Twee jonge wespendieven in park het Loo in Apeldoorn 1900 - 1930

Richard Tepe captured these young honey buzzards in their nest at Park het Loo in Apeldoorn. The tonal range in this image feels so warm. It’s like a memory in sepia, blurred and soft around the edges. I can imagine Tepe carefully composing this shot, maybe waiting patiently for hours in the park's green gloom, just for a fleeting glimpse of the nest and its inhabitants. The nest itself, a jumble of twigs and leaves, provides a cozy, if precarious, home for the two fledglings. Tepe, like many painters, is interested in the language of form, light, and texture. The way he captures the birds' downy feathers makes me think of Chardin and his still-life paintings. Photographers and painters are magpies at heart, always borrowing and building upon each other's ideas, experimenting with new ways of seeing and representing the world. What does it mean to frame an image? What do we leave in, and what do we leave out?