February 2012
Ice Doodles
It is as though the coot is walking over an enormous drawing. It is quite remarkable that movements in ice, water and air can draw such beautiful doodles together.
50 mm • f/6.7 • 1/90 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 3400 lux • EV 10.3
Books in the Snow
Today within half an hour Amsterdam was covered in snow. The book stands were prepared.
35 mm • f/5.7 • 1/125 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 6900 lux • EV 11.3
Discussion
Sometimes a discussion can be really energetic in science. From the movements and faces you can see the involvement. It is not a discussion like in a quarrel, but one is together looking for the most likely explanation.
21 mm • f/5.7 • 1/6 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 330 lux • EV 6.9
Grafisch Museum
The folded shadow of a tree blends in with the great architecture of the Amsterdam School.
50 mm • f/6.7 • 1/500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 38000 lux • EV 13.8
January 2012
Wind Direction
Because the queen celebrates her birthday today, flags are hoisted and you can see that there was a strong north eastern wind today, but you can also see a strong upward wind, about 10 meter further. The most likely explanation is that the Martinitoren leans considerably to the south west.
90 mm • f/6.7 • 1/2000 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 38000 lux • EV 13.8
Winter Sun
It is finally winter and the sun plays with the frosted branches.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/1000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 109000 lux • EV 15.3
Ice Crystals
Ice crystals shoot like knives from the point on the water surface where a plant sticks through. To form ice form supercooled water, you need energy and that is available at the plant.
75 mm • f/4.8 • 1/60 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 2400 lux • EV 9.8
Kayak in Colour
The Groningen museum forms a backdrop to the kayak ride of this lady. The pattern of the museum wall is visible in the reflecion as a pattern of vertical colour bands. That is caused by the fact that the in perspective elongated horizontal waves in the water by their shape each reflect the full height of the wall. The average colour in vertical direction is repeated by all waves, resulting in coloured vertical bands. You also see this phenomenon when the moon is reflected in water with waves: it gives a long vertical light band. (for an explaining diagram: (click))
75 mm • f/4.8 • 1/1500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 59000 lux • EV 14.4
Street Scholars
Interesting people, those street scholars, always browsing in books, lost in history.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/125 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 1700 lux • EV 9.3
zZZ
It's a gift, to sleep like that!
135 mm • f/4.8 • 1/180 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 2800 lux • EV 10
Nine Fingers
For some reason you feel coming short when someone hands you a leaf like this.
105 mm • f/8 • 1/5 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 220 lux • EV 6.3
Golf Handicap
"What is your handicap?" is a question that can be answered in two ways at this golf clinic (what's in a name). It appears that those two answers are reasonably coupled.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/90 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 2500 lux • EV 9.8
A-Kerk
The A-Kerk reflected in the stationary water of stagnant building plans.
35 mm • f/3.4 • 1/1000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 20000 lux • EV 12.8
Urban Jungle 10
It is not clear which couple is represented here or why she is called a lady of the evening.
35 mm • f/6.7 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 19000 lux • EV 12.8
Rain
Rain on the market. The trade suffers clearly, but it is still beatiful to see, when viewed in black-and-white.
50 mm • f/5.7 • 1/180 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 2500 lux • EV 9.8
The Future
Somewhere there should be light visible in the future when you throw yourself in the arms of love. And perhaps with love it is easier to see that.
35 mm • f/4.8 • 1/180 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 7100 lux • EV 11.3
Waitbar
In Groningen they fitted a vertical waitbars to the bicycle traffic lights. It should show how long you still have to wait. But often they stagnate or suddenly speed up, depending on the other traffic. Just like many waitbars in software, they are unreliable indicators of waiting time. Just like the push buttons on these traffic poles: it would not surprise me if they are not wired!
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/90 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 3500 lux • EV 10.3
Ray Tracing
A cannikin of coffeemilk reflects the rays from the lightsource and environment, but also from the lightsource to the cannikin to the paper and back again from the cannikin to the camera or eye. A good ray tracing programme simulates all these reflections but mostly not as good as in this image.
90 mm • f/4.8 • 1/60 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 1200 lux • EV 8.8
Force Lines
The plastic wrap shows the force lines nicely. Behind this wrap is a whole science to make it strong and self adhesive.
50 mm • f/5.7 • 1/30 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 1700 lux • EV 9.3
Wear Patterns
Wear patterns of a rope. Example of unplanned colours and forms with their own expression.
75 mm • f/4 • 1/125 sec. • 250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 2200 lux • EV 9.6
Kick-Up
The kick-up of a bottle is the dimple in the bottom. There are several functions and explanations for it. When serving the wine, you can put your thumb in the kick-up. The bottle is stronger. The bottle stands more stable. When storing the bottle lying down, the cork of one bottle can go into the kick-up of the next, making storage more stable. Etc.
105 mm • f/13 • 1/13 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 6000 lux • EV 11.1
Eye Sight
Something very special, our eyesight. But a good correction is often needed due to our changed habits.
50 mm • f/6.7 • 1/125 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 9600 lux • EV 11.8
Di-rect on Eurosonic
Di-rect, the band from The Hague, played on the Eurosonic Festival in Groningen. They sound and look like a band from 35 years ago, but their music is consumed with eager by the mostly young audience.
135 mm • f/3.4 • 1/90 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 440 lux • EV 7.3
Richard Dawkins
Today Richard Dawkins gave a fantastic lecture on Darwin in the Nieuwe Kerk in Groningen.
75 mm • f/1.7 • 1/125 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 79 lux • EV 4.9
Dancing in the Street
And when the sun still does not appear, you just put on your headset, turn up the volume and go dancing in the street!
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/125 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 4900 lux • EV 10.8
Dreaming of the Sun
It's after five. The market stands are closing and it is the darkest time of the year. So you can not blame her for sitting down and dreaming of the sun.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/60 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 80 lux • EV 4.9
Overwhelming Moon
Today the moon is full again and like always, it is brighter and more overwhelming than I remember: I'm ÜberdonderT!
50 mm • f/4 • 1/30 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 200 lux • EV 6.2
Techno Landscape
The landscape of today is totally man-made and (almost) totally abandoned. Koyaanisqatsi...
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/3000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 40000 lux • EV 13.8
To Fly
Kiting has a lot to do with our dream to be able to fly. The lady on the right hand side is almost jumping with the kite upward.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 13000 lux • EV 12.3
Threatening Water
This morning at 8.30 h the water had risen to only a few centimeter below the height at which the Groninger Museum would have flooded. The lowest floor was already evacuated. The art treasures where brought in safety. This evening the water level had dropped by about 30 centimeter, so the threat has been averted.
50 mm • f/2.4 • 1/60 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 120 lux • EV 5.4
Creaking
Due to windbursts of 100 km/h, branches fall creaking from the sky with a diameter of the upper leg of a farmers wife from Groningen!
21 mm • f/2.8 • 1/90 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 600 lux • EV 7.8
Victim
Another victim of the storm. Violently flapping like a fish on a hook.
50 mm • f/1.1 • 1/750 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 770 lux • EV 8.1
Storm and Rain
The combination of a strong gail with rain is bound to give victims, especially among the umbrellas in the city.
50 mm • f/1.1 • 1/25 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 52 lux • EV 4.2
The Wind
Last night there was a strong gail preceding a hailstorm, that blew this fence over a car, that consequently screamed with its alarm loudly.
85 mm • f/1.2 • 1/15 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 3.7 lux • EV 0.4
Smartphone
To take a picture with a smartphone can be done with passion! (Here on the new year's eve party in the Silo).
20 mm • f/1.7 • 1/30 sec. • 800 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • handheld • 30 lux • EV 3.4
December 2011
Mercury Colony Park
This petrol guzzler has had its heyday, but in the rain it has something special.
50 mm • f/5.7 • 1/30 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 1700 lux • EV 9.3
Urban Jungle 9
A wonderful urban trail of an action.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/45 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 1200 lux • EV 8.8
Polaroid
With an 8x10 inch viewcamera you can still make polaroids, but when the material is quite a bit older, like here, you don't have a red sensitive layer left.
35 mm • f/6.7 • 1/3.3333 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 130 lux • EV 5.5
Floor van der Wal
Here the comedian was involved in a hit-and-run with a car on the 25th of March 2011. She died. An unknown artist sprayed this portrait on the wall where this happened. Moving.
35 mm • f/2.4 • 1/30 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 94 lux • EV 5.1
Empty Market
There was market today in Groningen, but it was almost empty, which has its own beauty.
35 mm • f/11 • 1/45 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 9300 lux • EV 11.7
Splashes
Putting some water in a pan. If only we could see such short lasting phenomena as well as a camera!
75 mm • f/4 • 1/180 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 4900 lux • EV 10.8
Waiting for the Train
A small tribe around a fire in the concrete desert of our society.
35 mm • f/2.4 • 1/45 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 350 lux • EV 7
Love is the Answer
That's it!
35 mm • f/4 • 1/30 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 660 lux • EV 7.9
Living Sculpture
The Tate Modern was terrific as always, but the most beautiful piece of art was this living sculpture made by two visiting girls who rolled off the entrance ramp! They found the best posture to get as far as possible.
35 mm • f/2.8 • 1/6 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 40 lux • EV 3.9
Connectivity
The old telephone lines still run from the distribution pole to the houses, here in Notting Hill. The functional connectivity is far more complex than visible here, due to the explosion of wireless signals.
12 mm • f/8 • 1/8 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 220 lux • EV 6.3
Fixed Gear
That is how you move through London: on a fixed gear bike with a small backpack and a short handlebar to get between the red busses: fast, without a sound and environmentally friendly.
21 mm • f/8 • 1/25 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 680 lux • EV 8
Violence
The violence of the fancy fair of Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park. With this you should hear the high screaming of teenagers: expression of the intersection between fear and lust.
21 mm • f/16 • 4 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 110 lux • EV 5.3
In the Tube
The window panes of the tube carriage in London are curved, so that they fit through the round tunnels. It also gives a double image of this African lady and myself.
75 mm • f/2.8 • 1/90 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 120 lux • EV 5.5
Tower Bridge and Gerkin
Every tourist visiting London will have to stand on the windy Tower Bridge and stare over the Thames into the distance. Under the magnificent steel construction, you can see the "Gerkin" built according to completely different architectural principles.
12 mm • f/8 • 1/8 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 220 lux • EV 6.3
Magical Realism
Covent Garden on the busiest day of the year. Still there is magical realism and peace.
21 mm • f/5.6 • 1/4000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 214000 lux • EV 16.3
Millennium Dome
The Millennium Dome in London in the light of the settings sun. As you can see boats sail on the right side, while the rest of the traffic rides on the left side.
75 mm • f/4 • 1/90 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 490 lux • EV 7.5
She Loves Black
Yes, she absolutely loves black. Dog collar, coat, gloves, hair, everything black.
75 mm • f/5.7 • 1/45 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 2500 lux • EV 9.8
Leaning
Not only has the tower of the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam been leaning for ages, this effect is enhanced in this view because many façades of old buildings are built leaning over to the street. There are at least three explanations for this last fact. 1. With a leaning façade it is easier to hoist from the street. 2. With a leaning façade, the buidling looks more impressive. 3. Due to the scarce surface for buildings in the city, you get more useful floor surface in the building itself.
75 mm • f/4 • 1/125 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 3400 lux • EV 10.3
Berches in the City
Their white bark contains air and so the ambient light is simply given back. In this case the berches reflect the light of the sodium lamps of the city.
35 mm • f/2 • 1/25 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 43 lux • EV 4
Railway Construction
In Amsterdam Central Station a railway track is being replaced. Two tracks are used since the crane for the concrete blocks also runs on a track. It looks like a gigantic organism that repairs itself.
35 mm • f/2.4 • 1/30 sec. • 250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 190 lux • EV 6.1
Lingerie
White or black lingerie triggers the imagination in different ways. A japanese collegue once said, after having seen a woman in white lingerie for the first time, that he thought it was "too hygienic". I think I understand him.
75 mm • f/1.7 • 1/1000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 4900 lux • EV 10.8
Rivierenbuurt Party
At the yearly midwinter Rivierenbuurt party, district inhabitants and the local cop meet each other, while enjoying hot lemonade, chocolatemilk, glühwein, pea soup and deep fried dough balls.
50 mm • f/1.1 • 1/90 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 19 lux • EV 2.8
Iris
This is my right eye. The built in biological optical system has formed numerous images on my retina during my life. Some images will always stay with me, of which a part I would rather forget and an other part I will alway cherish.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/40 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 430 lux • EV 7.3
Agora
Late in the afternoon in Amsterdam, the skylight is mixing for some time with the incandescent light of the hotel.
75 mm • f/6.7 • 1/60 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 4600 lux • EV 10.7
Home Barefoot
A familiar student prank, and then you have to go home barefoot, through the storm, over wet streets. Still it has something special: the flying shoes of Hermes, the messenger from the gods.
135 mm • f/3.4 • 1/125 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 1200 lux • EV 8.8
Moon-Jupiter Conjunction
Tonight I saw the Moon and Jupiter in conjunction from under the old arch of the university building when I left after my lecture for the honours students. It moved me, because I felt the awakening conscience of our civilization in Byzantine times.
50 mm • f/1 • 1/30 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 51 lux • EV 4.2
Zwarte Jet
Oh my goodness, she is so cute, this Zwarte Jet! As a child I received a chocolate doll in my shoe on the 5th of December. With this picture I'm at least as happy!
75 mm • f/3.4 • 1/750 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 7400 lux • EV 11.4
Blossoming in December
The hollyhocks in front of the house are still blossoming the day before Sinterklaas. A small indicator of the "Global War(n)(m)ing"
85 mm • f/14 • 1/30 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 10000 lux • EV 11.8
Deceased
The woman on the billboard is deceased from ALS. That is a desease of the neurons that activate the muscles. Consequences are problems in movement control and muscle weakness. The girl in the train controls her hands in a fluent way.
35 mm • f/2 • 1/125 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 210 lux • EV 6.3
Blowing
It's a job: blowing bubbles to attract customers into the shop. Her concentration is so great that even her left hand joins the task.
75 mm • f/2.8 • 1/60 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 800 lux • EV 8.2
Onix
Many students that arrive here think "Oh, dat wordt weer niks!" (well, that will be a disaster!), because this is the exambuilding "Onix" on the Nadorstplein (Afterthirst Square)!
75 mm • f/1.7 • 1/45 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 110 lux • EV 5.3
November 2011
The Shoe
Shoes are for walking, but most of the time you wear them while you do not walk.
90 mm • f/23 • 1/125 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 113000 lux • EV 15.3
Wanna Have Fun?
When you are bored, late at night at station Utrecht, because you are waiting for your connection, you can always take your own portrait.
75 mm • f/2.4 • 1/180 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 1800 lux • EV 9.3
Vismarkt
The evening falls over the emptying vismarkt. You can still buy some baked fish, when you don't feel like cooking.
35 mm • f/5.7 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 14000 lux • EV 12.3
New Moon
A very young moon over the sycamore trees follows the sun to the horizon.
135 mm • f/3.4 • 1/30 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 300 lux • EV 6.8
Rubber Maid
A Rubber Maid is fantastic in the kitchen, but also everywhere else in the house!
75 mm • f/4.8 • 1/30 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 1200 lux • EV 8.8
Groningen Renovates
Groningen renovates and this construction on the Grote Markt was put there and was opened today to explain why and how. But it does not inspire yet. Perhaps a stiff drink may help.
50 mm • f/1.1 • 1/60 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 31 lux • EV 3.5
Occupy lifts Occupation
Occupy Groningen lifts the occupation of the Waagplein to make place for the christmas market for children and an icerink.
50 mm • f/1.1 • 1/60 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 62 lux • EV 4.5
Heavy
The mist makes the air and the threads heavy.
135 mm • f/8 • 1/60 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 6600 lux • EV 11.2
Through the Fog
Cycling through the fog brings back stories from the long gone past.
75 mm • f/5.7 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 14000 lux • EV 12.3
Salon Tänze
"There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them" --Vicki Baum
50 mm • f/1.1 • 1/90 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 93 lux • EV 5.1
White Poplar
Beautiful bark. Looks like illegible code on old paper.
50 mm • f/1.1 • 1/3000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 6200 lux • EV 11.1
The Wishlist
Father hands the wishlist of his daughter to Zwarte Piet at the arrival of Sint Nicolaas in Groningen.
75 mm • f/4.8 • 1/350 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 14000 lux • EV 12.3
Thrust
The glans thrusts on; the symphysis spins with joy.(click)
(Oil on the Turfsingel)
90 mm • f/4 • 1/60 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 1600 lux • EV 9.2
Prinsenhof
The Prinsenhof in the autumn morningsun. Nature prepares for hibernation.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/180 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 37000 lux • EV 13.7
Encounter
An encounter on the water. A quick chat and watch where you place those blades.
500 mm • f/8 • 1/1250 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 55000 lux • EV 14.3
World of Shoes
Some people live in a world of shoes. Only later I saw her delighted face in the image.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/15 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 1500 lux • EV 9.1
Autumn
The Nieuwe Kerk in Groningen. The warm glow of the fallen leaves form a contrast with the chilling mist.
12 mm • f/8 • 1/15 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 820 lux • EV 8.2
The Contact
Eyes closed. Adjuring contact. Time almost came to a halt.
35 mm • f/5.7 • 1/125 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 6900 lux • EV 11.3
Captain
For the smile of the week, I had very little time and so I was glad with the short shutter lag of my camera. The fact that she glided through my plane of sharpest focus upon release of the shutter, added to the feeling of the moment with this old handfocus lens.
500 mm • f/11 • 1/2000 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 165000 lux • EV 15.9
Occupy Amsterdam
A serious discussion at Occupy Amsterdam. Old times return. The financial system is discussed. There is only one important system and that is the eco-system is their conclusion.
35 mm • f/5.7 • 1/60 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 3300 lux • EV 10.3
Landingstrip Church
You really have to make an effort to help people find the entrance of a church nowadays...
35 mm • f/2.4 • 1/250 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 610 lux • EV 7.8
Blote Bet
The morning mist surrounds Blote Bet on the Herebrug. The statue was made in 1953 by Wladimir de Vries. When the statue was installed, the alderman for education asked "Will it remain naked like that, painter?"
35 mm • f/4.8 • 1/4 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 160 lux • EV 5.8
Red Paprika
The red paprika has become a welcome element in the dutch kitchen. Coming from Hungary, it contains three times as much vitamin C as an orange.
105 mm • f/11 • 1/5 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 1000 lux • EV 8.6
20 Years!
Karen and I have known each other for 20 years today, so she baked a cake. In case you don't know her: Karen is just fantastic! Just before coffee, the cake was recorded on digital media.
12 mm • f/22 • 1/1.4286 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 1200 lux • EV 8.8
An Apple a Day
Cycling makes you thirsty and so it is nice to bring an apple for the road.
75 mm • f/9.5 • 1/60 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 9200 lux • EV 11.7
Out of Balance
Sometimes, when you are thirty, you are suddenly fully out of balance. It is possible that money plays a role in it.
75 mm • f/4 • 1/350 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 4800 lux • EV 10.8
The Arrow
The lee-board of a ship becomes an arrow due to its reflection.
90 mm • f/8 • 1/180 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 20000 lux • EV 12.8
The Virtual Street
Crossing the street in virtual reality.
21 mm • f/4.8 • 1/6 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 120 lux • EV 5.4
Magical Amsterdam
Amsterdam has something magical when the evening falls. I really love that city!
21 mm • f/4 • 3 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 4.6 lux • EV 0.7
Half Moon
The waxing moon is standing in the autumn sky. No heaters on in town and so you get a sharp image, without too many turbulence in the sky. The crater with the central montain, just under the middle is Theophilus with next to it Cyrillus and under it Catharina. The detail in the image is fantastic and in the original is close to what is theoretically posible with this C8 telescope.
2000 mm • f/10 • 1/125 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 2700 lux • EV 10
October 2011
Rapids with Leaves
Rapids with autumn leaves paint a watercolour, while you look at it.
75 mm • f/9.5 • 1/2 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 310 lux • EV 6.8
Winter is Coming
With the turning of the leaves, he can feel it in his bones: winter is coming
75 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 13000 lux • EV 12.3
Love is in the Air
With this very gentle weather, it seems like spring and just like many plants, also human beings are slightly out of sync: loves is in the air!
21 mm • f/6.7 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 19000 lux • EV 12.8
Atlas
This cube shaped building of the Wageningen Agricultural University stands straight and tall, waiting for deployment.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/350 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 72000 lux • EV 14.7
Corvus
Members of the Corvus family gather in a dead tree and all face the light.
500 mm • f/11 • 1/500 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 165000 lux • EV 15.9
Occupy Groningen
Occupy Groningen is now a fact: a still modest protest against financial greed. It is not yet a real occupation: they had to move two times already.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/45 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 9300 lux • EV 11.7
Waiting in a Dreamlike State
She sat there, waiting for her friend, but it was getting a bit colder, so she sat on her hands and entered a dreamlike state.
200 mm • f/3.2 • 1/1000 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 7000 lux • EV 11.3
Seamed Nylons
It is strange: seams in nylons were an inescapable part of the production process a long time ago. Now we can make them without seams. Yet they are still worn nowadays, as a reference to the days when they covered the long legs of my "aunt" Winnie.
85 mm • f/1.4 • 1/5000 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • 64x ND filter • handheld • 1712000 lux • EV 19.3
Dreamspace
The choir of the Martinikerk in Groningen becomes a space like in a dream when rolled out in a plane.
8 mm • f/8 • 1/80 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 14000 lux • EV 12.3
Tickets
The fair on the Dam. A tradition of centuries of the yearly market in Amsterdam in autumn. But nowadays, the gigantic machines are drawn against the backdrop of the nightsky as in a science fiction cartoon.
21 mm • f/3.4 • 1/45 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 440 lux • EV 7.3
Narcissa
How wonderful to photograph yourself and to be so wrapped up in it. It is obvious that her mind is somewhere else, but her feet found the right support: her left foot stands on a large surface, but may slide under that angle, while her right foot prevents the sliding motion. With a limited support it does not give her discomfort with those thin soles on the sharp edge of the letter.
75 mm • f/4 • 1/60 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 820 lux • EV 8.2
Ruud van Empel
The exhibition of the photoworks of Ruud van Empel can be seen until and including the 27th of November 2011 in the Museum in Groningen.
8 mm • f/8 • 1/500 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 87000 lux • EV 15
Melting Chocolate
Melting chocolate is done au bain-marie, but then without the bowl containing the chocolate touching the hot water.
8 mm • f/5.6 • 1/6 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 64 lux • EV 4.6
To Blow Out
Today the wind was really strong, even in other languages.
35 mm • f/5.7 • 1/500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 28000 lux • EV 13.3
Cormorants
Cormorants in flight over the Friescheveen, touched by the light of the autumn sun. They make me want to fly.
500 mm • f/11 • 1/3200 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 264000 lux • EV 16.6
Suffering
Student life is not easy. Partying, studying and on Sundays, sports, like here in a boat with four rowers and a cox. And then sometimes, the suffering begins.
500 mm • f/11 • 1/800 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 66000 lux • EV 14.6
Eye Contact
A single glance of eye contact evokes a helping hand.
35 mm • f/6.7 • 1/1000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 77000 lux • EV 14.8
Contrails
Een clear day with cold air gives many stable contrails and with it a nice interplay of lines with those of windmill De Helper.
20 mm • f/8 • 1/4000 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • handheld • 699000 lux • EV 18
House with Tree
Sometimes, a brick wall contains an image, like here, of a house with a tree next to it.
35 mm • f/4 • 1/45 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 610 lux • EV 7.8
De Havixhorst
A beautiful evening on De Havixhorst, castle in De Wijk.
35 mm • f/11 • 1/90 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 19000 lux • EV 12.7
Coat of Air
When you throw an apple in water, you can see how the apple takes a coat of air with it, and slowly takes it off.
105 mm • f/18 • 1/200 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 177000 lux • EV 16
Vortex
A vortex in water can form itself into the shape of a giant screw of air.
105 mm • f/11 • 1/200 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 66000 lux • EV 14.6
Marin van Hal
At the 4 Mile of Groningen, this Woman, Marin van Hal, performed well: she ended as thirteenth. Her ponytail showed nicely the accelerations of her head: the tail went backward at push-off and forward at the landing of her foot.
195 mm • f/3.2 • 1/1250 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 8700 lux • EV 11.6
Fast Rain
The train rides through a shower at 140 km/h, which makes an aquarel. An ever changing equilibrium of gravity and aerodynamics.
75 mm • f/2.8 • 1/3000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 40000 lux • EV 13.8
Tough and Feminin
Olympic champion Ireen Wüst poses for the television programme Pavlov, one time tough, the other time very feminin.
75 mm • f/4 • 1/60 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 820 lux • EV 8.2
Stroll along the Hoge der A
A lovely stroll along the water. There are not many ships moored yet.
50 mm • f/1.1 • 1/60 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 31 lux • EV 3.5
Happy Students
Fortunately the students are still happy when they see me in the street. The energy and happiness sparks from their faces!
135 mm • f/6.7 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 19000 lux • EV 12.8
A Stiff Drink
Time for a stiff drink, just to take the edge off.
90 mm • f/4 • 1/4 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 110 lux • EV 5.3
Candles of Wrought Iron
The synagog has a fence with candles of wrought iron and that can be seen very well in this light.
50 mm • f/1.1 • 1/45 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • 64x ND filter • handheld • 5900 lux • EV 11.1
Outdoor Café in October
The great weather allows this streetscene in Groningen in october after 9 in the evening.
50 mm • f/1.1 • 1/45 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 12 lux • EV 2.1
Smoking Together
Smoking creates a bond, but considerably shorter than with other shared habits.
35 mm • f/2 • 1/2000 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 6800 lux • EV 11.3
September 2011
Oxygen Consumption
A top speedskater, Ireen Wüst, wears an oxygen consumption measuring device to test how efficient she rides at various velocities.
85 mm • f/2.8 • 1/320 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 860 lux • EV 8.3
Tuning the bagpipes
You tune bagpipes nowadays with a piece of electronics. Everything is concentrated around the pure note.
21 mm • f/13 • 1/6 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 430 lux • EV 7.3
Church of Science
The university building looks a bit like a church. But the foundations differ from that of a church. The debate on evolution versus creationism has a predictable outcome here.
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/125 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 4900 lux • EV 10.8
To Walk
Walking looks very peculiar as seen from above. You can clearly see that the arms are also part of walking and that is important because of the law of conservation of angular momentum. The phase relation between arm and leg movements is different from that when walking on hands and knees. The movements of the arms are a subtle part of walking upright.
50 mm • f/2.4 • 1/250 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 610 lux • EV 7.8
Empty terrace
A transition period to the autumn. It gets dark earlier, and the terraces are not always filled.
85 mm • f/1.2 • 1/200 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 790 lux • EV 8.2
Pink Bicycle
This bicycle has been painted all over with the same colour, including the pedals and the saddle. It reminds me of how Mister Bean painted his room: with a firecracker in a tin of paint.
50 mm • f/1.1 • 1/180 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • 64x ND filter • handheld • 24000 lux • EV 13.1
Glaudé building
This complex lights up in the traffic lights of the nearby crossing and street lamps. The inhabitant is watching television or has fallen asleep without turning it off. The night is drawn.
85 mm • f/1.2 • 1/80 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 20 lux • EV 2.8
Urban Jungle 8
The eye of Horus is a symbol of wisdom and protection. A suitable counterweight for the present dutch government.
85 mm • f/1.2 • 1/125 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 31 lux • EV 3.5
Tony Chemero
Today Tony Chemero gave a lecture entitled "Thinking without Representing" at the University of Groningen
85 mm • f/1.2 • 1/3200 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 3100 lux • EV 10.2
Your bicycle should NOT be here!
The sticker on his mudguard is clear. And indeed he is in the way in front of me waiting for the traffic light. And although he looks like a hardcore cyclist, I don't think he will be gone very quickly. Yet he makes a nice subject for today's picture.
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 9800 lux • EV 11.8
Shadows
According to Plato, we experience reality like shadows moving over a wall.
85 mm • f/4 • 1/500 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 22000 lux • EV 13
Water Tower
Fantastic weather, sun, with dark clouds and a strong gale. The water tower looks magnificent.
21 mm • f/9.5 • 1/1500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 231000 lux • EV 16.4
Bald and Bold
Men go bald due to testosterone and this hormone also makes them bold. It could explain why some women find bald men sexy.
75 mm • f/1.4 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • 64x ND filter • handheld • 54000 lux • EV 14.3
Rangefinder
A rangefinder camera is being adjusted using a laser. The laser shines through the eyepiece to the front and the rangefinder splits the bundle into two rays. The principle used is that lightrays through optical systems can always be reversed in direction.
85 mm • f/11 • 5 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 66 lux • EV 4.6
Integration
These two people from a far away country get explained what raw herring is and how to eat it. They are still a bit hesitant, but very interested. The multi-cultural society is a fact.
50 mm • f/11 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 52000 lux • EV 14.2
Horsepower
Since long, the horse with its one horsepower has been replaced by engines with hundreds of horsepowers. Only the power can be replaced, not the horse.
50 mm • f/1.1 • 1/350 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • 64x ND filter • without tripod • 46000 lux • EV 14
Cool
To look cool can be done with sunglasses, because they keep the mirror of the soul, the eyes, hidden.
75 mm • f/4 • 1/4000 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 55000 lux • EV 14.3
Icecream
With your coat on into the autumn, but still time for an icecream to celebrate this day. Because today this PhotoBlog exists exactly 2 years!
50 mm • f/1.1 • 1/60 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • 1000x ND filter • without tripod • 40000 lux • EV 13.8
Four Negative Lenses
In the cocktail stick, four tiny negative lenses are formed by tonic, that offer a view of the same scene from different viewpoints. You see the weirdest things sometimes, while waiting for a woman.
90 mm • f/8 • 1/125 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 6800 lux • EV 11.3
Coffee with Milk
When you put milk in your coffee, you get these kinds of dynamic sculptures.
105 mm • f/11 • 1/200 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 66000 lux • EV 14.6
The Web
At a distance of only fourty cross threads, lunch is being served.
105 mm • f/11 • 1/200 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 66000 lux • EV 14.6
Madame Tussaud
The human scale, real and fake, it is all intertwined at Madame Tussaud in Amsterdam.
135 mm • f/9.5 • 1/180 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 28000 lux • EV 13.3
Nature's Magnifiers
These rainsdrops on the last hollyhock of the season are little magnifiers. Anthonie van Leeuwenhoek saw plant cells for the first time with his microscope, consisting of only one lens, but these raindrops also allows seeing the plantcells of the petals. The smallest drops provide the highest magnification, due to the increased curvature of the water surface, maintained by the surface tension.
105 mm • f/11 • 1/200 sec. • 50 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 132000 lux • EV 15.6
Pipe Stems
It is raining pipestems. That is the dutch expression for "It is raining cats and dogs". The pipestems do not really exits, but are being made by the slowness of the huan eye and on a photo by the shuttertime.
85 mm • f/1.2 • 1/125 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 31 lux • EV 3.5
All Edges Gilt
This is 1.5 mm of a book, seen on the guilded edges. You can see individual pages stacked like boards. A beautiful bearer of information.
12 mm • f/2.4 • 1/50 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 390 lux • EV 7.2
Cross Spider
A spider starts a web by shooting a thread to an anker point, after which it creates a web with a simple set of rules without keeping an overview of the result.
105 mm • f/11 • 1/200 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 17000 lux • EV 12.6
Amusements
Amsterdam is a bubbling city, full of "amusements". People are being photographed, look at each other and are being looked at.
35 mm • f/5.7 • 1/500 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 14000 lux • EV 12.3
Walkingspeed
There is quite a fixed relation in increase of stepfrequency and steplength when walking faster. These direct bordering street stones 60 betray that her steplength at a fairly slow pace was at least 42 centimeter, to which the high heels contributed almost 3 centimeter.
35 mm • f/5.7 • 1/1500 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 42000 lux • EV 13.9
No Entrance Entrance
Here there was in the design no confidence in the selforganising navigation of a group of travellers. This lady has not seen the indication or is simply taking the shortest route in the absence of a flow of people.
50 mm • f/1.2 • 1/60 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 150 lux • EV 5.8
DIY groupshot
This is how you make a groupshot and you see the result instantly.
35 mm • f/2.4 • 1/8 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 20 lux • EV 2.8
August 2011
Tapestry
The townhall of Maastricht has rooms completely decorated with tapestries. The shadows that have been woven into the images look like those in a painting.
75 mm • f/2 • 1/180 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 310 lux • EV 6.8
Every Day Better
"Every Day Better" is the slogan on the bag, but he does not experience it in the burgundian city of Maastricht.
135 mm • f/11 • 1/4000 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 413000 lux • EV 17.2
Scales as pixels
Part of the eye on the lower wing of the Papilio Paris: a little image that is built from scales. The image covers 1 mm. in vertical direction. For an overview, see here: click
12 mm • f/2.4 • 8 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 0.5 lux • EV -2.5
Fascination
Sometimes you know early on what fascinates you and the path to the podium can be found.
35 mm • f/5.7 • 1/90 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 5000 lux • EV 10.8
Fire Works Bommen Berend
The fireworks at Bommen Berend was short, due to a technical defect, but very hefty.
17 mm • f/5.6 • 1/60 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 640 lux • EV 7.9
Crane Fly
This crane fly sat on my kitchen wall. It has less facets in its eyes than flies or bees, because its eyes are smaller and the size of facets is limited by diffraction: more and smaller facets would not give a sharper image. The halters, which are used for flight navigation, can be seen at the level of the hind legs as small round bulbs. The image covers 10 mm from left to right.
100 mm • f/13 • 1/200 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 92000 lux • EV 15
Nautilus
This negative fossil impression of a Nautilus in very hard stone is concave, but seems convex when turned around.
100 mm • f/6.3 • 1.3 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 83 lux • EV 4.9
Stacked Chairs
The Zuiderdiep is in the summer a nice place to sit on a terrace, but not at the moment.
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/4000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 20000 lux • EV 12.8
Werktheater Moi
The fascination with street theatre can be seen on the faces during a fantastic performance of the Werktheater Moi (a theater group for people with a mental limitation) on the Noorderzon Festival.
75 mm • f/2.8 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 3300 lux • EV 10.3
Lab Dance
The NND dances on the Noorderzon Festival. Here Zena in action.
75 mm • f/3.4 • 1/180 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 1800 lux • EV 9.3
SuperFly
A blowfly at this maginifcation shows what a marvelous biological machine it is.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/160 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 14000 lux • EV 12.3
Shower at Sunset
The sun was setting, while a cloud dropped its heavy load.
35 mm • f/3.4 • 1/30 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 590 lux • EV 7.8
Princess
Every young woman wants to be a princess.
135 mm • f/11 • 1/350 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 72000 lux • EV 14.7
Two hollyhock seeds
Most hollyhocks have bloomed and the first seeds are liberated. Ready to be carried by the fur of some animal. (magnification large version: 55x on schreen, diameter of a seed: 5 mm)
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/200 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 17000 lux • EV 12.6
House for Sale
The real estate market is plummeting due to the crisis and so you get these kinds of images in the street.
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/4000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 20000 lux • EV 12.8
KEI-week
The KEI-week is the general introduction week for all students in Groningen. Even in these times of cuts in education and stricter rules for students, it is busier than ever.
21 mm • f/8 • 1/350 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 38000 lux • EV 13.8
Zenith 420 caliber
The 420 caliber in a Zenith El Primo watch beats 8 times per second and is consequently very precise.
105 mm • f/5.6 • 1/50 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 4300 lux • EV 10.6
De Kruimte
A beautiful reed landscape just west of Giethoorn.
20 mm • f/5.6 • 1/800 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 68000 lux • EV 14.6
Poppy
The poppies are busy making seeds. The summer is now really underway.
105 mm • f/5.6 • 1/25 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 2100 lux • EV 9.6
Cool
The weather is nice for a few hours, so you see cool kids in the street.
21 mm• f/5.6 • 1/750 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 40000 lux • EV 13.8
Euro on its side
The euro is on its side the last two weeks
135 mm • f/11 • 2 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 100 lux • EV 5.2
Strangulation
It is not so clear who is holding who in a strangulation, but it is certain that both suffered.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/125 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 6700 lux • EV 11.3
Brolly
Brolly in the rain. That's what it is today.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/4000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 13000 lux • EV 12.3
Cormorant
Cormorants often dry their wings like this. Other birds, like pelicans, do it for thermoregulation
1000 mm • f/16 • 1/80 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 7000 lux • EV 11.3
Row, Row, Row your Boat
The weather keeps changing today. With the added uncertainty of a youngest daughter at the oars, it all becomes really exciting.
35 mm • f/4.8 • 1/2000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 79000 lux • EV 14.8
Tango
Beautiful, dancing a tango together, The upper bodies moving like one.
135 mm • f/4.8 • 1/350 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 14000 lux • EV 12.3
Landscape in a Drop
A drop can show a large part of the surroundings upside down
105 mm • f/16 • 1/200 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 17000 lux • EV 12.6
Resistance Bicycle
The chainwheel on the wrong side and no spokes? This is not a real bicycle, but a sculpture for the memory of the resistance in the second worldwar. In this transformerhouse, the population register was hidden from the invader.
50 mm • f/2 • 1/3000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 20000 lux • EV 12.9
Short Visit
A visit to a flower last only a moment. Insects live in another time domain.
105 mm • f/16 • 1/200 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 140000 lux • EV 15.6
August
The landscape is changing: it is August.
20 mm • f/7.1 • 1/160 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 22000 lux • EV 13
Very Large Pixels
Groningen will obtain a new southside of the railway station area. Possibly the building in this reflection will also disappear.
90 mm • f/6.7 • 1/90 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 6900 lux • EV 11.3
July 2011
Aperture
In old camera lenses, apertures have a round opening, which was favourable for the out of focus parts in the image.
105 mm • f/11 • 1/3.3333 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 690 lux • EV 8
Stacking
In Zaandam the land is expensive, so an elegant solution is simply stack those old houses on top of each other.
35 mm • f/9.5 • 1/350 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 54000 lux • EV 14.3
Space Elephant
Space Elephant by Salvador Dali on ArtZuid in Amsterdam. Fantastic sculpturens in the street, to be seen until 28th of August.
35 mm • f/16 • 1/1500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 655000 lux • EV 17.9
Cool Summer Night
It may well be that we can see the summer coming in the distance, but it's not certain
135 mm • f/5.7 • 1/60 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 3300 lux • EV 10.3
Friends for Life
After years, you really start to look the same when you are friends for life.
35 mm • f/2 • 1/350 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 600 lux • EV 7.8
Prowd Saleswoman
A saleswoman, prowd of her merchandise
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/1000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 3300 lux • EV 10.3
Cabbage Leaf
And it just grows without a manual.
90 mm • f/9.5 • 1/60 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 9200 lux • EV 11.7
Golden Domes
With the restauration of the Synagogue in Groningen, golden domes were applied, inspired by the synagogue of Berlin.
500 mm • f/8 • 1/500 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 87000 lux • EV 15
Rained Through
Even for an agile bird like a gull, it can really have rained too much and the water simply slashes through the carefully greased feathers.
85 mm • f/1.4 • 1/8000 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 43000 lux • EV 13.9
Violette
She is locked, but she has been standing there for a while unattended, supported by the flowerbowl. The chain is derailled, the saddle turned, but she is very pretty standing there.
50 mm • f/1.1 • 1/3000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 6200 lux • EV 11.1
Beautiful Spirals
As a small child I thought someone made thise beautiful curls and spirals in chainguards of bicycles, but they just form by themselves. Beautiful, these self organizing shapes!
85 mm • f/1.4 • 1/2000 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 2700 lux • EV 9.9
Pyramide van Austerlitz
The Pyramid of Austerlitz has ben restored in 2004 in its old shape, but has had problems with subsidence after violent rainfall in a chracteristic fracture line along the steps from heathersods.
21 mm • f/9.5 • 1/1500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 231000 lux • EV 16.4
Marjanne
A portrait made in a half dark situation looks differently from one made with strobes.
85 mm • f/1.2 • 1/400 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 390 lux • EV 7.2
Encounter
A strong wind, rain an umbrella's, a scenario in which you can easily get an unwanted encounter after which in this case a complex legal affair can develop.
85 mm • f/1.2 • 1/2500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 6100 lux • EV 11.1
Child's Play
Taking pictures is really child's play, especially when you help each other.
135 mm • f/8 • 1/500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 55000 lux • EV 14.3
Wasp with Hangover
This wasp was saved from a glass of red wine and laid down to dry. The next morning he was sitting on the window pane, clearly with a hangover, judged by his five-eyed look. (2 compound eyes and 3 single ocelli)
105 mm • f/16 • 1/200 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 140000 lux • EV 15.6
Queen of Tarts
The Queen of Tarts (www.queenoftarts.nl) and Cake Amsterdam (www.cakeamsterdam.com) can be found together in this cosy room in Amsterdam. They make unbelievable creations like a polaroid camera that you can eat.(click)
21 mm • f/4.8 • 1/30 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 590 lux • EV 7.8
Hidden
The waterpump of the St. Anthony Gasthuis in Groningen can be found with some effort between the shubbery.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/60 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 12000 lux • EV 12.1
Cup
A wet cup on a wet table on the estate Havixhorst near De Wijk.
75 mm • f/1.4 • 1/1000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 3300 lux • EV 10.3
Tiger Tiger!
Sometimes you can still see it, the affinity of cats with tigers.
85 mm • f/1.2 • 1/2000 sec. • 50 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 16000 lux • EV 12.5
The Flying Bicycle
A flying bicycle, made by Thijs Koster. The Gossamer Albatros flew over the Channel, powered by pedalling and with a wingspan of 30 meter, so it could well be that the bicycle made by Thijs is more an expression of the the wish to fly, than a physical means to do so.
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/1500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 7400 lux • EV 11.4
1E700
Four stork chicks on a small nest. The urge to learn to fly is getting stronger every day.
500 mm • f/11 • 1/800 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 264000 lux • EV 16.6
Virginia
She shows some resemblence with Virginia Woolf (click), but fortunately she lacks a deep depression.
75 mm • f/1.4 • 1/125 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 420 lux • EV 7.3
Havanna
Cuban dogs sometimes enjoy a good Havanna.
50 mm • f/1.2 • 1/350 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 860 lux • EV 8.3
Gardepoort
The Gardepoort in Groninen offers a shady place for a phonecall.
50 mm • f/11 • 1/90 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 19000 lux • EV 12.7
Summer Ice
In Thialf in Heerenveen summer ice is laid. The teams can train using the latest measuring technology.
50 mm • f/2 • 1/60 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 100 lux • EV 5.2
High Hollyhocks
In some places the hollyhocks grow higher than the Martinitoren in Groningen. The wings of visiting insects beat through the thin air.
50 mm • f/2 • 1/350 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 2400 lux • EV 9.8
Papillon Paris
An upperwing of the Papillon Paris: fascinating beauty.
105 mm • f/16 • 1/200 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 140000 lux • EV 15.6
Urban Jungle 7
The Urban Jungle of Groningen, on the corner of the Dolhuisgang, a deadend alley, which can be found in a map of 1643 of Groningen.
35 mm • f/5.7 • 1/125 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 6900 lux • EV 11.3
Pink Saturday
Pink Saturday in Groningen.
35 mm • f/8 • 1/350 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 38000 lux • EV 13.8
Book
A book is much more than the information it contains. The scent, the sound, the touch and the weight, everything is of influence on how you experience the information.
75 mm • f/1.7 • 1/60 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 300 lux • EV 6.8
June 2011
The Tripping Tango
Sometimes tripping can look like a strange tango.
35 mm • f/8 • 1/1000 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 27000 lux • EV 13.3
Stormy Weather
Heavy weather came over Groningen last night. The sky was lit by multiple flashes.
35 mm • f/4 • 1 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 27 lux • EV 3.3
Hollyhocks
Hollyhocks as silk ball dresses.
105 mm • f/16 • 1/200 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 140000 lux • EV 15.6
Exams
Exams are often still rated by hand at the university and this sometimes grows over your head.
35 mm • f/2 • 1/90 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 610 lux • EV 7.8
Van Zuylen
When you quickly need to go into Café van Zuylen you don't have to chain up your bicycle, but it remains a risk in Amsterdam.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/12 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 620 lux • EV 7.8
Lex Empress
Alexandra Keijssers (stage name Lex Empress) sings for the formation Kraak en Smaak on Swingin' Groningen.
75 mm • f/2.4 • 1/350 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 860 lux • EV 8.3
Candy Dulfer
Candy Dulfer on Swingin' Groningen.
70 mm • f/2.8 • 1/200 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 540 lux • EV 7.6
Brachiopods
A stepping stone of hard belgian blue stone contains many brachiopods, a kind of bivalve shells on a stem from some 400 million years ago.
90 mm • f/9.5 • 1/180 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 28000 lux • EV 13.3
13.3º
This cover in the floor of a sports hall is turned without any purpose, because it can turn.
35 mm • f/4 • 1/25 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 680 lux • EV 8
Hollyhock Pollen
Hollyhock pollen are already available. They are tiny sticky balls, too small to see with the naked eye, but they carry half of the genetic information of the plant. From top to bottom: 0.7 mm. Focusstacking with 10 images
8 mm • f/2.4 • 1/60 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • tripod • 940 lux • EV 8.4
Shipshape
Fast changing weather gives the right light for this great ship.
35 mm • f/3.4 • 1/4000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 79000 lux • EV 14.8
French Beret
The french beret is a small beret. The beret is worn by soldiers, bishops (in purple) and professors. But the french beret is a lot more practical and hence enjoys a long lasting popularity.
75 mm • f/2 • 1/4000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 27000 lux • EV 13.3
The Trevira's
The Trevira's performed at our district party.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/60 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 12000 lux • EV 12.1
Café de Sigaar
Also when the weather is a bit dark, Café de Sigaar offers a nice place for a conversation.
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/90 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 3500 lux • EV 10.3
Merlot Close Up
Crystals of a dried drop of Merlot between crossed pola filters. From left to right the image covers 0.5 mm.
8 mm • f/1.2 • 1/30 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • tripod • 120 lux • EV 5.4
Associative
Mushrooms are both delicious and often have fascinating and associative shapes.
90 mm • f/8 • 1/750 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 82000 lux • EV 14.9
Absurd Ballet
And then all of a sudden two colleagues meet each other in an absurd ballet.
20 mm • f/3.5 • 1/1250 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 42000 lux • EV 13.9
Marieke Falkmann
Marieke Falkmann, dutch champion on the 3000 meter, is training.
1000 mm • f/16 • 1/50 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 2200 lux • EV 9.6
Only Chick
The only chick from the stork of the Hoornsedijk gets a lot of attention.
1000 mm • f/16 • 1/60 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 42000 lux • EV 13.9
Café
The café of bookstore Selexyz in Groningen.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/125 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 3400 lux • EV 10.3
Bayer Pattern
The Bayer pattern of a the sensor of a digital camera (the Leica M9) under a microscope. Over each colour well there is a micro lens. From left to right is 1/3 of a mm.
40 mm • f/9 • 1/30 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 830 lux • EV 8.2
Kiel-Windeweer
A small bridge near Kiel-Windeweer. A sleeping village on a beautiful evening.
20 mm • f/8 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 44000 lux • EV 14
Girlfriends
Girlfriends often have a close relation, but something has changed over all those years.
90 mm • f/9.5 • 1/90 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 4400 lux • EV 10.7
Gossamer!
The crank of my fixed gear bike simply tore in half while accelerating from the traffic light. Not even 100 days after my cog failed its function (see this PhotoBlog). This bike is was assembled only 2 years ago.
90 mm • f/4 • 2 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 14 lux • EV 2.3
Shawls for the Chestnut Trees
These beautiful chestnut trees would be ill, according to reports from the Groningen council. Therefore they are listed to be cut down. Inhabitants of these singels have given the trees shawls so that would be helped in this chilling existence.
135 mm • f/16 • 2 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 220 lux • EV 6.3
Night of Art and Science 2011
The Night of Art and Science 2011. For the second time a huge success. Next: Celebrating 400 year of the University of Groningen!
35 mm • f/3.4 • 1/30 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 120 lux • EV 5.4
Jenny Lane
Jenny Lane, an excellent singer, performed at the Night of Art and Science, 2011 in Groningen.
75 mm • f/1.7 • 1/1500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 7400 lux • EV 11.4
Open Window
Having a coffee at bookstore Selexyz in Amsterdam. The Holland Festival has started (1st of June until the 26st).
35 mm • f/13 • 1/30 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 8700 lux • EV 11.6
Farewell
Mion says goodbye to her mother Rita.
35 mm • f/11 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 52000 lux • EV 14.2
Compliments
A street singer is complimented by her mother, who is also a street singer.
135 mm • f/5.6 • 1/2000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 107000 lux • EV 15.3
May 2011
128 Wooden Feet
128 wooden feet, hand made for orthopedic shoes. Craftsmanship at the OIM in Hoogeveen.
35 mm • f/4.8 • 1/30 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 240 lux • EV 6.4
Oranges
Squeezing oranges for a sunny afternoon on the terrace.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/350 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 9600 lux • EV 11.8
Dutch Bracket
The bracket bearing of a bicycle. The centre of the tranmission in the Dutch colours.
90 mm • f/6.7 • 1/45 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 860 lux • EV 8.3
Île de Ré
Île de Ré from 10 kilometer heigh. The island has a length of 26 kilometer. The curvature of the earth can be seen.
35 mm • f/4 • 1/2000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 55000 lux • EV 14.3
Dynamic Presence
Stones in the sand influence the airflow over the sand and so change the interplay between the sand grains and the air turbulence.
135 mm • f/8 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 27000 lux • EV 13.3
The sky over Molino de Viento
The sky looked dramatic today. Here at the Molino de Viento.
35 mm • f/8 • 1/4000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 437000 lux • EV 17.3
For Rita
Just a few hours before our beloved friend Rita stopped the fight to live, we found this on our path. This is for you, dear Rita.
90 mm • f/4 • 1/350 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 9600 lux • EV 11.8
The Weather Changes
Also on Gran Canaria the weather can turn, which can be beneficial for the light.
90 mm • f/8 • 1/750 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 82000 lux • EV 14.9
View from Pico de las Nieves
The view from Pico de las Nieves, the highest point of Gran Canaria, to which I cycled today from sea level to a height of 1950 meter. In the distance Tenerife and on the left Roque Nublo. It's a truly magical landscape.
90 mm • f/8 • 1/3000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 328000 lux • EV 16.9
Error 404
The demonstrations of young people on the day of the Spanish elections use the old means of handpainted banners. But the demonstrations were organised using internet and this particular banner is inspired by a well known problem on the internet.
21 mm • f/11 • 1/45 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 9300 lux • EV 11.7
Two Bridesmaids
The two bridesmaids at a wedding in San Juan near Telde.
135 mm • f/8 • 1/250 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 14000 lux • EV 12.3
Demonstration
These two students showed me a banner they made for a mass demonstration that would start half an hour later against the financial administration of Europe. I will not give a translation, but their faces revealed a lot.
135 mm • f/8 • 1/350 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 9600 lux • EV 11.8
Tirajana
Gran Canaria has a magnificent landscape, that can best be appreciated from a bicycle. Here the valley of the Tirajana. This is a panoramic composition from 20 images and covers 180 degrees horizontally and 100 degrees vertically.
35 mm • f/11 • 1/350 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 72000 lux • EV 14.7
Fake
In Gran Canaria a small harbour village was constructed in 1980, called Puerto de Mogan, which looks friendly and pretty with low buildings, but in which everything is fake. The same holds for the colour of these freshwater pearls, applied with fabric dye.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/4000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 54000 lux • EV 14.3
Long Fingers
Talent for a certain sport has to do with body dimensions, but particularly with how the brain and body work together in an environment such as these waves. By why does this surfer have these incredible long fingers? Or would he have another particular talent?
280 mm • f/11 • 1/1000 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 103000 lux • EV 15.2
Island in the Sky
Gran Canaria is as round as a wheel. When you climb its axis and je look at 1600 meters high in western direction, you see at a distance of 100 kilometer Tenerife, just as if it is hanging in the sky.
280 mm • f/11 • 1/500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 103000 lux • EV 15.2
Roseate Spoonbill
This Roseate Spoonbill seems to have run off from Sesame Street. Why do they look so funny?
135 mm • f/8 • 1/2000 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 109000 lux • EV 15.3
Footprints
The Dunas de Maspalomas have ever changing forms in the wind. Footprints are made and erased again.
280 mm • f/11 • 1/500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 103000 lux • EV 15.2
Santa Ana
The continuation from inside to outside is always appealing to me in old architecture, as seen here in the courtyard of the Catedral de Santa Ana in Las Palmas.
21 mm • f/11 • 1/25 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 5200 lux • EV 10.9
Blackheaded Ibisses
Already recognised in old civilisations: the ibis is beautiful, elegant and full of symbolism.
135 mm • f/8 • 1/4000 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 218000 lux • EV 16.3
Beach Chairs
Strange sight, those beach chairs at night.
50 mm • f/8 • 1.5 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 73 lux • EV 4.7
Karen
Karen conquers the slope of the Barranco de Guayadeque. Cave dwellings in the background.
35 mm • f/11 • 1/350 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 72000 lux • EV 14.7
Mermaid
In a way it was a disappointment when it appeared that she did not have a tail. She told me that swhe came from the Netherlands and usually Dutch women stand with their two feet firmly on the ground.
280 mm • f/8 • 1/2000 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 109000 lux • EV 15.3
Palmtree
Gran Canaria: rocks, palmtrees and a volcanic landscape.
50 mm • f/11 • 1/180 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 37000 lux • EV 13.7
Math in the Kitchen
The kitchen is filled with complex mathematical projections and reflections.
90 mm • f/22 • 1/2 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 1700 lux • EV 9.2
Crossing
Crossing the street is not so simple when you can not use your legs. But it can be done, as long as you don't lose your head.
35 mm • f/9.5 • 1/500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 77000 lux • EV 14.8
Liberation Day
Liberation Day, or how a few colours can revive the stories from our collective memory.
50 mm • f/1.1 • 1/350 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • 6x ND filter • without tripod • 4300 lux • EV 10.6
The Procession
The yearly 4th of May procession. A very bright sun, but quite cold. That contrasty feeling fills me.
21 mm • f/11 • 1/750 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 155000 lux • EV 15.8
Big Brother
The famous book "1984" by George Orwell predicted that "Big Brother" will be watching us everywhere and that prediction was correct.
35 mm • f/4.8 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 9800 lux • EV 11.8
Before the Exam
Looking out of the window before the exam starts. It will be silent for three hours. Only the sound of shifting chairs and a concentration that can only be produced during an exam.
3.9 mm • f/2.4 • 1/120 sec. • 125 ISO • 3Gs iPhone sensor • without tripod • 1500 lux • EV 9.1
Diffraction
The inside of a bowl can be perfectly cylindrical and so forms a hollow mirror for incoming light. The caustics that are formed in this way can be described by geometrical optics, but since the seventies of the former century, they can also be understood in terms of a diffraction pattern with wave dislocations. Higher math in your breakfast bowl!
90 mm • f/8 • 1/45 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 4900 lux • EV 10.8
April 2011
Diving into Amsterdam
Amsterdam can best be approached by diving fully into it, head over heels. Here this happens literally at the "I amsterdam" letters behind the RijksMuseum.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/1000 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 55000 lux • EV 14.3
Surfing Angel
At first sight, she looked like a preying angel, but at closer inspection she appeared to be connected to the world wide web. That is considerably smaller than the heavens, but the contact costs at least as much concentration as is required for preying.
90 mm • f/6.7 • 1/350 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 13000 lux • EV 12.3
Station Escher
A transverse Mercator projection from 50 images of the Station Hall in Groningen offers an Escher-like world.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/1.4286 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 150 lux • EV 5.8
The Big Bag
Sometimes I wonder just how much we are slaves of fashion designers.
90 mm • f/9.5 • 1/180 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 6900 lux • EV 11.3
Green Monster
An aphid on my iPad is suddenly confronted with her mirror image.
90 mm • f/11 • 1/12 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 2500 lux • EV 9.8
Dienst Uitvoering Onderwijs en Belasting
The new Dienst Uitvoering Onderwijs en Belastingdienst building in Groningen is almost ready to be occupied.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/60 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 12000 lux • EV 12.1
Great Tit
A great tit just arrived at his nest to feed the female that is sitting on the eggs and to rest from his flight. His tail is not only a rudder during flight, but can also server as a support during sitting.
500 mm • f/11 • 1/125 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 5200 lux • EV 10.9
Satellite
A satellite moves in 8 seconds over an angle of 8 degrees over the Big Dipper. It moves from horizon to horizon in about three minutes. From its angular velocity, the height of the satellite can be calculated: 438 kilometer (see here: klik). The three bright stars under the satellite from left to right are called Alioth, Mizar and Alkaid.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 8 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 0.1 lux • EV -5.7
The Sun
Spots on the sun, but also lighter threadlinke areas in their neighbourhood. Those are sunflares. In the beginning of 2010 there was a minimum in sunspot count, but it is quickly picking up presently. Taken with a 1000x neutral gray filter.
1000 mm • f/32 • 1/8000 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 22364000 lux • EV 23
Stand Up Paddle
Stand Up Paddle or SUP is a new fast developing sport in the Netherlands. It looks like they are in pursuit of those three girls in that boat. Or would it be a rescue attempt, since they did not bring their oars?
50 mm • f/6.7 • 1/750 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 57000 lux • EV 14.4
Urban Jungle 6
Sometimes, just by coincidence an abstract painting emerges in the street, with lines and composition.
35 mm • f/5.7 • 1/30 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 530 lux • EV 7.6
Pieter van Engelen Combo
Pieter van Engelen Combo in the Irish Pub The Shamrock in Nijmegen during the Science Café.
50 mm • f/3.4 • 1/60 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 120 lux • EV 5.4
Empty Parking
The parking and busstation for the commuters south of Groningen is empty in the evening.
35 mm • f/9.5 • 1/180 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 28000 lux • EV 13.3
Rondje Dordt
Look! He's doing his round through Dordt.
35 mm • f/6.7 • 1/500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 38000 lux • EV 13.8
Urban Jungle 5
Presumably the maker of this grafitti face has removed the poster that was glued over it, to show it again, rendering this interesting image.
50 mm • f/1.1 • 1/60 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 50 lux • EV 4.2
Resting Knight
Suddenly a new result from manual labor: a resting knight, seated on the entrance of the Palace in Groningen.
50 mm • f/1.1 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 520 lux • EV 7.6
Life on Water
These people live on the water in the middle of town.
35 mm • f/13 • 1/1000 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 144000 lux • EV 15.7
Little Planet Museum
Little Planet Museum Groningen. There is something very pleasing about all those lines that intersect in a single point.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/25 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 5200 lux • EV 10.9
White Rabbit
Suddenly this result from manual labor was present on the Grote Markt. The text reads "War is not cool, but a tank with a white rabbit is!". The torch sympbol from the 4 and 5 May organisation for piece is painted on the tank. It is ironic that the Party of the Animals asked in 2005 an explanation from the ministry of defence secretary Kamp about the slaughtering of 150 white rabbits by the 17th armoured division from Oirschot. Would this be the final revenge of the white rabbits?
50 mm • f/2.4 • 1/45 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 220 lux • EV 6.3
Little Planet Grote Markt
Little Planet Grote Markt. Beating heart of Groningen, but on an average monday evening a bit quiet.
12 mm • f/11 • 1.5 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 69 lux • EV 4.7
Dulce Pontes
Wittiness and sadness come close together in the music of Dulce Pontes, the Portuguese fado singer.
135 mm • f/4.8 • 1/30 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 150 lux • EV 5.8
Little Planet Groningen
Little Planet Groningen. Exposed on the citybalcony in front of Station Groningen.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 103000 lux • EV 15.2
Atheneum Nieuwscentrum
Atheneum Nieuwscentrum in Amsterdam at the end of a Friday afternoon. The reflection of the Maagdenhuis can be seen over those great protraits and above on the left, the opening of a reception is read out from paper.
50 mm • f/11 • 1/60 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 2500 lux • EV 9.8
Spiral Staircase
The spiral staircase of the UMCG, as seen through coloured glasses.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/125 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 14000 lux • EV 12.3
Green Leaves
The geen leaves of which the new building of the UMCG seems to consist, do not yet grow on the little tree in front of it.
50 mm • f/13 • 1/3000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 865000 lux • EV 18.3
Nightfall
Nightfall on the "Hoge Land"
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/60 sec. • 2500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 13 lux • EV 2.2
Painting Artists
A conversation between friendly painting artists on a rather chilly spring afternoon.
90 mm • f/4 • 1/3000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 82000 lux • EV 14.9
Pjotr
That look, that faith, the love.
90 mm • f/6.7 • 1/350 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 27000 lux • EV 13.3
Bowsprit
Sometimes the bowsprit of a ship needs to be painted. The comparison with a time-frozen jump in modern ballet suggests itself.
90 mm • f/6.7 • 1/500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 38000 lux • EV 13.8
Peering into the Present
This is my hero. I've seen him cycling for more than 25 years through Groningen, no matter what kind of weather riding at walking speed and always swaying a bit. Het has had the same panniers all that time. He always looks straight ahead, peering from the distant past into the rapidly changing present.
50 mm • f/2.4 • 1/750 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 7400 lux • EV 11.4
March 2011
Synagog Wrapped up as Castle
Suddenly, the synagog looks like a castle.
50 mm • f/5.7 • 1/125 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 6900 lux • EV 11.3
Enlightened and Boxed
When you are really enlightened, it does noet matter if you are boxed and sold.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/60 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 800 lux • EV 8.2
Wheels
Wheels change the way you use your legs, but sometimes it all depends on age how.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/4000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 54000 lux • EV 14.3
Drowned Trio
In a close hug, this trio drowned, close to the Groninger Museum. Could it be that in their last moments, they want to be recongized as a piece of art?
280 mm • f/8 • 1/500 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 14000 lux • EV 12.3
Sitting in Hard Light
A cold spring day with incredibly hard light. Still it is nice to sit in the sun and think or talk with each other.
21 mm • f/13 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 115000 lux • EV 15.4
Diana
Suddenly my I was overtaken by my history and I was photographed with a Diana. It was my first camera for a format of 4x4cm on rollfilm. The camera cost four guilders and the strap was made of soft synthetically smelling plastic. Made in Hongkong. The lens was made of plastic and the images were nowhere really sharp. But wat richness. 15 images could be made and it could become really anything.
50 mm • f/6.7 • 1/180 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 3400 lux • EV 10.3
Groningen Museum
The Groningen Museum, designed by Alessandro Mendini, has earned its place over the years in sober Groningen. It is a great view when the wind has subsided.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/2 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 55 lux • EV 4.3
Buying Plants
As a little lady, you buy plants in spring. The ladybugs will come by themselves.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/640 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 8600 lux • EV 11.6
Scratches
They just put a few scratches and interrupted lines in the sky, exactly parallel with the belt of Orion. What a nerve they have! (Helicopter of the UMCG, the red interrupted line is the taillight, the two continuous lines the front lights)
50 mm • f/2.8 • 8 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 0.4 lux • EV -2.7
Terrace
They still look a bit pale, but when I finished my lecture at quarter to five, it was as though I opened a champagne bottle and the students flowed to the terraces on the Grote Markt. Spring has finally started!
280 mm • f/8 • 1/1000 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 55000 lux • EV 14.3
The Painter
With paint in his hair, the painter is on his way home.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/750 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 2500 lux • EV 9.8
Sample Cake
This is an sample cake for a wedding. The style and taste should be right. The size is not yet wat it will be.
90 mm • f/4 • 1/90 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 250 lux • EV 6.5
Early Train
The early train is coming to get me, away out of this province town. It gives me a strange peacefullness.
35 mm • f/11 • 1/750 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 155000 lux • EV 15.8
Four of Them
Waiting for the boss, who is getting diner. The stomachs roaring. The three remain focussed, but the other one has doubt creeping in.
35 mm • f/2 • 1/45 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 310 lux • EV 6.8
Double Mirror
When you mirror a reflected text, you can read the text again normally.
75 mm • f/8 • 1/125 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 11000 lux • EV 12
Power Lines
Powerlines to the horizon in a pattern woven closer and closer.
500 mm • f/16 • 1/4000 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 349000 lux • EV 17
Urban Jungle 4
Information is deposited on city doors, just like geological layers.
90 mm • f/8 • 1/90 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 2000 lux • EV 9.5
Tulips on the Closet
Bunch of tulips fits nicely on the closet.
50 mm • f/4 • 4 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 6.8 lux • EV 1.3
Sixties Prints
Prints from the sixties sometimes look like migraine induced images. Possibly the advent of widely used soft drugs in those days forms the backdrop of them.
90 mm • f/9.5 • 1/90 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 11000 lux • EV 12
Daddy Day
Saturday is daddy day for many men. Tough looking, yet very endearing.
90 mm • f/4.8 • 1/500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 20000 lux • EV 12.8
Schokland
The church of Schokland lies well above the surrounding land, yet has been flooded several times by the water of the Zuiderzee.
35 mm • f/8 • 1/1000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 109000 lux • EV 15.3
Johan Cruijff
Johan Cruijff will always be connected to Amsterdam and always have his admirers. One of his quotations that is of importance to photography: "You only see it when you understand it"
35 mm • f/4.8 • 1/90 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 3500 lux • EV 10.3
Sitting Down
Just like a camel, this bike is sitting down for a while.
21 mm • f/8 • 1/60 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 6600 lux • EV 11.2
The Journey
There they go! She had envisioned quite something different on her first flight, but her little girl seems to think it's fun and exciting.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 52000 lux • EV 14.2
CoffeePot
The coffeepot in the light of a chilly spring day.
105 mm • f/16 • 1/2 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 870 lux • EV 8.3
Leegkerk
Leegkerk, a little village north of Hoogkerk, means "Low situated church". The church is from the 15th century, built on the foundations of a church from the 13th century, that was destroyed in 1501 by fire.
35 mm • f/13 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 72000 lux • EV 14.7
Everything is already said
"De Rode Loper", a typical Lunchroom in Groningen with regular customers, who after shopping come to enjoy. Little is being said, because all that needs to be said has been said. Still, the wine does not taste any less.
50 mm • f/3.4 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 4900 lux • EV 10.8
Changing Continuously
These bends in the Hoornse Diep constantly change the way they look over the seasons.
35 mm • f/6.7 • 1/180 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 14000 lux • EV 12.3
Great Character
She is a great character. A pity that she will leave us shortly.
75 mm • f/5.7 • 1/90 sec. • 1000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 800 lux • EV 8.2
Voting Location
The voting location in the Puddingfabriek is decorated with lighting and music.
21 mm • f/4 • 1/25 sec. • 2000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 55 lux • EV 4.3
Town Hall
The Groningen townhall. Neoclassicistic architecture. Design from 1792 by Jacob Otten Husly.
21 mm • f/2.8 • 1/25 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 84 lux • EV 4.9
February 2011
Wear and Tear
This cog of my fixed gear city bike has survived one and half a year before it was broken bij the frequent acceleration at traffic lights. The teeth that are still standing are at the places where the chain was the widest. Wear has its own beauty, I think.
90 mm • f/8 • 1/1.4286 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 160 lux • EV 5.8
Memento Vivere
It is good not to forget to live. These flowers know everything about that.
35 mm • f/4.8 • 1/90 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 1800 lux • EV 9.3
Chess Competition
The Batiava Grolsch chess tournament is being held at the moment in Amsterdam. Here a game of blitzchess in between official games with the youngest player Benjamin Bok (15 years of age), who is among the two favourites for the victory. His opponnent temporarily is out of ideas and holds his handpalm facing the heavens to receive a divine hint for the next move.
50 mm • f/1.1 • 1/60 sec. • 2000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 9.9 lux • EV 1.9
Opposition
The opposition for the defence of a thesis can look intimidating. This is what Carola van Eck saw, moments before she had to had to answer a question concerning her research on knee ligaments.
50 mm • f/1.1 • 1/90 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 93 lux • EV 5.1
Friends
Sometimes friendships seem to go on for ever and ever. Always, they have a great time together.
50 mm • f/1.1 • 1/90 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 37 lux • EV 3.8
Nieuwmarkt
Nieuwmarkt in the snow as seen from the Theatrum Anatomicum of the Waag in Amsterdam.
35 mm • f/4.8 • 1/45 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 1800 lux • EV 9.3
Blind Steps
These steps were once part of the pinewood lecturehall in the former Chemical Laboratory in Groningen. Now the steps do not lead to the hard pinewood seats, but to a blind wall. That magnificent lecture hall is now a multifunctional hall with adjustable theatre lights and colourful stripes on the floor.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/90 sec. • 250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 770 lux • EV 8.1
Bridal Lines
An old store front in the city of Groningen. Here used to be situated a famous bridal shop and that can still be seen in the shapes and lines used in the design.
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/1000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 39000 lux • EV 13.8
Step on it!
Hey Frank! Do you see that? They've got bread! Step on it! OK Willem, but don't run over that child again, like you did last time!
500 mm • f/16 • 1/2500 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 218000 lux • EV 16.3
The Flame
A tulip that burns like a flame at the end of her life.
90 mm • f/16 • 1 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 440 lux • EV 7.3
DNA
It makes one think, to realize that we are partly determined by our genetic material.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/30 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 160 lux • EV 5.9
Rope
Rope has three important properties: it is flexible, it is strong and elastic. Ideal to moor a ship with.
75 mm • f/11 • 1/90 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 19000 lux • EV 12.7
The Red Ball
Today the sun was shining. At sunset the distance travelled of the light through the atmosphere is much longer, taking out the shorter wavelengths (blue light) by scatter and turning the sunlight red.
500 mm • f/16 • 1/1000 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 87000 lux • EV 15
To Fall
Many things are transported on bikes in a studenttown. But there are limits to this. And when someone falls, everyone in the wide surrounding checks whether it it serious or not. If not, it becomes funny.
135 mm • f/6.7 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 19000 lux • EV 12.8
Weatherhouse
This afternoon the woman of the weatherhouse (click) was standing outside and the man inside. And indeed, towards the evening it started to rain.
135 mm • f/5.6 • 1/90 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 4800 lux • EV 10.8
Amphitrite
Amphitrite, the "Haerlemse Studenten Roeivereniging" with Women four with steersman in action at the Gyas-Hunze race in Groningen. A heat over a distance of 750 meter. The steersman looks like he is a bit sad that he can not help rowing. Still, to me it seems quite pleasant: to be propelled by four trained ladies.
500 mm • f/11 • 1/500 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 21000 lux • EV 12.9
MediaCentrale
The MediaCentrale in Groningen at sunrise. This building used to house a power generator for a complete city section (Helpman). Now, after thorough reconstruction, the building serves media productions.
21 mm • f/6.7 • 1/30 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 2300 lux • EV 9.7
The Year
This sundial was constructed by Gerrit Cremer in 1748 for the Martinitoren. In 1986 it was applied again in renovated state. In the mean time the paint indicating the year of construction has faded somewhat, partly exposing another year. It is the year 1986, which can be seen better on a 100% crop of a photo taken with 1000 mm (click)
500 mm • f/16 • 1/60 sec. • 250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 17000 lux • EV 12.6
Big Brother
Everywhere we are filmed and recorded. When you return the favour, you get a self protrait.
50 mm • f/3.4 • 1/125 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 2500 lux • EV 9.8
Ships
Ships in the dark, as seen without glasses.
50 mm • f/1 • 1/90 sec. • 1000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 25 lux • EV 3.2
Scent of Tabacco
The Niemeijer factory in evening glow. The scent of tabacco comes along with the train from Winsum.
50 mm • f/9.5 • 1/60 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 9200 lux • EV 11.7
Anna Catharina
The Anna Catharina radiates solid peace, despite the storm, but sometimes the riggings are shivering in the wind.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/25 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 43 lux • EV 4
Urban Jungle 3
A nice example of mixing two languages in one word. According to Pieter Muysken, professor of General Linguistics in Nijmegen, these mixtures have their own implicit rules.
35 mm • f/8 • 1/45 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 4900 lux • EV 10.8
Urban Jungle 2
"Who will save the environment?" That is the question on this public poster column with a stratified history.
50 mm • f/1.1 • 1/750 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 1500 lux • EV 9.1
Thinking?
I wonder what she thinks herself, while she reads the book "Buddhism is not what you think" on a windy Dam in Amsterdam
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 1200 lux • EV 8.8
Conquest
She is pleased with her salesnight conquest tied to her rack, on her way home. Cycling with her pedals under the middle of her feet, like many cyclists. Her saddle is too low for efficient cycling, but in the city it is nice to be able to place a feet on the ground, when needed.
50 mm • f/5.7 • 1/8 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 89 lux • EV 5
A living
To be able to live there, in that attic, on expedition between my friends, the birds.
75 mm • f/2.4 • 1/125 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 390 lux • EV 7.2
Party!
Pretty strong liquor. The glasses already perform a little dance.
50 mm • f/1 • 1/90 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 49 lux • EV 4.2
January 2011
Without a Plan
Geese in formation over the city, honking without an echo, flying without a plan with a wingbeat without its equal.
50 mm • f/5.7 • 1/4000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 222000 lux • EV 16.3
Almost Black-and-White
Together on the foldbike. Although this picture has been taken and left in full color, it seems to be in black-and-white, due to the light and misty atmosphere.
500 mm • f/16 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 175000 lux • EV 16
Misty UMCG
The University Medical Center Groningen in the freezing mist.
50 mm • f/1.2 • 1/60 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 47 lux • EV 4.1
Cool in the Train
They are so childlike, cool and moving at the same time.
12 mm • f/8 • 1/45 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 1200 lux • EV 8.8
The Palace
A late visitor of "Het Paleis", formerly a laboratory of the university, now a fantastic complex for and with artists.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/60 sec. • 250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 510 lux • EV 7.6
Bicycle Survival
Cycling in the city is not without its dangers, especially with someone on the back. And if you think about the fact that Groningen has plans to extend the peripheral highway from 4 to 10 lanes, you can only wonder about the consequences for what this road looks like during the construction activities.
500 mm • f/11 • 1/90 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 9300 lux • EV 11.7
Dare to Dream
Daring to dream implies not to see any obstructions anymore.
50 mm • f/3.4 • 1/30 sec. • 2500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 38 lux • EV 3.8
S.P.Q.G.
S.P.Q.G. on the Aa Kerk in Groningen means "Senatus Populusque Groningianus " or "The Senate and People of Groningen"
50 mm • f/1 • 1/60 sec. • 2000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 8.2 lux • EV 1.6
Sexual Harassment
Sexual harassment also occurs in the bicycle community. She is really pinned to the wall, isn't she?
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/180 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 7100 lux • EV 11.3
The Herbs and Spices Girl
The herbspecialist on the market place has hundreds of herbs and spices. She knows them all by heart. A bit strange that her thumb is shown five times, since the fluorescent tubes would have to switch on and off 50 times per second, while the exposure time was 1/25 sec, so we would expect two thumbs. Possibly some of the tubes are switched in counter phase.
21 mm • f/8 • 1/25 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 1400 lux • EV 9
Café de Sigaar
Café de Sigaar is a stylish location on de Hoge der A, where you can drink excellent coffee.
50 mm • f/1.1 • 1/90 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 37 lux • EV 3.8
Long Shadows
The shadows are still very long in the middle of the day, but I can feel spring coming nearer every day.
50 mm • f/5.7 • 1/1000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 55000 lux • EV 14.3
SugarFactory
Evening light for the SugarFactory in Groningen, that is being dismantled.
35 mm • f/4 • 1/1000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 27000 lux • EV 13.3
Anamorphosis
Image of photo #471 transformed into polar coordinates and reflected in a shiny cup, show the principle of an anamorphosis.
90 mm • f/22 • 16 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 52 lux • EV 4.2
Pollard Lime Tree
In the Geulstraat you can find very high pollard lime trees. In the spring they will explode into a sea of soft green light.
50 mm • f/4 • 3 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 9.1 lux • EV 1.7
The Poll Society
The Poll society is a restaurant, linked to the Noord-Nederlandse Golf & Country Club, and situated in a beautiful mansion in Glimmen. Portrait paintings of former owners hang next to the fireplace.
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/30 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 1200 lux • EV 8.8
The Market Place
The marketplace is very busy on Saturdays and you have got to watch your turn and not let your change drop between the fruit. The merchant does appreciate the fruit he sells.
50 mm • f/1.1 • 1/350 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 720 lux • EV 8
Opaque
Grafitti is fun, but you should be able to look out of the window.
35 mm • f/5.7 • 1/30 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 330 lux • EV 6.9
Kiss in Black-and-White
A kiss in black-and-white can look very colourful. Here on the Noorderslag music festival in Groningen.
50 mm • f/1.1 • 1/90 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 37 lux • EV 3.8
Corna
The "Corna" is a hand gesture that symbolises the devil, but in the heaby metal subculture it can mean something else. What would she want to say to this man?
75 mm • f/6.7 • 1/350 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 5400 lux • EV 10.9
Marc
Marc, adventurer, student and waiter, in that order.
50 mm • f/1.1 • 1/45 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 46 lux • EV 4.1
Moon Night
The moon was passing exactly over the Nieuwe Kerk. A squeaky clean frostnight had begun.(Here an overlay for identification of the heavenly bodies at that time and location: click)
150 mm • f/6.3 • 8 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 0.8 lux • EV -1.7
Urban Jungle 1
The City is full of information. Sometimes you can only read it with devices, such as a smartphone. This QR-code (for "Quick Response code") is an invitation for a festival for "indie" (independent) culture. QR-codes were developed for car parts, but since it has not been patented, they are used more and more. Advantage: you can directly use the information digitally and pass it on.
50 mm • f/1.1 • 1/2000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • 4x ND filter • without tripod • 17000 lux • EV 12.6
Still Jolly
It's raining and very windy, but that does not bother Lola in front of the hairdresser.
50 mm • f/1.1 • 1/180 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 370 lux • EV 7.1
Warmth
On these icecold days, the men push their hands deeper in their pockets and stare pale and glum in front of them on the dutch trains platforms. But the women look for the warmth-pillars.
75 mm • f/2 • 1/1000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 6800 lux • EV 11.3
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
I can forget everything, those eyes, those lips, those hands. But that hat...
75 mm • f/8 • 1/250 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 5500 lux • EV 11
Forgotten Leaf
A forgotten leaf as reminder of last year.
105 mm • f/8 • 1/30 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 3300 lux • EV 10.2
Partial Eclipse
A partial solar eclipse during sunrise as seen from a small dyke in the Groningen landscape. As though looking through a letterbox to an elegant lady that slowly walks out of view again.
200 mm • f/8 • 1/25 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 1100 lux • EV 8.6
The Smile
A smile between bold graphic elements.
75 mm • f/4.8 • 1/250 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 2500 lux • EV 9.8
Color separation
Ice has a refractive index of 1.31 and that is not very high. Soft glasses have 1.52, hard ones 1.7 and diamond 2.42. The higher the number, the more light rays are bent, but also the higher the color separation. And so ice does not have a very high degree of color separation. Yet it can be seen in this image of the Martini tower in Groningen as seen through a melting block of ice. Also, the tower can be seen multiple times due the the complex shape of the block of ice.
35 mm • f/13 • 1/180 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 52000 lux • EV 14.2
Too many women
On the new years eve party, there where many more women than men, which give images like this.
3.9 mm • f/2.8 • 1/10 sec. • 1000 ISO • 3Gs iPhone sensor • without tripod • 21 lux • EV 3
December 2010
Mercurius
Mercurius, god of merchants, is lighted by the sun, trying to break through the morning mist. The light on the A-kerk promises something good for the rest of the day.
135 mm • f/11 • 1/500 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 52000 lux • EV 14.2
Stamina
Het lets his head hang down at the moment, but he must have enormous stamina, that is clear!
135 mm • f/8 • 1/180 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 4900 lux • EV 10.8
Christmas Trees in the Mast
In the Netherlands christmas trees were bound high on the mast of a ship on its way out, to express the hope to be back on christmas. Nowadays one als does it when home with christmas.
135 mm • f/11 • 1/3000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 619000 lux • EV 17.8
Eating Fish
Eating a fish together on the market, with above each of them a seagull to clean up the left overs. Nature is wonderful.
35 mm • f/2 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 1700 lux • EV 9.3
Social Media?
They are called "Social Media", internet applications on smartphones, but for the direct environment, that is often a misnomer.
75 mm • f/1.4 • 1/30 sec. • 2500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 6.4 lux • EV 1.2
Mist in Winter
This morning you could not see further than about one hundred meter. The city changes.
35 mm • f/5.7 • 1/500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 28000 lux • EV 13.3
Factory
Old factory buildings in Groningen have their own charm.
35 mm • f/6.7 • 1/1000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 77000 lux • EV 14.8
Slippery Beauty
This is what it looks like on the secondary roads around Groningen. Yesterday it was above zero and today it freezes again, resulting in an icy sheet with powdery snow on top. Older tracks frozen again form hard slippery ridges. It is not easy to stay upright on the bicycle with racing tyres, but it remains well worth the effort.
135 mm • f/16 • 1/180 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 20000 lux • EV 12.8
Melted Pearls
Lord Byron, the British poet once wrote about the curved bubble chains in a glass of champagne: "Champagne with foaming whirls, as white as Cleopatra's melted pearls." A few years ago, research was done on how they are formed. It appeared that small irregulariteis, like tiny fibres from the drying cloth in the glass form the starting point of the chain of bubbles because tiny gas pockets form that make the gas cocentration drop, which is filled up from the surrounding fluid, causing a new bubble to emerge. the elegant moving curve of the chain of bubbles is not explained by the paper. (Liger-Belair, Champagne experiences various rhythmical bubbling regimes in a flute. G.et al., 2006, Journal of agricultural and food chemistry)
90 mm • f/8 • 1/25 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 2700 lux • EV 10
Cloak of Ice
This sculpture has obtained a cloak of ice. It stands in front of the Zernike Borg in Groningen, of which the so called Blob Architecture does not suggest that it is the ICT infrastructural node of the north of the Netherlands.
135 mm • f/11 • 1/125 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 13000 lux • EV 12.2
Tiny Hoarfrosted Web
The morning mist forms hoarfrost on this tiny web.
90 mm • f/8 • 1/500 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 14000 lux • EV 12.3
Midwinter Sun
The last rays of the midwinter sun over the EmmaViaduct.
75 mm • f/8 • 1/125 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 14000 lux • EV 12.3
Clean Furniture
Sometimes the furniture needs to be washed and after that you hang them to dry.
35 mm • f/9.5 • 2 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 77 lux • EV 4.8
Snow makes playful
Snow makes people playful, at least, when it is still a new feature.
135 mm • f/6.7 • 1 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 77 lux • EV 4.8
Amsterdam in the Snow
Amsterdam was covered today with a thick layer of snow, which offered this image along the canals.
21 mm • f/8 • 1/125 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 14000 lux • EV 12.3
Hoge der A
The Hoge der A en the Der Aa Church in Groningen give a quite and pretty view with the snow and illumination.
35 mm • f/4 • 8 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 3.4 lux • EV 0.3
The Boy in the Bubble
Fortunately this is not about a boy without an effective immune system, but about a typical student activity, in which the rules have changes: running around in an inflatable plastic ball, in which you normally walk over water. (See also "The boy in the plastic bubble", movie from 1976 with John Travolta)
35 mm • f/5.6 • 1/4000 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 54000 lux • EV 14.3
BobCat
This bobcat digging machine with five degrees of freedom is operated by a man using levers. The problems that his brain has te solve are simuliar to the brain of an arm amputee with an electro-mechanical arm prosthesis.
75 mm • f/2 • 1/250 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 220 lux • EV 6.3
BicycleChristmasTree
This christmas tree, built from abandoned bicycles, is really something different this year on the Vismarkt.
21 mm • f/5.6 • 2 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 27 lux • EV 3.3
Smeltend IJs
With a strong wind, the ice is melting in the ditch. Although the air temperature is a few degrees above 0 Centigrade, the ice does not melt directly. This is because there is energy needed to melt ice and this is withdrawn from the environment, cooling it down. Without sticking a thermometer in the water close to the ice, we know it is colder than the air, almost exactly 0 degrees Centrigrade.
75 mm • f/11 • 1/90 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 19000 lux • EV 12.7
Moti
Moti is a street performer with his own style and presence. I've seen him for at least 25 years in Groningen.
135 mm • f/5.6 • 1/180 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 9600 lux • EV 11.8
Book Merchant
This man lives and works in this bookshop for 40 years, he told me. The shop has become the visible extension of his brain.
21 mm • f/2.8 • 1/25 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 84 lux • EV 4.9
Eskimo
The head of an ice sculpture of an eskimo functions as a huge convex lens which, places the face of a girl upside down over the face of the eskimo.
75 mm • f/5.6 • 1/125 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 6700 lux • EV 11.3
Blinding
The snow was quite blinding today in the Koude Gat.
75 mm • f/2.8 • 1/30 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 100 lux • EV 5.2
Gymnastics Motion Capture
Epke Zonderland, multiple champion gymnastics does an excercise with optical motion capture, therefore the suit with reflective markers. It is to analyse how he does it, for a TV programme, called Pavlov, to be aired, thursday 16th December 2010, 20.55, Nederland 3.
35 mm • f/2.8 • 1/180 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 310 lux • EV 6.8
Misty
Today it was a bit misty outside. The world seems bigger, because you can not see that far.
21 mm • f/4 • 1/30 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 200 lux • EV 6.2
Thaw
It is thawing again. The water is still a bit thick.
35 mm • f/4 • 1/30 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 160 lux • EV 5.9
Sinterklaas
Suddenly I stood eye to eye with the perfect integration of Sinterklaas, Zwarte Piet and a child. My sugarheart broke in tiny pieces.
135 mm • f/3.4 • 1/125 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 490 lux • EV 7.5
Fountains of Growth
Beautiful how a fallen tree makes new fountains of growth.
21 mm • f/9.5 • 1/750 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 115000 lux • EV 15.4
Reading a Dream
Reading is particularly a winter activity. From printed characters, the mind creates dreams, even when standing.
35 mm • f/2.4 • 1/45 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 440 lux • EV 7.3
Ice Bear
They express the animal quite literally here on the Grote Markt.
35 mm • f/2.4 • 1/25 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 250 lux • EV 6.5
November 2010
Pulsations
The destination of this train is indicated with Light Emitting Diodes that pulsate fast. You can see this application more an more, also in car lights and it gives a restless image. Although our eyes can not see the pulsations of 100 times a second, they can still be seen during fast yee movements or during blinking. In this image the pulsations can be seen by moving the camera fast during an exposure of 1/8 seconds. The diodes are not emitting light during most of the time, with the exception of short flashes. STill you can easily read the destination.
35 mm • f/9.5 • 1/8 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 160 lux • EV 5.9
Winter Love Affair
A winter love affair. They are so cute with those thick mittens and exactly the same colour hair! In fact (if all goes well) they are sitting under a picture of their own future.
135 mm • f/4 • 1/60 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 210 lux • EV 6.3
Paterswoldsemeer
The frosted surroundings of the Paterswoldsemeer. Many shades of white.
35 mm • f/9.5 • 1/180 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 28000 lux • EV 13.3
A Place
In fact, I'm quite jealous of cats. They take their the place that's theirs and simply exist in the here and now.
35 mm • f/4 • 1/125 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 3400 lux • EV 10.3
Half Covered
Daring clothing for in the street. In Amsterdam it is reality. Why is half covered so much more exciting than completely covered or completely uncovered?
135 mm • f/3.4 • 1/45 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 890 lux • EV 8.3
A ring from Sinterklaas?
Sinterklaas is coming, so everyone is working hard to get the shopwindows in shape. But isn't it a strange gift form Sinterklaas, a ring for your finger?
75 mm • f/4 • 1/90 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 790 lux • EV 8.2
Noorderhaven
The Noorderhaven prepares itself for the coming winter. The water is incredibly deep and black. The gulls are hiding.
35 mm • f/4 • 3 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 2.3 lux • EV -0.3
Any Direction
A very short moment. From here, it can go in any direction.
135 mm • f/5.6 • 1/125 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 6700 lux • EV 11.3
Porthole
Powerful symbol, such a tightly closed porthole.
35 mm • f/5.7 • 1/125 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 6900 lux • EV 11.3
Peacock Wingpattern
The pattern on the wing of a Peacock is formed by tiny scales, that each have their own color and by a transparent overlay together form new colors. The pigment is expressed by genes, that are sensitive for local circumstances. For details, see this paper: click Magnification on screen of the large version: 100 times.
40 mm • f/4.5 • 2 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 17 lux • EV 2.7
Demand Civilization
Today a large scale demonstrations was organised on the Leidse Plein in Amsterdam against the chilling culture administration of our government. All generations were there. There was indignation and excellent arguments why we should take care of our culture in a better way then happens today.
21 mm • f/2.8 • 1/30 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 160 lux • EV 5.9
Lecture Hall
This old lecture hall is very special. Because of its dimensions and wooden panels, the acoustics is fantastic en its also much more beautiful than the halls that were recently built. Through the porthole shines the computer beamer, just before the lecture starts, where once the projector with carbide lamp was positioned. When the little gate is not closed, you can walk upstairs, to watch the professor from some height.
21 mm • f/4 • 1/25 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 170 lux • EV 6
Where does that come from?
A beamer projects a movie on the ground of a shopping centre. The child steps into it directly, while the mother looks up where it all comes from. Oh, how nice to be a child!
35 mm • f/2.8 • 1/45 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 77 lux • EV 4.8
Zeedijk Temple
The Fo Guang Shan He Jua Temple on the Zeedijk in Amsterdam is the largest temple in tradional Chinese palace style in Europe.
35 mm • f/2.8 • 1/45 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 77 lux • EV 4.8
The Red Hat
A red hat, run over in the prime of her life. Comforting to think that it may have been a life filled with celebrations.
21 mm • f/9.5 • 1/30 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 4600 lux • EV 10.7
A Shadow
A tall stranger casts a shadow on her face, at the same time that a shadow passes over her feelings.
135 mm • f/5.6 • 1/500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 27000 lux • EV 13.3
Love
Love usually finds away to the outside, even on a wall somewhere in town. Carefully cut out from adhesive plastic sheet. The heart under it could be an answer. De creases may indicate that this answer was given a second chance.
35 mm • f/8 • 1/30 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 1300 lux • EV 8.9
Making AM together
Members of the student society Albertus Magnus were forming the letters A and M on the Grote Markt this afternoon. The walking girl at the far right is keeping contact by phone with a student high up in the Martini Toren. In the foreground, the letter A is already partly formed.
21 mm • f/6.7 • 1/125 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 9600 lux • EV 11.8
Ebony and Ivory
"Ebony and Ivory, playing together in perfect harmony". They played on the Leidse Plein to collect money for a children's village in Alibaug, India.
135 mm • f/3.4 • 1/90 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 230 lux • EV 6.4
Fractal Cauliflour
The Romanesco cauliflour is a stunningly beautiful example of fractal architecture in nature: the cauliflour consists of small cauliflours with the same form and helical organization that itself consist of tiny cauliflours. Etcetera.
90 mm • f/5.6 • 1/11 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 590 lux • EV 7.8
Stars over the church
The Martini Church and tower in Groningen is illuminated at night. The starry sky above it is 2000 times weaker and so you need two exposures to make them visible. Our eyes have less trouble combining such a dynamic range, compared with a digital camera.
Behind the tower stands Draco, the dragon. Between the wecond and third side nave we see Cepheus, the man of Cassiopeia, who can be found between the third and fourth side nave. On the extreme right we see Andromeda, the daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia.
(click here for a map)
21 mm • f/4 • 1/8 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 28 lux • EV 3.4
3D Bible
In a small store I suddenly saw a spatial rendering of the biblical pictures from my childhood.
12 mm • f/16 • 3 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 150 lux • EV 5.7
Kestrels
Kestrels that seem to play in the floodlights of the MartiniToren.
135 mm • f/3.4 • 1/45 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 110 lux • EV 5.4
Skies over Holland
The skies over Holland owe their light for a part to the large water surfaces in the Netherlands.
21 mm • f/13 • 1/500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 144000 lux • EV 15.7
Two Spectacles
Spectacles are simple optical devices, in which even de most simple corrections do not exist, like one for chromatic aberration. Still they are being used all over the world and with great success. One of the reasons is that the brain is able to find many compensations, both for the image and movements of eyes and head.
75 mm • f/4 • 1/90 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 790 lux • EV 8.2
Your Future
Today it was Information day at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. Important choice for your future at the intersection of you heart and your talent.
35 mm • f/2.8 • 1/45 sec. • 250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 390 lux • EV 7.1
Cappucino
Lovely, a cup of cappuccino with a slice of cake in Huis de Beurs in Groningen.
12 mm • f/8 • 3 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 36 lux • EV 3.7
Fongers
The Fongers bicycle factory in Groningen has a heroic past. An exhibition in the shipmuseum shows why.
75 mm • f/2 • 1/60 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 52 lux • EV 4.3
Little Red Riding Hood
Little Red Riding Hood exists. Possibly she is calling with her grandmother here.
35 mm • f/4 • 1/90 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 1200 lux • EV 8.8
The Cook
Behand a glass wall of the University Hospital kitchen, the cook rolls his stand with large spoons.
35 mm • f/8 • 1/25 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 680 lux • EV 8
October 2010
Learning to walk again
Just behind the RijksMuseum in Amsterdam, they put in metal letters "I amsterdam". With the museum as a background, the letters are popular objects for tourists to climb on and be photographed. From the other side taken into the light, you get this comic book like effect.
21 mm • f/16 • 1/1500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 655000 lux • EV 17.9
Moving is fun!
It is the end of the month: time to move for some. In Amsterdam you do that with a centuries old method: a hoisting wheel with rope. In fact, this is just a picture of two little angels.
135 mm • f/5.6 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 13000 lux • EV 12.3
Jig-Saw Connection
The skullbones of a dear have grown together with jig-saw like connections that are self organising and different in every animal. (Focus stack of 18 images)
90 mm • f/8 • 1/8 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 870 lux • EV 8.3
Ornament
This old wooden ornament on the face of just a house in Groningen, moved me because it looks like a building in Tibet, standing against the deepblue sky of the high mountains. And like with many people, the inside is a lot more interesting than the outside.
75 mm • f/4 • 1/125 sec. • 1000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 550 lux • EV 7.6
Love on the Bicycle Parking
It is a place where few people go, on top of the bicycle parking in front of the station in Groningen. You have a beatiful view over the water and the museum. Really a place to show affection.
21 mm • f/2.8 • 1/12 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 21 lux • EV 2.9
Convection
This morning a beautiful structure in the sky, illuminated by the rising sun, of convection cells. These shapes were first described in 1900 by Benard in fluids. Warm air rises and because the air pressure becomes too high up in the sky, colder air drops down and condensates into cloud rims that we see here. It is a form of self organisation.
75 mm • f/5.7 • 1/180 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 10000 lux • EV 11.8
Personal Audio
In a busy city it is nice to have your personal audio, especially when you have to wait for a while until the library opens.
135 mm • f/5.6 • 1/350 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 19000 lux • EV 12.7
Larger than life
Nib of a fountain pen in 15 exposures and composed to get an extended depth of field, to show everything in focus. Due to diffraction (bending of light rays at a small lens opening), it is impossible to make such an image on 24x36mm without combining images. When the aperture is sufficiently stopped down (f/2048), you have lost all detail in the image due to diffraction and the nib cannot even be recongized in the picture.
50 mm • f/10 • 1/6 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 1000 lux • EV 8.6
Rainy Architecture
On a rainy day, sometimes modern architecture shows itself in a surprising way.
75 mm • f/8 • 1/90 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 7900 lux • EV 11.5
AnalTechnik
Funny name for the unclogging of the sewerage: "AnalTechnik"
75 mm • f/8 • 1/125 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 11000 lux • EV 12
Pointing Nose ("Wijsneus")
Often the nose is the first body part that comes somewhere and indicates the direction ("wijsneus") in which we go. That happens because the head orientation is leading when navigating through a city for instance. That is different in cars in which the nose follows the direction of the front wheels.
35 mm • f/8 • 1/30 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 1300 lux • EV 8.9
Rainbow
A rainbow as though a stone has roared from the sky. The inclination to cycle towards it is hard to suppress, but the shape of the rainbow is always constant. No matter where I am: its width and diameter are always the same and is determined by the reflection and refraction of lightrays from the sun in almost spherical drops falling down. The nice thing is that even though the drops fall down, the rainbow does not, because new drops take over the place of other ones in order to paint my personal rainbow.
75 mm • f/9.5 • 1/125 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 19000 lux • EV 12.8
The Smile
This lady smiles encouraging at me. It does not matter from where I see here, she always looks at me. That is ususally the case with two dimensional ladies.
200 mm • f/6.3 • 2 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 4.3 lux • EV 0.7
Koh-i-Noor
The Koh-i-Noor is a diamond of 109 carat, found in India. The last pushbutton on this card has the same name as brand name. The claim that it is stainless, is not falsified, even after 65 years.
90 mm • f/22 • 1/3.3333 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 2800 lux • EV 10
Bricked in
What would be bricked in behind this wall? The window at the other side of the street attempts to shed some light.
135 mm • f/4 • 1/180 sec. • 250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 3100 lux • EV 10.2
Observatory
Two of the telescope domes of the Observatory of Leiden where I could do a couple of year research in the building under them.
75 mm • f/13 • 1/350 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 101000 lux • EV 15.2
Chandelier
Thousands of times the light is broken and reflected: Always a a treat, such a chandelier.
35 mm • f/16 • 1/2 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 870 lux • EV 8.3
Getting a Haircut
Getting a haircut is aways a mixed pleasure.
21 mm • f/8 • 1/30 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 420 lux • EV 7.3
Drawing Together
Drawing together. Observing well and making the best of it. In this autumn late afternoon sun, it's nice. In half an hour, the golden hour will be gone.
135 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 6800 lux • EV 11.3
Changing Direction
A sudden change in direction is being tested in a runner, who seems to be lost in a forrest of tripods. The woman that controls the experiment can be seen at the right hand border of the image.
21 mm • f/4.8 • 1/125 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 1200 lux • EV 8.8
The Theatre of the Absurd
This is the busiest point in Groningen where cyclists and pedastrians meet. With a low sun it looks like an absurd theatre play, everybody plays their part without words and in which wearing jeans appears to be required.
35 mm • f/8 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 27000 lux • EV 13.3
How far are they behind?
The winner of the 4 Miles of Groningen 2010, the Ethiopian Yenew Alamirew, looks back to make shure. Such grace!
180 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1600 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 34000 lux • EV 13.6
BMXer Against the Light
A BMXer has part of the museum island to himself, as the sun is setting. An ordinary cyclist uses the angular momentum of the wheels to stay in balance; a BMXer uses the angular momentum of the whole bicycle.
21 mm • f/16 • 1/750 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 328000 lux • EV 16.9
Amsterdam Scooter Blondy
This is the life of an Amsterdam blondy: quickly scoring some fashion items on the scooter.
75 mm • f/4.8 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 9800 lux • EV 11.8
Museum in Morningmist
After some warm days, the moring starts in the mist; while the last fowers still bloom, the working day begins.
21 mm • f/4 • 3 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 9.1 lux • EV 1.7
Unconnected Square
The movements of people depend on those of other people in the public domain. But when there is sufficient distance between them, there is little connection.
75 mm • f/6.7 • 1/750 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 57000 lux • EV 14.4
Afraid of the Horse
She is a little afraid for the horse. Her mother tries to form a bridge, but the fear remains. It is quite possible that in a month or two she will not be afraid of Zwarte Piet, but very much afraid of the horse of Sinterklaas.
75 mm • f/2.4 • 1/180 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 1800 lux • EV 9.3
The Regentess
As a regentess you look down upon the plain people passing by, but you also have some motherly feelings.
75 mm • f/5.7 • 1/350 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 4900 lux • EV 10.8
Floating Away
When a leaf falls on water, it can keep on going for a while in stead of falling namelessly in the mud and been run over.
135 mm • f/3.4 • 1/250 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 1200 lux • EV 8.8
Surveillance Camera
This shop window is secured by a camera and you are not allowed to place your bicycle there. For only five neckties? Would it be a front for something else?
35 mm • f/6.7 • 1/30 sec. • 250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 1500 lux • EV 9.1
PocketWatch
This pocketwatch was made in 1972, when I started to study in Leiden. In contrast with many pocket watches it has a very simple design. Also the material fits in with this: stainless steel. In the ticking you can here a faint ringing that reminds me of a train crossing in the snow.
90 mm • f/2.8 • 1/8 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 110 lux • EV 5.3
September 2010
Julia's
Members of the student society "Vindicat" are on their way to a party entitled "Ancient Party". Interesting combination of flair, tiredness, doubtful taste and beauty.
35 mm • f/2 • 1/30 sec. • 250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 130 lux • EV 5.6
Happy
For children it is quite easy to be happy: Lots of colour, lots of action and a bit of sun. But that can also change, just as the weather itself.
75 mm • f/2.8 • 1/3000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 40000 lux • EV 13.8
Burnt House
This house was burnt in the early morning of the 4th of February 2010, in which a student was killed. Only after a few weeks the cause appeared to be a lamp that had fallen on a duvet. The face of the building is least damaged. It would be good when the building would be restored, although until now it has had the function of a monument for the deceased woman.
75 mm • f/5.7 • 1/1500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 83000 lux • EV 14.9
Human Domino
Human domino works just like the game with stones, only the wave travels much slower in terms of number of falling stones per second, but about as fast in meter/second.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/25 sec. • 250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 3300 lux • EV 10.2
Turning Leaf
A turning leaf in the rain. The chlorophyll in a green leaf absorbs both red and blue light, leaving green left to reflect to our eye. In this leaf the red absorbing component disappears first and so the leaf turns yellow, since when you take blue light out of white light, you are left with the complement colour of blue, which is yellow.
65 mm • f/22 • 1/4 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 3300 lux • EV 10.2
Furious and Sweet
From furious to sweet. The twenty facial muscles make it all possible, as shown here by singer Minka Zaal.
135 mm • f/4.8 • 1/750 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 15000 lux • EV 12.4
Three Windows
Three windows in an empty exhibition room of Pictura.
35 mm • f/4.8 • 1/350 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 14000 lux • EV 12.3
Het Vertrouwen
"Het Vertrouwen" ("The Trust"), a ship from Groningen, is anchored here under the full autumn moon.
35 mm • f/4 • 4 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 6.8 lux • EV 1.3
Lazy Bikes
Hanging bikes on the block, that slowly become overgrown. Time is catching up with them. Plants have the fantastic capacity to maximize their light capturing surface at right angle to the incident light. Here coming from top right.
35 mm • f/8 • 1/30 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 3300 lux • EV 10.2
Autumn mist dissolving
This morning we had an autumn mist, that got dissolved by the rising sun.
12 mm • f/8 • 1/60 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 6600 lux • EV 11.2
Lost Flower
The rain has swept the last flowers down on the floor. Here we see individual plant cells in the flower petals, magnified by the drups on them. (magnification of the large version on the computer screen: 100x, image length in real flower: 6.8 mm)
40 mm • f/5.7 • 1 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 55 lux • EV 4.3
Italian Icecream
Eating Italian Icecream in the rain. It was just as though the sun started to shine.
35 mm • f/8 • 1/25 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 2700 lux • EV 10
Men Shop
What is this woman going to buy in this Men Shop? A man?
35 mm • f/2 • 1/2000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 14000 lux • EV 12.3
Openness
Fascinating how a face can open up together with its culture during some friendly contact in the train.
75 mm • f/2.8 • 1/60 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 100 lux • EV 5.2
The Present
While his mother is on the phone, he is already trying to eat the wrapping of the present.
35 mm • f/2 • 1/4000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 27000 lux • EV 13.3
Umbrella
With this gail and rain, many umbrellas break down. It would be a good idea to include the security against collapse, that bat wings have built in, into the construction of an umbrella.
21 mm • f/4 • 1/60 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • uit de hand • 1600 lux • EV 9.2
Autumn
Autumn has really started.
35 mm • f/8 • 1/125 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 14000 lux • EV 12.3
Progression
Women are making a grand progression in the Medical Sciences and that is also true for Human Movement Sciences. Here a view in the hall of the teaching building of the UMCG.
21 mm • f/4 • 1/125 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 3400 lux • EV 10.3
The Ticket
His mother had to buy something quickly and so he waited with his ticket for the departure. He is not quite at peace and looks in her direction. Beautiful, that exciting place between her and the big world out there.
35 mm • f/2 • 1/350 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 2400 lux • EV 9.8
Two Monuments
On the day of open Monuments, this house on the Ossenmarkt 5 in Groningen could be visited. This gorgeous 17th century building has recenly been renovated and old remnants have been found. Here we look through the round window of the room of the maidservants, look onto the Nieuwe Kerk (also a monument) that could be reached through the garden of the house.
35 mm • f/8 • 1/90 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 9800 lux • EV 11.8
Free WiFi
The old city of Amsterdam simply moves on with the information technological developments, just like the visitors of this café.
12 mm • f/5.6 • 1/90 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 1200 lux • EV 8.8
Website in the making
Photoshoot in one of our laboratories for the new website of the University of Groningen. (Image constists of an overlay of two separate exposures)
21 mm • f/4 • 1/12 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 82 lux • EV 4.9
Before the defence
Steadily professors enter the senate room of medicine of the Academy building of the university in Groningen in order to oppose in the defence of a thesis in the medical sciences.
21 mm • f/4 • 1/15 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 200 lux • EV 6.2
Colours Everywhere!
She simply loves colours. She makes her own clothes and is always looking for more material. It makes her very happy!
35 mm • f/4 • 1/180 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 4900 lux • EV 10.8
Glass
Different panes of glass of various age, each reflecting the surroundings in their own way, but each correctly and not disformed showing the curtain behind them. Glass that is older, is more irregular in thickness. That is because of the way it is made. It is an urban legend that glass is a fluid and therefore changes shape as it gets older, but this is only a legend and not true.
135 mm • f/5.6 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 13000 lux • EV 12.3
Turning wheel
This is the turning wheel of the Helpermolen. With this wheel you can turn the wings towards the wind. The white paint of the turning wheel is as bright in the photograph as the sunlit wooden fence. Still we clearly see that the spokes of the wheel are white and the fence brown, so darker than white. A drop in brightness of an object due to shadow is automatically adjusted in our perception and so this is prefab knowledge in our brain on the effects of light.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/90 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 9300 lux • EV 11.7
Is the sky leaking?
Would the sky be leaking sometimes? Or is it no blue paint there up above?
12 mm • f/11 • 1/250 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 13000 lux • EV 12.2
Amsterdamse School
This fantastic building in the style of the "Amsterdamse School" at the Zuiderdiep in Groningen was designed in 1928 by Sieb Jan Bauma. The rooftiles curve down to an almost vertical orientation. The building has a strict beauty.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/15 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 3100 lux • EV 10.1
Spirituality
Waiting for the bus with their new Buddha statues. Spirituality may have become partly a consumption article, but it can always be more than that.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/180 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 19000 lux • EV 12.7
Unitas procession
The new members of the student society Unitas are on their way to their inauguration. Within a short time students find a place to study, to have fun and also a roof over their heads in the city.
12 mm • f/8 • 1/30 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 1600 lux • EV 9.2
August 2010
Ready for the new year
The new academic year is starting in Groningen and so the students are awaited by a couple of master students at the entrance of the new teaching building of the UMCG.
35 mm • f/5.6 • 1/350 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 9400 lux • EV 11.7
Bundled Speed
The fun fair is moving out again. The roller coaster is disassembled, but the speed (bundled this way) is still visible.
35 mm • f/8 • 1/1000 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 55000 lux • EV 14.3
De Suikerspinnen
"The Sugar Candies", a crazy duo that sings tearjerkers on the last day of the Noorderzon festival. The pouring rain, half an hour earlier did not dissolve the Sugar Candies, but the raindrops are still visible in the hair.
35 mm • f/4 • 1/500 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 6800 lux • EV 11.3
Having a smoke
Having a quick smoke often happens outside nowadays. Enjoying it with your yes closed, you reclaim your place in time and space.
21 mm • f/8 • 1/250 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 14000 lux • EV 12.3
Bridesmaids
Bridesmaids are awaiting the bridespair, just a bit tense.
35 mm • f/2.0 • 1/15 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 51 lux • EV 4.2
Program
Visiters of the Noorderzon festival look at the program in spotlights of various colors.(A quarter of a second with 21mm from the free hand is not bad)
21 mm • f/2.8 • 1/4 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 13 lux • EV 2.3
Fun
A nice ride on the fun fair in your red mobility scooter: This place screams Fun, Fun, Fun!
12 mm • f/11 • 1/250 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 26000 lux • EV 13.2
Together
They need only one hat to be together.
75 mm • f/2 • 1/1000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 6800 lux • EV 11.3
The conversation
A pieceful conversation on a terrace at the Noorderzon Festival in Groningen.
75 mm • f/2 • 1/2000 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 6800 lux • EV 11.3
Colour on Colour
The colour of something depends on the colour of the light that falls on it. And so you become a bit green in the face when you read something on a fluorescent green wall on the Noorderzon festival in Groningen.
75 mm • f/2.0 • 1/1500 sec • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 5100 lux • EV 10.9
Waiting
Just taking a rest, while his wife gets the fish. Ritual of every saturday.
35 mm • f/9.5 • 1/250 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 19000 lux • EV 12.8
Heavy
In Rotterdam, life for bicycles is so tough, that sometimes they simply end it.
40 mm • f/8 • 1/2000 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 349000 lux • EV 17
Chain Lock
Regularly you find chain locks without a job. They just keep themselves locked for a while.
20 mm • f/5 • 1/640 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 44000 lux • EV 14
Hurdy Gurdy
A hurdy-gurdy player. The accents in the music are placed with his right hand, by at each revolution of the crank giving small jerks from the wrist. This goes together with the choice of the notes with his left had. An old an difficult instrument to play, but when done right, it sounds like a small orchestra.
40 mm • f/4 • 1/1250 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 55000 lux • EV 14.3
Catenary
A catenary curve is being formed by a chain with equal mass distribution. No part of the chain carries the information of the catenary curve, but the parts together always are able to form the curve. The raindrops that fall in this image are not coupled together and so the only thing they can do is fall down. The brandnew students that visit the introduction week of the new academic year are also more than the sum of their parts, due do their internal coherence and their coupling with the environment, including each other.
20 mm • f/5 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 17000 lux • EV 12.6
Curves
The fluent curves made by a row of trolleys by themselves can only be understood from the coupling between the trolleys. The information can not be found in a single trolley.
40 mm • f/16 • 1/60 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 42000 lux • EV 13.9
Weston II
The Weston II exposuremeter, made in England in 1946. Still has an accuracy within 1/3 stops and beautifully made. Always reliable, since no battery is needed and with a very solid construction.The units on the white scale is in candles per square foot. The film sensitivity is in "Weston Speed" in which 80 is equal to 100 ISO.
90 mm • f/16 • 1/8 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • tripod • 5600 lux • EV 11
Electronic City
The electronic city. Strict layout and function go together, just like in the map of a city. Recored in 16 exposures, mounted with software. It seems as though the object is much bigger due to the fact that everything is in focus. So that is the reverse effect of this image: (click). Again our idea of sharpness and size has been shaped by the history of photography.
90 mm • f/11 • 3.2 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • tripod • 100 lux • EV 5.2
Wasp
After this wasp had stung me, it cost him his head. Here recorded in 9 exposures, mounted in handmade focus stack.
40 mm • f/8 • 4 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • tripod • 44 lux • EV 4
Flat-Iron
The Hague has got its own "flatbuilding", just like New York, but a lot younger and higher
12 mm • f/11 • 1/80 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 26000 lux • EV 13.2
Scientist
Scientists can often work very hard without moving.
40 mm • f/1.4 • 1/500 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 2700 lux • EV 9.9
Wandering Petals
Flower petals are being carried by the wind, until they find a place of support, or a place with no wind. After that the petals themselves start to influence the process: they become places of support or places that shield from the wind.
40 mm • f/8 • 1/160 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 28000 lux • EV 13.3
Franz Joseph Gall's Phrenologie
This is the phrenology of the head of Franz Josepgh Gall, drawn onto the skull of an unknown Swedish man. Frans Joseph Gall was the founder of the phrenology, a method that relate mental capacity of humans with little bumps on the head. The expression "he has a math bump" comes from this approach. Nowadays we know the phrenology has no scientific basis.
20 mm • f/4.5 • 1/50 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 2800 lux • EV 10
Spatial intersections
The beech hedges of the Prinsentuin form spatial surfaces. Human intersections of natural expansions.
28 mm • f/18 • 1/50 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 22000 lux • EV 13
Bass Pipes
The three largest bass pipes of the organ of the Martinichurch in Groningen, built in 1692 by Arp Schnitger. It is a 32 foot organ of which the lowest note has a frequency of 16 Hz, which is in het infrasone area. This means that the note can not be heard very well, but felt all the better.
135 mm • f/11 • 1/15 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • tripod • 5000 lux • EV 10.8
Rails to the horizon
In the east part of the province of Groningen you can still find some abandoned trainrails. Since the eighties not in use anymore by the dutch railway company, but since 1994 employed by steam trains of the S • T • A • R museum.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/160 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 53000 lux • EV 14.2
Martinikerk
The Martinichurch in Groningen has a magnificent interior. Here a HDR image, recorded over a range of 8 stops in 5 exposures. (The data of the middle exposure is given).
12 mm • f/11 • 1/6 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • tripod • 2000 lux • EV 9.5
Aprilia
Part of a very fast Italian production motorcycle, the "Aprilia RSV1000R Factory", in which function and design come together.
40 mm • f/8 • 1/2000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 175000 lux • EV 16
Pink
The colour pink (5 parts red, 2 parts green and 4 parts blue for instance) can signify different things, but is always very striking.
20 mm • f/6.3 • 1/160 sec. • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 8700 lux • EV 11.6
Verzinkerij
Many factories do not survive and often it is not so clear why. In the case of this factory, it is very visible. When you do it right, a zinc layer is applied on a metal plate to protect it against rust formation...
20 mm • f/9 • 1/320 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 71000 lux • EV 14.7
Watt governor
This is the Watt centrifugal governor of the steammill near Winschoten. The two spheres are mounted to a rotating axis and when the engine speeds up, the spheres move outward due to the centrigual forces and the steamvalve is being pulled closed. When the engine slows down (for instance due to an increased load), the valve is being pulled open. In this way a near constant number of rotations per minute is achieved, which can be set by the weight with the wingnut on the left of the governor.
20 mm • f/1.7 • 1/125 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 990 lux • EV 8.5
July 2010
Coorporation
A bee drills into the flowerbottom of a HollyHock and gets what he wants. In return the flower gets dispersion of the pollen.
105 mm • f/20 • 1/200 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 109000 lux • EV 15.3
Drowned bicycles
Very year hundreds of bicycles drown in the canals of Amsterdam. The bodies are recovered which gives the crane driver a dayjob, he told us.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/60 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 20000 lux • EV 12.8
Platform
The platform roof of railway station Groningen. Polaroid 809 was used that was 10 years over the date and that is clearly visible.
150 mm • f/5.6 • 1/15 sec. • 80 ISO • 8x10 inch sensor • tripod • 1600 lux • EV 9.2
Little Bench
What would she be thinking of?
3.9 mm • f/2.8 • 1/120 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 2600 lux • EV 9.9
Hollyhock
Hollyhock photographed with an 8x10 Gandolfi view camera on Polaroid 809. After that the emulsion was lifted and put on white paper.
240 mm • f/11 • 1/15 sec. • 80 ISO • 8x10 inch sensor • tripod • 6200 lux • EV 11.1
Shredder
The kitchen contains many shiny objects of stainless steel. The shape determines reflection of colours from the environment.
105 mm • f/8 • 1/125 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 11000 lux • EV 12
Wind turbine
A modern three bladed windmill can deliver the necessary energy for a farm. The mill orients itself towards the reigning wind direction and adjusts the angle of the blades around their length axis in order to obtain the optimal rotations per minute for the generator to produce energy. The sound of the blades in the wind suggests that quite a bit of energy is still lost in turbulence of the air.
20 mm • f/10 • 1/4000 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 1092000 lux • EV 18.6
Bedum
The landscape of the province of Groningen on a windy summer day.
20 mm • f/11 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 83000 lux • EV 14.9
Inner Dyke
The province of Groningen has become larger by winning land over the Waddenzee and so there are dykes in the landscape that are crossed by roads. These dykes can still be closed by doors if necessary. (Panoramic mount of 7 exposures)
20 mm • f/14 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 134000 lux • EV 15.6
Reading a book
The printed book still has an important place in our society, despite all digital developments. The way you make such a book part of yourself, remains unique.
20 mm • f/5.6 • 1/500 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 43000 lux • EV 13.9
Serotin Bat
A Serotine Bat (Eptesicus serotinus) in the city. This bat species flourishes well here and makes its loops between the trees. This exposure was made with a strobe flash that gave eight flashes during 0.2 seconds. At a distance of four meter, you don't hear anything of its flight. Most birds can not match that silent flight, perhaps only some owl species. In the fifth frame the left wing (we see the animal from its belly side) is held back a bit more, giving the right wing more lift in order to start a turn to the left.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/5 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 110 lux • EV 5.3
Deserted city
After the holiday departure, the city of Groningen looks a bit deserted.
20 mm • f/3.5 • 1/4000 sec. • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 67000 lux • EV 14.6
Summer in the City
Summer in the city. Nice together going somewhere.
200 mm • f/2.8 • 1/25 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • 1000x ND filter • without tripod • 134000 lux • EV 15.6
Noordpolderzijl
The lands around Noordpolderzijl, just below the Waddenzee dyke, are richly filled with grain.
20 mm • f/14 • 1/500 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 268000 lux • EV 16.6
Westerdijkshorn
Westerdijkshorn exists only of a large farm and a single steeple without a church. It is very quiet there, you only hear the sound of chicken. The steeple has a horse has windfane, rather than a rooster, just like the Martinitower in Groningen.(click here)
20 mm • f/10 • 1/400 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 109000 lux • EV 15.3
Nothing Out There
There are parts of the Hoogeland, north of the city of Groningen where there is nothing. It reminds me of the music by Ry Cooder "Nothing Out There", written for the movie "Paris Texas"
20 mm • f/16 • 1/200 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 140000 lux • EV 15.6
Hard Saddle
Often, it is nice to sit on a soft surface, but not so when sitting on a bike saddle. A soft saddle gives lots of complaints because you can not move freely. On a very hard saddle, like this carbon saddle, you sit on only two points of your pelvic bone and nothing gets compressed, also thanks to the furrow in the middle. Ofcourse those two points need to get used to it, but after that is wonderful to sit on a sadle as hard as a piece of stone.
24 mm • f/11 • 1/60 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 2500 lux • EV 9.8
Station Centraal Groningen
Station Groningen has a magnificent ceiling that has not been visible for a long time. Only the train personnel could see it, since a hall was built for them directly under it. In 1991 this situation changed. (HDR image from 12 exposures over 12 stops and 2 directions, so 6 exposures for each direction)
19 mm • f/7.1 • 1.6 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 86 lux • EV 5
Laughing wheel
Orange is standing proud and laughing. According to the dutch cycling dictionary: "a laughing wheel is a wheel that has a large bend in it".
12 mm • f/11 • 1/30 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 9900 lux • EV 11.8
Cloudburst
After an extreme cloudburst (the rate was 160 mm/hour, while the yearly precipitation is 760 mm), the manhole covers from the hospital grounds were lifted by the water and within a short time half a meter of water filled the Oostersingel (which has been a street rather than a canal for a long time!). At first sight you would think that since metal sinks in water, the covers should stay in place, but when the upward pressure is high enough, the cover is lifted anyway.
20 mm • f/2.2 • 1/50 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 660 lux • EV 7.9
Trainmovements
Train movements. A lot of mass is being moved with a very low rolling resistance.
40 mm • f/11 • 1/3 sec. • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • 1000x ND filter • without tripod • 495000 lux • EV 17.5
Quiet in the train
Today only a few train passengers were underway in this heat.
40 mm • f/1.4 • 1/200 sec. • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 540 lux • EV 7.6
Absurd theatre play
When a train stops at a station during rush hour, the same absurd little theaterplay emerges without words. The people who want to get in hope for a place to sit, but are in the way of the people who want to get out.
20 mm • f/5 • 1/200 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 14000 lux • EV 12.3
Carrying Capacity
There is a lot of sorrow between the bicycles in Groningen. This bicycle for instance has loss of carrying capacity.
20 mm • f/3.2 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 7000 lux • EV 11.3
Balance
Joy Goedkoop, gymnast of world class, is part of an item dealing with balance, of the TV programme "Klokhuis" for children. Our contribution consisted of the scientific background.
40 mm • f/2 • 1/50 sec. • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 270 lux • EV 6.6
Playing free
Free like a bird with this new recording suit. Every detail of a movement is recorded without limitations. Very interesting for the analysis and improvement of performance in all kinds of sports.
20 mm • f/3.2 • 1/125 sec. • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 1700 lux • EV 9.3
Undulatus
An undulatus cloud forms very high in the sky when two layers of air with different temperature and density move over each other, just like with wind over water. These cloud waves are much longer however, due to the small difference in density. Often (like today) it is a sign of changing weather.
135 mm • f/11 • 1/4000 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 1321000 lux • EV 18.9
Wizzle
Wizzle (or weed) can give you a "high" feeling, that you can walk over air or fly. The necessary shoe string gives the suggestion that this must be an illusion.
200 mm • f/5.6 • 1/1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 43000 lux • EV 13.9
Breaking column of water
A falling drop makes a little crater in water and this crater is being filled after that by surrounding water, that keeps on going to form a little column upward. This column breaks into drops because of a longitudinal wave that can be seen very well in this photograph.
105 mm • f/6.3 • 1/200 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 22000 lux • EV 13
Cooling when hot
This girl was so hot, that she touched the bricks of the cool shadowside of the quay.
135 mm • f/8 • 1/2000 sec. • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 175000 lux • EV 16
Beech Porch Way
A beech porchway in the Prinsentuin in Groningen. Filtered light and some cooling in this heat.
12 mm • f/8 • 1/6 sec. • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 520 lux • EV 7.6
June 2010
A.Viswat
On the cabin of this ship, we can read the city of origin, the owner and the weight of the ship. The last measure can in the mean time have become a bit less, due to rusting of the ship. Although initially rusting steel becomes heaver (due to binding of oxygen from the air), it still looses weight later on, due to shedding of rust particles from the steel.
135 mm • f/4 • 1/200 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 8700 lux • EV 11.6
Colour Cutter
The way a cookie cutter cuts cookies from a sheet of dough, does this old door cut colours out of reality.
135 mm • f/3.4 • 1/800 sec. • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 13000 lux • EV 12.2
Delicious!
Delicious, fruit in cold milk. But not easy to eat without spilling.
105 mm • f/13 • 1/4000 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 231000 lux • EV 16.4
Short lifespan
In a swimming pool you can make paintings with an incredibly short lifespan.
20 mm • f/8 • 1/800 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 140000 lux • EV 15.6
Rows and diagonals
A brick wall offers many rows and diagonals.
200 mm • f/16 • 1/250 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 22000 lux • EV 13
Broken moon
The moon is broken by the water time after time, yet she remains whole.
135 mm • f/8 • 1/30 sec. • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 2600 lux • EV 9.9
Cocky bikes
With this loverly weather, the bikes also get cocky and try to climb fences.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/640 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 211000 lux • EV 16.2
No urge to study
On a summer day, the stairs of the old academy building are filled with students, who have a hard time to fill the study rooms in the university library accross the road with concentration.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/200 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • 12 exposures in pano mount • without tripod • 66000 lux • EV 14.6
Folds
Folds can organise themselves in patterns. An example is this skirt. An excellent paper in the renowned journal "Science" explores this ("Self-Organized Origami," by L. Mahadevan and S. Rica, Science, March 18, 2005) and the V-shaped pattern can also be found in plant leaves (click here)
20 mm • f/4.5 • 1/320 sec. • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 8800 lux • EV 11.7
Like a glove
Going very fast on a bike is only possible when the size is right and the adjustments are done with care. That has to do with aerodynamics, but als with the conditions in which muscles are able to generate power: at the right length and the right shortening velocity. All together, a bike that is well adjusted feels like an elongation of your own body. Here a snapshot during my training round click here.
105 mm • f/20 • 1/400 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 218000 lux • EV 16.3
Tubes with tension
The Emmabridge in Groningen. When you tap two tubes of it of equal length you hear different notes. That is caused by the difference in tension, wich is brought about by the load on the bridge and its construction.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/2500 sec. • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 413000 lux • EV 17.2
A sketch a day
When you like to draw, you can also make a sketch every day.
20 mm • f/4.5 • 1/30 sec. • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 830 lux • EV 8.2
Gone
Before these houses were closed down, the sound of voices from children could be heard. Now also their image is disappearing.
40 mm • f/4 • 1/60 sec. • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 1300 lux • EV 8.9
Radiant Eyes
The owner of this tricycle has become so attached to it, that he made a bird out of it with headlights as eyes. The light rays do not go to the inside (just like in real eyes) but come out of it. This fact gives some meaning to the impression "radiant eyes".
20 mm • f/7.1 • 1/640 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 88000 lux • EV 15
Candy for your bike
Bicycling has become a cult in some places and so cranksets become available in all kinds of colours.
40 mm • f/1.4 • 1/100 sec. • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 270 lux • EV 6.6
Collaboration
People who together solve the problem of creating a high tower of wooden blocks, are able to work together surprisingly well in the right circumstances and mind set.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/2500 sec. • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 413000 lux • EV 17.2
Reading in the eveningsun
When you live in town and don't have a garden, you can still sit and read outside in the late evening sun.
135 mm • f/7 • 1/400 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 54000 lux • EV 14.3
Willow trees
The willow trees that have also been photographed on the third of May (click) can hardly be recognized. An explosion by the force of life.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/400 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 132000 lux • EV 15.6
Hogweed Jungle
At the moment Drenthe has a lot of jungle consisting of Hogweed. Enormous plants that can give a nasty skin irritation. Still they are very beautiful when you go and lie under them, with the necessary care.
12 mm • f/16 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 175000 lux • EV 16
Drop of ink
A drop of ink falling in a glass of water made D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson in 1917 formulate a theory on the morphogenesis (formation process) of yellyfish in his book "On Growth and Form" click here. Although it is an attractive theory, it appeared later that only the shapes happen to look alike, but the processes of formation are completely different.
105 mm • f/22 • 1/320 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 53000 lux • EV 14.2
Balance artists
We are all balance artists on our bicycle. The balance comes from the law of conservation of angular momentum of the rotating wheels (much like a rotating spindle can stay upright), but more importantly from the shift of the point of contact with the ground, which moves from left to right under the center of mass of the cyclist-bicycle combination by the steering actions of the cyclist. This generates a lateral force that pushes us back upright when we are about to fall sideways. That works just like balancing a stick on your finger: you move your finger from left to right under the middle of the stick.
135 mm • f/3.4 • 1/4000 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 126000 lux • EV 15.5
What to do with your bicycle?
Where can you go with your bicycle and where can you put it? Important to know with an average of 1.4 bicycle trips per inhabitant of Groningen per day.
20 mm • f/4 • 1/640 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 28000 lux • EV 13.3
Floating voters
There are still many floating voters one day before election day.
20 mm • f/5.6 • 1/13 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 1100 lux • EV 8.7
Ship in Groningen
Ships in the city of Groningen are an essential part of its cityscape.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/30 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 9900 lux • EV 11.8
South Africa 2010
The television broadcasts are dominated by the on coming World Championships soccer in South Africa. One minute of television gives an image full of symbolics, commercials, a scenting Dione de Graaff and a Moiré pattern due to the interference between the pixel grids of the television and the digital camera.
20 mm • f/5.6 • 60 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • 1000x ND filter • tripod • 1400 lux • EV 9
Who am I?
One day it is time to take a good look at yourself. Who am I? How did I get here? Why do I like grass so much? Why is my name 79238?
135 mm • f/11 • 1/640 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 211000 lux • EV 16.2
White Windmill
Today incredibly hard light. The white windmill becomes an abstract sculpture in the landscape.
135 mm • f/8 • 1/4000 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 699000 lux • EV 18
Lindsay
Lindsay Buckland plays his electric dulcimer on the Dam.
135 mm • f/8 • 1/1250 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 218000 lux • EV 16.3
Mauve
"Mauve" is a small shop for theater clothing, housed in the Gasthuismolensteeg 3 in Amsterdam. It is a woderful collection and visiters enter with hesitation. The building knows many stories and is built around a spiral staircase. Here a hug between the owner and her daughter in April 2008: (click).
12 mm • f/8 • 1/10 sec. • 400 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • 24 exposures in pano mount • without tripod • 440 lux • EV 7.3
Dutch ditch
The richness in plant species in a simple Dutch ditch is staggering at the start of the month June. The evolutionary tree of descendence is remarkable, in which the plants in the middle, the horsetails, have been unchanged for a very long time.
3.9 mm • f/2.8 • 1/306 sec. • 70 ISO • 3Gs iPhone sensor • 13 exposures in pano mount • without tripod • 9400 lux • EV 11.7
May 2010
Stop
Sometimes a single word is not enough in Italy.
28 mm • f/13 • 1/80 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 18000 lux • EV 12.7
Gelato in Colazza
Eating an icecream in Colazza. Italian ice, homemade, is always something special.
40 mm • f/11 • 1/8 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 1300 lux • EV 8.9
Three Towers
These three towers of the old Roman town Albenga were built to impress. The security system mounted to the left tower suggests that one is prepared for possible attacks, but this time not from the sky, as appears from the direction in which the camera's are recording.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/80 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 26000 lux • EV 13.2
Stalagtites
Calcium from water in caves can set itself in the most bizar forms, strongly depending on the conditions.
85 mm • f/1.2 • 1/320 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 160 lux • EV 5.8
Taking a picture with passion
The passion with which you take a picture does not have to be related with the quality or size of your camera.
40 mm • f/4.5 • 1/2500 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 138000 lux • EV 15.6
Dolphin
A playing dolphin forms an enormous attraction for children: they almost want to get through the glass.
29 mm • f/6.3 • 1/250 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 6800 lux • EV 11.3
Looking together
Each looking through their lifted venetian blind at the people on the piazza, sometimes a single remark, but mostly there is silence and contemplation.
200 mm • f/5.6 • 1/200 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 8600 lux • EV 11.6
In love with your beautiful eyes
Two turtles, obviously in love. They fall for another colour of eyes than their own. No narcistic tendencies, although they can see themselves the whole day reflected by this natural pond.
135 mm • f/3.4 • 1/2000 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 63000 lux • EV 14.5
Solitairy wasp
A solitairy wasp builds her nest. She chews plant fibers and glues them together (left panel) and inspects the cells she made by sticking her head into them (right panel).
145 mm • f/22 • 1/15 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 9900 lux • EV 11.8
Rosso su Nero
This colour aware Florentin woman is on her way to work.
105 mm • f/5 • 1/320 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 11000 lux • EV 12
Coltelleria
A very rare optical effect: A advertisement board in Florence (upper panel) has been mounted under tension, creating two hollow parts, left and right from the middle. The middel is almost flat. The hollow parts function as hollow mirrors, inverting the image from the golden letters of the board, which was already inverted because of the reflection. Consequently we can read the letters in on the street (lower panel). The middle part is still inverted by the simple reflection. Between the three parts in the image, nodes appear, which are projections of the sun due to just the right amount of concavity. That is also true for the ends of the image. And so four images of the sun are formed and three partial images of the advertisement board. For the rays forming the effect, see here. None of the pedestrians noticed this remarkable image on the ground.
17 mm • f/14 • 1/1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 268000 lux • EV 16.6
The kiss
A street artist in Florence tries to kiss a for me familiar tourist on the mouth.
85 mm • f/1.2 • 1/1250 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 4900 lux • EV 10.8
Crucifix
This crucifix can be found in the chapel of the monastery of Pomposa. It seems as though the artist only had to liberate the figure out of the forked branch.
85 mm • f/1.2 • 1/800 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 390 lux • EV 7.2
Eel barrels
Sunlight enters through a small window of a barn in Comacchio, where these barrels of about three meter diameter are stored. They are used to marinate eel, that florish abundantly in the Po delta area.
36 mm • f/7.1 • 1/60 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • 4 exposures between 1/60 and 1/640 sec. • tripod • 8300 lux • EV 11.6
No fish
This is how one fishes in the Po delta. Not with a fishing rod, but with a house and electrically operated net. Possibly this gentleman is not aware of the fact that fish see colours very well: he did not catch anything and was the only one with a blue painted house, yellow gloves and bright red hat on.
70 mm • f/6.3 • 1/1600 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 87000 lux • EV 15
White Heron
A white heron starts its flight from undeep water near the Lamone, north of Ravenna. By sheer coindidence two subsequent exposures appear to cover a full wing cycle.
400 mm • f/7.1 • 1/5000 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 172000 lux • EV 15.9
Medical Faculty Padua
In this old hall of the Medical Faculty in Padua, the guide insisted "No Photo" and when you look carefully, you can indeed see that these are paintings. Handmade illustrations are still often used in the Medical Sciences, since they are mostly better than photographs, by showing the essence clearer.
17 mm • f/5.6 • 1/13 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 140 lux • EV 5.7
In love!
Being in love in Venice. A duo image that speaks for itself.
80 mm • f/2.8 • 1/3200 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 17000 lux • EV 12.6
Thunderstorm over the Lido
A heavy thunderstorm above the Lido di Venezia, wiped all the colours out of the landscape.
40 mm • f/6.3 • 1/1000 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 108000 lux • EV 15.3
Front over gondolas
A weather front took the form of the gondolas unter it. Today not a single drop of rain in Venice, but on the main land 50 mm fell in an hour. The upward flow of air can be seen readily in the shape of the clouds.
17 mm • f/14 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 134000 lux • EV 15.6
Trainbridge out of use
This trainbridge near Cavaleze in the Dolomites is out of use and overgrown.
17 mm • f/13 • 1/60 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 14000 lux • EV 12.3
Shower over Brenner Pass
A shower over the Brenner Pass. The red trains tug the cars through it.
70 mm • f/13 • 1/1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 231000 lux • EV 16.4
Cabbageseed
Cabbage seed. Yellow with a bite. Survival by insects. A beautiful scent.
200 mm • f/6.3 • 1/1250 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 68000 lux • EV 14.6
Three Forces
Three important factors guide the growth of an Ivy: light, gravity and attachment. Here you can see that when light becomes more important, the Ivy abandons attachment, grows straight up, guided by growing against gravity, until attachment is reached again. Just like with any career, the question is what to do, when the summit is reached.
290 mm • f/11 • 1/13 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 4300 lux • EV 10.6
Glass Eyes
Question: Why is an artificial eye made of glass? Answer: Else you can not see through it! Especially the bloodshot eyes are interesting to me: apparently they had to match the still existing eye and the life style of the client.
20 mm • f/6.3 • 1/160 sec. • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 8700 lux • EV 11.6
Couple of Grebes
Grebes (Podiceps cristatus), are fascinating birds. A long time ago I took care of a wounded grebe and put it in an aquarium, feeding it fish. When it was diving, it turned into a fish itself: the feet jointed together into a tailfin and the feathers became like a tight fitting skin around the body.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/800 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 17000 lux • EV 12.6
Eyes wide shut
You can have wonderful eyebrows, yet things can go wrong. But then again, it is not easy to watch out, when your eyes are shut wide open.
90 mm • f/11 • 1/30 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • 60mm bellowsextension • tripod • 9900 lux • EV 11.8
4th of May
De ceremonial procession of the 4th of May, on its way to the monument of Saint Joris and the dragon, next to the Martini tower. Brass players form the end of the uniformed group, reflecting the procession of civilians.
200 mm • f/8 • 1/250 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 5500 lux • EV 11
Resilience
Old willow trees are incredibly resilient. Almost completely hollowed out and split open, it is ready to make new branches and leaves for the coming season.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/8 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 2600 lux • EV 9.9
Sheep seen from the train
When you look at something from a speeding train, it is reasonably sharp, but the foreground and background move against each other. For an explanation, see hereclick. When you look out of the right window of the train, the flower in the foreground moves from left to right in the image, while the house in the background moves from right to left, when you keep your camera pointing at the sheep.
12 mm • f/16 • 1/15 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 10000 lux • EV 11.9
Varroamites
The varroamite forms the most important threat to the bee population in the Netherlands. The parasites attach to the bee and suck hempolymph. The bee becomes weaker and very passive. It does try to actively remove the mites, but can not reach the ones on the back. Here two adventurers are on their way to the breast area over the wing.
105 mm • f/5.6 • 1/100 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 1100 lux • EV 8.6
April 2010
Court Dancing
Court dancing is a natural part of Queen's Day and that this happens next to the stand for the promotion of an active lifestyle, may not be quite a coincidence.
17 mm • f/4 • 1/5000 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 55000 lux • EV 14.3
Reflections
Reflections differ at least in two aspects form the three dimensional original: 1] The angle under which we look at the oringal differs from that of the reflection, and so the reflection differs in the photo. Look at the anker, which rests onto the red-brown rim in the original, but stays well clear of it in the reflection. 2] Highlights are different due to the pathway of rays. Look at the two highlights in the reflection, that are absent in the original. In this way it is often easy to distinguish a fake reflection created in photoshop, from a real one.
20 mm • f/8 • 1/1250 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 218000 lux • EV 16.3
Parhelium above mill de Helper
A parhelium above mill de Helper. The phenomenon is created by refraction of light in hexagonal ice crystals, that are oriented by their fall downward. Therefore the colour separation is only visible in one spot, rather than in a ring, like in a rainbow or halo.
115 mm • f/7.1 • 1/1250 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 172000 lux • EV 15.9
Fish friends
They keep each other company and both love fishing. In England, you can not come closer to a blue heron than about 500 meter. Here the herons are (as though it is a culture), perfectly adapted to humans and diminish the chance of survival of more timid bird species.
120 mm • f/2.8 • 1/400 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 1100 lux • EV 8.6
Bird in my espresso
This morning I suddenly saw a bird in my espresso. These shapes are descirbed adequately by the theory of chaotic determinism. Here the phase portrait of a pendulum with comparable shapes. click
105 mm • f/5.6 • 1/250 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 2700 lux • EV 9.9
OranjeRegatta
The yearly OranjeRegatta was being held on the Paterswoldsemeer today. The weather was excellent. More wind would have been more spectacular, but the reflections are much nicer this way.
145 mm • f/7.1 • 1/5000 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 172000 lux • EV 15.9
BMXer
BMXer on his way to the next cross. A cycle sport with very abnormal specifications: long crank arms, combined with very low saddle, small wheel diameter, wide tyres, platform pedals and a very low gearing make this bike very suitable for stunting.
12 mm • f/8 • 1/20 sec • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 1700 lux • EV 9.3
Pakhuis de Zwijger
Pakhuis de Zwijger in Amsterdam, formerly a cooling warehouse, has become after the opening in 2006 a fantastic centre for creativity. The bridge that connects the Java Island with the capital, passes straight through the building.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/250 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 83000 lux • EV 14.9
Clear spring evening
Together on the roof, looking at the clear evening spring sky. It makes quite a difference, when airplanes have been absent in the sky for a while, due to the volcano.
105 mm • f/7.1 • 1/500 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 17000 lux • EV 12.6
Radially spoked
The frontwheel of a bicycle should be spoked radially, since there are no driving force on the wheel and there is less air resistance and mass, since the spokes are shorter. So why is it that nearly all bicycles without hubbrakes in the Netherlands have front wheels that are spoked in a crossed pattern?
85 mm • f/5.6 • 1/100 sec. • 250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 3400 lux • EV 10.3
Mouth Music
Mouth Music. A series of dances performed by Noord Nederlandse Dans in Heerenveen. We see some of the rehearsels here, just an hour before the performance.
200 mm • f/2.8 • 1/400 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 1100 lux • EV 8.6
It's possible
The sign says "It is possible, care for everyone". I believe that is true, and I think it is necessary. Those two men almost certainly have received care that improved the quality of their life, like we all did.
40 mm • f/4 • 1/8 sec • 400 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • tripod • 87 lux • EV 5
Father comes back
Sundaymorning father stork can be found in the stork café: a nice grassland with the other gentlemen. But when mother starts chattering, he circles two rounds above the nest to show his pride and lands on it to chatter together.
2035 mm • f/10 • 1/4000 sec • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 68000 lux • EV 14.6
Stork preparing for the night
Stork stands up from her nest to rearrange the eggs. The sky is rather red due to the volcanic ash high in the atmosphere, spewn out by the Eyjafjallajðkull volcano on Iceland.
135 mm • f/11 • 1/250 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • tripod • 83000 lux • EV 14.9
UMCG in waves
The University Medical Centre Groningen has acquired some new pieces of architecture in the past few years.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/800 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 264000 lux • EV 16.6
Game or Catfight?
A game of rough-and-tumble started in the chocomel stand next to the bookshop. The difference between a game and a fight is the use of facial expression. In the eventuality that one of the girls starts looking angry, a problem arises. Until then it is really fun to look at.
135 mm • f/3.4 • 1/500 sec • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 7900 lux • EV 11.5
Huis de Beurs
Right before my performance in Huis de Beurs in Groningen in this strange interior, that once was functional as the lounch of the movie theatre upstairs for adult movies. Everything designed in the colour of "love".
20 mm • f/1.7 • 1/20 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 160 lux • EV 5.9
Trabeculae
Sections of a human thighbone show the subtle architecture of bone trabeculae: a wonder of architecture, because they adapt to the reigning loads, something that a building or piece of furniture can not do.
20 mm • f/2.5 • 1/20 sec. • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 170 lux • EV 6
Words
When quite a while ago, someone would be talking in themselves with considerable emotion, looking into the distance with their hand touching their head, one could doubt the mental state of that person. Nowadays it is a form of intimacy which makes the telecom businesses earn lots of money.
200 mm • f/2.8 • 1/160 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 3400 lux • EV 10.3
Crossing ripples
Ripples in water exist of running waves of energy transfer. The water particles only move up and down and transfer that movement to their neighbours. It is possible to have two waves crossing each other at an angle without influencing each other, like in this picture. The same can be shown for waves occurring in a crowd in a stadium. When you start a wave at two ends in the stadium, they simply cross eacht other without extinction. This in contrast with running action potentials in nerves: when they meet the extinguish each other.
75 mm • f/5.6 • 1/500 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 43000 lux • EV 13.9
Cyclist hit
Today a woman on a bicycle was hit by a blue sedan, that came from the right, but the cylist had right of way, going on a major road. The cyclist was also riding on yellow stones, that were laid in 1996 by the council of Groningen to indicate areas primarily for cyclists and pedestrians. However, that is not for everyone clear. The car came over the walkway, so technically he was coming from an exit onto the road. The Zuiderdiep is a road where often problematic encounters occur between cars and cyclists.
20 mm • f/9 • 1/640 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 142000 lux • EV 15.7
Spatial branching
In front of the former laboratory of anatomy and embryology of the RijksUniversiteit Groningen (opened on the 23rd of October, 1909) you can find this enormous tree, almost 100 years old. The tree shows how you can occupy space by using a simple rule of splitting branches at a certain angle. This is effectively described by L-systems, developed by the mathematical botanist Lindenmayer. The enormous rotation symmetrical space occupied by the tree, is taken up exactly in the middle by a birds nest. Talking about the need of safety...
12 mm • f/11 • 1/1600 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 529000 lux • EV 17.6
Violetheart
The heart of a violet is optimally built to allow small bee species to collect nectar and so also help in spreading the pollen. The hairs on both sides give the insect a better foothold while reaching into the flower.
90 mm • f/8 • 1/10 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • 130mm bellowsextension and 5 exposures with focus stacking • tripod • 1700 lux • EV 9.3
Fisch and Chips
In Groningen we are very internationally oriented: "Fisch and Chips" has the english and german language in one sentence on a dutch market place!
17 mm • f/11 • 1/100 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 17000 lux • EV 12.6
Stop the thief!
The social system on a market can be very effective. This gentleman had stolen something from a stand and the asian female owner jumped like a cat on his back. The difference in power was big, but her screaming mobilised two other stand holders. Using my bicycle as a fence, we could stop him from running, after which the herringsalesman called the police.
17 mm • f/11 • 1/320 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 53000 lux • EV 14.2
Playing the piano
Playing the piano demands a good coupling between both cerebral hemispheres. Pianists have a stronger connectivity between the hemispheres than average. (Gottfried Schlaug, Lutz Jäncke, Yanxiong Huang, Jochen F. Staiger, Helmuth Steinmetz. Increased corpus callosum size in musicians. Neuropsychologia, Volume 33, Issue 8, August 1995, Pages 1047-1055)
20 mm • f/11 • 10 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • tripod • 33 lux • EV 3.6
English waitress
When visiting "Tea Time" in Drenthe, you feel like being in England from a while ago.
40 mm • f/3.4 • 1/20 sec • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 320 lux • EV 6.9
Windturning
When reading a book in the wind, the leaves may start turning by themselves. The force that drives them is governed by the Bernoulli effect: air that flows creates a drop in air pressure, and so the leaf is lifted from the book by the higher air pressure under it.
22 mm • f/5 • 1/160 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 1400 lux • EV 9
Energy
Energy production in two ways. Windenergy production is about 5% of the total electricity consumption in the Netherlands.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/320 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 106000 lux • EV 15.2
Doodles
Students of nowadays still doodle during lectures. Research showed that it may improve concentration (Andrade.J. Applied Cognitive Psychology, Vol. 23, No. 3, Feb. 26, 2009). The doodles on the backs of the seats were also used for communication. A much older form than SMS.
20 mm • f/4 • 1/20 sec. • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 440 lux • EV 7.3
March 2010
Liberty
A small part of a coin of 1 dollar cent. Liberty, that in the US often is combined with miserable circumstances.
40 mm • f/9 • 2.5 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • tripod • 88 lux • EV 5
Mentha
When the wife of Hades got in an argument with a girl, called Mentha, he solved the problem bij turning the girl in a beautiful plant, that received her name. It is very pleasant to drink mint tea together and think about that poor girl.
135 mm • f/11 • 1/3 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • tripod • 990 lux • EV 8.5
Willow ament
The willow aments are almost exploding in a yellow cloud of pollen. Just a week to go.
90 mm • f/22 • 2 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • 60mm bellowsextension • tripod • 660 lux • EV 7.9
Hofvijver
The courtpond with the towerroom. Swans as symbol for freedom. Much more beautiful than a seagull in red-white-blue
12 mm • f/11 • 1/250 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 83000 lux • EV 14.9
Mouth Organ Man
This streetmusician in Groningen, calling himself Mouth Organ Man, told me that he discovered when he was 55 that he could do four things at the same time, as a bricklayer and so he became a musician. Interestingly enough, his foot drum always runs a fraction behind, which becomes stronger when it gets warmer. Today it was not too bad in the cooling rain.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/40 sec • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 6600 lux • EV 11.2
Hamtoren
The Hamtoren, dating from the fifteenth centrury in Vleuten of the old castle Den Ham, always appealed to my imagination. Perfect combination of roughness and form.
40 mm • f/8 • 1/800 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 140000 lux • EV 15.6
Newspaper
Spring has really unfolded and so it is nice to sit down against a warm wall with a newspaper in between shifts in the hospital complex. The countershape of the wall is automatically used as a resting place for the lower back.
135 mm • f/11 • 1/320 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 106000 lux • EV 15.2
The conversation
Interesting habits of men when they have a conversation to stand at an angle to each other and together look at nothing.
40 mm • f/8 • 1/200 sec • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 17000 lux • EV 12.6
Spiderweb cracks
When a piece of safetyglass is hit at one point, it can break, but because of its composition, the pieces stay in place. This way you can see a spiderweb pattern and there is an explanation for it: The cracks are formed at right angles to each other because of the way the main cracks change the tension in the glass. A spiderweb is constructed in such a way that none of the wires are tensed too much. (Yuko Aoyanagi and Ko Okumura. Simple Model for the Mechanics of Spider Webs. Physical Review Letters 104, 038102 (2010))
20 mm • f/4 • 1/50 sec. • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 1100 lux • EV 8.6
Wild night
Mondaymorning you may find in the party area in Groningen the left overs of a wild night.
12 mm • f/16 • 1/60 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 42000 lux • EV 13.9
Skull in color
With a 3D computer controlled machine, you can cut a shape from a series of cross sections of an object. Those sections can also be scans from a living human being. In this way you can hold a replica of your own skull in your hands, color coded for certain properties of the bone.
40 mm • f/2.8 • 1/250 sec • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 2700 lux • EV 9.9
Open doors
Today all dutch hospitals opened their doors for the general public. The UMCG also joined with 900 volunteers. This is the booth for excursions to our virtual reality motion lab. In the background a large screen with live connection. It attracted many young visitors: excellent participants!
20 mm • f/4 • 1/30 sec. • 400 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 330 lux • EV 6.9
Esther Vergeer
Esther vergeer, (she won five times gold on the Paralympic Games with wheelchair tennis) explains in the Efteling to hundreds of scientists and medical doctors what the journey has been towards her success and what obstructions she met.
40 mm • f/1.4 • 1/60 sec • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 160 lux • EV 5.9
Together in the prolongation
Because of medical sciences the life expectancy has been prolonged. And so there is much time to spend together. Well groomed on their way to the railway station of Groningen.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/100 sec • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 17000 lux • EV 12.6
Fancy hat
This bird gave me the association with a still attractive quite full figured lady with a fancy hat on.
135 mm • f/3.4 • 1/500 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 16000 lux • EV 12.5
Visual experiment
An experimental setup in our laborary to measure how people react to rotation of the visual environment, while the seat remains stationary. The three reflective balls on the head are used to measure 3D headmovements with infrared camera's.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/60 sec • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 9900 lux • EV 11.8
RIH: legendary
This is one of the very last paradises of handmade bicycles in the Netherlands: the original shop of the firm RIH in Amsterdam. Here bicycles and frames are still handmade and soldered by Wim van der Kaaij. A heroic past in track bicycles for champions and for track bicycles like this one for stayering behind a derny. A gigantic gear of 76x14!. Everything is optimised to stay as close as possible to the back of the derny rider: saddel moved to the front, elongated handlebar, front fork turned backward and the front wheel made smaller. A fantastic shop!
135 mm • f/5.6 • 1/160 sec • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 6800 lux • EV 11.3
JigSaw Tree
Trees can have ingrowing fungus that diminshes the water transport across the annual rings. Interesting how different parts of the wood react to the isolation. This way a kind of jig saw puzzle is formed.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/15 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 5000 lux • EV 10.8
Touching
Women love to touch. That way you make contact, and feel better what you are looking at.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/100 sec • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 17000 lux • EV 12.6
Nostalgia
In the middle of Leeuwarden. Where did those old stately mansions go?
20 mm • f/5.6 • 1/125 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 11000 lux • EV 11.9
Trees are victims
All these trees have recently been cut at the entrance of the StadsPark in Groningen, with the reason that they would have roots that do not go deep enough and therefore the trees are a danger.Some of these trees have been standing there for over fifty years without ever giving a problem. Is there a hidden agenda here with the city councel? We shall see what prestige project will arise on the empty space the trees have left.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/60 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 20000 lux • EV 12.8
Herebrug
Crossing the train tracks over the Herebrug: that fieling of travel for a short moment. No buildings on the side, but an overview. Love to sprint over the bridge. In the left brake handle you van see the head lights of the traffic I left behind.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/40 sec • 400 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 3300 lux • EV 10.2
Newspaper sellers
Earning some extra money by selling a newspaper. You encounter people in the street and with this nice weather, it's not so bad. With mij camera, the roles were reversed quickly: they wanted something from me: a picture.
8 mm • f/4.5 • 1/1250 sec • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 35000 lux • EV 13.6
Axis of the wheel of life
There are a number of points that you can indicate with the term "axis-of-the-wheel-of-life". This is certainly one of them: the central staircase of the largest bookshop. Consisting of 16 exposures with an iPhone. You can see that when you don't keep the lens in the same place, it is impossible to get a perfect merge of the images, especialy for objects close to the camera.
3.9 mm • f/2.8 • 1/15 sec. • 97 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 330 lux • EV 6.9
Healthy Aging
This 75 year old woman has really understood the message. "Healthy Aging" is the starting point and movements thereby have a very benificial effect on brain function, balance and general well being.
20 mm • f/1.7 • 1/50 sec. • 400 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 99 lux • EV 5.2
Chipped candy
This market salesman is often on the market in Groningen. From far way you can smell his merchandise: chips of candy that he makes from larger blocks. He does his work always with a pleasant mood.
20 mm • f/4 • 1/125 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 5500 lux • EV 11
Sliding selfportrait
This picture shows it clearly: both reflections and shadows on a moving vehicle do not get the speed of that vehicle.
20 mm • f/9 • 1/40 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 8800 lux • EV 11.7
Snail in love
Spring is really coming! Even snails are so in love that they draw hearts on the boarding.
20 mm • f/1.7 • 1/30 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 240 lux • EV 6.4
Against theft?
The chance that your bicycle gets stolen in a university city is decreased when you paint her in striking colours and patterns. But if you leave the key in your lock, this may just be insufficient.
20 mm • f/2.8 • 1/125 sec. • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 1300 lux • EV 8.9
A day after full moon
Finally a clear sky again. A day after full moon. In chinese poems, the full moon is often used as a symbol of love at a distance. When two lovers look at the moon, they are together, although far apart.
2035 mm • f/10 • 1/80 sec • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 22000 lux • EV 13
Shoe fetish
A shoe fetish can occur in both genders. Although explanations vary, a good theory should refer to the neighbouring projections of the feet and the genitals on the human sensory cortex. This pair of shoes shows a curious mixture of male and female elements with a strong reference to romance.
24 mm • f/3.5 • 1/200 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 3300 lux • EV 10.3
February 2010
Anamorphic drops
Raindrops on glass are formed by the way they land on the glass, but also by the forces between glass and drops as soon as contact is established. Those forms give optical projections resulting in fluent anamorphic images.
90 mm • f/22 • 2 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • 110mm bellowsextension • tripod • 660 lux • EV 7.9
The conversation
A conversation with a friendly photographer in the GoldOffice (Goudkantoor)
20 mm • f/1.7 • 1/20 sec. • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 79 lux • EV 4.9
Not Normal
"Niet Normaal", meaning "not normal" is an interesting exhibition in the Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam. "Normal" is always very relative.
75 mm • f/5.6 • 1/160 sec • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 6800 lux • EV 11.3
Misdirections
Professor Julian Vincent gives a performance together with a composer and graphic artist, entitled "Misdirections". The third time that science and art come together in the streets of Groningen within the project "Open Mind" that we started about two years ago. Tomorrow another performance at 19.00, 20.00 and 12.00 h. at the same location.
100 mm • f/2.8 • 1/200 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 270 lux • EV 6.6
Knol's Cake
On the bike to the Groningen cake factory of Knol. From this factory cake is sold from a tiny store. It is all quite secretive, but regularly inhabitants of Groningen leave the factory with a cake under their arm, looking quite pleased.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/100 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 33000 lux • EV 13.6
Quad ESL 57
In 1972 I heard sound coming from a loudspeaker that was so real that I was truly surprised. It was the Quad ESL 57 and they had put 10 of them in a row on the podium of a concert hall, playing classical music. The loudspeaker does not have an box, but a large membrane that is moved over its full surface, just like the air moving through an open window. The sound convinced immedeately. As soon as I could afford it, I bought a pair of Quad ESL 63 loudspeakers in 1984 and they are still in operation. Everyday completely color free voices and music.
20 mm • f/4.5 • 1/25 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 1400 lux • EV 9
Ringwaves
Indeed, the temperature is quite a bit higher than yesterday, but now the snow has turned into rain. The ringwaves in the puddle are often multiple, because when the drop hits the water, a little fountain is formed that by itself generates a new wave when falling back in the water. This phenomenon is described in this study.
20 mm • f/1.7 • 1/1250 sec. • 400 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 2500 lux • EV 9.8
Hanging drops
The signs are there: drops hanging from melting blades of ice: spring may be coming.
20 mm • f/9 • 1/100 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 22000 lux • EV 13
Rodchenko Exhibition
The exhibition of the work of Alexander Rodchenko in the Photographic Museum foam in Amsterdam is fantastic! Until the 17th of March 2010.
20 mm • f/1.7 • 1/60 sec. • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 240 lux • EV 6.4
Broken plate
Everything was set up to take a picture of an egg, breaking while falling from considerable height in a plate, but it appeared that the egg was stronger than the plate!
105 mm • f/4.5 • 1/2500 sec. • 3200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 4300 lux • EV 10.6
Rustling silk
A rustling silk dress. Wonderful.
40 mm • f/2 • 1/400 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 4400 lux • EV 10.6
Vibrating water
When you vibrate a thin layer of water over a white piece of cloth, you get standing wavelets, that because of their lens actions, magnify the threads of the cloth and because of their chromatic aberration bring colour into the image. It has something organic, something of a primitive colony of jellyfish
105 mm • f/22 • 1/200 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 66000 lux • EV 14.6
Lightpainted housemate
Painting with light. Suddenly you have another housemate. It's an older technique. Picasso did it (see here)
32 mm • f/22 • 15 sec. • 50 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 180 lux • EV 6
Can on the road
When this can is taken up into a process, it can be recycled and used for the material from which the car was made that flattened it. A cycling of material and a cycling of forces.
20 mm • f/4.5 • 1/80 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 4400 lux • EV 10.7
Book of Sand
"The Book of Sand" appears high on my list of literature. When I read it for the first time, it suddenly disappeared and I found it back, months later: it fell out of the sleeping room window en had been rained wet and dried up again between the plants. The book became twice as thick, but was still readable. Because sand got stuck between the pages, the book literally had become of sand and in that state I have kept it ever since. The thicknened paper fibers and bumpy pages give the impression of a sand landscape and that fits so well with the magic realism of Borges.
24 mm • f/22 • 1 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 330 lux • EV 6.9
Bird on the runway
So you are ready to take off at the start of te runway (indicated by the white arrow), decides this crake to walk over it with its big feet!
20 mm • f/4.5 • 1/250 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 14000 lux • EV 12.3
Airy caligraphy
Airplanes draw boring lines in the sky, but the movements of a calm wintermorning makes an elegant caligraphy out of them.
55 mm • f/7.1 • 1/2000 sec • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 69000 lux • EV 14.6
Snowland
Snow on an old wooden bench reminded me of the masterpiece written by Yasunari Kawabata entitled "Snowland"
280 mm • f/7.1 • 1/500 sec • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 17000 lux • EV 12.6
Meal porridge
It is not exactly haute cuisine, meal porridge with berries sauce, but it can be very nice, especially when cooled in the fresh snow.
95 mm • f/9 • 1/800 sec • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 22000 lux • EV 13
Magical cellphone
When two people talk over the phone, something magical can happen, especialy when the two know each other well. It is as if the two stand "live" in front of each other. De facial expressions, the way they look, the handgestures often, all point in this direction. That imagination goes a very long way!
135 mm • f/3.4 • 1 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • tripod • 32 lux • EV 3.5
Van Gend & Loos
On the left lives van Gend, on the right lives Loos. Oh no, I remember: it was a transporation firm (nowadays called "Logistics") long time ago. Buildings have excellent memories for those things.
135 mm • f/3.4 • 1/125 sec • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 2000 lux • EV 9.5
Water fowl
There is still a lot of ice on the Paterswoldsemeer, but the waterfowl can more easily find their food. In the background the Helpermolen at a distance of 1500 meter in the slight turbulence of the warming air.
2035 mm • f/10 • 1/320 sec • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 87000 lux • EV 15
Cycling in Drenthe
Cycling in this landscape is always a pleasure, even when the weather is this gray. In the drinking bottle an raincoat, in the waterproof saddlebag the camera that is used often in this PhotoBlog.
20 mm • f/1.7 • 1/1000 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 7900 lux • EV 11.5
De Waag
De Waag in Amsterdam was used to teach human anatomy, long ago, using hung criminals on the Nieuwmarkt. Presently the Waag Society is situated in the building, a group of talented artists and scientists.
8 mm • f/11 • 1.6 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • tripod • 210 lux • EV 6.2
North Coast Navigation
North Coast Navigation. Not far off the mark, here in Groningen, navigating with a rollator. That is not so easy, especially since the design never took into account how people use aids like this.
135 mm • f/5.6 • 1/160 sec • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 6800 lux • EV 11.3
Fishbowl as a lens
A fishbowl is a large positive lens. The water in the bowl does most of the work by refracting light, while the glass simply gives it shape. The image is upside down, just like in our own eyes, which we do not notice.
20 mm • f/16 • 10 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • tripod • 70 lux • EV 4.7
Turntracks
When a car needs to turn direction in a street, it makes an interesting track in the freshly fallen snow. From these tracks it can be decided if the car turned with its front towards the painted cross or away from it. You can also see from which direction the car came. Daily food for detectives!
65 mm • f/4 • 1/100 sec • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 550 lux • EV 7.6
Spiral Staircase
When you take pictures of a spiral staircase from close by with a wide angle lens and you mount them in a spherical perspective, you get a staircase that goes from nowhere to nowhere, yet is very interesting and dreamlike. Quite an appropriate model of life itself, today on my birthday!
12 mm • f/11 • 1/120 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • 8 vertically merged exposures • without tripod • 40000 lux • EV 13.8
January 2010
Chandelier
A chandelier ready to be moved. The first of the next month is approaching and people start te get moving again.
20 mm • f/1.7 • 1/80 sec • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 320 lux • EV 6.9
Windvane
The windvane of the Martini tower in Groningen has the shape of a horse and dates from 1822. Before that Saint Martinus on a horse was topping the tower, but after its destruction by lightning, it was decided to leave out Saint Martinus, since it would not fit in with a protestant church. The horse is as large as a real horse, but when you tell that to people downstairs, hardly anyone believes you. There is still some snow stuck to the horse, but the late sunrays still put it in some warm light.
2035 mm • f/10 • 1/60 sec • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 16000 lux • EV 12.6
Maarten Ducrot
Maarten Ducrot the former dutch racing cyclist, psychologist and cyclingreporter, gives a talk with fire on our symposium "Smart Movements" with the title "The body thinks for itself".
40 mm • f/1.4 • 1/60 sec • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 160 lux • EV 5.9
Caffè Freddo
Coffee served chilled early in the morning. A much beloved drink in Italy. Here with this weather, I prefer warm coffee!
40 mm • f/2.8 • 1/250 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 5400 lux • EV 10.9
Gray's Anatomy
When you type "Gray's Anatomy" into Google, it asks you if you mean perhaps "Grey's Anatomy" and a group of actors is shown. Yet "Gray's Anatomy" exists since 1858, some 150 years ago, where it was first published in England. It would take a long time before television was invented.
20 mm • f/9 • 1/20 sec • 400 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 1100 lux • EV 8.7
Frozen Snowdunes
Powder snow can behave like sand in the desert and forming little dunes at regular distances. The wind that goes over a dune forms a vortex of a certain size behind the dune, removing snow there. When frozen solid, Tlittle animals that negotiate them choose the most economical path.
20 mm • f/9 • 1/40 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 8800 lux • EV 11.7
Sublimation
Dirt on snow often becomes perched on a little tower of ice after a while when the it freezes outside. That happens because the dirt stops the sublimation of snow: it forms a little cover that prevents the snow from evaporating, while the snow around it disappears.
40 mm • f/2.8 • 1/3200 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 68000 lux • EV 14.6
Painting in infrared
When you photograph a painting in infrared light, you can see all kinds of actions and choices of the painter. You can see the pencil strokes that have outlined the sleeves, the cabinet and the dress. Pigments in the paint reflect infrared in different ways. What is black to the naked eye is not black to the digital camera fitted with an infrared filter with a cut off point at 830 nm. Painter: Paul Boswijk. Model: Astrid.
40 mm • f/8 • 240 sec • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • 093IR filter • tripod • 3000 lux • EV 10.1
Miniature Grote Markt
Saturday market on the Grote Markt in Groningen, taken with a shift-tilt lens, gives the impression of a miniature model. With a normal lens this kind of depth of field is only possible when the object would be much smaller. Clearly in our perception the meaning of depth of field and size have become coupled through the medium of photography and film.
24 mm • f/3.5 • 1/200 sec • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tilt-shift lens • tripod • 6700 lux • EV 11.3
Horse of Uncle Lucas
Het "Peerd van Ome Loeks" (Horse of Uncle Lucas) has been placed in 1959 in front of the railway station in Groningen. It was placed on purpose with its bottom away from the entrance of the station, so that Uncle Lucas has been forced to look over the water ever since.
20 mm • f/1.7 • 1/25 sec • 400 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 49 lux • EV 4.2
Cantina Mexicana
In the Cantina Mexicana you can eat an excellent dish and when (like tonight) the conversation and the company is top, the food only tastes better. In the background the Korenbeurs (Grain Market) and the A-kerk.
20 mm • f/1.7 • 1/15 sec • 400 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 30 lux • EV 3.4
Worn down stairway
Old stairways are often worn down in particular places. That tells us something about how people find their way. Where is the door, is there any support, from which direction were they coming. In this way, buildings have a memory for human behaviour.
17 mm • f/22 • 1/8 sec • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 2600 lux • EV 9.9
The villa
This one of the few remaining buildings from the old "Academic Hospital Groningen". Since it is called "University Medical Center Groningen", almost everything consists of new buildings. Since this house is very much determining what you see from the Oostersingel, is was kept in place. Now it houses the virtual reality lab, that we were able to build up a number of years ago for research of movement control. Because it as a veranda, we call the little house "The villa"
12 mm • f/11 • 0.5 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • tripod • 660 lux • EV 7.9
Inverted snowman
When snow melts, the dark background startst to emerge, forming new figures. The snow encloses, while melting, less and less air and so fewer reflection surfaces are present in all kinds of directions, so that the sky light is not so nicely diffused anymore and the snow loses the ability to reflect it fully. The icy snow now starts to work like little lenses and mirrors at the same time. The skylight is now mixed with the dark wooden bench underneath.
90 mm • f/11 • 1/13 sec • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • 50mm bellowsextension • tripod • 2100 lux • EV 9.6
Naive Groningen
Today some mist forming over the snow in Groningen. The city looks like a naive painting when seen from above.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/30 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • panorama from 8 images • without tripod • 9900 lux • EV 11.8
Wineglasses
Empty wineglasses show something about optics: since the innerside of the glass has a higher curvature than the outside, it acts as a negative lens. When you look through the glass, the world appears smaller through two negative lenses. This effect is stronger when the wall of the glass is thicker and/or the glass smaller.
20 mm • f/1.7 • 1/20 sec • 400 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 39 lux • EV 3.9
Skating swan
When you are a swan, you have a hard time on ice, on which you step carefully forward, but when you have a little bit of courage, you can even skate!
135 mm • f/3.4 • 1/320 sec • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 5000 lux • EV 10.9
Fifty!
Karen celebrates her fiftieth birthday today. Congratulations! (The colors come from interference of twee different reflecting rays. At different places on the label, the distance travelled of the rays vary, and thus different colors, or wavelengths are amplified, much like the colors occurring on a CD-Rom, on a soap bubble, insect eyes and some fish eyes)
90 mm • f/11 • 1/3 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • 60mm bellowextension • tripod • 990 lux • EV 8.5
Tracking
Tracks in the snow give a nice representation of human navigation over flat terrain with visual cues. The tracks are rarely really straight, which would be the shortest distance, but it appears that along the way, people are reconsidering the visual cues.
40 mm • f/5.6 • 1/5 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • tripod • 430 lux • EV 7.3
Regulator House
This is the regulator house of the former gas factory in Groningen in south eastern wind. The gas factory has been removed, but the house (built in 1892) has been preserved. The round window contains a Davidsstar and that has a direct relation with the former Jewish cemetery called "Jodenkamp" next to the factory, which was moved to the Moesstraat.
40 mm • f/5.6 • 1/800 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • Pola filter • without tripod • 137000 lux • EV 15.6
35 times looking
When you are this close by to a ship, the perspective changes dependent on the direction in which you look. In your brain these images are sewn together, not into a plane or onto a sphere, but spatially, and when you place 35 images next to each other, the problem the brain needs to solve really becomes very clear.
20 mm • f/2.2 • 0.8 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • tripod • 17 lux • EV 2.6
Mathematical Curves
Spirals seen from the side, give mathematical curves and so do forms that the wind makes from fine snow particles.
365 mm • f/13 • 1/8 sec • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 3700 lux • EV 10.4
Revolving doors
A store with revolving doors: always fascinating and with a long exposure time, the dynamics shows.
75 mm • f/16 • 0.6 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • tripod • 1200 lux • EV 8.7
Frozen in beauty
Sometimes life is frozen en smothered in beauty. The air so close by, but encapsuled in the ice. The warmth of the sun could be sufficient, but winter clenches her teeth without mercy around her prey.
85 mm • f/16 • 1/125 sec • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • backlight flash unit • 87000 lux • EV 15
Jan Evert Scholten
Jan Evert Scholten was an import Groningen industrialist, hence the statue in the Stadspark. It is a rather formal and serious statue, but now with the snow in the evening, it gets something more pleasing with the white collars, hats and the white mustache.
40 mm • f/8 • 10 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • tripod • 17 lux • EV 2.7
Bicycle on the boat
A bicycle on a boat. They belong together: a nice combination of means of transportation. A rich collection of shades of white in this picture due to the different light sources.
40 mm • f/8 • 2.5 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • tripod • 70 lux • EV 4.7
First microscope
In 1963 I bought this microscope from de HEMA (Dutch unit prices firm) for 14 guilders. Soon I discovered that you could increase the magnification by putting a tube between the ocular and the body of the microscope and I could see tiny organisms moving around. The producer TOWA is still active. Here a link to a portrait of me from 1963 with the same microscope.
24 mm • f/22 • 1/160 sec • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • studio monobloc • 106000 lux • EV 15.2
Pillow of snow
air fills the spaces
between these chilling crystals
this is my pillow
24 mm • f/20 • 1/200 sec • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • statief • tilt-shift lens • contre-jour flash unit • 109000 lux • EV 15.3
Cleaning the pavement
Cleaning the pavement from snow for the elderly. Not much done anymore, except fot shop owners to increase sales. Not so long ago it was demanded by local law, but since we have European law, citizens can not be asked to work without being paid.
85 mm • f/4 • 1/800 sec • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 8700 lux • EV 11.6
Icy neuron
When a passing pedestrian asked what I photographed, I replied that the hole in the ice looked like an enormous neuron, just as if Groningen is part of a huge brain. He stated that I was very good in talking nonsense, to which I replied that that is my profession. He looked at me silently and left. Here a link to an image of a real neuron
85 mm • f/4 • 1/100 sec • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 2200 lux • EV 9.6
Fire Engine
When the firemen arrived to put out a fire created by the students along the Hereweg, the students tried to hitchhike the fire engine to get to the next fire. All this to the amazement of the driver, watching this in his blind angle exterior rear-view mirror.
73 mm • f/4 • 1/40 sec • 3200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 55 lux • EV 4.3
December 2009
Twins
This is my favourite twin in Groningen. Always colorfully dressed and a perfectly coupled movement pattern. Often they are running, holding hands. Nearly always they walk in antiphase, like here the outside legs placing. Terrific women, here when they leave the store with their catch and just before starting their high walking tempo.
40 mm • f/2.8 • 1/640 sec • 400 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 3400 lux • EV 10.3
Snow on my brolly
Snow on a black umbrella can be observed well and then it appears just how big the snow crystals can become. Nearly always hexagonal (six-sided symmetrical) when it is not too cold. They get their form due to the formation of weak bonds between water molecules as they freeze: equilibrium between repulsing and attracting forces. It all starts hexagonal very small and can keep on growing for quite a while in the right circumstances.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/13 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • tripod • 4300 lux • EV 10.6
Fossil bicycle
Bicycles are daily utensils in the Netherlands en can get into the water. There a deterioration process takes place in a particular order. A fossil bicycle is what is left.
20 mm • f/3.5 • 1/250 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 8400 lux • EV 11.6
Waterfowl in neon lights
Waterfowl active in neon lights. Together they form an almost abstract painting. The curves in the wavelets are often closed. Despite the complex water movements, there is something regular in them.
12 mm • f/5.6 • 0.5 sec • 400 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • tripod • 43 lux • EV 4
Deserted station
A trainstation in the evening looks deserted without people and trains, but the lines and curves can have their moment.
135 mm • f/5.6 • 1.3 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • tripod • 66 lux • EV 4.6
Keeping warm
With the head between the feathers and only one foot on the ice to halve heat transfer, it can be held quite nicely. The dropping not quite frozen yet on the ice and the water thickly shoving over the ice.
135 mm • f/3.4 • 1/400 sec • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • tripod • 6300 lux • EV 11.2
Personality!
A manhole cover in Paris keeps its personality even when people walk over it, day by day. The red christmas lights give it some glow on this cold day.
20 mm • f/4.0 • 1.6 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • tripod • 27 lux • EV 3.3
Eiffeltower on christmas eve
Every hour on the hour during five minutes, hundreds of flash lights are lit on the Eiffel tower. When photographed at full aperture and out of focus, you get something that is quite appropriate on this christmas eve. (here a comparison with the in focus version)
40 mm • f/1.4 • 1/50 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • tripod • 270 lux • EV 6.6
The subversion of the images
In the Centre Pompidou an excellent exhibition on surrealism in photography and film is held: "La Subversion des Images". This painter outside the Centre knows more about it.
20 mm • f/5.6 • 1/200 sec • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 8600 lux • EV 11.6
Living statue
Paris is full of marble statues. Sometimes one of them appears to have come to life again. Very refreshing.
40 mm • f/5.6 • 1/125 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 11000 lux • EV 11.9
Frozen fountain
Last week has been pretty cold in Paris: just outside the Jardin du Luxembourg, the fountain was frozen. In the background the famous photo exhibition on the fence of the garden.
40 mm • f/1.4 • 1/2000 sec • 125 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • tripod • 8600 lux • EV 11.6
Fluid and frozen time
The Rue Foyatier in Paris consists mainly of a set of staircases. During an exposure of a minute, out of about fifty travelers three people have not moved much: a man leaning to a lamppost, a woman making a mobile phone call and a tall beautiful woman just standing there and looking down.
40 mm • f/4 • 60 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • 1000x ND filter • tripod • 730 lux • EV 8.1
In God We Trust
In God we trust. Certainly, but there is no harm in doing a check by telephone.
40 mm • f/5.6 • 1/40 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 3400 lux • EV 10.3
Eiffeltower as lighthouse
The Eiffeltower acquired a sweeping light shining over Paris that would make many lighthouses green with envy. The ships in the Seine don't need it, I think.
40 mm • f/2.0 • 1/8 sec • 400 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • tripod • 22 lux • EV 3
Nude Beth stays behind in the cold
Blote Bet (Nude Beth) is cold under 26 cm of snow and looks at the passing traffic.
135 mm • f/5.6 • 1/80 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 6800 lux • EV 11.3
Wintersun behind the Martini Steeple
With snow in the sky, the sunlight is filtered considerably. Winterskies above the Martini Steeple.
135 mm • f/5.6 • 1/2000 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • tripod • 171000 lux • EV 15.9
Reflected Museum
The Groningen Museum has many faces, particularly in the dark. When it freezes outside, you can see the tiles on the main building better and when the wind has settled to a lull, you can see its reflection in the canal.
12 mm • f/11 • 20 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • 3 vertically merged exposures • tripod • 17 lux • EV 2.6
Peace
When you enter Groningen by train, a cannon is pointed at you, but recently, the fire arm is stopped by the power of roses.
135 mm • f/3.4 • 1/320 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 10000 lux • EV 11.9
Under the fumes
Under the fumes of the sugarfactory. The geese are restless and try out formations.
135 mm • f/5.6 • 1/2000 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 171000 lux • EV 15.9
Smiling christmas tree
The yearly christmas tree has been erected on the Grote Markt. The lower branches have been cut off voor the comfort of the pedestrians. Nevertheless, the tree seems to be smiling. The dark redbrown part is the bark (fluid flow downards), the light part the wood (fluid flow upwards). In between, the cells are located that make the tree grow.
40 mm • f/4 • 1/40 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 1700 lux • EV 9.3
OldenBurgh
Oldenburgh is an old house (from 1749) on the Oudezijds Voorburgwal in Amsterdam. Like presently, in the days of its construction, space along the canals was scarce and so it is a narrow building with five stories and an attic. The last rays of the winter sun warms the house and its temporary inhabitant.
75 mm • f/2.8 • 1/200 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 4300 lux • EV 10.6
Looking at your active muscles
In our laboratory, you can see the actions of your muscles as you are moving. A model of the human body is moving with you and shows which muscles you are using. Not only for research this is great, but also for teaching.
20 mm • f/1.7 • 1/30 sec • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 120 lux • EV 5.4
Railway station in the wind
The railwaystation in Groningen is one of the most beautiful railway stations in the Netherlands. It was designed by Isaac Gosschalk and was finished in 1896. The lamps and traffic lights around it are spread in a strong wind over a whole system of colorful reflection bands on the water.
75 mm • f/1.4 • 0.8 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • tripod • 6.7 lux • EV 1.3
Het Parfumeriehuis
An old establishment in Groningen, Het Parfumeriehuis, has closed down. Behind the banner of the new owner, a part of the neon lights lettering is still burning. The last sales convulsion in the form of bargain prices is still visible underneath. In this image we see a funny effect of human vision: color constancy. We interpret the cloth to be white, although it is blueish well below mid gray in brightness. Yet we correct it using the knowledge that we have about what we are looking at.
135 mm • f/3.4 • 1/250 sec • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • tripod • 3900 lux • EV 10.5
Orange Flag for Amalia
The orange flag is flown from the Martinitoren for the 6th birthday of Princess Amalia. The physics of the ripples in the flag is very complex, but dominated by the mass of the cloth and the elastic coupling due to the fabric: very time a piece of cloth is blown sideways, it is pulled back by neighbouring cloth. The aerodynamics of a flag can be fully simulated with mathematical models. But even without these models the flag is interesting to see when it moves: never twice the same.
75 mm • f/5.6 • 1/500 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 43000 lux • EV 13.9
Hollands (from Holland)
The Martinitoren in Groningen. De "Hollandse Gebakskraam" (Dutch Pastry Stand) takes care of the subtitling.
20 mm • f/5.6 • 1/125 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 11000 lux • EV 11.9
Just before market closure
Near closing time of the market people are leaving. At longer exposures, we only see ghostlike figures.
20 mm • f/4.5 • 60 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • 1000x ND filter • tripod • 920 lux • EV 8.4
Life between books
The existence of a second hand bookshop is calm and considerate. The cash register at armlength distance, coffee nearby. Here Isis, the second hand bookshop in the Folkingestraat, Groningen.
75 mm • f/2 • 1/100 sec • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 550 lux • EV 7.6
Art Museum Groningen at night
The modern design of the museum in Groningen can be seen at night where the spotlights are shining. But the dark parts can also be seen with long exposures and the streetlamps from far away give this etherical and sunny image with a strong contribution from the orange sodium lamps.
135 mm • f/3.4 • 15 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • tripod • 2.1 lux • EV -0.4
One minute cycling
This is what dusk looks like in the city as seen from the handlebar of a bicycle during a minute of riding. You pass cars on their right, a traffic light switches from red to green and a single oncoming cyclist goes back into town. Lighttrails formed by the difference in motion between them and me.
20 mm • f/4.5 • 60 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • 1000x ND filter • tripod • 920 lux • EV 8.4
Full moon over the city
The full moon over the city shows what a remarkable source of light it is: Incredibly bright, but also very quiet to the eye (no alternating current light source that always flickers somewhat, just reflected sunlight) and pure white. The light sheet of clouds high in the sky splits the light into many colours around the moon. An image like this is only possible with High Dynamic Range Imaging: combining several exposures from tripod to capture the enormous range of light levels.
35 mm • f/8 • 1/100 sec and 4 sec • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • tripod • 8700 lux • EV 11.6
November 2009
Signs of usage
People leave tracks. Here a keyboard in an elevator. Not all floors are equally visited. Espcially ground floor and basement and the floors 2, 11 and 12 are popular. But does anything happen on floors 6 and 7? Or do only very sporty people work there? Floor 3 is movement sciences and that is quite often visited by elevator.
20 mm • f/4 • 1/50 sec • 400 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 550 lux • EV 7.6
Wooden landscape
Whitewood is popular because of its high growth rate, which can be seen from the distances between the annual rings. The wood is softer there where it grew faster in the spring and summer. When the wood is sawn into boards and left outside, de soft parts erode faster and you get this wonderful landscape of wood.
20 mm • f/13 • 1/160 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 74000 lux • EV 14.7
Eye in colorprint
Color prints in books consist of four color rasters, cyan, magenta, yellow and black. By varying the size of the dots of the four layers, the endcolor is mixed when looking at it. Therefore it is important that the color dots each have their own place, hence the rasters. Else the colors would not add, but subtract from each other. The distance between adjacent dots of the same color is called the "dot pitch" and determines in part the quality of the print. The is pitch here is 0.14 mm, which is 180 dpi. This is the left eye of Milla Jovovich, photographed by Bettina Rheims and reproduced on page 159 of "PhotoBox", published by Thames and Hudson.
40 mm • f/8 • 1/20 sec • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 72 mm bellowsextension • magnification 87x in the large picture • 1700 lux • EV 9.3
Sinking child
Not all children have equal buoyancy. Sometimes mother needs to keep the cables pulled for quite a while.
135 mm • f/4 • 1/500 sec • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 11000 lux • EV 12
The occupation
Old times are coming back. Today the building in which the board of the university houses is occupied by students because of the BSA, the Binding Study Advise. That is a system in which students need to acquire a certain number of points within a certain period to be able to continue studying. People from the staff of the university board were removed from the building with mild force. One of the occupants is looking out of the window.
35 mm • f/4 • 1/40 sec • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 870 lux • EV 8.3
Candle flame
The flame of a candle has an enormous range of color temperatures from 2.000 degrees Kelvin (almost red) to 10.000 degrees Kelving (deep blue). This is the case because of the different circumstances in which the candle grease burns. The light of the candle is given by glowing carbon particles. In the flame there is not sufficient oxygen for complete combustion, but at the base of the flame fresh air is attracted and the temperature reaches the highest values en we see blue light. The funny thing is that we associate blue often with "cool" and red with "warm, but in actual temperature, it is the other way around.
90 mm • f/16 • 1/8 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • tripod • 70 mm bellowsextension • 5600 lux • EV 11
To the next destination in your career
Sometimes new buildings, in which people are working, look like means of transportation: people on their way to some point of destination in their career.
135 mm • f/11 • 0.8 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • tripod • 410 lux • EV 7.2
A lamp for our feet
The arms of the University in Groningen, here seen in the creamy autumn sunlight, contains the text 'VERBUM DOMINI LUCERNA PEDIBUS NOSTRIS', which means 'The word of the Lord is a lamp for our feet' and exists since 1615. As a photographer, I really appreciate the word 'Lucerna', but nowadays it makes more sence to separate religion and education, given the global developments, and therefore I'm pleased with the present motto of the university of Groningen: 'Working at the frontiers of knowledge'
135 mm • f/8 • 1/500 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 87000 lux • EV 15
Leaves at the end
At the end of automn the leaves are falling from the trees. Right at the end of the branches, sometimes leaves are still present. That is odd, since right there the wind is blowing with higher force. So what is going on? The explanation is that the tree drops its leaves by using a plant hormone that is made at the base of the stem and is being transported to the end of the branches, where it arrives the latest. Therefore the leaves may still be present, like in this case with willow trees.
135 mm • f/5.6 • 1/800 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 68000 lux • EV 14.6
Sinterklaas!
Sinterklaas came into Groningen today. The dreamy young woman upstairs may be thinking of the time when she was younger. The excitement, the "perpernoten" (cookie-like kind of candy)...
20 mm • f/2 • 1/640 sec • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 3500 lux • EV 10.3
Westertoren and Onze Lieve Vrouwenkerk
The Westertoren en the Onze Lieve Vrouwenkerk in Amsterdam stand almost on one line, when standing on the Keizersgracht near where the Reestraat intersects it. Beautiful old architecture, illuminated by lamps with varying color temperature. You can see this image only when the leaves have fallen.
135 mm • f/8 • 2 sec • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • tripod • (6 exposures merged) • 44 lux • EV 4
Europe on 5 cents
On a coin of 5 eurocent, Europe is depicted on a globe. Just like the real Europe, it has a hard time due to the impact of other financial items.
40 mm • f8 • 1/3 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • tripod • 80 mm bellows extension 100x magnification in the large picture • 520 lux • EV 7.6
Horse in cold mist
Een dreary morning, later developing a hefty automn storm. This animal sensed it coming near, I suppose.
35 mm • f/22 • 1/15 sec • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 9900 lux • EV 11.8
The watertower in the city
From a distance the old water tower on the Noorderbinnensingel, designed by Carl Francke and built in 1908. A very rare contstruction with tensile steel. You can see the interesting contrast with the newer architecture on the same singel.
135 mm • f/5.6 • 1/320 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 27000 lux • EV 13.3
Cat on a warm bonnet
When a car has been used, like this one, the bonnet is still warm for quite a while. So on an autumn day, that is quite a nice place to do some snoozing.
20 mm • f/1.7 • 1/200 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 1600 lux • EV 9.2
Tension in a cup
Plexiglass is an optically active material, that changes its properties when mechanically loaded. A cup made from plexiglass shows many colored patterns due to to its shape, which show in polarised light.
90 mm • f/11 • 1/30 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • tripod • 9900 lux • EV 11.8
Concentration
When a child plays a computer game, an incredible concentration is achieved. It must be possible to use this in some way...
75 mm • f/1.4 • 1/20 sec • 400 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 27 lux • EV 3.3
Small butchershop
A small butchershop on the Zeedijk at dusk. There is still room in Amsterdam for a small scaled enterprise, and the atmosphere is usually very nice!
12 mm • f/5.6 • 1/40 • 400 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 860 lux • EV 8.3
Rail switches
Rail switches are more interesting to photograph in the dark and in wet weather than during daylight: Reflections of several light sources: signal lights and street lights.
135 mm • f/11 • 6 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • tripod • 55 lux • EV 4.3
50 seconds of work
When someone is working behind a computer screen, several postures are used during a minute of exposure.
135 mm • f/3.4 • 50 sec • 400 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • 1000x ND filter • without tripod • 160 lux • EV 5.9
Narcistic ladybird
This ladybird was so narcistic that she climbed up my reflecting espresso cup, to gaze at this pretty little animal.
90 mm • f/11 • 1/15 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • 90mm bellowsextension • without tripod • 5000 lux • EV 10.8
Handprosthesis
Prosthetic hands are designed very faithfully to real hands. This is a prosthetic hand that is fitted to a prothesis simulator, which can be used to study how people with two intact hands can learn to use them, depending on the design of the prosthesis and the conditions in the learning environment. Advantage over only studying amputees: you can follow the learning process very accurately and from the beginning.
24 mm • f/16 • 1/8 sec • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm • without tripod • 1400 lux • EV 9
Morning in the mist
Sundaymorning, Stadspark in the mist. Only half an hour from now, and the sun will have dissolved the mist.
35 mm • f/8 • 1/320 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 56000 lux • EV 14.3
Cormorant with prey
Cormorant taking off with a still floundering minnow.
135 mm • f/8 • 1/640 sec • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 56000 lux • EV 14.3
Bicycles form a construction
Bicycles in Groningen, just like in other university towns, are often neglected, and form loosely hanging constructions on their own.
12 mm • f/8 • 1/80 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • additional flash • 14000 lux • EV 12.3
Picking up a cup
When you pick up a cup, the movement is organized to have the hand opened at the right time and with the correct amount to fit the cup. Everything happens fluently without thinking about it.
7.3 mm • f/2.7 • 1/400 sec • 400 ISO • 9mm sensor • tripod • without tripod • 2000 lux • EV 9.5
Next to the anatomical lab
Just when a digging machine lifts a bodybag from a hole in the ground next to the anatomical lab...
20 mm • f/5.6 • 1/125 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 11000 lux • EV 11.9
Protected tankstation
This petrol station was built in the fifties and preserved as a monument. It is hard to get a good view of it, but thanks to the mirror next to it, I could make this image. Note that the houses in the background are blurred, while the petrol station is in focus. This is due to the fact that the mirror is convex: the image is just behind it!
135mm • f/3.4 • 1/500 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 16000 lux • EV 12.5
Walking
When people walk, the clearance of their swing foot is only a few millimeter above the ground. Fascinating! I just can't stop looking at it!
135mm • f/3.4 • 1/160 sec • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 2500 lux • EV 9.9
Caustics formed by a glass of water
Caustics are formed by a glass of water just like lenses in a camera do. The difference is that the image quality formed by the glass of water is really much worse, but the geometric curves so much more interesting.
20 mm • f/2.8 • 0.4 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • tripod • 54 lux • EV 4.3
October 2009
Nes on Ameland
This island has some very authentic sceneries and with the right light you feel that winter is coming.
20 mm • f/6.3 • 1/640 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 69000 lux • EV 14.6
Part of a fountainpen
Part of a fountain pen nib. Elegant architecture to privide dancing contact with the paper.
90 mm • f/11 • 6 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • tripod • 55 lux • EV 4.3
Double selfportrait
Double selfportrait. No further comment...
20 mm • f/1.7 • 1/400 sec • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 1600 lux • EV 9.2
Cycling in the lab
When you cycle 300 Watts at 95 rotation per minute in our lab, you don't move a centimeter, but when you do that on a real bicycle, you go at least 40 km/hour!
20 mm • f/7.1 • 1/15 sec • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 1000 lux • EV 8.6
Dutch sobriety
The window of a houseboat. Dutch stinginess is part of it: less textile, so that there are no folds, only printed on one side (the inside is most important since the boat owner is looking at it most of the time) and painted with a number of paint drops on the window. A pleasant sight, those house boats on the canal.
20 mm • f/6.3 • 1/125 sec • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 6800 lux • EV 11.3
UMCG in the rain
Your architecture can be amazing, but with a little rain, it becomes less exciting. The saturation of the color goed down and everything turns into a kind of grey-green, the color of the Netherlands when it rains.
20 mm • f/1.7 • 1/1250 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 9900 lux • EV 11.8
Mill breaked
When bad weather is afoot, the mill needs to be slowed down, else it will go runaway: the break (a wooden claw on a wooden drum) can not stop the mill anymore and it can catch fire.
20 mm • f/7.1 • 1/800 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 110000 lux • EV 15.3
Bagpipes player
A bagpipe player in a shopping street. The bagpipe was used during war activities as a means to evoke fear. The sound pressure is enormous!
both 20 mm • f/1.7 • 1/3200 sec • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 13000 lux • EV 12.2
Sulfur fungus
Laetiporus sulphureus, the sulfur fungus, comes up every year on this old tree on the corner of the Noorderplantsoen. Several times the old tree has been strutted on the inside, but there is not much left of its heart. I'm afread that this flaming organisme will lead up to its demise. You can see it as slow flames burning the tree...
20 mm • f/1.7 • 1/400 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 3200 lux • EV 10.2
Gardepoort
A "wormseye view" of the Gardepoort, an old gat of the old town of Groningen. The street that leads up to it is paved with bleu cobble stones that remind me of Scheveningen. The blue color of the sea...
5.1 mm • f/7.2 • 1/190 sec • 80 ISO • 9mm sensor • without tripod • 34000 lux • EV 13.6
Bee stuck in water
When we get wet, it does not limit ourselves that much, but a bee or other insect that gets wet has an enormous problem: more water can be attached to the body than the insect weighs. On top of that, forces that keep the drop togehter now also keep the insect stuck to the wet surfae. Also, the insect cools down. Now it could warm itself up by using its flight muscles, but that only works if they can still be operated.
5.1 mm • f/9.1 • 1/45 sec • 80 ISO • 9mm sensor • without tripod • 13000 lux • EV 12.2
Mill "de Helper"
This mill is at the estuary of the connection canal between the Hoornse Diep and the Paterwoldsemeer. Over this canal is the smallest drawbridge of the Netherlands and next to it a tiny sluice. Cute and nice.
70 mm • f/5.6 • 4 sec • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm • tripod • 11 lux • EV 2
Tissing visits Zomers
"Zomers", a nice restaurant on the "Vismarkt" is being visited by a painter called Martin Tissing today. He wears a long ocre winter coat that matches the color of the building very well.
5.1 mm • f/7.2 • 1/50 sec • 80 ISO • 9mm sensor • without tripod • 8800 lux • EV 11.7
Heavy clay and teahouse
The black fields have been freshly ploughed, which together with the low autumn sun gives a very hard black and white image. A teahouse from one of the wealthy farmers really complements the image.
10.8 mm • f/7.9 • 1/1250 sec • 100 ISO • 9mm sensor • without tripod • 213000 lux • EV 16.3
Poor little miniskirt
Next to me in the train was sitting a woman in an exceptionally nice miniskirt. She allowed me to take a phootgraph, of which this is the result.
65 mm • f/4 • 1/13 sec • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm • without tripod • 71 lux • EV 4.7
Blue books
This little shop with second hand books has a window with discoloured blue books. That may have happened because the entrance tot the window is blocked with more recent books (partly not discoloured), so that the window did not get a refreshment of non discoloured books. It may be a nice idea to try and buy a book from that window, but I think that (understandibly), the owner of the shop would resist selling it to me. The shop looks really provincial that you see more often in Groningen. The discoloration in the direction of blue is caused by two factors 1] The blue pigment reflects the light rays with the highest energy content, which are the blue rays. 2] The glass of the window blocks the ultraviolet rays, which carry an even higher amount of energy. The other pigments are damaged by the light rays that do go through the glass.
5.1 mm • f/8.1 • 1/30 sec • 80 ISO • 9 mm. sensor • without tripod • 6700 lux • EV 11.3
Parijs on the Aa
It is becoming winter and the people look for a good time by eating something warm in the street. It looks a bit like Paris, but it is the "Grote Markt" in Groningen.
6.4 mm • f/2.8 • 1/4 sec • 80 ISO • 9 mm. sensor • tripod • 110 lux • EV 5.3
Cracks
This is an old ship in the Noorderhaven, named "Gouwzee". Over the years its condition deteriorated, but for a photographer that is interesting. Cracks appear in the coat of paint and when you look carefully, the cracks are nearly all meeting at right angles to each other. That is cased by the tensionlines after the formation of a crack: they run parallel to the crack (a iso tension line can nog cross a crack, since the tension in the crack is zero). New cracks form at right angles to the iso tension lines and so form at right angles to other cracks. You can see the same patter in glazing of pots (see klik for instance). The funny thing about the StreetView image below is that exactly the part with the cracks is blurred out by the software, which normally blurs house numbers, faces and car plates.
14.1 mm • f/5.6 • 1/270 sec • 80 ISO • 9 mm. sensor • without tripod • 29000 lux • EV 13.4
Incabloc
In order to move further into the Unitas movement (for an overview see 0005), here an image of the IncaBloc of the movement, an important extension because of the fact that the springlike suspension of the jewel (that purple part) takes care of a shock so that the axle of the balance wheel does not break. You can see the principle here: klik and here klik. This picture is also the result in the quest for the best compromise between resolution and depth of field at a magnification beyond four times in the focal plane.
Zeiss Luminar 40/4.5 • f/9 • 1.6 sec • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm • tripod • 140 lux • EV 5.7
Ears
These are five ears of researchers of our department. Behind those ears are well developed brains, but you can not see that by looking at the ears. Odd things, ears. They are all different in color and form. Just as unique as a fingerprint.
5.1 mm • f/2.5 • 1/18 sec • 80 ISO • 9 mm sensor • without tripod • 380 lux • EV 7.1
Four miles of Groningen
The four mile of Groningen was ran again today. A group of the world best athletes passing my house, very year that is wonderful to see. Thos men are so smooth and fast in the way they run. Masai was the winner a few minutes later and he was tipped as such.
340 mm • f/5.6 • 1/160 sec • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm • without tripod • 14000 lux • EV 12.3
Fountain pen and ink
98% of the text that I write is done with a keyboard, but I still write with a pen also, especially when I want to formulate new ideas in the form of tekst or figures. It is just as if I am closer to expression on paper than when I use a computer screen and I get better results. In 1983 I bought this pen at Harvard Square. It broke in half once when it fell (the handle was replaced without cost) and twice the nib was replaced, once because it was worn and once to get another width. The ink bottle is older and has a glass marble in the neck so that filling the pen is easier: the marble stops the ink from flowing back after you fill the neck by tipping the bottle with the cap on it. I fill the bottle with home mixed ink: the thickness is important when writing on lower grade paper and the ink should dry up in a neutral black color in my opinion.
65 mm • f/16 • 1/60 sec • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm • without tripod • 42000 lux • EV 13.9
Venus
Even before the sun was rising, Venus appeared this moring and she did that at an enormous rate, tracing a little track with her beaty on the sensor during 25 seconds of exposure. A symbol of the birth of the new daughter of Helco!
200 mm • f/16 • 25 sec • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm • tripod • 28 lux • EV 3.4
The province
Typically the province of Groningen: far horizons, water, trees.
5.1 mm • f/9.1 • 1/45 sec • 80 ISO • 9 mm sensor • without tripod • 13000 lux • EV 12.2
Hanging drops
Two drops hanging from the table canvas. Little aspherical lenses.
24 mm • f/22 • 1/2 sec • 50 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • 64x ND filter • tripod • 620 lux • EV 7.8
Cappuccino
This is my biggest friend, the espresso machine. Nothing electronic, no LCD displays, just a switch to put it on, two dials for the pressure. This is the dispensing mouth, always a joyful sight in the morning with the reflection of the interior.
105 mm • f/4 • 1/40 sec • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm • without tripod • 220 lux • EV 6.3
Nice girl
Together on their way to collect something with their carrier cycles. Suddenly he sees this cute girl....
280 mm • f/4 • 1/125 sec • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm • without tripod • 680 lux • EV 8
Adder!
Beautiful nature reserve, the Fochteloërveen in Drenthe. There are adders and since on a cloudy day not many people are in the area, it is nice to take a sunbath on the boardwalk. Finally it appeared that we were equally scared of each other, so we each went on our way; he on his mobile ribs, covered with scales and I on my thin bike racing tires.
5.1 mm • f/5.1 • 1/1400 sec • 80 ISO • 9 mm sensor • without tripod • 124000 lux • EV 15.5
Gasunie under a shower
Since the construction of the GasUnie, this is a visual beacon for the city of Groningen. It is well lit and with an anvil shaped shower over the city, this image is formed on the little bridge of the Verlengde Boterdijk.
10.5 mm • f/4.4 • 4 sec • 80 ISO • 9mm sensor • tripod • 17 lux • EV 2.6
Nothing over Groningen?
"Er gaat niets boven Groningen" means "Nothing comes above Groningen", except perhaps a baloon with a couple of people in a basket under it. Hot air or fried air?
200 mm • f/16 • 1/160 sec • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm • without tripod • 14000 lux • EV 12.3
The eight on the blocks
At the boathouse a boat for eight is being put on the carriers to be cleaned. A very social sport, race rowing!
13.1 mm • f/6.4 • 2 sec • 80 ISO • 9 mm sensor • tripod • 70 lux • EV 4.7
September 2009
Spilsluizen foreshortened
Today a dark day with drizzle. In between some bright spells. This is Spilzluizen from a distance (waited for the pedestrian) with an equivalent of 450 mm fullframe, that is long. The depth is being foreshortened and you can see three bridges with ships behind them in the Noorderhaven close to each other, while infact they span a distance of 600 meter.
81 mm • f/6.2 • 1/200 sec • 200 ISO • 9 mm sensor • without tripod • 10000 lux • EV 11.9
Staircase
In this 13 story building nets have been mounted. A while ago I heard a medical student say to another woman in all ernest: "Excellent that they put these nets up there, else someone may fall on top of you!". At that moment I realised that that single remark is symbol for an age with a lack of social awareness.
14.1 mm • f/4.1 • 1/6 sec • 200 ISO • 9 mm sensor • without tripod • 140 lux • EV 5.7
Tree fungus
This sad berch is in the NoorderPlantsoen and it is sad for a reason: it has a tumor, caused by a fungus. Often the branch falls off, but this one has been holding its own for years.
5.1 mm • f/4.1 • 8 sec • 80 ISO • 9 mm sensor • tripod • paritally painted in with a torch • 7.2 lux • EV 1.4
Glass of wine
After a winetaste party it appears that Chilean wines with a cuvÃe of 85% CarmenÃre and 15% Cabernet can put you in a state of light headedness. When poured well into the night, you can even taste and smell it better. To drink a second glass is ill advised, especially when the glass has this size.
15.1 mm • f/7.3 • 1/1000 sec • 200 ISO • 9 mm sensor • tripod • 73000 lux • EV 14.7
Cup of tea
On my longer bike rounds through the province of Groningen, I love to drink a cup of tea at the TheeFabriek (Tea Factory) in Houwerzijl (klik). This is the inside of a cup, just before the tea is finished.
5.1 mm • f/2.5 • 1/100 sec • 80 ISO • 9 mm sensor • without tripod • 2100 lux • EV 9.6
Silence
When the train rolls over the bridge, without overhead wires, the engines stop. The wide river fills the image, slow and glistening. Directly after I operate the shutte, the thundering noise of the wheels on the bridge set in. But before: Silence. (the origin of the top part of the image can be understood from klik)
5.1 mm • f/5.7 • 1/130 sec • 80 ISO • 9 mm sensor • without tripod • 14000 lux • EV 12.4
Dusk
These two trees have been dead for a while. Strange place, in the middle of the meadow. The sun had just set and your color perception changes towards black and white. Or would that cow be black and white during the day also? (zoom in below, to see the two trees on the aerial photo)
15.3 mm • f/4.4 • 1/22 sec • 80 ISO • 9 mm sensor • without tripod • 1500 lux • EV 9.1
Light architecture
Often clouds, illuminated by the sun, are the brightest in the lanscape. In the modern urban lanscape this is no longer true.
10.5 mm • f/12 • 1/380 sec • 80 ISO • 9 mm sensor • without tripod • 187000 lux • EV 16.1
Ghosthouse
This is a house in Groningen that has been deserted for a very long time. Several decades. The lace curtain has become almost black with dust. You can not look into the house. The name on the door is nicely painted and there is a recent lock on the door. A more recnt doorbell is clean: it is pressed regularly. Fascinating!! (The exposure was made in the late daylight to highlight the mood, the camera set on manual and the exposure underexposed.) Below the position in StreetView of Google Maps.
6 mm • f/7.6 • 2 sec • 80 ISO • 9 mm sensor • tripod • 99 lux • EV 5.2
The balloon is landing
Almost no wind.
11.5 mm • f/3.7 • 1/13 sec • 80 ISO • 9 mm sensor • tripod • 610 lux • EV 7.8
Measuring tiny amounts of light
This is one of my most beloved belongings: the device built bij Aart Everaarts in 1971 to measure extreme low levels of light for photographic purposes. Aart, former teacher photography at the art academy of Groningen, is a multi talent and completely self taught. An example!
24 mm • f/8 • 1/60 sec • 400 ISO • indirecte flash • 24x36 mm • tripod • 2600 lux • EV 9.9
Flow
It is usually not a good idea to cycle at full speed through the city, but here, in the middle of the road, it could be done.
24 mm • f/8 • 1/2 sec • 50 ISO • 24x36 mm • 4x ND filter • tripod • 2800 lux • EV 10
Unitas
This is the Unitas 6497 movement, developed around 1950 for pocket watches. You can build a larger casing around it for wearing on the wrist, the movement fills the whole casing. If you find out how to put the watch at night during sleep, an incredible accuracy can be reached of less than 5 seconds per month (klik): during the day you lose a second and during the night you gain it back due to the lower temperature and orientation of the movement. Fascinating that a mechanical watch that is acturally worn can be so accurate....
105mm • f/32 • 2 sec • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm • tripod • 170 lux • EV 6
Anne puts a man in cyberspace
action: Anne puts a man in Cyberspace!
85 mm • f/1.2 • 1/1250 sec • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm • without tripod • 610 lux • EV 7.8
Blade without slip
Skiff on the Hoornse Diep during strong wind, not much to hear. During the stroke, the slip of the blade in the water is minimal...
5.1 mm • f/5.1 • 1 sec • 80 ISO • 9 mm sensor • without tripod • 89 lux • EV 5
The City
Groningen as viewd through one of the square windows of the former Women Clinc of the Universitary Medical Center Groningen. On each floor there is a live square painting. The Prinsentuin (beatiful round hedges), the Martini tower, the A-kerk on the right and the GasUnie behind the "Olle Grize" still higher that our building, reaching above the horizon. As a born "Hagenees" (inhabitant of The Hague), this city has grown on me....
45 mm • f/4 • 1/3200 • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm • without tripod • 17000 lux • EV 12.6
After the rain
During a bike ride, the weather changed and after a shower suddenly light fell over the Hoornse Diep. The fish let me know they were still there. De deserted landscape was quiet, the air cleaned by the rain.
10.5 mm • f/3.5 • 1 sec • 80 ISO • 9 mm sensor • without tripod • 42 lux • EV 3.9
