifull singleshot Milkyway.
04-10-2021: created a Facebook refuge on my forum. Go to the Forum tab and General Discussion. Also set the dates for the Aurora journey 2022. If flights synchronize with them it will be fixed.
21-06-2021: First chapter of workshop "Basics Of Photography" has been modernized, translated and added. Also some updates in my biography.
The 6 selected images to be on display have all been accepted and can be found in the home-menu under Current -> expositions -> Kunstkeller Dresden. The password is easy, tell the system that you are over 18 and don't forget the first capital.
25-05-2021: BIG NEWSFLASH!!!
I have been nominated to show 6 nudes in the Nude Photo Art Museum in Dresden, Germany.
And the museum has accepted! The link to the website of the museum is in the links menu.
24-05-2021: The new software bears fruits. The travel page about Finnish Lapland has been revised and where needed image are getting their info like camera, lens, exposure etc.
Also a few textpages have been updated. Restyling will take some weeks and content will be added on the fly.
23-05-2021: New version of the website software, trying out new features.
16-03-2021:
- Added references of admired artist Henriëtte "Lillith Love" van Gasteren. Find them under "Documentation" > "Other References".
- Added new photos (will keep doing this in the next days)
- Added the first of personal favourite albums. This will provide a quickscan of what I think is my better work at that moment.
22-01-2021: added links to my old workshops on the workshop pages. They are definitely dated but not outdated. They are free, have fun!
06-01-2021: Replaced the new images and added the nude album of Gala
14-07-2020: Added birds, album Butterflies and album Bats
01-07-2020: Added portrait album Soraya
22-06-2020: Added 7 more image in multiple albums. See updates -> Images
07-06-2020: Added Panoramas under Galleries - Miscellaneous
02-06-2020: updated birds
31-05-2020: updated aviation
28-05-2020: I am selected by Saal Digital to test one of their professional albums. I have €80 discount on an album of my choice while providing them with a review.
It is looking good so far. When ready and delivered I will post my review here as well.
26-05-2020: added a landscape
22-05-2020: I have modified the Updates page. The menu item now holds a pulldown menu with this page and a new album containing all new images from roughly the last two weeks. They wil be updated both but now you can have a quick view at what is new if it is an image. On this page you will still find the albums that have been updated and other news. Added the International Space Station to Astro
17-05-2020: added birds
16-05-2020: added flowers
13-05-2020: expanded the WWII albums with more scenes of Operation Market Garden.
11-05-2020: added a page in the nude section for silhouettes and bodyscapes
repaired the failure on my eBooks page. My first three eBooks of my own adventures now free accessible
also added the reference of my favorite model in Documentation -> Model Information -> Model References.
10-05-2020: added Normandy to the World War II page
replaced a black and white by a colour version on Alexas nude album and re-arranged.
Moved this page with updates into the main menu and renamed it to... Updates. What a surprise...
09-05-2020: Added a page dedicated to World War II. This will be updated frequently. Additions today: Oosterbeek and Remagen
08-05-2020: added a nut cracking magpie to the birds
01-05-2020: Added birds; Orion Nebula updated with improved version. Added album Landscapes.
29-04-2020: Updated Flying Insects
19-02-2020: Updated my biography, added a link to the autism ambassy, wrote a blog entry prior to my 10th trip to the Arctic and updated som small changes regarding my move to the city of Arnhem.
27-12-2019: Expanded information about the Aurora Borealis. See: "Documentation" -> "Workshops" -> "Aurora Borealis"
04-07-2019: Added astro photography. A small step for Mankind, a giant leap for me ;-)
02-07-2019: Finally found time to extend my galleries with submarine images. Look for them in the Geo gallery
31-03-2019: Feel like hit by a truck and ran over twice. Daylight savings time... came home "an hour later". Hate that DST stuff. It interferes with my system. Blog will be later. Blog ready! Enjoy!
30-03-2019: Added daily images: day 4 AND day 5
29-03-2019: Added daily images: day 3 and a new link in the links menu: Clouds Over Finland
28-03-2019: Added daily images: day 2
27-03-2019: Added images of the first day of Finland 2019 at the page current -> travel -> daily images -> day 1
16-03-2019: Added a new option in the links menu. Here I offer links to interesting photography I find anywhere on the web.
12-03-2019: started the final preparations for Rovaniemi 2019
27-02-2019: Minor corrections on images.
26-02-2019: Added QR-code to my workshop page Aurora Borealis and to the studio info page. Also added France to the travel images.
25-02-2019: Added info about my studio
21-02-2019: Minor changes. As the site is nearing completion I am looking for the more advanced ways to present my images. Like my panoramas that were wider than the screen in my last site, you could pan them from left to right and v.v. to view the panorama in total. Those are things I still have to figure out if and how they function in the new software.
17-02-2019: Setting up the studio for the 3 march shoot and changing layout and colours of the website. Re-learning to think hexadecimal for the the colour schemes.
09-02-2019: Constructing QR codes for several quick connects by smartphone to designated pages. Added page with info on modelling for me.
05-02-2019: Split the Aurora album into trips. This makes tracing an image easier and it makes the album less massive. 2014 however has an issue on uploading so I have to work that. Until then just enjoy what came through.
04-02-2019: added info for novices on equipment and settings for Aurora photography
31-01-2019: shot the Moon with Venus and Mercury on both sides and placed it in the album Coincidental.
29-01-2019: Today I added the travelshop where images produced during a trip are for sale with a discount for people I meet on the road. Later on when back home these images will move to the regular shop.
27-01-2019: added links to the links menu
25-01-2019: added a VIP space. Added secure connection.
24-01-2019: Added Links in the main menu, added album Huskies to Finland.
23-01-2019: Added albums Delfshaven, Clouds, Sunsets and Rovinj, Angela, Dragica Janeka, Other Portraits and protected albums Roosmarijn and Other Nudes. Removed menu item Special Projects.
22-01-2019: Added 2 more portrait albums, an erotic album, an album of other weddingshots and some straightning out copyrights. Removed the "full set" option from the Galleries menu.
21-01-2019: Added the travelpage of Florida and STS-132, the city pages Middelburg and Düren and the protected page Nude at home. Also corrected the price of the 2000pcs puzzle and working on a Dutch and a European delivery fee for the sales.
17-01-2019: The shop progresses nicely. Puzzles of 1000 and 2000 pieces have been added. Also size ratio info in the thumbnail and on the presentationpage has been added. Stil working out prices of postage for some things like within The Netherlands and Europe. Next week I will continu expanding in publications.
15-01-2019: The shop is filled with images but the data is behind. Working on that issue to get it over from the database. And succeeded in that! Each image is accompanied by its available size ratio which is found in the cart.
09-01-2019: my website is up and running and the first 4 items have added to the shop which has been activated tonight.
04-01-2019: phase 2 started tonight with adapting the Lightroom implementation on my desktop and executing the first albumpublication: "aviation". Finetuned the publication and the menu on this album.
27-12-2018: started construction of the 2019 (this) website in Backlight 2 from The Turning Gate. Cool stuff that incorporates the workflow in Adobe Lightroom Classic CC. Very easy to use, extremely well supported by its producers and also very well to use on my (somewhat bigger) smartphone with UHD screen.