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Goudriaan is a village in the Dutch province of South Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Molenlanden, and lies about 25 km east of Rotterdam. The village centre (dark green) and the statistical district (light green) of Goudriaan in the former municipality of Graafstroom.
Holland House, originally known as Cope Castle, was a great house in Kensington in London, situated in what is now Holland Park. Created in 1605 in the Elizabethan or Jacobean style for the diplomat Sir Walter Cope, the building later passed to the powerful Rich family, then the Fox family, under whose ownership it became a noted gathering-place for Whigs in the 19th century. The house was largely destroyed by German firebombing during the Blitz in 1940; today only the east wing and some ruins of the ground floor still remain. (Wikipedia)
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A very unusual (for me) MM contribution in quite a few ways, because it is a photo that I have neither taken at home nor specifically for the "dutch angle" theme – this fluffy feather was a chance discovery at last Wednesday's (fabuloutastic, I should add) photowalk at the Olympic stadium; I didn't even think about the theme when I found this pretty feather in a corner of a step of one of the many, many staircases there. And of course this isn't the photo from that walk that I'd planned to upload first, either ;-). But often things don't turn out as expected (something which happens a lot lately when it comes to MMs), and that's not always a bad thing.
This small feather, about 6 cm / 2,3 inches long, came to my rescue when my original idea didn't work out – which every way I tried to make it work (it was a small spoke reflector which I'd once found in the street; the idea was to capture its distorted reflection which made it look like a flowing piece of honeycomb, something that came to my mind because of the reflector's honeycombed structure; well, to make it short, I never managed to get the distorted reflection sharp enough so it would be pleasant to look at; maybe I can still make it work later... I also tried to magnify those honecomb patterns inside of the reflector by using the extension tubes and the Raynox DCR-250 close-up lens – but, no, it wasn't meant to work).
But back to my "Olympic feather": Most conveniently, I had already taken it at a dutch angle (Mr Freud, can you hear me?). It is a single handheld picture taken with the Ricoh (the GRIII rocks!) which I've sharpened in Topaz Sharpen AI, and then further processed it in Nik's HDR Efex Pro – I started with the "En Vogue" preset "Cool Deep" which I'd then still tweaked a little here or there. And because the staircase I'd found this feather on had been in a shadowy corner of the stadium (and the feather in an even more shadowy corner of the step), the DNG outcome was rather dull; to add some much needed light I went into ON1 where I added a "Sunflare" texture filter to the upper left corner of the image; back in LR I added the preset "Soft Fog" and tweaked the luminosity and saturation sliders for a dreamy look.
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Nicht das, was ich eigentlich für's Thema machen wollte, aber das passiert mir in letzter Zeit häufiger ;-) Meine ursprüngliche Idee war es, die verzerrte Spiegelung eines kleinen Speichenreflektors (ein Straßenfund) auf einer Spiegelfliese zu fotografieren; die Verzerrung ließ den Reflektor wie ein fließendes Stück Honigwabe aussehen, was auch schön mit der wabenartigen Struktur des Reflektors korrespondierte – nur wollte es mir partout nicht gelingen, der Verzerrung zumindest ein wenig Schärfe abzuringen. Ich habe dann versucht, die Wabenstruktur im Innern des Reflektors mithilfe der Zwischenringe und der Raynox-DCR-250-Makrolinse zu vergrößern, aber auch hier hatten die Endergebnisse zu wenig Schärfe.
Irgendwann, es war schon ziemlich später Abend (wie immer), gab ich frustriert auf. Zum Glück fiel mir dann die flauschige Feder ein, die ich letzte Woche zufällig auf einer der unzähligen Stufen des Olympiastadions entdeckt und aus der Hand mit der GRIII fotografiert hatte. Die Größe (gut 6 cm) passte, den Winkel hatte ich bei der Aufnahme (unbewusst? Freud lässt grüßen, denn vor Ort hatte ich überhaupt nicht an das Dutch-Angle-Thema gedacht) auch schon passend schräg gewählt... Warum also nicht, auch wenn diese Feder nicht das Foto ist, das ich als Erstes vom (außerordentlich schönen) Fotowalk dort hochladen wollte. Ich habe das Bild dann in Topaz Sharpen AI nachgeschärft (Modus "Stabilize") und in HDR Efex ausgehend von der Voreinstellung "En Vogue: Cool Deep" bearbeitet. Was dann noch fehlte, war etwas mehr Licht bzw. Leuchten, denn die Feder hatte auf einer der Treppen auf der Schattenseite des Olympiastadions gelegen und das DNG war recht flau und trüb. Also habe ich in ON1 noch eine "Sunflare"-Textur drübergelegt und in LR die Weißtöne aufgehellt und als Abschluss noch die Voreinstellung "Weicher Nebel" (mit zusätzlichen Veränderungen meinerseits bei der Struktur, Luminanz und Sättigung) für ein weicheres, verträumtes Aussehen verwendet.
Manchmal kommt es eben anders, als man denkt, aber das muss ja nichts Schlechtes sein ;-) Ich wünsche Euch eine schöne Woche, liebe Flickr-Freunde, passt weiterhin gut auf Euch auf!
New Holland Honeyeater, Phylidonyris novaehollandiae
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Same Tree. Different Flower. Different Bird. Different Tweetment.
Tech Note: Normally use Silver Efex Pro for my mono work.
Rainy day playing with Lr on the iPad
This is the famous lighthouse Paard van Marken, nearby Marken a village at the north of Amsterdam in Holland. The location is known for its beautiful sun-rises and sun-sets. It was on summer and I have to admit there were tons of small flies, very annoying. The location is very quite and I will be back there during the winter when the water freeze making an even more special scenery. I did few shoots of the lighthouse and hope you like. This is a blending of 2 picture, one for background and one for the foreground to create a full field focus effect. Comments welcomed.
Muiderslot (Amsterdam Castle), Muiden, Netherlands
Having been to dozens of castles, Muiderslot is easily within my top ten. As you can see, it's much like what you may have drawn as a child; square in layout, surrounded by a moat with towers on each corner and colorful flags flying in the breeze. And it makes for a fun, interesting and easy visit. A Fairy Tale Castle.
Of course, no real castle was ever built with a fairy tale in mind (sorry not sorry, Ludwig II's "castles" in Bavaria don't count...they are palaces not real castles). Such with Muiderslot: At the end of the 13th century, around 1280, Count Floris V built the original castle at the mouth of the river Vecht to gain control over the main trade route to wealthy Utrecht and enforce a toll on the river (it's always about money and power isn't it?)
And also of course Floris V came to an inevitably violent end in 1296, and his castle creation soon followed, demolished in the years after his fall. But the castle was eventually rebuilt as an outlying defense for the increasingly important city of Amsterdam in the 14th century, which was well on its way of becoming the wealthiest city in the western world at the time.
The reason the castle was preserved however has a nobler source of inspiration: Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, the "Shakespeare of the Netherlands", gained Muiderslot as his home after being appointed sheriff of Muiden in 1609. Here he founded a famous literary society called the Muiderkring, encouraging poets and authors in their pursuit of the Arts. Hooft himself wrote a significant history of the Netherlands, noteworthy in its impartial take on Dutch history. A romantic celebration of Hooft's legacy led to the castle receiving its status as a National Monument in 1878.
During Hooft's time, the gardens, plum orchard and outer earthworks were extended, and these are worth visiting once you finish the fascinating castle tour (be sure to either follow a guide or use the audio tour). Most of the castle’s interior dates from Hooft's era as well.
While you can get to the castle via bus, it's best to drive, as it's a kilometer from the nearest bus station. Or you can take a ferry from Amsterdam, but you will not get there for my favorite time to shoot, early morning, as seen here.
The shot: manual settings, Capture One Pro for post-processing, and hand-held standing on top of a picnic table for more height. I'm sure old Floris V would have approved. Hooft, probably not!
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We're Here are visiting dutch angles (basically on the skew)
Using the night option on the phone, i was lucky that my neighbour drove up the hill to light the foreground
the movement in the trees is the wind, and it is very very wet out there
Prachtige kleuren langs de grachten.
Enkhuizen, Nederland
Beautiful colors along the canals.
Enkhuizen, The Netherlands
view at one of the many canals in the historical Dutch university city of Delft, knkwn for its Delft Blue china, near the Doelenplein on a nice Summer day.
Open to the public in April, 2018, Holland Ridge Farms in Cream Ridge, Central NJ, is just an hour drive from New York or Philadelphia. Covering 50 acres of farm ground, it Features rows and rows of tulips in the Spring and Sunflowers in the early Fall.
Their slogan is 'Don't fly to Holland, Drive to Holland. ☺️
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Our cool wet spring has been wonderful for the garden. I planted dutch iris bulbs and cosmos seeds this spring and can't believe the iris are blooming already.
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Sometimes Dutch landscapes can be quite challenging to photograph. But in this case it was a no brainer. A field of bright colored hyacinths under the dark sun-setting sky is a recipe for succes.
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Cork / Ireland ... the shape of the building amazed me and I was still disoriented because of riding and walking on the left side :)
A picture of the typical Dutch design for the polders in province Noord-Holland: straight roads, trees alongside the roads, straight fields, everywhere an horizon and the sky. And living 3 - 5 meters below sea level! Polder "De Wijde Wormer", 2016.
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Allready more than a year I was hoping on making this kind of picture of this beautiful Dutch dike village nearby Amsterdam. I come here every week during my bicycle tours. Now I had my camera with me and the circumstances were perfect: sunshine, less wind, white clouds and a blue sky. Very special is the floating young reed in its spring green color. Durgerdam, 2018.
This is My Best Shot 2018, because I wanted to make this picture for a long time. And alll at a sudden I saw the oppotunity on one of my weekly trips through this little dike village.
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