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Tom Holland speaking at the 2016 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Spider-Man: Homecoming", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California.
Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
Hot-Rod shot in Amsterdam. Taken with my HTC Desire using the Camera360 Android app.
I prefer bikes over any kind of transportation, but sometimes I see a car that looks so fine, that I almost wish I'd like to drive vehicles with combustion-engines, and this baby is one of them. I've seen it around many times, and I even posted some shots of it reflected in a puddle a while ago, but when I saw it chilling out in the sunshine this weekend, I grabbed my mobile and snapped some more, I hope you don't mind. I can see myself crusing through the Dutch countryside in this Hot Rod, with a drink and a smoke, and a lekker chick next to me, listening to 'Gin&Juice' by Snoop reallyreally loud...Rollin' down the street, smokin' endo, sippin' on Gin and Juice...laid back :D
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Dutch pulp story Gravin en Bedelares roman uit het Haagsche leven, published by Eichler in 1911, this is nr 8
A light stations was established at the Holland harbor entrance in 1870, but the red, double-gabled fog signal building that eventually housed the main light there was not built until 1907. The first floor housed fog signal equipment, while living quarters for assistant keepers were on the second floor (the head keeper lived in a residence on shore). The square light tower, made integral with the existing structure, was added at the west end of the structure in 1936; the fourth-order Fresnel lens from a steel pier light was transferred to the new light tower and the old pier light was removed. In the late 1960s, a modern 250mm acrylic lantern was installed. Holland harbor pier lights were electrified in 1932 and apparently automated in 1940; the light was deactivated in 1970 with the decline of large passenger-carrying vessels using the Holland harbor (i.e., Black Lake, or Lake Macatawa as it is now known). Smaller range lights serve the pleasure craft going between Lake Macatawa and Lake Michigan. The Holland Harbor Lighthouse Historical Commission, formed in 1970 to preserve “Big Red” (as locals reportedly call the structure), in early 2007 became the owner the property it had been managing and maintaining. Holland Harbor Lighthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
More than the usual amount of confusion among sources exists for this lighthouse. Once source gives 1932 as the date of automation, another says 1932 is the date of electrification and gives no information on automation. One says the light was automated in 1970, but another says 1970 is the year the light was deactivated, and its list of keepers shows none after 1940. One source says the structure is brick, another says it’s wood frame with riveted iron plate sheathing. One says the double-gabled roof reflects local Dutch influence, but another -- with photos to back it up -- says the structure was built from plans already drawn up for a Waukegan, Illinois, lighthouse and that were used for a Wisconsin light, as well. Once more, Seeing the Light is the source I relied on the most.
The double gables on the north side do not show as clearly as I would have liked. It was quite windy, with a lot of sand being blown around; it stung our cheeks, and we were afraid of what the sand might do to camera gear. (Note the sand blowing into the channel in the preceding photo.) We had decided not to take any pictures, but then found a place with almost no sand between us and the wind, so we took our cameras out for a few quick shots. (I don't know what is off, but it's not possible to have the main structure and the light tower both look straight from this vantage point, to say nothing of the range light beyond.) These were taken from Holland State Park, which the Lighthouse Friends site says provides the best view of the lighthouse, from across the channel; for this reason, the tags include the state park. The property around the light is private, and the road from the south ends some distance before the lighthouse is reached. Light box large view is best.
jan Lievense - Reuring Festival - Reuring 2023 - Vrijdag - Leeghwaterpark - Hoofdpodium - Dutch Music Academy
Dutch windmills lined up alongside the canal in Kinderdijk, the Netherlands
Shot with Canon EOS 3 and Fuji Sensia 100 slide film, cross processed
Volkswagen Touran 2.0 TDI K-9 unit of the Dutch National Police, unit Rotterdam.
Photo is taken at the Police Headquarters in Rotterdam.
Karin Bloemen is a well known Dutch comedian and singer. On July 13th she gave a performance in Sydney for the Dutch community in Club North.
These were held in Midden-Beemster, a very large court, many participants!
My wife and her horse Pip got selected to drive the Dutch National Championships!!
Dutch girl with cap, stockings, wooden shoes and... that's it. One of the souvenirs sold at the 'Wallenwinkel' - a shop run by the Prostitution Information Center in Amsterdam's Red Light District
The Dutch embassy in Berlin was designed by Rem Koolhaas and his OMA Studio in 1997 after winning a competition to build it.
After the destruction of the former embassy during the Second World War and after the fall of the wall, building a new diplomatic headquarters in the city for the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs was a great step. The choice of the site along the river Spree, with the intention to emulate the typical landscape and canals of Holland, are a representation of the care with which this work has been done. It is said that with this work, Koolhaas completed sealing the role of architectural chancellor of his country.
In 2005, the Dutch “Mies van der Rohe” won the Prize for Contemporary Architecture of the European Union, displaying a total of 242 projects. Among the 5 finalists were included the Stade Municipal de Braga, project Soto de Moura, the Swiss Re headquarters in London, Norman Foster, the department stores Selfridges & Co. in Birmingham, Jan Kaplicky and the esplanade and photovoltaic plant Forum 2004 in Barcelona, Spain, Lapeña Martinez and Torres Tur.
The jury, among whom was the renowned architect Zaha Hadid, awarded the work to whomever highlighted the close relationship with the environment and the reconceptualization of the notion of an embassy. Koolhaas emphasized that “it is not a spectacular project, but modest, severe, that departs from the assumption that the Netherlands has traditionally been a peaceful country that has lived with the agony of war throughout its history, and now established its embassy in Berlin, a Berlin city so mired in war.” Koolhaas said that “the rigidity of the urban planning authorities of the former West Berlin, would have left the project in a typical neighborhood of embassies, and instead we were fortunate enough to find a depressing, yet full of melancholy site in the former GDR. The perpetrators of the former East Berlin were open to the proposal.
16 Apr 1982 NS English Electric class 600 0-6-0 625 & Mat 46 2 car EMU's in the sidings at Maastricht station.
The traditional polders in The Netherlands have been formed from the 12th century onwards, when people started creating arable land by draining delta swamps into nearby rivers. In the process, the drained peat started oxidizing, thus soil levels lowered, up to river water levels and lower. Throughout the centuries farmers have been adapting their agricultural system to lowering soil levels and occasional floods and invented new ways to organise themselves and keep sea and river water out – resulting in the building of hundreds of drainage windmills and later pumping stations to pump water from polders into the rivers and the sea.
This development resulted in the creation of present-day polder landscapes that are characterised by grasslands on peaty soil with drainage channels, economically sustained by dairy farming, which harbour a rich flora and fauna.
Now something completely different:
Here are some images taken at last year's edition of the Brandarisrace, a Dutch sailing event for classic sailing ships. I have been on several events before and this time was different, because of the weather, which was overcast and sometimes gloomy and wet. So, different photo conditions and different results.