Kinderdijk, Netherlands

Canal boot houses at twilight, Groningen.

Noorderhaven, Groningen.
I’ve been wanting to spend time shooting the beauty of the city of Groningen for quit some time.
Today three of us spend a couple of hours revisiting known spots but also discovering new ones. New sides of this city we didn’t know about yet even after so many years of visiting it.
And still there’s a lot more left to see, discover and shoot.
So we’re hoping to leave some more footsteps behind very soon.

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Looking into the direction of the Wadden sea
on one of the dikes at the northern part of the Netherlands.

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Friday December 21, was a very unpleasant day to be outside here in the Netherlands.
Mist and freezing temperatures made the cold penetrate all the way to your bones ….
But then there was December 22 … Bright sunshine … blue skies … frozen nature …
and photographing Holland just had to hit the road!
Even if only for a short walk through the neighbourhood …
See some other examples of "photographing Holland" I saw In my contacts page at Flickr:

Waku Waku
talithah
jan2eke
Irene V
deborah’s perspective

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Shot this alley in Deventer while visiting the Boekenmarkt.
Deventer is a very beautiful town. Lots of interesting characteristic old buildings.
I recommend taking along enough memory card capacity if you ever visit. : -)


Experimented with software on this one.
The sky is from a second picture of this alley with the right exposure
to show up the sky correctly and then adjusted to fit the processing on the original.

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Het unieke landschap van het Ballooërveld is bewaard gebleven en kreeg uiteindelijk een natuurbestemming.
Zondag hebben wij samen met vrienden genoten van dit authentiek stukje Drents landschap, waar heidevelden, zandwegen, eeuwenoude karrensporen, prehistorische grafheuvels en een kudde schapen ons het heerlijke gevoel gaven, even heel dicht bij de natuur te zijn.

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Ballooërvelds unique landscape has been preserved and eventually got a nature destination.
Together with friends, we’ve enjoyed this authentic little piece of landscape from the Dutch province of Drenthe , where heathland fields, sandy tracks, centuries-old cart tracks, prehistoric burial mounds and a flock of sheep for a while really gave us the delightful feeling of being close to nature.

… … Solitaire … …

For now this might be the last one from little historic Sloten.
I don’t know about you, but I’m getting enough of posting this series of images. There is more of this place I would like to show you but sunshine is ruling over the Netherlands, trees and flowers are blossoming gorgeously and we are about to head off for another ride, so I hope I’ll come back with some flowers to post.
Have a nice day.

Completion date:
Sloten, 1763

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This series of Sloten starts here.

Er is een weeralarm voor vandaag gegeven i.v.m. zware sneeuwval.
Het schijnt vanuit het zuiden naar het noorden te trekken.
Het is nu vier uur s’middags geweest. In deze noordelijke gedeelte is het nog droog.
Van mij mag dat ook zo blijven. Even naar bovenstaande foto van de sneeuwpak van maart 2005 kijken is voor mij meer dan genoeg kou.
Maar ja, anderen vinden het waarschijnlijk wel leuk.
Dus ik zou zeggen geniet ervan als je het wel leuk vind.

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A weather alarm for heavy snowfall has been given for the Netherlands.
So far at 16:00pm, no snow here up north.
I won’t mind if it stays that way. Just looking at the picture above from the snow of March 2005 is actually enough cold for me. But of course others do like it.
Here are some pictures from others of todays snowfall at the southern parts of the Netherlands.