LightningWizard.com
Title
Lightning Wizard - weather & photography
Description
Something about me, for the interested. My name is Oscar van der Velde. I was born the 28th of January 1977 just before lunch time, on a probably rainy day in Bedum, 10 kilometers north of Groningen in The Netherlands.
Was I born as a weather freak? Actually, no. It gradually happened over the years. Only on special occasions I remembered actively looking at the weather in my childhood. I remember the snow dunes being higher than myself in February 1979 when I walked near my home with my father and our dog, and some other winter weather occasions. I recall hours of frighteningly close thunders during a night on a camping at the island of Ameland in July 1985. My first forecasting abilities apparently grew during these years. At the age of about seven, I always thought we were going to have thunder if everybody was barbecueing and the sky turned dark with some white clouds, while little black bugs landed on everything white or yellow. Still pretty useful, I must say, considering the much greater knowledge I have now.
After the hobby of drawing birds at the age of nine to eleven, playing with Lego, and setting things on fire (like the neighbours' fence) with my burning glass, I got a cheap camera and started taking pictures. Nothing to write home about! I also got interested in stars and planets and had some books about the weather. It was fun to recognize clouds and name them and during another vacation on the Dutch island of Ameland in the Wadden Sea, where I went each year with my parents and my two younger brothers, my brother Arthur and I saw a waterspout in contact with the water while we were walking through the dunes! It was a great sight! I made my first real weather picture but unfortunately with crappy camera and film!
Contact
- Oscar
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- Groningen
- NL 9781KE
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- +31.503014044
