After six years of flora and fauna images from our own country on Beleef de Natuur issues, Frank Janse is turning his attention in 2024, 2025, and 2026 to the same nature subjects from the Caribbean Netherlands in a particularly colorful format. The Caribbean Netherlands includes the islands...
The 'Experience Nature – De Wieden' issue focuses on the low moorland of the De Wieden nature reserve, located in the Kop van Overijssel, southwest of Steenwijk. This nature reserve is part of the 6.000-hectare Weerribben National Park...
Last Monday, June 14, the 141st to 150th stamps of the extra-long 'Experience Nature' series were offered for sale at stamp sales points. Simultaneously, the same ten stamps draw our attention to special provincial nature monuments as the 21st to 30th stamps....
The concepts of beauty and diversity apply in entirely different meanings to the seven stamp issues released this year. This concerns the series Experience Nature (2 x), Typically Dutch (4 x), and Sustainability (1 x). PostNL calls attention to...
The fourth edition of Beleef de natuur for 2021 was once again designed by graphic designer Frank Janse. In the three preceding years, he consistently designed stamps featuring an image of an individual animal or plant species without a setting or a...
The stamps on the sheet 'Experience Nature - Birds of Prey and Owls' feature bird species that are facing particularly difficult times. All photographs depicting birds of prey (owls are predominantly nocturnal birds of prey) shown on the stamps by Frank Janse for the ninth...
With the release of the final 'Experience Nature' stamp sheet, featuring trees and leaves in a fictional forest, the second series of four 'Experience Nature' stamp sheets concludes. A particularly profitable issue for PostNL. See sub-chapter Three major issues in...
Butterflies are winged insects. The scale-covered butterfly wings absorb light in various ways, creating colors and patterns visible to us. In their short lives, these fluttering insects undergo a bizarre metamorphosis. It begins with an egg, from which...
Frank Janse, owner of Frank Grafisch Ontwerp in Gouda, has not only designed these ten mammals for the "Experience Nature: Mammals" stamp issue, but also written the accompanying short texts, which are enclosed in quotation marks. In them, he expresses as...
On September 17, the sheet *Experience Nature - Mushrooms* will be released. In most photos featuring mushrooms, images and color blend seamlessly onto adjacent stamps and the sheet margin, creating the appearance of natural contact between the different mushrooms....
On April 9, the 'Experience Nature - Wildflowers' stamp sheet will be released. Graphic designer Frank Janse from Gouda manages to evoke spring on stamps with ten 'portraits' of wildflowers found in the Netherlands in their natural habitat. To do this, he makes use of...
In this contribution, I focus on a genuine PostNL issue featuring images of a butterfly and a tulip (vending machine stamps, issue date January 30, 2017) and on a fake issue by an illegal initiator featuring an image of the ear...
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