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Biker and building, reflected in a puddle in Amsterdam.
Don't ask me how the title relates to the actual picture, I'm just a vessel and follow orders from those voices in my head...they sound like they know what they want, and that's a good thing in these uncertain times ;-D
Unedited puddle reflection of bikers and buildings in Amsterdam.
Dedicated to Gianni (NSFW!), for faving almost every single one of my wicked reflection shots ;-))
As always, just a puddle and my mobile duking it out, no Photoshop, no tricks (besides the little artistic people that SonyEricsson obviously builds into their mobile phones)!
Have a good Monday, take it easy, don't work too much and try to talk to as many nice people as possible :))
Mum&Kid passing the Amstel hotel in Amsterdam, enjoying the ride and themselves :)
Mum is proudly displaying the Dutch colors for the Euro 2008!
With the help of this shot I'll show you how to do some wicked reflectin' the easy way, check the notes for instructions ;-)
This is a puddle reflection of the Spuiplein in Amsterd@m, there are some wicked cool book stores on that square, so if you, like me, heart books, you should go there and get something good to read, your brain will thank you :))
What's your favorite book and what are you reading at the moment?
Thank you all for the 42 000 views, much appreciated :))
Photo of the day February 24, 2021 - As I was leaving work to head home and spend the evening with my wife, it was dusk. I thought I'd try to get a picture of the trees, in the dim light.
Doncaster High School For Girls (Hall Cross Comprehensive)
classroom upstairs, with leaky roof,
Taken with Olympus XA on Fuji 200 film
opening in 1911 the school first operated under the name Doncaster High School For Girls - with capacity for 300 pupils. Later it became Doncaster Girls Grammar Scool, before being becoming part of Hall Cross Comprehensive School. it finally stopped being a school circa 1996 when hall cross rationalised their buildings to 2 sites. It was then taken over by Doncaster College, they used it for teaching part of their construction course amongst other things, but only part of the building was used. when the new Doncaster college opened the building was finally closed permanantly and left to become derelict this happeed about 2006/2007.
Unedited puddle reflection of a couple doing their weekend groceries in Amsterdam.
I've only resized this shot, otherwise it's completely unedited, pure, natural puddle play :))
Why am I calling them cheapskates you're asking?! Because the dude so proudly displays his 'Aldi' food discounter bag ;-)
Personally I don't like food from those supercheap food shops, their products often taste as if they should go in the dog's/cat's food bowl, not the people's food bowl. But I guess a lasting worldwide recession can make that stuff tastier and in a few months you'll probably see me outside the 'Aldi' a lot, together with all the other victims of that latest financial fashion called bankruptcy!
P.s. Happy Women's Day :)
Puddle reflection of buildings, a biker and a lady, seemingly chasing the biker, in Amsterdam. A bit blurry due to strong winds, but I liked the scene too much not to post it!
As usual, no Photoshop, no tricks, just a wicked puddle reflection shot with a mobile, some saturation&contrast added.
Here in the best city in the world we have this running gag, sometimes we just yell out 'Hey, that's my bike!!!" and on occasion, you'll see somebody drop his bike and run quickly in the other direction, mhuahahaha ;-D
The reason behind this is that a fair percentage of the locals ride around on stolen bikes that they've purchased in the streets from a Junkie. If you support this system and finance their Heroin-addiction by buying the (obviously) stolen bikes from them, it's just a question of time until Karma comes biting you in your ass and it'll be your bike that disappears...you do get to yell "Hey, that's my bike" though, hehehe ;-P
Thank God it's Friday, yay :D
I went on a Winter Road Trip to meet some friends in foreign countries...but did the Dutch Railways really think I'll go there in this thing?! Wicked, haha :D
AmsterS@m Wicked Reflection Postcards, yay :D
This Sunday a limited edition of AmsterS@m Reflection Postcards (100 only!) will be available at the Spring is in the Air Market at the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam, go and get one before they're gone :)
AmsterS@m The Book will be on display as well!
A BIG 'Thank you' to the lovely Miss Zeee for making this happen, you kick ass :D
Have a great weekend and don't forget to vote for my photo in the 'In love with Amsterdam' contest, thank you! Here's a short news film about the exhibition!
woe is me
faithless you and selfish me
i will leave a key for you outside my doorway
woe is me
one if by the land, or two by sea
so won't you leave, for me, a light outside your doorway
on a ladder from there to here i'll climb
all this clatter between my ears i find
does it matter if i cant clear my mind?
There's a right and a wrong time
~Andrew Belle - The Ladder
Some of you may know, I am in the midst of moving everything from my recent home to a new one. Sorry for being absent so much on everyones streams. Yes, life happens fast.
I am so happy and giddy to move into an appartment of my own on Saturday again.
And this is for all my muse friends who make me incredibly happy.
12:52 weeks of BAM
Girl, buildings&cars, reflected in a puddle in Amsterdam.
I was hunching next to a puddle, taking some wicked shots, when I saw this girl approaching, so I set my Phaser to stun pointed my mobile at the spot where she would've/should've been, but she had moved so quickly that I had to swirl around like a madman (next to a puddle! you know what they say, you can drown in six inches of water!! anything for art!!!), to still catch her in full effect...I think she had a feeling that she might end up on the InterWebs and tried to escape...sorry girl, you've been AmsterS@mmed ;-D
Almost weekend!
The backside of the Royal Palace in Amsterdam, reflected in a puddle (this is the front side...reflected in a puddle, of course :)
Orange is the color of the Dutch Royal family, so it's only appropriate for them to have some fluffy orange clouds hover above the palace at any time they see fit...what a great country we're living in ;-))
I've enhanced the colors&saturation a bit with Picnik, but mostly it's a pure, natural wicked Reflection as you would expect from me :)
While I was taking this shot, I almost got hit by this BIG bus coming around the corner, luckily I jumped aside or you would probably not be reading this...and yes, I did take a shot of the bus, it's below this endless, mindless dribble, hehe :)
Just before the bus situation I've had a totally new experience, I was chilling out next to this promising looking puddle, aiming at it's innocent innermost moisty, wet....er...inside, when a bike passed through the puddle and splashed dirty water all over me and my REAL cam!! I wasn't quick enough to punch the F****r off his bike but I wrote down his license plate, beware Biaaatch (just kidding of course, bicycles don't have license plates in Holland...yet!) ;D
Sorry, I got carried away there...anyway, as I said on Monday, almost weekend, yay :D
By Avonmouth docks are these 2 buildings... I assumed they were listed buildings but a search on the web tells me they're not and that the only reason they are still there is due to the cost of knocking them down being so great - they are built of reinforced concrete.. Hard to see what use they could be put to as they are indside the port gates. Where the public are not allowed. As the policeman on the gates was eager to tell me after coming over to see what I was doing - I think he was a bit mistified as to whay anyone would want to take a pic of these building. If he saw me later when I had moved far enough back to get the whole building in and was lying on the floor trying to get a good reflection in a puddle he would have concluded I was mad I think!
Annoyingly, I had my tripod but had forgotten the footplate! And I still can't find it.. Grrrrr... hence the wide aperture on this - with the tripod I was ready to try some long exposures as it was I just increased the ISO...
A bit of photoshop but not much - a bit of dodging and some saturation
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Typical Amsterd@m street scene, reflected in a puddle...while I was shooting this series I had my bike parked by the side of the road, on this really uneven patch of concrete (like most of the city, haha) and I was really worried that it might fall over and smack me in the (eggy) head, subsequently pushing me into the puddle and drowning me underneath it's steely flanks, turning the puddle instantly from a tool of art into a tool of murder...
So when I heard a crashing noise behind me, I braced for the impact of Bikey on my sensitive skin but it was only this old drunk dude that fell over with his bike&bottle, and it seems that it was his lucky day because us bystanders picked him and his wine up and both were unharmed...I'll post a picture of him below here in a minute so that you don't have to take my word for it ;-)
Dedicated to P'TITEPUCE :)
www.flickr.com/photos/ptitepuce/
Yay, this Picture made it to the Explore Pages :))
flickr.com/explore/interesting/2007/1/29/page46
This is my 3rd Picture on Explore and I won't stop until my Photos are the ONLY ones shown there, Mhuahahahaaaa ;-)))
Mmhhh, this is bizarre, today the Picture is not on Explore anymore...I guess they've discovered my World-Domination-Scheme and got scared, haha :)
I took this photo the other day after rain had come through Southern California. Sunsets and water always make for good picture taking.
Typical Amsterdam houses on the Rokin and a tram of the GVB (the Gemeentelijk vervoersbedrijf, Amsterdam's Public Transport system), reflected in a puddle...
If you depend on the GVB to get wherever you need to be, you're pretty much on your own and you will spend considerable time waiting for their vehicles, cursing them and their forefathers for being often omnipotently incompetent...sometimes I get the impression that the whole company is run by a bunch of baboons! But at least their trams look cool in my reflections, hahaha :D
Luckily I never fell for the concept of having others transport me to my destinations, so I have only broken glass and nails to fear as I ride into the sunset on my trustworthy steel horse called Bikey :-)))
Edited with Picnik.