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These wooden shoes - clogs, "klompen" in Dutch - were worn by my father to work in his garden. I've put them as a decorative element and as a memory of my father in mine. And I've added an old rake-and-hoe ("hark en schoffel").
These clogs are painted in black, yellow and red, the colours of the Belgian flag if you paint them vertically. The same colours painted horizontally form the German flag.
The clog in the foreground, with the tulips and the windmill, was the pin of the Dutch Special Olympics team 2019 in Abu Dhabi. The Dutch athletes brought these clogs with them to exchange with participants from other countries for their pins. The exchange encourages the athletes to make contact with each other and to talk to each other.
The clog in the background was handed out by a Dutch participant in the Dakar rally. I don't remember what year.
Both clogs therefore have a link with countries in the Middle East.
Het is duidelijk dat dit nationale symbool bij Nederland hoort. Er zit hier wel een buitenlandse twist aan.
Het klompje op de voorgrond, met de tulpen en de molen, was de pin van het Nederlandse Special Olympics team 2019 in Abu Dhabi. Deze klompjes hadden de Nederlandse atleten mee om te ruilen met deelnemers van andere landen voor hun pinnen. Het ruilen stimuleert de atleten om contact te maken met elkaar, in gesprek te raken met elkaar.
Het klompje op de achtergrond werd uitgedeeld door een Nederlandse deelnemer aan de Dakar rally. Welk jaartal weet ik niet meer.
Beide klompen hebben dus een link met landen in het Midden Oosten.
He is the funniest boy... he follows me into the bathroom and then proceeds to make himself comfy in the sink!!
I'm not big on souvenirs but these little clogs don't take up too much space. Never been to Holland myself; given to us by a friend.
14 augustus 2021
Clog paths are local marked hiking trails. A clog path route goes as much as possible over mass paths, towpaths, tithing roads or peat quays that have often been present in the landscape for centuries. They have often lost their original function and are in danger of disappearing. A number of these paths have been set up for recreational use by landscape managers in collaboration with municipalities and landowners.
A keychain souvenir from Nederlands
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For whatever reason when I've come to any of these overlooks that cluster around the winding Mulholland Drive, I've spent the majority of the time focusing solely on the large scale of the view and the sky, even though one of the main highlights for me is watching the streaks of traffic and busy lights below. The distance from this view to where I live is roughly 1 mile yet when I stand up here, it feels like I'm a world away. Even when the weather and conditions don't necessarily offer an exciting photo opportunity, it's nice to come up here away from the crowded, loud and fairly dirty Hollywood and take in some nature.
I can't tell you exactly when the lights come on in the city because I have yet to notice the transition, despite a dozen or more trips to this overlook and the area down the road I sometimes visit when this is too crowded. I can probably set up a timeline through my photos but I tend to shoot long exposures up here and often will see a several minute exposure with dull buildings and then the next image is totally lit up. It was about a week ago and maybe 45 minutes after arriving when the sky finally darkened and I first noticed the red tree shaped lights atop the Capitol Records building.
It's odd to see a city go from dull to glowing and with sundown now around 5pm, the change happens very quickly. Perhaps that's hard to believe (and maybe if I had more experience with these cityscapes it wouldn't surprise me each time) but I'm sure if you find a view in your city like this, you'll see the same rapid transition and possibly not even realize it's happening. It's also possible that most of these lights are on and they just aren't as vivid until all the sunlight has left.
I didn't really think this type of shot would be interesting to me, but reviewing them at home has changed my mind and is making me reconsider some of the the other overlooks I visited last January and February and sorta dismissed since. Wind can be a challenge, particularly in some of the other overlooks and a wide angle shot rarely turned out well from them. It was always some combination of blur and an inability to find a compromise with exposure speeds that ruined my shots. I will return to a few of those overlooks and hope a new perspective and approach to shooting them will make a difference. It will also be nice to take the dog back to some of these views. In the first month or so here, he and I spent parts of many days driving up and down Mulholland Drive. The last day I dragged him out while shooting started at some of those overlooks, then to the Pacific Coast Highway and Malibu before ending up high above the fog in the Topanga Mountains. Perhaps this time we will skip 2 of those 3 destinations and just pick 1 :)
**note: looking through my images on lightroom, it appears that the Capitol Records tree shaped lights came on sometime during a 284 second exposure shot taken between 5:21 and 5:26pm haha.
WHEN & WHERE
Hollywood Bowl Overlook
Los Angeles, California
December 30th, 2016
SETTINGS
91mm
ISO 100
f/13
10 seconds
Bastad clogs I got on the net a few years ago. I love their look, unfortunately they got a funny shape when I wear them on my feet.
Posted with permission of Christine Holm (photographer).
Model: Ingela Perhans
Make Up Artist: Maria Gfrörer
Copyright: Christine Holm, 2008 ( www.holmchristine.se )
My patent light blue clogs (and my feet in them). I was wearing autumn striped socks (brown/grey/green/dark bkue) but unfortunately they don't show on this pic.
Posted with permission of Robert Milovan (photographer).
Model: Ingela P. (Ingela M. / Ingela Mans)
Copyright: Robert Milovan, 2008 (milovan.se)