I’m a Dutch photographer and have been capturing tulips in my homeland from every possible angle for more than a decade. So I asked myself: What’s next?Recently, the Dutch Tulip Society, an international network of tulip parks and festivals, contacted me with the direct answer to that question: They asked me if I wanted to photograph tulips outside of the Netherlands, all around the world!The first stop was Yancheng, China, to the Holland Flower Park in Dafeng. I didn’t really know what to expect. But once I arrived, I was amazed! Not only did they have a crazy amount of tulips, they also had many Dutch buildings. In fact, they have a whole Dutch-themed village called Holland Village. The backstory to this is that 100 years ago, a Dutch water engineer supported the local community in creating arable lands, on which nowadays millions of tulips are showcased for the public to enjoy!In this photo series, you can see this incredible place, complete with many flowers, windmills, and even a spectacular church building!More info:albertdros.com|Instagram|twitter.com|Facebook|flickr.com|youtube.com|behance.netThis post may includeaffiliate links.
I’m a Dutch photographer and have been capturing tulips in my homeland from every possible angle for more than a decade. So I asked myself: What’s next?
Recently, the Dutch Tulip Society, an international network of tulip parks and festivals, contacted me with the direct answer to that question: They asked me if I wanted to photograph tulips outside of the Netherlands, all around the world!
The first stop was Yancheng, China, to the Holland Flower Park in Dafeng. I didn’t really know what to expect. But once I arrived, I was amazed! Not only did they have a crazy amount of tulips, they also had many Dutch buildings. In fact, they have a whole Dutch-themed village called Holland Village. The backstory to this is that 100 years ago, a Dutch water engineer supported the local community in creating arable lands, on which nowadays millions of tulips are showcased for the public to enjoy!
In this photo series, you can see this incredible place, complete with many flowers, windmills, and even a spectacular church building!
More info:albertdros.com|Instagram|twitter.com|Facebook|flickr.com|youtube.com|behance.net
This post may includeaffiliate links.
Top-down view of the park taken with my drone. The park looked absolutely stunning from above.
I found so many little places in the park that caught my eye. Here we see a beautiful combination of flowers and tulips!
From high up in the sky to close-ups, I spent days capturing all kinds of different angles. The variety of tulips impressed me. There were so many different kinds of tulips, often mixed with other flowers.
Locals come from all around to dress up and take photos with the flowers.
Lines of tulips carefully planted in combination with interesting landmarks.
Of course, I took the macro lens and sometimes went extremely close. Here we see a dew drop on the bottom of a tulip reflecting the tulips around. The photo was flipped upside down, making it look like a glass ball.
The long, curvy rows of tulips look spectacular from the ground. When I visited, most of the park was at its best regarding the tulip bloom, with very similar timing to that in the Netherlands. The climate around Dafeng is quite similar to that of the Netherlands in spring. It can get a little bit warmer, but the tulips come out around the same time: mid-April.
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Tulips in combination with blossoming trees. A true explosion of colour!
Not just inside the park, but outside of it, they built a whole Dutch village called Holland Village, including shops, restaurants, church towers, and even a cinema. Super impressive!
Every day the park was extremely crowded with people enjoying the blooming tulips. It’s always so nice to see how (dutch) flowers around the world spread happiness.
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It’s always so beautiful to see how these flower parks create this ‘ball’ of happiness!
In evening times most people left, but the park is still very beautiful, with a lot of nice lights and details on the buildings.
The variety of tulips planted in combination with greenery and different flowers created some beautiful harmonious color palettes.
You can see the Chinese went to great lengths to replicate the Dutch atmosphere. If I didn’t tell you this was China, you would probably think this was a small Dutch village in the countryside.
Of course, they had a real windmill in the park. It’s funny that as a photographer, we always try to find that perfect photo of a beautiful tulip field with a windmill in the background. This is different each year as the fields are always slightly different. In Dafeng, they know what people want, and they just put the windmill right there where people want it. The paint is a little over the top for me, but awesome nonetheless.
A crazy replica of the Amsterdam Station, with lighting and everything. Very impressive. When I posted this on my social media, some people thought it was the real thing.
The Chinese know that I like fog! Ha, they are way ahead of us photographers. They use big water humidifiers in a lot of places, spraying water. Not sure if these are actually meant for photos, but I used them to my advantage. They were actually spraying the tulips around them to keep them wet, especially during the warmer days.
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