{"id":3738,"date":"2025-12-29T18:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T18:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dickenmirahoogenboom.com\/?page_id=3738"},"modified":"2026-02-02T09:16:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T09:16:28","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dickenmirahoogenboom.com\/en\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"3738\" class=\"elementor elementor-3738\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3686297 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"3686297\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4b849d9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4b849d9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Dick Hoogenboom (1958) and Mira Diels (1967). Since 2007 a married couple who travel together through (mainly Europe) to capture all the beauty of this continent with cameras and drone. Almost all of our free time and holidays are spent on this intensive hobby. We travel mainly with our hybrid car and only if there is no other option do we use the plane. In the north, <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/dickenmirahoogenboom.com\/en\/portfolio-nl\/nggallery\/album\/scandinavie-scandinavia-scandinavien-2023\/\">Scandinavia<\/a><\/span>, <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/dickenmirahoogenboom.com\/en\/portfolio-nl\/nggallery\/album\/finland-finland-finnland-20182023\/\">Finland<\/a><\/span> and <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/dickenmirahoogenboom.com\/en\/portfolio-nl\/nggallery\/album\/ijsland-iceland-island-2022\/\">Iceland<\/a><\/span> are our most visited countries. Further south are <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/dickenmirahoogenboom.com\/en\/portfolio-nl\/nggallery\/album\/frankrijk-france-frankreich-vogezen-vosges-vogesen-2025\/\">France<\/a><\/span>, <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/dickenmirahoogenboom.com\/en\/portfolio-nl\/nggallery\/album\/hongarije-hungary-ungarn-2010-2011\/\">Hungary<\/a><\/span> and<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/dickenmirahoogenboom.com\/en\/portfolio-nl\/nggallery\/album\/spanje-spain-spanien-2024\/\"> Spain<\/a><\/span> the countries where we like to photograph. Europe is so beautiful!! Take for example the northwest coast of Spain with <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Playa de Silencio<\/span><\/span> and its <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/dickenmirahoogenboom.com\/en\/portfolio-nl\/nggallery\/album\/spanje-spain-spanien-2025-dick\/\">Metamorphic rocks<\/a><\/span>, or Picos de Europa with the <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/dickenmirahoogenboom.com\/en\/portfolio-nl\/nggallery\/album\/spanje-spain-spanien-2025-dick\/\">Cantabrian Chamois<\/a><\/span> as well as the rare <a href=\"https:\/\/dickenmirahoogenboom.com\/en\/portfolio-nl\/nggallery\/album\/spanje-spain-spanien-2024\/\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Wallcreeper<\/span><\/a>. In Toledo at <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hidesdecalera.com\/english\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hides de Calera<\/a><\/span> with photo hides for, among others, <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/dickenmirahoogenboom.com\/en\/portfolio-nl\/nggallery\/album\/spanje-spain-spanien-2025-mira\/\">Great Bustard<\/a><\/span>, <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/dickenmirahoogenboom.com\/en\/portfolio-nl\/nggallery\/album\/spanje-spain-spanien-2025-dick\/\">Black-winged Kite,<\/a><\/span> <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/dickenmirahoogenboom.com\/en\/portfolio-nl\/nggallery\/album\/spanje-spain-spanien-2025-dick\/\">Spanish Imperial Eagle<\/a><\/span>. A special species at this hide rental company is the<a href=\"https:\/\/dickenmirahoogenboom.com\/en\/portfolio-nl\/nggallery\/album\/spanje-spain-spanien-2025-dick\/\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Iberian Lynx<\/span><\/a> which was threatened with extinction. In Scandinavia the <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/dickenmirahoogenboom.com\/en\/portfolio-nl\/nggallery\/album\/scandinavie-scandinavia-scandinavien-2023\/\">Musk Ox<\/a><\/span> and in Finland the <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/dickenmirahoogenboom.com\/en\/portfolio-nl\/nggallery\/album\/finland-finland-finnland-20182023\/\">Brown Bear<\/a><\/span>, the<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/dickenmirahoogenboom.com\/en\/portfolio-nl\/nggallery\/album\/finland-finland-finnland-20182023\/\"> Wolverine<\/a> <\/span>and the<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/dickenmirahoogenboom.com\/en\/portfolio-nl\/nggallery\/album\/finland-finland-finnland-20182023\/\"> European Wolf<\/a><\/span>. We have visited <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/dickenmirahoogenboom.com\/en\/portfolio-nl\/nggallery\/album\/ijsland-iceland-island-2022\/\">Iceland<\/a><\/span> eight times and this will not be the last time we visit this beautiful country! In 2020, just before the corona misery, we were invited to go with a group of photographers to <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/dickenmirahoogenboom.com\/en\/portfolio-nl\/nggallery\/album\/u-s-a-yellowstone-2020\/\">Yellowstone<\/a><\/span> in the U.S.A. This was a wonderful experience!<\/p><p>Please feel free to browse through all our galleries and if you require any information or have any comments, please use the address below:<\/p><p><strong>Contact:<\/strong> <em><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"mailto:dickenmirahoogenboom@gmail.com\">dickenmirahoogenboom@gmail.com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<p>Views: 23<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dick Hoogenboom (1958) and Mira Diels (1967). Since 2007 a married couple who travel together through (mainly Europe) to capture all the beauty of this continent with cameras and drone. Almost all of our free time and holidays are spent on this intensive hobby. 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