October 2023
Hand
You can still see it often and it is functional: sticking out your hand when turning on the bicycle.
26 mm • f/5.6 • 1/2000 sec. • 200 ISO • 9mm sensor sensor • handheld 86000 lux EV 14.9
Dog
A dog demands care, but is also a good reason te get out of the house even when the weather is not so great.
26 mm • f/5.6 • 1/1600 sec. • 200 ISO • 9mm sensor sensor • handheld 68000 lux EV 14.6
Bronze
Impressive how Gert Sennema can make bronze look like wood.
26 mm • f/2.8 • 1/40 sec. • 100 ISO • 9mm sensor sensor • handheld 860 lux EV 8.3
Fries
Fries remain popular. Clearly something happens when you are frying a potato.
26 mm • f/2.8 • 1/125 sec. • 100 ISO • 9mm sensor sensor • handheld 2700 lux EV 9.9
Street
A perfect surface is made on the Grote Markt, Groningen.
26 mm • f/5.6 • 1/640 sec. • 200 ISO • 9mm sensor sensor • handheld 27000 lux EV 13.3
Foot
A bronze foot, five times larger than the model.
26 mm • f/3.2 • 1/160 sec. • 100 ISO • 9mm sensor sensor • handheld 4500 lux EV 10.7
Cool
Beautiful design of a machine to make streets.
26 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • 9mm sensor sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Contrast
High contrast in autumn.
26 mm • f/2.8 • 1/80 sec. • 200 ISO • 9mm sensor sensor • handheld 860 lux EV 8.3
Marvelous
A tree leaf is a marvelous design, shaped by just a few genes.
26 mm • f/2.8 • 1/100 sec. • 100 ISO • 9mm sensor sensor • handheld 2100 lux EV 9.6
Tombstone
A tombstone can net be read anymore due to the autumn leaves.
26 mm • f/2.8 • 1/80 sec. • 100 ISO • 9mm sensor sensor • handheld 1700 lux EV 9.3
Meeting Point
A meeting point with eastern alure.
26 mm • f/4.5 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 9mm sensor sensor • handheld 6900 lux EV 11.3
Art
Art in preparation in Groningen.
26 mm • f/2.8 • 1/125 sec. • 200 ISO • 9mm sensor sensor • handheld 1300 lux EV 8.9
Rust
Rust can significantly weaken a structure.
26 mm • f/3.2 • 1/160 sec. • 100 ISO • 9mm sensor sensor • handheld 4500 lux EV 10.7
Scotsman
An old scotsman seems to be lost in the north of the Netherlands.
26 mm • f/5.6 • 1/125 sec. • 200 ISO • 9mm sensor sensor • handheld 5400 lux EV 10.9
Stretcher frame
That's how you get a stretcher frame straight again. Sprinkle with warm water and leave overnight. After it let it dry and check. Rinse and repeat if necessary.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/25 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 44 lux EV 4
Coat
The Linhof camera gets a new coat.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/33 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 73 lux EV 4.7
Agaric
The agarics shoot up from the ground.
26 mm • f/10 • 1/50 sec. • 100 ISO • 9mm sensor sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Low
Another image when the sun is low.
26 mm • f/2.8 • 1/2500 sec. • 100 ISO • 9mm sensor sensor • handheld 54000 lux EV 14.3
Low
Low level sun when it is clear outside gives this kind of images in the street.
26 mm • f/2.8 • 1/320 sec. • 100 ISO • 9mm sensor sensor • handheld 6800 lux EV 11.3
Noiseless
The Noiseless Portable typewriter was nicely compact and made very little noise, although this has to be taken with a pinch of salt.
18.3 mm • f/2.8 • 1/30 sec. • 250 ISO • 9mm sensor sensor • handheld 260 lux EV 6.6
Students
Groningen is a student city with the social life partly in the streets.
18.3 mm • f/2.8 • 1/30 sec. • 2500 ISO • 9mm sensor sensor • handheld 26 lux EV 3.2
Urban
Graphics on a wall, just like tenthousands of years ago in caves.
18.3 mm • f/2.8 • 1/30 sec. • 2500 ISO • 9mm sensor sensor • handheld 26 lux EV 3.2
Night
Rowing at night with a lamp.
18.3 mm • f/2.8 • 1/3.3333 sec. • 6400 ISO • 9mm sensor sensor • handheld 1.1 lux EV -1.3
First
Filmon Tesfu won the 2023 editiion of the 4 mile of Groningen.
102 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1600 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Joining
They joined the 4mile4you again and looked great.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/60 sec. • 3200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 17 lux EV 2.6
Maanlicht
Moonlight is incredibly peaceful, compared to artificial light.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/2 sec. • 3200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 0.6 lux EV -2.3
Experirment
An experiment to research visualisation of positions on the back.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/60 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 170 lux EV 5.9
On its way
A leaf is on its way in the autumn wind.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/311 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Glowing
The time is glowing. And that is only possible when no wires are directly running between power source and hands, because the wires will break. A solution is a slip contact and brushes.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 15 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 0.7 lux EV -1.9
On toes
Sometimes a woman stands on her toes when embracing a man, but in this case the man stands on her toes. Times are changing.
345 mm • f/5.6 • 1/2 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 21 lux EV 3
Saddle Height
In most of the Holland bicycles, the saddle is too low, but in this case the saddle is a few centimeter too high.
26 mm • f/2.8 • 1/400 sec. • 200 ISO • 9mm sensor sensor • handheld 4300 lux EV 10.6
September 2023
Fire
At a science performance in Zpannend Zernike in the Forum in Groningen for children, a presenter set her hand on fire, but did not get hurt.
26 mm • f/2.8 • 1/40 sec. • 2000 ISO • 9mm sensor sensor • handheld 43 lux EV 4
Virtual
That's how you can spend a large part of the day in a virtual world.
18.3 mm • f/4 • 1/2000 sec. • 200 ISO • 9mm sensor sensor • handheld 44000 lux EV 14
Pigeons
Feeding pigeons on the Dam, while being glad with each other.
18.3 mm • f/8 • 1/400 sec. • 200 ISO • 9mm sensor sensor • handheld 35000 lux EV 13.6
Sushi
She does three things at the same time, but perhaps also likes sushi.
18.3 mm • f/8 • 1/80 sec. • 200 ISO • 9mm sensor sensor • handheld 7000 lux EV 11.3
Eastern Veil Nebula
The eastern Veil Nebula with a total exposure of 3.5 hours.
672 mm • f/5 • 12600 sec. • 200 ISO • APS-C sensor • tripod 0 lux EV -10
Encounter
An encounter over the centuries is sobering.
18.3 mm • f/5.6 • 1/160 sec. • 200 ISO • 9mm sensor sensor • handheld 6800 lux EV 11.3
Palace
View from the roof of the Palace in Groningen onto a rare water tower. Here I worked for more than 10 years.
26 mm • f/6.3 • 1/640 sec. • 200 ISO • 9mm sensor sensor • handheld 35000 lux EV 13.6
Fans
Fans can be amusing.
26 mm • f/6.3 • 1/320 sec. • 200 ISO • 9mm sensor sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Fan
Fans can be amusing.
26 mm • f/6.3 • 1/320 sec. • 200 ISO • 9mm sensor sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Duckweed
The A is filled with duckweed in Groningen.
26 mm • f/6.3 • 1/500 sec. • 100 ISO • 9mm sensor sensor • handheld 54000 lux EV 14.3
Emotions
Three basic emotions on a letterbox of a student home.
26 mm • f/3.5 • 1/200 sec. • 100 ISO • 9mm sensor sensor • handheld 6700 lux EV 11.3
Stones
What a difference in audience: live or on a photo.
1.5 mm • f/2.4 • 1/122 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 9600 lux EV 11.8
Broken
A broken backlight. Quite a problem to establish what vehicle this came from and at what speed it was driving.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/125 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 6800 lux EV 11.3
Vismarkt
A summer day on the Vismarkt. Interesting how people use the space.
26 mm • f/2.8 • 1/800 sec. • 100 ISO • 9mm sensor sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Understanding
We have an excellent mutual understanding.
26 mm • f/2.8 • 1/80 sec. • 200 ISO • 9mm sensor sensor • handheld 860 lux EV 8.3
Removed
My bicycle was secured well and difficult to remove without also removing that sign.
26 mm • f/6.3 • 1/50 sec. • 200 ISO • 9mm sensor sensor • handheld 2700 lux EV 10
Reitdiep
Reitdiep harbor at sunset.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/623 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 34000 lux EV 13.6
4 chickens
6 eggs from 4 chickens that all have a name.
26 mm • f/2.8 • 1/40 sec. • 200 ISO • 9mm sensor sensor • handheld 430 lux EV 7.3
Night Fishing
Night fishing simply continous in Doodstil
6 mm • f/2 • 1/25 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 34 lux EV 3.6
Western Veil Nebula
The western part of the Veil Nebula in Cygnus recorded on a 670mm refractor telescope with 2.5 hours of exposure.
670 mm • f/5 • 8100 sec. • 100 ISO • APS-C sensor • tripod 0 lux EV -8.3
Veil Nebula
The Veil Nebula in Cygnus is the remnant of an exploded star only 10000 years ago. The image is 10 times wider than the diameter of the full moon, Obviously the oxygen (cyan) has been hurled away further than the hydrogen (red).
200 mm • f/4 • 7200 sec. • 100 ISO • APS-C sensor • tripod 0 lux EV -8.8
Shadows
Sometimes I think I still see the moving shadows in front of the closed door of artist Gert Sennema opposite the synagogue in Groningen.
90 mm • f/11 • 2 sec. • 125 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 130 lux EV 5.6
Shade
On a warm day people look for shade here at this old café in Groningen.
26 mm • f/8 • 1/80 sec. • 125 ISO • 9mm sensor sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Severe
It is 30 degrees Centigrade outside, but as you you tell, the village of Doodstil is expecting a severe winter.
26 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1600 sec. • 125 ISO • 9mm sensor sensor • handheld 27000 lux EV 13.3
Painting
The bats were painting strokes against the evening sky.
85 mm • f/3.2 • 1/2 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 28 lux EV 3.4
Cantina Mexicana
The restaurant Cantina Mexicana on a nice late summer evening.
18.3 mm • f/2.8 • 1/200 sec. • 400 ISO • 9mm sensor sensor • handheld 1100 lux EV 8.6
Triangle
And thus we warched each other in a triangle..
26 mm • f/2.8 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 9mm sensor sensor • handheld 5400 lux EV 10.9
Forest
Life in a forest of legs.
26 mm • f/8 • 1/100 sec. • 200 ISO • 9mm sensor sensor • handheld 8700 lux EV 11.6
Party
A party in Onderdendam, called "Scheepsjoagen" with songs like "the small harbour café"
26 mm • f/2.8 • 1/25 sec. • 3200 ISO • APS-C sensor • handheld 17 lux EV 2.6
Wrong
I think I said something wrong.
18 mm • f/2.8 • 1/40 sec. • 800 ISO • APS-C sensor • handheld 110 lux EV 5.3
August 2023
Dinner
The conference diner in the Martinichurch in Groningen with an international group of experts on neck and back pain.
18 mm • f/2.8 • 1/40 sec. • 800 ISO • APS-C sensor • handheld 110 lux EV 5.3
Point
This speaker wanted our attention for one clear conclusion at the international conference on back pain at the UMCG.
26 mm • f/2.8 • 1/40 sec. • 200 ISO • 9mm sensor sensor • handheld 430 lux EV 7.3
Noorderrondrit 2023
We have been riding the Noorderrondrit 2023 with 10 members of Human Movement Sciences Groningen, about 150 km through the province of Groningen.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/2688 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 74000 lux EV 14.7
Jumping
She waited for the fountain to start again and then jumped over it.
26 mm • f/2.8 • 1/60 sec. • 100 ISO • 9mm sensor sensor • handheld 1300 lux EV 8.9
Fakenger
A fakenger (fake messenger) is tearing through town.
26 mm • f/2.8 • 1/40 sec. • 500 ISO • 9mm sensor sensor • handheld 170 lux EV 6
Rain
He was singing "I like the rain"
26 mm • f/2.8 • 1/40 sec. • 250 ISO • 9mm sensor sensor • handheld 340 lux EV 7
Childhood
A conversation about their childhood.
22.9 mm • f/4.5 • 1/640 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 35000 lux EV 13.7
Recording
These gothic friends found their own way in recording each other.
44.4 mm • f/4.5 • 1/500 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 28000 lux EV 13.3
Summer
Summer in the city in Amsterdam.
22.5 mm • f/4.5 • 1/80 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2200 lux EV 9.7
Waiting
Two men waiting for the next visitors to the exhibition on Noorderzon festival.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1100 lux EV 8.7
Noorderzon
The Noorderzon festival is running again in Groningen and has changed over the years.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/1250 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5500 lux EV 11
Waiting
Sometimes the waiting for the start of the performance takes quite long, here at the Noorderzon festival.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/160 sec. • 320 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 440 lux EV 7.3
Common Winter Damselfly
The Common Winter Damselfly in the summer
100 mm • f/2.2 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 11000 lux EV 11.9
Questions
They had two questions: 1) Can you use the word 'nigger'? 2) Do you want to take a picture of us?
35 mm • f/2.2 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1700 lux EV 9.2
Andromeda
The Andromeda galaxy in the summer sky, 100 minutes of exposure. Better than the front of my childhood astronomy book, but there is till quite a way to go.
382 mm • f/4.7 • 6000 sec. • 100 ISO • 17x24mm sensor • tripod 0 lux EV -8.1
Cereal leaf beetle
The Cereal Leaf Beetle is only 6 mm long and takes almost a quarter of an hour climbing a gras blade.
100 mm • f/5.6 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 21000 lux EV 12.9
Milky Way
The milky way photographed in the middle of the city of Groningen with one hour of exposure. At the top the red North America nebula, lower right the Andromeda nebula next to the constellation of Cassiopeia.
14 mm • f/2.8 • 3600 sec. • 100 ISO • 17x24 mm sensor • tripod 0 lux EV -8.8
Van Gogh
Star trail over a period of 80 minutes with 3 Perseids, satellites and a number of airplanes. In the time of van Gogh you only had Perseids.
14 mm • f/2.8 • 4800 sec. • 100 ISO • 17x24 mm sensor • tripod 0 lux EV -9.3
Perseid
Another Perseid, this time with a lasting lump that burned and make a spike at the head.
14 mm • f/2.8 • 5 sec. • 100 ISO • 17x24 mm sensor • tripod 4.3 lux EV 0.6
Wasp
Wasps also help with th dispersion of pollen.
100 mm • f/5.6 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 21000 lux EV 12.9
Almost
It was thirsty weather and he almost made it.
100 mm • f/5.6 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 21000 lux EV 12.9
Sarcophaga carnaria
The Sarcophaga carnaria also appears on plants.
100 mm • f/5.6 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 21000 lux EV 12.9
Setup
The setup with which Perseids have been recorded this year.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/8 sec. • 1000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7.1 lux EV 1.4
Hoverfly
A hoverfly has eyes that are connected, in contrast with the eyes of bees.
100 mm • f/5.6 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • by hand 11000 lux EV 11.9
Co-evolution
There has been a long co-evolution happening between insects and flowers: The insects can get nectar and as a return favour they disperse the pollen for the flowers.
100 mm • f/5.6 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • by hand 11000 lux EV 11.9
Perseid
A very bright "falling star" or meteor, a Perseid. Top right the constellation of Cassiopeioa, with lower down outside the frame, the constellation of Perseus where the radiant is located, the point from which the meteors seem to come You can see nicely he change in color due to the difference in composition of the air at great height: First green from ionising oxygen and then a change to magenta from nitrogen and yellow due to the high temperature of the burning stone from the sky, a remnant of the comet Swift-Tutle.
20 mm • f/2.8 • 1 sec. • 200 ISO • 12x17mm sensor • tripod 11 lux EV 2
SMD City
A city in a computer
100 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 11000 lux EV 12
Meeting
They were in a meeting with only one discussion subject: how do we get out of this nature reserve for a day in Amsterdam.
150 mm • f/6.3 • 1/3200 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 173000 lux EV 16
Pattern
A wound up measuring tape of 60 meter shows regular waves, which can be explained by the fact the the diameter of the coil does not increase linearly with the length of wound up tape. When more tape is wound up, the diameter grows more slowly at every meter wound up.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 140 lux EV 5.7
Poppy Seed
Poppy seed on bread crust appears to have many small details. Eating too much of it can lead to a positive drugstest.
20 mm • f/2 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 1400 lux EV 9
Moon
The supermoon is rising behind the windmill of Onderdendam
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/25 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 35 lux EV 3.7
July 2023
Fly
Part of the head of a fly.
20 mm • f/1.8 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 2200 lux EV 9.7
Healthy
A healthy field offers a lot of snacks for the seagulls.
100 mm • f/11 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 83000 lux EV 14.9
Vanessa Atalanta
A Vanessa Atalanta in the late afternoon sun.
100 mm • f/11 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 83000 lux EV 14.9
Drosophila
Portrait of a Drosophila From left to right 1.3 mm.
20 mm • f/4 • 1/60 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 1300 lux EV 8.9
Thursty
Thursty again. This time it is Roosvicee.
100 mm • f/5.6 • 1/60 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • by hand 2600 lux EV 9.9
Green
A common green bottle fly is enjoying the nectar of this marguerite.
100 mm • f/5.6 • 1/60 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • by hand 2600 lux EV 9.9
Back
The next day he came back for more honey, so I think I may have a pet.
25 mm • f/4 • 1/60 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • by hand 1300 lux EV 8.9
Recovering
Recovering from a bath in mj cup of tea. When I had scooped him out it took him nearly half an hour to dry and take care of his wings and eyes so that he could fly again, after I had given him a tiny drop of honey.
25 mm • f/4 • 1/60 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • by hand 1300 lux EV 8.9
Grote Markt
The Grote Markt in Groningen is being handled: archeological excavations and then new pavement.
14 mm • f/2.8 • 1/50 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 130 lux EV 5.6
Turfstraat
In the Turfstraat in Groningen you find the most beatiful hollyhocks of the city.
14 mm • f/2.8 • 1/20 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 54 lux EV 4.3
Ink
Since 1984 quite a lot of ink has passed through.
25 mm • f/2.8 • 1/60 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 1300 lux EV 8.9
Drowned
Drowned in the resin on a tree in the Baltic area, 45 million years ago.
25 mm • f/2.8 • 1/60 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 1300 lux EV 8.9
Drop
A drop hanging from a beam appears to contain an airbubble.
25 mm • f/4 • 1/60 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 660 lux EV 7.9
Jumping spider
A very small jumping spider (Schorsmarpissa Marpissa muscosa) looks at me like a guard dog.
25 mm • f/4 • 1/60 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 660 lux EV 7.9
Showers
Showers are growing over the old brick factory.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/64 sec. • 125 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 450 lux EV 7.4
Hanger
The latest trains have e button with a cloth hanger on it.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/64 sec. • 125 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 450 lux EV 7.4
Fatbike
Two friends on a fatbike are speeding, navigation in hand.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/573 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 16000 lux EV 12.5
Groningse Duinen
The Groningen Dunes. You can wait for the rabbits and pheasants to appear.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/888 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 48000 lux EV 14.1
Shark Teeth
Another case of a cyclist who did not give right of way at shark teeth. The city of Groningen has a number of very dangerous crossings. Those need replanning. Cyclists should yield at shark teeth. I see it not often enough.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/7692 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 213000 lux EV 16.2
Climbing
Climbing clouds in the distace may indicate rain combing.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/122 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4200 lux EV 10.6
Engine
An engine can be interesting.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/101 sec. • 125 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 710 lux EV 8
Airpump
The experienced cyclist always carries an airpump.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/121 sec. • 125 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1100 lux EV 8.6
Heatsinks
Large heatsinks for my laptop in the summer.
1.5 mm • f/2.4 • 1/25 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 49 lux EV 4.2
Rain
Sometimes you have showers of 60mm/h through which you have to find your way.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/50 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 110 lux EV 5.3
Elephant Hawk-moth
This Elephand Hawk-moth was looking for cover during the rain. It is quite abundent in the Netherlands, but we had never met. Beautiful colors.
100 mm • f/84 • 1/60 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 144000 lux EV 15.7
Difference
Insects can differ remarkably in body length.
100 mm • f/84 • 1/60 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 144000 lux EV 15.7
Overview
Overview of the constellation Cygnus, eposed with 50mm focal length. In the middle Deneb and the North America Nebula. Unbelievable that you can record so many stars over the city of Groningen with a total exposure time of 2 hours.
60 mm • f/1.4 • 7200 sec. • 100ISO • 24x17 mm sensor • tripod 0 lux EV -11.8
Blown
A large balloon is blown eastward by a western wind.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/737 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 40000 lux EV 13.8
Oosterkerk
The Oosterkerk in Groningen is a beautiful example of architecture from the Amsterdam school.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/3425 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 187000 lux EV 16.1
Blue Eyes
It looks like this crow has blue eyes, but that is not true: it is the nictitating membrane used to clean his eyes from dust, that closed just when I released my shutter.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 43000 lux EV 13.9
After the storm
After the storm there are only a few outstretched clouds in the sky.
400 mm • f/8 • 1/400 sec. • 1000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 7000 lux EV 11.3
June 2023
Broad
When you correct the perspective of a fisheye lens, you feel the street is much wider and the cars broader.
8 mm • f/8 • 1/60 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2600 lux EV 9.9
Hattem
Hattem on the IJssel in the evening light.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/121 sec. • 40 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2700 lux EV 9.9
2 Pennies
British photographers have it easier: they always have a small screwdriver in their pocket in the shape of a two penny piece with 7 sides with which you can mount a camera plate.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/33 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 73 lux EV 4.7
Longing
The longing to be able to be with her.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/370 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 10000 lux EV 11.9
Remarkable
There were remarkable people on a remarkably sugarmarket.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/328 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 9100 lux EV 11.7
Moving
Moving by cargo bike can be seen quite often in a student town in the Netherlands.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/121 sec. • 50 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2600 lux EV 9.9
Small
My smallest telescope is a 50 year old lens of 28mm, here mounted on a cooled astro camera with behind it the computer that collects the images and listens through its antenna to my commands. Between lens and camera the filter drawer to remove the effects of light pollution from the city of Groningen.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 80 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 550 lux EV 7.7
Long
The sun still sets after a very long day.
58.9 mm • f/4.5 • 1/200 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5500 lux EV 11
Music
In your own world of music, waiting for the hus.
72 mm • f/4.5 • 1/200 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Drijfhout
The firm Drijfhout was a goldsmith. The slogan "Be bold en caring" is hard to place.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/100 sec. • 80 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1400 lux EV 9
Cydalima perspectalis
Cydalima perspectalis is a moth from Asia and has been living in the Netherlands since about 2007.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/60 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 270 lux EV 6.6
North America
The North America Nebula, a gigantic emittion nebula in our galaxy in the constellation Cygnus.
200 mm • f/4 • 4000 sec. • 100 ISO • 17x24 mm sensor • tripod 0 lux EV -8
Hoisting
That is how you hoist some bags of mortel up in Amsterdam.
41.1 mm • f/4.5 • 1/1250 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 69000 lux EV 14.6
Cotter Pin
The good observer and expert in bicycles is not easily distracted, seeing that the cotter pin on the left hand side is placed in the wrong direction (see inset in the red circle). The head must be leading when the cranks go around during cycling. Although the ladies did a fantastic job in restoring this old bicycle, they were not able to mount de crank correctly and so I offered to remove the damaged cotter pin and place it correctly.
21.1 mm • f/4.5 • 1/100 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5500 lux EV 11
Whale
A whale in the summernight in the sky in the constellation Canes Venatici.
650 mm • f/5 • 1530 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 0 lux EV -5.9
Change
In constrast to that on the moon, the landscape on the sun changes daily.
650 mm • f/5 • 0.001 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 68000 lux EV 14.6
Sunflower Galaxy
The Sunflower Galaxy in 123 exposures of 30 seconds before the clouds came.
650 mm • f/5 • 3690 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 0 lux EV -7.2
Nice
A fest meal for a seagull. Found on the street or pinched from a bag?
72 mm • f/4.5 • 1/200 sec. • 320 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 3500 lux EV 10.3
Love
This sculpture near the train station of Leeuwarden is called "Love" and is 7 meter tall. A couple look at each other with eyes closed. Perhaps they dream of each other or are unwilling to look in their eyes.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/3731 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 103000 lux EV 15.2
Shrubbery
What is moving there in the shrubbery?
72 mm • f/4.5 • 1/200 sec. • 1250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 880 lux EV 8.3
SuperNova
M101 now with added hydrogen alpha light. This indicates where new stars are formed in the galaxy.
650 mm • f/5 • 19400 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 0 lux EV -9.6
SuperNova
The SuperNova in M101 has grown again. Here as the result of 477 exposures of 30 seconds each. The colors have been calibrated.
650 mm • f/5 • 14300 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 0 lux EV -9.2
Groot Heiligland
Haarlem has a number of beautiful streets.
9 mm • f/4.5 • 1/125 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 6900 lux EV 11.3
Shoe
"The Shoe" on South, looks in hindsight more like a train.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/2083 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 114000 lux EV 15.3
Fantasia
With the AI on our smartphones we all have become Sorcerer's Apprentices, just like in Fantasia (1940).
6 mm • f/2 • 1/675 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 37000 lux EV 13.7
SuperNova
The Janapese astronomer Koichi Itagaki discovered 3 weeks ago a supernova in the Pinwheel galaxy, M101. It grew in those 3 weeks to the brightest star of that galaxy and will remain growing. Something like this happens only once in 10 years.
650 mm • f/5 • 7200 sec. • 125 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 0 lux EV -8.5
Groups
Suspots are now emerging in large groups.
650 mm • f/5 • 1/1000 sec. • 125 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 55000 lux EV 14.3
Robot
It appears that some robots take the train!
6 mm • f/2 • 1/121 sec. • 125 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1100 lux EV 8.6
Larger
In the image from a 650mm telescope, the whirlpool galaxy looks already bigger. But quite hard to capture in a night when it never really gets dark anymore and the full moon is shining.
650 mm • f/5 • 72000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 0 lux EV -12.5
Small
In the image of a 200mm telescope, the whirlpool galaxy looks very small in the vast universe. The image is 10 full moons long. The bright star is just visible with the naked eye and the 24th star in the constellation of Canes Venatici.
200 mm • f/4 • 4000 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 0 lux EV -8
May 2023
Hole
Interesting how such a hole comes into existence. It looks like the tree was trying to avoid something.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/157 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 8600 lux EV 11.6
Mona
A remarkable imitation of the Mona Lisa. The landscape behind her has an uneven horizon, unlike he original . What is remarkably different is that she looks at us like a haddock that recently recovered from the mumps.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/50 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 85 lux EV 5
Whistling
What do you do with a whistling helmet? Just glue a shoe string just below the top rim of the visor, so that the air needs to go over a little ridge, which takes away the production of high frequent trubulences that produce whistling noises. A tip for the producer of these helmets, I think.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/15 sec. • 80 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 170 lux EV 5.9
Worne
A worne tyre: this bicycle is used very well. Worne before it was dried out.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/2463 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 68000 lux EV 14.6
Space
There is still some space between bad hearing and being deaf.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/2463 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 68000 lux EV 14.6
3315
Sunspot 3315 gives lots of noise in radio traffic.
1440 mm • f/7 • 1/1000 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 33000 lux EV 13.6
Developers
Game developers present their game "Above Snakes": https://www.facebook.com/abovesnakesgame/
150 mm • f/2.8 • 1/160 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 210 lux EV 6.3
900 km
A piece of moon from the middle of 900 km long. The smallest details that can be seen are 500 meter diameter. The largest crater, Ptolemaeus, has a diameter of 130 km.
1440 mm • f/7 • 1/1000 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 33000 lux EV 13.6
5000
Photo nr. 5000 of this photoblog (13 3/4 years) shows the piece of moon where 54 years ago Apollo 11 landed with the first human visitors.
650 mm • f/5 • 1/1000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 68000 lux EV 14.6
Teachers demonstration
Teacher organize a demonstration for a higher income in Groningen.
72 mm • f/5 • 1/400 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 27000 lux EV 13.3
Slice
A slice of pizza and a slice of live moon, waiting for lowering of turbulence and of the pizza.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 220 lux EV 6.3
Hunting
Hunting for the moon with the telescope on the balony.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/2 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1.4 lux EV -0.9
Geert
Geert Waterman, a Groningen painter, on his way for delivery of a painting.
1.5 mm • f/2.4 • 1/141 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
M82
M82, the Cigar Calaxy, in a cold spring night. The visual length is about 1/3 of that of the full moon
650 mm • f/5 • 5400 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4 mm sensor • tripod 0 lux EV -8.8
Venus
Venus looks at the sun that has setted.
650 mm • f/5 • 1/100 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4 mm sensor • tripod 3400 lux EV 10.3
Territorial Battle
A territorial battle between a coot and an egyptian duck.
21.1 mm • f/5 • 1/160 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Coot
They need to be fed the whole day to finally look like their parents when they have lost their wild feathers.
72 mm • f/5 • 1/200 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 3400 lux EV 10.3
Ship
A ship with a past int he middle of Amsterdam
22.5 mm • f/5 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Adventure
The adventure starts from under te wings of mother, who keeps an eye on them.
72 mm • f/5 • 1/200 sec. • 250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5500 lux EV 11
Jambek
Delicious jam from Jambek, click here.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 180 lux EV 6
Theophilus
A large crater on the moon: Theophilus, with a marvelous central mountain: the recoil of the floor after impact of a large object from space.
2035 mm • f/10 • 0.1 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 1400 lux EV 9
NGC 7000
The Cygnus Wall, through a 650mm f/5 telescope and cooled camera.
650 mm • f/5 • 1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 0 lux EV -6.3
Splatters
A collection of parabolic tranjectories recorded after the action.
150 mm • f/8 • 1/160 sec. • 640 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 4400 lux EV 10.6
Lying down
She was lying down in the grass on this warm afternoon.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/208 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5700 lux EV 11
3305
Sunspot nr. 3305 is a gigantic sunspot, but only covers aobut 1% of the diameter of the sun.
2035 mm • f/10 • 1/1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4 mm sensor • tripod 137000 lux EV 15.6
Rapeseed
A rapeseedfield on the Hooge Land.
1.5 mm • f/2.4 • 1/2994 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 235000 lux EV 16.4
South
Station Amsterdam South
1.5 mm • f/2.4 • 1/516 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 41000 lux EV 13.9
Balcony
Nice in the big city: having your own little balcony.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/1199 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 65000 lux EV 14.5
Cellar
For a short moment it seemed that the cellar was flooded.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/4 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7.1 lux EV 1.4
Rings
To make a photo with a cooled astro camera you need to place the sensor at just the correct distance, else you get all kinds of aberrations in the image. And so you need to use rings that need to fit on each other from 92 mm to 63mm to 48 mm to 42 mm.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/25 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 44 lux EV 4
Shadow
Sometimes I see something in real life that would be an exageration in a computer rendered image. The spatial effect is amazing.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/749 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 41000 lux EV 13.9
April 2023
Moi
Fantastic solution: it works. The sign asks the man who normally cuts the grass, to leave the flowers for the butterflies, the bees, the flowers and me.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/35 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 60 lux EV 4.5
Whirlpool Galaxy
The Whirlpool Galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici taken while it was almost at zenith in Groningen. 240 exposures of 5 seconds each.
650 mm • f/5 • 1200 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 0 lux EV -6.6
Dedication
Fantastic dedication.
14 mm • f/5.6 • 1500 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 28000 lux EV 13.3
Hit
At last revenge.She hit him three times.
14 mm • f/5.6 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 21000 lux EV 12.9
Shower
I could see the shower falling down over the city of Groningen.
1.5 mm • f/2.4 • 1/122 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 6000 lux EV 11.1
Dutch
It can not get any more dutch than this: with your bicycle over the van Stakerborghkanaal.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/334 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 9200 lux EV 11.7
Reflections
When you lean back on a train, you sometimes see beautiful reflections.
150 mm • f/2.8 • 1/160 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1700 lux EV 9.3
Amélie
He played the soundtrack of Améie by heart, written by Yann Tiersen. Enchanting.
150 mm • f/2.8 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2700 lux EV 9.9
Olive and Cookie
Olive and Cookie in Amsterdam.
150 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 11.9
Charles
Charles Wildevuur before the closing diner of the course on movements and evolution.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/144 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4000 lux EV 10.5
Point
The sun places a point in a graph of tubes in station Almere.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/122 sec. • 64 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2100 lux EV 9.6
Double
The double cluster NGC 869 is an open cluster located 7460 light years away in the constellation of Perseus. The visual angle between the middle of the two clusters is about the same as the visual angle of the full moon.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 30 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 0.3 lux EV -3.2
Tulips
It is spring in Amsterdam so that the tourists emerge from the tulips.
1.5 mm • f/2.4 • 1/592 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 47000 lux EV 14.1
To Search
You could think that he is looking for nails in shallow water, but it concerns a unique earring.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/2000 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 86000 lux EV 14.9
Propulsion
Belt Propulsion and brake of a Stromer ST7. Almost without sound and effective.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/17 sec. • 80 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 190 lux EV 6.1
Cycling
Nice to look around during a cycling trip.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/3497 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 97000 lux EV 15.1
Tin Mill
Marvolous spring day under the sound of the tin mill.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/4608 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 127000 lux EV 15.5
Visit
Venus visits the Pleiades and fortunately did not blow out the blue nebulae around the stars.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1.6 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 0.7 lux EV -2
Eelderdiep
The Eelderdiep meanders through the Onlanden on a cold spring evening.
1.5 mm • f/2.4 • 1/527 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 41000 lux EV 13.9
Toilet
If I'm not mistaken I just discovered the local seagull toilet.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/2519 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 138000 lux EV 15.6
Laundry
On a ship laundry needs to be taken care of and with this gale, it is dry in no time.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/4115 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 114000 lux EV 15.3
Potatoes
Potatoes for sale at the Wadden coast.
101 mm • f/2.8 • 1/8000 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 86000 lux EV 14.9
37 and 47
Two fishing boats in Zoutkamp.
35 mm • f/6.3 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 27000 lux EV 13.3
Net
A net is drying on a fishing boat.
93 mm • f/2.8 • 1/3200 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 34000 lux EV 13.6
Harbour
In the old days this was a busy harbour, but now it is asleep.
52 mm • f/3.2 • 1/5000 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 70000 lux EV 14.6
Room
The roomy view north of Zoutkamp
150 mm • f/3.5 • 1/5000 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 84000 lux EV 14.9
Heart
I don't know the target, but there was a large heart on the Museumplein.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/249 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 6900 lux EV 11.3
Boxing
Learning to box in the street.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/387 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 21000 lux EV 12.9
Grafts
On the Museumplein they grafted trees with blossom.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/922 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 50000 lux EV 14.2
Northern
At a strong northern wind they had to go for it.
560 mm • f/8 • 1/500 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5500 lux EV 11
March 2023
Borkum
Borkum at 18 km distance, becomes a mosaic in the turbulant air above the waddenzee.
560 mm • f/8 • 1/1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 87000 lux EV 15
300 meter
The wind turbines norht of the waddeneilanden are 300 meter tall and can be seen well from Noordpolderzijl on a clear day.
560 mm • f/8 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 44000 lux EV 14
Attention
Her attention was suddenly distraction by a bird.
560 mm • f/8 • 1/500 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5500 lux EV 11
Past each other
After years they appeared to live past each other somewhat.
309 mm • f/8 • 1/320 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Trio
On hindsight, it appeared to b a trio, in which I am most worried about the middle one.
150 mm • f/6.3 • 1/160 sec. • 320 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5400 lux EV 11
Dead quiet
They lay in the water, one on top of the other, who had its paws sticking above the water.
150 mm • f/6.3 • 1/160 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 8700 lux EV 11.6
Fish
As if they still are swimming, they found then in stone, tens of millions of years ago.
46 mm • f/8 • 1/160 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
LEGO
Here LEGO is used to repair the doorstep of the entrance to a japanese restaurant.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/205 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5700 lux EV 11
Run over
Bicycles are run over regularly in Amsterdam.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/121 sec. • 64 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1700 lux EV 9.3
Little Saigon
Little Saigon is only very small and very loved so that people wait outside until there are places.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 110 lux EV 5.3
Moody
When you see the fields in the north of Groningen, it is understandable the farmers are moody there.
35 mm • f/2.8 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2700 lux EV 9.9
Weighbridge
A weighbrigdge in Uithuizen.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/381 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 21000 lux EV 12.9
Windowcleaner
The windowcleaner recorded on film
35 mm • f/5.6 • 1/125 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 11.9
Muscle
It was not as easy as it looked, moving the couch, and so they wait for more muscle.
1.5 mm • f/2.4 • 1/116 sec. • 250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 730 lux EV 8.1
Bearing
A good beech wooden rolling pin has good bearings.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 280 lux EV 6.7
Wild
Wild horses can taste the spring.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/2179 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 119000 lux EV 15.4
Sjoerd
Sjoerd de Vries defended his thesis today on motor imagery after stroke.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/33 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 56 lux EV 4.4
Polling Station
The polling station in the cityhall of Groningen .You can not get any closer to province politics.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/122 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5300 lux EV 10.9
Fred
Two fans of Fred, the very stubborn dear.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/122 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5300 lux EV 10.9
Vismarkt
Onbelievable change of the Vismarkt from buzzy market place to an empty square.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/4 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5.5 lux EV 1
88
Ma celebrates her 88th birthday.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/141 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7700 lux EV 11.5
Wind
The storm was violent enough to dislodge a solar panel from a roof in our street. No one was injured.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/927 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 26000 lux EV 13.2
2 km
One of my friends underway on my daily 10 km walk, who indicates it is still 2 km to go, with a warm bakery at 1 km from home.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/333 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 18000 lux EV 12.7
Graphical
Snow makes everything more graphic.
420 mm • f/8 • 1/50 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 8700 lux EV 11.6
Snowstorm
A snowstorm passed through the street.
35 mm • f/3.2 • 1/100 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2800 lux EV 10
Sun and Snow
When the sun breaks through the snow.
143 mm • f/2.8 • 1/200 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 4300 lux EV 10.6
Heli
The UMCG helicopter reaches the UMCG at high speed.
150 mm • f/9 • 1/1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 111000 lux EV 15.3
Horse
The horse of Saint Martinus on the Marinitower in Groningen is as large as a real horse.
150 mm • f/8 • 1/1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 87000 lux EV 15
Sale
Sale in a shop with two lamps.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/33 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 73 lux EV 4.7
Meeting
Venus and Jupiter meet each other after sunset. Four of the moons of Jupiter are visible, from top to bottom Callisto, Ganymede, Europa and Io.
560 mm • f/8 • 1/1.6667 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 36 lux EV 3.7
Strings
Together mounting new strings on the guitars in the sun.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/592 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 32000 lux EV 13.5
February 2023
Nap
A nap is sometimes needed after pulling his whole existence by bicycle. He can receive guests, since he has the chairs for it.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/1410 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 77000 lux EV 14.8
Northern Light
Northern lights on the Hooge Land near Westerdijkshorn under the power lines to Delfzijl
14 mm • f/1.8 • 30 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 0 lux EV -6.2
Evolution
The University Medical Center in Groningen, here as a model in the Forum, is clearly the result of evolution over more than 100 years, and not from a design.
35 mm • f/8 • 1/40 sec. • 250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2800 lux EV 10
Line
There is a straight line running through the Forum, the Saint Jozefcathedral and the taxes buidling in Groningen.
150 mm • f/8 • 1/400 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 35000 lux EV 13.6
Crown
The crown of a tropical helmet is a perfect hexagon.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/226 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 6200 lux EV 11.2
Lens
A glass of water is a lens with beautiful optical abberations in the projection of a lamp.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/80 sec. • 125 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 570 lux EV 7.7
Moon Jupiter and Venus
The Moon, Jupiter and Venus were perfectly aligned, so it seemed as seen from the earth.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/4 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11 lux EV 2
Waterfall
A root system like a waterfall with an embedded egg with unknown content.
69 mm • f/2.5 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2100 lux EV 9.6
Crocusses
Crocussen near the Nieuwe Kerk in Groningen
1.5 mm • f/2.4 • 1/122 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7700 lux EV 11.5
Crocodile the Saint
Suddenly Crocodile the Saint appeared in the sky including his own halo.
45 mm • f/2.2 • 1/2500 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Blockheads
Two blockheads in discussion.
35 mm • f/4.5 • 1/40 sec. • 6400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 35 lux EV 3.7
Pianoles
Piano lessons in the heart of Amsterdam
21.6 mm • f/4 • 1/80 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 3500 lux EV 10.3
Ben Feringa
Ben Feringa in a speech on fire on molecular engines.
150 mm • f/2.8 • 1/160 sec. • 2500 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 140 lux EV 5.6
Archeology
Archeology of doing calculations. If you look carefully, you can see that they used a pencil in those times when using a slide rule.
36 mm • f/2.2 • 1/40 sec. • 640 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 83 lux EV 4.9
Eye
The Eye Museum in Amterdam as seen from the IJ.
9 mm • f/5 • 1/30 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2000 lux EV 9.6
Magere Brug
The "Magere Brug" (or Skinny Bridge) over the Amstel with Carré
36.7 mm • f/5 • 1/100 sec. • 5000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 140 lux EV 5.6
6 bridges
6 bridges in one line of the Reguliersgracht in Amsterdam.
71.9 mm • f/5 • 1/40 sec. • 6400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 43 lux EV 4
Flags
Flags full of meaning, in which the rare choice to hang the national flag with red up.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/197 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 11.9
Big Church
This subtower of the Grote Kerk is not illuminted but only lit by nightly Venray.
150 mm • f/2.8 • 1/50 sec. • 16000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 6.7 lux EV 1.3
Big Church
The Grote Kerk of Venray has already been decorated with lamps for the market to come.
35 mm • f/3.2 • 1/40 sec. • 2500 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 45 lux EV 4
Strange
A strange window, a window with a past.
126 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 11.9
Society
Birds also have their society and is not always easy.
150 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 11.9
My Shadow
My shadow of the light of the full moon.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1.1 sec. • 2000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 0.4 lux EV -2.8
Winternight
Winternight on the Hoogeland under the full moon.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1.1 sec. • 2000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 0.4 lux EV -2.8
Help
A bit of a confusing message, when you receive such a sweet.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/25 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 44 lux EV 4
Close by
Judged from the converging lines, the sun must be really close by.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/737 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 40000 lux EV 13.8
Angled
It is remarkable that this hoisting beam is angled.
9 mm • f/4 • 1/5 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 27 lux EV 3.3
Restaurant
The restaurant in the distance looks inviting.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/60 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 130 lux EV 5.6
January 2023
Snowdrops
The snowddrops have appeared again.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/60 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 130 lux EV 5.6
Crocusjes
Early crocuses in February
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/60 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 130 lux EV 5.6
Noorderhaven
The Noorderhaven still breaths winter during an evening walk.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/4 sec. • 1000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3.5 lux EV 0.4
Ray
A powerful ray of light illuminates the Oude Kerk out of the darkness.
15.9 mm • f/4 • 1/50 sec. • 3200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 68 lux EV 4.6
Signalman
The signalman house is still there in Amsterdam CS, but without the windows.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/10 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 18 lux EV 2.7
Clean
The national monument on the Dam has been cleaned thoroughly. But he could hear the first seagulls approach over his head again.
55.7 mm • f/4.5 • 1/1250 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 8600 lux EV 11.6
Last Guest
The last guest in the coffee corner in the bookshop.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 280 lux EV 6.7
Cracks
The cracks in this window pane seem to add something to this shop.
34.6 mm • f/4 • 1/500 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2700 lux EV 10
Fun on Ice
Fun on Ice needs to be captured.
28.5 mm • f/4.5 • 1/2000 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Bling
Bling animals, made like computer graphics of the old days.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/50 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 550 lux EV 7.6
New Ice
More new ice ont the water
6 mm • f/2 • 1/922 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 50000 lux EV 14.2
Energy
Energy from two sources.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/6400 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 28000 lux EV 13.3
Scaffoldings
With scaffolding material you can make complex constructions.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/558 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 30000 lux EV 13.4
Drops
Drops are hanging under the ice.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/131 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3600 lux EV 10.4
Middelstum
A very quiet village with an enormous church.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/4 sec. • 1000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3.5 lux EV 0.4
Asingaborg
The Asingaborg in MIddelstum with Jupiter in the background.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/4 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7.1 lux EV 1.4
12 and 20
You can cover a sphere with 12 pentagons and 20 hexagons. You can cover the plane with hexagons, but by adding pentagons, the plane becomes curved. And that is why a soccer ball is more white than black. It could have been different..
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 440 lux EV 7.3
Metaverse
This polish speaker on the MXT conference on creative technology, Wiktoria Wójcik stated that we will completely live in the metaverse (internet based communities). Also that 56% of young people do not see a disctinction between the internet and physical life. .This indicates an underestimation of the the complexity of physical life as wel as that of perception and movements.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/56 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 96 lux EV 5.1
Sleeping Boats
Sleeping boats to the horizon with visitors for Eurosonic 2023
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/864 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 24000 lux EV 13.1
Lamp
A lamp like this improves your safety. Recently I saw an increase in the dark and rain of flash delivery riders an a bike without light, checking their smartphone while riding towards a passenger crossing.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/201 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5600 lux EV 11
Coral
Coral optimally uses space by reducing growth when there is not enough flow of water. And that is how narrow passages are avoided.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/201 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5600 lux EV 11
Cap
Never worn a cap, but a watertight cap is fantastic also to keep your glasses dry when walking in the rain: you see much more.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/25 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 44 lux EV 4
Brave
That's how it is in the whole of the Netherlands: they just go by bike.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/25 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 28 lux EV 3.3
Too high
It needs to rain a bit longer this much before this cistern starts doing its work.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/25 sec. • 1000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 27 lux EV 3.3
The Roof
Taken from the roof of Groningen: The Forum.
1.5 mm • f/2.4 • 1/978 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 77000 lux EV 14.8
Out of place
This building eems out of place. Perfectly taken care of of renovated in this environment.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/276 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7600 lux EV 11.4
Prohibition
This prohibition is apparently not very effective. Possibly that has to do with the limited understanding of dogs of signs.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/149 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 8100 lux EV 11.5
Church
The old church of Zandeweer.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/14 sec. • 2000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 6.2 lux EV 1.2
Parking Place
The pavement is often seen as a parking place for electric scooters. That makes sense when you rent such scooters, because it may mean you do not like walking and so that does not fit in your vision on the use of the public space.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/3425 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 187000 lux EV 16.1
Market
The market in Groningen waits for visitors,
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/326 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 9000 lux EV 11.7
Early
The early morning in Groningen on the first day of the year.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/122 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4200 lux EV 10.6
December 2022
Heap
A heap of bicycle parts, just in the street.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/121 sec. • 40 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2700 lux EV 9.9
Moi
People from Groningen say "Moi" rather than "Hoi"
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/121 sec. • 64 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1700 lux EV 9.3
Christmas Holiday
Christmas has passed.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/76 sec. • 125 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 540 lux EV 7.6
Flame
A flame is burning over the Hooge Land and warms the winter night. While we are trying to save energy at home.
19 mm • f/4.5 • 1 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 6.9 lux EV 1.3
Pyramid
The pyramic of Groningen
1.5 mm • f/2.4 • 1/600 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 47000 lux EV 14.1
One Million
One million steps in two months leaves very little of the profile of the soles at the heels of my new shoes.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 110 lux EV 5.3
Bakery
An old bakery's cargo bike. In the old days it contained fresh loaves of bread and on the bottom stale cake crumbs that were sold in paper cones to the children for 5 cents,
6 mm • f/2 • 1/214 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 12000 lux EV 12.1
Students
Students decorate the city in their own way.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/1410 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 77000 lux EV 14.8
Christmas mood
Groningen is entering the mood for Christmas.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/25 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 34 lux EV 3.6
Speech
The head of the department gives a christmas speech and can hardly be recognized.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/17 sec. • 1000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 15 lux EV 2.5
Shortest
The shortest day of the year is being illuminated by a gigantic christmas ball.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/14 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 9.9 lux EV 1.9
Wilhelmina
Grain windmil Wilhelmina in the peace of night.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/2 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1.4 lux EV -0.9
Middelstum
They are really proud of their windmill in Middelstum.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1.1 sec. • 2500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 0.3 lux EV -3.1
Happy
They are happy with their ship with christmas lights.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/100 sec. • 40 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2200 lux EV 9.7
Traces
An accident with three cars. From the damage much can be deduced on velocities and directions, independent from the witness accounts.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/350 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 19000 lux EV 12.8
Seasons
The four seasons are layerd here on the ground.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/162 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4500 lux EV 10.7
Cold
Although he found peace with it, it is still very cold.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/121 sec. • 64 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1700 lux EV 9.3
Orion
Orion over the church of Westerdijkshorn
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/2 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2.2 lux EV -0.3
On his way
He was on his way and used his bicycle as a walk bicycle, but still went fast enough so that I only got his foot unblurred in the image.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/15 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11 lux EV 2
Cycling Bridge
The cycling bridge over the van Starkenborgh canal. Always different.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/2 sec. • 1000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1.8 lux EV -0.6
Noordwolde
It was misty, cold and quiet in Noordwolde.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/221 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 12000 lux EV 12.1
Enchanting
The frozen landscape was enchanting and silent during my 30 km walk from Groningen to Zandeweer.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/137 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7500 lux EV 11.4
Costume
Mother and daughter in costume. The cloggs are on backorder.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/122 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1300 lux EV 8.9
Christmas
A very special christmas is coming up. On the Grote Markt in Groningen they allready accounted for it.
32.1 mm • f/4.5 • 1/1600 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Screech Owl
A screech owl in the middle of Amsterdam
6 mm • f/2 • 1/291 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 16000 lux EV 12.5
Amsterdam Venice
Here Amsterdam looks a bit like Venice, but it is a lot colder.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/4 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4.4 lux EV 0.7
Timeless
In the right light, Amsterdam is timeless.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/4608 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 127000 lux EV 15.5
Portrait
A portrait of an engine driver who dreams of a holiday.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/122 sec. • 40 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2700 lux EV 9.9
To Shave
Shaving can be done with a shaver or wet with a knife. Although shavers have been developed further, thay are no match for wet shaving, both in terms of speed and smoothness.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/33 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 73 lux EV 4.7
IJssel
The water in the IJssel is again at the usual height.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/727 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 40000 lux EV 13.8
Chatterboxes
Between these two lovely bell gables in the Steentilstraat in Groningen we see an avice about "Chatterboxes" that now is more relevant than ever. Translated: "Many a person is damaged and lied to by many chatterboxes who do not give much room themselves. It would be desirable that everyone take a good look at themselves before sooner or later they speak ill of others."
6 mm • f/2 • 1/421 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 23000 lux EV 13
November 2022
Statement
A strong statement on an almost empty street in Groningen.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/25 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 35 lux EV 3.7
Load
The luggage carrier of a dutch bicycles is designed for luggage, but in the Netherlands it is sometimes used for a passenger. But there are limits. The sequence of material failure can be seen quite well here.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/100 sec. • 125 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 870 lux EV 8.3
Underpants
With these underpants, fresh from the knitting machine, the heating can be lowered further.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 280 lux EV 6.7
Violin
You can play the violin by looking at sheet music. The vingers follow the imagery.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 125 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 350 lux EV 7
Not Great
Football on the World Championships was not great last night.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/800 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 440 lux EV 7.3
To Read
She has read her whole life and tells here about her journey through this book.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/50 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 140 lux EV 5.6
Bees
A birthday party that has led to a swarm of girls who are dressed as bees. As can be see there are two species.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/30 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 17 lux EV 2.6
Alone
Sometimes you need to be alone to form new concepts.
1.5 mm • f/2.4 • 1/50 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 120 lux EV 5.5
Noraly
Working on the Noraly to get a new cargo.
72 mm • f/4.5 • 1/5000 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 35000 lux EV 13.6
Spider
A huge spider was approaching over the field in the night.
51.6 mm • f/4.5 • 1/30 sec. • 6400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 26 lux EV 3.2
Ancient
Such a seed head can look ancient.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/25 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 35 lux EV 3.7
Earth
Earth as viewed from the Artemis capsule with the backside of the moon in the image.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/50 sec. • 80 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 680 lux EV 8
Cargo
Quite a lot of cargo, as indicated by the marks on the bow.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/2519 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 138000 lux EV 15.6
Roodeschool
In the Sjoukje Dijkstra to Roodeschool. You can't get much further from the Randstad.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/30 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 41 lux EV 3.9
Omnibus
A window to the past. A century ago, there was an omnibus station here in Groningen.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/225 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 12000 lux EV 12.1
Thin
This thin layer of oil varies in thickness between 0.00005 mm (the gray area) to 0.003 mm, judged by the colors and their repetition to the point where it fell. Using the surface area, the vollume was about 0.06 ml, which is the volume of a single drop of oil.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/60 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 200 lux EV 6.2
Direction
Nature points us in the right direction.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/242 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 13000 lux EV 12.2
Color
Colors in a box of the HEMA. And that is only the first row. There are 5 rows. Enough to repair lots of things.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/23 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 640 lux EV 7.9
Pakring
The rengal e-scooters in Groningen are often left in the middle of the pavement. That is not favourable for the image and municipal licenses that have been given.
1.5 mm • f/2.4 • 1/122 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1900 lux EV 9.5
Roundabout
A roundabout for ducks.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/121 sec. • 50 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2100 lux EV 9.6
Foucault
The pendulum of Foucault shows a change in direction of 6.3° in half an hour. At a lattitude of 53.21° in Groningen this should be 6.0°. So this is how you can see the earth rotate under the pendulum in your living room.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 88 lux EV 5
Scraping
Within a few hours, the surface of the Herebrug is scraped off.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/125 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 69 lux EV 4.7
Waiting
It is always the same story at the defence of a thesis: the peoply from far are their first, given the possible delays underway.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 125 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 350 lux EV 7
Damage
How much energy has been put into this concrete object by breaking it? How much energy was absorbed by the car? What does the car look like?
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/255 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7000 lux EV 11.3
Middle
In the middle of an agate, you may find a quartz crystal that looks like a diamond.
100 mm • f/11 • 1/100 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 33000 lux EV 13.6
Split
The monk in the Biotoop in Haren has split and needs to be held together with a strap. The splitting is not very strange, given the forces applied by different cultures and seasons.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/121 sec. • 64 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1700 lux EV 9.3
Knights
Knights from today near a castle.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/25 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 28 lux EV 3.3
Sky
In the middle of Amsterdam you can see a lot of sky.
1.5 mm • f/2.4 • 1/387 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 30000 lux EV 13.4
Agate
A part of a large agate. This forms when air is captured in stone after a vulcanic eruption. In the hollow space fluid seeped inside that petrified. Quartz crystals may also form over a long period.
135 mm • f/2.5 • 1/800 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
To Bite
Pugo makes it clear to me with his new friend Pluto what the bite order is.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/60 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 160 lux EV 5.9
October 2022
To Stop
During my daily walk of 10 km nothing can stop me, with the exception of this bridge, that regularly opens to let a cargo ship pass through. Here the Quo Vadis with sand. Its name poses indeed the question: where are you going?
1.5 mm • f/2.4 • 1/50 sec. • 250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 310 lux EV 6.8
Jam
Rike gave me a pot of homemade jam. Delicious.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/121 sec. • 125 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 860 lux EV 8.3
Spectacles
It is hard to see, but here they sell spectacles.
1.5 mm • f/2.4 • 1/50 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 250 lux EV 6.5
Public Space
In the public space everyone has their own directions through a jungle of bicycles.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/20 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 22 lux EV 3
Jugendstil
This beautiful jugendstil buidling was built in 1905 for a textile merchant in Groningen. It is very well maintained as can be seen.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/193 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 11.9
Bicycle Repairman
A happy bicycle repairman in the sunshine of a mild Octoberday.
72 mm • f/4.5 • 1/200 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 8800 lux EV 11.7
Traditional
Traditional shops appear in Amsterdam again. But lard in your hair? Really?
37.4 mm • f/4.5 • 1/125 sec. • 2000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 350 lux EV 7
Magical
This building always has something magical at sunset.
1.5 mm • f/2.4 • 1/50 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 98 lux EV 5.2
Dacrymyces stillatus
A Dacrymyces stillatus has an oversaturated orange color, that asks to be explained.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/449 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 12000 lux EV 12.2
Figs
Figs in October. Each fig is a society of about 50 tiny insects, fig wasps, of which the males have no wings: they are only there to fertilize the females, and also help fertilization of the fig, since its flowers are on the inside.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/96 sec. • 125 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 680 lux EV 8
Schoolbus
A misplaced american schoolbus.
1.5 mm • f/2.4 • 1/128 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 10000 lux EV 11.8
Grain
Through this funnel grain would be supplied, that's way the 'G'.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/657 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 36000 lux EV 13.7
Morning Mist
Morning mist from the Gerrit Krol bridge. Exactly halfway my 10 kilometer walk.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/2755 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 76000 lux EV 14.8
Crebas
Purveyor to the Court Bakery Crebas is so small and so popular that people often wait outside for their turn.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/122 sec. • 40 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3300 lux EV 10.3
Axis
The axis of the damaged Gerrit Krol bridge shows an interesting color of rust and algae, thanks to superfluous rain.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/475 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 26000 lux EV 13.2
DELFTRANS
The inland vessel DELFTRANS was built in 1997 and can carry 90 containers. Here it has been loaded fully and passes without a sound the damaged Gerrit Krol bridge.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/475 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 26000 lux EV 13.2
Wind Shear
Wind shear over the museum. Layers of air move over each other. Beautiful.
1.5 mm • f/2.4 • 1/421 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 33000 lux EV 13.6
Cycling
Cycling together under the full moon on the Hooge Land.
17.5 mm • f/4.5 • 1/15 sec. • 6400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 13 lux EV 2.2
Love
Pure love. It all comes from a few wolves a long time ago that were slightly less afraid of humans, so that they could eat the scraps of food en keep other animals and strangers at a distance.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/25 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 35 lux EV 3.7
Conjunction
Jupiter in conjunction with the moon over the mill Wilhelmina in Groningen.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/4 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11 lux EV 2
Diane
Diane van Es was second in the 4 miles of Groningen. On her smartwatch you can see that her heartrate was only 149 bpm and that the 16 min 37 sec that she ran at that point gives an average of 18.87 km/h. Her average at the finish was 18.92 km/h.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/5000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 44000 lux EV 14
Joining
She joined the 4 miles again and he did it for her.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 28 lux EV 3.3
Double
Double rainbow over Middelstum.
1.5 mm • f/2.4 • 1/3195 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 201000 lux EV 16.2
Unter den Linden
Unter den Linden, not in Berlin, but in the stairwell of the neighbours.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/122 sec. • 80 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1300 lux EV 8.9
Gas
The terraces were filled thanks to the copious gas heating.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/17 sec. • 1000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 19 lux EV 2.8
Digital
Very old digital technique for a knitting machine. Memory for a pattern.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 280 lux EV 6.7
Mechanics
My neighbour looked at me quite proud because of the transport of 22 crates of beer with empty bottles. The consumption of a week. But the students with new beer, lacked the insight in mechanics. Did I not teach it correctly, or is the insight damaged by the intake of alcohol?
6 mm • f/2 • 1/393 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 21000 lux EV 12.9
Images
Four images of the letter E, the last letter of the word "SILENCE" in the train.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/568 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 16000 lux EV 12.5
Stoomsteendrukkerij
The Steam Stone Printer in Amsterdam. What a beautiful word on that building!
6 mm • f/2 • 1/424 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 23000 lux EV 13
Nuldernauw
Change of weather over the Nuldernauw.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/3040 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 84000 lux EV 14.9
City
The moon over the city. (People from Groningen speak of "City" and then they mean the city of Groningen).
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/60 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 33 lux EV 3.6
September 2022
Toward the sun
Late in the afternoon he left for the sun.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/5000 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Forty Licks
Looking outside, the album of the Stones started in my mind.
135 mm • f/3.5 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 8400 lux EV 11.6
Maintainance
Maintainance before winter comes.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/400 sec. • 4000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 860 lux EV 8.3
Contrast
The quiet beauty of the starry sky forms a great contrast with the sound confetti from the party loft.
35 mm • f/1.4 • 1/15 sec. • 16000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 0.5 lux EV -2.4
Aero and Hydro
Aerodynamics and Hydrodynamics give a nice piece of art.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/716 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 39000 lux EV 13.8
Sound Pressure
The sound pressure from the party loft is way to high in the middle of the night measured at the back of the house. The whole neighbourhood is forces to listen to music they did not choose with student singing that is well out of tune, while most of us have to start early again tomorrow morning. A familiar problem in a student city. But there are ways to solve it.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/8 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 8.8 lux EV 1.7
Female Knight
At Castle Ewsum I met a female knight. There have been several female knights in the past, like the english Petonilla de Gramesnil, who fought in the 12th century against the king.
72 mm • f/4.5 • 1/200 sec. • 1000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1100 lux EV 8.7
Balls
He played with his balls and was very good at it.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/940 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 51000 lux EV 14.2
Hidden
Sometimes that is what I do: hiding in a natural environment.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/228 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 6300 lux EV 11.2
Fat Twin Days
Fat Twin Days in Amsterdam
38.9 mm • f/4.5 • 1/125 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 860 lux EV 8.3
Too many
Are there too manu students or too few railway workers resulting in fewer trains? One or the other, but in rush hour you have to stand.
1.5 mm • f/2.4 • 1/47 sec. • 1000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 74 lux EV 4.8
Opafiets
We know the granny bike, bat there is also a grandpa bike. This one will nog live very long, given the fracture in the headsetlug.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/121 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1100 lux EV 8.6
TriSpoke
A remnant of an aerodynamical past: the TriSpoke on a city bike.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/404 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Constellation
After a thourough search it appears that the ceiling of the lodge room of the Odd Fellows House is not based on an existing constellation. But given that the room is filled with symbolism, the question arises: what code is hidden in there?
14 mm • f/6.3 • 1/30 sec. • 2500 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 130 lux EV 5.6
Modernising
Even old Dutch windmills are being modernised: De hand powered mechanism to turn the windmill top is now operated by an electric engine.
14 mm • f/6.3 • 1/320 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Arms
This is the only surviving working version of a frisian clock in which tthree arms of the sailors move with the pendulum.
14 mm • f/3.5 • 1/50 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 840 lux EV 8.3
Shit
Through this machine (the sewage pump at the Damsterdiep in Groningen) the shit of several quarters of the city of Groningen is transported. For every quarter there is a large switch. An excellent way to flush the thirteenth year of this PhotoBlog.
14 mm • f/6.3 • 1/30 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 410 lux EV 7.2
Foot Steps
Tens of thousands of foot steps have left a symmetrical pattern. Observations of the asscending and descending patterns of the miller and his assistant indicated a possible cause of the the symmetry.
14 mm • f/6.3 • 1/30 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 200 lux EV 6.2
Moon and Jupiter
Moon and Juipter with 3 of its moons (from left to right Ganymede, Europe and Callisto) over the village of Zandeweer.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 4.4 lux EV 0.7
Window
This is the back wall of the Odd Fellows House in the W.A. Scholtenstraat in Groningen. A white plate was attached to cover the hole that the Germans made in the second world war in the lodge room, to make a window in its new function at the time. When it became a lodge room again, the room was not needed, since during the meetings, the outside world is to be excluded.
14 mm • f/6.3 • 1/320 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Aternative
The farmers from Groningen have changed course and have started with public friendly action.
14 mm • f/6.3 • 1/320 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Toy Room
In Amsterdam I found a toy room for elderly youngsters.
9 mm • f/4.5 • 1/30 sec. • 640 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 260 lux EV 6.6
100 Million
100 million years ago, this big fish swam in the Indian Ocean.
44.4 mm • f/4.5 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Cheered Up
A cheerd up freight train is waiting in Amersfoort with the scent of warm tar.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/922 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 50000 lux EV 14.2
Demonstration
They demonstrated in Amsterdam and all looked in the same direction. That's what it looked like. Later I realised that they were looking inward.
69.5 mm • f/4.5 • 1/200 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2800 lux EV 10
Distortion
How lovely that distortion by old glass.
60 mm • f/4.5 • 1/320 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 18000 lux EV 12.7
Morgan T4
A Morgan T4 from 1962 with beautiful lines. Just like one year ago during the GP in Zandvoort, the older sports cars went on their way.
9 mm • f/3.5 • 1/1250 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 42000 lux EV 13.9
Tray
A plexiglass fridge tray rotates polarized light, depending on the tension in the material and creates different colors when you place it between two pola filters.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/84 sec. • 125 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 590 lux EV 7.8
Transition
It feels like a transition to another season. It is dark earleier and there are cold spots underway on the bike.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/2 sec. • 2000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 0.9 lux EV -1.6
Symbol
In some cultures the moon is the symbol of love, since irrespective of the distance between two lovers, when they look at the same moon, they are connected with each other.
72 mm • f/4.5 • 1/200 sec. • 1250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 880 lux EV 8.3
August 2022
To Sleep
To be able to sleep like this....
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/60 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 170 lux EV 5.9
Fruit Fly
The eye of a fruitfly is only 0.3 mm high and so fewer facets fit in there than in the eye of a dragonfly or locust. The facets can not be made smaller without a drop in acuity of vision. And therefore small insects always see less than larger insects. However fruit flies have an excellent sense of smell. If you peel a banana at 10 meter from the insect, it will sit on it in less than a minute. (With formulas from optics it can be derived that there are about 6000 facets for every mm of eye diameter, so this fruit fly has about 1800 facets, whcih fits with the photo. It also shows that even large insects do not exceed 0.1 megapixel, which is a lot worse than most images on the internet)
100 mm • f/4 • 1/60 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 160 lux EV 5.9
Game
Some parts of our reality start to look more and more like a game.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 440 lux EV 7.3
Not Welcome
Cattle farms are no longer welcome in this country, according to this farmer.
16.9 mm • f/4 • 1/50 sec. • 250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 870 lux EV 8.3
Large
The sun seems larger when setting since you can make a comparison with things on earth that we know are large.
72 mm • f/4.5 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Onderdendam
At the geometrical centre of the Noorderrondrit,we find Onderdendam, where the sun has set the day before the ride.
9 mm • f/2.8 • 1/100 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2100 lux EV 9.6
Gardepoort
The Gardepoort is an old entrance to the city, linked to the Prinsentuin, flanked by the stables.
14 mm • f/3.2 • 1/30 sec. • 1250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 67 lux EV 4.6
Bicycle
She always wanted to be remarkable and so now she has an exceptional bicycle.
14 mm • f/3.2 • 1/20 sec. • 1250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 45 lux EV 4
Forces
At these kind of forces in the Booster you really have to keep hold of your phone. Else you may get out of the machine alive, but downstairs you meet a victim that at the last moment saw the light of the phone approaching.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/1600 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 880 lux EV 8.3
Stop
A short moment of contact on the fair of Groningen
14 mm • f/3.2 • 1/800 sec. • 1250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1800 lux EV 9.4
Summer
Summer in Amsterdam near the Waag.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/467 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 13000 lux EV 12.2
Migrant hawker
De head of a migrant hawker Since the eyes are very big, there is a lot of space for many facets.
100 mm • f/4 • 1/15 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 330 lux EV 6.9
Blink
At the high speed of the train, such a moment passes in the blink of an eye.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/154 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 8400 lux EV 11.6
Rooster
Sitting on the rooster, looking over Zandeweer, is the nicest thing to do at the end of the day.
72 mm • f/4.5 • 1/200 sec. • 640 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1700 lux EV 9.3
Warmth
These animals loose warmth through their head. Chickens have better isolation through their feathers than dogs and cats through their fur.
9 mm • f/11 • 1/55 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 9100 lux EV 11.7
Nam Kee
The cook of Nam Kee needs to eat himself too.
72 mm • f/4.5 • 1/200 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2800 lux EV 10
Prohibited
It is prohibited to swim in the museum pond.
60 mm • f/4.5 • 1/800 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 44000 lux EV 14
Strange
Two strange spots in the sky. The setting sun was shining at some clouds through two small holes.
9 mm • f/4 • 1/30 sec. • 250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 520 lux EV 7.6
Rolls
Enormous rolls of hay come from the land near Kantens.
15 mm • f/4 • 1/40 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 870 lux EV 8.3
Winschoterdiep
The full moon is rising over the Winschoterdiep.
100 mm • f/5 • 1/30 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 130 lux EV 5.6
Van Starkenborghkanaal
The sun sets twice a year exactly in the direction of the Van Starkenborghkanaal. Today it was also a clear evening.
185 mm • f/5.6 • 1/5000 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 214000 lux EV 16.3
Train
On single track the Arriva train rushes through the Hoogeland.
35.3 mm • f/4 • 1/100 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2700 lux EV 10
Sport
I reported here, but nothing happened, so I just continued my bike ride.
72 mm • f/4.5 • 1/500 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 28000 lux EV 13.3
Irrigation
The land needs to be irrigated in this draught.
9 mm • f/4 • 1/10000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 44000 lux EV 14
Green Shield Bug
The Green Shield Bug (Palomena prasina) is thriving in the Netherlands.
9 mm • f/4 • 1/1000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • by hand 44000 lux EV 14
Polaris
A light beam from the city of Groningen shines in the direction of Polaris. The light will reach that star 323 years from now.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1.1 sec. • 4000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 0.2 lux EV -3.8
Doodstil
It was dead quiet in Doodstil. None of the 102 inhabitants made any sound.
9 mm • f/4 • 1/1000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 44000 lux EV 14
1892
This tower of "De Kandelaar" in Uithuizen is from 1892 according to the windvane.
41.9 mm • f/4.5 • 1/5000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 276000 lux EV 16.6
Serious
Supping is a very serious activity.
52.6 mm • f/4.5 • 1/800 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 44000 lux EV 14
Bowl
Reflections in a bowl on a summer afternoon.
226 mm • f/5.6 • 1/320 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Thursty
The weather makes thirsty
183 mm • f/5.6 • 1/800 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 34000 lux EV 13.6
July 2022
High Job
Working on a high location of the powerlines from Delfzijl.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/1250 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 54000 lux EV 14.3
HMS
Human Movement Sciences Groningen
35 mm • f/5.6 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 21000 lux EV 12.9
Dark Side of the Sun
Sometimes you can see the Dark Side of the Sun.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/2000 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 86000 lux EV 14.9
Plowing
The plowing has started: many opportunities for the birds.
14 mm • f/5 • 1/2500 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 85000 lux EV 14.9
Winter
I received a winterlandscape from my good friend and artist JD.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/122 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 6700 lux EV 11.3
Bus Station
The new bus station at the UMCG, with plants on the roof.
14 mm • f/1.8 • 1/30 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 66 lux EV 4.6
Field
A field with grain on the "Hooge Land".
14 mm • f/2.8 • 1/400 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 4300 lux EV 10.6
Home
Home with hollyhocks
14 mm • f/2.8 • 1/125 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1300 lux EV 8.9
Remarkable
A remarkable mural just opposite the academy buildingwith a quote that certainly is not by Aletta Jacobs. I was not fitting and still is not. It certainly is not promoting the University of Groningen.
14 mm • f/2.8 • 1/60 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 640 lux EV 7.9
Jat
The text under this head was complete "Ick Kick Noch Int Jat", meaning "I Look Still in the Street". It used to be mounted on a building that closed off the Oude Kijk in't Jatstraat. Presently it is mounted on a building at the corner of the canal.
382 mm • f/5.6 • 1/400 sec. • 5000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 680 lux EV 8
Good
In the summer, life is good as a frog. Sufficient insects to get fat.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/200 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 8600 lux EV 11.6
Rain
The snails enjoy the rain and so do I. Together they make notes on a staff, that's how pleased they are.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/122 sec. • 64 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1700 lux EV 9.3
Cycling On
The design of this sign that you can cycle on is not well considered: the colors suggest that there is a speed limiting ramp, so that you slow down, rather than cycle on.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/121 sec. • 80 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1700 lux EV 9.2
Moon and Jupiter
For the eye, the Moon and Jupiter come close together. In reality that is different.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/80 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 3400 lux EV 10.3
Drone Fly
A drone fly drinks from one of the hundreds of flowers of a daisy.
100 mm • f/5.6 • 1/800 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 68000 lux EV 14.6
Lilly
An orange lilly in contrasty backlight.
100 mm • f/5.6 • 1/800 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 68000 lux EV 14.6
Common Drone Fly
A common drone fly, is not a drone.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/800 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 34000 lux EV 13.6
Posture
The posture on a racing bike is time dependent.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/33 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 73 lux EV 4.7
Lost
Lost in a world that overflows with beauty.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/121 sec. • 64 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2100 lux EV 9.6
Houses
Three magnificent houses in the Kerkstraat in Amsterdam.
14 mm • f/4.5 • 1/3200 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 88000 lux EV 15
De Plug
De Plug, an old guitar shop in Amsterdam, has an incredible collection, of which this is just a small part.
14 mm • f/2.8 • 1/40 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 430 lux EV 7.3
Daisies
Daisies area favourite feeding locations for insects.
14 mm • f/1.8 • 1/6400 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 28000 lux EV 13.3
Finished
For today it is finished
14 mm • f/2.8 • 1/320 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 3400 lux EV 10.3
Wilhelmina
Grain mill Wilhelmina in the evening sun.
14 mm • f/2.8 • 1/2000 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 21000 lux EV 12.9
Cold
During the speeches on this summer evening, it was cold.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/1250 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1400 lux EV 9
Interested
The watercat is not interested in the fish, but wants to swim.
14 mm • f/6.3 • 1/320 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Aan Kaant
A long procession of tractors rides through the city and is not going to be stopped by anything.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/239 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 13000 lux EV 12.2
Groningen
The train from Leeuwarden to Groningen is rather short.
400 mm • f/9 • 1/400 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Rain
Rain under the sunshade.
100 mm • f/4.5 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Change
Change of weather in the sky with mammatus clouds.
35 mm • f/2 • 1/1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5500 lux EV 11
Searching
Looking for a place to live in Groningen. Not so easy at the moment.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/400 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 440 lux EV 7.3
June 2022
Glass Cutter
Just like with many tools, a glass cutter is only a small part of the success of a job.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/164 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4500 lux EV 10.7
Pixels
Pixels are often attributed to the digital age of images, but they have existed for millions of years on the wings of butterflies.
100 mm • f/4 • 1/10 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 440 lux EV 7.3
Street art
Street art by streetartist Judith de Leeuw of a Surinam ballerina that dances her way through a storm of burocratic documents.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/1316 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 36000 lux EV 13.7
Roll Cloud
A roll cloud: remnant of the twister in Zierikzee.
9 mm • f/4 • 1/30 sec. • 250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 520 lux EV 7.6
Catacanthus incarnatus
An insect in the shape of the face of an indian with a pompadour hairdo.
100 mm • f/4 • 1/40 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 1700 lux EV 9.3
Formers
The farmers are in a tight spot and let us know.
24.4 mm • f/4 • 1/100 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 4400 lux EV 10.6
Bat
On a chinese saucer a bat is depicted under a double row of cucumber seeds.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/100 sec. • 50 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1800 lux EV 9.3
Summer
Everyone is more relaxed in this great weather: Summer in the city.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/1170 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 64000 lux EV 14.5
Cool
It's cool under the beech berceau of the Prinsentuin in Groningen on this hot day.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/60 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 170 lux EV 5.9
Midnight
Exactly at midnight on the shortest night of the year we can see that the sky is not quite dark anymore, but due to failure of the street lighting the street was darker than ever.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/2 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1.1 lux EV -1.3
Timeless
Some views in Amsterdam are timeless.
1.5 mm • f/2.4 • 1/291 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 23000 lux EV 13
Nap
He liked to take a nap in the afternoon, but exactly at this spot.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/647 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 18000 lux EV 12.7
Paradiso
The last Paradiso lecture in Amsterdam of the season was about the soul of artificial intelligence.
1.5 mm • f/2.4 • 1/33 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 65 lux EV 4.6
Encounter
An encounter in which both without a sound did not give way.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/80 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 6800 lux EV 11.3
Cold
The airconditioning was set too cold in the restaurant he had eaten, so much was clear.
34 mm • f/4.5 • 1/100 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2800 lux EV 10
Discussion
A short discussioin emerged about the location of the new piece of tape.
19.4 mm • f/4.5 • 1/80 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 4400 lux EV 10.7
Together
Together on the Zeedijk in a different world.
29.1 mm • f/4.5 • 1/80 sec. • 500 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 880 lux EV 8.3
Please
In this picture you can see two things: 1) How high the sun can rise in the Netherlands in the middle of the day 2) That a request (Please do not place bicycles here) does not mean that people feel obliged.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/1447 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 40000 lux EV 13.8
Foal
A foal seeks protection and food from his mother
47 mm • f/4.5 • 1/200 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Vismarkt
The weather was exceptionally nice and it was very busy on the Vismarkt in Groningen
35 mm • f/5.6 • 30 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 2.9 lux EV 0.1
Young
Hij has only recently become a frog and now lives in this great landscape.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/1000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 8800 lux EV 11.7
Pallets
The Pallet factory in Middelstum.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/237 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 6600 lux EV 11.2
Podium
A man does not need a large podium to say a lot without words.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/329 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 18000 lux EV 12.7
Solitary
There are about 300 species of solitary bees in the Netherlands, of which some are only a few millimeter long.
72 mm • f/4.5 • 1/200 sec. • 250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 4400 lux EV 10.7
Silverberry
The scaly hairs of the silverberry.
40 mm • f/4 • 1/80 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 870 lux EV 8.3
Damselflies
Five damselflies in a row.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/122 sec. • 40 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2700 lux EV 9.9
Plates
Nice that they left the old plate in place. When you read it out loud, it is easier to hear it.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/154 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4300 lux EV 10.6
Oostum
From this place de Ploeg painter Johan Dijkstra painted the church of Oostum. The painting is better visible than the church itself.
9 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 21000 lux EV 12.9
Watchtower
Watchtower 701 near Warfhuizen, from where one was looking if the Russians were coming already.
9 mm • f/2.8 • 1/2000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 43000 lux EV 13.9
Remembrance
The remembrance of a beatiful day hangs high in the sky.
23.9 mm • f/4 • 1/80 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2800 lux EV 10
May 2022
Curve
A curve in the canal just after sunset.
23.9 mm • f/4 • 1/80 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2800 lux EV 10
Resistance Tram
The resistance tram in Amsterdam is an initiative of the Resistance Museum
6 mm • f/2 • 1/1597 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 87000 lux EV 15
Unwritten
Always great to have an unwritten book in my house. It is like the unknown future.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/33 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 73 lux EV 4.7
Footprint
Footprint of two large plants.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/50 sec. • 125 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 440 lux EV 7.3
Time Capsule
A little fly in its time capsule in amber that formed on a tree 45 million years ago in the Baltic area.
100 mm • f/4 • 1/80 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 3500 lux EV 10.3
Motion
E small part of an electronic city to measure motion. Every building has its own function.
100 mm • f/4 • 1/80 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 3500 lux EV 10.3
Parijs
Because of the way this word for Paris is written in a Dutch letter in 1896, I get the feeling we may have lost something in handwriting.
100 mm • f/4 • 1/80 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 3500 lux EV 10.3
Delicious
This plant finds a large blowfly delicious and sucks on it for days.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/690 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 19000 lux EV 12.8
Moon atlas
Found a moon atlas I made when I was 14 in a tiny folder with list of abbreviations.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 440 lux EV 7.3
Children
An important goal in the ife of ducks: making children.
72 mm • f/4.5 • 1/320 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 18000 lux EV 12.7
Together apart
In the giant stride, everyone is together and apart, embedded in the motion and emotions. It is like life itself.
72 mm • f/4.5 • 1/200 sec. • 500 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2200 lux EV 9.7
Seahorse
A seahorse in the cappuccino. Now we wait for the Mona Lisa.
17.2 mm • f/4 • 1/100 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 4400 lux EV 10.6
Hat
A hat for an astronomer, it seems to me.
32.1 mm • f/4 • 1/100 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 3500 lux EV 10.3
Fight
A fight unfolded between two males and after that they both started to hunt the only female, who started to scream her head off.
72 mm • f/4.5 • 1/320 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 18000 lux EV 12.7
Old Days
In the old days, this was the floor next to a podium of pop concerts. You can see the traces of burning cigarette buts. So there is some truth in the saying "Everything was worse in the old days"
6 mm • f/2 • 1/25 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 43 lux EV 4
Contemporary
A contemporary image in Amsterdam. A japanese family photographs itself with Amsterdam as backdrop.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/571 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 31000 lux EV 13.5
David Lentink
David Lentink gave an excellent talk in the series Paradiso Lectures on the flight of birds and insects among others. Flying robots that mimic the flight of these animals were used to answer questions on how this works.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/38 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 67 lux EV 4.6
High
High over the Paterswoldsemeer.
21.1 mm • f/5 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Toxic
It looks quite toxic with those fumes, but ofcourse it is all about the kick of the accelerations. It gives a connection.
44.4 mm • f/4.5 • 1/1000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 55000 lux EV 14.3
Black Hole
Today I discovered a black hole in a leaf.
100 mm • f/8 • 1/800 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.24x36mm sensor • handheld 70000 lux EV 14.6
Wild
Wild horses that may use some extra food.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/2000 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 86000 lux EV 14.9
Gran Canaria
The coming and leaving flight from and to Gran Canaria. A good name for that area with 100.000 pairs.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/1250 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 54000 lux EV 14.3
New
New leaves are growing fast on polled trees in the village of Vries.
40.4 mm • f/4.5 • 1/800 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 44000 lux EV 14
Beech
A 200 year old beach with a height of 21 meter and a circumference of 3.5 meter has survived and attach and gives shadow to the garden and a place for the birds.
9 mm • f/4.5 • 1/125 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 6900 lux EV 11.3
Cold
With a northern wind, it became a cold night in May.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/30 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 41 lux EV 3.9
Nine
Quite a responsibility, those nine childeren
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/1250 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 54000 lux EV 14.3
Liberation
The 5th of May, liberation day in Kantens.
19.8 mm • f/4.5 • 1/2000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 111000 lux EV 15.3
Economy
It is clear that in aviation there is even economizing on paint, as can be seen on this Airbus A320-232 of BH-Air. Apart from that, a white airplane has many advantages: better reflection, easier to spot damage, fewer collisions with birds and white paint is lighter and cheaper.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/8000 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 35000 lux EV 13.7
XIII
Sometimes you see the number 13 several times a day. Not a cause to become superstitious, but to think about chances and how we fill patterns.
24.4 mm • f/4.5 • 1/80 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2800 lux EV 10
Smokeboat
It is May, but still quite cold, so that the inhabitants of this boat have lit the woodstove.
38.1 mm • f/4.5 • 1/125 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 4300 lux EV 10.6
Jeanet
Jeanet Metselaar stond op de Suikermarkt in Groningen met haar prachtige zelfgemaakte tassen van theaterbanners. Iedere tas is uniek. (click)
35 mm • f/2.5 • 1/40 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 680 lux EV 8
April 2022
Shostakovich
Renske van Donk played Shostakovich.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/160 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 180 lux EV 6
Empty Spaces
Stefan van der Poel presented a book "Empty Spaces" to the mayor of Groningen, on what happened to the properties of the jews in Groningen during the second world war and after it. For the front cover a photo I made was used, that is filled with symbolism.
35 mm • f/2.5 • 1/40 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 170 lux EV 6
Clearing Away
He could clear it all away again until next year.
135 mm • f/3.2 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 7000 lux EV 11.3
Indian
On the kingsmarket ze sold an old indian, who did not quite agree with that, since they had a lot in common.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/3200 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Kingsnight
Kingsnight was sung in by this lady in Amsterdam on the Zeedijk, who said: "I am now 50 years old, so I will sing two songs and then I will take a break of 50 minutes". She was a good singer!
6 mm • f/2 • 1/100 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 680 lux EV 8
Ringroad
The ringroad in Groningen is being extended.
43.5 mm • f/4.5 • 1/500 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 28000 lux EV 13.3
Florentine
Florentine paper with handmade patterns of ink on water.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 180 lux EV 6
Frisian Tailclock
In the heart of the clock you find the escapement, a wheel with 30 teeth that have been cut asymmetrically and both allows the weight to drop and by that to give a small push at the pendulum to keep it swinging. That is whay the two ticks sound differently and can we speak of "tik-tok"
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/33 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 73 lux EV 4.7
Frisian Tailclock
Despite her age, a frisian tailclock can be regulated to within a few seconds per day error. The fact that the pendulum is enclosed by a case contributes to this succes, because air movements in the room have no influence on its swingtime. The pendulum length is such that the clock makes 3960 pendulum beats per hour, or 66 beats per minute.
16.5 mm • f/4.5 • 1/50 sec. • 3200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 86 lux EV 5
Frisian Tailclock
The frisian tailclock shows a steeple that can not be found between the 150 steeples standing in Friesland and it could be that it is just a steeple in this painting, or that it has been lost since 1970.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/25 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 35 lux EV 3.7
Frisian Tailclock
Found an opportunity to buy a frisian tailclock from 1870, made from elm wood, with moonphases and date.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/60 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 130 lux EV 5.6
Peace
Peace along the Hoornse Diep.
36.7 mm • f/4.5 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Greetings
On the dyke of Noordpolderzijl, you have the widest view of the province. Shame about the sign that's in the way;
200 mm • f/5.6 • 1/1250 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 107000 lux EV 15.3
Middelstum
The moon stood behind the church of Middelstum and was not quite full anymore.
200 mm • f/5.6 • 1/15 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 80 lux EV 4.9
Bastard
The eye and eardrum of a bastard frog (Pelophylax klepton esculentus), en hybrid of a poolfrog and a lakefrog.
100 mm • f/5.6 • 1/2000 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 21000 lux EV 12.9
Cyclingpath
In the north of the province of Groningen, you can find the most beautiful cycling paths.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/2463 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 68000 lux EV 14.6
Clear
This is a good start for a clear night.
135 mm • f/2 • 1/30 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 330 lux EV 6.9
Bats
It will be a great season for bats. Here new space for at least 20 of them.
135 mm • f/2 • 1/50 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 550 lux EV 7.6
Watch it
"Don't get any closer to my wife!"
72 mm • f/4.5 • 1/400 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Peace
Mister does not like to be disturbed when he does his afternoon nap.
41.9 mm • f/4.5 • 1/1600 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 88000 lux EV 15
First One
The first peacock eye I saw this season, nicely contrast by the birch.
72 mm • f/4.5 • 1/1000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 55000 lux EV 14.3
Women
It is clear from this sample that there are too few women among professors. It evokes the question how the selection takes place and in the case women and men differ on average, whether the present situation is disadvantageous for science.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/122 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4200 lux EV 10.6
Rain
Raindrops and a blue sky can be sometimes found close together.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/2967 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 82000 lux EV 14.9
Dry
The raindrops have ben captured by the board.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/121 sec. • 50 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2600 lux EV 9.9
Frisian
A home decorated frisian bicycle
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/122 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3400 lux EV 10.3
Tulip
Haven't seen yet: a tulip in the coffee.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/136 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3800 lux EV 10.4
Showers
Clouds empty themselves over the landscape.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/1043 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 57000 lux EV 14.3
Malachite
The marvelous colour of malachite comes from copper.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/254 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7000 lux EV 11.3
Ammonite
An ammonite consists of logarithmic spirals, because its rate of growth depends on its size.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/228 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 6300 lux EV 11.2
Searchlights
Searchlights on the Grote Markt, that cut through the falling snow.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/8 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 8.8 lux EV 1.7
March 2022
NNE
The north-north-easter storm creates sticky snow on the trees on that side only. Enchanting, but icy cold.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/8 sec. • 1000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7.1 lux EV 1.4
To Play
Playing in the street, frozen in time.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/122 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5300 lux EV 10.9
IJssel
With the train passing accross the IJssel, always a great view.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/302 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 16000 lux EV 12.6
Colours
Suddenly you see these colour together often. In this case, it is not an expression of support.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/1776 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 97000 lux EV 15.1
Embarrassing
Quite embarrassing for a masterpiece.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/562 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 16000 lux EV 12.5
Gas
On NAM location Bedum labour continues at night.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/5 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 14 lux EV 2.3
Warm
A warm house in the cold mist of the night.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/2 sec. • 2000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 0.9 lux EV -1.6
Spawn
A frog drifts inconspicuously between the future children.
72 mm • f/4.5 • 1/200 sec. • 1250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 880 lux EV 8.3
Thursty
Thursty from cycling, a stop in ZuidLaren, where the trees still need to make new leaves.
1.5 mm • f/2.4 • 1/799 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 63000 lux EV 14.5
Moving
A jacket that seems to move even when no one is wearing it.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 140 lux EV 5.7
Alticom Tower
The Alticom Tower in the South of Amsterdam is filled with antennas.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/592 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 32000 lux EV 13.5
Earth Quakes
The earthe quakes are noticable on the Hooge Land here in Westerdijkshorn.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/4 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5.5 lux EV 1
Orion
Orion over the Hoogeland.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/2 sec. • 2000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 0.9 lux EV -1.6
Full Moon
The steeple of Westerdijkshorn under the full moon
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/2 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4.4 lux EV 0.7
Sahara
Sand from the Sahara landed in Groningen last night. Under the microscope, the particles appear to have different colours, at a size of 0.01 to 0.05 mm. That really flies.
10 mm • f/10 • 1/60 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 2000 lux EV 9.6
Ducks
Ducks are very good flyers. At the up beat of the wings during lift off, the feathers rotate, so that the air passes easily. At the down stroke they close into a single sheet.
135 mm • f/4 • 1/1250 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 27000 lux EV 13.3
Voting advice?
Could this pencil contain a hidden voting advice in its colour? It is not green, not orange, not purple, not blue, but red.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 88 lux EV 5
Ready
Ready fot the new season.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/60 sec. • 250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 260 lux EV 6.6
Stickers
A popular place for stickers, here over the Cold Hole in Groningen.
13 mm • f/4 • 1/40 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1100 lux EV 8.6
Gasthuis
The Sint Geertruidsgasthuis in Groningen was founded in 1405
48.8 mm • f/4.5 • 1/160 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 550 lux EV 7.7
Nature
If you don't use something, it gets taken back by nature.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/121 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1100 lux EV 8.6
Duh Haag
Duh Haag is still there, but the Haagse toren is since long not the principal landmark. Haagse Harry took over, accross the the place where the Zeiss Planetarium was located
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/3984 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 110000 lux EV 15.3
Radio Service Twente
Radio Service Twente in The Hague is still in business. When I was a kid, I bought valves here to repair old radio's to sell them in order to finance our experiments.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/223 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 6200 lux EV 11.1
Wrapped
Right behind the railway station of Leiden a building was placed that looks like a a parking place for NS trains.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/358 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 20000 lux EV 12.8
Tree
A remarkable tree on a narrow strip of land in the Zuidlaardermeer.
72 mm • f/4.5 • 1/640 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 35000 lux EV 13.7
Gale
A gale over the Zuidlaardermeer is great for kitesurfers.
72 mm • f/4.5 • 1/800 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 44000 lux EV 14
Sea
A sea of crocuses in the middle of the city of Groningen.
18.6 mm • f/4.5 • 1/125 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 6900 lux EV 11.3
Changing
Changing weather is a lot more interesting than a clear blue sky.
9 mm • f/4.5 • 1/2000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 111000 lux EV 15.3
Rerserved
The landscape is reserved before it explodes into spring.
72 mm • f/4.5 • 1/1250 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 69000 lux EV 14.6
Cycling
In Drenthe you can cycle through the wide landscape.
72 mm • f/4.5 • 1/640 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 35000 lux EV 13.7
Temperature
Temperature of the handle keeps doable when the water boils.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/122 sec. • 50 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2200 lux EV 9.6
February 2022
New Pans
After 30 years, time for new cooking pans
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/100 sec. • 64 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1400 lux EV 9
Somewhere
Somewhere over the rainbow.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/500 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 27000 lux EV 13.3
Black and White
This image shows that in the early spring light almost all colours can disappear, making Amsterdam look like a city from a long time ago.
36 mm • f/4.5 • 1/800 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 44000 lux EV 14
Groningen Mindset
The mindset of the Groninger in one image: a black field with disappearing light over it and few words
32.7 mm • f/4.5 • 1/100 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 3500 lux EV 10.3
Sleeping jellyfish
A lamp like a sleeping jellyfish
32.1 mm • f/4.5 • 1/100 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 690 lux EV 8
Fell over
Traces of the storm in Amsterdam.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/4 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4.4 lux EV 0.7
Amsterdam
Amsterdam on a cold spring evening is starting to open up
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/8 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11 lux EV 2
Rain
Rain in Lelystad
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/108 sec. • 125 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 760 lux EV 8.1
Correct
This symbol for a football is correct: pentagons and hexagons to cover a sphere. This in contrast with the symbol on Britisch boards, that consists of only hexagons. ( (click) )
6 mm • f/2 • 1/786 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 43000 lux EV 13.9
Cold
The water is so cold that the bicycles climb out of it by themselves.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/121 sec. • 64 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1700 lux EV 9.3
Victim
One of the manyy victims of Eunice, the strongest storm in 30 years. But the trees that are still standing have handled forces that will make the wood stronger at the wind and slate sides and so will be better equipped to handle a new storm.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/1193 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 33000 lux EV 13.6
Storm
More victims of the storm.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/4 sec. • 4000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 0.9 lux EV -1.6
Storm
A storm is raging through the city and you can see it everywhere.
1.5 mm • f/2.4 • 1/122 sec. • 64 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3000 lux EV 10.1
Bag
A bag and envelop made by my friend Jeanet (click).
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/8 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 14 lux EV 2.4
Bees Wax
Sometimes a table needs to be bee waxed.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/121 sec. • 40 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3300 lux EV 10.2
Bob
Found it again while tidying up. She is called Bob.
135 mm • f/4 • 1/160 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 870 lux EV 8.3
Magnificent
The magnificent clock and carillon of Middelstum.
135 mm • f/9 • 1/1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 111000 lux EV 15.3
House
An attractive house in Middelstum
135 mm • f/9 • 1/800 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 88000 lux EV 15
Wet
To cycle long distances through the rain demands good clothing.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/25 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 28 lux EV 3.3
Present
A magnificent present from by best friend.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/33 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 73 lux EV 4.7
Beautiful
Sometimes thins in everyday life can be beautiful.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/29 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 40 lux EV 3.9
Regulations
The regulations in the academy building are shown by Eric.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/60 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 110 lux EV 5.3
Concentration
Concentration after a posed questions.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/33 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 56 lux EV 4.4
Castle
That castle wants to get away there, that is obvious!
1.5 mm • f/2.4 • 1/122 sec. • 80 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2400 lux EV 9.8
Wild Plassen
This gull is going to pay!
72 mm • f/4.5 • 1/200 sec. • 250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 4400 lux EV 10.7
Westertoren
The Westertoren has been an orientation point since long.
45.2 mm • f/4.5 • 1/125 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5500 lux EV 11
Optics
Wonderful how the glass types, the curvatures and distances between the lens elements produce the best possible image in the camera.
60 mm • f/4.5 • 1/200 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 690 lux EV 8
Companion
A Gentleman's Companion
36 mm • f/4.5 • 1/100 sec. • 6400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 86 lux EV 5
January 2022
Chess
Chess in the Max Euweplein can be done at small and large scale.
46.1 mm • f/4.5 • 1/160 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2200 lux EV 9.7
Knights
Knights can not hurt each other when they stand this close to each other.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/33 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 73 lux EV 4.7
Eggs
This is how you stack eggs without breaking them.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/400 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1800 lux EV 9.3
Chapter
He is thinking about his next chapter.
330 mm • f/5.6 • 1/400 sec. • 1250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2700 lux EV 10
Cold
When it is cold, they huddle together.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/1776 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 97000 lux EV 15.1
Better Times
There is an optimistic atmosphere in town: here in restaurant "Better Times"
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/160 sec. • 1250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 110 lux EV 5.4
Terraces
The terraces are full close to 22:00 in Groningen at a temperature of 5°C.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/25 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 28 lux EV 3.3
Life
Life grows where you don't expect it anymore. Crocuses of a very long time ago.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/160 sec. • 5000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 28 lux EV 3.4
Statues
Two little statues sitting in the windowsill.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/25 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 35 lux EV 3.7
Garlic
Garlic by the basket.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/160 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 180 lux EV 6
Salmon
Salmon chops on the market. Delicious
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/2000 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 8800 lux EV 11.7
Goad tracks
These path of drops on a car remind me of goat tracks in the mountains. Over there it has to do with differences in height, here with differences in velocity
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/60 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 330 lux EV 6.9
To Pull?
Is it to Pull or to Push?
6 mm • f/2 • 1/121 sec. • 125 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1100 lux EV 8.6
Empty
An empty train speeds through the landscape of Groningen. Patiently I wait in the rain.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/20 sec. • 1000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 18 lux EV 2.7
Stroll
The evenings are still quiet in Groningen
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/160 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 88 lux EV 5
Light
The light comes from everywhere. What has been hanging from this beam in the past?
135 mm • f/2 • 1/160 sec. • 3200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 55 lux EV 4.3
Chesshouse
A house to play chess in.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/160 sec. • 8000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 18 lux EV 2.7
Tracks
Train tracks in the night make me long for travel.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/160 sec. • 6400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 22 lux EV 3
Delivery
Delivery to the home generates many new jobs.
135 mm • f/2 • 1/160 sec. • 5000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 35 lux EV 3.7
Passage
It is clear the cracks can have a passage through whole bricks.
72 mm • f/4.5 • 1/200 sec. • 1000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1100 lux EV 8.7
Market
Alway fresh vegetables and cheerfull people.
9 mm • f/4 • 1/30 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 820 lux EV 8.2
Waiting
A horse waiting on his knoll until he is free again: that's me!
256 mm • f/5.6 • 1/1250 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 54000 lux EV 14.3
Folkingestraat
Th Folkingestraat early in the morning. On the facade of the Huis de Beursa memorial stone for founding the "Sociaal Demokratische Bond" in 1885 in this building. From the reflections you can see that the window pane of the second house after de Beurs is rotated a bit.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/5236 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 145000 lux EV 15.7
Wheel
The wheel of a wire winch I have always found beautiful with its curved spokes: the movement has been designed into it.
41.1 mm • f/4.5 • 1/125 sec. • 1000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 690 lux EV 8
Isis
The bookstore Isis presents a nice way to look from the store out, even when you are outside.
9 mm • f/4.5 • 1/30 sec. • 500 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 330 lux EV 6.9
Seafarer
One seafarer spotted an other one.
17.9 mm • f/4.5 • 1/50 sec. • 1000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 280 lux EV 6.7
Dot
The Dot is disguised again as christmas ball with different colors from last year.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/8 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 8.8 lux EV 1.7
Lost
Black just played Q-e7 and wants to press the clock, but knows he has lost.
15.6 mm • f/4 • 1/50 sec. • 500 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 440 lux EV 7.3
Wintrack III
The new Wintrack III masts have been placed for 4 380 kV power lines from the Eemshaven.
30.3 mm • f/4 • 1/1000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 44000 lux EV 14
Winter
When there is no ice, you can always go for a row in the winter.
100 mm • f/4.5 • 1/125 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 3500 lux EV 10.3
Webcam
There is a webcam attached to a pretty old buidling on the Grote Markt in Groningen The inset above is made with it and it shows me in the right lower corner to wish you all an excellent 2022.
72 mm • f/4.5 • 1/200 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2800 lux EV 10
December 2021
Playfull
A payfull brick building in the Herestraat in Groningen.
72 mm • f/4.5 • 1/200 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2800 lux EV 10
Machine
The dragon of Saint George in Groningen is depicted as a mschine. That was truly visionary.
10.2 mm • f/4 • 1/30 sec. • 250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 520 lux EV 7.6
Domino
A domino effect of bicycles
11.1 mm • f/4 • 1/30 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1300 lux EV 8.9
Slippery
A toad is trying to find his way over the melting ice, but keeps slipping away.
72 mm • f/4.5 • 1/50 sec. • 2000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 140 lux EV 5.7
Cold
When you have been bred like this, it is cold at night in winter.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/160 sec. • 2500 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 57 lux EV 4.4
Crystals
Lang icecrystals grow on a dormant plant.
400 mm • f/13 • 1/400 sec. • 10000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1800 lux EV 9.4
East
The wind turned from south to north-east on christmas day, which could be seen on the ice.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/133 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3700 lux EV 10.4
Chess
Thinking about a game of chess during diner.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 88 lux EV 5
Scaffolding Mill
Under the high scaffolding mill of Kantens, the "Grote Geert"
112 mm • f/13 • 1/125 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.4
Reed
Reed near Kantens at nice clear winter weather.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/978 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 53000 lux EV 14.3
Waiting
Waiting for five quarters of an hour in the queue for the booster vaccination with an appointment. It was a cold evening under the full moon. It does not get any better
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/8 sec. • 1000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7.1 lux EV 1.4
Air
This old birch got his white color from a thin layer of air enclosed between two cell layers in the bark.
140 mm • f/6.3 • 1/320 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Great Egret
A great Egret is looking for snacks.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/800 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 34000 lux EV 13.6
Sun
When you pull the shape of the sun through the shape of two square window panes under tension, you get this.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 21000 lux EV 12.9
Oliebollen
Gouki is well in time this year with his oliebollen in Zuidlaren.
1.5 mm • f/2.4 • 1/122 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7700 lux EV 11.5
Christmas
Christmas is coming, they feel it in Westerdijkshorn.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/4 sec. • 1000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3.5 lux EV 0.4
Gitane
A vintage bicycle from the seventies of the french brand Gitane. With those dents, the function is limited, but the pump is still in place.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/100 sec. • 64 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1700 lux EV 9.3
Philosophy
"Short Philosophy of the perfect Human" is offered by this inhabitant. What would that mean?
6 mm • f/2 • 1/100 sec. • 64 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1700 lux EV 9.3
Holiday on Ice
Holiday on ice on the Museumplein
1.5 mm • f/2.4 • 1/121 sec. • 80 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2400 lux EV 9.8
Max Euwe
The Max Euwe Plein is empty.
1.5 mm • f/2.4 • 1/50 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 160 lux EV 5.8
In the Morning
In the morning when the moon is at it's rest.
25.7 mm • f/6.3 • 1/2000 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 173000 lux EV 16
Mood
Middelstum is alreay in Christmas mood under the stars with Moon and Jupiter
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/4 sec. • 2500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1.4 lux EV -0.9
Wing
A single wing of a large windmill needs a very long truck for transportation.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/157 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4300 lux EV 10.6
Greasy
Greasy car windows show a party effect.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/30 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 51 lux EV 4.2
Squat
You can see it is getting time for squatting again, it has been a couple of weeks.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 125 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 350 lux EV 7
White Precipitation
The paradox of white precipitation is that it announces itself with a dark sky.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/2283 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 125000 lux EV 15.5
Packet
Saint Nicolas brings a packet with a high-tech vehicle.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 220 lux EV 6.3
To sit
To sit, to ride or both.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/121 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1100 lux EV 8.6
Book
Bert presents a book.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 80 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • by hand 550 lux EV 7.7
Public Works
The movie "Public Works" is about this narrow house around which the Victoria Hotel was built. The owner was too steadfast to sell it.
1.5 mm • f/2.4 • 1/122 sec. • 50 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3800 lux EV 10.5
Rain
A rainy day in November shows that there are 2 colors of glass used here.
55.7 mm • f/4.5 • 1/160 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5500 lux EV 11
November 2021
Vermeer
To drink coffee in a painting of Vermeer.
1.5 mm • f/2.4 • 1/50 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 160 lux EV 5.8
PoCGTFO
The International Journal of Proof-of-Concept or Get The Fuck Out is a celebrated magazine of reverse engineering, retro-computing, and systems internals.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 80 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 550 lux EV 7.7
Sailing Ship
On a dutch coin from 2016, the mint master's mark from Kees Bruinsma is placed: a sailing ship with a fivepointed star. You can see it next to the W of Willem on the photograph of yesterday.
10 mm • f/8 • 1/40 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 1700 lux EV 9.3
Underexposed
He is underexposed due to digital paying methods.
100 mm • f/8 • 1 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 44 lux EV 4
Twigs
Twigs break through the stem.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 280 lux EV 6.7
Demonstration
In Goningnen the NPCN organized a very limited demonstration.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/14 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 9.9 lux EV 1.9
Clock
An incredibly beautiful and complex clock in the Curatorenroom in the academy building of the university of Groningen.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 110 lux EV 5.3
Bicycles
Bicycles come in different models and funtions.
29.1 mm • f/4 • 1/100 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 4400 lux EV 10.6
Elnath
Elnath, the second star of Taurus in brightness, is standing over the steeple of Westerdijkshorn, backlit bij the almost full moon.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/2 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2.8 lux EV 0
Rainbow
A rainbow over a farm near Middelstum.
29.1 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Orkest
A brass orchestra in Onderdendam, at the arrival of Sint Nicolaas.
33.3 mm • f/4 • 1/100 sec. • 1250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 350 lux EV 7
Waag
The Waag in Leeuwarden is fairytale like.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/8 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 14 lux EV 2.4
Prison
And suddenly close to 20:00 you are facing a prison door.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/25 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 28 lux EV 3.3
Experiment
At an experiment with a BMW R 1200 RT motorcycle, it appears that the frontwheel loses contact over quite a distance when riding over a broad strip.
10.6 mm • f/5 • 1/2000 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 8500 lux EV 11.6
Silent
It was silent in the streets. Because of the regulations, but also because of the qualification for the World Championship.
35 mm • f/1.4 • 1/4 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5.4 lux EV 1
3 gezusters
The s is back in the 3 sisters, brighter than before.
35 mm • f/8 • 1 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 44 lux EV 4
Noorderhaven
The Noorderhaven on a cold November evening.
35 mm • f/1.4 • 1.6 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 0.8 lux EV -1.7
Cold
Pretty cold so high, but you have a nice view.
72 mm • f/4.5 • 1/400 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Sea
A sea of bicycles as far as the eye can reach on the Grote Markt in Groningen
1.5 mm • f/2.4 • 1/25 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 25 lux EV 3.2
Party
It is the 11th of the 11th, let's go party!
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/160 sec. • 2000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 71 lux EV 4.7
Energy
The energy of a 92 kg mass with a velocity of 64 km/h is being absorbed by an airbag with a size of 10x10x3 meter. The air that is contained weighs 366 kg en is being moved in a fraction of a second over several meters.
9 mm • f/4.5 • 1/125 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 6900 lux EV 11.3
Experiment
An experiment with a big airbag to catch a falling human. The weight of 92 kg was realsed from heights up to 20 meter above the ground. Our sensors were attached to the weight to establish the peaks and duration of the forces applied to the mass.
10.8 mm • f/4.5 • 1/125 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 6900 lux EV 11.3
Noordwolde
Noordwolde in the low autumn sun.
72 mm • f/4.5 • 1/200 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 8800 lux EV 11.7
Color
This image shows that the color of coffee (at a strong western wind) can be almost the same as that of beech wood.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 280 lux EV 6.7
Lover
A lover of old cars sits very satisfied behind the wheel of his automobile.
21.1 mm • f/4 • 1/400 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Corvus
Members of the Corvus family are always interested in shiny and bright coloured objects.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/160 sec. • 500 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 280 lux EV 6.7
To Grow
To grow is nice, but never even talk nonsense out of your shoes.
9 mm • f/4.5 • 1/30 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 410 lux EV 7.2
Experiment
An experiment with accelerations of a mass.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 110 lux EV 5.3
Pattern
These little flowers are wheels to make stitching patterns in a fifties Knittax knitting machine.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 110 lux EV 5.3
Also Amsterdam
Amsterdam has many faces. This is also Amsterdam, the Sophialaan, south of Vondelpark
9 mm • f/4.5 • 1/640 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 35000 lux EV 13.7
October 2021
Meal
A great egret expects to score a meal so close to those cows.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/1600 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 8800 lux EV 11.7
Walking
Drinking while walking is not easy since the head accelerates forward with every push off. But even that is handled by adapting the push off phase, so that the coffee does not drip over the jacket. Also the way the lips are set over the rim of the cup is chosen deeper, to limit the movements of the fluid.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/160 sec. • 640 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 220 lux EV 6.3
Robot
A robot to serve drinks. That saves a lot of real estate in floor area.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/8 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 14 lux EV 2.4
Light
Light through glass remains fascinating
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 440 lux EV 7.3
Exam
This is what it looks like when you do an exam at university. A hall with 600 computers.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 125 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 350 lux EV 7
Hooge Land
HIgh on the Hooge Land, the skyline looks like this. A lot of space and tranquility. (I'd better get back to town!)
9 mm • f/4.5 • 1/60 sec. • 1250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 270 lux EV 6.6
Nightrider
Nightriding on a bicycle is such a pleasure. Those sents, the eyes of wild animals an that starry sky.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/15 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 33 lux EV 3.6
Appropriate
Appropriately they dismount, the riders, for this primal force.
49.7 mm • f/4.5 • 1/500 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 28000 lux EV 13.3
Heavy
Student life is heavy. The coxswain does a little nap and the rest is asking themselves why they were pulling through last night.
72 mm • f/4.5 • 1/500 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 28000 lux EV 13.3
Garden Spider
A garden spider feels with her legs if a new meal has flown into her web.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/20 sec. • 1000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 18 lux EV 2.7
Rain
The amount of rain that fell in one week. If this would go on, the amount would be 6 meter rain per year, but in reality it is about 88 cm.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/122 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3400 lux EV 10.3
Egyption Goose
An Egyption Goose is not a goose, but a duck, and is so called that because the Egyptians made many illustrations of it.
72 mm • f/4.5 • 1/200 sec. • 250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 4400 lux EV 10.7
Glass
The riddle of 31st of August is solved. The contents of the bottles was the same: 75 cl, but the glass of the larger bottle is 480 grammes heavier, which makes it look like a liter bottle.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/25 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 35 lux EV 3.7
Believable
It does not become more believable when the recomendations on an identical product is changed.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/25 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 35 lux EV 3.7
Mating
When grown up, the males and the queens of the nest leave to mate with wasps from other colonies. They do this to avoid incest. The male dies shortly after mating.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/312 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 8600 lux EV 11.6
Balloon War
A balloon war was started in the street
35 mm • f/1.4 • 1/40 sec. • 1000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 21 lux EV 3
Urban Junge
The Urban Jungle of higher education.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/25 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 44 lux EV 4
Coordination
Movement coordination is not easy, especially between people and between groups of people.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/750 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 21000 lux EV 12.9
Regulations
Regulations for bicycle traffic in Amsterdam is interpretated with a wide margin.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/122 sec. • 64 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1700 lux EV 9.3
Autumn
Autumn can now be seen everywhere.
72 mm • f/4.5 • 1/200 sec. • 320 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 3500 lux EV 10.3
Circles
Time and space in the shape of circles. Because the wavelets always travel at the same speed, you can see the post in the sizes of the circles.
72 mm • f/4.5 • 1/200 sec. • 500 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2200 lux EV 9.7
Rogers Kibet
Rogers Kibet wins the 4 miles of Groningen 2021.
29.7 mm • f/4 • 1/3200 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 35000 lux EV 13.6
4miles4you
This evening they already covered the 4 miles of Groningen at walking pace. The ladies clearly had more fun than the gentlemen.
35 mm • f/1.4 • 1/160 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 54 lux EV 4.3
Shark teeth
Shark teeth on the road have largerly lost their meaning for young cyclists, quickly generating confusing situations.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/606 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Other worlds
We live in the same city Groningen, yet we live in different worlds.
19.8 mm • f/4 • 1/30 sec. • 6400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 20 lux EV 2.9
Autumn
The leaves are turning, it gets colder.
9 mm • f/3.2 • 1/320 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 8900 lux EV 11.7
Conversation
A ladybird sat on mij trousers to have a good conversation.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/122 sec. • 64 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1700 lux EV 9.3
Light
Insects often go for the light.
72 mm • f/4.5 • 1/200 sec. • 250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 4400 lux EV 10.7
Chimney
A chimney with a crack between the bricks.
72 mm • f/4.5 • 1/200 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 6900 lux EV 11.3
Martjesmarkt
This kind of establishment, you only find in small villages in Groningen.
9 mm • f/3.2 • 1/640 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 18000 lux EV 12.7
Cracks
Lately I'm fascinated by crack propagation that start somewhere. Here in the old Castle of Middelstum.
29.7 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
September 2021
To Pull
There was a time the women were pulling ships.
20.3 mm • f/4 • 1/640 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 28000 lux EV 13.3
Onions
The onions come from the field and you can smell them.
60 mm • f/4.5 • 1/400 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Child
A new child has grown on the large cactus.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/60 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 170 lux EV 5.9
Bending
To test a computer simulation of bending of a metal pipe, I perform an experiment with e pipe that is supported on a single point, loaded with a mass of 21 kg at the end.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/33 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 73 lux EV 4.7
Whisk
A whisk consists of metal wires that heve a natural change in curvature and stress distribution that can be fully understoon with visualisation.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 88 lux EV 5
Saturday
Saturday morning the man with his barrel organ is going to town, joined by a large groep of cyclists.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/25 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • uit de hand 35 lux EV 3.7
Brown
You could think that brown is for earth or ground, but in this case it is the most dangerouw lead of the 3 and ground is yellow-green.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/25 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 35 lux EV 3.7
Manual
A handbook of the mean, printed by a publisher of car handbooks.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/25 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 35 lux EV 3.7
A moment
For a moment it is still summer and you can dip your feet in the Paterwoldsemeer.
370 mm • f/5.6 • 1/2500 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 27000 lux EV 13.3
Museumsquare
One of the magical places in Amsterdam: The Museumsquare.
23.4 mm • f/4 • 1/80 sec. • 2500 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 140 lux EV 5.7
Reading
An older woman reading a book.
43.5 mm • f/5 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Books
That's me twice: receiving books and giving books
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/616 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Jupiter
The moon has passed Jupiter, but the latter is zo bright that she pierces through the clouds.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/8 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5.7 lux EV 1.1
Grand Theatre
The night life is starting again with the moon watching.
32.7 mm • f/5 • 1/100 sec. • 2000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 340 lux EV 7
Moon and Jupiter
The landscape is quiet with the Moon and Jupiter above.
33.3 mm • f/5 • 1/100 sec. • 6400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 110 lux EV 5.3
Cleaned
Cleaned up is tidy, but not everyone agrees.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/114 sec. • 40 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3100 lux EV 10.2
Drowning
At the beginning of the 13th year of this 365 PhotoBlog, a bee was about to drown in the pond, but was saved in time.
67.2 mm • f/4.5 • 1/200 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5500 lux EV 11
Soft Rushes
Soft Rushes on the shore
20.3 mm • f/4 • 1/6400 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 280000 lux EV 16.6
Flight
A flight of geese. Flying at that speed and stil able to scream.
259 mm • f/5.6 • 1/5000 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 54000 lux EV 14.3
Leacing the City
Sometimes you simply have to leave the city
169 mm • f/6.3 • 1/3200 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 43000 lux EV 14
Harvest
The harvest is nearly done. And that is good, since more rain is expected.
12.2 mm • f/3.5 • 1/40 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1100 lux EV 8.6
Helper Mill
The Helper Mill at sunset.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/1712 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 93000 lux EV 15.1
Couple
A couple reflects on the day.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/582 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 16000 lux EV 12.5
Bright
Nice bright Indian summer. Nice to be outside.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/1135 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 31000 lux EV 13.5
Bugatti 35B
An early Bugatti 35B with an engine power of 140 hp and a top speed of 215 km/h
21.1 mm • f/4 • 1/500 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Amilcar
Max Verstappen won today on Zandvoort at the Grand Prix. A long history of racing cars contains for instance this car, an Amilcar CGS from 1923. The engine power is 30 hp and the top speed 120 km/h. The power of a modern Formula I car is about 1000 hp, so more than 30 times as much, but the top speed is only slightly more than 3 times as much. And that has a lot to do with air resistance. When you want to go 3x as fast, you need 3x3x3=27 times the power, which is well in agreement with the factor of 30 mentioned above.
21.1 mm • f/4 • 1/500 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Low Budget
A low budget wedding in classical style on a tandem.
34.6 mm • f/4 • 1/200 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 8700 lux EV 11.6
Wind
For windsurfing you need wind, but in this way it is also quite relaxing.
200 mm • f/5.6 • 1/8000 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 86000 lux EV 14.9
Boundary Stone
Again I passed this old boundary stone of the city of Groningen. This time a small purple flower from an onion grew above it.
19.4 mm • f/4 • 1/60 sec. • 2000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 130 lux EV 5.6
Stuck
And so the ladies got stuck between a bicycle stand and the wall with their rental. They only wanted to make a U-turn. Opening the garage door gave some more room, but it is still hard when you only got your drivers license in a normal sedan.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/106 sec. • 125 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 750 lux EV 8.1
August 2021
75 cl
It is hard te believe that both bottles contain 75 cl of wine. The small bottle comes from Chili, the large one from the south of Italy. When they are empty we can measure whether the Chilian bottle gave us less wine or the Italian one more than indicated. In theory it is possible that both contain 75 cl since the thickness of the glass can play a role.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/36 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 50 lux EV 4.2
Holy Oxter
Odourless, effective for under the armpits and home made.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 180 lux EV 6
Roaring
Men on roaring motor bikes and roaring lions have a lot in common. How will it be in the future when all motor bikes have become electric. Whispering lions?
6 mm • f/2 • 1/1497 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 82000 lux EV 14.9
Noorderrondrit
The Noorderrondrit has been organized again with 7 riders over 150 km. The wind was fierce, but it remained dry.
28.5 mm • f/4 • 1/500 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Ekestein
A kind of chapel of castel Ekestein, now used as a restaurant.
1.5 mm • f/2.4 • 1/294 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 23000 lux EV 13
Dopamine
Dopamine, the hormone that rises when a reward is in sight, drops quickly when the reward has been achieved. After that it is just hard work. The same mechanism is active in men.
39.6 mm • f/4 • 1/2000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 87000 lux EV 15
Tulip Island
The Tulip Island in the Vondelpark in Amsterdam breathes tranquility.
34.6 mm • f/4 • 1/1250 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 55000 lux EV 14.3
Nicolas
The Nicolas Church in Amsterdam at the end of a truly beautiful summer day.
34.6 mm • f/4 • 1/1250 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 55000 lux EV 14.3
Hip
A hip cyclist with an oldskool bicycle of at leat 40 years old.
31.5 mm • f/4 • 1/500 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Bowls
Bowls for Poke Bowl are more beautiful when not perfectly round.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/25 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 44 lux EV 4
Nazca Lines
After the harvest a field looks like this from an altitude of 100 meter: the Nazca lines of Doodstil.
10.3 mm • f/2.8 • 1/30 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 640 lux EV 7.9
Schipmeer
The Schipmeer in Norg was lke a mirror on an evening without wind.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/400 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 440 lux EV 7.3
Selected
Only a small part is selected to remain standing.
72 mm • f/5 • 1/160 sec. • 6400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 170 lux EV 6
Kantens
The waxing moon over Kantens on a cool summer evening.
72 mm • f/5 • 1/500 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 34000 lux EV 13.6
Diving flight
A red bat in diving flight with its thumbnails extended and its ears wide open.
135 mm • f/8 • 1/60 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2600 lux EV 9.9
Manually
Although much is done with machines in the agriculture, there is still a lot of work done manually.
39.6 mm • f/5 • 1/1600 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 109000 lux EV 15.3
14
14 times the sun shown through holes in the venetian blinds. The sun is low over the horizon already earlier.
72 mm • f/5 • 1/200 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 850 lux EV 8.3
Bedum
Entrance to an estate in Bedum. No problems with noise from the neighbours here.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/3690 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 201000 lux EV 16.2
Holiday
Holiday in your own country: the magnificent city of Utrecht
52.6 mm • f/5 • 1/160 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 6800 lux EV 11.3
Yawner
A yawner at the facade of a drugstore. These you only find in the Low Countries and are based on the helper of the travelling medicine man. He would stick his tongue out and when he did not die from a pill that was place on the tongue, you could trust the travelling medicine man.
67.2 mm • f/5 • 1/500 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 34000 lux EV 13.6
Entertainer
A born entertainer dances in a sunny Utrecht.
67.2 mm • f/5 • 1/500 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 34000 lux EV 13.6
Shopping
These gentlemen have done their shoppings. The bicycles are very comparable, their styles of riding certainly not.
32.1 mm • f/5 • 1/800 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • by hand 6800 lux EV 11.3
Dead
The last person that pressed my doorbell has killed this ant that lived in it and so my bell did not work anymore. I discovered this when I tried to find out why the bell was dead.
100 mm • f/8 • 1/50 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 10000 lux EV 11.9
Whitebottom
Recorded this whitebottom in flight, looking for the last fresh flowers.
46.1 mm • f/4.5 • 1/2500 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Change
And again the weather changes around sunset. Lightning hangs in the air.
31.5 mm • f/4 • 1/1000 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5500 lux EV 11
Common noctule
The common noctule. With the bat-detector (click) I could hear him come very flight cycle. Time between the frames 1/16 sec.
85 mm • f/9 • 1/2 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 220 lux EV 6.3
Zakynthos
A flight from Airport Groningen to Greece.
72 mm • f/4.5 • 1/1250 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 69000 lux EV 14.6
Space
It is possible to park a bicycle, while saving space.
20.7 mm • f/4 • 1/60 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1600 lux EV 9.2
Accident
It looks worse than it was: an accident with beet juice.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 140 lux EV 5.7
Step
They did not walk in each others step, but further were clearly well atuned.
72 mm • f/4.5 • 1/400 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5500 lux EV 11
Drop
A balloon filled with water looks a lot like a single falling drop.
72 mm • f/4.5 • 1/2000 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • with tripod 6900 lux EV 11.3
July 2021
Zwartendijksterschans
The Zwartendijksterschans, an entrenchment from the Eighty Years' War, constructed in 1594.
10.26 mm • f/2.8 • 1/160 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4 mm sensor • without tripod 3400 lux EV 10.3
Lonelier?
Did we become lonelier? Or more aware? Or both?
72 mm • f/4.5 • 1/200 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 690 lux EV 8
Blue
A Peugeot 304 coupé in baby blue, built in 1972.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/1287 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 36000 lux EV 13.7
Museum
Tourists are back in Amsterdam. The light here is quite exceptional.
9 mm • f/4.5 • 1/30 sec. • 1250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 130 lux EV 5.6
Back
Tourists are back in Amsterdam.
72 mm • f/4.5 • 1/200 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 8800 lux EV 11.7
Moving
Large parts of the day preditors do not move: they sleep or sit still.
166 mm • f/5.6 • 1/800 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 43000 lux EV 13.9
1 second
One second of flighttime of a basketball: the higher, the slower.
27.4 mm • f/4 • 1/80 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 870 lux EV 8.3
Straw
This Atalanta looks a bit staringly from her compound eyes while she sucks the honey through her proboscis like it is a straw.
394 mm • f/5.6 • 1/400 sec. • 640 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5400 lux EV 10.9
Daisy
It's always nice on a daisy.
327 mm • f/5.6 • 1/2000 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 107000 lux EV 15.3
Stop the Tests
A demonstration of students against testing on the Grote Markt in Groningen.
400 mm • f/7.1 • 1/400 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 3400 lux EV 10.3
Stinking Willie
Stinking Willie is poisonous for cattle and so they stay well clear of it.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/4348 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 190000 lux EV 16.1
Pareidolia
Pareidolia, the phenomenon that we see faces in everyday objects. It signifies something about us as social beings.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 88 lux EV 5
Blue
The Norfolk Damselfly posed as attractive as possible with a big blue eyes.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/320 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Dream Flight
A dreamflight over the province of Groningen.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/957 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 26000 lux EV 13.2
Planet
The moon is ascending over planet Olie S.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/505 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 28000 lux EV 13.3
Suddenly
Suddenly he was sitting there with his magnificient shape and form. No idea what species it is, but I was glad he had to rest for a while.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/215 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5900 lux EV 11.1
Pollen
Pollen of the red hollyhock. Individual pollen can not be seen with the naked eye, but here we see that they are like cogs in a mechanism.
10 mm • f/4 • 1/50 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 550 lux EV 7.6
Favo
My favorit hex set is color coded, so that you know what to grab.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 110 lux EV 5.3
Water Lily
In the old days this plant was a symbol of chastity because of its bright white flowers.
135 mm • f/3.5 • 1/640 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 13000 lux EV 12.3
Party
Groningen celebrates because it is the corona capital of Europe (or is it the other way around?). The Netherlands shows the highest increase in cases of Europe per million inhabitants and Groningen is the winner.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/122 sec. • 50 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2700 lux EV 9.9
Penalty
A frog can use it's legs differently to choose the direction of the jump. It looks like the technique used by a goal keeper during a penalty.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/4000 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Soft Shoulder
"Soft Shoulder" is a warning for car drivers, but an invitation for tired cyclists.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/1546 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 84000 lux EV 14.9
Tongue
This happens when you throw a small leaf to a frog: he launches his sticky tongue to it, because he has much success in catching insects this way.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/4000 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Snuggling
Snuggling, also called spooning.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 180 lux EV 6
Owns the Street
Although he has a bitten ear, he owns the street and won't move when you want to pass by.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/347 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 19000 lux EV 12.8
Corner
He looks around the corner.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 125 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 350 lux EV 7
Magnifying glasses
Drops of rain are magnifying glasses.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/122 sec. • 64 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1700 lux EV 9.3
Water
All floating mass on water is equal to the mass of the displaced water, according to Archimedes. And so the water will rise. If that is temporarily, we call it a wave, like in front of a boat in motion.
400 mm • f/14 • 1/400 sec. • 640 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 33000 lux EV 13.6
Fields of Gold
We'll walk in fields of gold.
135 mm • f/14 • 1/160 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 43000 lux EV 13.9
Summer
Summer! I drink the fragrances and hear the colors.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/1898 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 52000 lux EV 14.2
Mit Gewalt
This is how a bicycle mechanic opens a jammed jar: Mit Gewalt!
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 140 lux EV 5.7
June 2021
Hunch
Sometimes I have a hunch that my work and private life are not sufficiently separated.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/100 sec. • 80 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1100 lux EV 8.7
Optimistic
The optimistic sixties.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/60 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 130 lux EV 5.6
Inspection
The crop is being inspected thoroughly with 4 eyes.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/1546 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 84000 lux EV 14.9
Friendly
The friendly railway in the evening light.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/3200 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 18000 lux EV 12.7
MINELLI
The backside of a very old crane of the brand Minelli. The company still exists.
135 mm • f/13 • 1/160 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 37000 lux EV 13.7
Harkstede
The entrance to the church in Harkstede is really beautiful. It invites to writing stories.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/400 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Grain
During the Noorderrondrit, you can see that the grain has a golden colour.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/1845 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 101000 lux EV 15.2
Lather
Lather under high magnification (from left to right 6 mm).
100 mm • f/5.6 • 1/80 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 4300 lux EV 10.6
Phase
This little toad (about 12mm long) is in the transformation phase from tail animal to quadruped. Programmed cell death (apoptosis) removes the tail.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/320 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1800 lux EV 9.3
First One
The first hollyhock flower has unfolded and is being visited by a chessboard ladybug.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/206 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5700 lux EV 11
Eyes on Stalks
This garden snail has eyes on stalks which is pretty handy, but they don't see very much. The other stalks that are places lower are for feeling the surface they move on.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/711 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 20000 lux EV 12.8
Book
The proof is ready of the book that we wrote with 13 authors. I have typeset the book in LaTeX. 700 books will be produced in the first print.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/60 sec. • 125 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 420 lux EV 7.3
Code
The code every flower of white foxglove is unique. So how do bees interpret this?
100 mm • f/11 • 1/640 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 13000 lux EV 12.2
Sunrise
The sun is rising again over the harbour, slightly flattened by the optical refraction of the atmosphere.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/8000 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 428000 lux EV 17.3
Paradox
The paradox of a film crew.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/786 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 43000 lux EV 13.9
Old in New
Old Amsterdam reflected in the new Amsterdam
6 mm • f/2 • 1/135 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7400 lux EV 11.4
Graffiti
Near the railway, like here in Groningen, you often find great graffiti, since no people live across and yet you still get an audience passing by.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/1776 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 97000 lux EV 15.1
London
I really miss that city, London, especially on this bike.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/33 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 58 lux EV 4.4
Bumblebee
A tiny bumblebee is enjoying the nectar.
135 mm • f/4.5 • 1/1000 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Mangrove
The mangrove forest of Kropswolde.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/122 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5300 lux EV 10.9
Bite
The moon took a bite out of the sun and that lasted for more than 2 ours. Here a mount of frames with 5 minutes in between and here a movie with 1 minute between the frames click
2030 mm • f/10 • 1/1000 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 68000 lux EV 14.6
Never
I never leave without this home bringer.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 220 lux EV 6.3
ISS Transit
The International Space Station passes in front of the sun on the Hoogeland. Here "the making of": click and here a detail click
2030 mm • f/10 • 1/2000 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 68000 lux EV 14.6
Playground
A playground for ants.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/2755 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 76000 lux EV 14.8
Solarfinder
A homemade solar finder to aim the telescope at the sun. A small hole at the front gives an image of the sun exactly behind the black dot. In that case the telescope is correctly aimed at the sun and a photograph can be taken. Next thursday there will be a partial solar eclipse.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/513 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Nearsighted
After observer riders of the Felyx electric rental scooters in the city of Groningen, I can only conclude that they are near-sighted. Only on their smartphone they have things in focus. Or perhaps it is part of our time frame that we have created together.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/60 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 110 lux EV 5.3
Crane Fly
A crane fly contrasts nicely against the blue plaid. Those bulbs behind the wings are halteres that move in antiphase relative to the wings and used to be wings. Now they serve as sensors: as soon as the insect rolls during flight, there is a difference between the right and left bulbs due to the movement, which is why the insect can fly at an angle, which is in constrast with dragon flies, wich have 4 wings.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/40 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 71 lux EV 4.7
Made it
Made it: a mathematical model of 13 joined soap surfaces finds the same minimum as in the experiment. The middle square is 21.4% of the side of the cube, which fits the experiment. Also the curvatures of the boundaries match. The method that is used is to make the sum of the principal curvatures zero at every point in the surfaces. That also provides the minimum surface area of the surfaces, just like the real soap films do due to surface tension.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/2625 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 73000 lux EV 14.7
Rawhide
Rawhide at a distance of about 12 km from the city of Groningen
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/2625 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 73000 lux EV 14.7
Repair
The windmill in Kropswolde (with the flour from which you can bake delicious bread) gets new blades.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/1712 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 93000 lux EV 15.1
May 2021
Dragonfly
A dragonfly moves its winpairs in antiphase during flight.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/347 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 9600 lux EV 11.8
Elegant
He cast his eye on her elegant appearance, but she acted as though she was quite unaware of it.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/2000 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 43000 lux EV 13.9
Right of Way
For cyclists it is not always clear in Groningen who has a right of way, especially on the yellow brick roads. But some eye contact brings you a long way.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/117 sec. • 125 ISO • 24.5mm sensor • handheld 830 lux EV 8.2
Snack
Although frogs eat snails and this frog was at least 25 cm long including the legs, she left the snail in peace.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/117 sec. • 125 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 830 lux EV 8.2
Promise
A promise of a sea of color: the hollyhock has been sprinting the last few days.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/122 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3400 lux EV 10.3
Wet
A wet cloud descends over the city of Groningen.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/121 sec. • 40 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3300 lux EV 10.2
Wisteria
In the bend of the Groote Kromme Elleboog a Wisteria is showing off.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/957 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 26000 lux EV 13.2
Nosy
White cows can be very nosy en so are posing nicely under a changing sky.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/400 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Storm
A storm in a glass of water. The color indicates the thickness of the soap film. When it is gray, it is thinner than the wavelength of the visible light, which is about 0.4 micron. That is the place where the film will break.
100 mm • f/11 • 1/30 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 620 lux EV 7.8
Something in Return
He likes to do something in return for his room and board en brings a mouse. When he sees that we rather deep fry stomething else, he eats the mouse anyway.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 220 lux EV 6.3
Action
In Kantens there is some modest action taken against the present policy.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/724 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 20000 lux EV 12.8
Bird
When you look up, you expect to see birds, but this one is really big!
100 mm • f/5 • 1/320 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
International Space Station
The International Space Station transit in the direction of the moon. Here 1.8 seconds recorded with in the top right a magnifcation and top left a model of the ISS in the same orientation. The distance was 775 km.
2050 mm • f/10 • 1/2000 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 34000 lux EV 13.6
Soap films
A set of soap films hanging in a wire cube minimize the total surface area. If you assume that the surfaces are planer, the square in the middle would be 7.3 % of the side of the cube according to my calculations. In this experiment it is about 21%. The difference is due toe the fact that the surfaces are not planar as can be seen in the image: the contact lines are curved. The square in the middle has curved sides because of this. The key to improved calculations comes from the Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau: the surfaces meet at an angle of 120°.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/98 sec. • 125 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 690 lux EV 8
Procession
A procession on the way to the defense of a thesis looks like this nowadays.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/50 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 110 lux EV 5.3
Unity
When they are not fighting, these chickens form a unity. Looking for food and always attentivel.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/124 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 6800 lux EV 11.3
Shelf Cloud
A shelf cloud on my way home over Middelstum. There was 60 mm of precipitation per hour. Just keep cycling!
1.5 mm • f/2.4 • 1/122 sec. • 50 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3800 lux EV 10.5
Italy
A school panel for geography in Italy. There are holes to place labels with names on in. And at this time this is handy to follow the Giro d'Italia.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/76 sec. • 80 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1000 lux EV 8.6
2822 and 2823
The sunspots are returning after the dip of 2020. Here spots 2822 (top one) and 2823.
2050 mm • f/10 • 1/400 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 68000 lux EV 14.6
Copper
The church in Onderdendam was built in 1932 in the style of the Amsterdamse School. It has a copper roof that must have shown its magnificent warm color during the opening. Now we only see the colors of the two forms of copper oxide.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/400 sec. • 320 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 11.9
Mount
Made a mount for the MIG torch, because else it is in the way or on the ground.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 125 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 350 lux EV 7
The Past
Wouldn't it be great if you could photograph with this camera the past at a certain place, but only if you looked through that colorful shade. It has to be black-and-wite, but you could make a whole reportage of an important event.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/33 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 58 lux EV 4.4
Sun
With MIG welding you get the sun in your house: the temperature of the arc is the same as the surface of the sun: 5500 °C. Those straight lines are glowing molten droplets of steel that are hurled away at 150 km/h, but due to their low mass and aerodynamics get only a few centimeter from the welding place.
100 mm • f/11 • 1/8000 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 2643000 lux EV 19.9
Lamp Shade
The frame of the lamp shade is ready. Of the original design, the standing bars in the middle could be left out, since the frame is sufficiently stiff. Next the fabric and then it is ready.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 80 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 550 lux EV 7.7
Bergenia Cordifolia
The color of this plant changes quite a bit, so it seems, when it gets darker.
100 mm • f/5 • 1/125 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 5300 lux EV 10.9
Little Elephant
When we were young we did not look at our screens, but looked at what we could see in the clouds. Clearly this is a jumping happy little elephant.
135 mm • f/5 • 1/4000 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 171000 lux EV 15.9
Welding
Acceptable MIG welding of 4 mm thick rods holds no secrets for me anymore. Next stop is that lampshade.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/60 sec. • 125 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 420 lux EV 7.3
Blossom
Groningen is blossoming
135 mm • f/2 • 1/8000 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
99%
99% of the work is covered by the design and the fixation at the right angles and distances of the welding piece.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 220 lux EV 6.3
Handy
Very handy those welding helmets with automatic shutter.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/20 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 55 lux EV 4.3
Siliciumcarbide
Siliciumcarbide is an extremely hard material that you can use for grinding. From left to right 1.5 mm
25 mm • f/6 • 1/25 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 610 lux EV 7.8
April 2021
To Breathe
A Backswimmer does the backstroke and breathes by keeping the tube out of the abdomen above the water.
100 mm • f/11 • 1/3200 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 66000 lux EV 14.6
Flattening
While early this morning I could still run over the beach in the street with my pool float around my waist, it is now being flattened, while being oberserved approvingly.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/500 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 4400 lux EV 10.7
Milk container
A milk container of respectable age.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/151 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 8000 lux EV 11.5
Peckish
Bertha is hungry, because since she is broody, she does not eat enough. But she is tame enough so that she eats from your hand. When the hand is empt she attacks it.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/1063 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 29000 lux EV 13.4
Supermaan
The moon is closest the the earth and it is full moon today, so a supermoon.
135 mm • f/3.5 • 1/2 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 8.4 lux EV 1.6
Shortsighted
Sunset forf shortsighted people: it removes unnecessary details.
135 mm • f/3.5 • 1/500 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2100 lux EV 9.6
Cannibal
Frogs are known to become cannibals sometimes.
100 mm • f/11 • 1/400 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Noordwolde
The sun sets like a cap behind the beautiful tower of Noordwolde.
135 mm • f/3.5 • 1/1250 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5200 lux EV 10.9
Bertha
Portrait of Bertha. Se is broody and ready to attack anyone or anything or lets herself be stroked, depending on the way her crest is falling.
100 mm • f/5.6 • 1/500 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 5400 lux EV 10.9
Apennines
The Apennines are also on the moon. Beautiful under this light. These mountains were formed in a few minutes by an enormous impact.
2035 mm • f/10 • 1/800 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 27000 lux EV 13.3
Hondsrug
And next one wondered just how high the hondrug really is. En while that question was on everyones lips, the power was cut.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/592 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 32000 lux EV 13.5
Hondsrug
The Hondrug (Dog's back) is being revealed under the city of Groningen
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/400 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 8600 lux EV 11.6
Theophilus
The crater with the highest central mountain is Theophilus, the other two adjacent ones are Catharina and Cyrillus. The landingplace of Apollo 11 was exactly on the diagonal in this iimage on the division between light and dark at 3/4 upper right.
2010 mm • f/10 • 1/80 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 5500 lux EV 11
Shovelers
A group shovelers find what they need in the shalow watter with their long and broad bills.
560 mm • f/8 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 44000 lux EV 14
Where
Where are the other two sisters?
6 mm • f/2 • 1/50 sec. • 64 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 850 lux EV 8.3
Zipped Up
The exhibition "Unizpped" is zipped up until 2023. That is really long term corona planning!
6 mm • f/2 • 1/141 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7700 lux EV 11.5
Ring Lock
A ring lock is not sufficient to prevent dumping of your Union bicycle in the moat.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1400 lux EV 9
2 minutes
2 minutes of hail and the streets are white.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/444 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 12000 lux EV 12.1
Hail
Hail stones during falling and on the ground show that they sometimes have the shape of mushrooms or pyramids.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/2000 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 1100 lux EV 8.7
In Construction
A greenhouse in construction will have to wait for better weather.
35 mm • f/8 • 1/400 sec. • 50 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 140000 lux EV 15.6
Homeward
Homeward bound, with the glowing sun in my back.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/49 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 87 lux EV 5
Vitamine D
Vitamin D crystals
10 mm • f/4 • 1/6 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 260 lux EV 6.6
EU
Microscopic image of letters on a 10 euro note in the shiny stripe.
10 mm • f/4 • 1/6 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 260 lux EV 6.6
Magnolia
Every year she explodes into bloom at the start of April
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/160 sec. • 500 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 280 lux EV 6.7
April
In april fierce hail is hitting the tulips.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/49 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 87 lux EV 5
Encounter
Sometimes a short encounter leads to a remaining fusion with new outgrowths as a result.
135 mm • f/5 • 1/30 sec. • 1000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 200 lux EV 6.2
Easter Breakfast
Home made easter breakfast. In the end it is only about love.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 140 lux EV 5.7
Moody
"What do you want?" Cleary a morning mood.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/1000 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5400 lux EV 10.9
Industrial
Since the industrial revolution we do not need to move mountains ourselves.
135 mm • f/3.5 • 1/160 sec. • 640 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 840 lux EV 8.3
Gastrulation
When you observe carefully you can see that lighter flaps are overgrowing the dark egg. When these flaps touch each other the gastrulation is complete: the frog has an inside and an outside.
100 mm • f/8 • 1/60 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 6600 lux EV 11.2
March 2021
Lecture
A teacher gives a lecture in a course on evolution and culture.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/100 sec. • 64 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1400 lux EV 9
Transformation
A non-linear transformation of my house.
400 mm • f/8 • 1/400 sec. • 1250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5600 lux EV 11
Warffum
Along the Trekweg near Doodstil, you can see Warffum with the setting sun. Layers of cooler air over the fields produce ripples along the rim of the sun.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/2000 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 107000 lux EV 15.3
Paper
Fibers in a sheet of white paper in polarized light.
10 mm • f/4 • 1/15 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 330 lux EV 6.9
Polyhedron
A polyhedron in the city, but without the faces.
135 mm • f/3.5 • 1/160 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1300 lux EV 8.9
Stereo
Filming in stereo in 5.2k (2x16 Mpix)
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/25 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 35 lux EV 3.7
Tasman
A cartoon on a stone, left on a bench. Here the cormorants have space.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/125 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3500 lux EV 10.3
Found
A cartoon on a stone, left on a bench
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/125 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3500 lux EV 10.3
The Shop
Gallery The Shop on the Achterweg in Onderdendam indicates it is open.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/160 sec. • 2000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 71 lux EV 4.7
Ginkgo
On this young Ginkgo Biloba a curry coloured lichen has settled with cups.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/160 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 880 lux EV 8.3
Italian
Italian style balconies along the Hereweg in Groningen.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/720 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 39000 lux EV 13.8
Sober
A defense of a thesis in times of corona is a sober affair. But fortunately the full commitee is persent online, speaking kind words.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/35 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 60 lux EV 4.5
Geese
Very high above the city and illuminated from below by the orange street lamps flew 7 geese. You can see the wingbeats as small extensions at the line of flight during 1 second. The moon crescent is completely blown out so that you can see the dark side of the moon, illuminated by the earth.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 0.6 lux EV -2.3
Prettiest
She was the prettiest and so she loved to be in the middle of attention.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/6400 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 3500 lux EV 10.3
1 Times
This red pencil has been used only once to fill in one small circle.
100 mm • f/11 • 1/40 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 830 lux EV 8.2
IJssel
The IJssel was cold and huge.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/280 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 15000 lux EV 12.5
Color
When this happens, it is not so strange to ask the question what color the children will get. That has nothing to do with racism, but is a just curiosity.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/120 sec. • 125 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1000 lux EV 8.6
Image Simplest Telescope
This is the image through the simplest telescope consisting of two glass spheres. There are 3 problems: 1) The lines are not straight (spherical abberation) 2) There are colors that shoulld not be there (chromatic aberration) and 3) The image is up side down. All 3 problems can be solved, but it took some while since 1608 before they were solved.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/100 sec. • 50 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1800 lux EV 9.3
Simplest Telescope
The simplest telescope was invented in the Netherlands by 3 opticiens in 1608. This is an example of the simplest telescope you can make. A larger front lens with a longer focal length and a smaller lens as eyepiece with a shorter forcal length. The magnification is the focal lengths divided by each other, in this case exactly 2x. The great advantage of such a large front lens is the ability to capture much more light than the human eye.
135 mm • f/11 • 1/6 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 120 lux EV 5.5
Harbour
An ampty harbour in Uithuizen.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/381 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 21000 lux EV 12.9
Turbulance
An image of a turbulance that will never repeat itself.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/800 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 4300 lux EV 10.6
Black Holes
A nice model of two black holes that circle around each other, these two Gyrinus natator and their ripples.
345 mm • f/5.6 • 1/800 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 4300 lux EV 10.6
Cargo
When I have to move cargo in the city of Groningen, this is how I do it. Quicker and easy to park. The trailer is built for two milk cans for a farmer and can easily hold 150 kg.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/121 sec. • 64 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1700 lux EV 9.3
Coordination
Coordination of such a vehicle is only possible when it becomes an extension of yourself.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/99 sec. • 80 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1400 lux EV 9
Rain
Rain on the empty highway, the North of Groningen. The weather improves.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/396 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Pedestrian
The Nieuwe Boteringestraat has very wide pavements, but without climbing gear it is quite impossible to pass.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/18 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 120 lux EV 5.5
Delfzijl
Sometimes Delfzijl seems a long way to go
6 mm • f/2 • 1/17 sec. • 1000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 19 lux EV 2.8
1 years
A full year on a single twig.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/160 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 710 lux EV 8
Midgets
Midgets in flight have encounters and join each other for flight
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/1000 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 550 lux EV 7.7
Mars and Pleiades
Mars and the Pleiades with blue fluff around the largest stars
135 mm • f/1.8 • 60 sec. • §600 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 0 lux EV -8.2
Close together
Sometimes strangling and pure love are very close together.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/25 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 55 lux EV 4.3
February 2021
Misty
Misty at Westerdijkshorn at the rising moon.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/25 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 55 lux EV 4.3
Full Moon
Full moon over the windmill of Onderdendam, where you can (could) eat very well.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/100 sec. • 12800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 6.9 lux EV 1.3
Pattern
Many patterns in nature follow mathematical formulas.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/200 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1100 lux EV 8.7
Babs
Babs observes while the laundry is taken from the rotary clothesline: rain is expected tonight.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/160 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 710 lux EV 8
Pain
Strange how looking at this can cause pain when you love bicycles.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/100 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 55 lux EV 4.3
White-fronted geese
White-fronted geese stay the winter in the Netherlands and love to fly together. They don't scream as much as other geese.
400 mm • f/6.3 • 1/500 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 34000 lux EV 13.6
Peace
The landscape breathes peace, 3 hours before curfew.
342 mm • f/7.1 • 1/8000 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 688000 lux EV 17.9
Spring
Also the primal cattle feel it: spring is in the air.
112 mm • f/4.5 • 1/3200 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 111000 lux EV 15.3
Hazel
These male flowers of the Hazel created a cork screw.
100 mm • f/11 • 1/160 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 6600 lux EV 11.2
Wounds
In contrast with the human body, houses do not repair their own wounds and so repair is necessary. A resemblence however, is that it gets stronger than it was.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/288 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 8000 lux EV 11.5
Links
Sometimes it is a day to wear cufflinks.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/33 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 46 lux EV 4.1
Okaphone
Okaphone is a brand of the firm Oscar Keip from the Turftorenstraat in Groningen. They built radio's already 100 years ago, that looked like old pieces of furnature and were simple to use.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/50 sec. • 125 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 440 lux EV 7.3
Together
With recreational activies you see a lot of couples in the public arena.
339 mm • f/5.6 • 1/3200 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 171000 lux EV 15.9
Paterswoldsemeer
A beloved place for the inhabitants of Groningen to to skating. Jus like a painting of Averkamp
100 mm • f/4.5 • 1/3200 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 111000 lux EV 15.3
Black Ice
Black and very thick ice in Groningen on a quiet lake.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/147 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 8000 lux EV 11.5
Encounter
A short encounter between two moorhens on the melting ice.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/400 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Fun on Ice
Fun on ice at the Iceclub "Forward" in Zandeweer, established in 1933
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/8000 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 4400 lux EV 10.7
Tracks
Tracks in the snow. One has to eat.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/1199 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 65000 lux EV 14.5
Tracks
Bicycle tracks in the snow betray that the front wheel covers more distance than the back wheel. This is due to the balance of the rider and the way the bicycle is built. If the back wheel would turn against the direction of the front wheel when turning the handlebar, the wheels would cover the same distance and you would only see one track. (identifying the track of the back wheel is easy: it overwrites that of the frontwheel, unless the rider was going backwards, which is highly unlikely)
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/5000 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Lockdown
With the snow the Lockdown becomes very litteral.
35 mm • f/1.4 • 1/8 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 11 lux EV 2
Drifting
Just like sand dunes, snowdues are formed by the wind and they appeart to move.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/2000 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 4400 lux EV 10.7
Fierce
A fierce blizzard but in the Netherlands in that case we go against the wind with a passenger at the back on a bicycle uphill.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/2000 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 4400 lux EV 10.7
To Run
To run aimless with a nice stick. Nothing human is strange to a dog.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/1250 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 690 lux EV 8
Pencil sharpener
The smallest pencil point sharpener I have ever used.
100 mm • f/11 • 1/30 sec. • 8000 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 120 lux EV 5.5
Proud
A proud doctoral candidate with her parents. A thesis on how the human knee works.
35 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1400 lux EV 9
Orthoceras
A small part of the shell of an extinct nautilus, an Ortoceras, contains a glistering crystal.
100 mm • f/11 • 1/50 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 10000 lux EV 11.9
Snowflake
Inside a snowflake
100 mm • f/11 • 1/50 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 10000 lux EV 11.9
Straight
Is it me or are there more and more straight faces everywhere?
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 280 lux EV 6.7
January 2021
Fast Mice
That's why those mice are so fast: they have eaten my stash of powerbars!
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 440 lux EV 7.3
Wind
The wind is driving the white beast under the onlooking full moon
35 mm • f/1.4 • 1/80 sec. • 6400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 6.7 lux EV 1.3
Numbered
To my amazement every bottle is numbered on the crown cork
100 mm • f/11• 6 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 14 lux EV 2.3
Nice
Nice: a freshly cut pencil for the courser lines in life.
100 mm • f/11• 6 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 14 lux EV 2.3
Eccentric
In times of corona my eccentricity is increasing
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 180 lux EV 6
Snow
Fresh snow. Te colour white comes from reflections in ice-air surfaces. Molten snow is not white because there is no air in it anymore.
100 mm • f/5.6• 1/800 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • by hand 4300 lux EV 10.6
Hoarfrost
This morning hoarfrost over Groningen
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/60 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 130 lux EV 5.6
Winterair
The cold air of winter.
100 mm • f/2.8 • 1/500 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 670 lux EV 7.9
She came from the Lake
A bit late, the newyear plunge, but she did it anyway.
100 mm • f/2.8 • 1/500 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 670 lux EV 7.9
Millions
Millions of years packed in a stone.
100 mm • f/2.8 • 1/125 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 170 lux EV 5.9
Kermit
Kermit hasn't had any hugs for quite some time, that's obvioous
100 mm • f/2.8 • 1/125 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 170 lux EV 5.9
Spring
She is quit convincing: spring is coming.
100 mm • f/2.8 • 1/50 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 67 lux EV 4.6
Fresh Yeast
Sometimes you just need fresh yeast to bak high breads
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/25 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 28 lux EV 3.3
Cats Eyes
That is how the Vismarkt looks like through the eyes of a cat at night: 8x more sensitive than hours and only sensitive to yellow and blue.
35 mm • f/2.8 • 20 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1.1 lux EV -1.4
Terrace Houses
Terrace houses along the Trekvaart
6 mm • f/2 • 1/121 sec. • 125 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1100 lux EV 8.6
Bicycle
The children had drawn a bicycle in the first snow and I had drawn the floor under it with my bicycle.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/30 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 41 lux EV 3.9
Big Dipper
The Big Dipper had just the right orientation You can see that every star has its own color.
35 mm • f/1.4 • 30 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 0.1 lux EV -4.9
Rainbow
Always nice to see that a rainbow has more clarity inside the bow.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/277 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 15000 lux EV 12.4
Hail
A fierce hail shower over the Groningen fields.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/749 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 41000 lux EV 13.9
World
A world
6 mm • f/2 • 1/33 sec. • 125 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 290 lux EV 6.7
Train
An empty train races through the Groningen landscape according to schedule.
312 mm • f/5.6 • 1/1250 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 67000 lux EV 14.6
Bubbles
The bubbles stay in the foot longer. Too nice to empty the glass instantly.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/25 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 35 lux EV 3.7
Mathematics
Even in the kitchen you can find mathematics, in this case a surface consisting of a deformed matrix of intersecting lines.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/25 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 44 lux EV 4
No wind
There was no wind at the station.
35 mm • f/2.8 • 1/8 sec. • 640 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 27 lux EV 3.3
The End
This is clearly the end of the holidays.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/50 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 340 lux EV 7
Model
A model of a bicycle with rider on the roof. You can also do that with 54 equations of motion.
135 mm • f/2.5 • 1/10 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 85 lux EV 5
Museum
The wall of the Groninger Museum is reflected in the water of the Verbindingskanaal.
135 mm • f/3.5 • 6 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2.8 lux EV 0
Deserted
The center of town is mostly deserted at night.
35 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1.6667 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 36 lux EV 3.7
Attentive
My chicken Bertha looks inside attentively
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/122 sec. • 50 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2200 lux EV 9.6
Pudd1ngFabr1ek
The Pudd1ngFabr1ek, a factory of allure.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/2.5 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 2.8 lux EV 0
Path
In 2021 my path is covered again with science. Curious to see how far I will come.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 88 lux EV 5
December 2020
Fireworks
The moon gives the most beautiful fireworks in the sky this year.
212 mm • f/5.6 • 1/60 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 320 lux EV 6.9
Rhizopus
Two sporangia of rhizopus, a fungus that grows on fruit. From these sporangia, new spores emerge that can easily distribute.
10 mm • f/2.8 • 1/400 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 8600 lux EV 11.6
Skating Rink
The skating rink of Zandeweer has been flooded. Now it just needs to start freezing.
10.3 mm • f/2.8 • 1/400 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 8600 lux EV 11.6
Wilhelmina
Grain windmill Wilhelmina has been decorated for the holidays, while Mars and the Moon are watching.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/4 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5.5 lux EV 1
Forum
Also from the roof of the Forum, the bundles enter the sky, up to the clouds.
35 mm • f/1.4 • 1/125 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 42 lux EV 3.9
KW37
This fishing boat from Katwijk was built in 1935 and is called the jannetje Grietje.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/506 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Lichen
A curry green lichen on the wall of the Prinsentuin shows where repairs were performed. Since the seventies the levels of lead in these lichens have gone down to less than 10% what they were, due to sticter rules against pollution.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/121 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1100 lux EV 8.6
Burning up
This year is burning up at high rate. And with optimism I think next year will be better.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/60 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 110 lux EV 5.3
Bundles
To cheer us up, the city councel has placed moving light bundles over the city.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/2 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2.2 lux EV -0.3
Jantje
The Jantje is waiting for sailing days.
35 mm • f/1.4 • 1/8 sec. • 500 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 8.6 lux EV 1.6
Shortest Day
Today the shortest day of the year. Groningen is looking in the direction of light again.
10.3 mm • f/2.8 • 1/80 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1700 lux EV 9.3
Empty
The streets are empty, but the shippers have applied their christmas lighting again.
1.5 mm • f/2.4 • 1/17 sec. • 2000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 13 lux EV 2.3
Mars
Mars was standing exactly over the old watertower in town, of which only two exis in this type of construction. A long time ago it was for sale for 1 guilder and so I wanted to start a tiny research center in it.
35 mm • f/1.4 • 1/8 sec. • 640 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 6.7 lux EV 1.3
The Dance
The Moon, Jupiter and Saturn perform a dance in the restless sky over the Hoogeland. In the subimage you can see the rings of Saturn, her moon Titan and the moons Callisto, Io and Europa from upper left to bottom right around Jupiter. Still four days to go for the closest approach of the planets for our eyes.
247 mm • f/5.6 • 1/40 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 210 lux EV 6.3
Curved
The reflections of the lantern lights are curved in the water. It is not only beautiful, but also has an explanation: the wind blows the wavelets under different angles from close by to further away.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/3.3333 sec. • 1000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2.9 lux EV 0.1
Dark
With "Central Park in the Dark" by Charles Ives on myhead, I walk through the moist winter night and I see a sad and a happy tree just next to each other.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/100 sec. • 12800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 6.9 lux EV 1.3
Lockdown
Lockdown was approaching, so it became very busy in the street, while the UMCG was properly lit with sunlight.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/122 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 6700 lux EV 11.3
Closing
Croissant Pigalle will be closing for some time.
85 mm • f/5.6 • 1/100 sec. • 6400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 130 lux EV 5.6
Light
An elderly lady on a tricycle in heavy traffic, assuming she will be seen, finds her way.
85 mm • f/5.6 • 1/100 sec. • 6400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 130 lux EV 5.6
Conductor
Here another detail of the orchestra. She on the mint green plateau with the dark hair we have known very well. Here in heaven the role of conductor suits here as well as before.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/25 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 44 lux EV 4
Orchestra
An orchestra from the Ore Mountains in former East Germany. The organ plays the music from the sheet on it. Only one figurine does not belong in this scene.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/25 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 44 lux EV 4
Christmas decoration
The bell tower in Westerdijkshorn is decorated for christmas.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/2 sec. • 2500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 0.7 lux EV -1.9
Dot
The virtual reality center the Dot in reflection as christmas bauble.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/8 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11 lux EV 2
New Church
The New Church in Groningen is not so new anymore: it was built in 1660. But everything is relative.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/2 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3.5 lux EV 0.4
Waiting
Waiting for a passing ship on a dark december morning.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/279 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 15000 lux EV 12.4
Strange
Strange these bore holes. They have to do with the lightning conductor of the palace on the the Dam. But they have not been placed back in their original places.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/121 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1300 lux EV 8.9
2000
He asked 2000 euro for this stuffed scarlet ibis. Although a red coat fits this day, I passed the offer.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 64 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 690 lux EV 8
Red
A red ship in Amsterdam under a severe sky.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/122 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5300 lux EV 10.9
Second Hand
A second hand bookshop in Houwerzijl. That architecture is quite common in small villages in the North of Groningen.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/5025 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 139000 lux EV 15.6
Breaking up
Time to break up the market stand, it is five o'clock and already dark.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/33 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 72 lux EV 4.7
Curves
The landscape in Groningen is not always straight, especially where the natural course of a stream makes the fields adjust to the curves.
100 mm • f/5.6 • 1/800 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 43000 lux EV 13.9
November 2020
Breede
The church of Breede was built around 1400 from monastery blocks en was renewed completely in 1850.
181 mm • f/5.6 • 1/2500 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 134000 lux EV 15.6
Gossiping Ladies
It was clear that these two ladies were gossiping about me.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/500 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 27000 lux EV 13.3
Box
Cats like to sit in a box, because that way they are covered from all sides against unexpected attackers.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/25 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 35 lux EV 3.7
Take-off
Within 1/50 of a second they take off, the great its, straight or rotating with asymmetrical wingbeat.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/2000 sec. • 3200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 550 lux EV 7.7
Mood
The mood in the city is going in the direction of christmas and I rarther like the illumination on this narrow cycling bridge.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/25 sec. • 1000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 27 lux EV 3.3
Mars and the Moon
Mars and the moon meet in the sky in the constellation Pisces. The star in the upper left is epsilon in that constellation, so the fifth star in brightness.
135 mm • f/22 • 5 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 17 lux EV 2.6
Attentive
When a great tit eats, he checks whether it's safe.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/320 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1800 lux EV 9.3
Food
Now that it get's colder it is nice for the great tits to be fed.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/160 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1700 lux EV 9.3
Fochteloërveen
The silence of the Fochteloërveen in autumn.
35 mm • f/5.6 • 1/1250 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 67000 lux EV 14.6
Groningen
Coming back to the city of Groningen, the moon showed itself partly.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/20 sec. • 3200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5.5 lux EV 1
Gandolfi
A Gandolfi Variant camera, made in London on commision, for 8x10 inch image size, has many adjustment options for composition and focus that have been lost in modern camera's. When you combine this with modern Rodentock optics, the richness of the image content is amazing.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 110 lux EV 5.3
Kantens
The village Kantens after sunset.
100 mm • f/7.1 • 1/100 sec. • 1250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1100 lux EV 8.7
Drentsche Diep
A very beautiful landscape has been preserverd around the Drentsche Diep.
102 mm • f/5 • 1/3200 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 137000 lux EV 15.6
Impression
This impression did not fail to impress me.
560 mm • f/8 • 1/500 sec. • 12800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 680 lux EV 8
You talkin' to me?
He looked at me without a single movement as though he was saying "You talkin' to me?"
241 mm • f/5.6 • 1/400 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 21000 lux EV 12.9
Zuidlaardermeer
Early in the morning it is very quiet at the Zuidlaardermeer.
100 mm • f/5 • 1/8000 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 341000 lux EV 16.9
Cucumber
Cross section of the stem of a cucumber in polarized light.
40 mm • f/5 • 1/60 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 4100 lux EV 10.6
Motorneuron
A motorneuron activates a part of a muscle and is located in your spinal cord. The extensions receive information from other neurons.
4 mm • f/5 • 1/60 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 4100 lux EV 10.6
Feather
Under the microscope you can see how a light feather makes a plane under which air can be captured.
16 mm • f/5 • 1/60 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 4100 lux EV 10.6
Geometry
A study in light and geometry
35 mm • f/1.4 • 1/10 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 54 lux EV 4.3
Apocalypse
Sometimes the world seems to have gone through an apocalypse: people who close themselves off with masks and headphones in a misty world.
35 mm • f/1.4 • 1/25 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 130 lux EV 5.6
Sarcomeres
Muscle fibres with their engines, the sarcomeres. The light and dark stripes are each only 1/1000 mm wide, yet are able to produce the force with which we make our daily movements.
1.6 mm • f/3 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 6100 lux EV 11.1
Wool
Threads of wool of a black sheep with pigment.
10 mm • f/5 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 17000 lux EV 12.6
Crossing
A crossing on the Hoogeland in the night.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/250 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 140 lux EV 5.7
Study at Home
Studying at home in times of corona demands the use of every surface available.
388 mm • f/5.6 • 1/4000 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 86000 lux EV 14.9
Doodstil
The sky was on fire over the village of Doodstil.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/1000 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2200 lux EV 9.7
CO2
A CO2 meter indicates how the concentration varies in a room. An increase by the presence of people and decrease by ventilation. Excellent way to establish whether there is enough ventilation in the room.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/25 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 44 lux EV 4
Akerk
The Akerk under the stars.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1.3 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1.7 lux EV -0.7
'alwaar 't Fortuin uithing'
Before the industrialist Scholten commissioned this house to be built as a tea house near the railway, it replaced around 1800 a lodge, with the name 'alwaar 't Fortuin uithing', which means 'where the money is'
35 mm • f/1.4 • 1/20 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 27 lux EV 3.3
Gardepoort
The Gardepoort in Groningen was built in 1639 en was the housing of the mounted guards of the city.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/13 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 7.2 lux EV 1.4
October 2020
Bat detector
Assembled a bat detector. Because there are two microphones available you can hear the direction from which the animals are coming. Also very useful to determine if bicycle bearings are worn out.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/25 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 35 lux EV 3.7
Lumen
You can buy flashlights with the lumen that the headlights of 10 cars deliver together. Interesting for night photography in the dark months.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/40 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 71 lux EV 4.7
Hanging Spot
Hanging spot for mixed snails.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/122 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1100 lux EV 8.6
Corona
The corona awaits the candidate and paranymphs in the aula of the university in times of corona.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/50 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 140 lux EV 5.6
School trip
In these times of coran a school trip is done on the bicycle.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/121 sec. • 80 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1700 lux EV 9.2
Sunflower
Cross section of the stem of a sunflower. Different crystals in the vessels give the colors in this polarised light.
40 mm • f/8 • 1/50 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 8700 lux EV 11.6
Geschubte Inktzwam
The Lawyer's Wig is edible when it is not discoloured yet, so this one should not be eaten. It eats nematodes and so can be found on or near crop fields as is the case here next to the Trekweg near Doodstil.
135 mm • f/3.2 • 1/1600 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 45000 lux EV 14
Projection
With this projection of the earths globe I was not familiar with. It only works from 4 different view points, but it is very easy to store. And it is a model of the flat earth times two.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/40 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 71 lux EV 4.7
Italian
Baking delicious Italian bread myself. (The image can be seen in 2 ways, it may help to turn it around)
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 125 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 350 lux EV 7
Traces
While the police patrol the Vismarkt, they fail to see the traces of a small party in which icecreams where consumed!
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/8 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11 lux EV 2
Meaning
This symbool gets its own meaning in these times.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/25 sec. • 1000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 27 lux EV 3.3
Pimped
De old ship the "Jantje" has been pimped up with blue lights, that contrast strongly with the yellow autumn leaves.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/4 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4.4 lux EV 0.7
Toys
The Groningen museum, designed by Mendo Mendini, looks as if the child of a giant emptied his toy box over the city.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/2 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2.8 lux EV 0
Knife
This is a very small part of a valuable japanese santoku knife. It had never been sharpened before after purchase (upper panel) and needed some work. After half an hour using 3 sharpening stones with decreasing grain size you get what you see in the lower panel.
16 mm • f/4 • 1/100 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 1100 lux EV 8.6
Podium
Groningen has changed into an almost empty podium with a cloth decor in the evening.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/33 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 58 lux EV 4.4
Unused
This dutch bicycle with 3 gears is unused for a while and this summer has been owned by nature itself.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/8 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 8.8 lux EV 1.7
Pugo
Dogs have not been my favorite animals, until I met Pugo. He has personality, opinions and moods. That is what I can relate to. Left he thinks "What does he say?" On the right he thinks "Nonsense!"
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/40 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 88 lux EV 5
Autumn
Autumn can be seen form the color of the trees, here in the small town of Middelstum on the Hoogeland.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/1370 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 75000 lux EV 14.7
Mars
Mars is closer to the earth than the coming 15 years. The small polar cap can be seen at to lower left side. Taken with 2000 mm focal length. Although it is so close to earth, the visual diameter is only 1/80 of that of the moon.
2000 mm • f/10 • 1/100 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 6800 lux EV 11.3
Dated
That looks very nice and dated, a package with so many stamps from a country far away.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 125 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 350 lux EV 7
Disturbed
He clearly does not like it when he gets disturbed by bypassers while working.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/773 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 42000 lux EV 13.9
No Point
After I returned the Buck knife to the shop because there where many hair cracks perpendicular to the cut (see the photo of 18th of September 2020), it came back. They have grinded away about 2 mm, making the hair cracks disappear. But the point of the knife has disappeared also, making part of the functionality disappear. And that is a point to me.
100 mm • f/8 • 1/60 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • by hand 5200 lux EV 10.9
Attention
Now that it gets colder outside, the cat needs more attention, even when the time is not right.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/33 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 58 lux EV 4.4
Rain
There was a lot of rain today, but what my neighbour bought today, is quite extreme in these conditions.
560 mm • f/8 • 1/60 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2600 lux EV 9.9
Reception
A reception after defense of a thesis at the University of Groningen in times of corona.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/8 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 14 lux EV 2.4
Blue
Bought new black socks and they appear to be rather rough under the microscope. And how did that blue tiny piece of thread get there? I have no clothes in the house of that color.
16 mm • f/4 • 1/60 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 1300 lux EV 8.9
Wind
The southern wind had a lot of force, which was used by the windmill of Onderdendam.
135 mm • f/3.5 • 1/8000 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 134000 lux EV 15.6
De
The word "De" is the most frequently occurring word in the dutch language. Here as it appears in the newspaper ("Krant") which is the 856st word in the dutch language.
16 mm • f/4 • 1/50 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 1100 lux EV 8.6
Joy
Great to enjoy a wonderful drink during the conversation. This is a smoothy of chocolate, mango, strawberry, apple and oat milk.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 280 lux EV 6.7
Skillfull
In order to do this you have to be skillfull. When he moves his right hand 1 cm to the right, the spunge moves 20 cm to the right and with only 5% of the force. But it is a lot safer and more legal than using a ladder.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/557 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 15000 lux EV 12.5
Rotation
When you rotate a boiled egg fast around a vertical axis, the egg starts to stand up on one end. If you do this with an unboiled egg, this does not happen. This has to do with constant or changing inertia tensor
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/500 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 280 lux EV 6.7
September 2020
Bell Tower
The bell tower of Westerdijkshorn under an autumn moon.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/30 sec. • 12800 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 2.1 lux EV -0.4
Choice
When tightening or loosening a large nut, there is a choice (from left to right) between strength and flexibility.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/100 sec. • 125 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 710 lux EV 8
Gilled Mushrooms
Gilled mushrooms make spores between de gills and from there they become airborne. From left to right about 1 mm.
16 mm • f/5.6 • 1/320 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 14000 lux EV 12.3
Tension
Tension in plastic changes the speed of light that passes through.
16 mm • f/5.6 • 1/320 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 14000 lux EV 12.3
Walfridusbrug
The Walfridusbrug over the Van Starkenborghkanaal was built in 2003
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/320 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Together
The cows get together when the sun is setting.
400 mm • f/6.3 • 1/80 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 4300 lux EV 10.6
Glowing Nail
It looked like a glowing nail with which she indicated the location of her bike on the path along the barge canal that quickly cooled down.
100 mm • f/5.6 • 1/100 sec. • 8000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 110 lux EV 5.3
After the Mist
After the mist, tiny decorative droplets remain.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/719 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 20000 lux EV 12.8
Late bat
A late bat in town. What speed, what agility.
135 mm • f/6.3 • 1/100 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1400 lux EV 9
Light
In the old days people thought the moon was a source of light, just like a flame. Now we know better.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/40 sec. • 12800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 27 lux EV 3.3
Crescent
The moon in the water; Broken and broken again, Still it is there. (Choshu)
102 mm • f/5.6 • 1/125 sec. • 12800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 84 lux EV 4.9
Defocussed
Interesting that if when you defocus a rastered photograph, you see more.
40 mm • f/5.6 • 1/320 sec. • 100ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 27000 lux EV 13.3
Hair crack
When a knife (like here in the famous Buck knife) has hair cracks of 1 mm long perpedicular to the cut, because it was cooled too fast during hardening, you can not sharpen it anymore. Fortunately these knives are lifelong guaranteed.
16 mm • f/5.6 • 1/320 sec. • 100ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 27000 lux EV 13.3
Colder
The evenings get colder and so it is time to eat inside today.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/320 sec. • 12800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 210 lux EV 6.3
Music
Heavenly music in the Amsterdam Conservatory Hotel
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/25 sec. • 1000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 22 lux EV 3
Lay-up
A lay-up on a hot day.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/3200 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 28000 lux EV 13.3
12
The sun sets on the first day of the twelfth year of this PhotoBlog
364 mm • f/5.6 • 1/160 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Cycling
Cycling through Amsterdam. It remains an exceptional city.
16 mm • f/3.5 • 1/4000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 134000 lux EV 15.6
Stunt scooter
Stunt scooting may lead to the most remarkable postures in which the foot is far away from its normal place on the step.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/4000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 35000 lux EV 13.7
Glass
When you look at sand grains from the Sahara, they appear to look like glass marbles with which too many games have been played. From left to right 1 mm.
16 mm • f/2.8 • 1/80 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x37mm sensor • tripod 1700 lux EV 9.3
Middelstum
The church of Middelstum has been refurbished in 1975 and the exuberant carillon sounds wonderful.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/80 sec. • 12800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5.5 lux EV 1
BOA
A BOA has the function to limit your movements. If you want to remove that limit, simply lift the BOA.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/10 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 18 lux EV 2.7
Circle Cutter
Very handy device to cut circles in plastic and board for dark field filters for my microscope.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 140 lux EV 5.7
Roderwolde
Over Roderwolde flew a balloon, while there was hardly any wind.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/2500 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 214000 lux EV 16.3
Lichen
A lichen is a collaboration between green and brown algae (the spheres in the image) and fungi threads (below). This was recorded with oil immersion and shows the limit of light microscopy, with details of 0.2 µm. From left to right the image covers 0.1 mm.
1.6 mm • f/1.4 • 1/160 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 860 lux EV 8.3
Coffee
In a dried drop of coffee, you dan find caffeine crystals.
16 mm • f/4 • 1/160 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 7000 lux EV 11.3
Horses
The horses are allowed to play in the limelight, while autumn is in the air.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/160 sec. • 6400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 22 lux EV 3
Large
The full moon always looks bigger close over the horizon. But when you measure it, she is not bigger, just a bit flattened by the refraction by the atmosphere. But we can make a comparison with large buildings which makes her look bigger than normal.
135 mm • f/3.2 • 1/125 sec. • 250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1400 lux EV 9
Five
Flies have five eyes: 2 facet eyes and 3 simple eyes. Those small eyes do not see any details, but are very sensitive to movements.
16 mm • f/2.8 • 1/200 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 2100 lux EV 9.6
Bees Knee
The knee of a bee has a very userful construction: it is not only a hinge, but also a press for pollen to create transportable packages.
16 mm • f/2.8 • 1/200 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 2100 lux EV 9.6
August 2020
Self-yielding
The self-yielding mechanims of the tower mill of Kantens. The mechanism rotates the flaps on the wings away when the wind is increasing, so that the mill does not spin itself out of control. When the wind subsides, a tuned weight in the mill pulls the flaps into closure again. A self-regulating mechanism with a comparable beauty as that of the Watt mechanism in steam engines.
309 mm • f/6.3 • 1/800 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 43000 lux EV 14
Trekvaart
The moon and Jupiter over a windy trekvaart.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/4 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2.8 lux EV 0.1
Chardonnay
Even without drinking too much Chardonnay, you can see weird things. This is a dried drop of that wine under the pola microscope. The crystals of the minerals in the wine grow under various angles and in all kinds of shapes.
20 mm • f/4 • 1/60 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 2600 lux EV 9.9
Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes is being seen as the greatest Spanish writer, especially because of his book "Don Quixote". Here he is depicted on a 10 Eurocent piece from Spain.
20 mm • f/4 • 1/60 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 2600 lux EV 9.9
Hard
Hard to photograph a tiny insect like this without tripod. Macro 2x with f/8 and 1/40 sec with 100mm. Just a few layers of facets in the eyes are in focus.
100 mm • f/8 • 140 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 1.2 lux EV -1.1
Butterfly
The summer lical has just af few islands left of blossom that are found by the butterfly.
135 mm • f/3.2 • 1/6400 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 89000 lux EV 15
Stellato pilosa
These are pollen from Stellato pilosa, a plant that is endemic in China and related with a Kiwi. From left to right the image covers 1 mm.
6.4 mm • f/4 • 1/200 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 8700 lux EV 11.6
Edge
The edge of a sugar grain. The grain is three times higher than is covered by the image. A cube shaped planet.
4 mm • f/4 • 1/500 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 1400 lux EV 9
Sodium Hydroxide
When you let a drop of sodium hydroxide solution dry on glass, you get a colorful landscape under the pola microscope.
4 mm • f/4 • 1/500 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 1400 lux EV 9
Unstable
The weather is unstable here near Doodstil, and with it a lot more interesting than weather with a simple blue sky.
85 mm • f/6.3 • 1/1250 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 68000 lux EV 14.6
Wheat Grain
A longitiudinal section of a wheat grain. Upper part in polarised light, below in normal light. The dark red part in the upper panel is the germ.
64 mm • f4 • 1/200 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 8700 lux EV 11.6
Gone
After a few weekends of building, my son is gone with two friends on his construction, on his way to the mooring place. Stability and load capacity were checked in advance with computer simulations.
14 mm • f/2.3 • 1/2000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 29000 lux EV 13.4
Delft Blue
Looks a bit like a wall of Delft blue tiles, but these are cells in the root tip of an onion, that grows very fast and so some cells show sets of chromosomes that are pulled apart in two sets by thin threads that can just be seen in this image, that covers a field of 0.25 mm longest side.
2.5 mm • f/1.4 • 1/160 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 430 lux EV 7.3
Harris's Hawk
This young Harris's Hawk lives in Onderdendam and definitely does not like dogs. It makes him croak like a badly fitted buzz saw.
135 mm • f/2.8 • 1/160 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1700 lux EV 9.3
Bite
The head of an ant is almost exclusively designed for a strong bite. Those jaws are empowered by huge muscle, that fill a large part of the head, to be seen here als rope bundles with striation.
16 mm • f/2 • 1/60 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 330 lux EV 6.9
Granite
A very thin slice of granite under the polariation microscope. From left to right 1.2 mm. How exciting!
16 mm • f/2 • 1/60 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 330 lux EV 6.9
Standing Up
A warm day in the Bickersgracht at the Westelijke Eilanden in Amsterdam. Time for stand up paddling.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/243 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 13000 lux EV 12.2
Agriculture
Agriculture continues at night because the weather is changing and when the crop gets dry from the fields that makes a lot of difference.
35 mm • f/1.4 • 1/40 sec. • 4000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5.4 lux EV 1
Onderdendam
At night it is nice and cool to cycle through the province. This is the windmill of Onderdendam standing peacefully.
35 mm • f/1.4 • 1/60 sec. • 3200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 10 lux EV 1.9
Box
A good knife deserves a good set of sharpening stones with decreasing grain size. And those stones deserve a homemade box from beech wood.
35 mm • f/8 • 1/40 sec. • 4000 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 170 lux EV 6
Shade
In this hot weather it is best to keep quiet and sit in the shadow until the evening brings coolness.
135 mm • f/3.2 • 1/2000 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 28000 lux EV 13.3
Slothful
On this scorching hot summerday, the sheep find a place in the shadow of a tree. But they are too slothful to move with the shadow and so a part of the shadow is unused and some sheep are lying in the sun.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/2315 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 64000 lux EV 14.5
Suiker
The sugarfactory in Hoogkerk. Tubes and vessels connected in old industrial principles.
10.3 mm • f/2.8 • 1/400 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • uit de hand 8600 lux EV 11.6
Damascus
An old method to make knives, originally from India, later used in Damascus and here in e Japanese knife, exist form combining layers, which you can see here. Research has shown that carbon nanotubes are formed, which produce in part the hardness and sharpness of the knives. ("Materials: Carbon nanotubes in an ancient Damascus sabre". Nature. 444 (7117): 28 )
100 mm • f/5.6 • 1/13 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 560 lux EV 7.7
Midwolde
The church of Midwolde is from the 13th century and has always been taken care of well by the adjacent estate Nienoord.
10.3 mm • f/2.8 • 1/400 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 8600 lux EV 11.6
To Sail
To sail on the Paterwoldsemeer asks for some patience when the wind is low.
10.3 mm • f/2.8 • 1/640 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
To Fly
To fly like a bird over the city on a summer evening with hardly any wind.
10.3 mm • f/2.8 • 1/320 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 6800 lux EV 11.3
Flatworm
This flatworm, a small predator (7 mm) that lives in water, consists mainly of a digestive system. They do not need lungs, because they are so flat: the oxygen goes through the skin directly to the organs. The tiny spheres on the left are the eyes.
20 mm • f/4 • 1/60 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 1300 lux EV 8.9
Noordzeebrug
The Noordzeebrug has been nicely decorated with graffiti, but spraying on the outside on the highway is not without danger.
14 mm • f/3.4 • 1/400 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 6300 lux EV 11.2
Dapalis Macrurus
This perchlike fish, Dapalis Macrurus, lived about 30 million years ago in France and is about 7 cm long. The exceptional thing is that the fin rays have been turned into dark brown glassy stone, while the pigment in the eye have left its mark.
100 mm • f/5.6 • 1/60 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 2600 lux EV 9.9
Rings
This beech tree, which is more than 100 years old, has rings that look like those in water when you throw a pebble in it. Over the years the tree grows rings over the wound that occurred when a branch was cut from the tree.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/40 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 88 lux EV 5
July 2020
Last Corner
Rounding the last corner on my bike home, on a really sunny day, the last one of July.
14 mm • f/3.5 • 1/200 sec. • 200 ISO • 24.5mm sensor • tripod 3300 lux EV 10.3
Scales
Butterfly scales, each 0.1 mm wide, obtain their color from interference at a very thin layer. When the direction of the light changes, so does the color.
4 mm • f/4 • 1/60 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 1300 lux EV 8.9
Nothing the Matter
When the lights turned green, she started to ride on her electric bike, but fell. Traffic stopped instantly. She got up and indicated to everyone that she was fine by raising her thumb and got on her bike again.
14 mm • f/3.2 • 1/1250 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 35000 lux EV 13.6
Dutch
It can not be more dutch: cycling like this. The pedal in the middle under the foot, buds in the ears, the stand hanging down, bag hanging from the handlebar and a soft rear tyre. But his way we cover 15 billion kilometer per year, which is about 100 times the distance to the sun.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/1250 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1400 lux EV 9
Twig
Cross section through a twig of a lime tree with a diameter of 2.6 mm. Room for transport and growth inside a strong structure.
20 mm • f/4 • 1/160 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 7000 lux EV 11.3
Tea
A cross section of a tea leaf. The composition is very complex, forming the background of the taste. In 2700 B.C. it was already popular as a brew.
20 mm • f/4 • 1/160 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 7000 lux EV 11.3
Paramecium
A group of Paramecia, unicellular organims that frequent fresh water and transport themselves by the coordinated movement of hundreds of cilia.
20 mm • f/4 • 1/160 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 7000 lux EV 11.3
Renewing
Every season nature renews itself on and through human made ageing constructions.
135 mm • f/4 • 1/160 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 3500 lux EV 10.3
Allershof
Brick factory "Allershof" between Winsum and Onderdendam has been in operation between 1772 and 1966 and so has been abandoned for 54 years.
10.3 mm • f/2.8 • 1/400 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 8600 lux EV 11.6
Grain
The grain is magnificent in the fields of the north of Groningen.
135 mm • f/10 • 1/160 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5500 lux EV 11
Staredown
Chicken can also be engaged in a staredown: here a confrontation between Melania and Babs. Melania is taller, but Babs has a meaner stare, Who will win?
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/6400 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 35000 lux EV 13.7
Married
You can see it clearly from the wedding rings: a married couple with three children.
135 mm • f/4 • 1/125 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1400 lux EV 9
Dinosaur
When seen straight from the front it is imagninable that birds are descendents from dinosaurs.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1/1000 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5500 lux EV 11
Amber
This long leg fly (Dolichopodid) has been encapsulated in the resin of a pine tree in the Baltic area. Incredible that the facet eyes can be seen so well in the amber (a present from a friend and collegue), where they have been preserved and also the tiny hairs on the wings. From top to bottom the image covers 3 mm. The depth of field is 0.01 mm for each exposure, while the total depth of field of the stacked exposures is 1 mm.
40 mm • f/4 • 0.17 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 16 lux EV 2.6
Woltersum
Fram, the windmill of Woltersum is constructed for sawing wood.
135 mm • f/1.8 • 1 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2.2 lux EV -0.3
Neowise
Now also to be seen at midnisght, the comet Neowise, that has now reached the constellation Lyra. The ion tail can just be seen to the left of the dust tail. The core has a diameter of 5 km, while the distance to the earth is about 120 million kilometer. The visual head has a diameter of 13 times that of the earth. A stack of 60 exposures.
300 mm • f/2.8 • 1 sec. • 3200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 0.7 lux EV -2
Cabbage Butterfly
Life has not been without problems for theis Cabbage Butterfly.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/800 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 43000 lux EV 13.9
Antisymmetric
He obviously likes antisymmetry and that may just come from the pattern on his body.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/640 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 34000 lux EV 13.6
Wings
Such a beautiful construction, an insect wing. Very light and stiff enough for the high wingbeat frequency and a shape to much lift while the bee is hanging motionless in the air.
100 mm • f/5.6 • 1/320 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Neowise
The comet Neowise, here in an overview image with the landscape and the bright star Capella top right. The comet can be seen well with the naked eye.
35 mm • f/1.4 • 1 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1.3 lux EV -1
Neowise
The comet Neowise, discovered by a space telescope and photographed here above the Groningen landscape at quarter past 3 in the morning in the constellation Auriga. Striking are the two tails.
300 mm • f/2.8 • 1 sec. • 3200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 0.7 lux EV -2
Songline
The Dutch landscape also has songlines. This is one I discovered today.
400 mm • f/8 • 1/400 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Catching Flies
You can catch flies with a wineglass and a picture postcard. Place the glass slowly and gradually over the fly. They don't see many details, but they see movements very well and sense air movements extremely well. But this way they are suprised and you can place the fly outside, since they are fantastic animals, that don't learn very much from experience.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/100 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2800 lux EV 10
Sandwiches
Sandwiches of wood: delicious!
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/60 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 330 lux EV 6.9
Stad Dorp
In the countryside life is simple: signs that say "City" and "Village"
6 mm • f/2 • 1/122 sec. • 64 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2100 lux EV 9.6
Wind
Strong wind changes the shape and position of the clouds
12 mm • f/11 • 1/1000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 206000 lux EV 16.2
Ephestia unicolorella
This Ephestia unicolorella has been sitting still for hours on my sunshade. I'm curious to see what she will do when it gets dark.
100 mm • f/8 • 1/60 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 2100 lux EV 9.6
Hatch
This hatch is meant for the cat, but also offers entrance for birds. For dogs it may be a challenge.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/631 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 34000 lux EV 13.6
July
It is July and the moon grows to its full size between the clouds. Such a peaceful light compared to human made lamps and screens.
342 mm • f/8 • 1/30 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 330 lux EV 6.9
Portraits
After a conversation with the neighbour, we made pictures of each other.
35 mm • f/1.8 • 1/60 sec. • 2000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 27 lux EV 3.3
Bouquet
For me unkown novels about love and desire.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/33 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 58 lux EV 4.4
June 2020
Power
A stacked history of increasing power.
1.5 mm • f/2.4 • 1/25 sec. • 1000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 39 lux EV 3.8
Summer
A heavy unexpected shower is part of the summer.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/121 sec. • 80 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1300 lux EV 8.9
Open
The Rijksmuseum is open again!
100 mm • f/4.5 • 1/1600 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 55000 lux EV 14.3
Roll
Eating a roll together on a lazy saturday afternoon.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/500 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 27000 lux EV 13.3
Confrontation
A peaceful confrontation between Palestine and Israel on the Dam under the scrutiny of Christianity.
100 mm • f/4.5 • 1/800 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 28000 lux EV 13.3
Lazy
When it is this warm, the piglets are very lazy.
235 mm • f/7.1 • 1/500 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 43000 lux EV 13.9
Sparks
When it has been dry like the past week, a rain of sparks from a fire without a fire pit made by the students, is not very welcome.
35 mm • f/1.4 • 1/40 sec. • 1250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 17 lux EV 2.6
Standard
When comparing these two try squares, there is a difference in what they indicate as a right angle of 90 degrees and there is a difference of 2 mm over 400 mm length. So what is the standard? Fortunately, there is a bar of 1 meter long in Paris, while we can construct an angle of 90 degrees, to know which of the two try squares we will use in the future. (In practice we do not need to go to Paris, we just take the average of a number of tape measures and rules in the house, to get an approximation of what 400 mm should be).
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/122 sec. • 64 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1700 lux EV 9.3
Knurl
A knurl in wood comes from a side branch of a tree and the wood is often much harder there. When you need to drill a hole right at that place, you simply need to have a little but more patience during drilling.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/822 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 23000 lux EV 13
Bypass
A bypass of the rainwater drainage. Exactly at this spot a foundation block will be placed, around which the bypass goes. The increase in resistance of the flow of water is so small by the extra three bends, that the capacity of the drainage is more than enough, given the surfac area of the roof that drains on this pipe, and the most severe downpours know in the Netherlands the last few years.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/121 sec. • 64 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1700 lux EV 9.3
Roof
We are building a roof of 11 by 4 meter of re-used timber.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/2028 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 56000 lux EV 14.3
Foxglove
Foxglove is named like that since it was thought that foxes would put these flowers around their paws, so they would not be heard during walking.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/1025 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 28000 lux EV 13.3
Alignment
Laser aligned drilling works quick and accurate.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 88 lux EV 5
Pineapple
The pineapple originates from the border area between Brazil and Paraguay
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/60 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 330 lux EV 6.9
Buttercups
The scent of a field with buttercups.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/2000 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 43000 lux EV 13.9
Karisma
Made until 2005 and loved pencils. With this set you can draw in pincipal anything, because it also contains aquarel pencils.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/33 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 73 lux EV 4.7
Rough and Gentle
The artist Florentijn Hofman has created this bear with pillow to express the rough and yet gentle nature of the young inhabitants of this new area of the city.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/2315 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 64000 lux EV 14.5
Backswimmer
This backswimmer always swims on its back. At this scale the water is very viscous, and so after every stroke he stops and it is a lot of work to go hunting.
400 mm • f/6.3 • 1/400 sec. • 250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Bladder Jaw
This bladder jaw keeps half a village awake, because at a distance of only one meter, a smaller specimen is trying to get into his territorium. The soundlevel-mass ratio of this animal must be a challenge for a Stradivarius.
400 mm • f/6.3 • 1/400 sec. • 320 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Wear
Wear from carrying footsteps over the centuries is made even more visible by the rain. It also shows that most people follow the same route over the stairway. The wear is hightest when descending, since energy needs to be removed from the body in every step.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/122 sec. • 50 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2700 lux EV 9.9
Thin
As can be seen, the middle chapters are thinnest. Paradoxically, the thickest chapter is about geometry, the thinnest about infinite series.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 110 lux EV 5.3
House
The house at the water.
100 mm • f/6.3 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Unstable
The weather is very unstable, while the Prinsentuin is doing well.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/466 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 25000 lux EV 13.2
Critical
The audience was rather critical, judged by their expressions, at this small fashion show in Groningen.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/180 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 9800 lux EV 11.8
Waiting
Waiting for the open bridge, with a compensation in the form of an iconic image of the city of Groningen in a treasure chest.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/460 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 13000 lux EV 12.2
Nature
Nature finds its way.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/737 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 40000 lux EV 13.8
Simplicity
Suddenly simple beauty emerges from the dark water.
560 mm • f/8 • 1/500 sec. • 250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 35000 lux EV 13.6
Vibrations
He could feel the vibrations, while he was holding lightly on to a waterplant.
560 mm • f/8 • 1/500 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Cycle
The cycle of life can be seen nicely in this red Gerbera: Every yellow curl contains hundreds of pollen for a new start.
100 mm • f/5.6 • 1/2 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 43 lux EV 4
Museumplein
The museumplein in Amsterdam at Pentacost
6 mm • f/2 • 1/4348 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 190000 lux EV 16.1
May 2020
SpaceX
Last night the manned spacecraft SpaceX coult be seen over Groningen, low over the horizon at 23:18.
35 mm • f/1.4 • 72 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 0 lux EV -9.2
Symmetry
Symmetry occurs often in nature, especially inside one organism. But it is clear that it can also happen in this way.
100 mm • f/5.6 • 1/1250 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 67000 lux EV 14.6
Poppy
Always prettier than I remember, a poppy.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/400 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Dragonflies
Three blue dragonflies (Ischnura elegans) enjoy the last dash of sunlight.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/250 sec. • 500 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 4300 lux EV 10.6
Cicada
A Cicada has left its skin on the Cattail
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/250 sec. • 500 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 4300 lux EV 10.6
Thick
They are thick as thieves.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 13000 lux EV 12.3
Silence
There was a kind of silence in the nest from which the young knew it had nagged too much about getting tasty snacks.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/800 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 43000 lux EV 13.9
Singer
When a knitting machine is transported in a suitcase, like the Singer Suitcase, it needs a fitting table to be able to work with it properly.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/121 sec. • 125 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 860 lux EV 8.3
Ikkeja
This piece of furnature has such a unique design and purpose that Ikea is not able to deliver. It is being made and delivered by me ("Ikea" is dutch for "yes me") and so a photo will appear on this photoblog when it is ready.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/33 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 58 lux EV 4.4
The Herd
Without a single reaon the herd starts to move in a certain direction.
100 mm • f/5.6 • 1/200 sec. • 1250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1400 lux EV 9
Drive-In Library
I thought it is a good idea in times of corona: a drive-in library.
1.5 mm • f/2.4 • 1/33 sec. • 1000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 52 lux EV 4.2
Cattail
Cattails:exploded cigars at the lake.
102 mm • f/4.5 • 1/2000 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 69000 lux EV 14.6
f/0.76
A glass sphere has an aperture of f/0.76 and forms a very bad, although recognisable image.
35 mm • f/2.8 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2700 lux EV 9.9
To sleep
To be able to sleep like that between the flowers!
35 mm • f/1.4 • 1/8000 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 21000 lux EV 12.9
Pampered
Chicken also like to be pampered by being caressed over their chest.
35 mm • f/2.8 • 1/4000 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 43000 lux EV 13.9
Dry
The land is too dry for the young crop, so spray!
100 mm • f/4.5 • 1/6400 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 221000 lux EV 16.3
Candle Wax
Someone has spilt candle wax on the back of this book, a long long time ago.
100 mm • f/16 • 1 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 350 lux EV 7
White
"There is no spotted cow without a small stain" is the expression in Dutch. Well this one has no spot at all.
192 mm • f/5.6 • 1/1250 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 67000 lux EV 14.6
Clear
Gradually the skies will become clear in the city of Groningen.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/698 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 19000 lux EV 12.8
Work
The work on the land continues and it offers a great meal for the seagulls.
150 mm • f/5 • 1/8000 sec. • 6400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 8500 lux EV 11.6
Peace
Sometimes I find peace in a simple still life.
400 mm • f/9 • 1/800 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • by hand 88000 lux EV 15
Self-Overestimation
A short moment of young self-overestimation
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/8000 sec. • 6400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 11.9
Ground Mist
Ground mist appears after sunset at quick air cooling.
100 mm • f/7.1 • 1/100 sec. • 500 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2800 lux EV 10
Wind
The wind has subsided.
271 mm • f/5.6 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 21000 lux EV 12.9
Glowing
The sun turns the union of the church of Noordwolde to glowing.
400 mm • f/14 • 1/4000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2140000 lux EV 19.6
Pinkbirdia homemadius
A rare species that only exists locally in the city of Groningen
400 mm • f/9 • 1/800 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 88000 lux EV 15
Book
And when you have read everything you have at home, you can always borrow a book from this cabin at the tracks.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/1629 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 45000 lux EV 14
Light
Sometimes you have to go through a dark tunnel to reach the light.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/37037 sec. • 50 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 655000 lux EV 17.9
I ❤ You
Through the rigid construction that we have built, you can see the signs of love.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/122 sec. • 64 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2100 lux EV 9.6
Apples
Still a while and the apples will appear.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/695 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 38000 lux EV 13.8
Reed
Japanese beauty in the Hoornsediep.
247 mm • f/9 • 1/80 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 8800 lux EV 11.7
April 2020
Onlanden
The Onlanden are pretty with that rapeseed along the paths.
100 mm • f/9 • 1/640 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 71000 lux EV 14.7
Brick Factory
The old brick factory around diner time with that magnificent sky above.
100 mm • f/9 • 1/2500 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 276000 lux EV 16.6
Little Flowers
A kind of floating flower box.
100 mm • f/5 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Plum Blossom
Plum Blossom in the wide Groningen landscape. The west is on the left and you can see that from the deformation of the trees.
10.3 mm • f/2.8 • 1/640 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Bertha
Bertha, my now chicken, is still young, but already a real no-nonsense Groninger. She is a bit messy with eating, does not use many words, but has a good heart.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/122 sec. • 40 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2700 lux EV 9.9
The Precipice
A little ant looks over the edge of the table, rethinks and turns around.
100 mm • f/11 • 1/60 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 2500 lux EV 9.8
Breakfast
After a hefty breakfast of blueberry jam (he ate it all), the lonely wasp could fly away for its journey.
100 mm • f/11 • 1/60 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 2500 lux EV 9.8
Thirsty
This wasp was thirsty and so took a sip from my drink, while I could photograph it.
100 mm • f/16 • 1/60 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 21000 lux EV 12.9
No Wind
Suddenly no wind after a week of fierce wind from the east.
35 mm • f/4 • 1/800 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 8700 lux EV 11.6
Watership
The watership north of Groningen just ofter sunset.
194 mm • f/5.6 • 1/320 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 6800 lux EV 11.3
Pheasant
When you go for a stroll, you have to look around you often.
262 mm • f/5.6 • 1/2500 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • by hand 54000 lux EV 14.3
Rapeseed
Rapeseed is blooming well, this time on the land at the other side of the road with the same farmer: good for the soil.
400 mm • f/6.3 • 1/3200 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 87000 lux EV 15
Alpine Pony
High in the mountains of the North of the Netherlands lives the rare Alpine Pony
262 mm • f/5.6 • 1/2500 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 54000 lux EV 14.3
Times
The cactus has known good and bad times and by her shape has drawn a graph of it.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/109 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 150 lux EV 5.8
Silence
It is silent along the railway track and when a train passes by, it is almost empty.
1.5 mm • f/2.4 • 1/207 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 16000 lux EV 12.5
Gills
In this phase the frog embryo in the egg has external gills en starts the first swimming movements, that do not bring it very far, but it is a nice exercise.
100 mm • f/2.8 • 1/250 sec. • 3200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 170 lux EV 5.9
From Nowhere
Suddenly they were there, from nowhere, next to the holly behind my house.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/121 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1100 lux EV 8.6
Newton
An instrument to measure force in Newton. When you hang a weight from it and je divide the number you get with what a scale would show, you get 9.8. And that is because the mass of the earth pull with a certain force at the mass. But if you apply it on the moon, you also get 9.8, while the moon really has a much lower mass. On the other hand, when use use this instrument horizontally on earth or on the moon, you get the same result when you apply a pulling force. So I'll just keep it at hand for measuring forces, rather than weigh something.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 440 lux EV 7.3
Easter
It is Easter and the sun sets over the wide Groningen lanscape.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/121 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5300 lux EV 10.9
Getting Up
Seeing the moon when getting up.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/30 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1300 lux EV 8.9
Sexy Time
As can be seen it has been sexy time in the pond en we will see free swimming childeren in two weeks.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/200 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 8600 lux EV 11.6
Food
In the moring early out of the nest and looking for food.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/320 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 3400 lux EV 10.3
To Bed
She put the young ones to bed and will join them soon: it gets colder now.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/8000 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 342000 lux EV 16.9
Encounter
An encounter between two water beetles.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/800 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 8600 lux EV 11.6
Overview
He had a nice overview over the field, sitting on windmill "'t Witte Lam", where the tasty bits were still running around in the late light.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/1410 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 77000 lux EV 14.8
Grape hyacinth
Grape Hyacinths already blossom and you can see individual plant cells in this image, that's how small the flowers are.
100 mm • f/11 • 1/1000 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 41000 lux EV 13.9
Last Year
A leaf from last year will make place for a new green leaf soon, but is presently still consumed by micro organisms.
100 mm • f/11 • 1/1000 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 41000 lux EV 13.9
Sleepy
In the afternoon he gets a bit sleepy, but you should see hem at night!
100 mm • f/11 • 1/1000 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 41000 lux EV 13.9
Jacket
Wearing a jacket on a cold evening in April
6 mm • f/2 • 1/121 sec. • 125 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1100 lux EV 8.6
Staying at Home
We have to stay at home, but this inhabitant is doing it radically.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/60 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 330 lux EV 6.9
March 2020
Moon
When watched with the naked eye, the moon only covers 30x30 cones in your eye so that gives very few details, but a lot of room for fantasy. And that is where the face in the moon comes from, as depicted here in an old clock.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/25 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 44 lux EV 4
Distancing
Sheep don't do social distancing, although they cough quite a lot sometimes. But that is often due to a lungworm (Dictyocaulus filaria).
400 mm • f/8 • 1/800 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 140000 lux EV 15.6
Peace
Peace over the Paterswolde Lake, with my two friends: the Moon and Venus.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/30 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 26 lux EV 3.3
Look
This is my daily look for hours on end for communications and sharing data in research and education.
2.7 mm • f/2.2 • 1/15 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 25 lux EV 3.2
Nature
Nature just goes own, like she used to.
221 mm • f/10 • 1/1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 137000 lux EV 15.6
Alone
Going outside and moving briskly can help to stay healthy, but you should go alone.
100 mm • f/8 • 1/3200 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 280000 lux EV 16.6
9 o'clock
It is 9 o'clock looking at my own clock. A new werking day starts here, since the UMCG is closed off for research and education.
100 mm • f/5.6 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 21000 lux EV 12.9
Small
A small bottle like this won't make a difference, so I'll just keep it closed. Besides: Beerenburger, Bull Blood and Owl Piss, none of it tastes great.
100 mm • f/8 • 1/6 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 130 lux EV 5.6
Long Way
Keeping distance also implies taking the long way home.
1.5 mm • f/2.4 • 1/1996 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 157000 lux EV 15.8
To Puzzle
When you are doing it for a long time, you start to think about other things.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/121 sec. • 80 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1300 lux EV 8.9
Croissant
He only gets out of bed for a croissant.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/187 sec. • 20 ISO • iPhone mm sensor • handheld 10000 lux EV 11.9
To Read
Time to read a book.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 440 lux EV 7.3
Hole
Venus seems to burn a hole in the night sky while the Seven Sisters stand well above it and near the tree the Andromeda galaxy.
35 mm • f/1.4 • 3.2 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 0.2 lux EV -3.7
Keep Distance
The people of Groningen wrote this advice years ago on the streets!
1.5 mm • f/2.4 • 1/122 sec. • 40 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4800 lux EV 10.8
Forum
The sky is blue, the Forum is empty
100 mm • f/5.6 • 1/640 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 55000 lux EV 14.3
the Pancake Ship
The Pancake Ship is closed down under the new regulations of the government.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/8 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11 lux EV 2
Architecture
Old architecture can be very beautiful.
206 mm • f/8 • 1/400 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 70000 lux EV 14.6
Hamstering
Even this cow was unable to resist and has been hamstering a lot of food.
291 mm • f/8 • 1/500 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 87000 lux EV 15
Father
His father was the black sheep, that is for certain.
400 mm • f/8 • 1/400 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 70000 lux EV 14.6
Poesjkin
Alexander Poesjkin is admired by the writer and translater Bote de Jong so much, that here in the Beurs a table has been reserved for him.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/25 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 44 lux EV 4
Timeless
The Martini tower is timeless. The clockface and hands have been brought down by alpinists for repair. The movement is worn out and so parts have to be replaced after 40 years.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/4 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4.4 lux EV 0.7
Main Man
Good to see my "main man" again and talk with him.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/14 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 38 lux EV 3.8
Dark
In parcs in the city it can be very dark and so the colours of the nightsky can be seen well.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/2 sec. • 1000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1.8 lux EV -0.6
Holes
It is always fun to try and predict the number of holes in the new leaf of the Monstera plant once it has unrolled itself.
100 mm • f/8 • 1/4 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36mm mm sensor • tripod 170 lux EV 6
Tour of Groningen
The leaders of the Tour of Groningen 2020 tear through the small village of Zandeweer, just outside Doodstil.
28 mm • f/2.8 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm mm sensor • handheld 2700 lux EV 9.9
Stroll
An evening stroll through the neighbourhood
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/4 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4.4 lux EV 0.7
Former
The former Grafisch Museum in Groningen
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/8 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 8.8 lux EV 1.7
Brain
Neurologist Bauke de Jong teaches in the HOVO course on brain, movement and the brain.
1.5 mm • f/2.4 • 1/33 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 65 lux EV 4.6
Cloud
The last cloud has been blown away by the fierce west wind.
1.5 mm • f/2.4 • 1/122 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 6000 lux EV 11.1
Deliberation
The promotor and chair deliberate before the session starts.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 88 lux EV 5
Future
In the future this bicycle lamp will be a fossil, just like the sea urchins in the blue stone curbs.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/122 sec. • 80 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1300 lux EV 8.9
February 2020
Hair-Wigs
It was a very wet day in Amsterdam. As long as your hair-wig is ok.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/103 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2800 lux EV 10
Master
Today Mickey became Master of Science in this beatiful hall.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 220 lux EV 6.3
Turbulent
After three storms, the weather remains turbulent.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/122 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5300 lux EV 10.9
Big and Little Dipper
De Big and Little Dipper as recorded with a handheld smartphone on the Hoogeland.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1 sec. • 8000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 0.1 lux EV -4.6
Central Park in the Dark
Central Park in the Dark. A beautiful piece by Charles Ives let you hear the city and the park. Here in Groningen you can hear it too. The silence of the Noorderplantsoen en in the distance the low sound of the living city with sometimes the sharp sound of brakes and horns.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/2 sec. • 2000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 0.9 lux EV -1.6
CUX-20
The CUX-20 was built in 1970 and is registered as the "Wiking" in Cuxhaven in Germany, although now there is a plate with 1948 and "Peace" on it. Possibly the present owner is dutch and he remembers that time after the war with Germany.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/8 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 14 lux EV 2.4
Measuring Colors
To measure colors you need an expensive instrument (almost 10.000 Euro). But with a MacBeth card with powdered pigments, which have been calibrated, you can photograph the object together with the the card, to measure the RGB values of the object. The correct RGB values minus the measured values in the photograph form a vector filed in RGB space which you can interpolate for the color you measure in the photo of the object. After converting to CMYK profile of a known type, you can get printed colors of the objects as you have measured in this way. Everything is calculated with homewritten MatLab software from the values collected from the photograph. The software finds the color patches by itself, you just need to click on the color you want to measure.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/74 sec. • 125 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 520 lux EV 7.6
650 kg
Ready to move a lot of bookshelves and books.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/25 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 44 lux EV 4
Infinite
Looking into an infinitely deep corridor of digital pixels. In the distancethe weather looks brighter.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/25 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 35 lux EV 3.7
Gait Pattern
Everyone has a unique gait pattern that can be measured easily with wireless equipment.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/122 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4200 lux EV 10.6
Not too much
Not too much coffee
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/25 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 35 lux EV 3.7
City
An electronic city with buildings and factories.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/25 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 35 lux EV 3.7
Form
The best form a plant with spines can have is this, to catch as much light as possible.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/122 sec. • 50 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2200 lux EV 9.6
The Weather
It is not the weather to go walk about, so time for warm socks.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/20 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 22 lux EV 3
Maginet
My "Main Man" called this a "maginet" when he was still very small and it expressed his admiration for the magic of a magnet and so it is a better name, especially now that they have become so strong.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/8 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 14 lux EV 2.4
Present
A present for my Main Man, who will move to the USA tomorrow and celebrated his birthday yesterday.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/33 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 91 lux EV 5.1
Talking
He had enough of all that talking and flew away.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/309 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Air current
This candle shows the direction of the air current in my room by its form
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/159 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4400 lux EV 10.7
Victim
A victim of the storm Ciara that roared over our country.
1.5 mm • f/2.4 • 1/122 sec. • 40 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4800 lux EV 10.8
Walker
If you still don't need a walker, it could be that you need one when you have tried to walk through this street.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/17 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 12 lux EV 2.1
Sea Lilly
A fossil sea lilly. In contrast to what its name suggests, it was an animal with feeding arms. The beauty of this fossil is that you can see the movements of the animal in the flowing water frozen in time. From top to bottom 220 mm. The fossil is 450 million years old and the animal lived twice as long ago as the dinosaurs. (90 stacked exposures with 1mm distance)
100 mm • f/4 • 1/30 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 660 lux EV 7.9
Copper
The doors of a copper boathouse in Amsterdam
6 mm • f/2 • 1/121 sec. • 50 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2600 lux EV 9.9
Place
A place in the sun.
1.5 mm • f/2.4 • 1/578 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 45000 lux EV 14
OK
It's OK, ready for hoisting!
6 mm • f/2 • 1/251 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
51 years
51 years ago he opened his fossil and crystals shop in Amsterdam and he still enjoys running it.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 64 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 690 lux EV 8
Winter
It is still winter and the birds have a hard time. In a month from nowe everything will have changed.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/1043 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 57000 lux EV 14.3
Counterweight
A counter weight must be heavy and should not loose weight by rusting.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/25 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 35 lux EV 3.7
Cracks
It looks like an aerial photograph of a small lake that was frozen.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/100 sec. • 64 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1400 lux EV 9
Jealous
When I was a kid, I used to be jealous of the mailman with his handlebar filled with thick rubber bands.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/121 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1100 lux EV 8.6
January 2020
Stars
Even in the middle of Amsterdam above the Old Church, you can see the stars.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/2 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2.8 lux EV 0
Work
To make such a poster is a lot of work, while the average visitor has only a few minutes to understand what it means.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 180 lux EV 6
Risk
The risc is being minimized by two ropes
6 mm • f/2 • 1/125 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 6800 lux EV 11.3
Small
When you live small, you have small windows and small statues.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/184 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 10000 lux EV 11.8
Simson
Every household in the Netherlands had a tin of Simson somewhere at hand. 17 million inhabitants have 23 million bicycles, so regularly flats need to be fixed.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/8 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 14 lux EV 2.4
Late Sun
The late sun over the busy city.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/978 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 53000 lux EV 14.3
The Belgian
Fried potatoes remain popular, here at "The Belgium" from the family Waterloo, which is settled in the north of the Netherlands.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/100 sec. • 80 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1400 lux EV 9
Screw
When you look carefully at a screw meant for a wall, you can see tiny teeth in the thread, made to cut an opening.
100 mm • f4 • 1/4 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 87 lux EV 5
Sumatra
A bizarre insect from the jungle of Sumatra, with horns that look like grasping arms, that can not graps with real grasping hands behind it.
100 mm • f5.6/ • 1/125 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 5400 lux EV 10.9
Venus
Venus over the Ossenmarkt
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/4 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4.4 lux EV 0.7
Number 7
Number 7 is being made in this series, that began in 2006. The on from 2020 is about evolution and our culture and will be appearing in April.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/25 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 35 lux EV 3.7
Messy
A very messy image with several layers: the eye has a lot to do.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/60 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 270 lux EV 6.6
Winter Sun
In the direction of Rembrandt plein the winter sun scatters from the tram rails.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/121 sec. • 80 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1700 lux EV 9.2
Doll
When a sign is needed to indicate that he can talk, I wouldn't buy it.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 140 lux EV 5.7
Mokum
One of the nicest places of Mokum.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/2 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2.8 lux EV 0
1902
When you are far enough in the Webster's International Dictionary, printed in 1902, you will only find the most magnificent engraved images. After a day in which there were too manu words on my retina's, they are very welcome.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 140 lux EV 5.7
Where
Where is everybody?
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/13 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 23 lux EV 3.1
60
There is a difference between a number (like countable years) and an amount (like time that has passed).
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/100 sec. • 40 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2200 lux EV 9.7
Eating Well
Well, this looks bad for people who live alone.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/50 sec. • 80 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 680 lux EV 8
Rise
It is morning and the earth has rotated far enough so that the sun is visible. What a difference with only ten minutes earlier.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/578 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 32000 lux EV 13.5
Partial
A partial moon eclipse. Since the earth is so much bigger than the moon, almost a straight section is darkened.
560 mm • f/8 • 1/800 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 35000 lux EV 13.6
Friends
An evening with friends.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/14 sec. • 1000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 12 lux EV 2.2
Switch
A very old light switch, that still functions flawlessly and around which the plasterer has worked around carefully.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/14 sec. • 1000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 12 lux EV 2.2
Christmas
The Dot in Groningen acts as though it is still christmas.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/4 sec. • 1000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3.5 lux EV 0.4
Haunted House
One in the fourty houses are empty in the city of Groningen. Some of them have a remarkable past.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/4 sec. • 1000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3.5 lux EV 0.4
Chillen
Chilling in the Forum means apping or sleeping
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 88 lux EV 5
Martinichurch
From the Forum you can appreciate the weird architecture of the Martinichurch. It looks like a collective of four architects have worked separately from each other.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/4 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2.8 lux EV 0.1
Latitude
The latitude of Groningen set for a few hours of clear sky.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/326 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 9000 lux EV 11.7
Smile
The moon was smiling at me encouragingly.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/50 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 340 lux EV 7
Free
Free to move, unhindered.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/139 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7600 lux EV 11.4
2020
The start of 2020. Stranded in the mist in Zandeweer.
1.5 mm • f/2.4 • 1/121 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1200 lux EV 8.8
December 2019
Canal Houses
Canal Houses have a hard time on the soft ground of peat and old sea clay of Amsterdam, but are still standing.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/50 sec. • 80 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 680 lux EV 8
Fun
To be a bit scared can be fun, especially when you know your back is covered.
1.5 mm • f/2.4 • 1/121 sec. • 80 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2400 lux EV 9.8
Steel Floats
Althought steel is 8 times heaver per unit volume, a paperclip just floats on water.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 80 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 550 lux EV 7.7
It's Freezing
I'ts freezing in Groningen and the sky is unmoving over the city.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/121 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1300 lux EV 8.9
Grannybike
Granny bikes go the mile.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/121 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1300 lux EV 8.9
Inverted
An inverted photo.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/122 sec. • 40 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3300 lux EV 10.3
Nutcracker
A soldier that cracks nuts.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/25 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 28 lux EV 3.3
Light
In these darkest days of the year, people need light and a dry bottom.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/8 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11 lux EV 2
WinterWelvaart
WinterWelvaart is over again and the Noorderhaven will be quiet again.
35 mm • f/1.4 • 1/800 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2700 lux EV 9.9
Two Hats
It was sociable again at the WinterWelvaart event in Groningen. Close to each other, but each in their own world.
35 mm • f/1.4 • 1/100 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 330 lux EV 6.9
Black Water
The black water of the Verbindingskanaal reflects the colorful museum of Groningen.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/8 sec. • 1000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7.1 lux EV 1.4
Bicycle City 2
Groningen is the bicycle city of the Netherlands and can easily be seen here!
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/4 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7.1 lux EV 1.4
Bicycle City
Groningen is the bicycle city of the Netherlands and can easily be seen here!
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/8 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 14 lux EV 2.4
Glowing
The glowing tip of the wick becomes shorter as needed.
100 mm • f/5.6 • 1/20 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 860 lux EV 8.3
Bilingual
The watch of my great grand father is bilingual, french and english, but was made in Amsterdam.
100 mm • f/2.8 • 1/3.3333 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 36 lux EV 3.7
Candle
The bell tower of Westerdijkshorn looked like a huge candle under de the stars.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/2 sec. • 8000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 0.2 lux EV -3.6
Moody
He became a bit moody after those days with bad weather!
6 mm • f/2 • 1/116 sec. • 250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 510 lux EV 7.5
Last
The last full moon in 2019
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/25 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 35 lux EV 3.7
Avercamp
A present day Avercamp scene on the Museumplein in Amsterdam.
1.5 mm • f/2.4 • 1/122 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 9600 lux EV 11.8
Overview
A new overview over the city of Groningen from the recently opend Forum.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/60 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 330 lux EV 6.9
Spiral
A spiral staircase covering thirteen floors.
1.5 mm • f/2.4 • 1/25 sec. • 64 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 610 lux EV 7.8
50
A small part of a 50 euro note shows colors due to interference, not due to ink. In this way it resembles the wing of a butterfly. (longest side: 12.8 mm)
100 mm • f/2.8 • 1/4 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 86 lux EV 5
That's it
That's it for today at the flower stand.
35 mm • f/2.8 • 1/40 sec. • 320 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 270 lux EV 6.6
Gerrit Krol
Gerrit Krol wrote poems that make you think. The voyage of the Challenger (1872-1876) taught us much about the oceans. In the Agassiz Museum at Harvard there are still unopened jars with animals from that expedition.
85 mm • f/1.3 • 1/60 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 69 lux EV 4.7
Mars
Mars in the winter night.
35 mm • f/8 • 3.2 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 14 lux EV 2.3
Storm
A heavy storm from the west in Groningen
85 mm • f/1.3 • 1/200 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 230 lux EV 6.4
Gianduiotto
The Gianduiotto is a chocolat from Turin with hazelnut and invented in 1865
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/25 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 130 lux EV 5.6
Batman
He was having a great time with his batman cap, stable skates and seal.
85 mm • f/1.3 • 1/320 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 370 lux EV 7.1
Smile
The smile has disappeared for years, but he still does it again on a cold night: selling bratwurst.
85 mm • f/1.2 • 1/400 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 390 lux EV 7.2
Bicycle Rush Hour
Bicycle rush hour in Groningen
35 mm • f/1.4 • 1/160 sec. • 3200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 27 lux EV 3.3
Tongue
Winter sticks her tongue out to us.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 13000 lux EV 12.3
November 2019
Lasers
The laser beams from the just opened Forum in the middle of the city of Groningen makes astrophotography virtually impossible. From the distance to the Forum, the length and angle of the laser beam to the cloud in the left of the image and the focal length of the camera lens, the height of the cloud can be calculated: 660 meter.
28 mm • f/2 • 5 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 1.1 lux EV -1.3
Onderdendam
The showers over Onderdendam were fighting with the setting sun.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/1479 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 78000 lux EV 14.8
Vodka
Very large bottles of vodka, of which the decorations look nice especially when the vodka is still in the bottles.
35 mm • f/5.6 • 1/40 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 860 lux EV 8.3
Pomegranate
A fruit from the North of India.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/1.6667 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 71 lux EV 4.7
Kinetic
These cufflinks have a mechanism that moves when you write something.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/6 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 64 lux EV 4.6
Bridge
Willem waits near the bridge for a moment before we continue with our adventure.
28 mm • f/2 • 1/30 sec. • 4000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 8.2 lux EV 1.6
Teamwork
Even teamwork happens nowadays behind computer screens here at the Amsterdam School of Real Estate
35 mm • f/1.4 • 1/40 sec. • 640 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 33 lux EV 3.6
Spiral
This lovey pattern emerges when from a single stem a layer is shelled in a spiral from outside to inward.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/50 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1100 lux EV 8.6
Strip
A strip of sun light between the showers.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/777 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 41000 lux EV 13.9
Ice Mist
Tiny ice crystals where hanging in the air in the middle of the day.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/3344 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 177000 lux EV 16
't Mandje
Café 't Mandje was openend 92 years ago and has seen quite some events..
35 mm • f/5.6 • 1/40 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 430 lux EV 7.3
't Loosje
Café 't Loosje was once built as a waiting room for the horse drawn tram.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/4 sec. • 3200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 41 lux EV 3.9
Kantens
Kantens on a ice cold winter day.
250 mm • f/16 • 1/250 sec. • 2000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 8700 lux EV 11.6
Digital
We disappear more and more in a digital world.
35 mm • f/1.4 • 1/500 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1700 lux EV 9.3
Dreaming
She often dreams of travelling to far countries.
35 mm • f/2.8 • 1/40 sec. • 640 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 130 lux EV 5.6
Terminal
The Boat Terminal at the IJ waits for new passengers.
35 mm • f/1.4 • 1/40 sec. • 500 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 43 lux EV 4
Flaring
Flaring of natural gas on the Hooge Land
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/4049 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 214000 lux EV 16.3
Fields of Gold
After a heavy shower, the brick factory is bathing in sunlight next to the fields of gold.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/845 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 45000 lux EV 14
Distillery
Mild whisky for a cold night.
50 mm • f/13 • 5 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 46 lux EV 4.1
Signalling House
This signalling house at Amsterdam Central platform 13, has not been used for a long time and was designed by architect Herman Schelling, who also designed Amstel Station.
28 mm • f/2 • 1/30 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 41 lux EV 3.9
Pigeons
Some call pigeons "rats with wings", but the tourists like them on the Dam.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/250 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 10000 lux EV 11.9
The Kiss
This kiss makes the master of ceremonies a bit shy at the wedding of Marc and Juanita.
28 mm • f/2 • 1/30 sec. • 640 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 51 lux EV 4.2
Beetle
It appears that a beetle can roll itself up and that can offer advantages.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/30 sec. • 3200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 310 lux EV 6.8
Transparent
This building is tranparant due to the glass bricks that have been glued together without flushes between them.
85 mm • f/9 • 1/160 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Proud
A proud promovendus with her parents and her owl.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/50 sec. • 6400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 17 lux EV 2.6
S
An S shape in the road to allow room for the water.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/400 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 21000 lux EV 12.9
Revolution
I have the feeld the the sheep will start a revolution quite soon in the Netherlands
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/400 sec. • 250 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Klimopstraatje
It was raining in the Klimopstraatje.
12 mm • f/8 • 1/5 sec. • 12800 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 6.8 lux EV 1.3
Lunch
Lunch at the Bijenkorf in fisheye lamp perspective
85 mm • f/9 • 1/100 sec. • 10000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 220 lux EV 6.3
Kolksluis
View of the Kolksluis with the Zeedijk.
28 mm • f/2 • 1/30 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 41 lux EV 3.9
October 2019
First Ice
The morning brought the first ice
50 mm • f/9 • 1/50 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1400 lux EV 9
Windless
The evening started windless and the sky opened up. Soon the stars would appear.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/400 sec. • 250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Smoke on the Water
Interesting how Amsterdam becomes a caricature of itself under pressure of the tourists.
28 mm • f/2 • 1/30 sec. • 8000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 4.1 lux EV 0.6
Geese
Geese over the Onlanden in the golden light of autumn.
28 mm • f/7.1 • 1/160 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Street Artist
Life of a street artist is not easy. First you have to get a ring of tourists around you.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/2500 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Vismarkt
In the middle of the city of Groningen a great open space: De Vismarkt.
35 mm • f/5 • 13 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 5.2 lux EV 0.9
Station
Station at night: the trains cool down until the morning breaks.
12 mm • f/11 • 5 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 10 lux EV 1.9
Plattboj
Lithium pills from Ikea, first you assemble them yourself and you are ready to go again.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/17 sec. • 64 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 350 lux EV 7
Fluorescence
A lamp with circulare fluerescent tube offers remarkable colours when you photograph it.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/241 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 13000 lux EV 12.2
Smeary
The sky was hanging low and smeasy over the city.
35 mm • f/1.4 • 1/800 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 540 lux EV 7.6
Flock
A flock of geese is practising against a heavy autumn sky.
35 mm • f/1.4 • 1/3200 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2100 lux EV 9.6
Sulphur shelf
A huge sulphur shelf just keeps growing.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/800 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 11.9
Anthocyanins
Anthocyanins give the red color in these leaves and suppress the growth of other plants nearby, so that the new season can begin will in a few months time.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/40 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 870 lux EV 8.3
Ewsum
The estate of Borg Ewsum (from 1353) changes its colour slowly from green to yellow.
10.3 mm • f/2.8 • 1/800 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Lady in Blue
This aster, the Lady in Blue, blooms well into October.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/50 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1100 lux EV 8.6
Birdhouse
As can be seen this birdhouse has been abandoned. It was such a grand house!
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/17 sec. • 80 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 280 lux EV 6.7
Changing
The direction of the wind is changing and so the cap of the mill is turned.
100 mm • f/4.5 • 1/200 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 6900 lux EV 11.3
Protest
The farmers of Groningen are protesting en put their tractors on the Grote Markt.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/33 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1400 lux EV 9
Again
Kiplangat won the 4 miles again today, in the rain, but the record of 2011 still stands. If he would maintain that speed of today on the marathon he woud cover it in 1 hour 54 min and 23 sec, which is much better than the record of Kipchoge yteterday of 1 hour 59 min 40 seconds. It shows that even a 4 mile run is not steady state. (When your name is "Kiplangat" you or your forefather was born between 20:00 and 22:00)
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/3200 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 3500 lux EV 10.3
Race
The race is on over the windy Paterswoldsemeer.
28 mm • f/2 • 1/5000 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 34000 lux EV 13.6
Sun
The sun has shown herself rarely last week and so the sunflower turned her face downward.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/200 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Flash
This happens when you take a picture without a mechanical shutter in a solemn ceremony and someone else flashes while using a loud mechanical shutter.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/100 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 110 lux EV 5.3
Critical
Sigrid listened critically to the very elaborate question during the defense of her thesis on football.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/100 sec. • 1250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 71 lux EV 4.7
Zuiderhaven
The Zuiderhaven at night
28 mm • f/8 • 1 sec. • 640 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 27 lux EV 3.3
Beefsteak Fungus
A beeftsteak fungus likes to grow on a vertical piece of dead wood.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/50 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 4400 lux EV 10.6
Trinity
A trinity shoots up from the moist forest ground.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/50 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 2700 lux EV 10
Fort Voordorp
Fort Voordorp is being guarded.
28 mm • f/5.6 • 1/200 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 11.9
Shaggy Ink Cap
Shaggy Ink Caps on Fort Voordorp.
28 mm • f/5.6 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 13000 lux EV 12.3
Just wait
"Just wait until your father gets home!", she said, and they already heard his footsteps in the distance.
50 mm • f/4.5 • 1/50 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 550 lux EV 7.7
OSB
Oriented Strand Board consists of wood flakes that are pressed together under very high pressure. A piece of it could very well pass for modern art.
28 mm • f/4.5 • 1/30 sec. • 250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 660 lux EV 7.9
Vain
The saxophone was invented by the Belgian Adolphe Sax, who gave his name to the instrument.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/100 sec. • 320 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 280 lux EV 6.7
September 2019
Wet
With the wet asphalt roads of the last few days, you can use such a jacket.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/50 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 540 lux EV 7.6
Class Struggle
Ladies from different classes in society look each other straight in the eyes just before the start of the Autumn Regatta.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/400 sec. • 500 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 6800 lux EV 11.3
To Choose
She always found it hard to choose between two sports.
327 mm • f/5.6 • 1/640 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 27000 lux EV 13.3
Überdondert
Überdondert by the rainbow just before coming home.
28 mm • f/2 • 1/8000 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 44000 lux EV 14
Martini Kerkhof
The Martini Kerkhof at night is one of the darkest places in town.
28 mm • f/2 • 1.6 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 3.4 lux EV 0.3
Prinsenhof
In the Prinsenhof a grand café is established nowadays and a hotel looking out on the splendid garden behind it.
28 mm • f/2 • 1/2.5 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 14 lux EV 2.3
Peace
Peace along the Hoornse Diep.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/50 sec. • 3200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 130 lux EV 5.6
Tumbling
The fire bugs decided to start tumbling in the seed bulbs of the hollyhocks.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/50 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1100 lux EV 8.6
Brick Factory
The abandoned brick factory after sunset.
10.3 mm • f/2.8 • 1/30 sec. • 6400 ISO • 24.5mm sensor • tripod 10 lux EV 1.9
Wedding couple
The wedding couple opened the dance.
28 mm • f/2 • 1/30 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 41 lux EV 3.9
Ladies 8
A Ladies 8 is looking for the best group coordination.
10.3 mm • f/2.8 • 1/320 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 430 lux EV 7.3
Paterswoldsemeer
The Paterswoldsemeer is a nice place for sailing in the evening.
10.3 mm • f/4 • 1/400 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Noordwolde
Noordwolde against the evening sky predicts a restless night.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/50 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 860 lux EV 8.3
Archimedes
A screw of Archimedes to pump up water has been abandoned since it had rusted through.
50 mm • f/9 • 1/80 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 4400 lux EV 10.7
Bleating
He just kept bleating about what she did wrong all the time. She said nothing, but thought: "tomorrow I'll leave".
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/60 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1300 lux EV 8.9
Anthony
The Anthony Chruch in Kantens started to hang over after its construction and so a huge buttress was built around 1600. The holy Anthony is for hopeless and lost cases and in this case it did help, since the church is still there.
10.3 mm • f/4 • 1/320 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
10 years
Exactly 10 years ago I started this PhotoBlog. Very much has changed. However the moon is constant and has hardly changed over those years.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/15 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 320 lux EV 6.9
Strong
Strong and cracked.
4.1 mm • f/2.4 • 1/120 sec. • 50 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3800 lux EV 10.4
Sea
A sea of bicycles as far as the eye can see.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/50 sec. • 8000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 13 lux EV 2.3
Tri-Ambla
Hij was training in the Westerwijtwerdmaar for theTri-Ambla on Ameland.
306 mm • f/5.6 • 1/320 sec. • 250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Waxing Moon
The moon rose just before sunset and stood low and magnificent over the landscape between Kantens and Middelstum.
100 mm • f/4.5 • 1/100 sec. • 320 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1700 lux EV 9.3
GRID
A volunteer of the Graphic Museum Groningen looks at the thematic Bos atlasses.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/100 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 220 lux EV 6.3
Africa
The members of the Student Choir Groningen sang "I bless the rains down in Africa", while the heavens opened above the city.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/100 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 220 lux EV 6.3
Born Storyteller
Peter Vroege is a born storyteller, here during the Groningen Museum Night on the atlasses he makes and publishes.
35 mm • f/1.4 • 1/60 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 320 lux EV 6.9
Caught
Had heard him, and after that caught him eating cheese, after which I showed him the door.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/50 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 67 lux EV 4.6
Serenade
Two collegues bring a serenade at the farewell party of our secretary.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/50 sec. • 640 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 170 lux EV 5.9
SuikerUnie
Overview of the SuikerUnie. Procuction of sugar from beets. Those tanks are 40 meter high.
10.3 mm • f/4 • 1/40 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1700 lux EV 9.3
Change
The season is changing.
100 mm • f/8 • 1/100 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2200 lux EV 9.6
Philosophical
He has a philosophical disposition and likes to sit behind his desk all alone.
560 mm • f/8 • 1/500 sec. • 640 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
To Play
Swallows play around the steeple of Middelstum.
560 mm • f/8 • 1/2500 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 437000 lux EV 17.3
August 2019
Peppermint
Peppermint can be useful for the concentration while reading large quantities of scientific literature.
28 mm • f/8 • 1/30 sec. • 4000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 130 lux EV 5.6
Shadow
Sometimes I'm just a shadow of myself, going to get food.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/100 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 880 lux EV 8.3
Addition
The cloud forms a welcome addition in the deep blue sky, abstract, yet 3D
35 mm • f/8 • 1/400 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 70000 lux EV 14.6
Organic
The fireworks this year at Bommen Berend was quite organic. Here sea anemones.
35 mm • f/1.4 • 1/100 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 67 lux EV 4.6
Layers
Historical formed layers of rust, cracked paint, lichen and bird shit.
100 mm • f/4.5 • 1/1000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 55000 lux EV 14.3
Old and New
An old beach scene, with new windmills on the horizon.
244 mm • f/5.6 • 1/800 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 68000 lux EV 14.6
Trembling
The trembling air over the seal sand bank makes a mozaic of the two mast ship.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/1000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 86000 lux EV 14.9
ISS
The International Sapce Station passes in front of the moon in Zandeweer in about 0.8 seconds.
2010 mm • f/10 • 1/2000 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 44000 lux EV 14
Drowned
She was drowned in social media on a deserted platform.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/1000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 8800 lux EV 11.7
Noorderzon
The Noorderzon festival has visitors from all age groups the last few years.
85 mm • f/4.5 • 1/100 sec. • 1000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 550 lux EV 7.7
Flight in Delight
Ronald Hünneman plays a philosophical one-act on the Noorderzon festival
28 mm • f/2 • 1/2500 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 27000 lux EV 13.3
Umbrella
It has been sitting there for a long time, that umbrella. Very useful for the train operator after shunting the train while it rains.
35 mm • f/8 • 1/640 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 112000 lux EV 15.3
Autumn
A memory of last autumn I found under my bookcase.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/4 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 340 lux EV 7
Group
The group commands adaptation. These gentlemen differ more from each other than the eye can see.
85 mm • f/2 • 1/1250 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Double
Twice the world in a soap bubble
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/800 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 7100 lux EV 11.3
Peacock Butterfly
The blue color on the wings of the Peacock Butterfly is not the color of a pigment, but comes from interference of light at a very thin layer of hooks on the scales on the wings.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/705 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 37000 lux EV 13.7
Fashion
The available shoe fashion for hospital workers.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/10 sec. • 80 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 170 lux EV 5.9
Skywater
Skywater in thick drops fills the pan.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/250 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1300 lux EV 8.9
Questions
This pattern of raindrops on a wall evokes quite a list of questions.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/60 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 320 lux EV 6.9
ABC00
A shovel of the type AB C 00
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/2 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 170 lux EV 6
Memory
That's how you create your own memory of a visit to Amsterdam, carefully framed and in the right light.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/1600 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Introduction
The introduction to a whirlwind in Amsterdam consisted of opening of a heart.
85 mm • f/5 • 1/400 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 27000 lux EV 13.3
KARAAT
Members of the student sorority K.A.R.A.A.T., founded in 1983
85 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Butterfly Bush
A butterfly bush with characteristic visitor and its rolling tongue.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/746 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 39000 lux EV 13.8
Strategical
This cat places itself stategically at the entrance of the supermarket and does so with style.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/239 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 13000 lux EV 12.2
Irish Valenzuela
Irish Valenzuela, a rider from the Philippines, joined the Gouden Pijl in Emmen.
85 mm • f/8 • 1/50 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 4400 lux EV 10.6
Kjeld
Kjeld Nuis in one of the sharpest corners of the Gouden Pijl in Emmen. His back number gives him an aerodynamical disadvantage.
28 mm • f/2 • 1/1600 sec. • 3200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 550 lux EV 7.6
Back to the Future
They came from the sixties, and had discovered the smartphone and sneakers.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/2000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 18000 lux EV 12.7
Wing
The wing of a housefly is covered in tiny hairs that have a function in the aerodynamics during flight.
20 mm • f/5.6 • 0.8 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 54 lux EV 4.3
Harvest
The harvest before the rain comes over Kantens.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/4274 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 226000 lux EV 16.3
Sahara
Sand grains from the Sahara come from serveral types of igneous rock and have become rounded over time, despite the lack of rain (from left to right 3 mm)
20 mm • f/5.6 • 0.8 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 54 lux EV 4.3
July 2019
Housefly
A housefly is a lot larger than a fruitfly and so has many more facets in the eyes. Furthermore the usual antennas to pick up scent molecules in the air and a magnificent exoskeleton.
20 mm • f/5.6 • 0.8 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 54 lux EV 4.3
Fruitfly
A fruitfly is very small, about 10x smaller than a housefly. That is why he has fewer facets in his eyes, since the diameter of a facet limits the resolution of the image. In total they have fewer "pixels" (about 150 in each eye) and so they see less. Therefore it is easier to catch them.
20 mm • f/5.6 • 0.8 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 54 lux EV 4.3
International Space Station
The International Space Station moves in 90 seconds from right to left over the neighbours, partly obscured by light clouds.
35 mm • f/1.4 • 1/30 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 13 lux EV 2.2
Sugar
A sugar crystal has angles that are due to the stacking of sugar molecules as close as possible during the crystallization process. click
20 mm • f/5.6 • 1/5 sec. • 400 ISO • 36x24mm sensor • tripod 110 lux EV 5.3
City
The cracks on a vase followed the paths of highest tension and by forming have influenced the landscape of tension, inviting the formation of new cracks. This process looks like the formation of streets in an old city in which street also connect by right angles to each other. click
50 mm • f/11 • 1/5 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 410 lux EV 7.2
Silk
A silk necktie looks like this very close by. (From left to right 2mm)
20 mm • f/8 • 1/400 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 17000 lux EV 12.6
Jupiter
Jupiter over the church of Zandeweer with still a tiny bit of light from the north west at this time of the day.
154 mm • f/5 • 1/160 sec. • 10000 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 110 lux EV 5.3
Four Eyes
A frog gets two extra eyes due to the reflection in the upward curved water surface in front of him.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 43000 lux EV 13.9
Relaxing
It is quite warm outside, and so this bee rests for a while on a hollyhock
50 mm • f/10 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 34000 lux EV 13.6
Tiny
This tiny moth decided to wake me in the middle of the night. So I gave her the requested attention and made a portret of her. She appears to have beautiful eyes. (From left to right 2 mm, 150 photographs with steps of 0.005 mm stacked)
20 mm • f/4 • 1/400 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 17000 lux EV 12.6
to go
Sometimes I just want to go, it does not matter where.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/444 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 23000 lux EV 13.1
Step
Stepping of a horse is not correctly shown here in a statue of Queen Wilhelmina: the front leg at the same side runs ahead in phase relative to the hind leg here and this should be the other way around.
85 mm • f/5.6 • 1/320 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 27000 lux EV 13.3
Pass
She passed the torches and felt the eyes of the crowd.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/5000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 44000 lux EV 14
Non Aerobar
Since the introduction of the aerobar in 1989 by Greg Lemond in the Tour de France, it has become a popular accessory for race cyclists. But in the Netherlands it has also gained some popularity among every day cyclists in the city. It is more a non aerobar since you use it almost standing up, yet it may relieve the hands and dwrists from some of the load.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/686 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 36000 lux EV 13.7
Desk
My second desk with a comination of old and new objects.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/33 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1400 lux EV 9
Holes
The monstera plant makes holes, but that only happens beyond a certain size of the plant. The leaf unrolls with with the holes in place, so the plant knows how big it is.
35 mm • f/1.4 • 1/1600 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1100 lux EV 8.6
Batteries
Many batteries from a malfunctioning e-bike battery can be salvaged and in this case are of good quality.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/8 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 110 lux EV 5.3
Love
In a digital world there is a tiny bit of room for a handmade sign of love.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/17 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 220 lux EV 6.4
Experiment
An experiment to find the relation between the visualisation of the back and the sensory input of it.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/17 sec. • 64 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 350 lux EV 7
Groningen Prairie
You approach with considerable speed on your bicycle, but the animals of the Groningen Prairie always have a right of way.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/4525 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 239000 lux EV 16.4
Summerschool
Mij contribution to a Summerschool at the UMCG could be reached using this staircase.
28 mm • f/2 • 1/2000 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2700 lux EV 10
Border
At the border between Drenthe and Friesland, we see something of the nature of the inhabitants of these provinces in the form of the border poles.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/1374 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 73000 lux EV 14.7
Modern Knight
He seemed to come from a different time.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/640 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5700 lux EV 11
Hollyhocks at Night
Hollyhocks at night in our street grow to meters high.
35 mm • f/1.4 • 1/30 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 20 lux EV 2.9
Resolution
Digital camera's have various resolutions available. But what does it matter for a Photoblog? Here a test with four often used resolutions (click on the image for the large version, with a magnification of 168% of the original pixels of the 42 Mpix image, the other images are further magnified to the same scale)
85 mm • f/4 • 1/100 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 4400 lux EV 10.6
Excreta
As can be seen storks are really tidy inside their nest, given how crowded it is, but the border of the nest and the wide surroundings are covered in excreta.
10.3 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1250 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 27000 lux EV 13.3
Zebra
A zebra sky with in the middle the illuminated Duo building. Such a pattern emerges in a stable layer with a cooler layer gliding over it.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/4808 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 254000 lux EV 16.5
Road Building Machine
Never seen before: this is a machine that can lay a brick road in a pattern.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1250 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 27000 lux EV 13.3
Whirligig Beetles
Whirligig Beetles (Gyrinus natator) write in their curly handwriting on the water. Industrious and short lasting.
560 mm • f/8 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 44000 lux EV 14
Fountainflower
Straight from above a fountain looks like a flower.
10.3 mm • f/2.8 • 1/240 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5100 lux EV 10.9
City Beach
Groningen has a popular city beach. There are no waves, but it looks a bit like a real beach.
10.3 mm • f/2.8 • 1/2000 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 43000 lux EV 13.9
June 2019
To Horizon
The sun races to the horizon while the Eastwind warms the land.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/2000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 18000 lux EV 12.7
Fochteloërveen
The Fochteloërveen is the remains of a peat excavation arae with three species of snakes.
10.3 mm • f/2.8 • 1/320 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 6800 lux EV 11.3
Ambition
The kick-off meeting of a collaboration of neuroscience institutes, at which the lady in charge indicated to the director how large the amition is.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/25 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 220 lux EV 6.3
32
There were 32 of them, masters human movement sciences, who gave presentations and presentated posters on the first master symposium.
28 mm • f/4 • 1/100 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2200 lux EV 9.6
Declaration
He said "Te quiero muchísimo", but she only spoke Finnish
50 mm • f/4.5 • 1/50 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2200 lux EV 9.7
Drowned
A drowned tree in the Onlanden offers a nice observation point for birds.
10.3 mm • f/5.6 • 1/50 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4300 lux EV 10.6
Abstract
At considerable height, the Wadden turn into an abstract painting.
10.3 mm • f/5.6 • 1/200 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Middelstum
Middelstum was mentioned in 945 as 'Midisheim' and presently has about 2400 inhabitants.
10.3 mm • f/5.6 • 1/40 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3400 lux EV 10.3
Midnight
The sky in the North, at midnight on the longest day of the year.
85 mm • f/2 • 1/3.3333 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 36 lux EV 3.7
Belltower
The belltower of Westerdijkshorn after a heavy summer shower on the longest day of the year.
10.3 mm • f/5.6 • 1/30 sec. • 120 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2100 lux EV 9.6
Doorman
A doorman at my door. This right coiling snail indicates how to turn the key to lock the door. Left coiling snails are extremely rare in this species.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/33 sec. • 40 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1100 lux EV 8.6
Painted Lady
This Painted Lady flies in the spring from the Mediterranean or even the North of Africa to the Netherlands
50 mm • f/9 • 1/250 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 6900 lux EV 11.3
Thinking
When we think, sometimes we touch our head, as though we want to give our brain a hand.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 55 lux EV 4.3
4 Moons
Four moons together: the one circling the earth, which was full. and three that circle Jupiter: Callisto, Ganymedes and Io, from left to right.
560 mm • f/8 • 1/1000 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 22000 lux EV 13
Muons
This device measures muons, fast charged particles, coming from the sun. When both detectors show the same signal simultaneously, a muon has passed through. Muons travel close to the speed of light and in half an hour this detector has counted 138 passing through.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/100 sec. • 1000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 88 lux EV 5
Hair Whorl
The direction of the hair whorl is strongly correlated with right- or left handedness (Direction of hair whorl and handedness Alan A. Beaton and Gary Mellor). Clockwise, as in this picture, occurs most often in right handed people.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/8 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 66 lux EV 4.6
Zandeweer
A typical quiet village on the Hogeland of Groningen, with a windmill and a church.
10.3 mm • f/5.6 • 1/30 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2600 lux EV 9.9
Sigrid
Sigrid will leave Human Movement Sciences shortly, but had some time today for a photo session.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/60 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 130 lux EV 5.6
Lit
At midnight, high in the stratosphere clouds that are lit by the sun in the North.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/4 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3.3 lux EV 0.3
Elmer
The Rector Magnificus of the RuG, Elmer Sterken, was leaving and so a "Pint of Science" tour was organised with lectures in his fields of interest. My contribution was titled "Science of Cycling"
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/100 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 110 lux EV 5.3
Legs
He just recently got his legs and is tiny, but can already catch an even smaller insect.
50 mm • f/9 • 1/50 sec. • 320 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 3500 lux EV 10.3
Excellent
The Ladiesrun: 7.5 kilometers in excellent conditions.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/500 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 43000 lux EV 13.9
Movements
The string sextet of the Chamber Orchestra of the North looks at the movement analysis I did of them for the NIght of Art and Science . They played "Verklärte Nacht", composed by Arnold Schönberg.
28 mm • f/2 • 1/40 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 440 lux EV 7.3
Gardenpath
They played "The gardenpath of my father"
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/33 sec. • 64 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 680 lux EV 8
ISCOMS
The visitors of the international student conference come for all directions on earth.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/527 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 28000 lux EV 13.3
Flashes
Flashes over Groningen and after that puddles of rain water. Quite refreshing after a day like this.
28 mm • f/2 • 1/1.6667 sec. • 320 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5.7 lux EV 1.1
Homes
Homes for bees next to a rapeseed field.
28 mm • f/5 • 1/200 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Sand Extraction
A large area for sand extraction in Drenthe
10.3 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1000 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 21000 lux EV 12.9
De Wachter
Mill "De Wachter" near Zuidlaren is en Oilmill. Oilmills are industrial mills, built specifically to press oil from oil containing seeds.
10.3 mm • f/2.8 • 1/400 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 8600 lux EV 11.6
Union 3
The union of Noordwolde just before sunset.
10.3 mm • f/2.8 • 1/240 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5100 lux EV 10.9
May 2019
Union 2
The union of Noordwolde in the early morning.
10.3 mm • f/2.8 • 1/100 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2100 lux EV 9.6
Grumpy
That's what it feels like when you are grumpy.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/1600 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Friends
Colorful friends looking for colorful clothes.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/2500 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Numbers
She was looking for the right number
12 mm • f/11 • 1/200 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 66000 lux EV 14.6
Colonial
Colonial music
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/3200 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 28000 lux EV 13.3
Little Berlin
Every year this vintage market "Little Berlin" in Groningen
12 mm • f/11 • 1/160 sec. • 100 ISO • 36x24mm sensor • handheld 53000 lux EV 14.2
Tourists
This is the Amsterdam for tourists. But there is a different Amsterdam.
28 mm • f/6.3 • 1/1600 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 43000 lux EV 14
Onion
Noordwolde has a romanogothic church with an union shaped steeple.
10.3 mm • f/2.8 • 1/100 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2100 lux EV 9.6
Double
A double without coxswain.
400 mm • f/11 • 1/800 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 33000 lux EV 13.6
Chess
A chess board on which you can be a piece yourself by choice.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/223 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 12000 lux EV 12.1
RAI
Station RAI deserted.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/250 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 280 lux EV 6.7
Helmet
He wears his helmet thoughout the day and is a steady visitor of the fleamarket on the Waterlooplein.
28 mm • f/6.3 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Tadpoles
They wait until their legs pop out and you can tell that won't take long.
50 mm • f/11 • 1/250 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 10000 lux EV 11.9
Household
A household of coots in Amsterdam. The young one tries to climb the nest, while its parents prepare material for the nest. They have speculoos for diner.
85 mm • f/6.3 • 1/160 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 4300 lux EV 10.6
Bizarre World
Bass player Scott Thunes plays live with a pixelated Frank Zappa. The pixels have weird colors due to the short moment of building up the image captured by my camera. Our lazy eye mixed the short moments of display into natural colors.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/500 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 550 lux EV 7.7
Cliché
To photograph a sunset is quite a bit cliché, and for that reason the sheep have no interest in it at all.
50 mm • f/6.3 • 1/320 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Astronauts
Ordinary citizens become astronauts in this acceleration machine.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/640 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 106000 lux EV 15.2
Old Watertower
The old watertower in Groningen could contain 1 million liters of water and has a unique construction.
10.3 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1000 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 21000 lux EV 12.9
Kermis
The small fancy fair on the Ossenmarkt.
10.3 mm • f/2.8 • 1/800 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Tackle
Going down in a tackle can be the beginning of an escape.
279 mm • f/5.6 • 1/2500 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 54000 lux EV 14.3
More
I see more and more in this magnificent whirlpool.
650 mm • f/5 • 7200 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 0 lux EV -8.2
Ready
Everything is ready under a clear sky.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/100 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5300 lux EV 10.9
Stairway
A stairway to get an overview.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/60 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 20000 lux EV 12.8
As Far
As far as the eye can see, the color of rapeseed, that has just a bit more green in it than in that of dandelions.
28 mm • f/14 • 1/30 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 10000 lux EV 11.8
De Sleutel
The old café-restaurant De Sleutel is illuminated just by the setting sun.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/33 sec. • 50 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 870 lux EV 8.3
Kantens
Kantens is only small, but has two churches close to each other.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/5128 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 271000 lux EV 16.6
Growth Power
The growth power at this time of year can be seen all over the place
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/1221 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 65000 lux EV 14.5
Tjeukemeer
Het Tjeukemeer, under clouds loaded with wet snow.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 83000 lux EV 14.9
Lost in Translation
She was lost in translation, far far away from her hometown.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/2500 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Power
It's possible, a wheelchair with power!
35 mm • f/2.8 • 1/40 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 110 lux EV 5.3
VW
A riding dinosaur with matching colors.
35 mm • f/1.4 • 1/640 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 3400 lux EV 10.3
April 2019
Vituperated
He was vituperated because he had not tidied the nest. He kept his bill closed and head down.
400 mm • f/9 • 1/400 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Flowing
When you would have photographed this tree over the years, and make a movie out of it, you would have seen it flow like thick fluid over the gate.
50 mm • f/7.1 • 1/100 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Memory
Just a memory of yesterday when it was crowded here with people buying and selling
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/500 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 4400 lux EV 10.7
Kingsday
She played on kingsday in between rainshowers "The Pink Panther" with passion from her first book.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/500 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 4400 lux EV 10.7
Uithuizermeeden
In the distance Uithuizermeeden, there where the almost lumiscent tower stands.
50 mm • f/6.3 • 1/5000 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 68000 lux EV 14.6
Shy
The house in the middle seems to hide behind the grand building of Hotel Jimmy because it is why, but it has simply turned its back on the Hotel, while having its own royal entrance at the Nieuwendijk and Ramskooi.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/927 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 49000 lux EV 14.1
Serotine Bat
A Serotine Bat hunting, illuminated by a multiflash, that reflected in his eye.
85 mm • f/6.3 • 1/1.25 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 140 lux EV 5.6
Stroll
Excellent weather for a stroll together.
50 mm • f/7.1 • 1/320 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 44000 lux EV 14
Greyhound
When Henry Ford bought Lincoln, he commissioned this ornament. Here as was seen at the oldtimer exchange in Drachten.
35 mm • f/1.4 • 1/40 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 170 lux EV 6
Whirlpool Galaxy
It was a beatiful night and the Whirlpool Galaxy was almost straight overhead in Groningen, so I exposed for two hours with 6 filters. A galaxy as large as the Milkyway with many supernovae.
650 mm • f/5 • 7200sec. • 100 ISO • 24.5mm mm sensor • tripod 0 lux EV -8.2
Marieje
The Marieje was built in Faaborg in 1898. It is a Danish wooden sailingship, type galjas, originally meant for cargo and until 31 march 1967 used that way.
10.3 mm • f/2.8 • 1/30 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 400 lux EV 7.2
Bovenrijge
The Bovenrijge seen from above. This mill has "zelfzwichting" which is a mechanism to control the rotational speed. This small mill powers a wood sawing machine and a wood lathe.
10.3 mm • f/2.8 • 1/240 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5100 lux EV 10.9
Large
The men of the dockyard take quite some time and this is about he largest ship that can be built along the Winschoterdiep.
10.3 mm • f/2.8 • 1/30 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 320 lux EV 6.9
Solar Energy
The solar panel park next to the waste dump in Groningen.
10.3 mm • f/2.8 • 1/800 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Pulling Up
A goose is pulling up, so she keeps her bill closed.
560 mm • f/8 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 44000 lux EV 14
Low Cost
A low cost production on cycling the the city of Groningen.
85 mm • f/7.1 • 1/160 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5500 lux EV 11
AR2738
The sunspot AR2738 is many times larger than the earth and forms the basis of an enormous solar flare that temporarily cools the surface of the sun by its expansion, making it appear darker. When you look close, it seems that the spot tends to break in two pieces. We will see.
2035 mm • f/10 • 1/1000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 273000 lux EV 16.6
Time
When you're lecturing, you keep track of time, like Rob Withagen does here at the introduction for upcoming students.
35 mm • f/4 • 1/40 sec. • 4000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 44 lux EV 4
Sedoc
Gregory Sedoc at the preparations of a part in the series "SportLab Sedoc" that will be aired the 7th of May 2019 on NPO1
35 mm • f/1.4 • 1/500 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 670 lux EV 7.9
Nature Printed
A technique whereby a fern is pressed into soft lead makes it possible to obtain these wonderful hand coloured images.
85 mm • f/7.1 • 1/50 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1700 lux EV 9.3
Growth
The moon is growing again, while illuminated by the sun on the bottom.
650 mm • f/5 • 0.01 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 3400 lux EV 10.3
Trio
A trio in the sky: the Moon, Mars (the red one upper left) and the Pleiades right bottom.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 10 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 0.9 lux EV -1.6
Long Nose
The sun pulls a long nose to all the showers.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/1600 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 137000 lux EV 15.6
Waterhaas
Being a water rabbit, you have to look over your shoulder to see where you go.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/640 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 55000 lux EV 14.3
Spacious
The spacious Groningen landscape with the old brick factory in the distance.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/12821 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 678000 lux EV 17.9
Heavy
Try to stay light footed when walking in the heavy clay of Groningen.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/4 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 53 lux EV 4.3
3
Three beautiful objects together in Cassiopeia. the heart and soul nebulae and the double open cluster. The bright star in the left upper part is Miram. The field of view is as big as your fist with extended thumb at an outstretched arm.
135 mm • f/2.8 • 7200 sec. • 100 ISO • 24.5mm sensor • tripod 0 lux EV -9.8
Dutch
Durtch bikes are popular, because it is flat here, so they can be heavy, do not need gears and you don't need to go fast, so you can sit up straight, which is comfortable at all ages.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 83000 lux EV 14.9
Wild West
De wild west looks a bit like that but is a lot larger than this piece of plane tree bark.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/500 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 43000 lux EV 13.9
Grandeur
This recently restored sundial in Groningen has grandeur.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/1000 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 330000 lux EV 16.9
March 2019
Tension
They met on the great water surface. You could cut the tension. The surface tension stayed intact.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/500 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 43000 lux EV 13.9
Packed
These sheep have been packed for shipment. But how do you get them out without them running away?
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/60 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2600 lux EV 9.9
Conversation
Time for a conversation in this moment of lull.
560 mm • f/8 • 1/500 sec. • 640 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Blue
Peculiar color for such a boat
100 mm • f/5.6 • 1/100 sec. • 500 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1700 lux EV 9.3
Reeds
Between the reeds the wind is less abrasive en you can sit peacefully
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/800 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 68000 lux EV 14.6
Beckeringh
On Theodorus Beckeringh, a great book was published with his famous map of Groningen added
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/10 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 130 lux EV 5.6
Writing
Students still write with pen on paper when it is necessary.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/10 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 130 lux EV 5.6
Blue and White
Reflections of the sky
10.3 mm • f/3.2 • 1/1600 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 45000 lux EV 14
Soul Nebula
The Soul Nebula, its image stolen from the sky, just before the fog landed on Groningen
650 mm • f/5 • 3600 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 0 lux EV -7.2
Light
Together to the light.
400 mm • f/18 • 1/2000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1769000 lux EV 19.3
Torx
Torx bolts are being used more often these days. When you work with them you understand why.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/4 sec. • 125 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 42 lux EV 4
Calibrated
A calibrated torque wrench.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/8 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 110 lux EV 5.3
Flirtation
Spring must be coming: even de pigeons in the HEMA are flirting, with snacks in between.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/33 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1700 lux EV 9.3
Cattle
He said: "This morning I discovered that wa are just cattle, without internet"
150 mm • f/5.6 • 1/1250 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 27000 lux EV 13.3
After her
He went after her, carried by his wings, but was forgotten why.
196 mm • f/5.6 • 1/4000 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 86000 lux EV 14.9
Mixed
A mixed boat that seeks her way under two bridges. The steersman watches over them.
35 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1000 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1300 lux EV 8.9
Blue
Today a remarkable phenomenon: the sky was blue in some places. I remember that a long time ago, that happened more often.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/1166 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 62000 lux EV 14.5
Middelstum
Beaufort 9 over Middelstum
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/5495 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 290000 lux EV 16.7
7
Telephones were al lot bigger when I was seven years of age.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/17 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 220 lux EV 6.4
Attention
Here attention is trained in football. The question is: does it transfer to the field?
28 mm • f/2 • 1/640 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 440 lux EV 7.3
Found it!
Suddenly my studio was flooded after severe showers. 700 lilters that I pumped and sucked out. I checked everything but could not find a major hole, until I looked in the drain pipe: a hole that leaked water into my cavity wall.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/17 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 700 lux EV 8
Fossils
Very recent fossils on the bridge
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/432 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 23000 lux EV 13
Storm
A day later, the same place, but now the storm had arrived. Cyclists had to get off their bikes, the water became airborne.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/1538 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 81000 lux EV 14.9
Cap
The cap of the windmill has een fastened well in this gale.
10.3 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1250 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4 mm sensor • statief 27000 lux EV 13.3
Friend
Everybody has a best friend.
85 mm • f/5.6 • 1/1000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 86000 lux EV 14.9
Station Restaurant
The station restaurant of Groningen has allure
28 mm • f/4 • 1/30 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 160 lux EV 5.9
Clavius
The largest crater in the image is Clavius, close to the south pole of the moon. Its diameter is 231 km, so the distance from Groningen to Roermond.
2035 mm • f/10 • 1/100 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 27000 lux EV 13.3
Flying Carpet
My persian carpet receives flying lessons. When I pull the carpet sideways, the drone goes in the opposite direction, as if it wants to give way for the carpet to take off.
28 mm • f/4 • 1/20 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 55 lux EV 4.3
Image Correction
The 10-bit H-265 D-LOG video from the Hasselblad camera of the drone looks flat and distorted. After post correction with the script I wrote, it looks very good and uses the increased dynamic range of the raw file. (Script uses a look up table for the colors and distortion coefficients)
10.3 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1250 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4 mm sensor • tripod 27000 lux EV 13.3
Black Hole
The chimney of the Ceres factory is like a black hole: no light can escape.
10.3 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1250 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4 mm sensor • tripod 27000 lux EV 13.3
Night Out
Time for a night out!
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/4 sec. • 125 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 42 lux EV 4
February 2019
Wind Power
This tin-plated windmill transforms wind power in water displacement to keep the feet of the people from Groningen dry.
10.3 mm • f/2.8 • 1/200 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4300 lux EV 10.6
Bode and Cigar
A pretty combination high in the sky in the Big Dipper: the Cigar nebula and Bode's Galaxy
650 mm • f/5 • 7200 sec. • 200 ISO • 24.5 mm sensor • tripod 0 lux EV -9.2
Ceres
Brick factory Ceres has been producing until 1969
10.3 mm • f/2.8 • 1/3200 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 68000 lux EV 14.6
43000
43000 solar panels on a waist dump, enough for 3500 households.
10.3 mm • f/2.8 • 1/2500 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 54000 lux EV 14.3
Westerdijkshorn
In the fifteenth century, a belltower wass built here, that collapsed in 1870, after which this tower was built. Only the bell is from 1658.
10.3 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1250 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 27000 lux EV 13.3
Pond Digging
This is how you dig a pond.
10.3 mm • f/2.8 • 1/160 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3400 lux EV 10.3
Lost Land
After gaining land from the sea, we have surrendered it again.
10.3 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1250 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 27000 lux EV 13.3
Reflections I
Reflections of buildings as though it is a Batik.
28 mm • f/8 • 1/30 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5200 lux EV 10.9
Watch
Serious bussiness, Amsterdam Watch Co.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/100 sec. • 250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 350 lux EV 7
Rupes Recta
That vertical pencil line in the image is a fault of 2 km wide and 110 km long on the moon and is calles Rupes Recta. It was discovered by Christiaan Huygens and because of the handle under it, it is sometimes called Huygens's sword.
2035 mm • f/10 • 1/1000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 273000 lux EV 16.6
Under Moon
Chit chat under the moon.
85 mm • f/5.6 • 1/400 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 34000 lux EV 13.6
Jesse Owens
Murth Mossel plays Jesse Owens, the great sprinter from the time of Hitler. Part of the theater performance "De Achtervolgers" in which I was happy to give the scientific summary.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/100 sec. • 500 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 180 lux EV 6
Timeless
Beards and caps are timeless, as can be seen here at the Rembrandtplein.
28 mm • f/8 • 1/800 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 140000 lux EV 15.6
Confrontation
A confrontation in the street and a negotiator. It ended well.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/320 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2800 lux EV 10
Curve
How does one walk a curve? How are the feet positioned and what happens to the angles of the limbs?
28 mm • f/8 • 1/160 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 28000 lux EV 13.3
Air sickness
The passengers of that one airplane must have gotten air sickness.
85 mm • f/2.8 • 1/500 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 11.9
Long Trip
A long trip on the bicycle along a lake.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/8 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 66 lux EV 4.6
Throughway
Cycling always goes through.
85 mm • f/2.8 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5400 lux EV 10.9
Forgotten
A forgotten leaf from autumn finds its protective background.
85 mm • f/2.8 • 1/100 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1300 lux EV 8.9
Kras
As is know as "the Kras", it is a nice place to sit down and look over de Dam.
28 mm • f/2 • 1/100 sec. • 50 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2200 lux EV 9.6
Doom
Animals often can feel doom coming.
28 mm • f/2.8 • 1/30 sec. • 250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 260 lux EV 6.6
Ceremony
Ceremony during the defence of a thesis at the Free University
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/10 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 130 lux EV 5.6
My right
It is my right to be amazed by the refraction of light.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/50 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2600 lux EV 9.9
27
She was only twentyseven, but already had a mind like a house.
28 mm • f/7.1 • 1/100 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
South
Amsterdam South has grown vertically, since I left there.
28 mm • f/2.8 • 1/30 sec. • 1250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 51 lux EV 4.2
Bent
Bent a number of steel tubes to store a number of sport bikes.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/10 sec. • 80 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 170 lux EV 5.9
The Birds
It looked a bit like a scene from Alfred Hitchcock.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/160 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1400 lux EV 9
Boy
That was the kind of boy I was a long time ago. Only the label on my cap read "ADO"
85 mm • f/10 • 1/320 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
January 2019
Border
The herd was looking for the snow border.
28 mm • f/2 • 1/4000 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5500 lux EV 11
Cheat Sheet
The present day cheat sheet is the inside of the cover of a calculator. As if it was written with a slate pencil on a slate.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/33 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1400 lux EV 9
Woman
Impression by an artist of a woman.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/17 sec. • 64 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 350 lux EV 7
Just
She shows herself before sunset on a grey day. How pretty.
28 mm • f/5 • 1/8000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 546000 lux EV 17.6
Coaxial
The coaxial mechanism that was invented by the british watchmaker George Daniels, works more accurate than trraditional escapements.
28 mm • f/10 • 1/30 sec. • 5000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 160 lux EV 5.9
Stopped
Early in the morning time has stopped.
85 mm • f/8 • 1/100 sec. • 2500 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 700 lux EV 8
Coffee
Coffee in the snow is not very popular.
85 mm • f/4 • 1/100 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2700 lux EV 10
Swap Bike
Swap bike in winter: barely recognizable
85 mm • f/4 • 1/100 sec. • 2500 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 170 lux EV 6
Tulika
Tulika Nandi, directly after the defense of her great thesis.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/100 sec. • 5000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 18 lux EV 2.7
It's over
The lunar eclipse was almost over, while in the distance the workers continued with the demolition of the old post office.
85 mm • f/3.2 • 1/2 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 14 lux EV 2.4
Lunar Eclipse
The lunar eclipse in the early morning showed the moon against a backdrop of stars from the constellation Cancer.
650 mm • f/5 • 2 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 8.5 lux EV 1.6
Orion Nebula
Since long I wanted to photograph this nebula. It was almost full moon and close by Orion, so that was not great, but it is a start.
650 mm • f/5 • 1800 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 0 lux EV -6.2
Inge van Calkar
Inge van Calkar sang on Eurosonic Noorderslag 2019 from her own repertoire.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2200 lux EV 9.7
Mixing
Mixing of colours. When you mix all the colours of the rainbow in this way, you get some sort of white.
85 mm • f/22 • 1/1.25 sec. • 50 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 3300 lux EV 10.2
Folded
Nicely folded like this
85 mm • f/7.1 • 1/500 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 69000 lux EV 14.6
Cracks
Cracks that go their own way, but also react to each other, forming patterns. Beautiful.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/17 sec. • 50 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 450 lux EV 7.4
Angry
Angry beause she simply walks away
85 mm • f/2.8 • 1/125 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 330 lux EV 6.9
52
Nog you can construct a rack with bolts and nuts with size 13 metric.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/8 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 66 lux EV 4.6
Heart Beat
The heart beat of a 90 year old pocket watch. Accuracy: fantastic. Variation from beat to beat: quite large. (In human hearts that is a good sign, but in watches that is a sign of wear). Amplitude: good.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/17 sec. • 40 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 560 lux EV 7.7
Unfamiliar Object
Suddenly I saw an unfamiliar object in the sky this evening. I looked it up: it is the moon. After all those months of clouds I was forgotten what she looks like.
85 mm • f/2.8 • 1/400 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1100 lux EV 8.6
Accurate
Even old watches can run very accurately with some maintainance and regulation. Only 0.1 seconds deviation per day in this case.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/250 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 670 lux EV 7.9
8 Days
A 90 year old watch that only needs to be wound once per week.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/160 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 430 lux EV 7.3
Lamp
Nice, to sit behind the lamp and look outside while it is getting dark.
35 mm • f/1.4 • 1/100 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 540 lux EV 7.6
Victims
Victims of the storm
35 mm • f/1.4 • 1/125 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 84 lux EV 4.9
Gents
Gents working
35 mm • f/1.4 • 1/30 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 20 lux EV 2.9
Many
Many messages on a single board.
35 mm • f/2.2 • 1/5000 sec. • 1250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5300 lux EV 10.9
Waiting
Waiting for the weather to clear...
35 mm • f/2.5 • 1/250 sec. • 1250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 340 lux EV 7
Hay
Hay used to be stored in a haystack, in which a wanderer could sleep. Nowadays they are nicely packed, with a color code that is beyond me.
35 mm • f/5.6 • 1/2500 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 54000 lux EV 14.3
Navigation
It's not easy to navigate when you are this close together, but with sharp eyes and matching motor control, it should be possible.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/100 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2100 lux EV 9.6
6
There were six of them, flying low over the Onlanden with hissing en beeping quills, as though they had problems with their lungs.
35 mm • f/5.6 • 1/3200 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 68000 lux EV 14.6
Future
What will the coming year bring us in the field of science?
35 mm • f/1.8 • 1/640 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1400 lux EV 9
December 2018
Haren
Fireworks over the village of Haren from the other side of the Paterswolsemeer.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5.4 lux EV 1
Together
Flying together, destination is not important.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/400 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2100 lux EV 9.6
State
The weather is what it is, but what it does to you is a state of mind.
35 mm • f/1.4 • 1/640 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 3400 lux EV 10.3
Jack
Jack is just more attractive to her than a reliable husband.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/320 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2800 lux EV 10
Fun
They just had fun together.
28 mm • f/2 • 1/30 sec. • 1250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 26 lux EV 3.3
Night at the Lake
The lake was deserted. In the very far distance some water fowl was running over the wavelets.
35 mm • f/1.4 • 1/20 sec. • 12800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 0.8 lux EV -1.7
Christmas Ball
The largest Christmas Ball of the Netherlands is situated in Groningen.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/100 sec. • 2500 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 35 lux EV 3.7
Balls
Bubbles as balls, shortlasting, but nice looking in that christmas tree.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/500 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 4400 lux EV 10.7
Full Moon
Last night it was full moon. The clouds parted for a short time to show her beauty.
650 mm • f/5 • 1/1000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 68000 lux EV 14.6
Happy
Happy with each other, but somewhat with a reserved attitude, they enjoyed Amsterdam.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2200 lux EV 9.7
Solstice
At 23:23 we experienced the winter solstice of this year: the days will become longer again, the nights shorter.
50 mm • f/16 • 1 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 700 lux EV 8
Levels
Quite inaccurate levels, but tasty.
50 mm • f/16 • 1/1.25 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 870 lux EV 8.3
Alien
The inside of the Kinowa shows how well this fruit is prepared for dispersion.
50 mm • f/13 • 3.2 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 140 lux EV 5.7
Alien
It looks like an alien being of the lazy kind, but in fact it is a Kiwano, or horned melon from New Zealand.
50 mm • f/13 • 5 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 92 lux EV 5.1
After six
After six, when de shops just closed, the mood in the streets changes.
35 mm • f/5.6 • 1/40 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 210 lux EV 6.3
Breakfast
He was in the wrong street: the Reigerlaan (Heron avenue) is one street further, but he did catch his breakfast on this snowy morning.
321 mm • f/5.6 • 1/320 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 3400 lux EV 10.3
Snow
Groningen obtained a thin layer of snow and more is coming.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/200 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2100 lux EV 9.6
Light
The lights are switched on when it gets dark. Still a week until the shortest day.
35 mm • f/1.4 • 1/1250 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 420 lux EV 7.3
Founder
The founder of the "Batavian Society for Experimental Philosophy" was a watchmaker, called Steven Hoogendijk. Next year June the Society will celebrate its 250 year existence.
35 mm • f/4 • 1/40 sec. • 3200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 55 lux EV 4.3
Neuron
This tree with lamps is a great model of a neuron with active synapses (connections with other neurons).
35 mm • f/1.4 • 1/80 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 430 lux EV 7.3
Wirtanen
The comet is approaching and is rising. Between fierce showers 12 exposures of 30 seconds each. The geen color comes from fluorescent carbon.
300 mm • f/2.8 • 360 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 0 lux EV -7.5
Wire
The strength of concrete depends partly on de embedded wires, which remain when you break the concrete.
221 mm • f/5.6 • 1/100 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2100 lux EV 9.6
ISS
The International Space Station passes close under Mars, the moment I was looking for the comet, but the clouds closed the sky again.
35 mm • f/1.4 • 1.6 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 3.3 lux EV 0.3
S-shape
Many buildings in Amsterdam hang at an angle due to the soft ground, but this one seems to recover by bending in an S-shape, like a tree would do.
28 mm • f/2 • 1/100 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1100 lux EV 8.6
Chaos
The traffic in Amsterdam can become very choatic and dangerous at times. This was seconds before a collision, with fortunately only material damage.
28 mm • f/2 • 1/40 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 440 lux EV 7.3
Soap
Soap can show the weirdest shapes and colours.
28 mm • f/2 • 1/1000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Veil Nebula
The Veil Nebula in the Swan has not existed for very long: a star exploded about 6000 years ago producing lots of hydrogen (red) and oxygen (blue). It is a huge structure that you can only photograph with a short lens in astrophotography terms (135mm).
135 mm • f/2.8 • 9000 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 0 lux EV -11.2
Mercury
Mercury, the god of trade, is playing with his nakes at night. Symbols of life force, but also of death by poison.
35 mm • f/4 • 1/40 sec. • 2000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 87 lux EV 5
Chistmas Mood
Pedestrians try to escape the christmas mood with quite some effort.
35 mm • f/1.4 • 1/40 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 110 lux EV 5.3
Misty Heart
The Heart Nebula in Cassiopeia contains an open star cluster.
300 mm • f/2.8 • 3600 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 0 lux EV -10.8
Giving a hand
To give someone a hand, can be done in a different way.
35 mm • f/3.5 • 1/60 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 500 lux EV 7.5
November 2018
Job Failed
The plate solver than normally can locate the image of the night sky, was unable to place the cover of a notebbook. That is not so strange since the Big Dipper, the little Dipper and the Dragon occur more than once.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/8 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • by hand 66 lux EV 4.6
Wheelchairergometer
In this experimental design you can measure the relation between the power delivered in a wheelchair and the uptake of oxygen. In a free moving wheelchair things change because the chair accelerates and decelerates, influencing almost everything in the production of work and power.
35 mm • f/1.6 • 1/200 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1400 lux EV 9
Flowi
The light flows upward: the day can not be stopped anymore.
35 mm • f/1.6 • 1/500 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 3500 lux EV 10.3
Giant Salamander
Not as large as a dinosaur, but a giant salamander of less than 15 million years old, with its 60 cm
28 mm • f/6.3 • 1/30 sec. • 640 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 510 lux EV 7.5
Defender
She was a defender in a friendly game at the Grote Markt.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/640 sec. • 3200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 180 lux EV 6
Light Pollution
Light pollution in the area of the city of Groningen. The light in the right half of the image comes from Haren and the left part from Groningen.
28 mm • f/2 • 10 sec. • 3200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 0 lux EV -6.3
Winter Conversation
A conversation under a cold and colorless winter sky.
28 mm • f/6.3 • 1/320 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 35000 lux EV 13.6
Ames Room
The room that was designed by Adelbert Ames Jr. in 1946 gives this optical illusion.
28 mm • f/6.3 • 1/30 sec. • 2500 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 130 lux EV 5.6
Top Secret
Obviously top secret documents go in and out of this file cabinet.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/8 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 66 lux EV 4.6
Teamwork
During teamwork you make each other more critical.
28 mm • f/2 • 1/80 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 870 lux EV 8.3
Gandalf & Co
Ships that take a break.
28 mm • f/6.3 • 1/30 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 810 lux EV 8.2
Realities
Realisties are being layered and processed.
28 mm • f/2 • 1/50 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 550 lux EV 7.6
PacMan II
The PacMan Nebula larger, but with limited palette: the clouds came again.
650 mm • f/2.8 • 1200 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 0.1 lux EV -5.6
PacMan
The PacMan Nebula lies in the heart of Cassiopeia and jumps from the image as a red hot hydrogen cloud.
35 mm • f/2.8 • 7200 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 0 lux EV -9.8
Hot Andromeda
The Andromeda Galaxy has a number of hot areas, which you can be seen here as red patches of ionised hydrogen.
300 mm • f/2.8 • 7200 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 0 lux EV -9.8
Casino Royale
A coverband at the dinner of the symposium of The Society for Backpain Research
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/100 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 440 lux EV 7.3
Puddingmoon
The lazy moon over the Pudding factory with Mars above.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/100 sec. • 6400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 14 lux EV 2.3
Elephant Trunk Nebula
The Elephant Trunk Nebula in the constellation Cepheus. The photograph with the longest exposure time I ever used: two hours.
650 mm • f/5 • 7200 sec. • 200 ISO • 24.5mm sensor • tripod 0 lux EV -9.2
Diffraction
Masks for optics to focus with diffraction patterns.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/17 sec. • 125 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 180 lux EV 6
Cassiopeia
Cassiopeia and its surroundings with the Antromeda nebula, the Double Cluster and the Open Cluster (NGC 752) upper left.
35 mm • f/1.4 • 600 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 0 lux EV -9.3
Coffee
Spilled coffee, while grading exams. Interesting branch of forensic trace research and also looking like a Mandelbrot set.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/17 sec. • 125 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 180 lux EV 6
Violence
Violence in the heavens during the formation of new stars in the North America Nebula in the constellation Cygnus.
650 mm • f/5 • 1800 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 0 lux EV -9.2
Wheel
A wheel turn filters in front of the camera: R, G, B, L, Halfa, OIII and SII.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/17 sec. • 80 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 280 lux EV 6.7
Pinwheel
Again the Pinwheel galaxy but now with a monochrome camera and RGB filters. Note the tiny pointy galaxy in the bottom right corner: NGC 5422
650 mm • f/5 • 1800 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 0 lux EV -9.2
Layers
Wasps build their nest layer for layer from different plants that they chew to a paper pulp mixed with their saliva. Let's wait until they are developed far enough that they can actually write something on that paper.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/50 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 130 lux EV 5.6
Dark
The dark season
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/128 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 6800 lux EV 11.3
Mild
Winter weather with a frozen ground, but mild when sun rises higher.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/506 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 27000 lux EV 13.3
Escaping
Behind that small window, she has been working for years on a plan te escape.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/4 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 8.8 lux EV 1.7
Tipping Point
Rico Verhoeven indicates what he saw when he encountered Badr Hari in a fight.
28 mm • f/2 • 1/30 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 260 lux EV 6.6
Heat
A car fire appears to make a lot of noise, as I could tell last night at 2:00. This is what was left of it.
28 mm • f/2.8 • 1/20 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 430 lux EV 7.3
October 2018
Gownroom
The gown room of the university of Eindhoven is simpel and efficient.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/10 sec. • 80 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 170 lux EV 5.9
Einstürzende Neubauten
Deep in the night, it is being guarded, the new building from a long time ago.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/30 sec. • 3200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 8.3 lux EV 1.6
Oxygen and Hydrogen
Oxygen (blue) and hydrogen (red) give color to the Veil Nebula in the constellation Swan. Remnants of a supernova.
300 mm • f/2.8 • 1800 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 0 lux EV -10.8
pinwheel in Town
The pinwheel galaxy above the town of Groningen.
300 mm • f/2.8 • 1800 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 0 lux EV -10.8
To Say
According to me this windowsill will open her mouth within a while to talk to us. Let's listen.....
560 mm • f/8 • 1/400 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 8700 lux EV 11.6
Gait
To recognize a gait pattern when it's dark requires a lot of training.
85 mm • f/5.6 • 1/8 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 43 lux EV 4
Years
She has been wondering for years, every time the moon is full, what she exactly is doing there.
85 mm • f/5.6 • 1.6 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 3.3 lux EV 0.3
Made for it
Sometimes you see what a dog like this is made for and where he came from.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/400 sec. • 500 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 6800 lux EV 11.3
4.5 minutes
4.5 minutes is needed for the to draw this trajectory over the heavenly sphere: every 10 seconds a step.
300 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 21000 lux EV 12.9
Chinees
Between those dark large dutch bicycles, there is this small colorful bicycle belonging to our chinese coworker.
35 mm • f/1.4 • 1/80 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 210 lux EV 6.3
Least Resistance
People often look for the way with the least resistance.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/100 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4100 lux EV 10.6
Bode's in Town
Bode's Galaxy early in the evening, before the clouds closed off the heavens over town..
1450 mm • f/7 • 900 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 0 lux EV -6.2
Andromeda in Town
Andromeda photographed in town with the setup of yesterday.
300 mm • f/2.8 • 1800 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 0 lux EV -8.8
Eye of Sauron
This lens earns that name. A 30 year old 300/2.8 lens for the old Canon FD system without autofocus or image stabilization here applied as astrograph with a cooled colour camera. Nextr to it a guide scope with black and white camera used to follow a star up the pixel for long exposures.
35 mm • f/2.5 • 1/125 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2100 lux EV 9.6
Random
A picture accidentally taken, waiting at the check out cash register.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/17 sec. • 50 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 450 lux EV 7.4
Rescue dog
A rescue dog in training near a building that is demolished.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/400 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 34000 lux EV 13.6
Highest
The highest clouds are torne apart by shear winds high above the tax buidling. A bit lower a small airplane that found it's way to the north.
35 mm • f/3.2 • 1/2500 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 70000 lux EV 14.6
To Fly
These top athletes seem to be less burdened by gravity: they cover the course of the 4 miles almost completely flying. Davis Kiplangat would win in the end, which you can already tell from his face, here with two kilometers to go.
166 mm • f/5.6 • 1/2000 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 43000 lux EV 13.9
Victory
That's how it looks like and feels like to have a victory.
333 mm • f/5.6 • 1/2500 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 54000 lux EV 14.3
Cigar and Bode
The Cigar Galaxy and Bode's galaxy near the Big Dipper
300 mm • f/2.8 • 900 sec. • 800 ISO • 13x8 mm sensor • tripod 0 lux EV -9.8
Horizon
The sun is rushing towards the horizon.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/100 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4100 lux EV 10.6
Rattleback
This rattleback wants to turn only counterclockwise and that has nothing to do with magnetism, but everything with tensors.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/4 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 53 lux EV 4.3
Cross
Somebody put a large cross next to the Big Dipper.
12 mm • f/8 • 15 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 1.5 lux EV -0.9
Box
When I looked in the box it was obvious: Two hearts were stolen.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/100 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4100 lux EV 10.6
North America Nebula
This nebula looks a bit like North America, hence the name. Here photographed straight over the city of Groningen. The bright star on the right border is Deneb.
85 mm f/2.0 900 sec. 1600 ISO 13x10 mm sensor tripod 0 lux EV -11.8
Andromeda
Deep on the night, near Schaaphok, in a dark part of the province of Groningen, the Andromeda nebular was captured.
400 mm f/5.6 250 sec. 6400 ISO 24x36 mm sensor tripod 0 lux EV -9
ISS
Photographed the International Space Station in an Indian Summer.
2035 mm • f/10 • 1/2000 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 44000 lux EV 14
Chestnut
Chestnuts you can find everywhere now, jumped out of their hard shell and ready for the fire.
50 mm • f/3.5 • 1/1000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 33000 lux EV 13.6
Humor
Sometimes humor can be caught under a tiny hat.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/100 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4100 lux EV 10.6
Shape
The shape of an old hooter on a firetruck is not there by coincidence: it amplifies exactly the right frequencies to make the sound audible over a large distance.
50 mm • f/13 • 1/80 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 4600 lux EV 10.7
Kangaroo
A kangaroo that has quit at an early stage.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/30 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 80 lux EV 4.9
September 2018
Inspiration
The little girl got inspired.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/4000 sec. • 320 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Open Day
Open day at city control. You can go up in the air with the men who take care of the trees.
50 mm • f/13 • 1/800 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 46000 lux EV 14
ISS
The International Space Station passed by. Now I aimed my telescope at a predefined point and photographed at the highest magnification. That is harder than photograhing the Martinitoren (which is 100m high, just the size of the ISS) in Groningen, sitting in the Eiffeltower in Paris. It's the same distance, but the Martinitoren it is not moving.
2035 mm • f/10 • 1/1000 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 68000 lux EV 14.6
Power
Power for a night in the field under the stars, for the telescope, the cooled camera and the laptop.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/17 sec. • 80 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 280 lux EV 6.7
Choice
To be able to choose is nice, but sometimes the collection is huge.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/33 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1400 lux EV 9
ISS
The brightest white curve is made by the International Space Station, still illuminated by the sun. The interrupted paths are from airplanes, the almost vertical trail by another satellite (JASON-2 for measuring the oceans). The lowest short trail has been drawn by the planet Mars. (the picture is composed from 3800 images and covers a little over 2 minutes)
35 mm • f/1.4 • 1/30 sec. • 6400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 2.5 lux EV -0.1
History
This old cupboard has a long history. The wood tries to tell us something in contour lines.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/17 sec. • 50 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 450 lux EV 7.4
Autumn
Today autumn starts: the sun is exactly over the equator on her way to the south and here it will be colder.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/100 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 440 lux EV 7.3
Plus Cat
This cat often waits at the entrance of the Plus store for attention and perhaps something to eat.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/200 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1800 lux EV 9.3
Noise
Noise of a sensor of an astro camera at -20 °C (left) and +20 °C (right). These are the lowest 3 bins of the 256 at 30 seconds exposure.
2035 mm • f/10 • 30 sec. • 50 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 18 lux EV 2.7
The Universe
Only a small part of the universe can be observed and photographed. But that is suffiicient for me.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/100 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 110 lux EV 5.3
Whirlpool Galaxy
The Whirlpool Galaxy again, but now from a stack of 10 images. You can see some more already in the spiral arms
2035 mm • f/10 • 20 sec. • 2000 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 0.7 lux EV -2
Whirlpool Galaxy
The Whirlpool Galaxy near the Big Dipper can not be seen with the naked eye: it is about 50 times too weak. Here photographed from the city of Groningen with light pollution and no stacking. So it should be possible to do better. But for the first time I was able to capture it.
2035 mm • f/10 • 30 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 0 lux EV -7.9
Apollo 16
This is the area where Apollo 16 landed (click here), photographed at half moon.
2850 mm • f/14 • 1/50 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 3300 lux EV 10.3
Bahtinov
When you put a Bahtinov mask in front of your telescope, you can focus better on the stars, because the diffraction pattern shows any small error in focussing. Bahtinov was a Russian amateur astronomer who invented the mask.
2035 mm • f/10 • 1/160 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 44000 lux EV 14
Walking
To be able to walk seems so self-evident.
28 mm • f/2 • 1/160 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1700 lux EV 9.3
Smoke
The candle of the ninth year has been blown out and the smoke illuminated by a laser. The tenth year has started.
85 mm • f/4.5 • 1/10 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 550 lux EV 7.7
Andromeda Galaxy
Our direct neighbouring galaxy is visually larger than the full moon, but a lot less bright.
85 mm • f/1.2 • 5 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 0.1 lux EV -4.8
New Moon
Again and again a new moon over the horizon.
2035 mm f/10 1/320 sec 100 ISO 24x36 mm sensor tripod 87000 lux EV 15
Red
The sun sets in red but does not leave a clear night.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/30 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 1200 lux EV 8.8
DB80
When you know the strength of the materials and you have a computer model of the car, it must be possible to reconstruct how this car got deformed.
35 mm • f/1.4 • 1/1000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5400 lux EV 10.9
Immersed
He was immersed in another world and forgot the ordinary existence.
35 mm • f/1.4 • 1/60 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 320 lux EV 6.9
Museum Night
The museums were open in the evening and night. In the Groninger Museum modern dance between the pieces of art.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/100 sec. • 1250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 71 lux EV 4.7
Clean
The sun is almost clean: we are at a minimum of solar activity. There are just four tiny sunspots almost exactly in the middle. In de right bottom corner a magnification. (the difference between sunspots and dust on the sensor is that sunspots move with the sun in the image, but dust does not)
2035 mm • f/10 • 1/350 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 96000 lux EV 15.1
Radiometer
A radiometer in the morning sun. The black sides of the vanes absorb photone, while the reflecting sides reflect them. The heating up of the air at the black sides increases the air pressure, driving the radiometer. When you place the radiometer in the freezer for a short while, cooling it down quickly, the direction of rotation is reversed, due to the black body radiation at the black sides, which lowers the temperature at that side, reducing the air pressure.
50 mm • f/6.3 • 1/500 sec. • 500 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Vega Sushi
It takes some adaptation, but sushi can be enjoyed withhout meat or fish.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/17 sec. • 50 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 450 lux EV 7.4
Recognition
Even with a computer of 35 Euro (Raspberry) you can recognize objects. But a broken match is not recongized.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/33 sec. • 40 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1100 lux EV 8.6
Loss of Face
In case of loss of face, you can get another one here.
28 mm • f/7.1 • 1/1000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 138000 lux EV 15.6
International Space Station
The International Space Station moves in front of the moon. Here photographed at 10 frames/second somewhere in the landscape of Drenthe.
2000 mm • f/10 • 1/1250 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 85000 lux EV 14.9
Testchart
In order to measure the resolution of my 2000mm f/10 telescope, I had put up a test chart at a large distance, which was far enough for a cyclist to pass by in front of it.
2000 mm • f/10 • 1/800 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 27000 lux EV 13.3
August 2018
Eveningflight
The weather was fine for balloon flights at sunset.
195 mm • f/7.1 • 1/200 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 3400 lux EV 10.3
Conversation
A conversation between two women at sunset.
85 mm • f/4.5 • 1/3200 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 177000 lux EV 16
Submerged
Submerged in the Noorderzon Festival
85 mm • f/4.5 • 1/100 sec. • 500 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1100 lux EV 8.7
Bommen Berend
The explosions of Bommen Berend could be heard and seen again over the Zuiderhaven.
35 mm • f/1.4 • 1/320 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 430 lux EV 7.3
Climbing
This rose does not want to be climbed, that is obvious
50 mm • f/8 • 1/30 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 660 lux EV 7.9
Little Boat
The little boat fell on the ground, but still held enough love inside.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/30 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2600 lux EV 9.9
Three Friends
Three friends are going to a party at sunset.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/8000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 71000 lux EV 14.7
't Jagertje
To polish your bike, 't Jagertje brings polish oil.
50 mm • f/16 • 1/60 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5200 lux EV 10.9
Heavenly Chain
A heavenly chain of 15 positions of the planet Saturn (every 2 seconds an image)
560 mm • f/8 • 1/50 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 1100 lux EV 8.6
Stack
An image of the moon with less noise and more sharpness due to stacking.
560 mm • f/8 • 1/250 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 5500 lux EV 11
Contrail
A contrail of an airplane runs like a zipper over the moon
213 mm • f/7.1 • 1/640 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 11000 lux EV 12
Rope
Flexible and strong rope that you store like this to save time when you need dit.
28 mm • f/2 • 1/30 sec. • 250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 130 lux EV 5.6
Fastest Kid
Fastest Kid on the Block. But it takes a lot of space for the water cooling system. (i9-7980xe 18 core 4.5 GHz), Rendering animations and creating and running computer simulations of the human body is 8x faster than before.
28 mm • f/6.3 • 1/60 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 6500 lux EV 11.2
Sail
When you want to get more out of the wind, you have to apply a sail to the mill.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/400 sec. • 250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Widde Meuln
A heavy shower behing the white mill of Ten Boer
28 mm • f/4.5 • 1/3200 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 177000 lux EV 16
Bark
The bark of a tree at the splitting of a stem, that did not succeed. Sometimes this happens when the distance grows slower than the stems themselves.
50 mm • f/7.1 • 1/15 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 130 lux EV 5.6
Phaeolepiota aurea
Suddenly a Phaeolepiota aurea emerges between my plants. Indeed, it has been very moist the last few days.
50 mm • f/13 • 1/60 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Introduction Week
The introduction week for the new students of our university. Hopefully they don't feel like a hamster in a wheel, but more like a sailor with own navigation.
28 mm • f/9 • 1/1600 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 177000 lux EV 16
Shark Teeth
When you cycle often en with power, you get shark teeth, that is a commonly known fact!
50 mm • f/9 • 1/80 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 8800 lux EV 11.7
Falling Stars
The falling stars (Perseïds) kept hiding behind the clouds this year.
28 mm • f/3.5 • 1/1.25 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 21 lux EV 2.9
Nieuwe Kerk
The heavy moist air around the large trees of the Nieuwe Kerk, while the evening falls.
8 mm • f/6.3 • 1/60 sec. • 320 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2000 lux EV 9.5
Flushed Out
More rain fell in one hour than in the last 6 weeks and so a part of the new beltway of Groningen flushed down.
35 mm • f/1.4 • 1/160 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 860 lux EV 8.3
Before dark
Getting home before dark is still possible.
560 mm • f/8 • 1/1600 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 35000 lux EV 13.6
Drought
Unknown drought in the Netherlands, the passed month. Last night, the rain fell down.
85 mm • f/11 • 1.6 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 210 lux EV 6.2
Social
The social intelligence of some students appears to be quite low. Or is this the expression of something else?
35 mm • f/2 • 1/2500 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 27000 lux EV 13.3
Old
His bike was twice as old as he was, but was a good ride.
28 mm • f/2 • 1/50 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 550 lux EV 7.6
Bicycles
A unique bicycle shop in a remarkable house in Amsterdam.
28 mm • f/7.1 • 1/40 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5500 lux EV 11
Irritating
She thought it was irritating, shopping with her daughter, who was constantly on the phone.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/2000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 18000 lux EV 12.7
Booklovers
Today I spotted remarkable book lovers in Amsterdam, the day before Canal Parade.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/4000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 35000 lux EV 13.7
Suffering
Many suffering bicycles in the Netherlands.
28 mm • f/7.1 • 1/30 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2100 lux EV 9.6
Third Eye
In the cultural evolution we acquired a third eye and sometimes that is the only one looking at you.
100 mm • f/5 • 1/320 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5500 lux EV 11
July 2018
Tom Dumoulin
Tom Dumoulin in the pro race of Surhuisterveen, riding ahead of Geraint Thomas, the winner of the Tour de France.
35 mm • f/2 • 1/8000 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
No Wind
There was no wind at the galvenized mill.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/400 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 4400 lux EV 10.6
Common Clubtail
The Common Clubtail (Gomphus vulgatissimus) is a large dragonfly with beautiful eyes.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/160 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 7000 lux EV 11.3
Common Clubtail
The Common Clubtail (Gomphus vulgatissimus) is a large dragonfly with beautiful eyes.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/160 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Moon and Mars
A complete lunar eclipse after moon rise, followed by Mars in her path.
140 mm • f/6.3 • 1.3 sec. • 6400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 1.3 lux EV -1.1
Hot
It was a very hot day (36°C) and people did all kinds of things to cool down.
28 mm • f/5.6 • 1/400 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2100 lux EV 9.6
Relaxed
When a heron flies, it looks pretty relaxed. Here three frames of the same bird.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/640 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 6800 lux EV 11.3
Signals
The young great crested grebes in their pyjama's try giving signals.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/400 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Layers
Three ecological layers emerge when bulls look for coolness in the water.
327 mm • f/11 • 1/320 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 53000 lux EV 14.2
Carborundum
With french garden herbs, you can cook, but you can not grind glass. With both you can leave an impression.
50 mm • f/11 • 1/1.25 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 410 lux EV 7.2
Tourists
That's how you are a tourst together in Amsterdam
28 mm • f/2 • 1/2500 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 27000 lux EV 13.3
Two Lions
Two lions in Amsterdam.
28 mm • f/2 • 1/8000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 87000 lux EV 15
Eurasian Spoonbills
Eurasian Spoonbills are symbol of the dutch bird conservation: in 1970 only 170 pair in the Netherlands, now about 2500.
560 mm • f/8 • 1/1250 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 27000 lux EV 13.3
Match
A match head contains potassium chloride and phosphorus and some iron oxide for the red color.
20 mm • f/13 • 1/160 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 37000 lux EV 13.7
Shots
The train to Groningen passes signal lights that have been shot at.
560 mm • f/8 • 1/640 sec. • 3200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 3500 lux EV 10.3
Bumblebee
Bumblebees don;t dance like honey bees do for communication, but pass pollen to each other.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/160 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 3500 lux EV 10.3
Back
Back to nature. A dog has to find some way.
35 mm • f/1.4 • 1/13 sec. • 12800 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 0.5 lux EV -2.3
Looking
When a housefly looks at you, it does not see you in great detail, but it is very sensitive to movement. Between the facet eyes you can see an extra small eye that is functional in that respect. Also the hairs are very sensitive to air movements. So you catch a fly with a large glass that you slowly place over the fly and you slide a card onder the glass.
20 mm • f/3 • 1/160 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod 37000 lux EV 13.7
Night
The flowers slowly disappear in the night.
336 mm • f/5.6 • 1/15 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 160 lux EV 5.9
Sun
The sun is up high. You can feel her burning on your back.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/2000 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 661000 lux EV 17.9
Art
Art in the street: in this case a painting by Jan Altink, "Het witte paard", 1925
35 mm • f/2.8 • 1/6400 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 137000 lux EV 15.6
Eye
Through the eye of the needle.
20 mm • f/8 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • 36x24mm sensor • tripod 44000 lux EV 14
Bilingual
Old watches are bilingual in indicating adjustment of speed.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/100 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 4400 lux EV 10.6
Groans
The old city groans under the force of the development of the Forum.
50 mm • f/2 • 1/60 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 660 lux EV 7.9
Biter
The skull of this musk rat is built for biting. The orange color of the teeth comes from iron minerals and so you could say that they are rusted.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/500 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 43000 lux EV 13.9
Market Vendor
With the relfection of the Martinitoren in his spectacles, he posed after having tidied his moustache.
85 mm • f/4 • 1/400 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Smiley
If you look carefully, you see a smiley in the cap of a bottle of Doggerland cider.
25 mm • f/11 • 1/60 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 20000 lux EV 12.8
Return
The bumblebee offers a favor in return to the flower when drinking the nectar: he spreads the pollen.
50 mm • f/16 • 1/60 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 42000 lux EV 13.9
Ribbons
The council of Groningen decided to decorate ribbons over this narrowstreet. When you walk over a straight line, they can keep your head cool on a hot day.
12 mm • f/8 • 1/800 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 140000 lux EV 15.6
Lilac
The sky opposite the setting sun turns lilac.
140 mm • f/7.1 • 1/160 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5500 lux EV 11
Urban Culture
At Urban Culture in Groningen I was curious what she would write on that paper.
12 mm • f/8 • 1/800 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 140000 lux EV 15.6
June 2018
Small China-mark
Small China-marks fly low over the duckweed, leaving their eggs hanging from the floating leaves.
560 mm • f/8 • 1/250 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Hercules
This Hercules beetle can carry up to 1000 times his own weight.
50 mm • f/3.5 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 8400 lux EV 11.6
Summer Evening
On a summer evening you play volleyball on the square.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/640 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Houston
"Houston we have a problem" was what he must have thought when something hit him from the left.
35 mm • f/10 • 1/1000 sec. • 1250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Papilio Paris
Papilio Paris, a butterfly from India, has scales that seem toe radiate light.
20 mm • f/11 • 1/60 sec. • 1250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 1600 lux EV 9.2
Camera
This camera, made in the year 2000, is not being used anymore, with the exception of the lens. To load films, develop them and print them is romantic, but costs more much more time and gives lower quality.
35 mm • f/1.4 • 1/60 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 80 lux EV 4.9
Eyelets
Between the two large facet eyes of a wasp are located three small eyelets, or ocelli. They do not give a clear image of the surroundings, but help to detect movements in all directions.
15 mm • f/11 • 1/60 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5000 lux EV 10.8
102 years
In 1916 my great grandfather received this wath on Rottumeroog. Detail of the balance wheel.
35 mm • f/4 • 1/60 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 2600 lux EV 9.9
HSS
A first attempt at high speed sync photography. The flash unit gives a series of light pulses only when the slit between first and second shutter curtain slides over the sensor. In this way you can expose for a very short time (in this case 1/8000 of a sec), so that the environment remains dark, even in broad daylight.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/8000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 171000 lux EV 15.9
Love
It starts with nesting material that the great crested grebe finds and then the game of love starts.
560 mm • f/8 • 1/320 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 7000 lux EV 11.3
Clematis
A Clematis Voluceau looks like the landscape on a far planet.
50 mm • f/13 • 1/60 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 28000 lux EV 13.3
Focus
She eats an apple, checks her smartphone, listens to music and looks at the time on the Martinitoren. A multi-balance task for her brain. In the mean time, it is nice that walking is completely automatic, but at a shorter steplength.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/800 sec. • 5000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1400 lux EV 9
Landscape
A plastic bag between two crossed polarization fiters provide a colourful landscape as seen through a spyglass.
24 mm • f/11 • 1/5 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1700 lux EV 9.2
Heading
Heading a ball requires some preparation. When the hands are drawn back and downward, the head acquires a higher velocity in the direction of the ball. The teeth are protected by co-contracting the muscles attached to the lower jaw.
85 mm • f/2 • 1/5000 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 6800 lux EV 11.3
Again
Again the hollyhocks are flowering, close together along the stem, leaking pollen
50 mm • f/13 • 1/125 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 58000 lux EV 14.4
Toothbrush
A toothbrush is quite a contstruction when you look at it from close by.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/320 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 3400 lux EV 10.3
To Fly
In the evening the boys go for a flight near the Gold Office. With those arm movements they win time to end up with their feet on the the skateboard.
35 mm • f/1.4 • 1/320 sec. • 640 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 270 lux EV 6.6
Coffee
Having a cup of coffee on the market place, the conversation starts. The same sneakers, the same subject, a different attitude.
28 mm • f/2 • 1/500 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5500 lux EV 11
Dispersion
Seeds are built to be dispersed. And so they hold on to anything that passes by. Now to find fertile soil.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/500 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 11.9
Truth
It is not easy to carry and spread the truth.
50 mm • f/1.1 • 1/100 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 330 lux EV 6.9
Language
Here a conversation in the street with three layers: body language, gestures and spoken language.
50 mm • f/1.1 • 1/125 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 410 lux EV 7.2
Zebra Jumping Spider
This zebra jumping spider (Salticus scenicus) is only 5 mm long, but can jump quite a distance to catch his prey. Therefore, he does not build a web.
50 mm • f/6.3 • 1/125 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Summer Guest
Moti has acquired a summer guest.
85 mm • f/1.8 • 1/1250 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Argentine blue-bill
The Argentine blue-bill (Oxyura vittata) has the largest penis of all vertebrates relative to its body length: 42.5 cm
560 mm • f/8 • 1/400 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 8700 lux EV 11.6
ProRail
A chopper of ProRail flies low over my house to make 3D laser recordings of the surroundings of the rail system.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/500 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 43000 lux EV 13.9
Artist
A street artist needs to really show something special in order to attract attention
324 mm • f/5.6 • 1/400 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 27000 lux EV 13.3
Rolling Shutter
Modern camera's can have a silent shutter, by reading the pixels row by row. That gives an effect that is called "rolling shutter" and can be seen here in a photograph of a signpole seen form a speeding train. The same can be seen in old photographs in which a slow slit shutter was used: I made this animation to explain it click . My camera reads from bottom to top. The sense of speed is better in the image of the old camera, so it is a good advice to use the modern camera upside down.
28 mm • f/2 • 1/5000 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 6800 lux EV 11.3
Student Forever
Yes, that is the greatest: to remain a student forever.
85 mm • f/2 • 1/1250 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Babyfish
The daughter of a skipper helps with a demonstration on the Dam.
28 mm • f/5 • 1/500 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 34000 lux EV 13.6
Shower
A sudden shower after a hot day, cooling and with a sudden strong wind.
224 mm • f/5.6 • 1/125 sec. • 2500 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 430 lux EV 7.3
May 2018
Work
Almost midnight and still a few people working in the building of the taxes?
28 mm • f/2 • 1/30 sec. • 2000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 16 lux EV 2.6
Sneakers
A small part of my sneakers in focus stacking (29 images). Magnification 1:1
50 mm • f/8 • 2.5 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 8.7 lux EV 1.7
Strangers
Strangers pass each other in the street without speaking a word.
85 mm • f/2.8 • 1/800 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Water
On this very hot day in May, you need water, also in the train.
28 mm • f/2 • 1/2000 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5500 lux EV 11
Jupiter
Jupiter with four of his moons, from left to right: Callisto, Ganymede, Europe and Io, photographed thourgh a 100-400 mm telelens.
358 mm • f/5.6 • 1/5 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 110 lux EV 5.3
Snack
The beaver of last week came to get a snack and swam back with a branch for his lodge.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/400 sec. • 8000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 430 lux EV 7.3
Opening "De Ploeg"
Today the opening of the exhibition on the art of the Groningen movement "De Ploeg". The appreciation was mixed.
28 mm • f/2.5 • 1/30 sec. • 8000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 6.4 lux EV 1.2
Bluethroat
A male bluethroat in the reeds, photographed thrice. Recently removed from the list of endangered species in the Netherlands.
394 mm • f/5.6 • 1/400 sec. • 500 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 6800 lux EV 11.3
Venus
Venus shows phases, because it is an inner planet: it is closer to the sun than we are. The visual diameters is only 1/360 of that of the moon, but can she be photographed like this, low above the northwestern horizon. (inset: Stellarium showing Venus at the same time)
2000 mm • f/10 • 1/200 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 6800 lux EV 11.3
Say what?
It is not always easy to understand what your children are saying.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/800 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 68000 lux EV 14.6
Peace
Pablo Picasso was taught by this father how to paint white doves, because they symbolize peace.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/4000 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 43000 lux EV 13.9
Black-headed Gull
Ready for landing on a beautiful Whit morning.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/4000 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 43000 lux EV 13.9
Facial expression
Perhaps facial expressions are also partly genetically determined.
111 mm • f/4.5 • 1/2000 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 6900 lux EV 11.3
Bever
During dusk a bever from a bever lodge at the Zuidlaardermeer.
500 mm • f/8 • 1/80 sec. • 6400 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 220 lux EV 6.3
Imperturbabile
Het was sitting imperturbabile, fresh from the water, on the bike lane. Only when the camera came within 10 cm, he jumped away.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1250 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 3300 lux EV 10.3
Hair
Your hair gets a mess in the Booster Maxxx.
85 mm • f/5.6 • 1/640 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 55000 lux EV 14.3
To fly
To fly together for a short while above the city in your own gondola.
85 mm • f/7.1 • 1/640 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 88000 lux EV 15
Fragmented
Sometimes she feels so fragmented.
85 mm • f/13 • 1/100 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5800 lux EV 11
Bookmarket
A bookmarket in the St. Niklaas Church in Ghent.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/30 sec. • 4000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 250 lux EV 6.5
Weevil
A weevil looking for something to stick his snout in.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/40 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 870 lux EV 8.3
Worried
Mother is worried, while her children follow her.
500 mm • f/8 • 1/640 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 7000 lux EV 11.3
Rare
This coin is becoming rare with the digital payment methods nowadays.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/100 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 270 lux EV 6.6
Ceremonial Fight
They fought a ceremonial fight for space in the late evening light.
200 mm • f/2.8 • 1/2500 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 6700 lux EV 11.3
Dancing
In her beautiful dress, she dansed into the night.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/50 sec. • 2000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 440 lux EV 7.3
Full Terrace
The terraces are filled with this great weather in Groningen.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/125 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld 41000 lux EV 13.9
Portrait
She wanted a portrait of herself and everyone was willing to help.
85 mm • f/7.1 • 1/320 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 44000 lux EV 14
Complicated
Sometimes the 5th of May is complicated: it shows a frequent change in wind direction.
85 mm • f/7.1 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 34000 lux EV 13.6
Commemoration
De commemoration passes my house in Groningen under an intense blue sky.
117.3 mm • f/4 • 1/500 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Statistics
The statistics for forensic science is specialistic enough to publish separate books on it.
11 mm • f/2.8 • 1/30 sec. • 250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 260 lux EV 6.6
Cup of Tea
A nice cup of tea in the sun at 13 °C
39.4 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Rusty
He had a rusty face with lively eyes.
8.8 mm • f/2.4 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 3900 lux EV 10.5
April 2018
Flower
He had picked a flower and ran to his mother. Balance between adventure and safety.
101.6 mm • f/4 • 1/800 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 35000 lux EV 13.6
OrdinaryHouses
They look like ordinary houses in an ordinary street.
16.3 mm • f/3.2 • 1/2000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 56000 lux EV 14.3
Little Red Ridinghood and Sleeping Beauty
Little Red Ridinghood and Sleeping Beauty are on their way home again. They left the Big Bad Wolf behind.
12.6 mm • f/2.8 • 1/6400 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 137000 lux EV 15.6
Court Jester
A king needs a court jester, not only for entertainment, but also for self reflection.
17.6 mm • f/3.2 • 1/160 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 4500 lux EV 10.7
Joen Vuur
Arnold Veeman is already practicing the song he wrote for tomorrow, Kingsday in Groningen. There was also a man who played for king and thanked everyone: his lines were already determined apparently.
22.2 mm • f/6.3 • 1/1000 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 27000 lux EV 13.3
Tulips from Amsterdam
Tulips from Amsterdam do not really come from Amsterdam ofcourse, but they do give the town color.
31.3 mm • f/3.5 • 1/1000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 33000 lux EV 13.6
Crane
A serious crane to lift boats.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/1350 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 71000 lux EV 14.7
Active
The birds are very active in the Onlanden
220 mm • f/4 • 1/500 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Rugby
A typical game situation at the back line.
34.7 mm • f/6.3 • 1/2000 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 54000 lux EV 14.3
Energy
The source,the collectors and the transporters of energy.
67.5 mm • f/4 • 1/32000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1398000 lux EV 19
Flat Out
Tourists are flat out with this heat. Highest temperature ever recorded in the Netherlands on this day of the year.
47.9 mm • f/4 • 1/2000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 87000 lux EV 15
New Moon
New moon over Amsterdam.
16.9 mm • f/3.2 • 1/100 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2800 lux EV 10
Quay Wall
On a warm day like today and without too many real rock walls in the Netherlands, you can always climb a quay wall.
35.7 mm • f/3.5 • 1/1250 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 42000 lux EV 13.9
Skin
The skin of ship is very thin. When the sun is low you can see that very well: it looks like old percament.
64.8 mm • f/4 • 1/1250 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 55000 lux EV 14.3
Screening
The sun was shining through the building of the taxes. In this way a light is shining on their work also.
44.9 mm • f/4 • 1/1600 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 70000 lux EV 14.6
Canal
The trees along the canal are still not bearing leaves, but that won't last long.
8.8 mm • f/2.5 • 1/50 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 850 lux EV 8.3
Tilted
Most inhabitants of Groningen (Stadjers) don't want to hear about it, but the Martinitoren is titlted by about 2.4° to the West. That is more than 50% of the tilt of the Tower of Pissa.
26.4 mm • f/8 • 1/320 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 56000 lux EV 14.3
Help
When you have trouble with your bike in the Netherlands, as a foreigner, there is always a nice lady on a bike with a baby, who will stop to offer help.
40.7 mm • f/4 • 1/200 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 8700 lux EV 11.6
Mechanism
A mechanism to be able to walk beter when you need a prosthesis. Click
45 mm • f/14 • 1/60 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 32000 lux EV 13.5
Dust
Sometimes I find some dust in my house an I think "why is dust always grey?" When you put it under the microscope you see fibers with many colors and together they mix into grey. (The height of the image covers 1 mm)
90 mm • f/8 • 1/90 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 980 lux EV 8.5
Interracial
An interracial meeting at a romantic point
90 mm • f/8 • 1/90 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 980 lux EV 8.5
Paper and Pen
In this day and age some things work beter and faster with pen and paper.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/12 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 510 lux EV 7.6
Amsterdam
Despite everything, there are still some quiet places in Amsterdam.
93.9 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 320 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 3400 lux EV 10.3
Mute Swan
The mute zwan is the largest flying water bird in the Netherlands. The division of feather implant on the knob is quite striking.
220 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1400 lux EV 9
Egyptian Goose
This Egyption Goose had an itchy foot and in such a case it is handy to be able to look what you do.
159.7 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2700 lux EV 10
Artist
Artist at work at the UMCG
62.4 mm • f/4 • 1/200 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5500 lux EV 11
Clove Cheese
Lovely: clove cheese
50 mm • f/16 • 12 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 29 lux EV 3.4
Collision
How can you design a car that looks like it had a collision from the back? (Smart Roadster Brabus)
30.5 mm • f/3.5 • 1/250 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1000 lux EV 8.6
Bending or Cracking
It is to bend or to crack under the action of gravity and the shaking by earthquakes in the city.
8.8 mm • f/2.4 • 1/4000 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 7900 lux EV 11.5
Altitude
Given the focal length at which this was taken, the relative proportions of the rotor in the image and the given length of the chopper, it's altitude can be estimated to be about 80 meter above the Turfsingel, in the direction of the UMCG.
220 mm • f/4.5 • 1/1250 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 69000 lux EV 14.6
March 2018
Thoughts
It would be interesting to know what people think when they look at the graffiti of Klaas Boter and see it for the first time. Klaas was inspired by the hiphop culture of the nineties.
13 mm • f/3.2 • 1/3200 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Right of Way
The lorry came from tthe left and passed shark teeth, but still took right of way. Not a fair battle.
124.9 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5500 lux EV 11
Rain
Icecold rain fell today from the sky. Still time for warm coats.
49.5 mm • f/4 • 1/320 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Football
Football can be fun to do, even on a rainy afternoon in March.
110.1 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 8700 lux EV 11.6
Stroll
Taking a nice stroll on a spring morning.
220 mm • f/4.5 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Grebes
Grebes are active again: the mating season is starting.
139.5 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 6800 lux EV 11.3
Dutch
A Dutch view.
139.5 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 6800 lux EV 11.3
Old and New
Groningen has a large variation in architecture from different ages.
32.4 mm • f/3.5 • 1/320 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 11.9
Failure
Material can failure for the function it was meant for demonstrate in an exciting way.
8.8 mm • f/2.4 • 1/1000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 16000 lux EV 12.5
Walking
Experiments in walking. The movements just follow each other in a sequence without thinking about them.
28 mm • f/5 • 1/4 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 140 lux EV 5.6
Walking
Experiments in walking. When things go wrong, you press the button.
85 mm • f/14 • 1/80 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5400 lux EV 10.9
VER/BVM/DNI LV/CER/NA
"Verbum Domini Lucerna Pedibus Nostris" or "The word of God is like a light for our feet". Scientific research at the university of Groningen has attempted to shed light by itself and has succeeded in lifting some of the darkness in the last 400 years.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/10 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 130 lux EV 5.6
Venus and Mercurius
The two planets closer to the sun than we were close together in the sky yesterday evening close after sunset.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/90 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 60 lux EV 4.5
Wandering
This cup was wandering, propelled by the hard Eastern wind, after which it turned on its path, driven by the gust of a passing double city bus.
43.5 mm • f/8 • 1/160 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 28000 lux EV 13.3
Pinholes
A series of pinholes in the sunshade shows the upcoming sun behind the building accross the road on my wall.
24.8 mm • f/3.5 • 1/80 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 330 lux EV 6.9
Pyjama
The light is getting more blue outside
26.4 mm • f/3.5 • 1/80 sec. • 2500 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 110 lux EV 5.3
Lens
This glass sphere is not helpful in seeing the future, but it works reasonably well as a lens.
80 mm • f/22 • 1/1.6667 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 280 lux EV 6.7
Coot
The coots are making plans.
220 mm • f/4 • 1/1600 sec. • 2000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 3500 lux EV 10.3
Soup
No soup today.
81.1 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 8000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 140 lux EV 5.6
On the Roof
Suddenly students are sitting on the roof again: It is 16 °C
171.9 mm • f/4 • 1/320 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Border
At the border of the city.
2.5 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1100 sec. • 100 ISO • GoPro sensor • tripod 24000 lux EV 13.1
Bud
The Rhododendron already has buds.
14.2 mm • f/11 • 1/2000 sec. • 2000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 33000 lux EV 13.6
Target
Sometimes I am right on target.
85 mm • f/1.2 • 1/800 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3100 lux EV 10.2
Load
The load of a spidersweb by tiny mist drops is considerable. The advantage: small flies can see where they should not fly.
19.7 mm • f/3.2 • 1/200 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5600 lux EV 11
Misty
A misty morning behind which spring must be hiding.
15.7 mm • f/3.2 • 1/500 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Drawing
She was drawing the scene at closing of the market.
51.1 mm • f/4 • 1/160 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1700 lux EV 9.3
Radius
The radius of the blade of a speedskate determines what you can do with it.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/8 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 110 lux EV 5.3
Fun
Fun on the ice for the whole family on the Paterswoldsemeer, which was created by digging for peat, a few centuries ago.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/950 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 50000 lux EV 14.2
Oxygen
Oxygen uptake measurements during a student project.
21 mm • f/9.5 • 1/180 sec. • 2500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1800 lux EV 9.3
Frozen Lungs
This is how it feels when you cycle through the city at -9 °C: as if your lungs are frozen.
105 mm • f/7.1 • 1/1250 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 172000 lux EV 15.9
Mathematics
The growth of some trees can be well described by mathematics (L system, called after the dutch biologist Lindenmayer): the pattern of branching leads to its spatial outline.
85 mm • f/1.2 • 1/4000 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 16000 lux EV 12.5
February 2018
Microscopes
Microscopes for a lesson in histology
8.8 mm • f/2.4 • 1/30 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 59 lux EV 4.4
Upside Down
Sometimes trees just grow upside down
85 mm • f/1.2 • 1/400 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1600 lux EV 9.2
Frozen
A frozen gust of wind
85 mm • f/2.8 • 1/2500 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 6700 lux EV 11.3
Vain
Using a very close by parked van, a tree can look itself finally in the eye.
85 mm • f/5.6 • 1/320 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3400 lux EV 10.3
Thinking
It is the question if a cat can actually think, but it is certain that they sit quietly and look ahead a lot of the time.
85 mm • f/1.2 • 1/160 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 630 lux EV 7.8
Thinking
This chubbby cherub is thinking.
85 mm • f/1.2 • 1/200 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 790 lux EV 8.2
Hooge der A
The Hooge der A still has something of the old city with direct passage to the Waddenzee.
8.8 mm • f/2.4 • 1/160 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2500 lux EV 9.8
Demolition
A building is being demolished: people used to live here!
117.3 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Maarten
He really loves his profession and makes the best stroopwafels for our student after college. He even asked the ladies: "Have you learned anything today?"
70.3 mm • f/4 • 1/320 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Dark side
The dark side of the moon is illuminated by the earth.
500 mm • f/ 8• 1/30 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 660 lux EV 7.9
Cracks
In the cracks of a building, you can grow sometimes, but there is little soil, so you don't last very long.
113.7 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 8700 lux EV 11.6
Begijnhof
The Begijnhof in Brugge, just after sunset.
8.8 mm • f/2.4 • 1/1600 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 25000 lux EV 13.2
Jacqueline Thomas
Jacqueline Thomas, the cellist of the Brodsky Quartet, played the string quartets written by Shostakovich in Groningen. She plays with the quartet since its foundation in 1972. Magnificent...
220 mm • f/4 • 1/160 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 440 lux EV 7.3
Paper
A century after this book was printed, the letters still are beautifully embedded in the paper.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/6 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 130 lux EV 5.6
Carriage
In a little carriage, because when you're in love, even a dark day like this is the reason for a party.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/33 sec. • 50 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 870 lux EV 8.3
XONI
A link of a XONI bicycle chain. I hope he does not start to rust faster than an ordinary chain!
50 mm • f/4 • 1 sec. • 1000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 4.4 lux EV 0.7
Wintersun
The reflection of the late wintersun. Now just a cold spell.
42.1 mm • f/8 • 1/800 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 35000 lux EV 13.6
Antenna
The antenna of a moth has very small silvery hairs with which they can smell at kilometers distance: one of two complex molecules are sufficient to get attracted to a possible partner. This is Antheraea Frithi Pedunculata, belonging to the family 0f Saturniidae.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/30 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 660 lux EV 7.9
Pixels
Nature sometimes also works with pixels that change color depending on the incident light. This is a small part of the wing of a butterfly (Papilio Paris)
50 mm • f/8 • 1/30 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 660 lux EV 7.9
Cartilage
Cartilage is a beautiful material with loose cells that seem to look at you. When you look at the large version, it looks like a blue hill landscape from above, but the section is only 0.01 mm thick. Staining: Alcian blue.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/30 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 660 lux EV 7.9
Stracks
The tracks in Groningen are being highlighted by the setting winter sun.
105.8 mm • f/8 • 1/250 sec. • 2000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2200 lux EV 9.6
Chaos
A water trickle from a faucet gives a pattern that will never return again in exactly that form. That is because every drop that liberates itself from the flow influences the rest of the flow, etc.
39.4 mm • f/4 • 1/60 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 660 lux EV 7.9
Cacti
This family of cacti needs sunlight and that's what they get today.
8.8 mm • f/11 • 1/40 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 13000 lux EV 12.2
Shopping
Shopping feeds the reward system deep in our brains.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/50 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2600 lux EV 9.9
Cola
Cola Light is indeed lighter than normal Cola. That is evident when you submerge cans of them in water.The specific weights are: Cola 1.042 kg/liter and Cola Light 0.997 kg/liter.That is due to the fact that Cola contains about 10% sugar agains an artificial sweetener in Cola Light.
23.9 mm • f/3.5 • 1/80 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 170 lux EV 5.9
Color
The color of snow comes from the air that is captured between the snow crystals. The incident light gets reflected by the crystals in all directions due to the air surrounding them. The air can be there because the crystles do not fit exactly due to their complex and endless shape. When they melt, the white color disappears.
159.7 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 2500 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 440 lux EV 7.3
Cork
A cork was launched, faster than she could track with her eyes, by the pressure of liquid nitrogen.
39.4 mm • f/4 • 1/125 sec. • 6400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 85 lux EV 5
Glazed
A glazed plate gives a nice spatial reflection of a lamp.
180.7 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 8000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 140 lux EV 5.6
January 2018
Supermoon
A blue (second full moon this month) supermoon (closest to the earth) a few hours after having been occluded by the earthffrom sunlight.
500 mm • f/10 • 1/400 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 55000 lux EV 14.3
Hole
The first hole is developing in the monstera plant.
28.1 mm • f/3.5 • 1/80 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1300 lux EV 8.9
Cold
With icecold drizzle and gale, football is a different game.
8.8 mm • f/2.4 • 1/1600 sec. • 1000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2500 lux EV 9.8
Sandwich
A table is exactly the right height to make a peanut butter sandwich fall on its covered side. The solution? Eat crackers or halved sandwiches: they turn faster and land on the correct side.
78.4 mm • f/4 • 1/1250 sec. • 6400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 850 lux EV 8.3
Defence
The defence of FC Groningen was unable to avoid scoring of Hercales. You can ask yourself how it is that they became aligned like this in that particular situation.
78.4 mm • f/4 • 1/320 sec. • 1000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1400 lux EV 9
Bert Wagendorp
The writer Bert Wagendorp speaks about cheating in sports in the der Aa-kerk. Jan Mulder and myself joined him in commenting on that subject.
44.9 mm • f/4 • 1/125 sec. • 10000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 55 lux EV 4.3
Candle
Candle in the wind. The flame is detached from the wick and glows freely in the air, after which she disappears.
146.8 mm • f/4 • 1/1250 sec. • 6400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 850 lux EV 8.3
Smoking
Smoking is bad for your heatth, but it is good for salmon in a small smoke oven.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/17 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 220 lux EV 6.4
Rush Hour
At rush hour in the drizzle, cyclists are struggling.
177.9 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 1250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 870 lux EV 8.3
Landing
From his dream cloud he tried to land on monday morning.
128.6 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2700 lux EV 10
Last
The last train is still waiting.
124.9 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 6400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 170 lux EV 6
Empty
Very remarkable to see so many people visit an almost empty store.
8.8 mm • f/2.5 • 1/80 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1400 lux EV 9
Hattem
Hattem on the IJssel sees very high water levels at the moment.
15.2 mm • f/3.2 • 1/5000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 140000 lux EV 15.6
Eurosonic
Before the Eurosonic festival starts, one has got to eat something.
25.6 mm • f/3.5 • 1/80 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 330 lux EV 6.9
Parvati
Sometimes you see things in a museum (like here the NEMO) that generate more questions than they answer.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/33 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1400 lux EV 9
Group
And so you go to Amsterdam with a group of ladies, but it just kept raining. Fortunately the leader knew how to find the way.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/4 sec. • 250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 21 lux EV 3
Rain
A rainy day in Amsterdam. Working in Krasnapolsky at the window is quite a nice solution.
46.4 mm • f/4 • 1/160 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 4400 lux EV 10.6
Wheel
Just for a brief moment the wheel of the train is illuminated by the setting sun. The playing hall for the workers of the Dutch Railroad used to be right underneath that roof.
220 mm • f/4 • 1/3200 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 140000 lux EV 15.6
Sparrow
Sparrows, such great creatures!
210.2 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1400 lux EV 9
Promise
This reflection holds a promise: the days grow longer.
171.9 mm • f/4 • 1/2000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 87000 lux EV 15
Question
Mercury, the god of trade, asks himself: "how can I slice my bread, when those two snakes with ears keep sitting on my sword?"
212.8 mm • f/4 • 1/400 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Waiting
Waiting while in the presence of a clock lasts longer, so it seems.
18.2 mm • f/3.2 • 1/100 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2800 lux EV 10
Fairy Tale Castle
In the double window pane of the gold office, the Martini tower looks like a fairy tale castle.
90.5 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 500 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2200 lux EV 9.6
Broken
The sound was hanging for a long time in the cold winter air. Nobody was left behind.
38 mm • f/9 • 1/125 sec. • 5000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 550 lux EV 7.7
Station Hall
The Station Hall in Groningen on a quiet Sunday afternoon.
1 mm • f/2 • 1/2.5 sec. • 800 ISO • iphone sensor • tripod 3.4 lux EV 0.3
The Sun
Just before sunset, the light touches the smoke from the chimney of the palace on the Dam Square.
51.1 mm • f/4 • 1/160 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 7000 lux EV 11.3
Café de Zwart
Café de Zwart in Amsterdam has since long been a café for writers.
40.7 mm • f/4 • 1/125 sec. • 3200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 170 lux EV 6
Dryer
Also without autism or asperger, ik can be fun to ook inside a dryer, but never very long.
1 mm • f/2 • 1/2.5 sec. • 800 ISO • iphone sensor • tripod 3.4 lux EV 0.3
Museum
The Groningen Museum in a 360 degree exposure. Not easy not to get captured in the shot, but I succeeded.
8 mm • f/2 • 1/2.5 sec. • 800 ISO • iphone sensor • tripod 3.4 lux EV 0.3
Music
A disc for a music box. The melody is that of "Vogerl fliagst in d' Welt hinaus". The low notes are closest to the axis. The disc turns clockwise. This is the underside, so you read the music also clockwise. There are 76 notes available. Here an example: click here
18.9 mm • f/3.2 • 1/60 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 100 lux EV 5.3
Rain
What would rain sound like for a goldcarp? And would they feel the electrostatic charge of the gliding drops on the water?
220 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 1250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 870 lux EV 8.3
December 2017
Surrender
In complete surrender, she embraces the new year.
90.5 mm • f/4 • 1/1250 sec. • 10000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 550 lux EV 7.6
Merci Marie
In the chapel of our dear lady of refuge, many thank you messages for Marie.
8.8 mm • f/2.4 • 1/30 sec. • 2500 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 19 lux EV 2.8
Sint-Michielsbrug
Sint-Michielsbrug in Gent at dusk.
67.5 mm • f/4 • 1/400 sec. • 10000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 170 lux EV 6
Holidays
Some of us want the holidays to be over as fast as possible.
33.5 mm • f/3.5 • 1/100 sec. • 5000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 67 lux EV 4.6
Speed
With a firm wing beat, they easily go 90 km/h and that speed they loose again by keeping the wings curved in the right way.
220 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 8700 lux EV 11.6
Fabric
The fabric a jacket is made of can say so much, without words.
29.7 mm • f/3.5 • 1/40 sec. • 12800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 10 lux EV 1.9
Light Festival
The light festival in Amsterdam showed some surprising works.
8.8 mm • f/2.4 • 1/30 sec. • 1000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 47 lux EV 4.1
Organic
Old buildings develop something organic, like the leg of an old top athlete
56.4 mm • f/4 • 1/160 sec. • 1250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 560 lux EV 7.7
Smartphonification
The world is being smartphonificated at a high rate.
29.7 mm • f/3.5 • 1/100 sec. • 320 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1000 lux EV 8.6
Christmas shopping
Christmas shopping can be nice when you play it well.
31.3 mm • f/3.5 • 1/100 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1700 lux EV 9.3
Top
There is this moment that you reached the top and have to rethink how to proceed.
60.3 mm • f/4 • 1/640 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 28000 lux EV 13.3
Pomegranate
Peculiar fruit, a pomegranate. It looks like the seeds have just been stuffed in, without any pattern.
34.7 mm • f/3.5 • 1/50 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 210 lux EV 6.3
Shadow
A part of the year, this sundial can not indicate the time properly, due to the shadow of the palace. The shortest day of the year is nigh.
186.6 mm • f/5.6 • 1/500 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 43000 lux EV 13.9
Parabola
The water of a fountain does not follow a parabola. Due to the air resistance, the peak is shifted to the right.
146.8 mm • f/4 • 1/3.3333 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 150 lux EV 5.7
Love
Met grote halen betuigde ze haar liefde, maar haar dochter moest er toch even aan wennen.
146.8 mm • f/4 • 1/3.3333 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 150 lux EV 5.7
Lighter
Inside the rainbow, the color of the sky is lighter: rays that enter with an angle smaller than 42° reflect from the raindrop as white light, at larger angles, no reflection occurs to our eye. At exactly 42° they are dispersed into colors.
8.8 mm • f/2.4 • 1/2500 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 39000 lux EV 13.8
Rust
Rusty water draws the image.
26.4 mm • f/3.5 • 1/80 sec. • 320 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 840 lux EV 8.3
Ore Mountains
An orchestra of handpainted musicians from the ore mountains
8.8 mm • f/2.4 • 1/30 sec. • 640 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 74 lux EV 4.8
Raindrop
Now that the snow has been rained away, I see a snowdrop.
207.9 mm • f/4 • 1/60 sec. • 500 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 520 lux EV 7.6
Facebook
His dog likes to read on facebook with his boss.
18.2 mm • f/3.2 • 1/50 sec. • 500 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 280 lux EV 6.7
Code Rood
Utrecht in code red conditions kept many travellers in town, but it did look very nice.
8.8 mm • f/2.4 • 1/30 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 120 lux EV 5.4
Sticky Snow
Around the freezing point, snow is nice and sticky.
13.3 mm • f/3.2 • 1/40 sec. • 4000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 28 lux EV 3.4
World Press
The World Press photo exhibition of 2017 evokes serious faces.
8.8 mm • f/2.5 • 1/30 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 130 lux EV 5.6
Sweep
Because of the strong wind, the christmas lights draw shapes in time.
26.4 mm • f/16 • 1 sec. • 64 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1100 lux EV 8.6
Medaille
Working under the medal for inspiration
8.8 mm • f/2.4 • 1/30 sec. • 320 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 150 lux EV 5.8
Speyside
Light and sweet whisky, from Sinterklaas, so that matches.
8.8 mm • f/2.5 • 1/25 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 53 lux EV 4.3
Sinterklaas
Presents night.....
15.2 mm • f/3.2 • 1/160 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 560 lux EV 7.7
Lingerie
Wrappings for wrappings
16.3 mm • f/5.6 • 1/50 sec. • 2000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 210 lux EV 6.3
Testosterone
After briefing, the group drifts apart, while the testosterone flows, this close to the game.
67.5 mm • f/4 • 1/200 sec. • 12800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 68 lux EV 4.6
Cry
At the cry of day, a walk in the freezing air. With Jupiter on the left over the tree, Mars middle top and Spica under it slightly lower and to the right.
13.3 mm • f/3.2 • 1/6 sec. • 8000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2.1 lux EV -0.4
Winter
Winter bares the leaves, but the light can be warm.
8.8 mm • f/2.4 • 1/320 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5000 lux EV 10.8
November 2017
Mind the Gap
When you can fly, you can simply ignore the advice, sranding on one leg and looking quite sleepy
43.5 mm • f/4 • 1/125 sec. • 6400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 85 lux EV 5
Low Sun
The sun is playing games with people in the street.
8.8 mm • f/2.4 • 1/200 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 3100 lux EV 10.2
Planet Knowledge
Planet Knowledge does not exist and so the logical question arises whether I want to remove it.
8.8 mm • f/2.4 • 1/30 sec. • 250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 190 lux EV 6.1
Day and Night
From an airplane at great height, you can see how the day goes over into the night.
9 mm • f/2.5 • 1/30 sec. • 1000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 51 lux EV 4.2
Bauhaus
The company has little to do with the art movement from 1919 to 1933 in Germany.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/2137 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 113000 lux EV 15.3
Done
The work on the market is done for the day. They can go home.
8.8 mm • f/2.4 • 1/30 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 470 lux EV 7.4
Computers
Computers everywhere.
39.4 mm • f/4 • 1/16000 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 87000 lux EV 15
King
I feel like a "king of the road" with a rented truck to move 1500 kg of books for a friend. Loaded knowledge.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/1603 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 85000 lux EV 14.9
Ornament
For just a short moment, this building at the Vismarkt carries a magnificent ornament.
212.8 mm • f/4 • 1/50 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 270 lux EV 6.6
Cuff Links
Cuff links are not used very often anymore and require special shirts. These are made of black tourmaline.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/17 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 220 lux EV 6.4
Figures
Flames sometimes clearly show human figures
110.1 mm • f/4 • 1/4000 sec. • 4000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 4400 lux EV 10.6
Rainbow
Double rainbows are always nice to see, especially in an open landscape.
16.3 mm • f/3.2 • 1/32000 sec. • 6400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Pupil
A cat has excellent eyes in the dark, but does not see so well in sunlight. Because of the high sensitivity of the retina, the pupil has to contract to an unfavourable shape at that amount of light.
220 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Bas Bloem
Bas Bloem speaks on the yearly Parkinson meeting in Zwolle and is once again able to captivate the audience of 650 professionals.
220 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 680 lux EV 8
Christmas
Although it will take more than a month before christmas, the lights have already been put up.
110.1 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 4000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 270 lux EV 6.6
Mood
When it is overcrowded in the train during rush hour, people get in a bad mood.
28.9 mm • f/3.5 • 1/80 sec. • 2500 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 110 lux EV 5.3
Tension
Tension becomes visible in reflections of the setting sun.
220 mm • f/5.6 • 1/250 sec. • 250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 8600 lux EV 11.6
Double Selfie
It's not easy to make a double selfie with the image away from you. But that's when the good lens is facing you.
34.7 mm • f/3.5 • 1/100 sec. • 5000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 67 lux EV 4.6
Dambord
It's only natural that you won't find a chessboard on the Dam, but a "dambord" (checkerboard)
8.8 mm • f/5.6 • 1/160 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Thickness
The double reflections of the Dam Square in soap bubbles have a different colour due to the thickness of the soap film. Gold is given by a nice thick film, while blue is given by a thin film.
189.7 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 640 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1700 lux EV 9.3
Clearing
The weather is clearing: the the wet asphalt is like a river.
56.4 mm • f/5.6 • 1/1600 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 137000 lux EV 15.6
Walkway
A new walkway is mounted onto the laboratory. So we can vary our lunch walks somewhat.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/475 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 25000 lux EV 13.2
Laboratory
The botanic laboratory in which a long time ago I was allowed to study exotic plants.
30.5 mm • f/3.5 • 1/100 sec. • 320 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1000 lux EV 8.6
Clock
It remains a mystery to me why wires are kept together with bindings that you have to turn clockwise to undo them. Is this an english tradition, or is turning counterclockwise less demanding in the factory when you are righthanded?
8.8 mm • f/5.6 • 1/30 sec. • 4000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 64 lux EV 4.6
Muffs
It is getting colder on the bicycle, so muffs are very nice te have on a bicycle.
43.5 mm • f/5.6 • 1/320 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Down
Convicted were sent by the judge down this stairway, to the prison.
33.5 mm • f/3.5 • 1/100 sec. • 3200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 100 lux EV 5.3
Phrenology
This is one of the most beautiful phrenological heads I have ever seen, with all those cracks and words. However, humans are not that simple.
14.7 mm • f/3.2 • 1/40 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 280 lux EV 6.7
Cave Pub
Deep under the city of Nottingham, caves were carved out in which pubs were organised. Those caves exist since about the year 1200.
20.5 mm • f/3.2 • 1/60 sec. • 12800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 13 lux EV 2.3
Courtroom
In the courtroom, als in England, more and more women are active.
30.5 mm • f/3.5 • 1/100 sec. • 5000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 67 lux EV 4.6
To Wait
Waiting on an airport is an important part of travel.
113.7 mm • f/6.3 • 1/250 sec. • 12800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 210 lux EV 6.3
October 2017
Halloween
Pumpkins go with halloween because the American immigrants discovered that pumpkins were easier to cut than sugar beets for instance for lanterns.
29.7 mm • f/4 • 1/100 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2200 lux EV 9.6
Debris
Debris comes in all kinds of form. In this case an umbrella will not provide sufficient protection.
8.8 mm • f/6.3 • 1/30 sec. • 640 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 510 lux EV 7.5
Daylight Saving Time
Today it is change to daylight saving time. Nature immedeately adjusts itself: it is cold outside and the light is icy.
23.9 mm • f/3.5 • 1/8000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 268000 lux EV 16.6
Facade Statue
This is a strikingly modern facade statue in this old building at the Armbrug in Amsterdam.
220 mm • f/5.6 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 11.9
Steenstraat
Fourty years ago I lived there, behind that round tiny window. When a bus passed by, the last few grooves of the music record would be played again.
13 mm • f/3.2 • 1/30 sec. • 12800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 6.6 lux EV 1.3
Walking
Walking is easier done than understood.
17.6 mm • f/3.2 • 1/50 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 700 lux EV 8
Mycena
The mushrooms shoot up from the ground, It is moisty in the evening.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/33 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1400 lux EV 9
Brave
He is only small and just arrived on the scene, but is brave as a sizeable cat.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/17 sec. • 80 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 280 lux EV 6.7
Travel Information
Travel information can be filled in by ourselves with felttip pen. That gives a feeling of freedom.
8.9 mm • f/2.5 • 1/100 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1700 lux EV 9.3
Trail
Like a trail of ink forms itself the reflection of a pole in the dark water next to the kiss-and-ride spot.
32.4 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Lift
A very small snail offers a lift to an even smaller fly.
90 mm • f/5.6 • 1/25 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 170 lux EV 6
Publieke Werken
"Publieke Werken" is a movie that deals with the house around which the Victoria Hotel was built, because the owner refused to sell it.
8.8 mm • f/5.6 • 1/60 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5100 lux EV 10.9
Old Amsterdam
Old Amsterdam is just beautiful.
16.3 mm • f/5.6 • 1/320 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 27000 lux EV 13.3
Study Hall
The Groningen Museum has a beautiful study hall, here in reflection in one of its lamps.
26.4 mm • f/3.5 • 1/80 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1700 lux EV 9.3
Enjoy
To really enjoy is not for everyone, but ik can be so simple
113.7 mm • f/4 • 1/800 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 35000 lux EV 13.6
Homework
Rope and its many applications
28.9 mm • f/3.5 • 1/1250 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 42000 lux EV 13.9
Daniël
Daniël Wayenberg plays at 88 year the incredibly hard to play etudes d'execution transcendante composed by Frans Liszt by ear and out of his skin.
43.5 mm • f/4 • 1/125 sec. • 3200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 170 lux EV 6
Nine
Synchronous photography by a photo class
2.5 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1100 sec. • 100 ISO • GoPro sensor • tripod 24000 lux EV 13.1
Group
Photograph of a group of scientists against an unusual background.
35 mm • f/4 • 1/1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Elephant
Porcelain elephant in a porcelain showcase. Does that imply self destruction or does it compensate?
8.8 mm • f/2.5 • 1/125 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2100 lux EV 9.6
Missed
That's what a dog looks like when he misses catching a cookie.
13.7 mm • f/3.2 • 1/200 sec. • 3200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 170 lux EV 6
Small boy
Nice to be a small boy again, reading a comic book.
29.7 mm • f/3.5 • 1/100 sec. • 320 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1000 lux EV 8.6
On my Way
On my way to the students. What I want to tell them will also become clear to me.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/17 sec. • 64 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 350 lux EV 7
Synchrony
The three fastest runners of the 4 Mile of Groningen (Victor Chumo, Yomif Kejelcha and Noah Kipkemboi) run in perfect synchrony, althought they differ slightly in body length.
24 mm • f/4 • 1/4000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 175000 lux EV 16
Cockatoo Portrait
He posed patiently and started to get cocky again when she had left.
11.5 mm • f/3.2 • 1/40 sec. • 2500 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 45 lux EV 4
Hide and Seak
The full moon played hide and seak between the showers and strong wind. So I could not make a picture of my own moon shadow, but I could of the moon herself.
210.2 mm • f/4 • 1/200 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2200 lux EV 9.6
Storm
Today a storm hurled through Groningen and even famous trees dropped branches, which can be quite dangerous for pedestrians.
8.8 mm • f/7.1 • 1/800 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 110000 lux EV 15.3
Colors
The leaves change their colors because in a certain order the chlorophyl components decay. The tree gets less and less energy from the light until the leaves can be dropped.But unitl then they become more beautiful than in summer.
87.1 mm • f/9 • 1/250 sec. • 2000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2800 lux EV 10
Bread Saleswomen
Selling bread on the market place is real human labour, in which you have eye contact with your customers.
40.7 mm • f/8 • 1/125 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1400 lux EV 9
Young Photographer
Nice to see how he prepared his camera and tripod for an exposure.
20.5 mm • f/8 • 1/80 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Wear
Wear of the pavement of a layered board brings abstract art to the surface.
11.3 mm • f/2.8 • 1/40 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 860 lux EV 8.3
September 2017
Mick & Sasha
Mick Jagger and Sasha Allen engaged in a vocal battle, while a fan does not realise his camera has fallen on the floor.
220 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 1000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1100 lux EV 8.6
Pearls
The morning mist places pearls in a web. The owner is probably having a drink somewhere with friends.
24.8 mm • f/7.1 • 1/80 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5500 lux EV 11
Past
She stood still for a moment and looked into her past, when she still had a room full of dolls.
35 mm • f/5.6 • 1/1000 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 21000 lux EV 12.9
Family Affair
The nest of firebugs are growing up quickly. Their back pattern still needs further developing, looking like that of the mother, who serves as transportation.
8.8 mm • f/2.4 • 1/125 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2000 lux EV 9.5
Night Rider
When cycling in the dark, your headlight may shine upon remarkable landscapes. You can see that they almost touched each other before dying.
50 mm • f/4 • 8 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 1.4 lux EV -1
Onlanden
The moon stood over the Onlanden on an evening without wind. The earth illuminated the dark side of the moon.
50 mm • f/4 • 1 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11 lux EV 2
Explanation
The value of an object can be increased by an explanation.
35 mm • f/4.8 • 1/1000 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 16000 lux EV 12.5
Quatre-Pieds
To play a piece in quatre-mains means that you also play with four feet, but when there are only three pedals, this is what you get.
40.7 mm • f/5.6 • 1/125 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 670 lux EV 7.9
Ladies
He loves the life as a street musician, because he is a Ladies Man en there are quite a lot of them passing by in this lovely autumn weather.
83.9 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5500 lux EV 11
City Lights
The city is illuminating the partially clouded sky. About a quarter of an hour later, exactly at 21:00:15, we saw a big fireball. We have reported all details. Perhaps they will find the meteor.
8.8 mm • f/2.4 • 25 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 0.6 lux EV -2.1
Snack
Time for a light snack before cycling.
8.8 mm • f/2.4 • 1/30 sec. • 250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 190 lux EV 6.1
Darkness
Sometimes darkness is more interesting than light.
124.9 mm • f/4 • 1/4000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 175000 lux EV 16
In Love
These dogs were clearly in love. It took half an hour before the black and white one stopped looking in the direction in which the other one disappeared after this meeting.
33.5 mm • f/3.5 • 1/100 sec. • 1250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • uit de hand 270 lux EV 6.6
Night at the Museum
After the Night of Art and Knowledge we managed to get into the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden. There was a profound silence, while we stared at the portraits of 3500 years old.
26.4 mm • f/3.5 • 1/80 sec. • 2500 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 110 lux EV 5.3
Sex Robots
Linda Duits, science popularisor, arguments the use of sex robots, while sexuologist Erik van Beek listens critically. It was the Night of Art and Knowledge at the University of Leiden.
33.5 mm • f/3.5 • 1/100 sec. • 1250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 270 lux EV 6.6
The Woman
It is obvious that the man can only form a subtitle with self adhesive lettering to the woman in this case.
14.2 mm • f/3.2 • 1/500 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Year 9
Today we begin with year 9 of the PhotoBlog. With phillips screws or with other means, we just mount it on top of the other years.
128.6 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Coiffure
The wind was strong and some people almost were blown out of their figure. Hunched over their handle bars they hurried home to tea with biscuits.
87.1 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 8700 lux EV 11.6
Vleeschhouwerij
"Vleeschhouwerij" translates to "butcher". This way the boundery becomes very thin indeed.
24.8 mm • f/4 • 1/80 sec. • 1000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 350 lux EV 7
Spirals and Beads
On the Binnenhof, the birds are puking clear water, in spirals and beads, even when the skies are heavy with clouds.
36.7 mm • f/4 • 1/4000 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Piracy
This big building obviously has been taken over by pirates.
220 mm • f/4 • 1/1250 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 55000 lux EV 14.3
Last
The last hollyhock enjoys just a bit of sunlight at the end of the day.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/1399 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 74000 lux EV 14.7
Transition
The transition in weather is noticeable. What do we wear today?
73.2 mm • f/4 • 1/200 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 4400 lux EV 10.6
Wide
A wide view from the football fields of Corpus den Hoorn over Groningen.
2.5 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1100 sec. • 100 ISO • GoPro sensor • no tripod 24000 lux EV 13.1
Moment of Inertia
The moment of inertia of a bicycle wheel can be of importance when accelerating during a race, for instance after cornering. But you need to know the value first. You can calculate it and measure it. The two values should match. That's how it works in science.
8.8 mm • f/4 • 1/30 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1300 lux EV 8.9
Rain
It feels like automn already. Today the sun is above the horizon 4 minutes shorter than yesterday. The question however is: will we see her?
198.2 mm • f/5 • 1/250 sec. • 1000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1700 lux EV 9.3
Lake
Cycling along the lake: the clouds move along slowly.
25.7 mm • f/7.1 • 1/1000 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 110000 lux EV 15.3
Breakaway
The breakaway at a race without any wind. The sizzling sound of chains and tyres could be heard from far away.
23.1 mm • f/2.8 • 1/2000 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 27000 lux EV 13.3
Brigadoon
A film, a village and a muscial find each other in this dance in the streets of Groningen.
21.3 mm • f/6.3 • 1/160 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Peace
Peace takes over at the Groningen prairie.
28.9 mm • f/3.5 • 1/320 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 11.9
August 2017
Start
The start of the new academic year in Groningen looks like this for a part of the students in Groningen.
22.2 mm • f/3.5 • 1/25 sec. • 12800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 6.5 lux EV 1.3
Nationalities
Groningen harbours many nationalities, partly because of its university community. The new academic year starts again.
62.4 mm • f/5.6 • 1/200 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Amazone
Car design has changed in 53 years. But what does that express?
139.5 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 6800 lux EV 11.3
What?
He didn't say.
38 mm • f/6.3 • 1/400 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 43000 lux EV 14
Fire
A police copter records the extent of the smoke from the burning casino in Groningen with a free hanging camera.
220 mm • f/4.5 • 1/5000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 276000 lux EV 16.6
Light
As light as a feather. But how light is a feather? Well, it is about 38 mg, which is about as heavy as a small drop of water.
19.7 mm • f/4.5 • 1/60 sec. • 640 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 520 lux EV 7.6
The Past
When you take a bike ride in the past, the Grote Markt looks very different from today.
40.7 mm • f/6.3 • 1/2500 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 271000 lux EV 16.6
Princess
A princess flies through the air with the greatest of ease.
22.2 mm • f/6.3 • 1/1000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 108000 lux EV 15.3
Industrial
Industrial designs are rarely free of non-functional choices.
220 mm • f/5.6 • 1/400 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 34000 lux EV 13.6
Iridescent
The blue and green colors of a peacock are caused by interference in very thin layers in the feathers. It is not due to pigemnt, but the color emerges by interference in which light of a particular wavelength (or color) is amplified, while the others are not. Robert Hooke already observed this in the seventeenth century, while he did not know anything about the wavelike nature of light.
31.3 mm • f/3.5 • 1/160 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5400 lux EV 10.9
The Laundry
On a ship you also have to do your laundry. When there is no wind, drying it takes a bit longer.
40.7 mm • f/4 • 1/200 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1100 lux EV 8.6
Cello
That's how a C3 tone looks from a cello. Regularly, but filled with dynamics and movement.
15.2 mm • f/3.2 • 1/2500 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 4400 lux EV 10.6
Heads
Today you could walk over heads in town. I did not do it.
219.8 mm • f/5 • 1/250 sec. • 320 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5300 lux EV 10.9
Passage
Sometimes it is not easy to find a passage as a cyclist through the parked bicycles and talking pedestrians to another street.
22.2 mm • f/5 • 1/3200 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Reflection
Reflections of the tax building.
15.2 mm • f/3.2 • 1/50 sec. • 1000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 140 lux EV 5.7
Summer
The summer pushes herself a way through the evening.
40.7 mm • f/4 • 1/8000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 349000 lux EV 17
Very high
A cylinder with people at great height. They can see the last sun rays, but the sun has already set for us down here.
220 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 6800 lux EV 11.3
Perseïds
A number of Perseïds captured in the city of Groningen. So I can do five wishes, but tell no one.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 8 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • from tripod 0.2 lux EV -4
Cat
The boy had something of a cat: getting into a confined space where you still get attention.
19.9 mm • f/4.5 • 1/400 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 18000 lux EV 12.7
SuikerUnie
The chimney of the old SuikerUnie in Groningen is not used anymore. The hole is a bit too small to fly in there and have a look what we can find there.
2.5 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1100 sec. • 100 ISO • GoPro sensor • without tripod 24000 lux EV 13.1
Tjeukemeer
Wave patterns just run through each other on the geat body of water, which is the Tjeukemeer.
2.5 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1100 sec. • 100 ISO • GoPro sensor • without tripod 24000 lux EV 13.1
Last Journey
Someone decided to give the hollyhock a last journey by binding it to his bicycle.
26.4 mm • f/3.5 • 1/80 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 330 lux EV 6.9
Expression
A face can form the expression of a feeling. This must have evolved to convey feelings, but in the chain of transport, a number of things can go wrong, both at the side of the sender and at the side of the receiver.
220 mm • f/4 • 1/500 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Helper Windmill
The Helper windmill is used now to regulate the water around the Hoornse Diep, but has ben rebuilt from a location further in 1971.
2.5 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1100 sec. • 100 ISO • GoPro sensor • without tripod 24000 lux EV 13.1
Meat Eater
A wasp is also a meat eater and can cut nice strips for home.
11.3 mm • f/4 • 1/40 sec. • 500 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 350 lux EV 7
Schokland
Schokland was a little island in the Zuiderzee and still is elevated over the polder level.
2.5 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1100 sec. • 100 ISO • GoPro sensor • without tripod 24000 lux EV 13.1
Chalking
Chalking in the street: it has always been fun.
36.7 mm • f/4 • 1/1250 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 55000 lux EV 14.3
Cannabis
She was already showing it on facebook what she had scored in Amsterdam.
8.8 mm • f/5.6 • 1/200 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Unmoved
He remained unmoved, while she really played beatifully.
24.8 mm • f/3.5 • 1/80 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 670 lux EV 7.9
Meltwaterfall
In the summer quite a bit from the glacier is melting away, forming a waterfall of several hunderd meters high.
220 mm • f/5.6 • 1/400 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 34000 lux EV 13.6
Expansion
The rings in the expansion of drops that fall in fluid reveil multiple movements after impact.
33.5 mm • f/4 • 1/1600 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 70000 lux EV 14.6
July 2017
Round
When you go high enough, it is clear to see: the earth is round!
2.5 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1100 sec. • 100 ISO • GoPro sensor • uit de hand 24000 lux EV 13.1
Finish
Ze passed the finish line first, but that was mainly because she was some years older. She did not have the sense to let her sister win this time.
8.8 mm • f/8 • 1/30 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2600 lux EV 9.9
No Criticism
A totally unexptected storefront in Venice, that has been completely taken over by tourists.
29.7 mm • f/5.6 • 1/100 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 6800 lux EV 11.3
Dolls
Favourit dolls need a bath now and then. This is how they dry them in Venice.
33.5 mm • f/8 • 1/800 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 140000 lux EV 15.6
The Story
Sometimes a story just emerges, all by itself.
38 mm • f/4 • 1/1250 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 55000 lux EV 14.3
Untouched
It is still there: an untouched landscape
87.1 mm • f/4 • 1/500 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Raster
A self organized raster of cow tracks can bring a cow anywhere she wants on the steep flank of the Stelvio.
81.1 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 8700 lux EV 11.6
Stelvio
The Stelvio can look menacing, before you start to climb.
117.3 mm • f/4 • 1/320 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Dike
Water is controlled in the Netherlands by dikes.
2.5 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1100 sec. • 100 ISO • GoPro sensor • handheld 24000 lux EV 13.1
Amélie
A short encounter with Amélie.
183.4 mm • f/4 • 1/500 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Youngest
The youngest monument in Amsterdam reflects the older ones on the other side of the Rokinl
36.7 mm • f/4 • 1/800 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 35000 lux EV 13.6
Monumental
A monumental building, decorated by a blown out contrail.
32.4 mm • f/3.5 • 1/1600 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 54000 lux EV 14.3
Nemo
On the roof of the science museum Nemo.
155.4 mm • f/4 • 1/1250 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 55000 lux EV 14.3
Not
She pushes the nagging child away from her and sinks her head between her feathers: it's basta today!
101.6 mm • f/4 • 1/1000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 44000 lux EV 14
Balloonists
Balloonists over my street.
220 mm • f/4 • 1/1000 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5500 lux EV 11
Course
For using a smartphone and riding a bicycles, the same brain areas are used, which may result in a compromised performance in one or both of the tasks.
12.6 mm • f/2.8 • 1/250 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • from tripod 670 lux EV 7.9
Bow
The train seems to push the rainbow forward.
12.3 mm • f/4.5 • 1/640 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 18000 lux EV 12.7
Ready
Ready for a trip by the light of a candle.
13.3 mm • f/8 • 1/1.25 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 110 lux EV 5.3
Olle Grieze
The Martinitoren can be seen from the other side of the Leekstermeer at a distance of 11 km in almost its full height of 100 m, which is an indication of the openness and flatness of the landscape.
220 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 6800 lux EV 11.3
Tesla
The winning group of the Summerschool came with a striking citation from Tesla.
8.8 mm • f/2.4 • 1/30 sec. • 320 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 150 lux EV 5.8
Summer Shower
In a summer shower, you stand up high.
219.3 mm • f/4 • 1/2000 sec. • 12800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 680 lux EV 8
Carillon
The carillon of the church in Middelstum is grander than you would expect in such a small town.
220 mm • f/4 • 1/640 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 28000 lux EV 13.3
Rottumerplaat
Rottumerplaat seemed really close by with this clear weather. And due to the warm air layer and its light ray refraction, it seemed to float over the sea.
220 mm • f/5.6 • 1/640 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 55000 lux EV 14.3
Earrings
Her new earrings looked fabulous, but she kept having that nagging feeling that she was framed.
143.2 mm • f/8 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Energy
Two forms of consumer energy. The one that will be depleted and the other not.
120.9 mm • f/4 • 1/2000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 87000 lux EV 15
Discarded
Discarded dental chairs.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/1040 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 55000 lux EV 14.3
Up
This hollyhock has certainly reached an incredible height,.
8.8 mm • f/2.4 • 1/32000 sec. • 3200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 16000 lux EV 12.5
Deformation
Deformation of a volleyball is considerable, even at low velocity.
87.1 mm • f/4 • 1/3200 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 35000 lux EV 13.6
Eavesdropping
In some conversations, eavesdropping will occur by figures from the past of science.
58.3 mm • f/4 • 1/160 sec. • 3200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 220 lux EV 6.3
Worlds
Worlds are behind the glazing on a chinese vase, which also inspired the development of Delftware Pottery.
52.8 mm • f/4 • 1/160 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 870 lux EV 8.3
Andy
On the occasion of the opening of the exhibition of work by Andy Warhol in the Beurs van Berlage.
110.1 mm • f/4 • 1/320 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
June 2017
Bowed
Amsterdam is bowing under the pigeons, although they are magnificent animals ( Click Here)
163.8 mm • f/4 • 1/2000 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Quintana
One way or the other this bike does not remind me of the rider Quintana.
20.5 mm • f/3.5 • 1/60 sec. • 2500 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 80 lux EV 4.9
Power
Measuring power and forces. It's all possible, but then something more difficult comes up: what to do with it?
20.5 mm • f/3.2 • 1/60 sec. • 2500 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 67 lux EV 4.6
Variation
Never twice the same, but very recognizable.
9.3 mm • f/8 • 1/2000 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 87000 lux EV 15
Landscape
A Hollyhock is a whole landscape for an ant of a small species.
8.8 mm • f/2.4 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 3900 lux EV 10.5
Church
When on sunday afternoon the sheep are grazing so peacefully in front of the churchdoor, that indicate something.
117.3 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 6800 lux EV 11.3
Old Camera
Obviously, an old camera can evoke a smile.
8.8 mm • f/2.4 • 1/800 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 13000 lux EV 12.2
Bridesmaid
The bridesmaid is being addressed by the mother of the bride.
22.2 mm • f/3.5 • 1/80 sec. • 1000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 270 lux EV 6.6
Rain
Suddenly there was the shower, after those tropical days.
67.5 mm • f/4 • 1/200 sec. • 500 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1700 lux EV 9.3
Finger
Like a giant eroding finger, points the old chimney in the direction in which his smoke has been expelled.
67.5 mm • f/11 • 1/6400 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2114000 lux EV 19.6
On top of each other
The bicycles of the students are on top of each other in this warm weather. After the exposure, I put them on their tyres again, since they were in danger of being run over.
8.8 mm • f/2.4 • 1/80 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1300 lux EV 8.8
To Sail
Sailing in the evening sun, a moderate breeze and undeep water.
220 mm • f/4 • 1/1000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 44000 lux EV 14
Fraeylemaborg
The Fraeylemaborg in Slochteren has withstood the earthquakes until now. And the sun has turned so far now that she gets reflected in the facade of the building when you stand straight in front of it. This only happens near the longest day in the year.
9.8 mm • f/2.5 • 1/6400 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 109000 lux EV 15.3
Swinging
She sang beautifully on the Waagplein at Swinging Groningen.
220 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 8700 lux EV 11.6
Monster
A sad sand monster is sticking up its head.
35.7 mm • f/3.5 • 1/800 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 27000 lux EV 13.3
Thinking
She looked ahead and thought.
220 mm • f/4 • 1/32000 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1398000 lux EV 19
Never dark
In the summer it really does not get totally dark anymore. Here the northern sky around midnight.
8.8 mm • f/2.5 • 3.2 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1.3 lux EV -1
Temporary
The sun is used to indicate the time, while the sun also deteriorates the paint. It is all just temporary.
220 mm • f/4 • 1/800 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 35000 lux EV 13.6
Attack
The attack by a black-headed gull lasted for a few minutes. I have never heard a sound like that before.
110.1 mm • f/4 • 1/500 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Weeds
Weeds drift across the waves of the Zuidlaardermeer.
30.5 mm • f/3.5 • 1/800 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 3300 lux EV 10.3
Saturn
The full moon was accompanied by Saturn last night (the speck at lower left in the image, and magnified in the box). Here photographed with an unsupported small camera .
168 mm • f/4 • 1/30 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 82 lux EV 4.9
Roots
In a way he was dealing with his roots.
83.9 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 6800 lux EV 11.3
Area
An area for birds, close to the city.
39.4 mm • f/7.1 • 1/200 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 28000 lux EV 13.3
Moon
The moon in the water; Broken and broken again, Still it is there. ~ Choshu
151.1 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 4400 lux EV 10.6
Shallow
When the water is shallow, you don't need your long neck, but the food remains delicious
220 mm • f/4 • 1/3200 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 140000 lux EV 15.6
Paradise Birds
People sometimes are a bit like paradise birds and their complex mating behaviour. For the male the most exciting event is when the female looks away from his avances.
33.5 mm • f/3.5 • 1/400 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 13000 lux EV 12.3
Restitution
A billiard ball is bouncing, recorded at 250 frames/sec, shows the energy restitution of the floor.
12.6 mm • f/2.8 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod 5400 lux EV 10.9
Artist
Artist working inside in his own work of art.
12.6 mm • f/2.8 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5400 lux EV 10.9
Flower candle
Some candles burn as if they are a flower with petals opening.
11.3 mm • f/2.8 • 1/40 sec. • 500 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 170 lux EV 6
Pudding
To cut a pudding is always rewarding. How will the sauce behave.
32.4 mm • f/3.5 • 1/10 sec. • 64 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 520 lux EV 7.6
May 2017
Yellow
Yellow as a warning for ships, but also a sun dial.
220 mm • f/4 • 1/640 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 28000 lux EV 13.3
Grass
To weather is so lovely, that this bicycle decided to lie down in the grass.
75.8 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Nowhere
Together on a boat, going nowhere. It's summer.
220 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 1000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1100 lux EV 8.6
Warm
A Highlander like this knows how to keep cool in this hot weather.
212.8 mm • f/4 • 1/400 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Pigeon
A pigeon is often called "a flying rat", but up close he is a lot more beautiful.
220 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 500 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2200 lux EV 9.6
Friends
When you are friends, you shop like this en laugh about the people you see.
67.5 mm • f/4 • 1/200 sec. • 1250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 700 lux EV 8
Differences
Perhaps the differences are not that large.
143.2 mm • f/4 • 1/1250 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 55000 lux EV 14.3
Bridges
The molenwetering near Koudekerk has many bridges. A landscape built by the Dutch.
23.1 mm • f/4 • 1/500 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Touch Down
The touch down of a large aircraft is accompanied by the smell of burning rubber.
70.3 mm • f/4 • 1/6400 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 35000 lux EV 13.6
Hipsters
They were waiting as friends for their turn at the hipster barber.
128.6 mm • f/4 • 1/200 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 550 lux EV 7.6
Film
The thickness of an expanded soapfilm in the Science Museum in Manchester is apparently chaotically distributed between the forces of surface tension and gravity.
34.7 mm • f/3.5 • 1/100 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 420 lux EV 7.3
Hat
In the John Rylands Library in Manchester you can find large format books, that can be read better in a hat.
8.8 mm • f/2.4 • 1/30 sec. • 320 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 150 lux EV 5.8
Who?
Who is being photographed here and by whom?
32.4 mm • f/3.5 • 1/100 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 3300 lux EV 10.3
City
The city of Groningen
143.2 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2700 lux EV 10
Care
The young is taken care of very well, and with so many frogs around that is not so difficult.
350 mm • f/5.6 • 1/8000 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 86000 lux EV 14.9
Frogs
Photographing frogs, defending their territory with sounds and movements.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/313 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Dead
Even the lichens are dead on this grave stone.
25.7 mm • f/5.6 • 1/800 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 55000 lux EV 14.3
Hygia No 1
One hundred years ago registered as a trademark.
19.3 mm • f/2.8 • 1/400 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 6800 lux EV 11.3
Taking Cover
He was taking cover behind his mother. The rain was approaching.
125 mm • f/4.5 • 1/80 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2200 lux EV 9.7
Power
William Herschel determined for the first time the power of the sun by letting a bucket of water heat up in sunlight. Click here for the explanation.
125 mm • f/4.5 • 1/5000 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 35000 lux EV 13.6
Sunrise at Sunset
A full day on one photograph
190 mm • f/4.5 • 1/100 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2800 lux EV 10
Morning
The morning has escaped the night, while the evening before is forgotten.
165 mm • f/5.6 • 1/200 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2100 lux EV 9.6
Cell Walls
An armrest like this is make from a spatial structure of cell walls, that has carried the tree. The angle at which the material is carved is very important for the result.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/4 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 8.3 lux EV 1.6
Corner
The corner is being highlighted by the water reflections, that slowly creep upward.
25.7 mm • f/5.6 • 1/640 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 44000 lux EV 14
Guard
The swan of the remains of Borg Ewsum was "en guard"
80 mm • f/2.8 • 1/3200 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Core
Slowly over time he lost his core, but simply lived on.
80 mm • f/2.8 • 1/3200 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Order
Order can organize itself, but the circumstances should be favourable.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/17 sec. • 50 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 450 lux EV 7.4
Bus
The bus was not allowed to pass. There was commemoration.
180 mm • f/6.3 • 1/400 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Potatoes
Probably this has something to do with genetic engineering.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/33 sec. • 64 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 680 lux EV 8
Chips
Eating chips can be quite adventurous.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 11.9
Guides
Three guides with dated descriptions
50 mm • f/4 • 1/180 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3900 lux EV 10.5
April 2017
Sea
Cows in a sea of Dandelions.
23.3 mm • f/5.6 • 1/1250 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 86000 lux EV 14.9
Singing in the Brain
Erik Scherder gave a talk at Scheltema on music and the brain entitled "Singing in the Brain", and he was accompanied by a singer from Uganda
135 mm • f/3.4 • 1/90 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 360 lux EV 7
Broken
His motorbike did not work anymore, so he was broken. Some bystanders were empathic, but he could not be consoled anymore.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5400 lux EV 10.9
Cookies
Some showers had passed over the freemarket, but with some tarpaulins, umbrellas and a some cookies, you can stand your ground.
50 mm • f/6.8 • 1/750 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 47000 lux EV 14.1
7 Cubic
How do you stop terroristic attacks by trucks and busses on a crowd in Groningen? Seven cubic meter of sand should do it.
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/4000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 16000 lux EV 12.5
Tax
The building of the tax department looks small against the evening sky.
8.8 mm • f/3.5 • 1/640 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
A Seagull
A seagull on an enclosure.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/212 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Wind Direction
Just like people, trees are formed by the direction of the wind in their lives.
200 mm • f/6.3 • 1/2000 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 54000 lux EV 14.3
Archimedes
Archimedes invented this screw more than 2200 years ago and it is still functional in Dutch waters, like here at the windmill "De Boezemvriend"
175 mm • f/6.3 • 1/1000 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 27000 lux EV 13.3
Rain
It has rained again, but the morning sun makes a game out of it.
200 mm • f/4.5 • 1/4000 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 55000 lux EV 14.3
Surface
Buttermilk can form a remarkable surface in a glass, after which the sun constructs a caustic out of it.
23.5 mm • f/6.3 • 1/800 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 69000 lux EV 14.6
UGS
Gas is not only taken from the earth, but it is also put back between april and oktober. That is because the demand is higher in winter than in summer. UGS stands for Underground Gas Storage.
14.5 mm • f/2.8 • 1/2000 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 34000 lux EV 13.6
Rawie
This painting has nothing to do with Jean Pierre Rawie, the poet from Groningen, but is made by nature herself.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/180 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1900 lux EV 9.5
To Listen
This large radio telescope has been contructed to listen to satellites for defence purposes. Presently it is more used for communication than for eavesdropping.
15.5 mm • f/3.5 • 1/2000 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 54000 lux EV 14.3
Bubbles
Strange how bubbles get associated with thurst quenching, while due to the bubbles, there is less to drink in the glass.
8.8 mm • f/2.5 • 1/1000 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Strangling Plant
A strangling plant has been cut off from its roots.
25.7 mm • f/2.8 • 1/640 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Heelstrike
Just before the heel strikes the pavement, the leg is completely ready for it.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/4000 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 87000 lux EV 15
Crossing
A new pedestrian crossing emerges, due to the fact that most bicycle wheels have the same circumference.
50 mm • f/6.8 • 1/2000 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 32000 lux EV 13.5
Jupiter
Jupiter is saying hello to the moon. She looks 40 times smaller, but is 40 times larger than the moon and is 1600 times further away from us at the moment.
500 mm • f/10 • 1/30 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 2000 lux EV 9.6
Speed of Light
Measuring distance with a laser is done by measuring the speed of light in air. That speed is about 299700000 meter per second. In water the speed of light is lower, about 225000000 meter per second. And so it takes light about 33% longer to cover the same distance. When you place a bucket of wat er between the meter and the wall the distance shoud be indicated 33% longer by the meter. And that is exactly what the meter indicates: 292 mm is 33% longer than 219 mm.
8.8 mm • f/1.8 • 1/2000 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Whisky
A nice collection of whisky, but why the bottle of Bacardi?
17.9 mm • f/2.8 • 1/50 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 130 lux EV 5.6
The Start
It has started. A bit of tidying and the eggs can be hatched.
25.7 mm • f/8 • 1/800 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 112000 lux EV 15.3
Full Glass
When you look a bit further, the glass is completely filled.
8.8 mm • f/10 • 1/40 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1400 lux EV 9
Honeydew Melon
The pattern on the surface of a honeydew melon repeats itself nowhere, is somewhat regular and seems to be braided together. How does it grow like that?
8.8 mm • f/3.5 • 1/80 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 330 lux EV 6.9
Forces
How loads can be carried by modern architecture is different from that in old architecture. The most important difference is the handling of tensile stresses. How compressive loads are to be carried was already known in prehistoric times.
135 mm • f/8 • 1/350 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7600 lux EV 11.5
Repair
The question is what happens when you type on an iphone that was repaired here.
50 mm • f/9.5 • 1/45 sec. • 1000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1100 lux EV 8.7
Meeting
A meeting of 42 people on a sunny day.
135 mm • f/3.4 • 1/125 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 490 lux EV 7.5
Homerus
Although the text is very old, the book is still totally new. What is it going to mean to him?
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/17 sec. • 50 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 450 lux EV 7.4
Nationalism
In a free society, you can wear anything you like in the street and say whatever you want.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 11.9
Drama
A dramatic light this evening over Amsterdam.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2700 lux EV 9.9
March 2017
Lama
The Lama stayed at home today, since she expected rain. She truly trusted her roof. Still, it remained dry throughout the day.
25.7 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 8700 lux EV 11.6
To Walk
Learning to walk is a milestone.
50 mm • f/2 • 1/1000 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 870 lux EV 8.3
Bad ass
Badd ass motorbike.
50 mm • f/3.4 • 1/4000 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 16000 lux EV 12.5
Topsy-Turvy
He simply goes topsy-turvy in her presence.
25.7 mm • f/5.6 • 1/500 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 34000 lux EV 13.6
14B
I wonder who has been plastered away behind the door of 14B. Do I hear the muffled moaning of a cat?
21 mm • f/5.6 • 1/180 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1900 lux EV 9.5
Flat
The leaves from last year simply won't wear off the pavement.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/1000 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5500 lux EV 11
Bananas
You certainly get there with bananas.
21 mm • f/4.8 • 1/1000 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7900 lux EV 11.5
Toad Migration
Toad migration has started this year again in Groningen.
8.8 mm • f/3.5 • 1/30 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 500 lux EV 7.5
Remember
Sometimes it is hard to remember where to find "Café Remember"
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/90 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 60 lux EV 4.5
Highbrow
I saw a highbrow lady in the train.
50 mm • f/3.4 • 1/30 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 120 lux EV 5.4
Stardust
We are stardust, and we're having fun...
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/478 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 25000 lux EV 13.2
Pediatrics
Bought a bookset from 1910 on pediatrics for a fraction of what it's worth. Cigar ash between the pages indicates that doctors at that time were not living accoring to high health standards.
50 mm • f/9.5 • 1/30 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3700 lux EV 10.4
To Blow
To blow is what he lives for. A "furnace" is what it's called among the insiders.
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/45 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 44 lux EV 4
TL
Only half of the TL tubes were switched on, so that there was not much light left for the merchants and their customers in the TT hall in Assen.
8.8 mm • f/3.5 • 1/30 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 500 lux EV 7.5
Wireless
In this wireless age, most of the wires just fill space.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/20 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1100 lux EV 8.6
Master's Week
The master's week is about to start at the University of Groningen.
50 mm • f/2 • 1/500 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 440 lux EV 7.3
Crocuses
Crocuses come from the Mediterranean Sea area, but from the mountains, which is why they flourish well here when it is still cold at sea level.
50 mm • f/2 • 1/4000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Toast
Douwe Draaisma explains how memory and brains are related
50 mm • f/2.4 • 1/125 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 160 lux EV 5.8
Place
Looking for a place in the sun.
50 mm • f/9.5 • 1/4000 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 123000 lux EV 15.5
Rijswijk
The full moon rises over Rijswijk and makes everything more beautiful.
135 mm • f/3.4 • 1/125 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 320 lux EV 6.9
Lower Body
A nice lower body remains nice, even when covered in mud.
8.8 mm • f/2 • 1/500 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 4400 lux EV 10.6
Moti Again
The weather is nice, so Moti is playing again in the streets of Groningen.
50 mm • f/16 • 1/750 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 131000 lux EV 15.6
Saigon
In Saigon "open" means something different from what it means in Groningen.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/60 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 160 lux EV 5.9
Memory
Boris Nikolai Conrad, a memory athlete, tries to recover from memory the order of 52 playing cards, by using locations in a holiday cottage in Croatia where he once stayed.
135 mm • f/3.4 • 1/60 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 240 lux EV 6.4
Peephole
A peephole in the door of a lecture hall can be handy.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/60 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 160 lux EV 5.9
Cycling City
In Groningen 60% of all traffic movements is done on a bicycle.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/50 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2600 lux EV 9.9
Animated
Interesting to observe a conversation and not to listen to it.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/45 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 250 lux EV 6.5
Little White House
The road was muddy and straight. At the end we saw a little white house.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/308 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 16000 lux EV 12.5
Continuity
Paul van Geert, professor at the Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences, offers his self portrait to the university in which he depicts a red thread as a symbol of the continuity in his career.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/60 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 20 lux EV 2.9
Energy
The energy requirements of the UMCG as little city within a city can be seen here clearly.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/257 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Africa
Suddenly I feel like travelling to Africa.
50 mm • f/4 • 1 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5.5 lux EV 1
February 2017
Brightening
A brightening after a violent rainshower.
50 mm • f/6.8 • 1/750 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 47000 lux EV 14.1
Jan Berend
My grandfather (click) had no education, but was very talented. He painted this a long time ago and it shows how well he observed.
67 mm • f/4.5 • 1/15 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 210 lux EV 6.2
Waiting
Waiting is a strange condition, in which time moves slowly, but in which you can think about what may happen.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/25 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 140 lux EV 5.6
Fossils
Obviously someone removed the security coil from a product and dropped it on the street. In a few thousand years this will be found among the older fossils. (these coils together with a condensor form a induction loop that produce a change in the field of a security gate at a specific frequency, triggering an alarm when passage occurs)
50 mm • f/3.4 • 1/1000 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3900 lux EV 10.5
Venus
It will be a clear night and that is nice after the storm.
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/15 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 15 lux EV 2.4
Storm
The storm that roars over the Netherlands has taken victims among the strongest bicycles.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/125 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 330 lux EV 6.9
Keyboard
Often we are connected to a keyboard, while life can be so beautiful.
50 mm • f/9.5 • 1/750 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 46000 lux EV 14
No Music
The piano could not produce any music, but she had her own beauty.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/8 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 110 lux EV 5.3
Computer
Because I could not avoid it, I bought a windows laptop, which looks a bit like the bottom of a high pressure cooker!
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/10 sec. • 80 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 170 lux EV 5.9
Thin and Broad
There are elegant thin people and very strong broadly built people. Ik get along with both.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/4 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 53 lux EV 4.3
Adam
Adam by Rodin casts a shadow.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/17 sec. • 64 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 350 lux EV 7
White Benches
Tiny white benches appear on the dead tree. What audience will take place there?
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/4 sec. • 125 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 42 lux EV 4
Danger Signs
Danger signs warn us over the nightly horizon of the city of Groningen for a strange green glow.
50 mm • f/4 • 8 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 0.7 lux EV -2
History
A slice of history in the blue stone pavement borders in Amsterdam, when sea urchins lived together like people in the underground at rush hour.
50 mm • f/9.5 • 1/30 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1800 lux EV 9.4
Party
There was a party stbehind the screens.
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/4000 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 63000 lux EV 14.5
Oostvaarders Plassen
The Oostvaarders Plassen: a little piece of tolerated nature in the Netherlands.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/4000 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2700 lux EV 9.9
Frozen wavelets
When it gets cold very quickly, wavelets can freeze like this.
25 mm • f/2.8 • 1/400 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 6800 lux EV 11.3
Snow
The snow brings out the shapes.
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/750 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1500 lux EV 9.1
Shipyard
Labour at a shipyard in Groningen continues at night
8.8 mm • f/1.8 • 1/30 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 33 lux EV 3.6
Fire
Always a good idea to keep somthing around your waist in the winter.
8.8 mm • f/6.3 • 1/100 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 8700 lux EV 11.6
Yawning
Sometimes the public defence of a thesis is interesting enough to stand up, but at the same time makes you yawn.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/4 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 33 lux EV 3.6
Forrest Trail
Still some distance to go and then it will become brighter.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/45 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 60 lux EV 4.5
Heading an Arrow
This dancer at a symposium on the science of music seems to be heading an arrow that drops down.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/45 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 60 lux EV 4.5
Dark
In a part of the city of Groningen, the street lanterns did not work. A bit unpractical, but very pretty.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/25 sec. • 3200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4.2 lux EV 0.6
Cold
The statue "la musica" by Roberto Barni is not cold anymore.
185 mm • f/13 • 1/8000 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 923000 lux EV 18.4
Evolution
Roof tiles are the result of a long evolution of shapes. These work well in wind and weather.
185 mm • f/13 • 1/8000 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 923000 lux EV 18.4
Evening
And again evening falls.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/350 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 15000 lux EV 12.4
IFFRIG
The International Film Festival Rotterdam in Groningen has started with the film "Jackie".
50 mm • f/3.4 • 1/125 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2000 lux EV 9.5
January 2017
Entanglement
Entanglements in the present will progress in a different form in the future.
50 mm • f/3.4 • 1/60 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 950 lux EV 8.4
Proefkonijnen
An experiment that we did in the program "Proefkonijnen" that was aired today on elasticity of muscles.
50 mm • f/2 • 1/500 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 680 lux EV 8
Fascinating
This book by a good neuroscientist tries to connect neural and psychological processes.
85 mm • f/1.2 • 1/1600 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1600 lux EV 9.2
Amsterdam
Amsterdam is about canals and bicycles
135 mm • f/3.4 • 1/4000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 63000 lux EV 14.5
Zero
This former Verkade factory in Groningen runs entirely on solar panels for its electricity needs during the last four years.
2.5 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1100 sec. • 100 ISO • GoPro sensor • from drone 24000 lux EV 13.1
Flooded
The flooded land is now frozen. The cold night is upon us.
2.5 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1100 sec. • 100 ISO • GoPro sensor • from drone 24000 lux EV 13.1
Berches
Berches form thin white lines in winter, as seen from above.
2.5 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1100 sec. • 100 ISO • GoPro sensor • from drone 24000 lux EV 13.1
Tulips of Amsterdam
On the Dam, many tulips were planted, that were allowed to be picked. This made mainly asian toursists very happy.
135 mm • f/3.4 • 1/750 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 12000 lux EV 12.1
Info Tsunami
Under the present info tsunami, the brain can temporarily shut down.
135 mm • f/3.4 • 1/60 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 950 lux EV 8.4
Ice Border
The birds of the Zuidlaardermeer come together on the ice border at the water.
25.7 mm • f/9 • 1/640 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 113000 lux EV 15.3
IJssel
Sun is coming up over the IJssel: the planetary machine is grinding time.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/4000 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4300 lux EV 10.6
Clockwork
One day the clockwork in the academy building in Groningen stopped.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/60 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 520 lux EV 7.6
Winter Sun
The winter sun plays games with the city from warm to cold.
50 mm • f/9.5 • 1/125 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 15000 lux EV 12.5
Velocity
Looking at it, it appears that snowflakes have about the same velocity, irrespective of their direction. That is not surprising, given that they all fell such a great distance.
200 mm • f/2.8 • 1/40 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 430 lux EV 7.3
Stockings
Just love the delicate fabric of a woman's stocking, here at a magnification of 200 times.
90 mm • f/22 • 1/25 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 4100 lux EV 10.6
Noordpolderzijl
At 50 meter high you can see how parts of land were reclaimed from the sea just outside the dyke of Noordpolderzijl
2.5 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1100 sec. • 100 ISO • GoPro sensor • from drone 24000 lux EV 13.1
Hereplein
Panorama from the Hereplein with Venus over the Museum
50 mm • f/2 • 1/15 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 10 lux EV 1.9
Shower
A hail shower over the Hooge Land.
70 mm • f/5 • 1/2000 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 34000 lux EV 13.6
Walnut
A walnut has a shape that inspires association, so there is always that decision to make: keep looking, or eating.
90 mm • f/22 • 1/25 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 4100 lux EV 10.6
Full Moon
And again it there is a full moon, shining through a thin veil.
148 mm • f/2.8 • 1/40 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 110 lux EV 5.3
Light
It sounds improbable, but the light is really coming.
50 mm • f/9.5 • 1/4000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 493000 lux EV 17.5
The End
The end of festivities: all lighting is being removed.
50 mm • f/6.8 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 32000 lux EV 13.5
Direction
Just like this tree, my shadow always wants to go in another direction.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/125 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Kemkensberg
A 360° panorama of the Kemkensberg in the area of the city.
2.5 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1100 sec. • 100 ISO • GoPro sensor • from drone 24000 lux EV 13.1
First Snow
This morning the first snow and we still had to go to Hilversum. So we have been sliding through the polder.
50 mm • f/2.4 • 1/6 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5.9 lux EV 1.1
Wim Helsen
The flemish comedian Wim Helsen performed in Groningen, in which he showed a fight between his growing madness and the social pressure.
135 mm • f/3.4 • 1/125 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 250 lux EV 6.5
Joy for Children
Althouhg it is still holiday for the children, it is very quiet here.
21 mm • f/4 • 1/1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Recording
The rain has written a 5 channel sound recording on the wall. Curious to know how it sounds,
200 mm • f/4.5 • 1/60 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 410 lux EV 7.2
Muscle Mechanics
Measuring muscle mechanics of the Tibialis anterior muscle of a large cow
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/8 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 66 lux EV 4.6
The City
Just like in New York, Groningen has a Central Park, where there is silence and oxygen is being made for the city.
2.5 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1100 sec. • 100 ISO • GoPro sensor • from drone 24000 lux EV 13.1
Overview
A new year ahead with overview and goals.
2.5 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1100 sec. • 100 ISO • GoPro sensor • from drone 24000 lux EV 13.1
December 2016
Lift Off
2017 has a lift off! (thx Art)
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/60 sec. • 3200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 10 lux EV 1.9
Man and Bike
Man and bike with the sun at low elevation on a cold winter day.
2.5 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1100 sec. • 100 ISO • GoPro sensor • from drone 24000 lux EV 13.1
Non Linear
An experiment with a non linear spring, made out of five linear springs.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/10 sec. • 80 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 170 lux EV 5.9
A Piece of Blue
It is all very dark, but when you look closely, there is a piece of blue in the sky. Perhaps I should unfold the wings I found yesterday.
85 mm • f/4.5 • 1/2500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 69000 lux EV 14.6
An Angel
After christmas you can buy second hand angel wings. They fly reasonably well, but they don't turn you into an angel.
85 mm • f/1.2 • 1/400 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 790 lux EV 8.2
Temporary Crossing
The Euroborg offers a temporary pedestrian crossing over water. Now we need to find someone who can walk over water (or to fly)
2.5 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1100 sec. • 100 ISO • GoPro sensor • handheld 24000 lux EV 13.1
Maiden Flight
The Maiden Flight on christmas morning. Dark weather and very strong gusts, but it went fine.
8.8 mm • f/4 • 1/640 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Amazement
With amazement she observed how the christmas tree bended for her after having sung.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/17 sec. • 64 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 350 lux EV 7
Waiting
She was waiting until her lesson started.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/8 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 66 lux EV 4.6
Glass
Glass is so great as a material for light and distortion.
8.8 mm • f/4 • 1/30 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 330 lux EV 6.9
Superficial
Sometimes beauty is only superficial and artificial
135 mm • f/3.4 • 1/750 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3000 lux EV 10.1
The Span
Watching out together while the coachman is taking a nap.
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/750 sec. • 3200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1500 lux EV 9.1
Filled in
He still needs to be filled in in her existence
50 mm • f/9.5 • 1/60 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1800 lux EV 9.4
Feelings
They were singing a christmas song, with a lot of commitment, but I could not feel it.
135 mm • f/3.4 • 1/250 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 990 lux EV 8.5
Nose
Making fun of Minnie Mouse
135 mm • f/3.4 • 1/180 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 710 lux EV 8
Not
Today I'm not myself (and haven't been all those years)
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/25 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 25 lux EV 3.2
Propulsion
To propel someone can give much pleasure, even when the other one has mainly a penguin in view.
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/180 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 180 lux EV 6
Bam!
Bam!
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/180 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 120 lux EV 5.5
Bell
With my bicycle under the christmas tree.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/50 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2100 lux EV 9.6
Nyctophilia
The darkness offers advantages.
25.7 mm • f/7.1 • 1/800 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 88000 lux EV 15
In the Morning
In the morning when the moon is at it's rest.
25.7 mm • f/6.3 • 1/2000 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 173000 lux EV 16
Vlogging
Sometimes you suddenly are the subject of attention of a vlogger.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/350 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3700 lux EV 10.4
Unwinding
In some cases something unwinds by itself and looses integration.
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/750 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 740 lux EV 8.1
Fish
Buying a fish, because it's still long until supper.
115 mm • f/2.8 • 1/50 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 130 lux EV 5.6
Announcement
Christmas is announced. At about five o'clock, it is almost completely dark.
75 mm • f/2.8 • 1/100 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 270 lux EV 6.6
The Last One
The last apple is till hanging there in the freezing cold.
200 mm • f/4.5 • 1/60 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 410 lux EV 7.2
Arms
They were lying in each others arms while they froze to death.
17.1 mm • f/5.6 • 1/50 sec. • 250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1700 lux EV 9.3
Balloerveld
Winter is here. Silence hangs low over the frozen fields.
8.8 mm • f/6.3 • 1/250 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Venus
Venus stands directly under the moon, full of longing over the city.
50 mm • f/2.4 • 1/8 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 16 lux EV 2.5
Changes
I did know that the Sinterklaas festivities are changing at the moment, but these changes are radical: A feminin white Pete and a Sinterklaas without a miter. And what is that present they are working on?
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/2000 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5400 lux EV 10.9
Engelbert
The church in Engelbert is maintained well by the looks of it.
50 mm • f/3.4 • 1/12 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 47 lux EV 4.1
November 2016
Gable
A gable that is not very handy for the horse of Sinterklaas.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/4000 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 6800 lux EV 11.3
Screen Print
The scene behind the roller blind becomes like a screen print.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/30 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 82 lux EV 4.9
Oude Gracht
Walking along the Oude Gracht, we're losing ourselves in the reflections.
50 mm • f/3.4 • 1/500 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1300 lux EV 8.9
Taarlo's Veentje
Beatiful lake under low hanging clouds. Here you don't come with the road bike, but you do with the mountain bike.
25.7 mm • f/5.6 • 1/1250 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 86000 lux EV 14.9
Stiff Drink
The farmer must have had a stiff drink before he started his work.
25.7 mm • f/5.6 • 1/800 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 55000 lux EV 14.3
Rough
Bought a new bicycle today for the more rough circumstances.
8.8 mm • f/5.6 • 1/8 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 340 lux EV 7
Turns
Airplanes seem to have made sharp turns here, which is not possible: an airliner can make a turn with a radius of 1.6 km but the passengers would really suffer from it. It is more likely that the wind has blown the trails into this shape.
140 mm • f/4.5 • 1/8000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 221000 lux EV 16.3
Empty
With an empty head you can be very happy.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/350 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 940 lux EV 8.4
Fire
There was fire in the sky and when I got my camera out, soon there were five people with their phones to join me in photography. How pleasant!
50 mm • f/6.8 • 1/90 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5700 lux EV 11
Impetuous
The weather is very impetuous, so it gets time to do some serious cycling.
73 mm • f/4 • 1/8000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 175000 lux EV 16
Letting Go
This afternoon, the storm gained force in Groningen, but many leaves simply were not ready to let go.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/1500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4000 lux EV 10.5
St. Nicolaas
Today, when coming into Groningen, he looked just like in the drawings I saw as a child. He did not get a day older.
200 mm • f/4 • 1/400 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 8700 lux EV 11.6
Lost his Head
He lost his head over some mermaid he met yesterday. Supid!
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/4000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 11.9
Change
The last year has shown a major change in my preferences: from this corner I used to score often, but now I just pass it every single time.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/90 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 490 lux EV 7.5
Recording Sound
Recording sound with a small device has certainly improved in terms of quality and weight, but it really has lost some of its beauty.
50 mm • f/2.4 • 1/30 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 59 lux EV 4.4
Closeup Viewer
My closeup viewer is ready for the next repair job. Bought on a rainy afternoon in Toledo.
47 mm • f/13 • 1.6 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 140 lux EV 5.7
Kaki
The kaki fruit from Japan has its own remarkable taste.
90 mm • f/11 • 1 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 41 lux EV 3.9
Nederrijn
Night at the Nederrijn, where the ferry is resting.
50 mm • f/4 • 4 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 1.4 lux EV -1
Squirt
Oops! I squirted a bit too much when taking care of my daily ride. At low temperature the squirter tends to become less functional, but then when warmed up, all of a sudden, it squirts into action.
50 mm • f/9.5 • 1/25 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 380 lux EV 7.1
Silence
It was silent in the carriage while the sun was setting sneakily.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/215 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Keynote
I was invited to give a keynote lecture at the opening of the conference of the International Society of Intraoperative Neurophysiology in the Aula of the university.
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/350 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 170 lux EV 6
Green Light
In the rainy autumn night, this area is protected using green light. The human eye is most sensitive for green light, so that you can use less energy.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/4 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 33 lux EV 3.6
Hereplein
Every day I cycle over the Hereplein. The trees are losing their leaves quite quickly now.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/145 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7700 lux EV 11.5
Making Stronger
As if lost on a podium on altitude, they are making the city stronger with pink paint.
200 mm • f/9 • 1/250 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Repair
A macbook pro needed to be repaired. With so many different kinds of screws, cable connections and tiny dimensions of the parts, you'd better be prepared.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/33 sec. • 50 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 870 lux EV 8.3
Dutch Bicycles
Dutch bicycles can carry quite some load, and you also need the skills to ride like this.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/145 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7700 lux EV 11.5
Volume
Volume is being created for the river IJssel, so that Zwolle stays safe from flooding
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/1500 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1000 lux EV 8.5
First Move
The first move on the Max Euwe Plein.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/90 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 15000 lux EV 12.4
Groundfog
The groundfog embraces the cattle in the field. Autumn is unavoidable.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/250 sec. • 3200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 42 lux EV 3.9
Leidsestraat
In the narrow Leidsestraat trams can go two ways, but it requires a special construction.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/4000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 11.9
October 2016
Irritation
He closed his eyes out of irritation, while she gazed in the distance. They both had anticipated their visit to Amsterdam differently,
50 mm • f/11 • 1/60 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 9900 lux EV 11.8
Fashion
Being interested in fashion in the Groninger Museum.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/17 sec. • 64 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 350 lux EV 7
To Sleep
Being able to sleep like that....
135 mm • f/3.4 • 1/1500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 24000 lux EV 13.1
Autumn Sky
Just 18:30 and the sun has set.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/17 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 700 lux EV 8
Outlier
An outlier in a large barrel of bottles.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/17 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 220 lux EV 6.4
Firebugs
Firebugs (Pyrrhocoris apterus) on my frontdoor. They suck juice out of plants and love meetings.
47 mm • f/16 • 1/100 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Sparkle
The sparkle in the fake eye of this owl butterfly (Caligo memnon) is position at the top and even has interreuptions as would be the case due to obstructions from branches of the sky light. It is a very effective way to deter birds, since they also reflect ultraviolet light, which can be seen by birds. The developed pattern in the mosaic of butterfly scales is a great example of a product of the evolutionairy process.
50 mm • f/16 • 8 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 44 lux EV 4
Elvis is alive!
Elvis is alive again! Mind the species name! Catacanthus Incarnatus (Indonesia)
50 mm • f/16 • 8 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 44 lux EV 4
Terrarium Imaginarium
A great shop in the town of Groningen. A collection that starts your imagination.
21 mm • f/8 • 1/15 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 330 lux EV 6.9
Impression
It does not always work to try and make an impression, even when you are a canadian goose: she just looks the other way
200 mm • f/4.5 • 1/8000 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 111000 lux EV 15.3
Stepping in
Stepping into the virtual world of gaming.
25.7 mm • f/7.1 • 1/80 sec. • 1000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1100 lux EV 8.7
First Apple Pie
I have baked and cooked quite a bit in my life, but this is the first applepie I have baked in my life. Thanks Marie for the baking lesson.
50 mm • f/2.4 • 1/30 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 59 lux EV 4.4
Crocusis
Crocusis in Oktober here at the Martini Kerkhof.
17 mm • f/14 • 1/40 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5400 lux EV 10.9
Autumn
Bookmarks of the season.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/261 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Transport in the Province
Groningen Central Station is filled with short trains to serve the province.
36 mm • f/7.1 • 1/4000 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 138000 lux EV 15.6
Sunday Morning
Sunday morning in Groningen. Once again peace.
38 mm • f/18 • 1/400 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 88000 lux EV 15
Coffee
One coffee bean is different from the next and so there is a wide range of choices in dispensing tubes onder which you can hold your pan.
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 990 lux EV 8.5
Noorderrondrit 2016
Today we rode the Noorderrondrit 2016 with 10 great collegues. It was the eighth year in a row and as always great to do.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/17 sec. • 2000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11 lux EV 2
Crazy Cycle
The crazy cycle of smutting and cleaning has once again gone round.
8 mm • f/3.5 • 1/60 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 130 lux EV 5.5
Blokked
Sometimes it is hard to leave the building by bike. Suppliers don't know that this is the main gateway for cycling workers.
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/60 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1900 lux EV 9.4
Gombert
There are only a few of these kinds of stores in Groningen, under the internet pressure, but this one still exists!
50 mm • f/3.4 • 1/45 sec. • 250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 570 lux EV 7.7
Outside
It's a choice: if you want to smoke during diner, you sit outside.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/45 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 38 lux EV 3.8
Hup
She was going to cheer her mother, who would pass in the 4Mijl4You event, but waiting took very long.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/45 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 60 lux EV 4.5
Cold
And to think that last Friday night was just above freezing point.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/4000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 11.9
Grinder
The grinder sets up shop regularly in front of the door of knife seller Kamphuis
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/100 sec. • 40 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3300 lux EV 10.2
Cum Laude
Tim graduated cum laude today.
35 mm • f/2.8 • 1/250 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 670 lux EV 7.9
The Edge
Near the edge light is often more interesting.
50 mm • f/6.8 • 1/2000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 126000 lux EV 15.5
Jammer
Some people have to cry a bit because V&D has closed down.
50 mm • f/6.8 • 1/1500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 95000 lux EV 15.1
Beautyflex
The beauty of this japanese twin reflex camera for 6x6 has faded somewhat, but it was a pleasant encounter.
90 mm • f/11 • 1/180 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7400 lux EV 11.4
Free
Unique situation: sitting in the middle of the Hereweg. A new asphalt surface has been rolled out last night.
25.7 mm • f/7.1 • 1/160 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 18000 lux EV 12.7
Mixing
Mixing digital tracks with home made analogue music on a small unit.
24 mm • f/11 • 1/15 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 620 lux EV 7.8
September 2016
Free Will
Johan Braeckman gave a passionate lecture on free will on a conference for neurologists and psychiatrists.
50 mm • f/9.5 • 1/60 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 920 lux EV 8.4
Contact
The harpist made contact with the flutist during a more difficult part. A nice example of a portrait in which any autofocus system would chose something else than I did here with manual focus.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/45 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 77 lux EV 4.8
Invasion
The Dutch army has invaded Groningen this morning and is finding collaborators at a high rate.
24 mm • f/7.1 • 1/6400 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 110000 lux EV 15.3
Kisses
Kisses, but for whom? Perhaps their lovers have been gone for a while and they did not notice it, because they have their eyes closed.
21 mm • f/11 • 1/45 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7400 lux EV 11.4
Dedication
It was the first real challenge for dedication: learning how to write. A huge bottle of ink, which was given a spout for pouring the ink into the small wells in the classroom. When you went too deep, the pen make a sound when hitting the glass bottom in the well. The line was thick and thin, depeding on the direction and pressure from you hand. What a dark day it was when the ballpoints came.
90 mm • f/9.5 • 1/3.3333 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 410 lux EV 7.2
Sales Talk
At sales talk to sell a sixties ashtray. In the end she didn't buy it.
50 mm • f/6.8 • 1/750 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 24000 lux EV 13.1
Bicycle Repair Man
He repairs old sports bikes and sells them on the market. Specialists look each other in the eye.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/1500 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 32000 lux EV 13.5
Kneading
The machine is kneading a small ball of dough that will fill the whole tin in two hourds with lovely scenting multigrain bread.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/17 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 110 lux EV 5.4
t Mystery
The mystery of the jumped t
50 mm • f/2 • 1/3000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 16000 lux EV 12.6
Matches
Very old domestic appliance, but still used.
50 mm • f/9.5 • 1/1.4286 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 180 lux EV 6
Espresso
You don't need anything in it or with it: just espresso.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/8 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 110 lux EV 5.3
Prairie
The prairie near Peize is quiet.
8.8 mm • f/5 • 1/2000 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 109000 lux EV 15.3
Drie Gezusters
In the 3 Gezusters on Sunday afternoon, the reading table is empty.
12 mm • f/8 • 1/25 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 270 lux EV 6.6
Front Door
From this you can see two things: 1) most of the times I use my other door 2) The warm weather has initiated a new flowering phase in the hollyhocks
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/90 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 360 lux EV 7
Low Tide
Low tide at Noordpolderzijl. The insinuating scent of rich mud.
14.5 mm • f/10 • 1/800 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 175000 lux EV 16
Small Error
A little error was made, possibly while parking.
8.8 mm • f/9 • 1/60 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 11.9
Year 8
A large cross spider in the evening at the start of the 8th year of this PhotoBlog
8.8 mm • f/1.8 • 1/30 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 130 lux EV 5.6
Moon Landscape
Almost no wind on a very warm night. The wooden bridge was hiding a danger.
8.8 mm • f/2.5 • 8 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1.7 lux EV -0.7
Transport
When I lived in a small cottage a long time ago, there was only butane/propane heating and so I had to get gas containers a few kilometers down the road. So that is when I bought a milk churn cart for dutch farmers that can carry 120 kg. Now it is going to be used again behind my trekking bike for transport in the city, which is faster and more fun than using a car, while you can get to location much better.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/10 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 130 lux EV 5.6
Entrance
When you follow the instruction on the sign that the entrance is around the corner, you only find the slogan "Live, Buy, Die"
8.8 mm • f/9 • 1/40 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 7100 lux EV 11.3
Morning Light
The candles can be blown, the morning light has taken over.
8.8 mm • f/1.8 • 1/60 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 420 lux EV 7.3
Care
One professor is being given appliances at his farewell party by another professor to get through a healthy aging period.
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/30 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 15 lux EV 2.4
Baking Bread
Why is homemade bread so much better than bread from the shop. It gets stale quicker, but it does not get that chance.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/17 sec. • 80 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 280 lux EV 6.7
Hogweed
The hogweed has lost her leaves and now the remaining screens look like a prehistoric forest.
21 mm • f/5 • 1/60 sec. • 500 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 820 lux EV 8.2
Duckweed
Duckweed covers most of the canals in Groningen after an exponential growth and thereby catches most of the light away from the life under water.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/750 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 32000 lux EV 13.5
Power
At night the power is passed on through the dark Groningen landscape
16.2 mm • f/2.8 • 1/3.3333 sec. • 6400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1.1 lux EV -1.3
Flour
A short stop at windmill "The Hope" where the flour comes from for our home baked breads.
16.2 mm • f/2.8 • 1/20 sec. • 6400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 6.7 lux EV 1.3
Pendulum
Under a layer of dust and fingerprints I found this beautiful calibration pendulum for movement sensors.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/17 sec. • 80 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 280 lux EV 6.7
Frozen
In some strange way, the cloud reflection in the window got frozen in time. I did not understand, but later it appeared that someone had put a poster up of clouds on the window pane.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/475 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 25000 lux EV 13.2
crème brûlée
This is how you make crème brûlée, with a little burner for jewelry
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/10 sec. • 80 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 170 lux EV 5.9
August 2016
Lieverdje
At the "Lieverdje" on the Spui in Amsterdam, a curious meeting was prepared as far as I could tell.
21 mm • f/9.5 • 1/350 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 11.9
Common Pond Skater
The common pond skater moves over the water by creating ripples in the water to push itself off from.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/136 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7200 lux EV 11.4
Fear
Lightning and thunder are frightening, also when you are together in the attic.
155 mm • f/2.8 • 1/25 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 67 lux EV 4.6
Free
This year the fair on the Ossenmarkt looked very tidy, because queues were formed at the rides, since it was all free.
21 mm • f/6.8 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 16000 lux EV 12.5
Lightning
This year the lightning and thunder superseded the fireworks of Bommen Berend. They tried to start earlier to beat the weather but that did not really help
21 mm • f/4 • 4 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 1.4 lux EV -1
Ladies
Merry ladies at the end of a lonely road. The lady in red had broken her leg in two places exactly one year earlier, because her chair was not stable. Now she can laugh again.
8.8 mm • f/1.8 • 1/800 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 3500 lux EV 10.3
Leek
Near the Leekstermeer, the ducks draw lines in the water and the fish make circles.
78 mm • f/3.5 • 1/80 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 330 lux EV 6.9
Perspective
Sometimes you have to look at gait from a different perspective to understand it better.
21 mm • f/9.5 • 1/45 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5500 lux EV 11
Begijnhof
Marvelous hofje in Amsterdam
21 mm • f/8 • 1/180 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 16000 lux EV 12.5
Insight and Effort
The effort of this young man to help his father with scoping water out of their boat deserves approval. But they way he does it does not help and he should work on his insight.
135 mm • f/11 • 1/45 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7400 lux EV 11.4
Cramps
The young Ghanian soccer player, Yaw Yeboah from FC Twente got cramps and is helped by the keeper of the opposing team, Sergio Padt.
200 mm • f/4.5 • 1/2000 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Lazy
The cattle is lazy on this sunny afternoon.
8.8 mm • f/11 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 83000 lux EV 14.9
Body and Mind
Her whole body and mind was handling that dripping icecream after she was put out of the store by her mother.
50 mm • f/6.8 • 1/1000 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 16000 lux EV 12.5
Lampion
The full moon was rising like a lampion between the trees
340 mm • f/5.6 • 1/160 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 860 lux EV 8.3
G-Plan
A little corner to work in isolation. Desk designed by Ib Kofod-Larsen in the sixties for the english market
9.5 mm • f/4.5 • 1/30 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 830 lux EV 8.2
Crack Propagation
Crack propagation in plexiglass is different from that in glass. Cracks can stop with an elegant curve due to damping in the material.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/17 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 700 lux EV 8
Hunters
It's a beautiful sunny day in one of the nicest places in Groningen where I found a group of people immersed in their cell phones. After asking one of them, they appeared to be hunting for Pokémon. How real they are, depends on the observer, not on the fact that they can not be touched. The same holds for hunting for Perseïds
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/1500 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 16000 lux EV 12.5
Perseid
Captured a Perseid in the city of Groningen, despite the brutal lights from a music festival
31 mm • f/4 • 10 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 0.5 lux EV -2.3
Clock
The clock that I had made in Sweden is hanging again on the face of the building with new glass and a grip, so that I can service it without stunts.
8.8 mm • f/11 • 1/60 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 9900 lux EV 11.8
Long Way
Still a long way to go in the rain.
25.7 mm • f/11 • 1/125 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 21000 lux EV 12.9
Dood
It sounds more dangerous than it is, "Dead Blow Hammer". It is a specialized mallet that contains loose iron particles in the head to avoid a rebound after a blow.
40 mm • f/4 • 1/50 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 270 lux EV 6.6
Tools
How nice! Tools, 10 drawers filled, ready to be used.
21 mm • f/8 • 1/60 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1300 lux EV 8.9
Party
Sometimes the time is right for a party.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/30 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 320 lux EV 6.9
Razor
The ideal combination of three sensor chips and a programmable processor for sensor fusion. And now, lets move!
50 mm • f/8 • 1/45 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 3900 lux EV 10.5
Feeling
With a sinking feeling, Sergio Padt from FC Groningen looks at the ball that passes him for the fifth time in one game against Feyenoord this afternoon.
195 mm • f/2.8 • 1/3200 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 8600 lux EV 11.6
Summermoon
The summermoon snuggles itself on an old skipper house.
135 mm • f/5.6 • 1/25 sec. • 1000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 210 lux EV 6.3
Handle
A gear handle from when everything was still simple in motorcycles
50 mm • f/6.8 • 1/45 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2800 lux EV 10
Waiting
The restaurant in the Noorderplantsoen is waiting for the upcoming Noorderzon Festival
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/1500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5900 lux EV 11.1
Light
The light does manage to enter through the small openings of the Euroborg when the sun is setting.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/17 sec. • 50 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 450 lux EV 7.4
Pursuit
The police started a pursuit. Texting on the bike: would it become punishable?
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1300 lux EV 8.9
Fried Air
I ordered some electronics parts. This is what I found in the box: a bag with fried air.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/100 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5300 lux EV 10.9
July 2016
Urban
In the urban jungle, messages compete for space and attention.
21 mm • f/8 • 1/250 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5500 lux EV 11
Senza Rimpianti
"Vivere senza rimpianti" was tattooed on her back, or "Living without remorse". And that is how she was standing on the Dam as a work of art ( click), while the other ladies where discussing this.
135 mm • f/8 • 1/500 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Summer
Summer in Amsterdam: full with tourists expecting a shower.
50 mm • f/6.8 • 1/350 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5500 lux EV 11
Snel
Built a bike around a titanium frame from the company Snel in Utrecht for a tall friend of mine.
50 mm • f/2.4 • 1/25 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 98 lux EV 5.2
Coolest
Yes, he is!
200 mm • f/3.2 • 1/1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Surhuisterveen
The tour of Surhuisterveen, with Bauke Mollema, Chris Froome and Pieter Weening
200 mm • f/3.2 • 1/800 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Sweet
Drinking from the sweet stuff of the teasel.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/232 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 12000 lux EV 12.1
Media Center
The Media Center on sunday morning
21 mm • f/16 • 1/12 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4200 lux EV 10.6
Attentive
She has spotted me, that is how attentive she is, but the young ones are safe under her wings.
25.7 mm • f/5 • 1/100 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5500 lux EV 11
Butter Milk
Trees grow in my glass of butter milk in reverse direction.
25.7 mm • f/11 • 1 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 170 lux EV 5.9
First Row
And this is how they can sit in the first row on the first pylon from the power station
25.7 mm • f/3.5 • 1/200 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5400 lux EV 10.9
Caustics
Caustics in the hot sun from a bicycle rim.
25.7 mm • f/5 • 1/1600 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 87000 lux EV 15
Peace
A warm summer evening with gusts of coolness. Speeding itn total peace.
8.8 mm • f/3.5 • 1/250 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 6700 lux EV 11.3
Mars and Saturn
Mars (right) and Saturn (left) low in the summer sky. How cosy.
85 mm • f/1.2 • 1/30 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7.4 lux EV 1.4
Mechanics
Mechanics in motion.
25.7 mm • f/4.5 • 1/125 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5500 lux EV 11
Resting
They did not say a thing, while they were resting at the windmill.
8.8 mm • f/3.5 • 1/500 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 13000 lux EV 12.3
Shadow
In the summer you have to hide in the shade against the sun when you can not stand it.
25.7 mm • f/3.5 • 1/200 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5400 lux EV 10.9
Indeterminate
Sometimes a moment is indeterminate. It falls in between determinate moments.
8.8 mm • f/3.5 • 1/160 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 4300 lux EV 10.6
Stack
A new stack of computers for a project for Parkinson patients. From left to right as wide as a credit card, but very fast.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/10 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 130 lux EV 5.6
Expansion
On the map of 1919 of Groningen it was only planned: the expansion of the hospital, now known as the UMCG
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/33 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1400 lux EV 9
Anno 1683
An old porch from 1683 with a curious mixture of a devil and a "gaper" (sign for a drugstore in the Netherlands) with a lot of hair.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/118 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 6200 lux EV 11.2
Beech lane
A beech lane to just rest a while during a cycle trip.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/198 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 10000 lux EV 11.9
Again
When the season starts, the miracle happens again in front of my door: from nothing, ricepaper thin petals unfold to spread life. As can be seen on the dispersion map ( (click) ) there is still some land to cover.
85 mm • f/1.2 • 1/8000 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 31000 lux EV 13.5
Shape
A rusty chain apparently has a memory for shape.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/137 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7200 lux EV 11.4
Fading
Fashion fades, only style remains the same (Coco Chanel)
50 mm • f/2 • 1/4000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Dissipation
A layered pane of glass can dissipate energy at an impact. The shockwave produces cracks, by which the chance a second crack is formed close to an earlier one is low, due to the reduced tension in the pane. And so a regular pattern of cracks emerges in a fraction of a second. The colors emerge due to color dispersion and reflection at the second layer of glass.
50 mm • f/16 • 1/180 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 63000 lux EV 14.5
English liquorice
The jar with english liquorice in the secretariat is not going as fast anymore.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/17 sec. • 64 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 350 lux EV 7
Ragwort
Ragwort is poisonous for mammals. Cows avoid it during grazing. But the cinnabar caterpillar, from which the cinnabar moth comes, is resistant and even carries the poison into the moth stadium, by which it is protected from being eaten.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/1282 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 68000 lux EV 14.6
Wailing
If you, a lonely bull, have to stand on the dyke all by yourself, you can start mooing, perhaps something happens.
25.3 mm • f/6.3 • 1/250 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Floodplains
The water stands high over the floodplains of the IJssel near Hattem.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/4000 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2700 lux EV 9.9
Jane Eyre
Young people still read literature, but preferably with the soundtrack.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/33 sec. • 40 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1100 lux EV 8.6
June 2016
Sugar
On sugar and caffeine you can not finish the Tour de France.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/17 sec. • 64 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 350 lux EV 7
Stations
How many of the stations indicated here would still be in the air?
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/45 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1400 lux EV 9
Tape
Iron particles orienting in a magnetic field to store sounds and to play it back years later. A miracle in the sixties, and it still is.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/60 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 160 lux EV 5.9
Cool
Althought the internal friction in the joint is usually very low, ripped jeans keep your knee caps cool when cycling on a warm day.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/180 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7700 lux EV 11.5
Code Yellow
Today code yellow in the weather report: time for a trip around the province!
8.8 mm • f/6.3 • 1/500 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 43000 lux EV 14
Creative Consultation
When creative minds consult, these poses is what you get.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/180 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3900 lux EV 10.5
Coorporation
Coorporation between coots to build a great nest out of city waste.
135 mm • f/5.6 • 1/180 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1900 lux EV 9.5
Grey Area
A long queue in front of the Grey Area. Too manu tourists for such a small space.
50 mm • f/6.8 • 1/45 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 360 lux EV 7
Spelling
Would the spelling change that drastically in the future? I don't think it is an improvement.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/10 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 130 lux EV 5.6
Summer
Summer has officially started today, hence the sunscreens. Now just wait for the sun.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/1637 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 87000 lux EV 15
Imagination
Theo Mulder gives a lecture at his farewell symposium as head of the KNAW with the subject "In praise of imagination"
135 mm • f/3.4 • 1/45 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 89 lux EV 5
Lavender
This female absolutely loves lavender. Her pollen baskets serve the plant well.
170 mm • f/8 • 1/250 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5500 lux EV 11
Beautiful Night
It's a beautiful night, with many stories and dreams.
200 mm • f/3.5 • 1/8 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 33 lux EV 3.6
Determined
At the farewell party of a professor, a hilarious situation unfolded while a prosthesis was being mounted by another professor.
21 mm • f/4 • 1/20 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 55 lux EV 4.3
Determined
This student is determined to reach his goal, but has little attention for the surrounding world.
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/1500 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1500 lux EV 9.1
Rust
A boat should keep the water out, but in this case even the iron molecules become friends with water and form rust (hydrated iron oxide)
50 mm • f/8 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Laughing
Laughing in the rain: it's already clearing
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/3000 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2000 lux EV 9.5
Root
A strong root searches its way to the surface.
50 mm • f/11 • 1/90 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 15000 lux EV 12.4
Lonely
It's lonely at the top of an organisation. Especially when two guys with a small wingspan place themselves above you.
25.7 mm • f/8 • 1/125 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Air Twister
In a waterjet coming from a tap, it appears that an air twister is present that stabilizes itself.
8.8 mm • f/8 • 1/5 sec. • 320 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 270 lux EV 6.6
Summer Afternoon
A rich summer afternoon: nature in the next gear.
8.8 mm • f/7.1 • 1/60 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 6600 lux EV 11.2
Shielding
This must be one of the oldest functions of the human hand.
3 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1030 sec. • 100 ISO • GoPro sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Running
Daily routine: running with flapping coattails to the next meeting
3 mm • f/2.8 • 1/15 sec. • 161 ISO • GoPro sensor • handheld 200 lux EV 6.2
Inside the Camera
The world as seen from inside an 8x10 camera.
8 mm • f/22 • 6 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 55 lux EV 4.3
Poppies
A sea of poppies. Grown for the seeds.
25.6 mm • f/7.1 • 1/500 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 55000 lux EV 14.3
MOT
"MOT ready while you wait", the sign reads in Dutch. Judged by the layer of dust on the hood, this may put some strain on your patience.
14.9 mm • f/7.1 • 1/100 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Cycling
Sometimes it is not too difficult to see that a woman loves cycling.
19.5 mm • f/7.1 • 1/60 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5200 lux EV 10.9
Tidy
The dutch landscape often looks very tidy.
50 mm • f/2 • 1/4000 sec. • 2500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1700 lux EV 9.3
Shadow of herself
The acoustics of the Sugarfactory was so bad, that she was only a shadow of herself.
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/45 sec. • 250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 140 lux EV 5.7
Dutch Mountains
The sun is setting behind the Dutch Mountains
135 mm • f/11 • 1/3000 sec. • 3200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 31000 lux EV 13.5
May 2016
Trails Split
Continuing with eyes on stalks.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/33 sec. • 64 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 680 lux EV 8
Holding Hands
Holding hands can be done in various ways and is often a reflection of the nature of the connection, but is also influenced by body proportions.
2.5 mm • f/2.6 • 1/2048 sec. • 100 ISO • GoPro sensor • handheld 38000 lux EV 13.8
Fifties
The reflection made it look like she was wearing a hat for a waitress from the fifties.
17.9 mm • f/2.8 • 1/80 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1400 lux EV 9
Capitalism
Old times revive with a demonstration against capitalism on the Dam. Peek en Cloppenburg stand above this.
2.5 mm • f/2.6 • 1/1898 sec. • 100 ISO • GoPro sensor • handheld 35000 lux EV 13.6
Vortices
Vortices remain long in a river after a ship has passed by.
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7900 lux EV 11.5
Rich Grounds
The sun is setting over rich grounds.
20.4 mm • f/6.3 • 1/100 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 8700 lux EV 11.6
Mick Sullivan
A speaker at the ICLAM conference draws a connection between the experience of pain and perceived injustice. Mick told me that first he wanted to become a rock star, but ended up in science after all.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/30 sec. • 2500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 100 lux EV 5.2
A Drink
It was very rainy in Maastricht, so the two friends decided to go for a drink.
50 mm • f/3.4 • 1/350 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5500 lux EV 11
Grayson Perry
Huge carpets by Grayson Perry in the Bonnefanten Museum. Narrative art by a remarkable man in an ordinary english enriornment.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/30 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 320 lux EV 6.9
Blessing
Giving someone a blessing is not as simple as it looks.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 11.9
Pink
These ladies admire each others pink bicycles during the cycling tour "Limburgs Mooiste". The only agreement is the color.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/240 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 13000 lux EV 12.2
Voer
In the Voer area, signs are still there of the cultural and economical battle between the two areas of Belgium.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/569 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 30000 lux EV 13.4
Snail's Pace
At a snail's pace he left my house, having a bad sense of direction.
50 mm • f/11 • 1/750 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 124000 lux EV 15.5
Mars
Mars was visible low above the horizon last night. The atmosphere added colour bands: red below and blue above. Click here
2020 mm • f/10 • 1/30 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 2000 lux EV 9.6
Lovely
She thought flying was just lovely.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/3000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 66000 lux EV 14.6
Combinations
Hard to choose from 4096 combinations, when you are allowed 3 balls of icecream.
21 mm • f/11 • 1/25 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4100 lux EV 10.6
Whit Sunday
Old texts survive on paper.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/25 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 17 lux EV 2.6
TTT
The aerodynamics of a team time trial is complicated, particularly due to differences in size and shape of the riders, as well as their position.
50 mm • f/6.8 • 1/4000 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 63000 lux EV 14.5
Final Check
A final check before the quad can ride behid a group of time trial riders, capturing them with a stabilised camera.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/4000 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 43000 lux EV 13.9
32 degrees
Wilco Kelderman, dutch champion timetrial, hangs at an angle of 32 degrees with the vertical on a horizontal road section of reasonable quality, during a test ride and thus reaches an angle at which it is possible to ride without sliding away.
50 mm • f/6.8 • 1/2000 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 32000 lux EV 13.5
Summer
In the summer you like to wear white and you look for the shade under the high lime trees.
135 mm • f/11 • 1/180 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 30000 lux EV 13.4
Back Home
The straight rails lead me back home.
200 mm • f/29 • 1/160 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 46000 lux EV 14
Mercury
Mercury crossing captured from the moment of first contact. De large time mechanism of our solar system is running well in time. The six images of the planet covered slightly over half an hour.
2020 mm • f/10 • 1/1600 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 109000 lux EV 15.3
Sunset
When you are higher up in the building, the sun sets later due to the curvature of the surface of the earth.
75 mm • f/14 • 1/125 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 8400 lux EV 11.6
Fingers
A blue heron sticks his fingers in the water on this warm summer evening.
200 mm • f/5.6 • 1/1250 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 13000 lux EV 12.3
NL Prairie
That's how you can think of the prairie from indian stories, but now situated in the Netherlands: the Oostvaardersplassen.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/565 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 30000 lux EV 13.4
Moment
Everything comes together when the sun is setting: many insects over the water and so many active fish, offering this large bird something to eat.
25.7 mm • f/6.3 • 1/400 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 35000 lux EV 13.6
Activity
When there is activity on the sun in the form of sunspots, there are always also lighter patches in the area.
2020 mm • f/10 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 68000 lux EV 14.6
Great Cluster
The great cluster in the constellation of Hercules is exactly in the middle of this picture, a a smal milky spot.
85 mm • f/1.2 • 1 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 0.2 lux EV -3.5
Snout
A little mud on your knees is no problem, as long as your snout is clean.
135 mm • f/8 • 1/750 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 66000 lux EV 14.6
Resonator Guitar
Resonator guitar, or Dobro, played with a bottleneck.
75 mm • f/1.4 • 1/4000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 11.9
April 2016
Garlic
Garlic has been known to have some positive effects on health. It is poisonous to cats.
75 mm • f/2 • 1/350 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1900 lux EV 9.5
ELKA
Exactly 100 years ago, my grandfather received this pocket watch on Rottumeroog during the first world war.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/4 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 170 lux EV 6
Rain
Rain, but good light in the sky.
90 mm • f/2.8 • 1/45 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 480 lux EV 7.5
Violin
He was really doing his best and his family was proud of him.
50 mm • f/2 • 1/3000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 16000 lux EV 12.6
Stranger
"Take my hand, I'm a stranger in paradise", played through his mind, but no one touched him.
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/750 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 24000 lux EV 13.1
Blockade
Suddenly a huge blockade on our favorite training course. Why is completely unclear.
8.8 mm • f/9 • 1/80 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Dapalis Macrurus
About 28 million years ago, this fish (member of the perch family) was swimming in the sea that also still covered the Netherlands. Even the eye pigment is preserved.
90 mm • f/16 • 4 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 87 lux EV 5
Rapeseed
Rapeseed always has a recognizable penetrating colour yellow.
11.4 mm • f/4 • 1/640 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Rays
The rays of crater Tycho (at 5 o'clock about 2/3 to the rim) are up to 1500 km long and can be seen very well when the moon is full. Remains of the impact of an asteroid about 108 million years ago. That must have been quite a bang.
2000 mm • f/10 • 1/800 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 55000 lux EV 14.3
Spot
Only a few sunspots at the moment. Only one visible today. It's a bit colder there, but everything is relative.
1300 mm • f/6.3 • 1/800 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 22000 lux EV 13
Corona
The corona is preparing for the session on this excellent thesis. Questions are posed and compared to obtain no overlap.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/17 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 700 lux EV 8
Marylin
54 years later, there are still women who want to look like her.
50 mm • f/2 • 1/250 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 340 lux EV 7
Standing
"Standing your ground" is the expression in such a case.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/180 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 16000 lux EV 12.5
Punt
The punt in a bottle has several functions. Apart from that, it offers a painted and coloured view of our familiar world.
8.8 mm • f/9 • 1/30 sec. • 640 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1000 lux EV 8.6
Purple
A red rose turns purple when dried. A purple rose symbolises a short lasting enchantment.
90 mm • f/4 • 1/2 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 44 lux EV 4
Changeable
Changeable weather is lot more interesting.
25.7 mm • f/9 • 1/500 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 88000 lux EV 15
The Red Spot
Today I could photograph the red spot on Jupiter. The moons were in totally different positions compared to three days ago. Now from lower left to upper right: Callisto, Europa, Jupiter, Io and Ganymedes.
2000 mm • f/10 • 1/160 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 2700 lux EV 10
Repercussion
The southern part of the moon is really beatiful at half moon with craters with a central mountain: repercussion of the impact.
2000 mm • f/10 • 1/160 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 2700 lux EV 10
Cliché
I know it is cliché and it is not easy to escape from a motif for photographic wallpaper, but I like it.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/530 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 28000 lux EV 13.3
Jupiter
Jupiter with her moons Ganymedes, Europa and Io from outside to inside.
2000 mm • f/10 • 1/30 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 510 lux EV 7.6
Groningen
Suddenly I find an image of the city of Groningen, with the beltway, the UMCG upper right and Stadspark lower left.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/894 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 47000 lux EV 14.1
Gianduiotto
Gianduiotto is a very old recipe from Turin, in which hazelnuts are combined with very soft chocolate. It is in not for sale in the Netherlands.
90 mm • f/4.8 • 1/90 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2800 lux EV 10
Heterochromia iridum
In white cats you sometimes see two differently coloured eyes. The blue eye lacks the melanin pigment, that is also lacking in the white skin. This cat is named Beau, which has nothing to do with Bowie, who also had two different eyes.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/139 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7300 lux EV 11.4
Crystal
I hope that what I see through my crystal ball is not the future. I will have a broader perspective, but for the rest it is a lot less than I'm used to.
90 mm • f/22 • 1/125 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 26000 lux EV 13.2
Stopped
Sometimes opening a door does not give you a new way.
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/45 sec. • 3200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11 lux EV 2
Pain
Singing about a sensitive subject can look like having pain.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/45 sec. • 3200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 61 lux EV 4.5
Ground Beetle
Carabus auriculatus crosses a cycle path in a hurry.
8.8 mm • f/7.1 • 1/80 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5500 lux EV 11
Soccer
Soccer goes on, even without Johan
50 mm • f/3.4 • 1/90 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1400 lux EV 9
Style
Some people simply find their own style.
50 mm • f/9.5 • 1/90 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Sherlock and Watson
Sherlock had a solid theory, while Watson payed attention.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/750 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 8000 lux EV 11.5
March 2016
Glass
Glass is so increcibly beautiful as a material.
8.8 mm • f/9 • 1/400 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 44000 lux EV 14
The Sea
I'm dreaming of the sea, but I look at the city.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/340 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 18000 lux EV 12.7
Well Aimed
From the heavens, a multicoloured stream is falling on the news factory of Groningen.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/1876 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 99000 lux EV 15.1
Easter Gale
An easter gale in Groningen, from which we straighten up again with some flexibility.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/315 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Asymmetrical
Asymmetrical wear of cones from the rear wheel of a racing bike could suggest riding in circles, but in this case the evil factor is penetrating dirt.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/17 sec. • 80 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 280 lux EV 6.7
The Panel
A mysterious panel above a shop, that once may have been used for an advertisement.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Buddha
There is so much to say about this, so I will just keep quiet.
8.8 mm • f/3.2 • 1/200 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2800 lux EV 10
Cyclops
A cyclops can not see depth.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/17 sec. • 80 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 280 lux EV 6.7
Rust
Rust is thicker than iron and that's why this farm wagon is standing higher on its wheels than before.
9.7 mm • f/4.5 • 1/30 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1300 lux EV 8.9
Lighting Path
Sometimes you find an lighting path straight through a dark landscape. Simple and clear.
8.8 mm • f/4.5 • 1/500 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Finite Groups
Marcus du Sautoy gave an incredible lecture on group theory and symmetry.
25.3 mm • f/3.5 • 1/15 sec. • 1250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 40 lux EV 3.9
Muddy
The name "Bruintje Beer" already brought some suspicion and indeed, it became a muddy ride.
14.3 mm • f/4 • 1/125 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 4400 lux EV 10.6
Empty
The suitcase is empty now, but what did it contain on its way to Westerbork?
8.8 mm • f/4.5 • 1/30 sec. • 500 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 330 lux EV 6.9
Ice
In a narrow strip of sunlight, waiting for ice.
50 mm • f/11 • 1/90 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 15000 lux EV 12.4
Eye Contact
Lack of eye contact is a strange thing. Communication gets harder.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Sad Crane
A sad crane lets its head hang down.
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/2000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 63000 lux EV 14.5
Silk
Only one strand of silk left in the box from Zoeterwoude Dorp.click
8.8 mm • f/6.3 • 1/30 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 810 lux EV 8.2
Exact
When I was a little boy, I used to look at this painting over diner, which was made by my uncle. Later it appeared to be an exact copy of a painting by Wassily Kandinsky. Well done.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/10 sec. • 80 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 170 lux EV 5.9
Windmill
Windmill under construction
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/884 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 47000 lux EV 14.1
So
Sometimes rain makes things a lot more interesting.
50 mm • f/2.4 • 1/4000 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7900 lux EV 11.5
Pay attention!
The index finger is used to evoke extra attention for the argument that is put forward.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/750 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 8000 lux EV 11.5
Working Late
They are working late in the tax building.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/4 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11 lux EV 2
Mandeep
Dr. Mandeep Singh visited our research center.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/1000 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 670 lux EV 7.9
Thumb
Not only the index finger is used to press buttons, but also the thumb.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/8 sec. • 125 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 85 lux EV 5
Hello!
It was fun ("leuk"), smart ("slim") and great ("fijn"), until it stopped.
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/750 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5900 lux EV 11.1
In Red
Vismarkt variation in red.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/750 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 16000 lux EV 12.6
Raise the Red Lantern
Beautiful movie: "Raise the Red Lantern".
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/4000 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2700 lux EV 9.9
Fake
A fake orchestra, fake wood. Fake can be nice.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/3000 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 64000 lux EV 14.5
Tuxedo
Ready for the full dress party: my tuxedo.
8.8 mm • f/1.8 • 1/30 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 33 lux EV 3.6
Round
Round is a nice shape.
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/4000 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 63000 lux EV 14.5
Sword
"Sword: The strength to render evil beings powerless and likewise help them develop purity and goodness." Seems to me that a sword is not the best instrument for that purpose.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/90 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 240 lux EV 6.5
February 2016
Biological Cotton
Well, who is in charge here?
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/1000 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 21000 lux EV 12.9
In the Clouds
He was up in the clouds with his new job en thought: never cut below the safety line.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/3000 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 131000 lux EV 15.6
Waiting
He was waiting for her, but when she finally arrived, he did not see her coming.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/4000 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5400 lux EV 10.9
Direct Contact
Between shopping direct contact at the same level.
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/2000 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 31000 lux EV 13.5
Three
Absurd theatre play for three
50 mm • f/11 • 1/2000 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 165000 lux EV 15.9
In Love
In love with a great cappuccino.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/17 sec. • 80 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 280 lux EV 6.7
Food
Food on the vismarkt attracts quite some tribes.
50 mm • f/16 • 1/1500 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 262000 lux EV 16.6
Butter with the Fish
Since 1938 butter is required with the fish: pay directly at delivery, else the fish can not be baked.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/750 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1000 lux EV 8.5
The Sleeping Prince
In the greek fairy tale of the sleeping prince, the boat would go neither backward nor forward.( Georgios A. Megas in Folktales of Greece)
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/180 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2800 lux EV 10
Theater
Sometimes when it rains and you eat chips, it becomes a little theatre play
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/125 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 170 lux EV 5.9
Misty
A misty morning in Groningen
50 mm • f/9.5 • 1/125 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 15000 lux EV 12.5
IMU's
When you apply a large number of IMU's (inertial measurement units) to the human body, you can measure almost anywhere all movements, including those of the fingers.
8.8 mm • f/2.2 • 1/50 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 530 lux EV 7.6
Mix
A modern office is still a mix of paper and computer.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Wine
It was quite cold last night: Wine freezes at about -5 degrees Centigrade.
8.8 mm • f/2.8 • 1/40 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 680 lux EV 8
Mike
Mike van Diest graduated after writing a thesis on skate gaming for elderly. In the background his family.
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/45 sec. • 2500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 14 lux EV 2.4
Mercury 2
American past glory for a large family.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/17 sec. • 32 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 700 lux EV 8
Mercury 1
American past glory for a large family.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/100 sec. • 40 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3300 lux EV 10.2
Empty
Empty, so enough space to think.
50 mm • f/2 • 1/45 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 31 lux EV 3.5
Hanging Feet
Gulls often let their feet hand down, even when they are far from the ground. Perhaps this helps them for flight at low velocity.
50 mm • f/11 • 1/750 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 124000 lux EV 15.5
Happiness
Eating gives a short moment of happiness. But also the expectation of food is nice.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 11.9
Barbara
Neuroscientist Barbara Nordhjem is heaving fun during her presentation on art and science at the Studium Generale in Groningen
135 mm • f/3.4 • 1/45 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 89 lux EV 5
Climate
Perhaps our climate is changing, since it is possible to make wine in Groningen.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/17 sec. • 80 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 280 lux EV 6.7
Leekstermeer
The Leekstermeer is a very shallow lake of only 1 to 1.5 meter deep with lots of reed.
50 mm • f/9.5 • 1/750 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 92000 lux EV 15
Warm
Nice and warm in the sun and enough food for quite some time.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/4000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 43000 lux EV 13.9
Sake
Delicious when on temperature together with blue cheese.
90 mm • f/16 • 1.3 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 67 lux EV 4.6
Winter Light
Cycling home, I can feel that the weather will change.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/750 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4100 lux EV 10.6
Evening Walk
An evening walk can place things into perspective, even when it's cold.
21 mm • f/3.4 • 1/15 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 120 lux EV 5.4
Fixer
Due to bad fixer, after developing a black and white photograph, the most striking color effects can appear.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/350 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 940 lux EV 8.4
Birthday
Today my birthday. Nice to write and draw, while the kisses give an afterglow within a new scent.
85 mm • f/5.6 • 1/100 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1100 lux EV 8.6
January 2016
Old
Not everything is as old as it looks, it appears.
21 mm • f/4 • 16 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 0.7 lux EV -2
Vera
At Vera, the club for international pop underground music, they have to eat also.
21 mm • f/4.8 • 1/6 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 94 lux EV 5.1
16
She turned 16 and so in January, despite the storm, there was a garden party in winter coats.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/45 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 30 lux EV 3.5
Time
Time only goes one way.
21 mm • f/5.6 • 1/60 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 640 lux EV 7.9
Moment
A moment for yourself. Open the door and social life starts all over again.
21 mm • f/5.6 • 1/60 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 640 lux EV 7.9
Jacob Jolij
Jacob Jolij gives a Studium Generale about perception and shows en passant that a random generator is influenced by observations. This requires further investigation!
21 mm • f/5.6 • 1/60 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 640 lux EV 7.9
Anything
You can find almost anything here, but who will wear it, that is the most important thing.
50 mm • f/9.5 • 1/350 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 43000 lux EV 13.9
Twinkel
Prof. Marina Koning-Tijssen explains something with a twinkel in her eyes.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/45 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 30 lux EV 3.5
Scouts
They still exist, since 1908, the scouts.
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/350 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Grid
I don't know that it is, but sometimes I need to escape from the grid. Even if I have to drag some of it with me.
50 mm • f/6.8 • 1/1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 63000 lux EV 14.5
Brush Strokes
The water reflects the musuem in coarse and fine brush strokes.
50 mm • f/6.8 • 1/90 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5700 lux EV 11
Tension
Just like in human perception, you get different reflections of reality in a pane of glass, depending on the tension present.
135 mm • f/5.6 • 1/90 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3900 lux EV 10.5
Away
One day I'll fly away...
50 mm • f/8 • 1/1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 87000 lux EV 15
Wandering Bicycles
It is not easy to spend the night as a wandering bicycle in the cold. Next to the church may be best.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/60 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3300 lux EV 10.2
Worried
Snowman is worried. In love, but why isn't she here yet?
50 mm • f/8 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Early Blossom
Early blossom, while more snow is expected.
85 mm • f/1.2 • 1/3200 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 13000 lux EV 12.2
Cold Feet
He was going to rob a liquor store, but got cold feet in the end.
21 mm • f/6.8 • 1/60 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3800 lux EV 10.4
Ignoring
And so we ignore each other in the public space.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/90 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3900 lux EV 10.5
No More
David Bowie is no more, but his work and a great exhibition about him are still here.
50 mm • f/3.4 • 1/1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 16000 lux EV 12.5
Incomplete
Incomplete, yet widespread.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 44000 lux EV 14
She Went Away
She went away an left a clear impression.
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/45 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 22 lux EV 3
Unexpected Spectrum
An unexpected spectrum appeared exactly on the corner. It took some time before I found the source of it.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/180 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 16000 lux EV 12.5
Free to Play
Somebody had interpreted that notification a bit too literally.
50 mm • f/2 • 1/1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5500 lux EV 11
Carrying Surface
The carrying surface for a bird is made by coupling of thin threads on microscopic scale in their feathers.
40 mm • f/2.4 • 1/50 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 160 lux EV 5.8
Frost Front
A new frost front is approaching Groningen. Binding scrub spunges onder the shoes and go shopping for food!
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/750 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2000 lux EV 9.5
Aprhodisiac
Chocolate is known as an aphrodisiac.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/125 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2700 lux EV 10
Icetable
A table of ice. Very handy to keep your drink cool.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/60 sec. • 2000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 520 lux EV 7.6
White Groningen
Groningen was white this morning when I got up. Reflection of light through enclosed air between snow crystals.
21 mm • f/8 • 1/25 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2200 lux EV 9.6
Glazed Frost
My doorknob is glazed with frost. Winter has finally come.
25.7 mm • f/4.5 • 1/80 sec. • 2000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 220 lux EV 6.3
Strange Pair
One of them grew quite a bit, despite a suffocating friend. The other one was alone and quite strange.
135 mm • f/5.6 • 1/250 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1700 lux EV 9.3
2016
She looked at 2016 in all her innocence.
85 mm • f/1.2 • 1/60 sec. • 3200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7.4 lux EV 1.4
December 2015
Silent
It is silent on the Hooge der A, just before the new year.
85 mm • f/1.2 • 1/20 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 9.8 lux EV 1.8
Chico
The remarkable story of Chico.
21 mm • f/6.8 • 1/30 sec. • 1000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 380 lux EV 7.1
Body Worlds
Waiting in line for Body Worlds, each in our own Body.
21 mm • f/6.8 • 1/30 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1900 lux EV 9.4
Callas 43
Architecture, not because it is ecomomical and easy to build, but because it is beatiful.
21 mm • f/8 • 1/30 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 330 lux EV 6.9
Posing
Some cows just love to pose with a funny hairdo.
12.5 mm • f/4.5 • 1/60 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2700 lux EV 9.9
Oldehove
This tower in Leeuwarden slumped askew during its construction, while during building masonry was adjusted to the true vertical. That is why some parts are more askew than others.
50 mm • f/9.5 • 1/125 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3800 lux EV 10.5
Concentration
Concentration is something peculiar. Sometimes it is hard to achieve, sometimes it is easy to shut out anything that is not important and yet attain a feeling of safety.
50 mm • f/3.4 • 1/125 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 490 lux EV 7.5
On its Way
The horse of Sint Martinus is on its way to full moon on Christmas day.
1000 mm • f/16 • 1/500 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 44000 lux EV 14
Many
When you just need a bottle of champoo, you are confronted with quite a number of square meters of the stuff.
50 mm • f/13 • 1/45 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4200 lux EV 10.6
Everything
This contains everything. Now just to find a way to get what suits me out of it.
35 mm • f/11 • 3 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 55 lux EV 4.3
Inclement
The weather was imclement today and it was pretty quiet at the UMCG on the shortest day of the year. Because of the high air velocity over the openings, the airpressure drops (Bernoulli's principle) and the bags are pushed outward. Since the students have gone home, no garbage can push the bags back.
50 mm • f/2.4 • 1/125 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 980 lux EV 8.5
Winter in Groningen
The illusion this morning of winter in Groningen.
50 mm • f/6.8 • 1/1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 63000 lux EV 14.5
Nightlife
Nightlife in Amsterdam just continues: the fish do not close their eyes.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/45 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 60 lux EV 4.5
Jealous
She was a bit jealous, but realised that her hair was probably also not totally natural, like her own
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/45 sec. • 250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1500 lux EV 9.1
Span
They were always together and did not know anything else.
50 mm • f/2 • 1/350 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1900 lux EV 9.5
Immediately Green.
When you are a kid in the street you are immediately green. It takes som time until you have changed colour.
35 mm • f/2.8 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 440 lux EV 7.3
Lazy Moon
The lazy moon is going to bed early as far as I can see. I will stay up.
175 mm • f/2.8 • 1/40 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 110 lux EV 5.3
Myopia
That's how christmas looks to people with myopia.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/125 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 330 lux EV 6.9
Interior
The interior of a cupboard.
21 mm • f/4 • 8 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 0.7 lux EV -2
Hit
You can easily get hit by the wings of a mill in a strong gail.
21.4 mm • f/11 • 1/125 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 33000 lux EV 13.6
Virtual
Tourists in Amsterdam are regularly only virtually embedded.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/90 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3900 lux EV 10.5
Clean
The canals of Amsterdam are kept clean by these kinds of boats.
135 mm • f/5.6 • 1/1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 43000 lux EV 13.9
Amsterdam
The city has its canals, bridges and stately buildings. But it would be nothing without movements.
50 mm • f/2 • 1/8 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11 lux EV 2
Pattern
Nature grows patterns, the packer is guided by them.
50 mm • f/2.4 • 1/45 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 180 lux EV 6
Morning
The morning breaks through the darkness and there is yet another day. Where do they come from?
21 mm • f/8 • 1/30 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1300 lux EV 8.9
Empty
The tool board is empty. Where is everything?
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/25 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11 lux EV 2
Filmer
A young filmer from Guinea for a production on the limits of running.
50 mm • f/6.8 • 1/180 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Moss
Under the pavement exists a natural habitat that finds its way out.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/148 sec. • 25 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7800 lux EV 11.5
Lonneke van Straalen
The NNO played "Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis" by Vaughan Williams tonight. A dreamlike piece in which time seems to stop.
135 mm • f/3.4 • 1/60 sec. • 2500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 76 lux EV 4.8
Tempo
How lovely, a pianola with a control for the tempo. While the pianola is playing you can add phrasing to the music with this control, which makes it a lot more interesting. Also nice that you can see the notes pass by.
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/45 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 44 lux EV 4
Consiousness
While discussing the scientific basis of consciousness, he used it.
50 mm • f/2 • 1/25 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 34 lux EV 3.6
November 2015
Rivalry
In the city there is this eternal rivalry between cars and cyclists. And when the weather gets worse, this may become grimmer.
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/3000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 12000 lux EV 12.1
Other World
Sometimes people in the street disappear in another world.
150 mm • f/2.8 • 1/500 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2700 lux EV 9.9
Heart
A heart like a comet will always return.
90 mm • f/22 • 1/40 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 13000 lux EV 12.2
Ugly & Fake
An olive oil jug from the firm "Ugly & Fake"
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/45 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 120 lux EV 5.5
Blood Red
The sky was coloured red like blood this evening. Curious what the night will bring.
75 mm • f/2.4 • 1/15 sec. • 2500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 9.4 lux EV 1.8
Fun
Somtimes teaching is just fun.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/25 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 220 lux EV 6.3
Splines
A family of splines as formed by wet bicycle tyres in a curve between one groove and the next. A long time ago these splines were drawn along flexible strips: they are fluent in curvature, which is also true for our motor control, as is recorded here on the ground.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/4 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 35 lux EV 3.7
Influence
Manual Labour and Domestic Industry had an influence on us. They kept us from inproductivity and daydreaming.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1000 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4300 lux EV 10.6
To Spain
She had to go to Spain on the boat: she had been naughty. And so she became a child again, in between those charming two Black Petes.
50 mm • f/2.4 • 1/90 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 280 lux EV 6.7
Abduction
He was abducted in broad daylight. He looked at me with an appeal for help, with an outstretched hand, but it was too late. I will never forget his distorted and frozen smile.
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/1500 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2400 lux EV 9.8
Winter
I can feel it in my bones: winter is coming, how nice!
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/8 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 66 lux EV 4.6
Rose
Yesterday I received a rose from a woman. I still don't know why.
90 mm • f/22 • 1/15 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 5000 lux EV 10.8
Endosperm
Coffee beans consist of endosperm: the food for the future plant.
4.1 mm • f/2.4 • 1/60 sec. • 64 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1500 lux EV 9.1
Paris and Beirut
Hard times in those cities.
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/15 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 24 lux EV 3.1
Tricoloré
The Martinitoren is tricoloré since Sunday. The blue is wrongly represented as purple in many images in the media click because the cameras of the journalists do not contain an infrared filter. Fortunately the top part is blue when you go and see for yourself.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/15 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 130 lux EV 5.6
Closed
The barber is closed on Sundays.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/180 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 480 lux EV 7.5
Tranquility
I don't think I'm ready for tranquility yet.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/60 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 20 lux EV 2.9
Slow
They had an extremely slow conversation about what they saw through the window.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/15 sec. • 3200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 20 lux EV 2.9
Biosphere
This biosphere (a sealed glass sphere) does not contain much life anymore
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/60 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 940 lux EV 8.4
Black Board
Black board and chalk have reappeared in recent class rooms. Nice!
50 mm • f/6.8 • 1/45 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 360 lux EV 7
Foreplay
Taking an order as foreplay.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/45 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 77 lux EV 4.8
Eyes
Hard to imagine what the world looks like through the eyes of a bird. More detailed, but in the first place with a different meaning.
80 mm • f/4 • 1/1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
The Past
Somewhere far away I found a drawing I once made and the memory of a cycling competition.
85 mm • f/2.2 • 1/100 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 170 lux EV 5.9
Coffee Time
After shopping, time for coffee in De Beurs in town.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/125 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 330 lux EV 6.9
Resemblance
Exactly one century ago, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson saw the resemblance between jelly fish and falling ink drops in water click
90 mm • f/4.8 • 1/125 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3900 lux EV 10.5
Obesitas
Cabaret on obesitas at the yearly conference on paediatrics
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/250 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 170 lux EV 5.9
Manual Job
The manual solution is sometimes still the best.
50 mm • f/6.8 • 1/180 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Morning Mist
The experience of what is far away changes by mist.
50 mm • f/6.8 • 1/750 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 47000 lux EV 14.1
Wine
By pouring a glass of wine, you can create complex shapes.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/1500 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 8200 lux EV 11.6
Silence
Sunday morning: no traffic, silence, everything looks like a backdrop for something that has not started yet.
50 mm • f/6.8 • 1/4000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 252000 lux EV 16.5
October 2015
Thinking
Hard to be certain about it, but it often seems that cats are thinking. On the other hand, they may be just immersed in a continuous and eternal present.
35 mm • f/2.8 • 1/25 sec. • 800 ISO • iphone sensor • handheld 67 lux EV 4.6
Coat Hanger
The coat hanger was lying on the ground, but the coat was hanging firmly around my shoulders.
35 mm • f/2.8 • 1/25 sec. • 800 ISO • iphone sensor • tripod 67 lux EV 4.6
Growth
Sometimes things grow apart, but there are still forces to bring them together again.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/45 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 30 lux EV 3.5
Full Moon
Last night it was full moon, and also cold high in the sky: Falling rhomboid ice crystals gave the colourful ring around the moon.
200 mm • f/2.8 • 1/13 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 70 lux EV 4.7
Werkman
Inspired by the painter Werkman, this artist is working on a down to earth painting.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/45 sec. • 1000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 790 lux EV 8.2
Autumn
It looks as if the regulator house of the former gas factory in Groningen now also regulates the start of the seasons.
4.1 mm • f/2.4 • 1/889 sec. • 50 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 28000 lux EV 13.3
Wavelets
Any complex signal can be interpreted as combinations of a basic form: a wavelet.
148 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1600 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 8600 lux EV 11.6
Nightwatch watch
The watch of the Nightwatch by Rembrandt was keeping a close eye on me.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/45 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 60 lux EV 4.5
Anamorphosis
An anamorphosis in progress at the entrance of the Rijksmuseum
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/45 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 60 lux EV 4.5
Fear
According to recent research, women express fear more readily, but the brains of men react stronger to dangerous situations.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/45 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 960 lux EV 8.5
Back
Everytime it started to get romantic, he turned his back on her. She simply did not understand why.
25.7 mm • f/6.3 • 1/80 sec. • 250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 3500 lux EV 10.3
Fire
Somewhere a fire burns to make plexiglass, ten minutes before sunset.
25.7 mm • f/6.3 • 1/80 sec. • 320 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2700 lux EV 10
Pattern
Many fascinating patterns in nature.
25.7 mm • f/8 • 1/80 sec. • 500 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2800 lux EV 10
Prohibited
He could not have missed the prohibited sign. But in Amsterdam you are fined as a cyclist when you live by the rules!
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/45 sec. • 1000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 390 lux EV 7.1
Autumn in Amsterdam
Listering to his music, the riksja driver is waiting for passengers in rainy Amsterdam.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/45 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 30 lux EV 3.5
Crossroads
On the crossroads in life where anything is possible.
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/60 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1900 lux EV 9.4
Patiné
Patiné can sometimes add something, here at "Mauve", a store that deals with the past.
50 mm • f/6.8 • 1/60 sec. • 2500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 300 lux EV 6.8
Computer Graphics
The world starts to look more and more like computer graphics.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/750 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 500 lux EV 7.5
Light at the Canal
The light at the canals of Amsterdam is special. The trees, the old glass of the buildings, it all plays its part.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 43000 lux EV 13.9
The Dyke
The grass on the dyke is always a bit tastier.
8.8 mm • f/9 • 1/125 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Jessica
Jessica Oosterloo went all the way in the 4 miles of Groningen this year: 21 minuut 51, an average of 17.68 km/h
200 mm • f/5 • 1/1600 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 27000 lux EV 13.3
Bourgeois
The bougeois life in central Amstedam.
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/90 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2800 lux EV 10
The Hand
When you look carefully, much can be deducted for someone's hand.
135 mm • f/3.4 • 1/180 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 450 lux EV 7.4
Love
The rest of the world has lost its urgency.
50 mm • f/16 • 1/350 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 122000 lux EV 15.5
Happy
The young doctor is happy and with him his girl friend. And so they should be: a great thesis was defended this afternoon.
8.8 mm • f/1.8 • 1/30 sec. • 1250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 21 lux EV 3
Back to Nature
A long time ago this bicycle decided to go back to nature. Didn't have had a shower for a long time, but he is happy.
11.1 mm • f/6.3 • 1/60 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5200 lux EV 10.9
Egret
At dusk, the Egret was still hunting.
200 mm • f/5 • 1/5000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 171000 lux EV 15.9
Early
Training in the morning opens the day.
200 mm • f/5 • 1/8000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 273000 lux EV 16.6
The Call
The call of geese, high up in the sky.
200 mm • f/5 • 1/5000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 171000 lux EV 15.9
GRE 25
This fishing boat was built in 1971 and is now 44 years old. Beautiful and gracious, with power and female forms.
8.8 mm • f/3.5 • 1/160 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 4300 lux EV 10.6
Flattened
A flattened bicycle uses a bit less space.
14.1 mm • f/5.6 • 1/640 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 44000 lux EV 14
September 2015
Match Insect
Stick insects exit, but this insect seems to be glued from matches.
90 mm • f/4 • 1/1000 sec. • 1000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4400 lux EV 10.6
Flowing Chair
This mushroom seems to be flowing out of the tree. The favourable place to grow on the tree was caused by a collision, which made the tree die on one side.
8.8 mm • f/5.6 • 1/100 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 6800 lux EV 11.3
Shoes
She was offering shoes.
18.3 mm • f/2.8 • 1/50 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 670 lux EV 7.9
Perplexed
Her jaw dropped. She simply could not believe it.
17.9 mm • f/2.8 • 1/50 sec. • 1250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 86 lux EV 5
Hunter Gatherers
On the first Ancentral Health Symposium in the Netherlands, a clinic was given on ancentral movements, of which this is an important posture for the hunter gatherer.
21 mm • f/11 • 1/125 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 21000 lux EV 12.9
Bright
He has always been very bright, but at certain incident light, the painted protrait exeggerates.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/30 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 80 lux EV 4.9
Largo
This sky reminded me of the largo of the fifth symphony of Shostakovich: the way the light emerges from the darkness.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 44000 lux EV 14
Graduation Team
The graduation team during the defense of a thesis by a woman consisted for the majority of women.
20.8 mm • f/4.5 • 1/60 sec. • 320 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1000 lux EV 8.6
Holly
The berries of the holly are changing colour quickly now.
90 mm • f/16 • 1.3 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 270 lux EV 6.6
Waiting Wheels
They are waiting in the corridor for their turn.
85 mm • f/1.2 • 1/100 sec. • 3200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 12 lux EV 2.2
Not Random
The growth of an ivy has left a non random pattern that looks quite eastern.
16.2 mm • f/6.3 • 1/250 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Nooit Gedacht
They would never have thought ("nooit gedacht") that it would come to this with the earthquake damage.
12.6 mm • f/6.3 • 1/250 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Abstract
The world looks more and more like a computer screen. It is nice that there are still trees.
25.7 mm • f/3.2 • 1/160 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 3600 lux EV 10.4
Block
The armed police has blocked the inner city of Groningen because of fights between soccer hooligans of Marseille and Groningen. I wonder in what language they insult each other.
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7900 lux EV 11.5
Fly Droppings
Fly droppings are nicely dropped in a row on my computer screen.
25.7 mm • f/3.2 • 1/80 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1100 lux EV 8.7
Train
A train finds its way through the uncoming autumn.
22.8 mm • f/6.3 • 1/400 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 35000 lux EV 13.6
Single
Japanese single malt whisky. It's certainly a thought.
85 mm • f/4 • 1/100 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1100 lux EV 8.6
Strange Fruit
The fruit of a Datura metel fastuosa is exceptionally poisonous and looks like if any moment an alien could come out of it.
25.7 mm • f/3.2 • 1/80 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 560 lux EV 7.7
Position
The position you take as a photographer is decisive. For instance in a ditch.
20.1 mm • f/5.6 • 1/100 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 6800 lux EV 11.3
't Nije Hemelriek
A beach in the middle of a forest. The light is strange.
8.8 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 8700 lux EV 11.6
Balloons
The weather was great for balloon trips. "First you learn to fly against the wind", thought the birds on the ground.
148 mm • f/9 • 1/1250 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 69000 lux EV 14.6
24 seconds
Still 24 seconds to get out of here.
148 mm • f/9 • 1/200 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Shower
A great cormorant is taking a shower.
25.7 mm • f/3.5 • 1/400 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 11.9
Fig
A ripe fig offers an environment for anything that can come in through the narrow entrance.
90 mm • f/11 • 1/8 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 1300 lux EV 8.9
Kamikaze
A kamikaze fly in the Sake.
90 mm • f/8 • 1 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 87 lux EV 5
Minoan
Nobody wants to jump over him anymore, so he just lies there.
22.4 mm • f/2.8 • 1/400 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 6800 lux EV 11.3
Gust of Wind
Suddenly a gust of wind appeared. The conversation halted and thoughts shifted.
25.7 mm • f/2.8 • 1/500 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 8600 lux EV 11.6
Risky
This Great Green Bush-Cricket (Tettigonia viridissima) lives risky on a cyclepath and tries to inject eggs into the concrete
25.7 mm • f/8 • 1/500 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 70000 lux EV 14.6
Silent
It was silent in her head. The train was gliding monotonously through the landscape.
25.5 mm • f/6.3 • 1/80 sec. • 320 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2700 lux EV 10
Cylinder Reflection
When an orthogonal field of lines is reflected by a cylinder, a nice family of curves is emerging.
4.1 mm • f/2.4 • 1/20 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 79 lux EV 4.8
August 2015
Buying a Duck
Girl friends buy a duck.
25.7 mm • f/6.7 • 1/125 sec. • 125 ISO • 9mm sensor sensor • handheld 12000 lux EV 12.1
The Past
A sea lily in the middle of Amsterdam. The beauty is still there.
25.7 mm • f/6.7 • 1/125 sec. • 125 ISO • 9mm sensor sensor • handheld 12000 lux EV 12.1
In and Out
They spoke simultaneously. Bats have a neural circuitry to be able not to listen while creating sound, but to listen for the echo shortly afterwards.
8.8 mm • f/4.5 • 1/250 sec. • 125 ISO • 9mm sensor sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Cyclists
These cyclists seem to be a bit lost at this harbour without a biycle.
8.8 mm • f/4.5 • 1/250 sec. • 125 ISO • 9mm sensor sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Noorderzon
The Noorderzon Festival 2015 in Groningen
50.0 mm • f/1.4 • 1/125 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • uit de hand 42 lux EV 3.9
From the Inside Out
Beauty sometimes gets damaged from the inside out. Here the tracks of the larva of the water lily beetle (Galerucella nymphaeae)
21.8 mm • f/7.1 • 1/125 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • uit de hand 14000 lux EV 12.3
To Fish
What you catch also depends on the loopholes in the net.
8.8 mm • f/4.5 • 1/250 sec. • 125 ISO • 9mm sensor sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Black Acre
Freshly lowed black acre: stern and full of perspective
8.8 mm • f/4.5 • 1/250 sec. • 125 ISO • 9mm sensor sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Drowned Tower
Borg Ewsum has a tower that seems to be drowned.
8.8 mm • f/4.5 • 1/250 sec. • 125 ISO • 9mm sensor sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Heather
Each year again it is stunning, that sea of colour when the heather is blooming.
8.8 mm • f/4.5 • 1/250 sec. • 125 ISO • 9mm sensor sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Variation
The Dipsacus fullonum shows variation in the way she undresses.
25.7 mm • f/5 • 1/100 sec. • 80 ISO • 9mm sensor sensor • handheld 8500 lux EV 11.6
Queue
Queuing up to be caressed.
8.8 mm • f/4.5 • 1/125 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5500 lux EV 11
Wij
"Wij" (or "We" in Dutch) is a special feeling. Everyone is doing their part and together you finish it.
25.7 mm • f/2.8 • 1/200 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 3400 lux EV 10.3
Le Temps Perdu
Le Temps Perdu (Maurice Tabard, 1950)
8.8 mm • f/5 • 1/80 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 4400 lux EV 10.6
Rosewood
Rosewood, sometimes regular, sometimes wild, like my own dreams.
90 mm • f/6.8 • 1.5 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 42 lux EV 3.9
No. 2 Folding
A lovely old camera with little egonomics, but lots of charm. Present from my son.
90 mm • f/4 • 3 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 7.3 lux EV 1.4
No Bicycles
The Dutch are not very obedient, if you look at this.
25.7 mm • f/2.8 • 1/400 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 6800 lux EV 11.3
Perseid
A Persoid moves through the constellation of Cassiopeia as seen from a dark spot in the province of Groningen.
24 mm • f/4 • 10 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 0.5 lux EV -2.3
Introduction Week
The introduction week for new students at the university is in full action. And they are going for it!
25.7 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1000 sec. • 320 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 6700 lux EV 11.3
Bauke Mollema
Bauke Mollema during the Gouden Pijl 2015 in Emmen. He would become second after John Degenkolb, but in front of Robert Gesink.
85 mm • f/1.2 • 1/3200 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1600 lux EV 9.2
City Comber
A city comber always finds things of value that were washed ashore on the waves of society.
22 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1000 sec. • 640 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 3300 lux EV 10.3
Silent Friends
The summer evening in town was moist and heavy. They did not say a word.
11 mm • f/2.5 • 1/1000 sec. • 320 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5300 lux EV 10.9
Slag om Norg
The Slag om Norg was ridden this year in fantastic conditions. The peloton was still closed here.
25.7 mm • f/2.8 • 1/500 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 8600 lux EV 11.6
Rottumerplaat
Because of the warmed up shallow water of the Waddenzee, Rottumerplaat seems to float in the air.
500 mm • f/8 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 44000 lux EV 14
Strange Sign
People with tendencies towards paranoia may read a deeper message in this sign.
500 mm • f/11 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 83000 lux EV 14.9
Roode Ster
The black star is registered as a red star. But why?
17.9 mm • f/4.5 • 1/50 sec. • 640 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 430 lux EV 7.3
Power
High power feeds into the city.
200 mm • f/6.3 • 1/1000 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 108000 lux EV 15.3
Harvest
Harvest before the rain comes.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/750 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 66000 lux EV 14.6
Not Alone
In nature you are rarely alone.
180 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1600 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4300 lux EV 10.6
Cycle Path
Some traffic signs are not very consistent.
25.7 mm • f/4 • 1/160 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5600 lux EV 11
Black and White
The horses are taking a holiday too.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 43000 lux EV 13.9
July 2015
Berch
A berch next to the deep black water of a ditch without wind. The satin glow never fails to capture my attention.
195 mm • f/6.3 • 1/160 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3500 lux EV 10.3
Fairy Ring
A fairy ring on a dyke. Threads grow from a mushroom in many directions, giving rise to the children that stand in a circle or arc around mother. Mother is gone.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/4000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 87000 lux EV 15
The Shower
A shower in this kind of weather has a diameter of only a few kilometer. Cycling against the wind this provides a nice variation of sunshine and rain.
9.5 mm • f/4.5 • 1/125 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5500 lux EV 11
Aduarderzijl
Special place in the landscape of Groningen, at a winding of the Reitdiep.
8.8 mm • f/4.5 • 1/125 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5500 lux EV 11
Summer Sky
The summer sky during unstable weather.
25.7 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1250 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 21000 lux EV 12.9
Harlequin Longhorn
During cycling, a harlequin longhorn lands on her cycling shirt and let itself be photographed patiently.
105 mm • f/6.3 • 1/200 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2700 lux EV 10
Neurons
A snail like this has a small and fixed number of neurons at birth, that scientists have all given a name.
4.1 mm • f/2.4 • 1/352 sec. • 50 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Cooling down
The cattle find the coolness of the shallow lake.
105 mm • f/6.3 • 1/5000 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 169000 lux EV 15.9
Plateau
The belgian physicist Joseph Plateau formulated a long time ago the mathemical rule describing the curvature of division surfaces between combined soap bubbles: the curvature is the difference between the curvatures of the soapbubbles on both sides of the division surface. But he forgot that these bubbles can move violently in the wind, in which case the mathematical rule does not apply and complex differential equations need to be solved to calculate the shape of the division surfaces.
19.3 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1000 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Records
Many familiar faces on record sleeves.
20.4 mm • f/4.5 • 1/1000 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 44000 lux EV 14
Cliché
Hard to photograph the setting sun well. Not only from a technical point of view, but also to avoid a cliché. Failed again!
12.8 mm • f/6.3 • 1/250 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Angel of the North
A huge sculpture that sticks almost as deep in the ground as it rises into the sky. Inspiration for many outpourings.
8.8 mm • f/5.6 • 1/200 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
1000 Miles
1000 Miles through England, a country with old technology and beautiful nature. The bike did not let me down.
13.3 mm • f/4 • 1/320 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Johnny Guitar
Guitar player on the Brass Festival in Durham
24.5 mm • f/4.5 • 1/125 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5500 lux EV 11
Miss Nails
Important: decorating your nails
25.7 mm • f/4.5 • 1/400 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 18000 lux EV 12.7
Topman
Always difficult, a discussion on who exactly would be the topman in the universe.
25.7 mm • f/5.6 • 1/320 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Gravity
According to the label on this machine, gravitation can be lowered. If that would really be possible, we would have solved the world energy problem.
25.7 mm • f/5.6 • 1/160 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Eye Contact
Eye contact can be very powerful, even without words and straight through a pane.
22 mm • f/4.5 • 1/125 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5500 lux EV 11
Cricket
Nice game to watch from a distance. When you look carefully you can see the ball still hanging in its trajectory.
11.6 mm • f/4 • 1/320 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Rotrax
To my utter amazement, I encountered this beautiful bicycle with the same name as the patented clapskate with rollover function in my name. The market research had not uncovered this brand name at the time.
8.8 mm • f/4 • 1/500 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Lock 34
Lock 34 is being serviced by two ladies.
8.8 mm • f/5.6 • 1/30 sec. • 4000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 64 lux EV 4.6
Roman Ventilation
Pilars that used to carry a floor, allowing hot hair to enter in the Roman bath in Bath.
8.8 mm • f/5.6 • 1/30 sec. • 4000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 64 lux EV 4.6
Library
A telephone booth is not needed anymore. But books are still being read and shared in this village.
8.8 mm • f/4 • 1/50 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1700 lux EV 9.3
Letting Each Other Out
The english law dictates that a dog should be on a leash in the street. Well, this is how that's done!
25.7 mm • f/4 • 1/200 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 7000 lux EV 11.3
Character
In old buildings you often find character, like here in Winchester.
19.5 mm • f/4 • 1/60 sec. • 250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1000 lux EV 8.6
The Letter
Completely immersed in what she was reading, she stood in a narrow beam of sunlight on the market.
25.7 mm • f/4 • 1/80 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2800 lux EV 10
Radiator Cap
The radiator cap of a british biplane bus.
23.3 mm • f/4.5 • 1/500 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Radio Grand Départ
Behind the microphone with Felix Meurders and Lara Rense at Radio Grand Départ during the first stage in Utrecht of the Tour de France.
8.8 mm • f/4 • 1/30 sec. • 640 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 200 lux EV 6.2
Letter Box
Letterboxes are becoming afunctional.
22.6 mm • f/2.8 • 1/250 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 4300 lux EV 10.6
Jupiter and Venus
Last night a rare opposition of Jupiter and Venus.
200 mm • f/2.8 • 1/40 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 130 lux EV 5.6
Shadows
Nice how we see that these things are shadows rather than stains on the tree trunk. Seeing with implicit knowledge.
14.9 mm • f/4 • 1/50 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1700 lux EV 9.3
June 2015
Berches
Always fascinating how much light is reflected by berches due to that thin layer of air in the bark.
25.7 mm • f/4 • 1/160 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5600 lux EV 11
Biogas
The city of Groningen makes biogas from waste.
25.7 mm • f/4 • 1/640 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Strong Genes
Strong genes that maintain this pattern, but what was the place of that red bull in the heritage?
25.7 mm • f/4 • 1/160 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5600 lux EV 11
Vulnerable
As a four-eyes, you are vulnerable, but as long as your head has not been flattened, it is not a big problem.
8.8 mm • f/2.8 • 1/200 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 3400 lux EV 10.3
Englishman
An englishman in Amsterdam is taking a rest. When I asked him about his shoes, he told me that these walk better than his traditional ones.
21.8 mm • f/2.8 • 1/160 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2700 lux EV 10
Violin Player
She played wonderfully, but no one listened. That's what happens at a farewell party.
25.7 mm • f/2.8 • 1/80 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 110 lux EV 5.3
Rocket Launching Prohibited
The council of Groningen has created a nice open space, but it indicates that it is prohibited to launch a rocket here, like we did as upcoming scientists on the Parallelweg in Den Haag. In those days, there was no sign like this.
4.1 mm • f/2.4 • 1/695 sec. • 50 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Roses
You will reach the roses through the darkness.
8.9 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 8700 lux EV 11.6
Critical
The Domtown is getting ready for the Tour de France and so it gets time to cast a scientific and critical look at racing cyclists.
8.9 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 8700 lux EV 11.6
Polka Dot Dress
Utrecht is ready for the start of the Tour de France, that is obvious.
8.8 mm • f/4 • 1/200 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 7000 lux EV 11.3
Night of the Bicycle
"The Night of the Bicycle" in Utrecht. Three hours of radio on many aspects of cycling with a slowbiker, who can cycle as slow as possible.
8.8 mm • f/1.8 • 1/30 sec. • 1250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 21 lux EV 3
Bicycles
It remains a fascinating subject. Tomorrow night "The Night of the Bicycle" on Radio 1 from Utrecht.
8.8 mm • f/4 • 1/500 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Simple Life
Life was simple in a labourers room under the Mao government.
8.8 mm • f/5.6 • 1/30 sec. • 2500 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 100 lux EV 5.2
Hairdresser at Home
Cutting the hair of a friend at home can look like an absurd theatre play.
8.8 mm • f/4.5 • 1/30 sec. • 2500 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 66 lux EV 4.6
High Rim
A high rim gives aerodynamic advantage, but in a crosswind, it can result in problems. A calculated cross section can partly helpt to avoid these problems.
8.8 mm • f/4.5 • 1/30 sec. • 640 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 260 lux EV 6.6
Reporter
Radio reporter on a threadmill.
8.8 mm • f/4.5 • 1/30 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 410 lux EV 7.2
Press Mechanism
The press of Werkman: what a beautiful 3D mechanism to obtain a huge force with only a twist of a handle.
16.2 mm • f/2.8 • 1/20 sec. • 6400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 6.7 lux EV 1.3
Spiral
Sempervivum grows in a spiral of which the rate of growth is proportional to the length of the leaves.
8.8 mm • f/5.6 • 1/80 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5500 lux EV 11
Prepare for Landing
This bumblebee has done a lot of good things for the flowers with his filled knees and so he can land another time.
8.8 mm • f/10 • 1/30 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 4100 lux EV 10.6
Cool
It is not easy to keep your cool, when you get so much attention when walking past a dancing cowboy in this warm weather.
17.7 mm • f/5.6 • 1/800 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 55000 lux EV 14.3
7140
It has something from a long time ago, when fish was delivered in this way.
8.8 mm • f/6.3 • 1/400 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 35000 lux EV 13.6
Hairy Ball Theorem
There exists a theorem in the mathematical discipline of topology called the "Hairy Ball Theorem", which states: On any continuous vector field on a closed surface there exists at least one singularity. A horse has a closed surface, which implies that it has at least one crown. Another consequence of the theorem: there is at least one place on earth without wind.
25.7 mm • f/5 • 1/320 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Conversation
A conversation about that strange chap on the ground with his camera.
22 mm • f/5 • 1/200 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Art and Science
In the night of art and science a performance in an old church on particle physics by a scientist as story teller and dancers who represent fundamental particles, hit by laser beams.
8.8 mm • f/1.8 • 1/30 sec. • 320 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 83 lux EV 4.9
Change
Yesterday it was tropical here and because of the quick change, the atmosphere became unstable: lovely!
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/45 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1400 lux EV 9
Fluorescence
The blueish glow of tonic water comes from the quinine, which is a fluorescent substance with an emission frequency of 450 nm, the wavelength of blue light.
8.8 mm • f/2.8 • 1/320 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5500 lux EV 11
Evening Sprint
When you discover that you can sprint, you go along the shadow line as fast as possible.
25.7 mm • f/2.8 • 1/500 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 8600 lux EV 11.6
Snowman
Reflections of a passig train.
16.6 mm • f/6.3 • 1/250 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Spring Shower
A fresh spring shower over the Werkmanbrug.
13.3 mm • f/2.8 • 1/160 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2700 lux EV 10
Black Water
Water black as ink behind the lock gates. The evening sky with a single cloud is processed into an abstract image.
25.7 mm • f/2.8 • 1/250 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 330 lux EV 6.9
May 2015
Candy
Candy for the horse.
25.7 mm • f/2.8 • 1/200 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 3400 lux EV 10.3
Marsh Thistles
A bit of small talk between two marsh thistles.
8.8 mm • f/10 • 1/125 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 27000 lux EV 13.3
Straight
You can cut a major branch of a tree, but it keeps coming back, straight up, guided by gravity and light.
25.7 mm • f/7.1 • 1/80 sec. • 1250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 880 lux EV 8.3
Custard
Just love custard.
8.8 mm • f/7.1 • 1/30 sec. • 1600 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 260 lux EV 6.6
Velodroom
Marie after her performance at the Velodroom festival.
25.7 mm • f/5 • 1/25 sec. • 6400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 27 lux EV 3.3
FOM
Fundamental research Of Matter buttons in the office of the Foundation of Technical Sciences where we aimed today at financing our research.
4.1 mm • f/2.4 • 1/364 sec. • 50 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Opening
Jean Pierre Rawie reads from his own work at the opening of an exhibition of Jan Douwe van Willigen and his daughter Lilian van Opdorp.
25.7 mm • f/5.6 • 1/80 sec. • 1250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 550 lux EV 7.6
Pressure Wave
It looks like a pressure wave has passed by in Groningen.
8.8 mm • f/5.6 • 1/160 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Bjoeks
Like a strange post-apocalyptic building, climbing hall Bjoeks stands against the background.
500 mm • f/8 • 1/750 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 66000 lux EV 14.6
One Swallow
In dutch we say "One swallow does not mean it is summer"
500 mm • f/8 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 44000 lux EV 14
Lena
Lena Buseman, world class judoka, gives autographs to pupils from primary school after our performance.
8.8 mm • f/6.3 • 1/4 sec. • 6400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 6.8 lux EV 1.3
Coordinates
Insects use a visual and chemical coordinate system.
8.8 mm • f/6.3 • 1/30 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 810 lux EV 8.2
Virtual Reality
21 years ago the fascination started. A lot has happened since then.
8.8 mm • f/8 • 1/30 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 3300 lux EV 10.2
Books
What makes books so attractive? The fact that I always can come back, without them having changed, while I have changed?
25.7 mm • f/4.5 • 1/80 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 550 lux EV 7.7
Descendance
I'm descending to water that looks like coarse woven fabric.
8.8 mm • f/5 • 1/30 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1600 lux EV 9.2
Kaleidoscope
Sometimes everythings spins at vertiginous speeds, in which emotion is always a facet.
25.7 mm • f/5.6 • 1/320 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Runway
The runway for a little project...
8.8 mm • f/10 • 1/8 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1700 lux EV 9.3
Fochteloërveen
The landscape of the Fochteloërveen is really beautiful without wind. Many questions arise.
25.7 mm • f/4.5 • 1/640 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 28000 lux EV 13.3
Pudding Factory
Night is falling over the Pudding Factory.
25.7 mm • f/4.5 • 1/13 sec. • 6400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 11 lux EV 2
The Herd
If you follow the herd, you have to thread in the shit that they leave behind.
12.2 mm • f/3.2 • 1/160 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 3600 lux EV 10.4
Norg
Change of weather is nice.
8.8 mm • f/3.5 • 1/250 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 6700 lux EV 11.3
Intimidating
Sometimes a lot of attention can be intimidating.
25.7 mm • f/4.5 • 1/800 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 35000 lux EV 13.7
The Sun
The sun is very strong source of radio signals and if you listen carefully you can hear her song.
8.8 mm • f/4.5 • 1/200 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 8800 lux EV 11.7
Ready
Everything is ready for my tour of Great Britain.
35 mm • f/11 • 1/45 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7400 lux EV 11.4
Ferris Wheel
The largest travelling ferris wheel of 55 meter high is empty on a nice May evening, because of the competition with other attractions with more extreme motions.
8.8 mm • f/2.8 • 1/200 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 3400 lux EV 10.3
Face Recognition
It must be straightforward to build a cat door that uses cat face recognition, so that you don't have to use a chip on or in the cat.
25.7 mm • f/3.2 • 1/80 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1400 lux EV 9
Location
It's quite a feat of movement control that she can place the tip of her horn exactly where it itches.
25.7 mm • f/3.2 • 1/100 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2200 lux EV 9.7
Atomic Key
Would it be in this place where the key is hidden?
4.1 mm • f/2.4 • 1/179 sec. • 50 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5600 lux EV 11
To Fly
It is only short, but you can fly when you master skating.
8.8 mm • f/3.5 • 1/2000 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 8400 lux EV 11.6
Fingers
Even his fingers are part of the balance act during halfpipe skating.
8.8 mm • f/4 • 1/2000 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Growth
The young foal taht could only just stand up 10 days ago, can now walk with the herd and is growing fast.
25.7 mm • f/3.2 • 1/800 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 18000 lux EV 12.7
April 2015
Human Scale
The human scale is sometimes hard to find in large organisations
25.7 mm • f/3.2 • 1/80 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1800 lux EV 9.4
Green Tiger Beetle
Cicindela Campestris in a little box from Wijster, together with other species from the area.
8.8 mm • f/4.5 • 1/30 sec. • 160 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1000 lux EV 8.6
Wheelchair
Remind me of who said that a wheelchair is beyond a new design?
8.8 mm • f/3.2 • 1/60 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 1300 lux EV 8.9
Taller
Sometimes she imagines what it would be like if he would be a bit taller.
21 mm • f/4 • 1/800 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 28000 lux EV 13.3
Ready
Just another cappuccino, and then she is ready for the day.
24.5 mm • f/5.6 • 1/80 sec. • 4000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 170 lux EV 6
London
In London, men like style.
14.9 mm • f/7.1 • 1/50 sec. • 250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 2800 lux EV 10
Festival of Love
Well, it can be so easy: life can be a festival of love.
25.7 mm • f/5.6 • 1/200 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Rowhedge
A small village on the River Colne, near the University of Essex.
8.8 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 8700 lux EV 11.6
North Sea
The North Sea is slow changing change of light.
24.8 mm • f/4 • 1/160 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5600 lux EV 11
Succeeded
After a small push of his mother, the young foal is standing up finally. He still has the balance of a badly carpented table, but soon he will be able to run.
25.7 mm • f/4.5 • 1/500 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Snake's Head
Snake's Head is a wild flower that is extremely rare in the Netherlands and protected by law.
8.8 mm • f/4.5 • 1/250 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Ready for the Night
The nights are still cold, so the stork covers her eggs even before sunset.
500 mm • f/64 • 1/3000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 16773000 lux EV 22.6
Older Student
This somewhat older student with his Vindicat cap on is enjoying the increasing warmth of the sun.
8.8 mm • f/2 • 1/800 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 7000 lux EV 11.3
Thinking and Acting
To think about doing something and doing something are two totally different things, as is obvious from this experiment.
8.8 mm • f/2 • 1/30 sec. • 640 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 51 lux EV 4.2
Worried
He looks a bit worried, but that is because it is a difficult task to ride a car, being a small dog.
22.8 mm • f/5.6 • 1/100 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 6800 lux EV 11.3
Earth Quake
Earth Quakes caused by drillings of the NAM brought this old farm house, (already mentioned in the 14th century) on the brink of destruction.
21.4 mm • f/4.5 • 1/400 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 18000 lux EV 12.7
The Castle
The Castle of the university of Groningen (formerly the center of physics) brings you in another world and time.
8.8 mm • f/5 • 1/30 sec. • 1000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 200 lux EV 6.2
Venus
Venus stands over the city with a piece of fluff around it. Soft and constant.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/15 sec. • 3200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 20 lux EV 2.9
Maps
A but outdated, but I still love maps. Trying to see the landscape through the lines.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 11.9
Prodigal Son
This painting by Frans Hals forms the backdrop of a modern prodigal son in Amsterdam.
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/125 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3900 lux EV 10.5
Geodesics
Geodesics are the shortest routes on a curved surface.
50 mm • f/9.5 • 1/350 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 43000 lux EV 13.9
Patience
The patient bird watcher becomes one with the landscape.
135 mm • f/5.6 • 1/3000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 128000 lux EV 15.5
Big Brother
Nowadays when you give a lecture, a camera hanging from the ceiling follows you. It is quite a funny sight to see the students turn their heads when I walk from left to right and above them the camera also.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/45 sec. • 250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 96 lux EV 5.1
Rage Against the Machine
Depicting the name of an old rock band.
50 mm • f/11 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 83000 lux EV 14.9
Bicycle Gone
Civilized to leave the lock for the next bicycle
50 mm • f/2.4 • 1/60 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 120 lux EV 5.4
Clouds
We looked at each other under a sky filled with clouds, that sometimes left us in the cold shade.
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/4000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 126000 lux EV 15.5
Nicholaaskerk
This roman church from the 12th century is truly magnificent. Great to encounter something like this on a bicycle trip.
50 mm • f/9.5 • 1/750 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 92000 lux EV 15
Younger
Sometimes horses want to look a bit younger, so they put on a colorful coat.
135 mm • f/9.5 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 62000 lux EV 14.5
West Wind
With a strong west wind, the landscape unfolds sternly in front of the lens
50 mm • f/6.8 • 1/4000 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 63000 lux EV 14.5
High Tension
Sometimes nature photography is like working under high tension.
135 mm • f/9.5 • 1/1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 123000 lux EV 15.5
March 2015
Blown Over
A wall was blown over between tall buildings today at windforce 8 in town.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/350 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 15000 lux EV 12.4
Turns
They took turns in watching around, so that the other could take a nap.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/3.3333 sec. • 3200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4.5 lux EV 0.7
Rain
A vertical memory of a spatial movement of air that carried raindrops.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/125 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5400 lux EV 10.9
Miss Blanche
Connoisseurs have known it for a while now: Miss Blanche is the Cigar!
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/45 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 120 lux EV 5.5
Slotplaats
A nice fire in the Slotplaats in Bakkeveen is nice after cycling against the strong West wind.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/45 sec. • 3200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 250 lux EV 6.5
Music Chapel
The music chapel in the Noorderplantsoen offers the opportunity to stand on the axis of the wheel of life for a short while.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/30 sec. • 3200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5 lux EV 0.9
Far East
The scientists in our building from the far east are well integrated, but still bring partly their culture in the form of the choice of bicycles and colors.
4.1 mm • f/2.4 • 1/20 sec. • 250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 130 lux EV 5.5
Love
Love goes further than scratching each others places you can not reach, but it is certainly a start.
135 mm • f/19 • 1/180 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 89000 lux EV 15
Strong
On the dyke in the scanty winter light
135 mm • f/8 • 1/2000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 175000 lux EV 16
Bench
A bench on an island: time to reflect.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Listening
Listening to the sky: is anyone out there?
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/3000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 94000 lux EV 15.1
Orchard
An orchard that still needs to show what it is worth.
50 mm • f/9.5 • 1/180 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 6900 lux EV 11.3
Aula
Multiple reflections of the aula in the nails of a chiar.
4.1 mm • f/2.4 • 1/15 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 29 lux EV 3.4
Missing
Why would this portrait be missing? Restauration? Plagiarism? Space for a new one?
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/180 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 77 lux EV 4.8
Grain Factory
Old technology that still works adequately
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/750 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 24000 lux EV 13.1
Horse and Heron
Waiting for better food for horse and heron, but we are getting there.
135 mm • f/6.8 • 1/2000 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 39000 lux EV 13.8
Wood Sawing Windmill
In some inclement weather, the wood sawing windmill in Woltersum
12 mm • f/11 • 1/25 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4100 lux EV 10.6
Lageland
The province of Groningen still does not turn green.
135 mm • f/6.8 • 1/2000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 126000 lux EV 15.5
Distance
"I feel a distance", she said. "I have no idea what you are talking about", he said.
135 mm • f/13 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 115000 lux EV 15.4
Evening
The evening starts later, which pleases me.
50 mm • f/3.4 • 1/45 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 710 lux EV 8
Cones
I received these cones when I was five years old. There is one missing, but the king with his golden cap is still there.
24 mm • f/10 • 13 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11 lux EV 1.9
One
There are other ways to become one.
155 mm • f/5 • 1/800 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 27000 lux EV 13.3
Concept
To grasp and explain a concept: Marc during his final discourse in the main academy building.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/250 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 110 lux EV 5.3
Multiple
Multiple images of the sun through tiny holes in the window blinds.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 11.9
Pants
These pants are made for walking
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/3000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 8000 lux EV 11.5
Wear
This cog is worne out also, but it lasted almost three times longer than last time (see here)
105 mm • f/4.5 • 1/40 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 550 lux EV 7.7
Spread
When a liter of yogurt falls at considerable speed, it gives quite a spread.
50 mm • f/11 • 1/90 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 15000 lux EV 12.4
Ready
The willows are ready for their explosion.
50 mm • f/16 • 1/4000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1398000 lux EV 19
Hoge Land
The train from "het hoge land" to the city.
50 mm • f/3.4 • 1/2000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 32000 lux EV 13.5
Into the sky
To be able to fly like a bird.
135 mm • f/11 • 1/4000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 661000 lux EV 17.9
Fluffy Duck
Suddenly they are everywhere.
50 mm • f/2 • 1/3000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 16000 lux EV 12.6
February 2015
Winter Afternoon
Winter is over the land. The sun has no power. The frogs are asleep.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/1500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 64000 lux EV 14.5
Terrace
Suddenly the terrace is full at the end of Friday afternoon.
135 mm • f/11 • 1/750 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 124000 lux EV 15.5
Summer
I'm looking at the rain, but I'm thinking of the summer.
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/45 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 71 lux EV 4.7
Venus and Mars
Venus and Mars, our direct neighbours stand close together in the evening sky. Cosy!
500 mm • f/8 • 1/6 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 84 lux EV 4.9
Waiting
The jacket waits and only starts moving when I'm in it.
50 mm • f/6.8 • 1/45 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1100 lux EV 8.7
Tilting
And once again, the cemetery tilts away from the sun.
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/90 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2800 lux EV 10
End of Winter
You can feel it: the end of winter is near.
135 mm • f/6.8 • 1/1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 63000 lux EV 14.5
Ersatzschwamm
A refill spunge becomes something in the German language with a different sense to it.
4.1 mm • f/2.4 • 1/40 sec. • 50 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1300 lux EV 8.8
Exceptional
Sometimes exceptional things happen in chinese sports.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/180 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 240 lux EV 6.5
High Speed
Filming and recording how someone runs down the stairs at high speed.
4.1 mm • f/2.4 • 1/60 sec. • 64 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1500 lux EV 9.1
Clean
Cleaning in a watery wintersun.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/90 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2000 lux EV 9.5
Together
No word was spoken, but they were together.
50 mm • f/6.8 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 16000 lux EV 12.5
Virtual
The reflection of a virtual dutch landscape in a rehab center.
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/60 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 59 lux EV 4.4
Difference
Physically, they are just small movements, but facial expressions make all the difference.
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 16000 lux EV 12.5
Happiness
Happiness depends on the context. Here this is the carnaval in Zwolle.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/750 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 16000 lux EV 12.6
Vision
Ten days ago, Marc had a vision, that he celebrates today.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/350 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 940 lux EV 8.4
Two Francs
In 1975 Europe was organized differently.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/4 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 110 lux EV 5.3
Englishman in Groningen
Found him close to Groningen Station.
50 mm • f/6.8 • 1/2000 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 16000 lux EV 12.5
Broken
Ould sound carriers can break. I wonder if future generations still understand this when they dig it up.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/125 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1300 lux EV 8.9
Beursplein
Beursplein as seen from the roof of the Bijenkorf in Amsterdam. Frozen activity.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Shit
Sometimes you should simply not give a shit. Your time will come!
105 mm • f/5 • 1/2 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 27 lux EV 3.3
Unique
Never again will exactly such a slice of cheese fall from my knife.
97 mm • f/16 • 1/100 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Winelens
A glass of wine, when finished halfway, can give a reasonable image of a chandelier with burning candles in the Waag.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/30 sec. • 3200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 20 lux EV 2.9
Infoversum
Extraordinary building in Groningen with excellent projection facilities for science and entertainment.
50 mm • f/2.4 • 1/45 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 140 lux EV 5.7
Dolly Bellefleur
Sometimes a man changes her outfit, simply to make a statement for people in the street.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/45 sec. • 3200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 30 lux EV 3.5
Research
Marc prsents his research in a lecture for his Masters Artificial Intelligence
21 mm • f/5.6 • 1/25 sec. • 250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 860 lux EV 8.3
Amsterdam
In the winter light, Amsterdam looks like it is made out of chocolate. Wat a lovely city!
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/1500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 47000 lux EV 14.1
Feeding Ducks
It is a serious enterprise to feed ducks in the evening in Mokum (Amsterdam)
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/45 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 22 lux EV 3
January 2015
Cold Night
It was a cold night in the Vondelpark under the light of the crescent moon.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/25 sec. • 3200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4.2 lux EV 0.6
The Past
There are passages in my head to the past. Sometimes a door opens. The disappearing sound of high heels on the granito floor of the corridor.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/45 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 15 lux EV 2.5
Growth
Growth depends a lot on how it starts and what happens underway in terms of interactions.
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/15 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 290 lux EV 6.8
Variational Principle
Raindrops descending on a curved roof beautifully show the variational principle of least action in mechanics.
50 mm • f/2.4 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2000 lux EV 9.5
Craftsmanship
Beautiful craftsmanship: supporting shoes of different materials.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/125 sec. • 3200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 21 lux EV 2.9
Quakes
One is worried about the consequences of the earth quakes in the province of Groningen.
50 mm • f/6.8 • 1/60 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1900 lux EV 9.4
Timeless
The city looks timeless with a blanket of snow.
21 mm • f/8 • 1/30 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2600 lux EV 9.9
Soft
Sometimes nature makes my chair a bit softer.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/45 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 600 lux EV 7.8
Winter
The mist has settled on the landscape: it will be a beatiful day.
50 mm • f/6.8 • 1/350 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Scholar
A scholar at home. He can not stop and does not want to stop.
135 mm • f/3.4 • 1/45 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 710 lux EV 8
Mirror Image
Subdued self portrait
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/4000 sec. • 3200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 670 lux EV 7.9
Masks
Frozen emotions.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/180 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1900 lux EV 9.5
Drowning Bicycles
In the middle of the night drowning bicycles had succes to climb ashore.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/45 sec. • 3200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7.5 lux EV 1.5
Painter on Sunday
This painter is still working on Sunday evening, since true passion is not bound by normal working hours.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/60 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 50 lux EV 4.2
Blind Camera
An old camera with a lens board for which there is no lens yet.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/8 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 28 lux EV 3.4
The Ting Tings
The Ting Tings op het Eurosonic Festival in Groningen
135 mm • f/1 • 1/180 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 39 lux EV 3.8
Old Skool
These boys played on the Vismarkt this evening. They sounded and looked very old skool.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/45 sec. • 2000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 12 lux EV 2.1
Cycling in the Rain
Cycling in the rain. Standard habit in the Netherlands.
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/45 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 440 lux EV 7.3
Having Tea
Having tea in the street at a busstop on a winter night
135 mm • f/3.5 • 1/125 sec. • 1000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 420 lux EV 7.3
A World
A world of possibilities, from Adèle to Zappa and from Schumann to Takemitsu
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/60 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2600 lux EV 9.9
Dance of Death
The dance of death of a Hortensia in the middle of winter.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/90 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2000 lux EV 9.5
Concentration
A smartphone with the processing power of a supercomputer from the first half of the nineties is now effectively operated by a 5 year old.
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/45 sec. • 3200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11 lux EV 2
Wrist Joint
Sometimes a tree may look remarkably like a wrist joint, but less mobile.
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/1000 sec. • 2500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 320 lux EV 6.9
The Netherlands
The Netherlands as visible from a spaceship, presented by André Kuipers.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/125 sec. • 2000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 130 lux EV 5.6
Talking Shop
Marc talks to a photographer who uses drones.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/30 sec. • 3200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 80 lux EV 4.9
Low Sun
The low standing sun in bright weather gives an enormous power to trees.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/125 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Double
A double rainbow is inverted in colour sequence. That light part inside the primary bow promises more.
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/1500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 47000 lux EV 14.1
Bert
Bert passing a bridge.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/1500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 33000 lux EV 13.6
Reading Spot
This is a nice spot for reading in town.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/60 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 50 lux EV 4.2
Bye bye!
Bye bye, christmass season!
135 mm • f/3.5 • 1/25 sec. • 3200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 26 lux EV 3.3
2015
A new year with space, opportunities and sparkling saturnalia.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/45 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 30 lux EV 3.5
December 2014
Sending Wishes
Wishes are being blown to life and released to heaven,
50 mm • f/2.4 • 1/45 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 88 lux EV 5
Winter Weather
Cold and undetermined. The feeling of a voyage.
50 mm • f/11 • 1/1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 165000 lux EV 15.9
Three Legs
Walking on 3 legs can be learnt by a cat, because the shape and control of the back adapts itself.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/45 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 19 lux EV 2.8
Hoge der A
No wind and misty on the Hoge der A.
50 mm • f/9.5 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 62000 lux EV 14.5
Time Traveller
A time traveller suddenly appeared in the Oosterstraat in Groningen close to 16:00 this afternoon
50 mm • f/6.8 • 1/60 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1200 lux EV 8.8
De Batterij
"De Batterij" in Zoutkamp (a formerly fortified town) under a hailstorm.
50 mm • f/11 • 1/180 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 30000 lux EV 13.4
Bonding
A double bonding makes the combination stronger. But if one goes down, the other will go down too.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/45 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1600 lux EV 9.2
Worship
A bit over the top to worship De Bijenkorf.
50 mm • f/6.8 • 1/90 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1800 lux EV 9.3
Subject
The subject of the picture is not totally clear.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/45 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 600 lux EV 7.8
Wedding Cake
The Korenbeurs looks like a wedding cake.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/45 sec. • 3200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 61 lux EV 4.5
Lion
Suddenly I see a lion in my room with a lamp in its mouth to illuminate my path on the shortest day of the year.
50 mm • f/3.4 • 1/45 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 440 lux EV 7.3
Turbulence
There is turbulence in the air, just before christmas
50 mm • f/3.4 • 1/45 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 180 lux EV 6
Herring with Onion
The Netherlands fortunately has a colourful integration.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/750 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5100 lux EV 10.9
Electronics
I just love electronics, in which the product is its own scheme.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/45 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 60 lux EV 4.5
Taste
The tast of women for clothing can vary enormously. What matters is the underlying message.
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/2000 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2500 lux EV 9.8
Christmas
To dress for christmas sometimes offers remarkable combinations.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/60 sec. • 2000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 130 lux EV 5.6
Separation
How a separation comes into existence has several causes, and it has a definite form.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/25 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 680 lux EV 8
Amsterdam
Always nice to be in Amsterdam again.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/125 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 850 lux EV 8.3
Duo Selfi
Very funny how tourist make selfies with smartphones now with famous buildings in the background.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/250 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 840 lux EV 8.3
Radiating Party
A radiating party on the Grote Markt.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/15 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 50 lux EV 4.2
Bad Weather
Bad weather rolls over the Euroborg. Is it coming or going?
4.1 mm • f/2.4 • 1/357 sec. • 50 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Windsection
Nice to play together like one large instrument.
75 mm • f/2 • 1/6 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 41 lux EV 3.9
Company
This was the company of my son when he was small when he went to sleep. I still remember how he grabbed it from me when I brought it.
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/90 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 110 lux EV 5.3
Kettle
Let's put the kettle on the fire in this dark time.
50 mm • f/3.4 • 1/45 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 220 lux EV 6.3
Noordpolderzijl
The magical north of the province of Groningen.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/2000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 175000 lux EV 16
Rorschach
A Rorschach test in the night sky with a strip of reality pasted over it.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/45 sec. • 2000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 12 lux EV 2.1
Caramel Cookies
Selling warm caramel cookies close to freezing point remains a cold enterprise.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2700 lux EV 9.9
Herestraat
In the Herestraat there are always people. Topic and conversation and goal unknown.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/60 sec. • 250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 130 lux EV 5.6
Twin Pressure Gauge Calibration
Calibrating two pressure gauges at the same time with two weights hanging from a piston with known surface area and mass.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/60 sec. • 250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 130 lux EV 5.6
Up to Christmas
The city council of Groningen has rolled out the path towards christmas.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/60 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 160 lux EV 5.9
From Inside Out
Just like a real christmas tree, this one is built from the inside out.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/45 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 610 lux EV 7.8
November 2014
To Blush
Bbesides other causes, you can also blush after having cycled for an hour.
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/45 sec. • 2500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 14 lux EV 2.4
Green Code
Green code in a machine: that's where it can go through.
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/30 sec. • 3200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7.4 lux EV 1.4
Future
Are these the professors of the future?
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/45 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 38 lux EV 3.8
Chair
A chair that waits for a member of the audience. It is starting...
50 mm • f/2.4 • 1/45 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 140 lux EV 5.7
Pattern
A small house shows the old technique of a load bearing pattern.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/60 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 50 lux EV 4.2
Control
Some mechanisms can be controlled very will with two wheels. It's all about the coupling.
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/30 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1200 lux EV 8.8
S-Shape
An S-Shape in the city. Chilly and sweet at the same time.
105 mm • f/7.1 • 1 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 34 lux EV 3.7
Urban Symbols
Urban symbols, only to be understood by insiders.
45 mm • f/7.1 • 1/1.6667 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 230 lux EV 6.4
Gathering
There was a gathering on the dyke of a number of blockheads.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/2000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 175000 lux EV 16
Cameraman
Cameraman does his job, and in the mean time is also projected.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/45 sec. • 3200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 120 lux EV 5.5
Distortion
Are you formed or distorted at the university?
102 mm • f/7.1 • 1/1.6667 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 230 lux EV 6.4
I don't need your...
Yeah! I don't need your....
45 mm • f/4 • 1/13 sec. • 3200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 18 lux EV 2.7
Cracks
Cracks are invading the dream behind the bedroom window.
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/45 sec. • 3200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11 lux EV 2
Forces
Sometimes forces are visible.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/125 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3400 lux EV 10.3
Clean
Something that always is cleaned without extra effort: the drum of the washing machine.
8 mm • f/8 • 30 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 0.7 lux EV -1.9
Slice Mustache
A woman with a slice mustache in the procession of Sint Nicolaas. Possibly that may also give protest among certain minority groups next year.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/350 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 960 lux EV 8.5
Not Free
The record shop is not fee anymore. Perhaps that sollicitor has something to do with it.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/25 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2200 lux EV 9.6
Infoversum
Today the official opening of the InforVersum in Groningen. What a beautiful 3D full dome theatre for art, science and province!
21 mm • f/8 • 1/45 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3900 lux EV 10.5
Jump
Wind and water
50 mm • f/9.5 • 1/90 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5500 lux EV 11
Big Brother
I think they finally are on to me and they keep a close watch with the latest technology.
50 mm • f/9.5 • 1/125 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 19000 lux EV 12.8
Peace
Moonlight often induces a peaceful mood. But it can also make people lunatic.
50 mm • f/4 • 1.5 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7.3 lux EV 1.4
Standing still
Bridges are there to stop and look around.
90 mm • f/5 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Giant Bird
A flock of lapwings forms the shape of a giant bird in the sky.
90 mm • f/9.5 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 62000 lux EV 14.5
Solar Wind
Surfing in the solar wind.
50 mm • f/9.5 • 1/45 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5500 lux EV 11
Full Moon
The full moon torne into threads by the Friescheveen.
50 mm • f/4 • 6 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 1.8 lux EV -0.6
After the defence
After the defence of her thesis, it is time to look back.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/90 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 240 lux EV 6.5
Sassenhein
Sassenhein by night. No disturbances, waiting.
50 mm • f/3.5 • 20 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 0.4 lux EV -2.7
Conversation
A short conversation in nightly Groningen.
50 mm • f/2.4 • 1/25 sec. • 3200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 12 lux EV 2.2
Darkness
Darkness in a landscape with only the moon as a guide.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/15 sec. • 3200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 20 lux EV 2.9
Wildlife Photography
A warm autumn day had passed and so this gave the opportunity to photograph a patient frog.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/60 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2600 lux EV 9.9
October 2014
Halloween
She showed her wounds, after which she took place in the Zombie Walk through town to the big Halloween Party in Simplon.
50 mm • f/2.4 • 1/60 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 120 lux EV 5.4
Shadow
A shadow as seen from a light source has the same angular extension as that of the object that casts the shadow, but not the same absolute size.
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/90 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 44 lux EV 4
False Light
Some false light is shed on boats.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/90 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 30 lux EV 3.5
The Shining
The city is reflected without any purpose or meaning.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/15 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 41 lux EV 3.9
Andromeda Nebula
The Andromeda Nebula photographed at a distance of 10 km from the city of Groningen.
50 mm • f/4 • 8 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 0.3 lux EV -3
Mechanism
The mechanism of a barrier.
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/45 sec. • 2000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 18 lux EV 2.7
Light Pollution
Light pollution by the city of Groningen as seen from Kropswolde.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/8 sec. • 3200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11 lux EV 2
Autumn Light
The light is low and warm. The air is cooler.
35 mm • f/2.8 • 1/3000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 32000 lux EV 13.5
Old paintings
Amsterdam sometimes has the colours of old paintings
50 mm • f/6.8 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 32000 lux EV 13.5
Rotterdam CS
When leaving Rotterdam Central Station.
4.1 mm • f/2.4 • 1/4184 sec. • 50 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 132000 lux EV 15.6
Ready for the Storm
Waiting in the night for the approachiing storm.
35 mm • f/4 • 8 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 1.4 lux EV -1
Game of Shadows
The old theatre in the Sterrenbos is very well suited for a game of shadows.
35 mm • f/4 • 8 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 0.3 lux EV -3
Landscape
Where the desert embraces the forest. In a rhododendron leaf in spring. From left to right 20 km. No, I mean 20 mm.
50 mm • f/11 • 1/4 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 660 lux EV 7.9
Eyes
Everybody is looking at me. But I can't see their faces. Only the shadows of their eyes.
135 mm • f/9.5 • 1/125 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7700 lux EV 11.5
Preference
Ronald Hünneman explains the similarity between the preference of finches for white feathers and that of some men for large breasts.
21 mm • f/3.4 • 1/25 sec. • 250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 320 lux EV 6.9
Space Ship
Fancy fairs start to look like spaceships nowadays.
135 mm • f/5.6 • 1/4000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 171000 lux EV 15.9
Whisky
It's a matter of debate whether whisky makes you focused or if it lets you perceive the world in a blur. The point is that self reflection is also a form of perception.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/60 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5200 lux EV 10.9
Old Friends
Sometimes friendships go a long way.
135 mm • f/9.5 • 1/180 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5500 lux EV 11
Flowers of the Field
An unused section of land, from which the flowers of the field explode.
35 mm • f/1.4 • 1/4000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 11.9
Escaped
Wieger and Hidde escaped that morning and ran together the 4 Miles of Groningen, glad to be out in the fresh air.
135 mm • f/11 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 41000 lux EV 13.9
Reflections
A day in a fancy fair invites obviously further reflections.
85 mm • f/1.2 • 1/400 sec. • 2500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 63 lux EV 4.5
Pasodoble
A pasodoble in the autumn night.
35 mm • f/2 • 1/30 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 100 lux EV 5.2
Fog
When the sun breaks through the fog, it gets nice.
35 mm • f/2 • 1/4000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Face
The face of technology is changing: what does it express?
35 mm • f/3.4 • 1/30 sec. • 2000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 47 lux EV 4.1
Raincap
A forgotten raincap is blown upward at the entrance.
35 mm • f/4.8 • 1/45 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 440 lux EV 7.3
Watch Tower
A watch tower from the time of the cold war. Standing on top one could spot whether the Russians were coming.
35 mm • f/6.8 • 1/250 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3900 lux EV 10.5
Emergency Exit
Let's hope that when one needs to get out, one is strong enough.
35 mm • f/3.4 • 1/30 sec. • 1000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 95 lux EV 5.1
In the Air
On land and in water finds this bird a place. But in the air its design really takes off.
135 mm • f/13 • 1/125 sec. • 250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 23000 lux EV 13
Culture
Professor Barend van Heusden explains how culture works.
35 mm • f/4.8 • 1/30 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 590 lux EV 7.8
The Sea
D Porceleyne Blompot, a protected building in Amsterdam, bears symbols of the nearby sea.
135 mm • f/8 • 1/125 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4400 lux EV 10.6
Prairie of Groningen
A quiet evening in the prairie of Groningen.
135 mm • f/13 • 1/180 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 42000 lux EV 13.9
September 2014
Somethng Else
Sometimes a cow is ready for something else: brambles for instance.
135 mm • f/9.5 • 1/125 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4800 lux EV 10.8
Waiting
Sometimes it takes very long, when waiting for your father.
135 mm • f/8 • 1/125 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4400 lux EV 10.6
Lapwings
Lapwings take off from a plowed field: there is enough for everyone.
135 mm • f/8 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 44000 lux EV 14
Hat
One may have to look when someone else is wearing a similar hat.
35 mm • f/3.4 • 1/500 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2000 lux EV 9.5
Caught in the Act
This mouse gnawed a hole through plasterboard and looked into the pantry.
35 mm • f/2.8 • 1/25 sec. • 800 ISO • iphone sensor • tripod 67 lux EV 4.6
Autumn
Autumn has started. After sunset mist is arising from the land.
35 mm • f/4 • 1/30 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 160 lux EV 5.9
Wid Horses
Wild horses just after sunset. Loverly colors and scents.
35 mm • f/6.8 • 1/30 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 760 lux EV 8.1
Schaaphok
The landscape in the province of Groningen has something that is hard to catch in a single image.
35 mm • f/6.8 • 1/4000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 252000 lux EV 16.5
Wage
The lockkeeper collects his wage, even while the boat is small en the lock is tiny. Now let's just hope they unchain the boat in time.
35 mm • f/9.5 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 31000 lux EV 13.5
Hurting Flowers
The owner of the house was fed up with it that the flowers were destroyed. First she made a paper flower and then a notice.
4.1 mm • f/2.4 • 1/60 sec. • 64 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1500 lux EV 9.1
Duel
In this chair I will sit down and choose my weapon from that case. My alter ego will take the other weapon and we shall combat at the rising sun tomorrow morning.
35 mm • f/2 • 1/30 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 66 lux EV 4.6
Sand
An elephant of cricus Renz was feeling warm, which is why she dug up sand from the lawn, to cover herself.
135 mm • f/11 • 1/125 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 21000 lux EV 12.9
Warm
The children from the village were going to swim, since it was very warm today.
135 mm • f/11 • 1/750 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 124000 lux EV 15.5
Scents
When the sun sets, the wind often dies down. The scents remain in place.
135 mm • f/11 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 41000 lux EV 13.9
Hedgehog
Hedgehog looks over her shoulder and asks: what are you looking at?
35 mm • f/2.8 • 1/30 sec. • 1000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 64 lux EV 4.6
Character
Quiet and filled with characters, close together in the autumn air.
135 mm • f/16 • 1/125 sec. • 1000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 8700 lux EV 11.6
Borkum in the Sun
Rain over Groningen, but Borkum bathed in the sun.
135 mm • f/9.5 • 1/750 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 92000 lux EV 15
Light in the Upper Chamber
There is light in the Upper Chamber of Groningen. The old water tower has been renovated and is in use again after 30 years of making plans.
12 mm • f/8 • 1/25 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2200 lux EV 9.6
Fisherman
A fisherman in his environment.
135 mm • f/9.5 • 1/350 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 43000 lux EV 13.9
Free Free
Sometimes I tend to forget, but it is true: free free.
85 mm • f/1.2 • 1/100 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 31 lux EV 3.5
Pills
Huge pills in the landscape. Haystacks have almost completely disappeared.
50 mm • f/9.5 • 1/2000 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 39000 lux EV 13.8
Supermoon
Tonight it is supermoon. The full moon is at its largest, beause she is closest to the earth in her orbit.
200 mm • f/5 • 1 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 8.5 lux EV 1.6
Vertical
Clouds can grow really fast in vertical direction due to rising air.
50 mm • f/9.5 • 1/3000 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 59000 lux EV 14.4
Nosy
Cows are by nature nosy and careful at the same time.
50 mm • f/9.5 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 31000 lux EV 13.5
Star Gazing
Star gazing and astro photography on Vlieland. In the distance the light of the Brandaris on Terschelling. Above it Andromeda.
35 mm • f/2 • 2 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 0.3 lux EV -3
The Wadden
The wadden sea is exceptional with its sandbars and light.
135 mm • f/3.5 • 1/4000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 67000 lux EV 14.6
Into The Great Wide Open
The name of the festival on Vlieland describes the environment well.
50 mm • f/6.8 • 1/1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 63000 lux EV 14.5
Fallen
She did not fall from her bike, but she is fallen for photography with a macro lens.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/45 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3900 lux EV 10.5
Old Gold
Electronic devices may be important, but to call older ones "old gold" is beyond the limit, I feel.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/125 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5400 lux EV 10.9
Green Algae
A small colony of green algae has settled on my window pane. It is situated right on the border of being a multicellular organism.
50 mm • f/11 • 1/12 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2000 lux EV 9.5
August 2014
Grip
A bee uses the grip inside the flower of an Impatiens glandulifera, originally from the Himalayas, and has become quite common here.
105 mm • f/9 • 1/800 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Unicorn
The mythical animal finally revealed itself to us!
200 mm • f/4 • 1/400 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 8700 lux EV 11.6
ZOOO
It becomes completely dark again in Groningen.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/6 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 16 lux EV 2.6
Elske
Elske deWall is being accompanied on cello by Dana de Vries on the Bommen Berend concerto on the Ossenmarkt.
135 mm • f/5.6 • 1/180 sec. • 3200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 480 lux EV 7.5
Cashier
She was cashier in the shape of a medallion
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/60 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 160 lux EV 5.9
Shards
Behind the tidy façade, the shards are still in one piece.
50 mm • f/6.8 • 1/1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 63000 lux EV 14.5
Alone
Throwing balls at cans is not very attractive anymore.
21 mm • f/2.8 • 1/125 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 330 lux EV 6.9
2 Miles
A long distance swimmer (André Bus) starts with the 2 Miles of Groningen.
500 mm • f/11 • 1/3000 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 124000 lux EV 15.5
Mambo
The Dutch Northern Orchestra played the Mambo outside, in which the musicians shouted "mambo!". Sometimes it is nice to hear their voices once in a while.
135 mm • f/3.5 • 1/125 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 260 lux EV 6.6
Circles
When it rains, drops fall down from a bridge. The circles are different and intersect each other. Ths sound is like that of a Japanese muscial instrument with an endlessly variable melody.
4.1 mm • f/2.4 • 1/120 sec. • 50 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3800 lux EV 10.4
Fancy Fair
Only a small crowd present, but the machines are turning.
21 mm • f/4 • 2 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11 lux EV 2
Parking
Temporary grouping of vehicles.
75 mm • f/11 • 1/60 sec. • 250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7900 lux EV 11.5
Movement
Always interesting, movements partly predictable, but not in detail.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/90 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3900 lux EV 10.5
Angry
The angryness has set itself from the moment he was caught.
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/90 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2800 lux EV 10
Peel
Despite the randomness of the fallig movement, a pattern and shape emerges.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/1500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 64000 lux EV 14.5
Thunder Storm
A thunderstorm was approaching fast. In your system you can feel something primtive awaken. But you have to look over your shoulder.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 44000 lux EV 14
Own World
Each and every one of us lives in his or her own world.
50 mm • f/6.8 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 32000 lux EV 13.5
Introductory Week
The introductory week of the University of Groningen is on its way. Here the students that simply love to sail.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/750 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 32000 lux EV 13.5
Open Doors
Sometimes pressing a single button is sufficient to open doors, but you have to do it to make it happen.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/125 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5400 lux EV 10.9
Golden Arrow
The Golden Arrow was organized in Emmen. The light sound of racing bicycles in the evening. (The racer leading is Ramon Sinkeldam)
75 mm • f/6.8 • 1/30 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 950 lux EV 8.4
Repair Job
One of the most difficult repair jobs on a Dutch bicycle is closing the cloth chain guard with a wire. These ladies succeeded together.
50 mm • f/6.8 • 1/1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 63000 lux EV 14.5
Xerxes
Leonadus must have passed by.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/350 sec. • 250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 24000 lux EV 13.1
Kiting
Kiting on the Hook of Holland, where ships as large as castles glide along.
80 mm • f/5.6 • 1/2000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 86000 lux EV 14.9
Happy
Being happy. It's that simple.
35 mm • f/5.6 • 1/180 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7700 lux EV 11.5
Control
These guys had a major problem in control on their hands. After some swearing and searching, they did succeed.
35 mm • f/6.8 • 1/125 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7900 lux EV 11.5
Heather
Lying in the heather you think you are in paradise. Perhaps that's where the road got it's name from.
35 mm • f/9.5 • 1/750 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 92000 lux EV 15
Bauke Mollema
In the pro tour of Surhuisterveen, Bauke Mollema could escape the grip of the peloton. The script allowed this temporarily.
80 mm • f/8 • 1/500 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5500 lux EV 11
Explosive Dreams
Sometimes my dreams are so explosive that the window of my bedroom gets blown out.
35 mm • f/5.6 • 1/1500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 64000 lux EV 14.5
Rolling
Lovely to do some rolling.
35 mm • f/2.8 • 1/4000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 43000 lux EV 13.9
Silence
There is silence in the train. No comment on life from the chair opposite from me. So I read "I just go and stay" by J.C. van Schagen
35 mm • f/5.6 • 1/45 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1900 lux EV 9.5
Moving Tattoos
When you clean your window from the inside of your shop, you get moving tattoos.
35 mm • f/5.6 • 1/350 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 15000 lux EV 12.4
July 2014
Summer Evening
It is very quiet everywhere. The summer evening stands tall in the sky.
80 mm • f/4.8 • 1/4000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 126000 lux EV 15.5
Lightning
Lightning emerges from drying paint. An image of the heavens on the square inch.
90 mm • f/4 • 1/2000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 44000 lux EV 14
Picture Postcard
Sometimes it is just nice to create a picture postcard.
35 mm • f/8 • 1/2000 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 44000 lux EV 14
Reflection
The early morning asks for relfection.
80 mm • f/8 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Nature
Many things people make are taken back by nature.
35 mm • f/5.6 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 21000 lux EV 12.9
Stage
All the world's a stage. Only sometimes it is a bit more clear.
35 mm • f/8 • 1/90 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7900 lux EV 11.5
Tubing
With round tubes you can build things that are strong and light.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/45 sec. • 250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 96 lux EV 5.1
Earthquake Land
A land with earthquakes, caused by drillings by the NAM.
80 mm • f/9.5 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 62000 lux EV 14.5
Dyke
Dykes are huge in the Netherlands and sometimes create a funny perspective.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/750 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 66000 lux EV 14.6
Virtual Cycling Partner
Having a coffee while talking to my virtual cycling partner about the meaning of cycling.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 11.9
Dirty Hands
Most likely the chain of an old student bicycle was derailed due to bad maintainance. These prints are all that is left of mishap in town.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/60 sec. • 250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2100 lux EV 9.6
Berch
This berch has something special, but I can't quite put my fnger on it right now.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 21000 lux EV 12.9
Cylinder
A huge cylinder to make holes with in a field.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/3000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 8000 lux EV 11.5
De Reggeberg
Next to the river De Regge is situated "De Reggeberg". A visit on my own gives enough material for contemplation on my way home.
50 mm • f/6.8 • 1/60 sec. • 1000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 760 lux EV 8.1
BER
Something is missing. Perhaps I have to make some tea first.
50 mm • f/6.8 • 1/750 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 47000 lux EV 14.1
Quiet
Some people really like to live quietly.
50 mm • f/6.8 • 1/750 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 47000 lux EV 14.1
Heart exposed
The heart of this boy lies bare and open. Favourable or not?
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/2000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5400 lux EV 10.9
Tim Moore
The writer Tim Moore dressed up as a race cyclist from the fifties.
80 mm • f/2.8 • 1/90 sec. • 2000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 96 lux EV 5.1
Windmills at Sea
Windmills at sea catch lots of wind and you can see just how shallow the Northsea is there.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 43000 lux EV 13.9
Leaving the House
Sometimes it can be hasardous to leave your house.
4.1 mm • f/2.4 • 1/160 sec. • 50 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5000 lux EV 10.8
RAI
A new building of the RAI that I had not seen before.
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/90 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2800 lux EV 10
Thunder Cloud
A thunder cloud was rising fast ofter sunset over the city.
50 mm • f/6.8 • 1/45 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1800 lux EV 9.3
Fake Smile
Often people smile because the situation requires it, but it is a fake smile. You can see that. I prefer that in that case one does not smile.
21 mm • f/5.6 • 1/4000 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 43000 lux EV 13.9
Direction
Both windmills and trees react to the direction of the wind. Trees become optimally stronger as a reaction to the forces. Mills turn in the direction of the wind.
21 mm • f/2.8 • 1/2000 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5400 lux EV 10.9
Fake Landscape
A rural landscape in the middle of the city.
21 mm • f/5.6 • 1/125 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1300 lux EV 8.9
EEG
In an alert functioning human being, you can obtain the most striking signals from the surface of the skull.
21 mm • f/2.8 • 1/750 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2000 lux EV 9.5
Soccer in Motion
Measuring Soccer in the open field.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 43000 lux EV 13.9
Tour de France
The Tour de France starts in Leeds this year and so the sculptures have been dressed up
80 mm • f/8 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 44000 lux EV 14
The Rising Sun
Sometimes the rising sun is obscured a bit.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/350 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 15000 lux EV 12.4
Electric Press
In the middle of Leeds we find the university building, just next to the Electric Press
80 mm • f/4.8 • 1/4000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 126000 lux EV 15.5
Footsteps
Carried by an airbridge.
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/45 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1400 lux EV 9
June 2014
The Coastline
The dutch coast line with Egmond aan Zee in the middle of the image.
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/2000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 63000 lux EV 14.5
Approaching Rain
An approaching rain shower over Groningen
4.1 mm • f/2.4 • 1/1391 sec. • 50 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 44000 lux EV 14
Two Gears
Two gears in a coaster break hub with carbon belt. Silent, smooth and little maintainance.
50 mm • f/6.8 • 1/45 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1800 lux EV 9.3
Not Fair!
Recently born, your umbilical cord is still there, and you get a chain around your neck and too large ear rings. It's not fair!
80 mm • f/6.8 • 1/180 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Distorted Matrix
An office building becomes a lot more exciting by movement.
50 mm • f/6.8 • 1/125 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7900 lux EV 11.5
Prairie
Photographing the light on the Dutch prairie in the tradition of Ansel Adams: on top of an old car.
50 mm • f/9.5 • 1/500 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7700 lux EV 11.5
Leekstermeer
The Leekstermeer at the start of darkness radiates peace.
50 mm • f/6.8 • 1/90 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5700 lux EV 11
Splash
Yogurt that fell on the street gives an interesting splash pattern.
12 mm • f/8 • 1/30 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 660 lux EV 7.9
Dance
Raising a child sometimes looks like a little dance.
80 mm • f/8 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 44000 lux EV 14
Japanese
One glance outside and through the distorting glass it seems a snow covered landscape with temples in Japan.
50 mm • f/6.8 • 1/60 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1900 lux EV 9.4
Old Panes
Old glass deforms an image and becomes a complex lens element.
135 mm • f/8 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Grain
Fast growing food with a bluish glow.
135 mm • f/5.6 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 11.9
Architecture
Architecture depends a lot on incident light.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/350 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 15000 lux EV 12.4
Overlock Machine
An overlock machine that kan stitch and cut material at the same time, has spools that are threaded conically, for easily unwinding of the thread
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/45 sec. • 2000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 190 lux EV 6.1
Vortices
Vortices as byproducts of the progression. You can't avoid them.
80 mm • f/6.8 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 32000 lux EV 13.5
To Fly
To fly at different altitude. The helicopter is on its way to the hosptial.
80 mm • f/6.8 • 1/500 sec. • 250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 25000 lux EV 13.2
Maskerade
On the last day of the festivities on the 400th birthday of the University of Groningen, there was a Maskerade.
50 mm • f/6.8 • 1/2000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 126000 lux EV 15.5
Summer Sky
Just love summer skies. Powerful and sensual.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/1500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 131000 lux EV 15.6
Raising the Flag
The flag is raised in an orange dress, but it is not officially a festive day. Possibly this has to do with the world championship soccer.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 87000 lux EV 15
TremorScope
The device that I developed for NeuroSurgery (see 29th of July 2013) is being tested by a group of 4 students from Technical Medicine.
50 mm • f/2.4 • 1/90 sec. • 250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 570 lux EV 7.7
Late Light
Late sunlight makes everything more exciting.
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/750 sec. • 250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 19000 lux EV 12.8
Virtual
Virtual birdshit on the head of a virtual human. Who cares? He doesn't!
50 mm • f/8 • 1/1500 sec. • 250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 105000 lux EV 15.2
ZK 47
A fishing boat in its home harbour Zoutkamp on "vlaggetjesdag"
35 mm • f/11 • 1/45 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7400 lux EV 11.4
Tripcompagniester Diep
A pieceful canal in the East of Groningen is preparing for a very hot day.
35 mm • f/9.5 • 1/90 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Bright Light
A bright light reflected in the endless rails.
80 mm • f/13 • 1/125 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 29000 lux EV 13.4
Rays
The sun has iron rays.
80 mm • f/11 • 1/4000 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 206000 lux EV 16.2
Sun behind the City
That's the city I live in and the sun is setting behind it.
80 mm • f/8 • 1/125 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 6800 lux EV 11.3
Shirt
A nice shirt looks like a landscape for the man who wears it and looks down.
4.1 mm • f/2.4 • 1/20 sec. • 250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 130 lux EV 5.5
Face to Face
Face to face with a wild horse. The horizontal pupil allows looking forward and backward when moving in a flat landscape.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/750 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 32000 lux EV 13.5
Photogram
A photogram (exposed sheet of light sensitive paper on which objects are placed) also has a gradient of sharpness, indicating the third dimensions, as along as you use a small light source.
50 mm • f/2.4 • 1/750 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5900 lux EV 11.1
May 2014
Alertness
One mass of alertness looks at me. We both remain motionless.
80 mm • f/8 • 1/350 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 31000 lux EV 13.5
Seeding Pattern
Seeding patterns on a lightly warped landscape. Mathematical family of curves.
80 mm • f/6.8 • 1/1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 63000 lux EV 14.5
Presence
Some speakers are only a shadows of themselves and lack true presence. Hard wo say what it is, but the whole audience senses it.
35 mm • f/4.8 • 1/30 sec. • 2500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 75 lux EV 4.8
Polaroids
Like polaroids, the way the mirrors catch the moment of he and she passing by.
35 mm • f/2 • 1/30 sec. • 250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 130 lux EV 5.6
Arcs
The arcs of the station in the evening. Rest and tension at the same time.
35 mm • f/2.8 • 1/25 sec. • 3200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 17 lux EV 2.6
We Never Stop
Funny how such a slogan is falsified by a lock.
35 mm • f/5.6 • 1/250 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2700 lux EV 9.9
Failure
Failure of my bicycle basebar today. Fortunately it happened during mounting a small bridge without switching gears and not during a sprint. At first I thought the bridge gave way under me.
35 mm • f/5.6 • 1/60 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 800 lux EV 8.2
City of Talent
The Night of Art and Science brought 200 acts of which I had the privilege to create three.
35 mm • f/2.4 • 1/30 sec. • 2500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 19 lux EV 2.8
Happy University
The university is happy with his birthday and looks quite alive after 400 years.
75 mm • f/2.8 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2700 lux EV 9.9
Discussion
At the try-outs of the performance at the Night of Art and Science, there is a discussion about the increasing rain between choreographer and dancer.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/60 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 50 lux EV 4.2
Story
Sometimes there is a story behind what you encounter in the street. Sometimes that story is not clear.
35 mm • f/5.6 • 1/30 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 640 lux EV 7.9
3D Sky
After a warm day the atmosphere becomes unstable and upward drafts punch holes in the cloudlayer.
21 mm • f/4 • 1/15 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 330 lux EV 6.9
Markings
Sometimes the origins of markings are not easy to trace.
35 mm • f/8 • 1/180 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 44000 lux EV 14
Shot
A shot with a rifle from the eighty year war.
135 mm • f/8 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 44000 lux EV 14
Bumblebees
Bumlbebees have occupied the birdhouse. And so although they also have two wings, the young are quite a bit smaller this year.
2.5 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1600 sec. • 100 ISO • GoPro sensor • handheld 34000 lux EV 13.6
Scientific Integrity
In the theatre play "For Ever" on the occasion of the 400th birthday of the University of Groningen, one is angry and worried about scientific integrity.
135 mm • f/3.4 • 1/90 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1400 lux EV 9
Mother Sparrow
The nest with young has fledged, but they are still not very handy. And so mother sparrow collects food from where ever she can. Also this net with seeds is of use to her. Since she can not land on it, she chips off seeds in flight and collects them later from the ground to feed her children.
500 mm • f/8 • 1/2000 sec. • 1000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 35000 lux EV 13.6
Urban Moon
Full moon in the city.
135 mm • f/5.6 • 1/350 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3700 lux EV 10.4
Conversation
At this table I would like to sit with you, for hours. And talk with you about everything. And sometimes it would be quiet for a while. We would go in and out of each other's mind, without any effort.
35 mm • f/8 • 1/90 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7900 lux EV 11.5
Larger than Life
Some people are larger than life, like here Kate Winslet, so that it is hard to give them a proper matching kiss, which was what a pedestrian must have discovered here.
35 mm • f/5.6 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 11.9
De Toekomst
Strawboard factory "De Toekomst" (The Future) in late sunlight. Magnificent old industry, built with love.
35 mm • f/5.6 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 11.9
Mouse Town
That evening all was quiet in Mouse Town. Some inhabitants went for a stroll. No one could have known what would happen the day after.
35 mm • f/2.4 • 1/45 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 220 lux EV 6.3
Fancy Fair
Fancy Fair in the rain. Fewer people in the streets.
35 mm • f/6.8 • 1/750 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 47000 lux EV 14.1
The dark field
The scent of a dark field under an approaching downpour
35 mm • f/4.8 • 1 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 31 lux EV 3.5
Wind Power
From rapeseed oil you can make fuel, while with wind you can produçe electricity. Both forms of energy come originally from the sun.
35 mm • f/5.6 • 1/125 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1300 lux EV 8.9
Wind Power
Power from the wind is transformed directly into electricity at the Eemshaven.
500 mm • f/8 • 1 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 87 lux EV 5
City Coot
City coots use anything they can get to build a nest, while the young grow up well with it. Possibly their little brains are programmed differently now, which may be noticeable in the next generation.
135 mm • f/9.5 • 1/60 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7400 lux EV 11.4
On the tandem
This remarkable couple happened to be riding a tandem. Something very strange was going on! It was like the woman was in a dream from which she could not escape.
35 mm • f/4 • 1/1500 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 8200 lux EV 11.6
Upside Down
This large tombstone has identical text on both sides, but on this side the text is chiseled out upside down. It could be that it was made in this way with the thought that you can more easily read the names from the heavens like this.
35 mm • f/8 • 1/45 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2000 lux EV 9.5
Love is Elevated
A long time ago this heart was carved at eye level, but because of growth of the tree it has been elevated.
35 mm • f/2 • 1/750 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4100 lux EV 10.6
Section
The old dyke of the province of Groningen is sectioned by a road. The dyke can still be closed off with wooden elements.
35 mm • f/6.8 • 1/1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 63000 lux EV 14.5
April 2014
Weather Changing
The windmill starts to swerve: the weather is changing.
35 mm • f/9.5 • 1/1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 123000 lux EV 15.5
Nutshell
A oneman orchestra in a nutshell creates a flat piece of water by circling around.
75 mm • f/5.6 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 21000 lux EV 12.9
Unclear Sky
Sometimes it is hard to read the sky. Do I have to turn right for the good weather or not?
35 mm • f/8 • 1/1500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 131000 lux EV 15.6
Myvatn
Here in the Groningen area there is a water that reminds me of Myvatn in Iceland, which means "mosquitowater".
80 mm • f/6.8 • 1/350 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
For Sahale
On the free market in the street on Kingsday, people are more free. Orange is not obligatory. Nice atmosphere with a lot of friendlyness.
75 mm • f/6.8 • 1/125 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7900 lux EV 11.5
In a Bubble
Some kids live in a bubble, but with some effort can get out of it again.
35 mm • f/8 • 1/750 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 66000 lux EV 14.6
Jazz Trompet Player
Jazz Trumpet players are usually not easily interrupted. A wall of sound separates them from the world around them.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/45 sec. • 250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 96 lux EV 5.1
Chairperson
The chairperson at a session of a science conference is strongly depending on the computer screen.
75 mm • f/3.4 • 1/45 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 89 lux EV 5
Homeward
And as ever, I walk home again.
21 mm • f/2.8 • 1/125 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 170 lux EV 5.9
Poppy Bud
A poppy bud looks a bit strange, especially in the drizzle.
105 mm • f/16 • 1/60 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 21000 lux EV 12.9
Walking In
This is not what "Walking In" implies, I think.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2700 lux EV 9.9
Electric House
All over the rural landscape of Groningen and Drenthe you can find these transformer houses. They have often been designed pleasantly and they are all different. The feeling you get is that you would like to enter it.
21 mm • f/5.6 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 11.9
Woody Mistake
This great spotted woodpecker made a mistake: sitting on a chimney he decided to drill it. When he did not succeed in making a hole, he looked straight into it to see if something edible was there.
135 mm • f/5.6 • 1/500 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5400 lux EV 10.9
Lazy Jesus and Happy Mary
After the performance of The Passion in Groningen, a lazy Jesus walks homeward, accompanied by a happy Maria.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/25 sec. • 3200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4.2 lux EV 0.6
Night Train
In the light of the full moon, a night train passes. The masts of the lights of the shunting yard reflect in its window panes.
135 mm • f/4 • 8 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1.7 lux EV -0.7
Volle Maan
The moon was full today. Without any wind, the landscape becomes enchanting.
35 mm • f/4 • 8 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2.7 lux EV 0
Motherheart
Eye contact and some sounds. Sufficient to establish the bond.
35 mm • f/4.8 • 1/1500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 47000 lux EV 14.1
Aekingerzand
The dune area in the Drents-Friese-Wold has its own light.
35 mm • f/11 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 41000 lux EV 13.9
De Wachter
Dutch Scene in Zuidlaren
4.1 mm • f/2.4 • 1/1550 sec. • 50 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 49000 lux EV 14.1
Sphere Projection
The projection of a spatial object on a spherical surface with a source of light that is located by approximation at an infinite distance.
35 mm • f/6.8 • 1/1500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 95000 lux EV 15.1
First Wheel
Marie makes her first wheel.
35 mm • f/2.8 • 1/45 sec. • 2000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 48 lux EV 4.1
Manual Labour
With manual labour it works like this: when you see the tool and you have used it before, your hands already come to life.
105 mm • f/10 • 1/60 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 8200 lux EV 11.6
Lunch Reflection
A lunch in Oberland invites mutual reflection.
75 mm • f/5.6 • 1/90 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3900 lux EV 10.5
Rolling Cloud
The rolling cloud is coming with fierce weather. My windmeter suddenly accelerates.
21 mm • f/2.8 • 1/15 sec. • 3200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 10 lux EV 1.9
The Plan
The plan was to cross the road. He was ready for it: he maintained quite a stride.
21 mm • f/4 • 1/350 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7600 lux EV 11.5
Lis
Lis is showing some waves.
135 mm • f/8 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
3D painting
The painting of Van Gogh of the Place du Forum appears to be a sculpture close by. Lovely how he shaped those stars.
35 mm • f/2.8 • 1/30 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 130 lux EV 5.6
Fusion
Sometimes a fusion is more interesting than an splitting up.
35 mm • f/6.8 • 1/30 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1900 lux EV 9.4
Early Spring
Early spring often brings some blue in the distance.
135 mm • f/16 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 175000 lux EV 16
Happy
Some people are simply happy with each other, even when the image does not fit. 3-2-4-1 will do, it does not have to be 1-2-3-4.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/60 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2600 lux EV 9.9
March 2014
Clean Laundry
The clean laundry hangs outside. Most of the time a white sheet, but sometimes you need a black one, for those special occasions.
35 mm • f/8 • 1/1500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 131000 lux EV 15.6
Calf Muscle
Thijmen Kupers (5th on the World Championships indoor 800 meter) shows what his calf muscle does at push off. A lot of energy is stored in his tendon and tendinous sheet, that largely is released when leaving the ground.
35 mm • f/4 • 1/3000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 66000 lux EV 14.6
Horrible
Cycling past, I saw an old kit bag hanging from a branch. I did not start to dig there, but what had been in it?
35 mm • f/4.8 • 1/2000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 63000 lux EV 14.5
Railbridge
The railbridge over the IJssel also has a bike path. Fantastic to ride it with a free view over the river and Hattem.
35 mm • f/9.5 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 31000 lux EV 13.5
Senat Room
It is still empty in the senat room. In a moment the family of the students who graduate will arrive. The scholars on the wall are watching.
4.1 mm • f/2.4 • 1/20 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 200 lux EV 6.2
End of Market
At the end of a market day, the tarpaulin is folded.
50 mm • f/16 • 1/4000 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 437000 lux EV 17.3
Watch Cat
This house is burglar resistant.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/90 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3900 lux EV 10.5
Kropswolde Station
The train is passing while I photograph the station building of Kropswolde.
35 mm • f/16 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 87000 lux EV 15
Pair of C8
Two C8 telecopes, each with a mirror with a diameter of 200 mm (8 inch) and a different type of mount: a fork mount and a parallactic mount. The are ready to be collimated: the optics will be aligned using a home made artifial start. That is a hole of 0.1 mm diameter in front of a very bright lamp at a distance of 30 m. That hole is small enough to create diffraction figures of the optics that should be perfectly ring shaped. That collimation is done with the three bolts in the right hand telescope.
105 mm • f/5.6 • 1/200 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2100 lux EV 9.6
Johnny and Annita
This couple is happy. They know how it works and where to find the juicy leaves.
135 mm • f/9.5 • 1/125 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 15000 lux EV 12.5
Dykehorse
A dykehorse, peacefully grazing.
35 mm • f/3.4 • 1/4000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 63000 lux EV 14.5
Unique
Rather unique to encounter a couple of which the man carries a parrot on his shoulder. Is this a symbol?
50 mm • f/8 • 1/350 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 31000 lux EV 13.5
Moon set
The moon is setting early in the morning. Illuminated from the left by the sun that will rise in a short while.
500 mm • f/8 • 1/180 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 16000 lux EV 12.5
Large Birds
Large birds draw tracks accross the sky, straightened by GPS. De small bird navigates by the magnetic field of the earth.
50 mm • f/6.8 • 1/750 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 47000 lux EV 14.1
Assistant
This is my assistant when given lectures on neuromechanics. He is not very usefull, but he keeps his mouth shut.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/60 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 260 lux EV 6.6
Fixed or Geared
Every time it is the decision between fixed gear of geared bicycle. But in both cases it is the same seat.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/45 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 980 lux EV 8.5
Little Dragon
Once he flew around the Dom tower, while spitting fire, but now he stands there motionless spitting water.
135 mm • f/3.5 • 1/1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Spring in Utrecht
Spring has started in Utrecht. The sun breaks through the morning mist and the trees have started up.
75 mm • f/11 • 1/750 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 124000 lux EV 15.5
Balancing
An experiment in balance at the workshop NeuroMechanics. Observation and timing form the start for theory.
50 mm • f/2.4 • 1/90 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 710 lux EV 8
Students
Students often work hard, but when the spring sun climbs in power, they enjoy it, sitting on the stairs of the university building.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Duchenne
The book by Duchenne on motion, when it was still mainly physiology.
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/90 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 360 lux EV 7
Waterland
Holland, a country of water, windmills and light
4.1 mm • f/2.4 • 1/6024 sec. • 50 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 189000 lux EV 16.1
Angelique
The series of historical novels "Angelique" was still there in the house of my parents. The summit of erotic literature at the time for me as a boy.
50 mm • f/2.4 • 1/45 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 44 lux EV 4
Pollard
Pollard lime tree, waiting for the spring to come, while the sun already has power.
50 mm • f/6.7 • 1/750 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 57000 lux EV 14.4
9 Bicycles
In a dutch student town you can find a time series from the bicycle industry.
96 mm • f/4 • 1/60 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 330 lux EV 6.9
Harmonie
Sometims the world looks like a stage, waiting for the beginning of the theatre play. Would I be an actor, or one of the spectators?
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/15 sec. • 3200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3.7 lux EV 0.4
Percussionists
Percussionists at the Sportgala. They imitated a steam train, stopping in Heerenveen.
135 mm • f/3.5 • 1/125 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 520 lux EV 7.6
Twee Gebroeders
The ship seems to hover in space in the ink black water in the night.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/30 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 160 lux EV 5.9
Scientists
NIce how scientists can really get enthusiastic, straight after a lecture.
75 mm • f/1.7 • 1/90 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 360 lux EV 7
Galvanized Mill
A galvanized mill in a dutch landscape. The sense of long travel.
4.1 mm • f/2.4 • 1/1178 sec. • 50 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 37000 lux EV 13.7
Monster
Sometimes, on a spring morning, the monster of the Hoornsediep surfaces just for a moment.
135 mm • f/8 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 44000 lux EV 14
February 2014
Vismarkt
Starry night over the Vismarkt. The sword of Orion in the upper right hand corner.
35 mm • f/4 • 8 sec. • 3200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 0.2 lux EV -4
Statues
They stood there as statues, while they could have met the love of their lives.
35 mm • f/2 • 1/8 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 44 lux EV 4
Central Station
Central Station Amsterdam, as seen from the library of the Beurs van Berlage.
35 mm • f/5.6 • 1/4 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 86 lux EV 5
Long Shadows
Long shadows just before dinner: spring is coming.
35 mm • f/16 • 1/90 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 31000 lux EV 13.5
Roderwolde
The steeple of Roderwolde shows some suspect red traces running from the sound hole. Did the carilloneur commit suicide, or are we dealing with a "Crime Passionnel"?
35 mm • f/6.8 • 1/4000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 252000 lux EV 16.5
Protest
Protest agains corrupt firms from the Ukraine that trade in the Netherlands.
135 mm • f/3.5 • 1/750 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 13000 lux EV 12.2
Rabbits and Wolf
This time the rabbits were moving in to the wolf. He had to sing a song before he could go again.
21 mm • f/8 • 1/180 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 16000 lux EV 12.5
Never the same anymore
The bird walked into town, just before sunset. After that, the town would never be the same.
35 mm • f/8 • 1/2000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 175000 lux EV 16
Flames of Wood
History of growth and forces. Formed by wind, light, gravity and life force.
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/45 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 570 lux EV 7.7
Beaconing
Often I find beaconing interesting: shapes, colors and light.
135 mm • f/6.7 • 1/3000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 230000 lux EV 16.4
Early
The lady birds are getting out early. This one has a sense of drama on the steps of the old Anatomical Museum on a small piece of dislodged mortar.
4.1 mm • f/2.4 • 1/380 sec. • 50 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 12000 lux EV 12.1
Bunch of Flowers
Bunch of flowers in the mailbox. Was the loved one not at home? Or was this a returned unwanted sign of affection?
35 mm • f/4 • 1/60 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1600 lux EV 9.2
Veluwe
Here in Hattem at the north border of the Veluwe there is a small gradient. A passage gives the sense of being abroad, but it is only the valley of the IJssel.
21 mm • f/6.8 • 1/180 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Morning
A forest in the morning. It brings on something, an expectation, a story.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/45 sec. • 250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3100 lux EV 10.2
Being Happy
This instruction couple suggest with their smile and way of teaching that you become happy with body pumping, a fitness activity started by a large organisation with matching accessories. It looks a bit religeous and even the praying posture is shown here.
75 mm • f/1.4 • 1/60 sec. • 250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 130 lux EV 5.6
Projection Geometry
The projection of a spatial form from a point onto a plane can be calculated using a matrix of 4 by 4 elements.
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/30 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 15 lux EV 2.4
Bicycles for Women
Bicycles for women have a frame to allow to mount the bicycle while wearing a skirt. This design is very old. It is graceful, but lacks torsional stiffness. This is noticeable in terms of steerability when a heavy bag is hung from the handelbar.
35 mm • f/6.8 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 16000 lux EV 12.5
Top Sports
For some people, going out for a simple errand is equal to topsports. Respect!
35 mm • f/11 • 1/1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 165000 lux EV 15.9
Small Science
In the café of small science Yanesh! was singing, prior to our lectures on speedskating, in the middle of the capital of Friesland.
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/30 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 15 lux EV 2.4
Streak of Light
Don't know why, but sometimes I can be very happy with a streak of light early in the morning. Perhaps it is because I feel spring approaching.
35 mm • f/5.6 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 21000 lux EV 12.9
Merchants
Merchants selling something. But being together is the essence. The rest is just pretence.
35 mm • f/3.4 • 1/125 sec. • 3200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 120 lux EV 5.5
The Ticket
Ostensibly patient she waits for her traffic ticket.
135 mm • f/3.5 • 1/25 sec. • 3200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 26 lux EV 3.3
Acrobatics
Sometimes someone is just happy in front of the school.
35 mm • f/2 • 1/180 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 980 lux EV 8.5
To Think
It makes a big difference for the brain if one is thinking, or that one is part of an entertaining group.
35 mm • f/2.4 • 1/25 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 25 lux EV 3.2
To Write
There, behind that window, it happened.
35 mm • f/4 • 1 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5.5 lux EV 1
Cleaning
St. Joris and the dragon: Cleaning with a lot of water force.
35 mm • f/13 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 115000 lux EV 15.4
Bert
Bert is getting stronger all the time. Muscle force is only secondary.
35 mm • f/2.8 • 1/45 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 480 lux EV 7.5
Forbidden
There are many things forbidden in life. If this goes on we are not allowed to breath or sing in the street!
35 mm • f/2 • 1/1500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 8200 lux EV 11.6
January 2014
Study Advisor
The study advisor in action on the open day of human movement sciences. Such a single conversation can be decisive.
35 mm • f/5.6 • 1/30 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 160 lux EV 5.9
Mr. Mofongo
View from the Van Swinderen Huys onto Mr. Mofongo, a restaurant with extra's.
35 mm • f/4.8 • 1/25 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 790 lux EV 8.2
Old Schedule
An old schedule was shown of the University of Groningen in a lecture on "The Day of Education". It fitted on a single sheet!
21 mm • f/4.8 • 1/45 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1400 lux EV 9
Reflecting
The snow slides from the roof of the tea house. Slowly I start to see the light. This time I only saw it after reflecting twice.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 43000 lux EV 13.9
Still Happy
He is still happy, but for how long? It is thawing!
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/3000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 8000 lux EV 11.5
Not Easy
It is not easy to find food when the ground is snow covered. Also, try to stay warm!
500 mm • f/8 • 1/125 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 2700 lux EV 10
Softness
Suddenly softness came over the land and silence and night.
50 mm • f/2.4 • 1/12 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 12 lux EV 2.1
Calibration
In photography it is not always "what you see is what you get". So sometimes the focus mechanism needs to be calibrated. Here the result of a well calibrated 50 mm lens at aperture 1.4
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/125 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 620 lux EV 7.8
Magnetic Nude
It is possible to walk through the world and remain completely unreceptive of advertisements. How nice.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/90 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3900 lux EV 10.5
Puppet Show
A motionless puppet show in the street.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/60 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2100 lux EV 9.6
Cold and Warm
Warmth obtains its meaning thanks to the cold. Perhaps that is why I love the cold so much.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/60 sec. • 250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 130 lux EV 5.6
Girl with a Pearl Earring
It is said about the painting of Vermeer, that you can see the whole interior of the room reflected in the pearl. Vermeer Even with a strong imagination that is not the case here. Apparently real pearls have an outer layer that dilute the reflected image too much.
135 mm • f/1.7 • 1/180 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 710 lux EV 8
Being
When you think of it, we don't really know in what kind of being we live. We just look outside through two small holes.
135 mm • f/4 • 1/180 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3900 lux EV 10.5
Expression
People are looking for expression in society, if necessary on an abandoned lot. And when it has rained during the night, it gets even better.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/750 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 32000 lux EV 13.5
Art Nouveau
Beautiful, art nouveau windows! Hard to explain why, but it's always nice to see them.
75 mm • f/1.7 • 1/60 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 240 lux EV 6.4
Fractals
An oil drop has spread over the asphalt surface and looks like a Mandelbrot set. The colors are not part of the oil, but are formed by interference of light between the upper and lower surface of the oil layer. The wavelength (that matches a certain color) that fits between that layer or fits multiple times is amplified. The thickness varies. And in this way red is seen twice and also blue. The grey color in the periphery occurs when the layer is too thin to contain a wavelength.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/125 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1300 lux EV 8.9
Faults
His ears must be trained into excellence, but would he see that piece of wood in his eye? (Part of a dutch expression in which it is indicated that you don't see your own faults: you see the splinter in someone elses eye, but you don't see the wooden beam in you own eye)
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 11.9
Infoversum
The new infoversum under construction. A 3D full-dome theater for cultural and scientific purposes. The palette used by the artist is fitting quite well, but the rest....
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/750 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 32000 lux EV 13.5
Skyline Groningen
The skyline of Groningen has clearly changed since I came to live here. Many tall buildings have been erected and the Martinitoren is no longer the only visual beacon for the cyclist.
135 mm • f/6.8 • 1/750 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 47000 lux EV 14.1
Attention
Perhaps not totally accidental that the women that do not hold the oars have attention for the photographer. Perception and action are tightly coupled in the human brain.
135 mm • f/9.5 • 1/180 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
With the Dog
Always nice to go the the market place with the dog. He always knows what he wants.
50 mm • f/6.8 • 1/350 sec. • 3200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1400 lux EV 9
Hooks and Eyes
Real women stuff: hooks and eyes to fasten clothes, like a corset. Is for the queen and mothers and daughters, if I'm correct!
20 mm • f/2.8 • 1/180 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 480 lux EV 7.5
Mailman
The mailman is still needed, despite the heavy digital mail traffic.
75 mm • f/2.8 • 1/180 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 480 lux EV 7.5
Story
The story that you carry with you grows longer when you get older.
35 mm • f/2.4 • 1/25 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 61 lux EV 4.5
Apple
This morning I received an apple that was so beautiful, that I did not dare to bite in it.
90 mm • f/4.8 • 1/2 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 63 lux EV 4.5
New Mexico in Groningen
That's where I know this light from: New Mexico! The setting sun after some heavy weather. Gorgeous, but now in Groningen.
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/180 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5700 lux EV 11
Swans
When you look at them for a while, it seems as though they do what they have to do separately, but in fact they keep an eye on each other to see if they are fine.
135 mm • f/9.5 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 62000 lux EV 14.5
Morning Walk
A morning walk through Drenthe in good company
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/25 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 8.4 lux EV 1.6
New Moon
A new year and a new moon over the city.
500 mm • f/11 • 1/2 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 170 lux EV 5.9
Repair Underway
A very old repair set for underway with most that you may need. Quite out of character is the pair of tweezers, but very handy.
90 mm • f/5.6 • 1/45 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 240 lux EV 6.5
Sparkle
You don't need heavy fireworks to celebrate the New Year. Happy with a sparkle.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/45 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 150 lux EV 5.8
December 2013
GrootKoor
The Grootkoor Groningen sang today on the NS station for the Hindha foundation, for underpriviliged children in Sri Lanka
21 mm • f/8 • 1/25 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 270 lux EV 6.6
Convolution
The process by which the points in an image are relaced by a shape (in this case the shape of the opening of the lens), is called convolution.
75 mm • f/1.4 • 1/180 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 480 lux EV 7.5
My Main Man
When he was younger I called him "mijn mannetje", now it is "My Main Man"!
35 mm • f/3.4 • 1/45 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 360 lux EV 7
Stairways
Stairways outside a building. The esthetics of industrial design.
75 mm • f/2.4 • 1/60 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 59 lux EV 4.4
In a Tesla
Mickey gets a smile on her face when she steps into a Tesla. A very fast car with zero emission.
21 mm • f/3.4 • 1/45 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 710 lux EV 8
Flooded
The land around Peize is flooded and gives met the mood and sense of adventure stories with dangerous swamps.
135 mm • f/8 • 1/750 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 66000 lux EV 14.6
Holly
It's part of christsmas, holly. There are 15 meter high holly trees outside, brimming with berries against a beautiful sky today.
50 mm • f/13 • 1/500 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 29000 lux EV 13.4
Tombstone of Light
In the Martinikerk: a tombstone of light.
85 mm • f/13 • 1/125 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.4
AD 1813
She was standing in front of a school wallboard of the arrival of Willem I in Scheveningen in 1813, now 200 years ago. She would fit quite well on that beach. (Except for the paper cup)
21 mm • f/4 • 1/30 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 660 lux EV 7.9
Christmas Photo
In this way you can easily have a christmas photo made in an interiour that is completely knitted. You don't have to create anything yourself.
21 mm • f/5.6 • 1/25 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 270 lux EV 6.6
The Bridge
It's getting dark and people are walking over the bridge that carries christmas lights. The lights closer by are smaller than the ones further away due to the nearness of the plane of sharpest focus. The shape depends on how the light rays go through the optics. I can't get enough of it.
75 mm • f/1.4 • 1/125 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 330 lux EV 6.9
31 square meter
In the winter you have less power production, not because we are further away from the sun, but because the same solar rays are spread out over a large surface. After tomorrow (the shortest day of the year) that will change again.
21 mm • f/4 • 1/1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Resemblance
Sometimes I see a resemblance between a mannequin and someone I know really well. But when I look in those staring eyes, a chill is running up my spine.
4.1 mm • f/2.4 • 1/20 sec. • 80 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 390 lux EV 7.2
Leaving Train
The train is leaving from Groningen and reaches quite a speed at the first crossing.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1.5 sec. • 250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1.4 lux EV -0.9
Worker's Cottage
A worker's cottage in the Willemstraat. Simple and typical with the motorcycle under a canvas.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/8 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2.7 lux EV 0
End of the Year Lecture
Today I was asked to give the end of the year lecture in the Aula of the University, that was changed in a dining hall. Was great to do!
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/60 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 26 lux EV 3.2
Christmas in Groningen
On the Grote Markt arises an enormous christmas tree with plastic balls. No perfect mirrors, but you can see the townhall in them.
135 mm • f/3.5 • 1/125 sec. • 1000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 420 lux EV 7.3
Smoke gets in your eyes
Smoke gets in your eyes when you try to revive a fire basket on the winter party of the Rivierenbuurt in Groningen
35 mm • f/3.4 • 1/30 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 76 lux EV 4.8
Sun obscuring energy
A nice winterday, but the sun is obscured by the gasses from the IJsselcentrale of Zwolle. Why does that feel wrong?
35 mm • f/2.8 • 1/4000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 43000 lux EV 13.9
Mist
The morning with mist. Looks like a chinese ink drawing.
75 mm • f/2.4 • 1/350 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2800 lux EV 10
Inside Out
The inside is now outside and with that the question arises what inside really is.
75 mm • f/3.4 • 1/180 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2800 lux EV 10
Ladies Cycling
After some cyclecross, the bicycles are taken from the roof of the car. The ladies do this proficient and quick.
35 mm • f/2.8 • 1/125 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1300 lux EV 8.9
Christmas Tree
I have no idea why, but christmas trees don't do it for me.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/45 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 120 lux EV 5.5
Fountain Pen
A fountain pen can be seen as a tool, but also as an intrument with endless options for expression: matlab, fables, bundle of short stories, scientific papers, etc.
12mm • f/4.8 • 1/8 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 63 lux EV 4.5
Westertoren
Also in the winter, Amsterdam is fantastic. Here a view on the Westertoren during an approaching hail shower.
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/4000 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 31000 lux EV 13.5
Wedding Bed
A wedding bed was drifting in one of the canals in Amsterdam. The bridal couple was nowhere to be found.
75 mm • f/1.4 • 1/60 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 26 lux EV 3.2
Cycling in the Storm
Cycling into the storm in the rain. Your face grimaces against the cold and pain. A warm house is waiting.
75 mm • f/3.4 • 1/125 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 490 lux EV 7.5
All He Wants
You know, all he wants is to get on that train.
75 mm • f/3.4 • 1/60 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 120 lux EV 5.4
Color
Sometimes a lot of time is spent on the color of your hair. Not so strange, since it is a flag of your genetic material and even though it is fake, the color of that flag may be effective!
35 mm • f/2 • 1/60 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 330 lux EV 6.9
On the back
She sat on the back of daddies motor cycle and made contact with the photographer.
75 mm • f/4 • 1/750 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4100 lux EV 10.6
Blowout
It sounded like a gunshot when my racing tire had a blowout. And as you can se, the indicated 8.0 bar was crossed out.
90 mm • f/9.5 • 1/2 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 250 lux EV 6.5
November 2013
Watery Groves
Nice how a spatial form can become a new flat form by addition of a reflection.
135 mm • f/9.5 • 1/350 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 43000 lux EV 13.9
Night Photography
Night photography is handheld very well possible nowadays. Besides, photographing together is fun. A fixed lens at wide aperture and 1600 ISO gives fine results. In the photograph you often see more color than in real life, since the camera always captures color, while we have cones for color and rods for black and white in the dark in our eye.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/45 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 15 lux EV 2.5
Tour 2015
The Tour de France will start in Utrecht in 2015. This young racer is already getting ready.
35 mm • f/4 • 1/30 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 260 lux EV 6.6
Davy
Davy Crockett on a bicycle. A statement, a way of life..
35 mm • f/4 • 1/90 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 790 lux EV 8.2
No Wind
There was no wind along the canal. It was quiet and there was the scent of burning wood.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/2 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5.5 lux EV 1
Autumn Sky
When you walk through a park in the autumn in the city and you look up, you see this. The city lights shining against the moist sky. The trees moving at heelstrike.
50 mm • f/4 • 1 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2.7 lux EV 0
Psittacula krameri
This tropical bird is living in Rijswijk in the wild!
135 mm • f/5.6 • 1/125 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2100 lux EV 9.6
Horses
Almost motionless, they breathed the cool air.
50 mm • f/3.4 • 1/4000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 63000 lux EV 14.5
Fortune Teller
A fortune teller. People are sucked in. The future is not determined, yet people want to know it. Or not?
50 mm • f/2.4 • 1/45 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 180 lux EV 6
Old Window Panes
Old window panes are a lot more interesting than almost perfect panes. The way they refract light goes well with a house with character.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/350 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 15000 lux EV 12.4
Captivated
Two sources of light. One defines me, while the other one locks me in.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/4 sec. • 3200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5.5 lux EV 1
Engine
One of the two engines I have for cycling. Two engines is very nice to have: when one receives blood circulation, the other can produce force, and vice versa, since the pressure in skeletal muscles, when activated, is easily much higher than blood pressure.
35 mm • f/2.4 • 1/15 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 120 lux EV 5.4
Autumn
Underway to work in the autumn: wet, cold, but beautiful!
35 mm • f/5.6 • 1/90 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3900 lux EV 10.5
Magnolia
A magnolia in the dark. What feeling does this express for me? And is that the same feeling as that of my companion?
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/25 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 8.4 lux EV 1.6
Sinterklaas Anonymous
It is not easy when you are that famous and your role is being scrutinized in relation with your coworkers!
35 mm • f/4.8 • 1/350 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Organic
Seems very nice to me to be such an organic animal and only eat, full of attention and dedication.
135 mm • f/8 • 1/125 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4400 lux EV 10.6
Capitalist Contamination
Graphics in the street.
35 mm • f/5.6 • 1/45 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 960 lux EV 8.5
PhD
The young doctor enjoys visibly when listening to the speech given by his father. Here history is written down in the life of a young scientist.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/15 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5 lux EV 0.9
Scaffolding
Lovely that chaotic mountain of lines with a function.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/30 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2500 lux EV 9.8
Bike Transportation
In the Netherlands, the bicycle is an important daily means of transportation, also for some heavier loads. This is very easy due to the lack of hills.
35 mm • f/5.6 • 1/60 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2600 lux EV 9.9
Korenbeurs
Marvelous building with long history looks really nice with the new shades!
50 mm • f/2.4 • 1/60 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 190 lux EV 6.1
Morning Mist
It's quite an art to photograph a landscape from a train at 140 km/h!
21 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 11.9
Relfection
A surveyors reflector reflects always perfectly no matter what the angle: No matter how you look into it, your eye or lens will always be in the middle! Very handy! (And how beautiful out of focus images can be)
75 mm • f/5.6 • 1/60 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1300 lux EV 8.9
Swan
She was standing there without moving. The people walked around her, wonderingly and with respect. It was not clear how long she was standing there, but it was beautiful!
21 mm • f/2.8 • 1/25 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 170 lux EV 5.9
Roaring Lion and Horses
In the Amsterdam Arena, the match Ajax-Celtic was played. There were many Scots in Amsterdam, so encouteres were expected with Ajax fans. In the match the dutch lion remained roaring with 1-0, but the mounted police kept a close eye on the situation in a sea of alcolhol abuse.
21 mm • f/2.8 • 1/30 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 200 lux EV 6.2
Market Stall
Market stall in the light of the reflection of the sun in a windowpane across the Vismarkt. Because of the large distance to the window this lasted just a short time. The earth keeps on revolving very fast.....
35 mm • f/5.6 • 1/125 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5400 lux EV 10.9
Seed
Today a seed was hanging in the huge hall of the education building of the UMCG from spider thread. The strange thing was that it moved up and down by itself. Interesting!
75 mm • f/6.8 • 1/60 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 950 lux EV 8.4
Abandoned
This abandoned market tent still had the scent of Indian clothes.
35 mm • f/2 • 1/45 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 120 lux EV 5.5
Mannequins
These asian ladies look like mannequins, frozen in a posture to indicate lifestyle clothing or to make an ad for the sweets they enjoy.
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/750 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 740 lux EV 8.1
Boring
A 360 panorama from a viewing tower in Drenthe is boring!
35 mm • f/4.8 • 1/180 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5700 lux EV 11
October 2013
Leaves
Even after a storm with a force of 11 on the Beaufort scale, the leaves are still attached to the ends of the branches. The forces must have been enormous, but the leaves will only drop when the tree is ready for it, mediated by the plant hormone that reaches the end of the branches the latest.
135 mm • f/4 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Stereo
Scientists are fascinated like children while looking at stereo images of ultra small parts of brain cells.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/60 sec. • 1000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 32 lux EV 3.6
The Invisible Man
A long time ago there was a series on TV, called "The Invisible Man". He is walking through town here!
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/45 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 120 lux EV 5.5
Hurricane
Hurricane force today. It was not easy to pass the highrise building where I work.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/180 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1900 lux EV 9.5
Making Love
There must be simpler ways to make love, but sometimes a hard way is more satisfying.
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/250 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 250 lux EV 6.5
The Chef
Jan Douwe cooks for us with his lab coat from when he was still active in science as a professor. Gentle Bear meets the Godfather.
75 mm • f/3.4 • 1/90 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 360 lux EV 7
God
Yes, you never now if that fairground attraction will hold, during the journey to the sky!
21 mm • f/9.5 • 1/60 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7400 lux EV 11.4
Autumn Sky
Simply love the autumn sky. Stormy, like my soul.
21 mm • f/8 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 44000 lux EV 14
Overtime
Overtime until very late at the tax office.
21 mm • f/4 • 8 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 2.7 lux EV 0
Fountain Pen Lady
She just bought a fountain pen in the FountainPenWorld and will write all her memories in a little book!
50 mm • f/6.8 • 1/125 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7900 lux EV 11.5
Wrapped up Skipper
Interesting that they wrap up the skipper and his glass of beer also after mooring!
50 mm • f/6.8 • 1/60 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3800 lux EV 10.4
Smashing
After a smashing day, we decided to eat.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/350 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 940 lux EV 8.4
Analogue Photographer
You don't see them often in the wild anymore, but here is one: an analogue photographer with a real twin lens reflex Rolleiflex!
50 mm • f/5.7 • 1/750 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 42000 lux EV 13.9
Sky Full of Leaves
Autumn is upon us. Lovely gentle weather. The sky is full of autumn leaves!
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/350 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Draughts as Sports
In a block on "Sport Science", Roel Boomstra (the youngest international grandmaster in the Netherlands ever and last year second on the world ranking list) shows how much talent he has and how he got where he is standing now. To be able to reproduce this draughts position he needed to see it for just a second.
35 mm • f/2.8 • 1/30 sec. • 250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 260 lux EV 6.6
Shoe Shop
In a shoeshop. Hundreds of pairs, huge variation, but it really has to be right!
50 mm • f/2.4 • 1/60 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 190 lux EV 6.1
Reading the Newspaper
Reading a newspaper in the train is not easy. Too fragmented due to the circumstances.
35 mm • f/2 • 1/60 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 330 lux EV 6.9
Spiritual Cat
Perhaps animals can also have spirituality. Looks like it when you see her sitting like that.
500 mm • f/9.5 • 1/12 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • with tripod 1500 lux EV 9.1
Viola Kibiwot
Viola Kibiwot from Kenia was the winner today at the 4 Miles of Groningen. Fantastic runner with thin lower legs and high calf muscles, characteristic of East African runners. Also striking: not a forefoot landing!
200 mm • f/4 • 1/1600 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 8700 lux EV 11.6
Waiting Viaduct
Hard to imagine, but tomorrow a part of the world top marathon will pass here, among which Haile Gebrselassie.
4.1 mm • f/2.4 • 1/20 sec. • 64 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 490 lux EV 7.5
Hairdresser
How great all this attention you get as a single customer of the hairdresser.
75 mm • f/3.4 • 1/90 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 890 lux EV 8.3
Our Street
Cycling through our street is not so easy anymore!
75 mm • f/16 • 1/350 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 122000 lux EV 15.5
College Tour
Epke Zonderland is being interviewed by students in the NTR television programme "College Tour". He discusses among other subjects the function of scientific research for gymnastics.
75 mm • f/2.8 • 1/90 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 960 lux EV 8.5
Bone
The core of a horn of an ungulate consists of bone. Bone is a magnificent material that adjust itself to the reigning forces. Therefore every bone is different from another bone.
75 mm • f/3.4 • 1/60 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 240 lux EV 6.4
Sea of Green
Swimming in a sea of green. Without direction in the warm sun.
135 mm • f/3.5 • 1/350 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5900 lux EV 11.1
Headlight
A headlight the way it looks a fraction of a second before impact.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Breakfast
At the start of breakfast the light outside is still cool and inside warm.
50 mm • f/4 • 2 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11 lux EV 2
The Most Economic Route
Here in the Beurs van Berlage you can see water taking the most economic route to the ground. En when there are more than one economic routes, you get interesting figures.
75 mm • f/2.4 • 1/90 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 710 lux EV 8
Frozen
Standing on one leg, he seemed to be frozen in the middle of a frightful attack movement. With those long tendons in its legs, that is not easy!
135 mm • f/3.5 • 1/3000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 50000 lux EV 14.2
Kermesse d'Hiver
The ladies were dressed up and appeared in front of a house to sing loudly a song, at the occasion of the yearly Kermesse d'Hiver.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/30 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 10 lux EV 1.9
Building Streets in 2013
This is how you build a street in 2013: in front of a garage door with a plate reading "do not block exit, day and night" high curbs are placed and tubes for the watering of a large tree.
35 mm • f/6.8 • 1/30 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1200 lux EV 8.8
September 2013
Absolut Exposure
This could be the drink for the real photographer! Absolute exposure, with photographs and built in lens!
35 mm • f/2.4 • 1/45 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 350 lux EV 7
Hurry up with the Goat!
Not easy to guide an unwilling goat through sunny Amsterdam. These animals can be quite stubborn.
75 mm • f/6.8 • 1/90 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5700 lux EV 11
A Short Break
Just a short break during shopping. After that the trip continues on the transport bicycle.
35 mm • f/6.8 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 32000 lux EV 13.5
Having a Bath
Having a bath is easy when you live in the water and it is also a powerful signal to the neighbours.
135 mm • f/4 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Nyenrode
Here I was asked to give a lecture on brain and movements in the old library. An old castle with a moat.
21 mm • f/8 • 1/125 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Poffert
A canister for a delicacy from Groningen: "poffert" a kind of round cake, not to be confused with "poffertjes", which are mini pancakes. The confusion can easily arise, by which you get served the wrong dish in Noordpolderzijl.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/2000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5400 lux EV 10.9
Catenary
A catenary is a mathemical curve formed by a flexible chain with equal mass distribution. The equation was derived by Christiaan Huygens and is y=acos(x/a). The chain in this image has a too small "a" value, so that riding the bicycle has become impossible.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/2000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5400 lux EV 10.9
Bicycle Congestion
At the change of the lecture hours, a bicycle congestion occurs of in- and outgoing traffic at the UMCG.
50 mm • f/6.8 • 1/350 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
The Wheel
A deserted frontwheel in a toilet that is not quite what it used to be either.
21 mm • f/4.8 • 1/45 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1400 lux EV 9
Earthworm
During excavations, enormous earth worms appear to be hiding curled up under the city
8 mm • f/9 • 1/80 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 18000 lux EV 12.7
What did I say?
Yes, what did I say? According to me it was within generally accepted limits.
21 mm • f/3.4 • 1/90 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1400 lux EV 9
Filmed
Filmed during an interview on science and photography.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/45 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 120 lux EV 5.5
Conservative
The sun is shining and it is not raining! The human mind is rather conservative.
135 mm • f/6.8 • 1/350 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Brick Igloo
Suddenly a brick igloo appeared in our street. Who will live there? Foreigners? What language would they speak? What clothes will they wear? Exciting!
21 mm • f/5.6 • 1/60 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2600 lux EV 9.9
Autumn Light
The sky has just been cleared by the rain. Wonderful this autumn light.
135 mm • f/9.5 • 1/1500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 185000 lux EV 16
Angel
She listened to the choir that sung during the Monument Day in the Lutheran Church in Amsterdam.
75 mm • f/5.6 • 1/30 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 160 lux EV 5.9
Tattoo
A world with subtitling.
75 mm • f/5.6 • 1/350 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 15000 lux EV 12.4
Reading your new book
Always nice, reading your new book in the coffeeshop of the bookstore with a cup of coffee. Half an hour free from obligations.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 670 lux EV 7.9
Sewage System
We are getting a new sewage system! Fantastic idea that in a few weeks these pipes will be catenated into a long tube under the ground.
21 mm • f/5.6 • 1/90 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3900 lux EV 10.5
Fire at the Vismarkt
There is a fire at the Vismarkt in a café "Huize Maas" with ball rooms. The fire brigade thinks there are still people inside. The Vismarkt was cleared. At about 23.30 the fire brigade announced that everyone had safely left the premises.
21 mm • f/4 • 1/15 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 41 lux EV 3.9
Deserted Terrace
The terrace is deserted, the museum closed.
50 mm • f/4 • 6 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3.6 lux EV 0.4
Late Summer Festival
Autumn is in the air. It gets darker earlier, but the festivals continue.
50 mm • f/4 • 4 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5.5 lux EV 1
The Conversation
Quite impressive when you speak a lot and finish your beer quicker than the others.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 11.9
Nieuwe Kerk
The Nieuwe Kerk on the Dam, in which the family of Orange had their inauguration party.
75 mm • f/2 • 1/1500 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2600 lux EV 9.9
Partial Footprint
Patial Footprint of my loved one. Feet are very sensitive and just like on fingers (giving finger prints) there are ridges in which the mechanoreceptors are present. The ridges enhance the subtle deformations of the receptors and by that the sensitivity of the feet.
90 mm • f/11 • 1/90 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4600 lux EV 10.7
Brick in the Wall?
The thesis of Helco van Keeken was defended yesterday by him. "Just another brick in the wall"? With so many theses coming out these days you may start to think that, but a building is clearly arising. That's how science works.
90 mm • f/4 • 2 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11 lux EV 2
Damsterplein
The Damsterplein, the youngest plaza of Groningen, has its own atmosphere and light in the evening hours.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/25 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 68 lux EV 4.6
Drink
A drink, drank, drunk, drowned in here and now
135 mm • f/4.8 • 1/2 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 63 lux EV 4.5
Horse with no Name
She sang "I've been through the desert on a horse with no name" and had a beautiful voice.
75 mm • f/3.4 • 1/1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 16000 lux EV 12.5
En Voyage
A model on a fashion show with designs by Ronald Kolk, seems to get ready for travelling with a Zeppelin.
50 mm • f/6.8 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 16000 lux EV 12.5
August 2013
Short-Lived
A short-lived reflection of the sunny side of town.
21 mm • f/2.8 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5400 lux EV 10.9
Listening Closely
Listening to the recorded notes in the Royal Palace on the Dam.
75 mm • f/2.4 • 1/90 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 710 lux EV 8
The Witch
Witches have power and are sometimes attractive.
75 mm • f/4 • 1/3000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 66000 lux EV 14.6
Bommen Berend
Fireworks to commemorate the liberation of the city of Groningen in 1672.
21 mm • f/4.8 • 1/180 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1800 lux EV 9.3
Special Bond
The bond between mother and son, special and often decisive.
135 mm • f/9.5 • 1/750 sec. • 250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 74000 lux EV 14.7
Pixelated
The world is increasingly pixelated. When does the recognizable world disappear?
75 mm • f/2 • 1/30 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 20 lux EV 2.9
First Row
When you want to be on first row at a performance of the band "Maison du Malheur" on the last night of the Noorderzon Festival, a creative solution is required.
50 mm • f/11 • 1/180 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 30000 lux EV 13.4
Magnificent 2
Still did not find the emergency exit, so our guest was still sitting peacefully, looking around. Such eyes! And with that little antenna on the head, there is always music!
105 mm • f/16 • 1/125 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 44000 lux EV 14
Magnificent
Magnificent and ancient evolutionary design is waiting for the first opportunity to leave the house.
90 mm • f/8 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Choice
Suddenly you are facing a choice in your life: left or right?
21 mm • f/3.4 • 1/125 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2000 lux EV 9.5
The Start
People in a container. This time not for human trafficking, but for a show. Exciting!
21 mm • f/2.8 • 1/25 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 110 lux EV 5.3
The Expectation
A tent like this in the evening creates an expectation. What will be presented, what will it smell and sound like.
21 mm • f/4.8 • 1/15 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 59 lux EV 4.4
Dreaming
Patrick Duff is dreaming of the next song with guitar
75 mm • f/2.4 • 1/60 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 59 lux EV 4.4
Peeking
When you are too late for a place at the performance of Daughter at the Noorderzon festival, you are lucky when one of the panes of glass are missing in the Spiegeltent.
75 mm • f/2.8 • 1/60 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 320 lux EV 6.9
Tot de Schijt ons Doodt
A container on the Noorderzon Festival with a performance. The title reads "Until the shit kills us", which in dutch is a variation on "until death do us part". A live poetry album.
21 mm • f/2.8 • 1/25 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 270 lux EV 6.6
Starry Night
Summer night. It does not get completely dark, but the Andromeda Nebula is already visible at 1/3 from the right border and 1/5 from the bottom. And what looks like a swarm of flying saucers around it are simply images of stars, deformed by a lens aberration called "coma". There will be no invasion as far as I know...
85 mm • f/1.2 • 1.5 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 0.2 lux EV -4.1
Start Noorderzon
Tonight the Noorderzon Festival started in Groningen.
21 mm • f/4.8 • 1/125 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3900 lux EV 10.5
Little Rainbow
A very local spell of rain gives a little rainbow.
35 mm • f/5.6 • 1/750 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 32000 lux EV 13.5
Topsy Turvy
A perspective projection of a lady on a bicycle from the source of light on the ground is different than that on the sensor of the observer. And so the projection on the ground projected on the sensor of the observer can become quite strange.
35 mm • f/5.6 • 1/750 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 32000 lux EV 13.5
Role Models
What are in fact good role models for women en which one of these is real?
35 mm • f/6.8 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 32000 lux EV 13.5
Soda Bottles
Visualisation of old school thirst quenching power.
50 mm • f/2 • 1/125 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 680 lux EV 8
Bicycle with Mussels
This bicycle has stayed long enough under water, that fresh water mussels could grow on it. Nice to have something to eat during the bicycle trip.
35 mm • f/2.4 • 1/1500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 12000 lux EV 12.1
Blue Cross
This hotel was once started by a sailor, who did not want any alcohol in his building, indicated by a blue cross.
50 mm • f/3.4 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7900 lux EV 11.5
Screens
Fantastic those mathematical constructions, emerging from just a handful growth rules.
135 mm • f/4.8 • 1/350 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Short sound
A short sound travelled over the water, nothing else.
500 mm • f/11 • 1/60 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 20000 lux EV 12.8
Lightning!
Summer thunder storm over Groningen. A discharge between two clouds.
21 mm • f/4 • 1 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 5.5 lux EV 1
Book Seller
Totally happy, selling books on the Spui in Amsterdam.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/180 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 16000 lux EV 12.5
Sterrebos, Groningen
Music in the Sterrebos. The girl is in balance between three attracting forces: candy, music and attention.
21 mm • f/8 • 1/45 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2000 lux EV 9.5
Summer
Its the middle of summer, but a great crested grebe is still on her nest.
35 mm • f/13 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 58000 lux EV 14.4
Roll-Over
Roll-over movement of a foot on soft shoes is possible due to neural control of muscles in the foot and lower leg. On hard and stiff shoes, a roll-over profile is needed to be able to properly walk on them.
135 mm • f/5.6 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 21000 lux EV 12.9
Relaxed
The balloon is relaxed after a knife went through it. Recorded using a sound driven flash.
21 mm • f/4 • 2 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 11 lux EV 2
July 2013
Eye to Eye
Eye to eye with another being. How would she perceive me?
50 mm • f/11 • 1/200 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 66000 lux EV 14.6
Chimney
This chimney is left from the enormous gas factory that provided the city.
50 mm • f/2 • 1/125 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 850 lux EV 8.3
Arduino
A programmable processor board for sensors and control. In this case with two tri-axial accelerometers for the recording of tremor in Parkinson patients. This hardware together with a laptop and my softare package makes it possible to establish whether tremor is reduced during operations.
90 mm • f/4 • 4 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5.5 lux EV 1
Pulley
A pulley is able to turn a force around. Great invention. Try to hoist something from a window above upward. Gravity is your friend because of the pulley.
50 mm • f/11 • 1/180 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 30000 lux EV 13.4
Roll Cloud
A roll cloud came over Groningen and it seemed as though we lived under a volcano. The violent downpour that followed told another story and we hurried to check if the pump was still working.
35 mm • f/3.4 • 1/1500 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3000 lux EV 10.1
Load
The bridges in Amsterdam are pretty hard to negotiate on a dutch bicycle when your girl friend is on the back and you have no gears.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 21000 lux EV 12.9
Tipping Point
There is a tipping point between beauty and ugliness. But where exactly is that point?
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/750 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2000 lux EV 9.5
Time has Stopped
Waiting for the train home, time seems to have stopped. There is no sound.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/750 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2000 lux EV 9.5
To Read
When it is terribly hot outside, you can read a book on the shadow side of the old canalhouse in the open window.
75 mm • f/5.6 • 1/350 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 15000 lux EV 12.4
Back to Square One
It seems we are back to square one again on the Dam Square. Decades ago I was sitting there with a guitar and a girl in short jeans.
21 mm • f/6.8 • 1/90 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5700 lux EV 11
Aerodynamics
The temperature outside is 31 degrees Centigrade, but this gentleman drives his homebuilt aerodynamic bicycle anyway. He can not go as fast as that train, but it certainly helps.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/750 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 16000 lux EV 12.6
Coupe Sauvage
A wild hairstyle is often sexy. Understandable.
75 mm • f/8 • 1/125 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5500 lux EV 11
The Door
What is behind that door?
21 mm • f/4 • 1/90 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 980 lux EV 8.5
Method
The newspaper item that states that I predicted the average speed of Bauke Mollema in the Tour de France almost perfectly with a deviation of only 0.1 km/h did not indicate how I did it. Here the method: I used a crystal ball!
12 mm • f/16 • 1.5 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 230 lux EV 6.4
Fascinated
The journalists of Studio Sport watch fascinated at the timetrial of today of the Tour de France and at my computer simulations. Tonight in Nieuws Uur, Ned. 2, 22.00 in the Sports section.
21 mm • f/5.6 • 1/25 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 540 lux EV 7.6
Time Trial
During the weather report, simulating the timetrial for tomorrow again on the computer for our hero Bauke Mollema during the Tour de France. Which bike should it be? Does he need to change bikes underway? Tomorrow everything will be revealed!
50 mm • f/2 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1400 lux EV 9
Home Grown
Home grown. They are tiny, but delicious!
135 mm • f/9.5 • 1.5 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 82 lux EV 4.9
Fascinating
Things from the past are fascinating. Why? Possibly that is because whole curtains of associations are hanging from objects that have not been seen for a long time.
135 mm • f/6.8 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 32000 lux EV 13.5
Fried Air
Hot air is less dense than cool air and so it wants to go up, up, up.
75 mm • f/3.4 • 1/180 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2800 lux EV 10
Bumblebee
This bumblebee came from outside and sat down quite dazed for a while.
50 mm • f/16 • 1/125 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Time Passing
The large clock has been removed from the facade. Fantastic how every minute it keeps indicating the time with a heavy sounding "Toc!". The cylists that pass on their way home look up in vain and look at the back of the working painter that does not show the time.
135 mm • f/16 • 1/4 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1400 lux EV 9
Holland
For me Holland is about tall strong women, construction and the sound of church bells.
21 mm • f/11 • 1/750 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 155000 lux EV 15.8
Shork
These glasses are "shork resistant" and looking at the definition of "shork" in the urban dictionary that certainly is a recommendation when you plan to amuse yourself in prison at the expense of others. Shocking!
135 mm • f/3.5 • 1/4000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 67000 lux EV 14.6
Moving
She was standing without moving, but she moved me by singing a song by Adèle.
75 mm • f/1.7 • 1/125 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 150 lux EV 5.8
Splitting Headache
Although I have a splitting headache, I keep smiling.
75 mm • f/4 • 1/8 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 170 lux EV 6
Not Perfect
Glass that is not perfect, is much more interesting than perfect glass.
35 mm • f/8 • 1/750 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 66000 lux EV 14.6
Color Run
You can run a color run in all kinds of ways. Anyway, it is sensible to wear sunglasses, even when the sun is not shining.
35 mm • f/4 • 1/180 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3900 lux EV 10.5
Good-Bye
Saying good-bye. The body shows signals of encouragement and sadness at the same time. Even the pitch of the shouted word "bye" is first high, than lower.
12 mm • f/8 • 1/45 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3900 lux EV 10.5
Green Filter
Chlorophyll filters sunlight. From the white light two colors are removed by two types of molecules by the plant: blue and red, leaving green.
21 mm • f/4 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Barca
Barcelona: relaxed and colourfull.
21 mm • f/9.5 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 31000 lux EV 13.5
Parc Güell
A magical place, this space in Parc Güell. The sunlit lanscape with yellowish sand gives the indirect light.
12 mm • f/8 • 1/25 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1400 lux EV 9
June 2013
Amazon
Even now they still exist, amazons. Not with bow and arrow, but the battle is faced with a camera.
75 mm • f/2.4 • 1/90 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 220 lux EV 6.3
ECSS Party
The endparty of the Conference of the European College of Sport Science started in a setting sun and was organized in the Olympic Stadium of 1992 in Barcelona.
21 mm • f/8 • 1/180 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 16000 lux EV 12.5
Scott Kelso
Scott Kelso explains the principle of bidirectional coupling with a baby as an example: the movements of the foot are coupled to the mobile above the child at which the child is looking.
50 mm • f/2 • 1/180 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 310 lux EV 6.8
Presentation
A presentation of our work on speedskating by a young talented scientist.
75 mm • f/2 • 1/60 sec. • 250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 260 lux EV 6.6
Opening ECSS
The congress of the European College of Sport Sciences had a flying start.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/90 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 240 lux EV 6.5
Restaurant
A moroccan restaurant in Barcelona. Just eat, sleep and go to the conference.
135 mm • f/3.5 • 1/350 sec. • 2000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 590 lux EV 7.7
Little Snail
Enjoying the rainy weather, a snail finds his/her way.
90 mm • f/4.8 • 1/90 sec. • 2000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 280 lux EV 6.7
Cogs
The cogs have been worn out. Up to three times bodyweight was their load. Only four of the cogs do not meet the standard anymore. That's what you get in the Netherlands when only the wind is your opponent.
35 mm • f/11 • 1/12 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2000 lux EV 9.5
Taking Shelter
You don't know how lang it takes, still it is a good idea to take shelter for the rain on the market.
50 mm • f/6.8 • 1/30 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1900 lux EV 9.4
Bad Weather
Bad weather moves over the city of Groningen. Reminds me of that splendid book "Darkness at Noon" by Arthur Koestler
135 mm • f/6.8 • 1/125 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7900 lux EV 11.5
Lieuwe Westra
Lieuwe Westra won the national championship timetrial today in Winsum with a velocity of close under 50 km/h.
40 mm • f/5.6 • 1/2000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 86000 lux EV 14.9
One Hundred Kilo
After a serious bodycheck in a mixed frisbee match, he said: "Ik didn't do anything! The only thing I'm guilty of is that I weigh one hundred kilos!"
140 mm • f/2.8 • 1/2000 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5400 lux EV 10.9
Prinsentuin
The fully blossoming and growing Prinsentuin excludes the city for a short moment. The tone of the conversation changes, becomes more contemplative.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 83000 lux EV 14.9
Steam Train
Regularly a steam train leaves from station Groningen. You can hear the whistle and the droning and hissing noise. Yust like in the movies, but on top of that you can smell it.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/750 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 630 lux EV 7.8
Go Away!
Mother and daughter send a lover away from estate Fraeylemaborg.
135 mm • f/5.6 • 1/750 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 32000 lux EV 13.5
Adorable
After all those years I'm still suprised how adorable she is.
12 mm • f/22 • 1/25 sec. • 1000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3300 lux EV 10.2
Capoeira
Capoeira in the street, always fun to watch. Only sometimes you can see what they are looking at. The music helps synchronising of the movements.
50 mm • f/9.5 • 1/180 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Onion Skin
The skin of an onion gets its colour from oxalate crystals. From left to right 10 mm.
50 mm • f/8 • 1 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 27 lux EV 3.3
Where is she?
Yes, where is she? Only her clothes are still in the street, while her drink is still there, thinks daddy and frowns.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/500 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 21000 lux EV 12.9
Two Bikes
A fat and a thin bike. The fat one delivers 68 horsepower. The power of the engine of the thin one depends on the cyclist. During about 10 seconds it could be 3 horsepower if you ask the right track cyclist. During longer time a power of half a horsepower is possible if you ask a pro racing cyclist and when I use the bike it can be 1/3 horepower over longer time. Yet I can move much easier through busy Amsterdam than the fat bike.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/180 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3900 lux EV 10.5
Yoga Bicycle
A yoga bicycle wears different colours from ordinary "no fuss" bicycles and assumes extraordinary postures.
75 mm • f/6.8 • 1/180 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 11000 lux EV 12
Amsterdam
Amsterdam is magical when the setting sun shines over the full length of Damstraat at this time of year. Stage floodlight for people in the street.
50 mm • f/6.8 • 1/180 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5700 lux EV 11
Birthday
It was her 50th birthday and her daughter was there; how moving.
75 mm • f/1.7 • 1/350 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 350 lux EV 7
Skirt Day
In Amsterdam it was skirt day today, although it was quite windy. It obviously invokes strange behaviour in some men.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/2000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 44000 lux EV 14
The Mirror
They were very pleased with their mirror. While walking they reflected images of the part of the city where they would walk in a few seconds.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/125 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2700 lux EV 10
ISCOMS 2013
The dinner of the 20th International Student Congress of (bio)Medical Sciences was closed off with fireworks. Suddenly many upcoming physicians and specialists are looking at a giant neuron in the sky.
21 mm • f/4 • 1/60 sec. • 3200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 82 lux EV 4.9
3D Reflection
The reflection of a 3D object in water in a photograph is not the same in outline as that of the object itself.
21 mm • f/9.5 • 1/125 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 15000 lux EV 12.5
Cyclists Passing
Completely independent, yet passing through the same plane of sharpest focus. (Tilt-Shift lens used)
35 mm • f/2.4 • 1/350 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 860 lux EV 8.3
No Mail
In the old postoffice, an arty lasershow was given during the Night of Art and Science. The function of the building has completely changed: no more mail.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/12 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 40 lux EV 3.9
Fake Sun
A fake sun in the Night of Art and Science: with a warm coat on it is hardly bearable.
35 mm • f/2.4 • 1/350 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 860 lux EV 8.3
May 2013
Gossip
Gossip is good for your career, is the statement on the poster.
50 mm • f/6.7 • 1/180 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Being a Tourist
It's hard work, being a tourist. Going to the famous locations, posing and coupling your temporary existence to the ancient sites.
21 mm • f/9.5 • 1/500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 77000 lux EV 14.8
Arm Swing
Swing of the arms serves most often a combination of 3 functions: 1) balance 2) energy control 3) angular impulse control. Using high heels on a downhill slope invites an extended arm swing.
135 mm • f/6.7 • 1/350 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 27000 lux EV 13.3
Creative
Even with road signs you can be creative, like here on a crossroads in Lucca.
135 mm • f/9.5 • 1/350 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 54000 lux EV 14.3
Simplon Pass
The Simplon Pass, at more than 2000 meter high, is still covered in snow.
21 mm • f/11 • 1/4000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 826000 lux EV 18.2
Gnocchi
Gnocchi, a typical italian dish, is prepared here with a complete team. We will eat it together in the italian sun.
21 mm • f/4 • 1/25 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 680 lux EV 8
Duomo di Lucca
Seen this building a few times now, the Duomo of Lucca, but this building always captures me. What a fantastic design.
21 mm • f/11 • 1/350 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 72000 lux EV 14.7
Bamboo
A bamboo forest in the Orto Botanico in Pisa. Almost nobody goes to that magnificent garden, just a short distance from the Piazza del Miracoli with the famous leaning tower, where you can walk over heads.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/30 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 6200 lux EV 11.1
Conclave
A conclave of clergy on the Ponte Vecchio in Florence
21 mm • f/9.5 • 1/1000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 154000 lux EV 15.8
Glowing Nail
A firefly illuminates the head of a nail and does that in a regular pattern, ever slower while it gets colder in the night.
90 mm • f/4 • 6 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 0.6 lux EV -2.2
Handlebar
This is what I see during cycling in Italy when I look down. My handlebar with 14 gears, a bicycle bell (very important in the Italian traffic) and the navigator. The brakes do their job, even at 20%, but in in those conditions the lizards bite in your hands.
35 mm • f/8 • 1/350 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 38000 lux EV 13.8
Crater of the Vesuvius
We cycled up the mountain and walked the last stretch. This is what you see, when you get up and when it is clouded: de clouds wrap over the rim of the crater. On the far right you can see steam escape from the sleaping monster. When it wakes up, 600.000 people are in danger.
21 mm • f/9.5 • 1/125 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 19000 lux EV 12.8
Faraglioni
The Faraglioni are enormous rock formations on the coast of Capri. Impressive to sail under the natural arch.
21 mm • f/5.7 • 1/4000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 222000 lux EV 16.3
Communion
Doing communion with the family in Positano, a small place on the Mediterranean coast.
35 mm • f/8 • 1/350 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 38000 lux EV 13.8
Vesuvius 2013
It has been a while since the unpredictable Vesuvius has been active, but would there be a new outburst in 2013, when we are in the area? What kind of cloud is that over the top? Would they excavate us on our bikes many years from now and display us in a museum?
75 mm • f/8 • 1/500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 55000 lux EV 14.3
Through the Gate
On her high heels she was a bit taller than he was, but still he took the initiative and guided her through the gate of matrimony.
135 mm • f/11 • 1/2000 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 103000 lux EV 15.2
Seating is Crucial
This traveller brought two chairs to be able to sit comfortably during camping. The chairs blended in well with the design of the bicycle, while they cleared the panniers, and allowed the feet to move under them during cycling.
21 mm • f/5.7 • 1/90 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5000 lux EV 10.8
Chinese couple
This chinese couple admired the Lake of Bolsena, a lake formed in an old caldera. He was tall and stately and she was quite plump and a bit shorter. They did not speak a word.
50 mm • f/11 • 1/180 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 37000 lux EV 13.7
Cooks are eating
Yes, even cooks need to eat, here in Gubbio before they get to work for the guests. It seems to me that to be a cook for cooks is not easy!
21 mm • f/5.6 • 1/125 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 6700 lux EV 11.3
Mombaroccio
Mombaroccio is a small walled town in the area north of Urbino. Het is situated in a beautiful hilly landscape in which the short but very steep slopes make cycling interesting for people from the Low Lands.
21 mm • f/9.5 • 1/1000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 154000 lux EV 15.8
Stef Clement on the best bike
Stef Clement has covered 60 meter in the timetrial of the Giro d'Italia on his Giant Trinity. According to the computer simulations I wrote, this is the best bike for this parcours. The prediction was that he would ride an average of 42.92 km/h. He managed to ride 42.89 km/h. When he would have selected the Giant Propel he would have ended 10th and not 5th in this strong field of riders. Once again science and top sports have helped each other!
50 mm • f/6.7 • 1/750 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.4
Happy Reader
Beautiful how this man is embedded in his environment and submersed in his literature.
135 mm • f/4 • 1/750 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 20000 lux EV 12.9
Monument
Een urinoir als monument.
21 mm • f/13 • 1/500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 144000 lux EV 15.7
Zugspitze
A panorama in the Alps always has something unreal. Just like the Grand Canyon it always produces an image that is too similar, but it remains beautiful.
21 mm • f/9.5 • 1/350 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 54000 lux EV 14.3
Bonny Swan
A swan makes clear that we have settled on her field. It could well be that it is the youngest daughter who was pushed into the water and now comes back as a swan to set things straight.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/750 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2500 lux EV 9.8
Cheerful Walker
The fact that you don't walk that speedy anymore, is no reason not to be cheerful. And the weather helps today!
21 mm • f/6.7 • 1/350 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 27000 lux EV 13.3
Sunday
It's a clear day and so you can see over a large distance. A sailor in the middle of the Paterswoldsemeer and behind him at a distance of 7 kilometer the Martinitoren, the Helper Mill and the mast with flames, of which this evening the seventh flame will be lighted, because it is Sunday.
300 mm • f/11 • 1/320 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • handheld 106000 lux EV 15.2
Zinc Whale
A remarkable construction to be able to enter the basement of a canal house in Amsterdam in upright posture. Looks like a zinc whale that almost crosses the water surface and still bears a layer of water.
50 mm • f/6.7 • 1/500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 38000 lux EV 13.8
Dirty Vibes
Amsterdam is known for its "Dirty Vibes". This times in the night of the 4th to the 5th of May.
50 mm • f/6.7 • 1/750 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 57000 lux EV 14.4
Care
Just rearranging the eggs for the coming night.
500 mm • f/16 • 1/4000 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 2796000 lux EV 20
Did she dance?
Do you think she danced the whole night after the abdication or that she has just been sitting there?
50 mm • f/6.7 • 1/750 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 57000 lux EV 14.4
April 2013
Jules Deelder
Jules Deelder, night mayor of Rotterdam, plays a Jazz record, very subdued on this sunny day for the Groningen audience on the occasion of the abdication.
135 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 6800 lux EV 11.3
Cycling!
Fantastic those fields in Drenthe at the setting sun. The shadows of the trees stretch all the way over the field. The relfection of the sunlight by the grains of earth is highest around the shadow of my head. For a short moment I seem to radiate light on my new bicycle.
4.1 mm • f/2.4 • 1/120 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1900 lux EV 9.4
To Feed
It was really cold this morning and so mother could not leave the eggs. Father catches something delicious and feeds her on this Sunday morning.
1000 mm • f/16 • 1/1250 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • with tripod 109000 lux EV 15.3
Santos Race Lite
The bicycle for trekking is finished and tested. Two panniers on the back can be mounted for the camera system. The tires are slightly wider (28 mm) and there are 14 gears available under the handelbar control with an enormous range. De bicycle weighs 10.5 kg and that is fantastic for a trekking bicycle with these properties. As soon as I learned to ride a bicycle, I loved it. And today is one of those days to remember that.
50 mm • f/3.4 • 1/60 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 590 lux EV 7.8
Newspapers behind the Window
There are several possible purposes for the national habit to apply newspapers behind a window. In this case the purpose is not directly clear.
75 mm • f/2.8 • 1/500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 6700 lux EV 11.3
Transmission
A new burgundy racing bicycle with a new transmission: a 14 gear hub with belt drive. Let's get in the saddle my friends!
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/30 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 37 lux EV 3.8
Red Ears
Karen has red ears. What would she be reading?
500 mm • f/11 • 1/60 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 20000 lux EV 12.8
Blackbird in Penthouse
This blackbird has built a sloppy nest on top of a tit house, since she can't get through the hole. With her dark eye she keeps watching me, but trusts me for as long as it takes.
50 mm • f/5.7 • 1/60 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3300 lux EV 10.3
Borkum
On a clear day you can see the Wadden Island Borkum from Noordpolderzijl.
135 mm • f/11 • 1/750 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 155000 lux EV 15.8
Urban Walk
Walking through the city. The sound of high heels clatters along the walls. Spring has finally arrived.
21 mm • f/6.7 • 1/350 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 27000 lux EV 13.3
Westerdijkshorn
The steeple of Westerdijkshorn does not have a church, but that is not necessary, since all inhabitant of the village can easily fit in the steeple.
21 mm • f/8 • 1/1000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 109000 lux EV 15.3
Focus on "De Nachtwacht"
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is open again and so "De Nachtwacht" by Rembrandt is on exposition again. In the mean time there are interpretations of the painting that extend further than Rembrandt may have meant.
21 mm • f/4.8 • 1/15 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 150 lux EV 5.8
College Caroussel
Supervisors of the college caroussel wait for secondary school children to give them a look in university life.
50 mm • f/5.7 • 1/500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 28000 lux EV 13.3
Pedestrians
Groningen is small enough to traverse on foot.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 52000 lux EV 14.2
White Cat
A white cat on a hedge looks so big, but appears so small in the final picture.
4.1 mm • f/2.4 • 1/259 sec. • 50 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 8100 lux EV 11.5
Carlo
Carlo is enjoying street life in the spring afternoon sun just before he needs to start cooking for his restaurant.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/125 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 420 lux EV 7.3
Een 2
It looks like the ANWB (general dutch cycling society) is learning to count (One 2), so close to the village of Een in Drenthe.
4.1 mm • f/2.4 • 1/1595 sec. • 50 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 50000 lux EV 14.2
Air Bubble
When you turn a bottle of liquid soap upside down, large air bubbles start to move up. The lifting force is counteracted by the friction force, that consequently sucks a downward pointing tip at the bubble. The critical angle of the tip, that is stabilised in an oscillating way, generates the pearl chains of tiny bubbles that are formed.
105 mm • f/11 • 1/160 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 53000 lux EV 14.2
Escaped Cyclist
The bike is still there, but obviously the cyclist has escaped!
50 mm • f/2 • 1/1000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 6800 lux EV 11.3
Not Pleased
Not pleased with the rain in Amsterdam.
35 mm • f/3.4 • 1/60 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 590 lux EV 7.8
Nature on a Plaque
In our man-made urban jungle it is striking to find a plaque, showing nature.
50 mm • f/2.4 • 1/1000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 9800 lux EV 11.8
Love for Optics
Optics can set my heart alight. Such a beautiful piece of knowledge: light is refracted by glass surfaces and when you do it right you get a beautiful image. Basis of photography.
90 mm • f/19 • 1/6 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 3700 lux EV 10.4
Windowcleaner
One day you are working and suddenly at considerable height a man appears in front of your window. In fact it is more the shadow of a man. He leaves the window pane clean while he is singing a song.
50 mm • f/5.7 • 1/500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 28000 lux EV 13.3
Vismarkt
The empty Vismarkt as a stage for free thoughts.
21 mm • f/9.5 • 1/1000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 154000 lux EV 15.8
Mill Sail
The sail of a dutch windmill has a beautiful and functional form and exists from a mathematical point of view of a ruled surface, a curved surface that can be constructed out of straight lines.
42 mm • f/10 • 1/640 sec. • 125 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • handheld 140000 lux EV 15.6
What is the sound of an Oaktree?
In the film "Padre Padrone" a boy is taught to recognize an oaktree by its sound. In this case that is hard: no leaves have appeared yet.
19 mm • f/8 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Pas de Deux
Not so easy to learn to walk with a prosthesis, but with some help, you get there. When the help is too good, it can lead to prolongation of the process.
50 mm • f/2.4 • 1/125 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 610 lux EV 7.8
Two Minutes
You would not say so, but when the sun touches the horizon, it takes only two minutes before she disappears completely.
14 mm • f/6.3 • 1/1000 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • handheld 108000 lux EV 15.3
Fixed Gear
A fixed gear bicycle with a frame by Affinity, type Kissena, made in Brooklyn. The gearing is cautious and fit for short straights, like in the city. The card is about an "Alley Cat" in Groningen, a race in the city for fixed gear bicycles. Braking is done with the pedals. The number of patches on the back tyre depends on the ratio of the number of teeth of the front chain ring and cog.
75 mm • f/6.7 • 1/1000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 77000 lux EV 14.8
Easter Bonfire 2013
The Easter bonfire in Eelde Paterswolde as observed indirectly through modern technology. But the heat was felt directly.
100 mm • f/5.6 • 1/60 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2600 lux EV 9.9
March 2013
Faces Everywhere
Sometimes I see faces everywhere. An example of pareidolia.
135 mm • f/5.7 • 1/180 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 10000 lux EV 11.8
Snowflake
The day before Easter, snowflakes have fallen on the violets. You can see how the snow crystals hook into each other to form snowflakes that can handle small pulling forces.
105 mm • f/14 • 1/30 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 16000 lux EV 12.5
Reading
Reading an old book with a magnifying glass in a book stall in Amsterdam. Who could be happier?
21 mm • f/4 • 1/90 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2500 lux EV 9.8
Cap
It seemed as though an airplane was cutting a cap off the top of the moon with its vapor trail. You can even identify the flight number with an app.
500 mm • f/8 • 1/80 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 870 lux EV 8.3
Stand Up Paddle
A relatively new sport. Fun to do over the "Diepenring" of Groningen.
135 mm • f/6.7 • 1/1500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 115000 lux EV 15.4
Buying Bread
Against the sunlight and below freezing point, we see this scene at the market place: bread is being bought.
35 mm • f/11 • 1/125 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 26000 lux EV 13.2
Wheels squealing
When trams go through a curve or switch, you can sometimes hear a squealing sound. That has to do with fitting of the wheels and small amounts of play in the wheel bearings. It is a typical city sound. In this switch you can see traces of squealing.
35 mm • f/5.7 • 1/180 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5000 lux EV 10.8
Yours
The latin maxim on this sun dial says "The past time is nothing, the future is uncertain, the present time far from stable, take care that you do not lose this time, which is yours". The shadow of the little ball on the nose ray of the sun indicates how many hours the sun will keep shining. Although that is not certain either.
135 mm • f/8 • 1/3000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 328000 lux EV 16.9
Power Eroticizes?
Sometimes it is stated that power eroticizes. Also true in a uniform like this?
35 mm • f/4.8 • 1/350 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 6900 lux EV 11.3
Survival of the Fittest
Throw a piece of bread in the air and see "survival of the fittest" in action.
35 mm • f/5.7 • 1/4000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 222000 lux EV 16.3
Snow Flakes
Snow flakes pass in front of my window, while in fact it turned to spring today. But they are so light and beautiful: sometimes they go up a bit and come down again.
75 mm • f/1.4 • 1/2000 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3300 lux EV 10.3
Experiment
A student is performing an experiment on unloading of her hand by an indirect action of the other hand.
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/125 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 620 lux EV 7.8
Pub Lecture
A pub lecture, organized by the student association of Human Movement Sciences, Groningen, Studiosi Mobilae, given by Claudine Lamoth, on Serious Gaming.
21 mm • f/2.8 • 1/12 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 40 lux EV 3.9
Sea Shepherd
This "Sea Shepherd" is not in function, but can not drop the habit. Here he is a shepherd, not of seals, but of dogs.
35 mm • f/2.8 • 1/90 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 600 lux EV 7.8
Spring Fever
You can feel it: spring is coming and so is spring fever. Even some men are afflicted by cleaning rage.
35 mm • f/5.7 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Groningen 2D
Ofcourse you can also walk through Groningen as though the third dimension does not exist. You walk through your own game. Let's call this way of posing "Flatlanding", after the book of Edwin Abbott Abbott "Flatland", that treats the dimensionality of existence.
35 mm • f/4 • 1/500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Colour in Your Life
On a rainy day like this, you long for some colour in your life.
35 mm • f/2.8 • 1/125 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 840 lux EV 8.3
Natasha
Professor Natasha Maurits opens the research day in "Het Paleis" of the Research School of Behavioural and Cognitive Neurosciences. Great programme!
35 mm • f/6.7 • 1/180 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Snowstorm
A snowstorm moves over the city. The study invites.
85 mm • f/1.2 • 1/320 sec. • 3200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 39 lux EV 3.8
Story in the Snow
A story in the snow of an encounter.
90 mm • f/13 • 1/45 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 13000 lux EV 12.2
Snow
Inside a week, the temperature dropped 20 degrees centigrade.
35 mm • f/2 • 1/2 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 14 lux EV 2.3
Car Wash
Never been to a car wash. Strange how those enormous brushes paint an abstract painting in front of you.
35 mm • f/3.4 • 1/8 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 79 lux EV 4.9
Ring-Necked Parakeet
The Ring-Necked Parakeet comes from tropical Africa, but gets along very well in Rijswijk in the wild.
75 mm • f/8 • 1/180 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 20000 lux EV 12.8
Young Scientist
A young scientist explains old science to an audience as part of the celebration of the 50th birthday of Beatrixoord in Haren.
35 mm • f/2 • 1/60 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 410 lux EV 7.2
Waiting for Spring
The city seems to wait for springtime. It is quiet in the streets, people are wrapped up in themselves.
50 mm • f/6.7 • 1/180 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Orion
Orion is a winter constellation and so it is following the sun at high speed: it will be spring! The weakest stars on this photo are one hundred times weaker than visible with the naked eye under ideal conditions. There are about 1 million stars in the sky brighter or equally bright. On the left of the Orion Nebula, a satellite is passing by.
85 mm • f/1.2 • 2 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 0.1 lux EV -4.5
Professor Gerard Sierksma
Professor Gerard Sierksma gives a lecture on records and top sports at the ninth lustrum of the skating club Tjas. In the background his beloved curves.
75 mm • f/1.7 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1200 lux EV 8.8
Icy Shadow
The sun is already quite powerful and only where the railing casts a shadow on the bridge, the frost is still present. But since the earth is rotating and it takes time for the frost to disappear, the shadow has an offset relative to the frost contours. And so we see the rotation of the earth on this bridge!
50 mm • f/9.5 • 1/125 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 19000 lux EV 12.8
Footsteps
Footsteps underway to the train
35 mm • f/2.8 • 1/30 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 400 lux EV 7.2
To the Market
Together to the market on Saturday morning, early enough before it gets crowded and with some time for each other.
35 mm • f/4 • 1/125 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3400 lux EV 10.3
Turning Record
In the old days you played a record by putting it on a turntable: it turned around and you could not read the label anymore. These gentlemen seem to gaze at us from a vague past.
35 mm • f/3.4 • 1/25 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 490 lux EV 7.5
February 2013
Bomb Your Body
An image of forms and reflections, about as lacking in coherence as the combination of scents in the shop itself
50 mm • f/3.4 • 1/25 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 490 lux EV 7.5
Tilted Focus Plane
With a Tilt Shift lens you can tilt the plane of focus, just like with a view camera.
35 mm • f/2.8 • 1/15 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 200 lux EV 6.2
Little Man
Little man dreams of the big life
85 mm • f/1.2 • 1/200 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 98 lux EV 5.2
A kerk
The A kerk looks insurmountably large because of the narrow space around it, except when you use a fish eye lens and convert to rectangular coordinates.
8 mm • f/7.1 • 4 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 17 lux EV 2.7
View
Our view has changed. Two buildings with more than a century difference in their age.
200 mm • f/18 • 1/2 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 1800 lux EV 9.3
Nieuwmarkt
View from De Waag over de Nieuwmarkt. In the distance de Oude Kerk
21 mm • f/8 • 1/180 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 20000 lux EV 12.8
Oost Vries Lant
Magnificent row of building facades along the Damrak in Amsterdam
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/15 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 50 lux EV 4.2
City Bus
The city bus zooms past in the narrow Gelkingestraat. The artwork behind it consists of Delft Blue QR Codes
8 mm • f/7.1 • 2 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 34 lux EV 3.7
Red Suit
The taillight of a women's bicycle or a ponytail may be enough to attract his attention.
85 mm • f/4 • 1/80 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 870 lux EV 8.3
Forty Winks
Taking forty winks in the sun, overlooking the Herengracht in Amsterdam. Not much more to wish for.
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/1000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 39000 lux EV 13.8
Lime
Radial architecture of a lime gives contours of revolution when cut
90 mm • f/9.5 • 1 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 150 lux EV 5.8
Watching
Attention is drawn. Body posture is adapted. The environment loses its importance.
500 mm • f/8 • 1/125 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 5500 lux EV 11
Coxswain
The woman who was coxswain in this team really felt in place today at the yearly Gyas-Hunze race in Groningen
135 mm • f/4.8 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 9800 lux EV 11.8
Loss of Face
Loss of face, but how exactly and why? A moving sculpture.
50 mm • f/2 • 1/25 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 170 lux EV 6
For Karen
Oh well, the road to the heart...
90 mm • f/9.5 • 1/1.4286 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 220 lux EV 6.3
Column
An advertisement column with layered years. What would be in it?
35 mm • f/4 • 2 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 3.4 lux EV 0.3
Urban Gothic
The Groningen Museum as backdrop for an exhibition on Urban Gothic
35 mm • f/4 • 6 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4.6 lux EV 0.7
Profile Cut
Sometimes a cut out of a profile of someone is so striking, that it really becomes interesting
185 mm • f/2.8 • 1/400 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1100 lux EV 8.6
Snow Hats
A stack of razor sharp crystals form hats of snow this morning for the red berries.
90 mm • f/9.5 • 1/30 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4600 lux EV 10.7
Hoge der A
Masts of ships and mansions. Groningen at its best.
135 mm • f/8 • 1/1500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 164000 lux EV 15.9
Old Controlhouse
The old controlhouse of the Westergas Factory, just opposite the studio of "De Wereld Leert Door", where I could present some research.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Amsterdam
This is typically Amsterdam. Great city!
50 mm • f/9.5 • 1/4000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 616000 lux EV 17.8
Teylers Ceiling
The Teylers Musuem in Haarlem has a magnificient ceiling: open, yet protecting, grand and a housing for centuries of science.
21 mm • f/2.8 • 1/30 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 400 lux EV 7.2
Knee Loads
Frames from a film I made on knee loads.
40 mm • f/8 • 1/15 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 330 lux EV 6.9
Lines
Lines stop or run on to infinity.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/1500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 164000 lux EV 15.9
LE22
The LE22, owned by Jan Visser is being restored in Urk.
35 mm • f/13 • 1/125 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 36000 lux EV 13.7
Urk
With a strong northern gale, a shower is blown away over the IJsselmeer, so that I can dry up in the winter sun.
35 mm • f/8 • 1/500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 55000 lux EV 14.3
Dinner
Waiting at the "Kleine Moghul" for our indian meal, with Karen and Marc.
12 mm • f/5.6 • 1/8 sec. • 2500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 27 lux EV 3.3
January 2013
Sunny Spell
A sunny spell at a surprisingly high temperature.
21 mm • f/5.7 • 1/500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 28000 lux EV 13.3
Imitation
Imitation is an important and deeply rooted part of our behaviour,
21 mm • f/5.7 • 1/60 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3300 lux EV 10.3
Romance
This corner of the academy building is filled with romance. Do with it what you like: read a beautiful book, whisper something in her ear or try your fountain pen.
21 mm • f/9.5 • 1/350 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 27000 lux EV 13.3
Trying out the Sun
The snow disappears and so it is a good idea to try out the sun. Together or alone, thinking.
50 mm • f/5.7 • 1/1000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 55000 lux EV 14.3
Evaporating Snow
Thaw is setting in and it is as though the snow is evaporating.
35 mm • f/2 • 1/2000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Last Chance
Last chance to do some skating. Here on the Paterswoldsemeer. The snow and thaw are coming in from the west.
42 mm • f/7.1 • 1/400 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • handheld 55000 lux EV 14.3
Sinking Feeling
That sinking feeling. When you are a swan you are a lot heavier than a duck and so when strange noises appear from under your feet, you look down and start to worry.
75 mm • f/5.7 • 1/125 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 6900 lux EV 11.3
Frozen Time
Deep in the night airbubbles were on their way up. They moved slower and slower and got frozen in time.
14 mm • f/3.5 • 1/160 sec. • 160 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • handheld 3300 lux EV 10.3
Snow Curtain
A curtain of snow slides unbelievably slowly down over the glass of a greenhouse. It looks as though it is elastic en deformable, but when you touch it, it is loose and brittle snow. Fascinating.
50 mm • f/6.7 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 19000 lux EV 12.8
Snow-Blind
Snow can be partially blinding. It gives this couple another view of the world in any case.
75 mm • f/2.4 • 1/2000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 20000 lux EV 12.8
Snow Dunes
This is how snowdunes are formed. Here helped by a small whirlwind at the north east corner of the Martini Toren.
35 mm • f/4.8 • 1/125 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2500 lux EV 9.8
Friescheveen
Skating on Friescheveen on sunday afternoon. Still posssible, but the snowstorm is approaching.
14 mm • f/7.1 • 1/320 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • handheld 44000 lux EV 14
Skating
Karen is skatin on the fantastic ice of one of the ponds in the Stadspark
14 mm • f/3.5 • 1/400 sec. • 160 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • handheld 8400 lux EV 11.6
André Kuipers
André Kuipers tells us how it is to be launched to space on the NASK conference in Den Bosch.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/60 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 50 lux EV 4.2
Lazarus is cold
Even the statue of the son of Jozef Islraëls is cold today.
135 mm • f/3.4 • 1/350 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 6900 lux EV 11.3
Earthshine
The earth is standing brightly above the moon horizon and illuminates the long moon night.
500 mm • f/11 • 1 sec. • 1000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 33 lux EV 3.6
Similarity
"Everywhere I look, something reminds me of her" (Leslie Nielsen playing Lt. Frank Drebin in "The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!")
75 mm • f/4 • 1/90 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2500 lux EV 9.8
Blooming Brollies
Nature has gone completely mad due to the soft weather at the start of the new year: the brollies are blooming already!
21 mm • f/4.8 • 1/15 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 590 lux EV 7.8
Train Leaving
The train is leaving. A closed capsule. Travelers find a place.
21 mm • f/3.4 • 1/2 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 20 lux EV 2.9
Correct?
This seagull is thinking hard whether it is correct what is written on this sign. "Garbage collection on Moon and Thursday. From 6:00 h until collection"
75 mm • f/1.7 • 1/500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2500 lux EV 9.8
Upside Down
That's how I encountered her in the "d" of "I amsterdam" on De Dam.
75 mm • f/2.8 • 1/30 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 400 lux EV 7.2
The Kyteman Orchestra
On the Eurosonic Noorderslag Festival part of the line up was The Kyteman Orchestra on the Grote Markt. A curious combination of artists. Nice music.
150 mm • f/4 • 1/100 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 550 lux EV 7.6
Stern Facade
A stern facade on a winter night turns its back on us.
85 mm • f/1.2 • 1/10 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4.9 lux EV 0.8
Taciturn
Two taciturn men. Being together is enhanced by the silence.
135 mm • f/3.4 • 1/45 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 890 lux EV 8.3
Europe
The Netherlands can hardly be found on this two Euro coin.
40 mm • f/5.6 • 1/50 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 670 lux EV 7.9
Photo Microscope
A Cooke Troughton Simms M1000 microscope equipped with a tube to which I connected a mount for a Canon EOS camera, here a 5DII. The lenses are photo lenses (a Zeiss Luminar 40/4.0 and a Leitz Photar 12.5/2.4) that the full frame sensor cover throughout. The fine adjustment only moves the lenses, not the camera, so that a high accuracy is reached.
75 mm • f/6.7 • 1/3.3333 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 260 lux EV 6.5
Table Water
Water on the table is part of a good diner. You can taste everything better. Subdued light is also favourable. Good companionship helps.
50 mm • f/1.2 • 1/180 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 440 lux EV 7.3
Separation
Sometimes a separation leads nowhere.
75 mm • f/4 • 1/180 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4900 lux EV 10.8
Pitbull Bike
He turned is motorbike over the pavement and encountered me as a pedestrian. He braked and growled with his engine. Pitbull bike.
21 mm • f/9.5 • 1/350 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 13000 lux EV 12.3
New Years Party
The party in Huize Maas as a replacement of the new years party in the Oosterpoort, which was canceled due to cutbacks, was smaller, but nevertheless whirling.
4.1 mm • f/2.4 • 1/15 sec. • 3200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7.4 lux EV 1.4
Intimidating
Yes, I know, tall women can be a bit intimidating, but attractive at the same time.
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/125 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4900 lux EV 10.8
December 2012
Oliebollen
Oliebollen (deep fried dough balls) are part of the turn of the year in the Netherlands and so people are prepared to wait a long time here on the Grote Markt in Groningen.
21 mm • f/5.6 • 1/60 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3200 lux EV 10.2
Xmas Tree
Nign sided stars emerge in my camera at the passage through my aperture. Perspective emerges in your head.
50 mm • f/3.4 • 1/15 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 300 lux EV 6.8
Windshear
This microburst shows windshear very nicely: differences in wind velocity and direction in layers on top of each other
50 mm • f/8 • 1/500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 55000 lux EV 14.3
Rules of the House
Railway Station Almere Central was opened in 1987 and with the recently opened Hanzetrack, it now has become a transfer station for travellers between the North and the Randstad.
50 mm • f/3.4 • 1/12 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 240 lux EV 6.4
White House
On the border of the ring of canals of Groningen you can find some magnificent houses.
35 mm • f/4 • 8 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 3.4 lux EV 0.3
Humming Top
Just like my humming top from long ago, a magical mixture of colours and movement. In this case complemented by the piercing screams of scottish schoolgirls. Apparently they have no experience with the Flying Jump and is this wonderful old fashioned merry-go-round sufficient.
21 mm • f/4 • 1/3.3333 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 23 lux EV 3.1
Ebenezer Scrooge
She told us that the mean Ebenezer Scrooge (placed by Charles Dickens in "A Christmas Carol") was based on misunderstanding of the scottish accent and in fact was a very friendly man.
35 mm • f/2 • 1/30 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 26 lux EV 3.3
Coffee
Coffee can do weird things with people. This rather classic looking redhead lady demonstrates this.
42 mm • f/5.6 • 1/8 sec. • 400 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • tripod 170 lux EV 6
Arthur's Seat
While climbing Arthur's Seat, a dead volcano near Edinburgh, the windforce was 8 Beaufort. The light changed every five minutes.
50 mm • f/16 • 1/2000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 874000 lux EV 18.3
Paolozzi
In the rain in front of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art we discovered a sculpture by Paolozzi that showed quite some resemblance with me: glasses, strong legs, concentration, science.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/90 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1200 lux EV 8.8
Chronophage
A huge insect eats time and so is called chronophage. This clockwork in the National Museum of Scotland stops sometimes briefly, just like experienced time sometimes stops. Very appropriate on this particular date.
50 mm • f/2 • 1/30 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 200 lux EV 6.2
The Eye
Walking through the Modern Art Museum in Glasgow we entered a gallery in which an enormous eye looked at us from above.
12 mm • f/8 • 1/8 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 440 lux EV 7.3
Two Worlds
Two enterprises in tiny premises, divided by a paperthin wall; each with their own world of know-how: a bicycle shop and a law practice.
75 mm • f/1.7 • 1/90 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 220 lux EV 6.3
Westbow
Some streets in Edinburgh are really steep, but it does not prevent people from cycling.
50 mm • f/2.4 • 1/30 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 290 lux EV 6.8
Edinburgh
Edinburgh is a great city, especially at twilight. Here an impression from the window of our appartment.
75 mm • f/4 • 2 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 14 lux EV 2.3
Crows
This is about the mood setting outside. Crows that look for some food before the rain comes.
36 mm • f/5.6 • 1/50 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • handheld 4300 lux EV 10.6
Toet
If you would want to cast someone for this role in a movie, you could not have done it better by choosing her. She has a great face.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3300 lux EV 10.3
Christmas Wall
She lost her overview a bit on The Hague Central Station due to the enormous red christmas tree.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/30 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 100 lux EV 5.2
Anna
Anna is acting like an ice queen today. Perhaps tomorrow she is different.
50 mm • f/9.5 • 2 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 77 lux EV 4.8
Garden House
This garden house, designed by Maris, was built for the industrialist Scholten in 1866, so that he could wait for the train, that stopped for him there if required.
50 mm • f/2 • 1/30 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 100 lux EV 5.2
A-Kerk
Again snow over Groningen. Just have to wait until the bells will be heard to let the image find completion.
21 mm • f/2.8 • 1/2 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 27 lux EV 3.3
Sandwich Bert
I think she could eat me alive.
75 mm • f/2.4 • 1/90 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 440 lux EV 7.3
Old Wood
When a door made out of old wood is sanded down, some paint remains in the wood.
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/45 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 55 lux EV 4.3
Frozen
Quite a shame when even your drinking water is frozen.
14 mm • f/8 • 1/320 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • handheld 56000 lux EV 14.3
Market in Winter
Salesmen try to keep it as comfortable as possible for their customers with plastic tents and heating to keep turnover high.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/60 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1600 lux EV 9.2
Prinsentuin
In the snow everything becomes simpler. The color palette becomes smaller, the forms accentuated.
21 mm • f/6.7 • 1/60 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4600 lux EV 10.7
First Snow
On Sinterklaas evening, the first snow falls this winter in Groningen.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/45 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 75 lux EV 4.8
Oliebollen
The light of the oliebollen stall just before dinner time in the dark and the rain produces an attractive force, but I appear to have sufficient escape velocity to pass it.
50 mm • f/2.4 • 1/90 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 440 lux EV 7.3
Brocante
She was attending a brocante stand and suited perfectly.
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/25 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 120 lux EV 5.5
Karen
Not so difficult to find Karen in a large bookstore: These bookshelves contain her fields of interest!
14 mm • f/3.5 • 1/20 sec. • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • handheld 330 lux EV 6.9
412
The Gispen 412 chair is the best known from the collection and was designed in 1934. After being completely worn out, a new cover was applied and now he can serve another 10 years as think chair.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/60 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • 1000x ND filter • handheld 50000 lux EV 14.2
November 2012
De Dam
The monument on the Dam in Amsterdam with a double shadow of myself.
75 mm • f/1.4 • 1/90 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 75 lux EV 4.8
Jupiter
Jupiter with its largest moons rises above the horizon. The full moon follows and hides behind the band of clouds.
200 mm • f/2.8 • 1 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2.7 lux EV 0
Mariza
Fado singer Mariza was in the Oosterpoort. Here a subdued moment. This woman convinces instantly.
75 mm • f/1.4 • 1/60 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 40 lux EV 3.9
Full Moon
The landscape on my trainings round. Stilled, full moon, peaceful and deserted. Would the good Saint still come?
21 mm • f/4 • 24 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 0.6 lux EV -2.3
Bicycles Will Be Removed
Amsterdam is often quite relaxed. This bicycle of a visitor of a coffee shop is not locked and placed in a location where it will be removed according to the sign in the window.
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/25 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 62 lux EV 4.5
Bachelorette Party
A bachelorette party, with the girls a night out. They asked me to take a picture on the Dam and after it, their attention was distracted again and I exposed this one.
35 mm • f/5.7 • 1/25 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 690 lux EV 8
Running Bride
It was not clear why, but she was running as though her life depended on it. Was she too late for the ceremony, or was she just in time in taking a decision to run away?
50 mm • f/5.7 • 1/25 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1400 lux EV 9
Braiding Wheels
Braiding a set of wheels for my fixed gear city bicycle. As you can see the front wheel is ready, while the rear wheel still needs to be tightened and trued. When the Jamaican boys brought their simple bicycles to New York city, to deliver packages, such a bicycle appeared to have advantages over a complete road bicycle and so the messengers of New York took over the habit: a bicycle with one single gear, simple, easy to maintain and the technology is replaced by riding agility: accelerating with a lot of force and on the long straights easily spinning, like a track racer.
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/30 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 74 lux EV 4.8
Biological Lock
Parking your bicycle, while your dog takes care of it not getting stolen. But mentally the dog was not in good shape. His body language showed little faith.
21 mm • f/4.8 • 1/60 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1200 lux EV 8.8
Golden Epke
Epke Zonderland (sometimes lovingly called "Appke" or "Aapke") signs my book and adds a nice personal dedication.
50 mm • f/3.4 • 1/45 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 890 lux EV 8.3
Academy Building
Temple of science. It looks older than it really is, this academy building of the university of Groningen. Still it is always nice to see the defence of a thesis, provided it is a good thesis.
21 mm • f/6.7 • 1/8 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 150 lux EV 5.8
Nautilus
This Nautilus shell consists of logarithmic spirals, which was caused by the fact that its growing rate was proportional to its size.
75 mm • f/2.8 • 1/45 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 300 lux EV 6.8
Bark
Dead trees can decay in a wonderful way.
50 mm • f/11 • 1/90 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 19000 lux EV 12.7
Snack Wisely
This Zwarte Piet of today offers a snack that is healthy, but it is accepted with some reluctance.
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/350 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Xmas?
What kind of xmas would she be thinking of?
75 mm • f/2.4 • 1/180 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 880 lux EV 8.3
Pecha Kucha
The Pecha Kucha audience in the Euroborg was very relaxed just before my lecture.
75 mm • f/1.4 • 1/25 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 21 lux EV 2.9
Cooler
It is getting cooler all the time, so a horse can really use something extra.
75 mm • f/2.8 • 1/90 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1200 lux EV 8.8
Skateboarders
Waiting together at the counter. Still that slight feeling of rolling under your feet.
50 mm • f/2.4 • 1/12 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 59 lux EV 4.4
The Portrait
Strangers look each other in the eyes for quite some time, resulting in a portrait.
75 mm • f/2.8 • 1/90 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1200 lux EV 8.8
Triple Jump
In the middle of flight on an autumnal track.
8 mm • f/3.5 • 1/4000 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Number
We become numbers in society, disappearing in the masses.
75 mm • f/4 • 1/90 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2500 lux EV 9.8
Candle in the Window
Her husband died many years ago, but she still puts a candle in the window, just like those days, when he was gone.
75 mm • f/2.4 • 1/125 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1200 lux EV 8.8
Dark City
In the darkest parts of the city there is always some stray light and when you photograph with a long exposure time, you can see how beautiful a transformer station can be: a street gallery in the colours of the dessert.
50 mm • f/4 • 16 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1.7 lux EV -0.7
Rain
It's dark early, it's raining, a deserted Vismarkt. Raindrops on the lens, but this city remains beautiful.
14 mm • f/5.6 • 3.2 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • handheld 27 lux EV 3.3
Sawed Off
Sawed off in the prime of life. Did he become too strong? Did he take away too much light. Who knows. He just leaves an exclamation mark.
50 mm • f/6.7 • 1/25 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1900 lux EV 9.5
UMCG
This lab of the UMCG looks a bit like an overloaded plastic wrapping box en becomes nicely dynamical in this way.
50 mm • f/9.5 • 1/500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 77000 lux EV 14.8
Pollard Willows
A row of pollard willows with sails in the blueish distance.
135 mm • f/13 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 72000 lux EV 14.7
Night Train
He takes the night train to Berlin. Lonely traveller with dreams in his backpack.
135 mm • f/2.4 • 1/30 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 74 lux EV 4.8
Victor Lamme
Victor Lamme discussed his book "Free will does not exist" on the conference in Maastricht today. As you can see he moved his right leg involuntarily.
21 mm • f/2.8 • 1/15 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 50 lux EV 4.2
Maastricht
Maastricht at dusk. A shipper family starts with the potatoes with gravy.
21 mm • f/2.8 • 1/90 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1200 lux EV 8.8
October 2012
Double Reflection
Our clock is reflected twice in the double glazing in the house opposite. The sizes of the reflections of our clock are different due to curvature of the two panes of glass. The outer pane is curving toward us, while the inner pane is curving away from us. That is due to overpressure between the panes. That overpressure can be caused by incorrect mounting of the windows and with warm weather one of the panes may break.
200 mm • f/9 • 1/100 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Public Academy
Last night was the public academy devoted to feet and foot complaints. Professor Klaas Postema and myself were asked to educate the people of Groningen.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/90 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 150 lux EV 5.8
Epke Honoured
Epke Zonderland was honoured together with other topsport students from Groningen, among which Marit Dopheide (at Epke's left side), student movement sciences and runner.
21 mm • f/3.4 • 1/6 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 30 lux EV 3.4
Buddha Palm
I bought this nut from the Buddha Palm on the flowermarket in Amsterdam. It appears to be a Cerbera odollam, which carries fragrant white flowers. It becomes about 3 meter high. The nut hardly weighs anything.
105 mm • f/11 • 1 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 330 lux EV 6.9
Tunnel to Heaven
This segmented tunnel is used to dump building waste down to street level, but when the building crew is gone, you see a tunnel to heaven.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/350 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 38000 lux EV 13.8
Orgasmic
For the third time she let herself be launched just by herself in the bungy machine up into the sky.
135 mm • f/11 • 1/3000 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 155000 lux EV 15.8
Autumn Bicycle
Magnificent how this bicycle fits in the autumn landscape!
135 mm • f/3.4 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4900 lux EV 10.8
Cycling
Cycling is surprisingly efficient compared to walking. Fantastic means of transportation.
21 mm • f/4 • 1/15 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 200 lux EV 6.2
Beaucarnea Recurvata
A Beaucarnea Recurvata is a desert plant that has been standing in our living room for 15 years without growing or changing. One month ago, suddenly a branch grew out of the middle and now it exploded into blossom. Remarkable, especially given the fact that we just entered autumn.
50 mm • f/4 • 4 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 6.8 lux EV 1.3
Autumn 2
Sunny and a bit of fog. I love autumn weather!
75 mm • f/5.7 • 1/4000 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 55000 lux EV 14.3
Autumn
The leaves reflect more and more light in autumn, because the chlorophyll is broken down in parts. Normally more colours are absorbed, giving the leaves their green colour so that the trees can live, but some parts of the chlorophyll are broken down earlier. Sometimes the blue absorbing parts are broken down and you get yellow leaves. Sometimes the cyan absorbing parts are broken down and you get red leaves.
50 mm • f/2 • 1/3000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 20000 lux EV 12.9
Farmers Couple
With a loose reference to our agricultural past, this couple makes plans for the journey.
75 mm • f/3.4 • 1/1000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 20000 lux EV 12.8
Clean
It is not easy to keep a large stadium clean. Human proportions are vanishing almost into nothing.
135 mm • f/5.7 • 1/1500 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 42000 lux EV 13.9
Jazz Singer
She was a singer on a conference in the Grolsch Veste in Enschede and sang this particular song with lots of emotion.
75 mm • f/2 • 1/45 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 77 lux EV 4.8
Ssssh
She advises the bystanders to be silent. A woman dressed like in a fantasy comic.
135 mm • f/5.6 • 1/500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 27000 lux EV 13.3
French Mannequin
The neck of this french mannequin is covered with an old comic about a man on the run for a bear in a deforrested landscape. Bizarre!
50 mm • f/2.4 • 1/4000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 39000 lux EV 13.8
Shadow World
The construction industry in this time of crisis offers a shadow world of interests and money.
80 mm • f/2.8 • 1/50 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 270 lux EV 6.6
Marieke Falkmann
Marieke, movement scientist, was the fastest dutch woman today at the 4 miles of Groningen.
200 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1000 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5400 lux EV 10.9
Greasy Mouth
After shopping on Saturday it this couple always gets a greasy mouth at the local Snackbar.
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 9800 lux EV 11.8
ArenA
The Amsterdam ArenA reflected in one of the many office buildings around it. It is true that it is not very practical, but if the original design would have been like this, I certainly would have liked it.
75 mm • f/6.7 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 19000 lux EV 12.8
Grazing Light
The late autumn sunlight comes low through our street and grazes this beautiful old building. It does not last more than a minute. The earth races on in its long lastig rotation.
500 mm • f/11 • 1/80 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 26000 lux EV 13.2
Bike and Rail
Bike and rail nicely complement each other, here depicted in a single image.
50 mm • f/6.7 • 1/250 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4800 lux EV 10.8
Feeding the Pigeons
She came very far from China to feed the Dutch pigeons. Rats with wings? Oh no! She thinks they are sweet.
75 mm • f/5.7 • 1/2000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 111000 lux EV 15.3
Puutje
That's the name in the Groningen dialect: a cornet is a "puutje" and it is just lying in the street, like a little sculpture in the autumn light.
50 mm • f/6.7 • 1/2000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 153000 lux EV 15.8
Man from the Past
It is just like he arrived today from the past on the Grote Markt in Groningen.
50 mm • f/6.7 • 1/180 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Cat
Few animals that so fantastically take their own place.
50 mm • f/2.4 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2500 lux EV 9.8
Undesired Serenade
Not every flaming serenade performance is desired. Perhaps she was more into shopping or she simply isn't attracted to women.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/4000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 109000 lux EV 15.3
Outdoor Café
In the autumn it is often on the verge: sitting outdoor or indoor in the café. Time for contemplations.
50 mm • f/5.7 • 1/60 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3300 lux EV 10.3
Station at Night
A trainstation at night. The trains run less frequent, waiting lasts longer, the day tumbles through your head. Tomorrow starting early. Today it was 22 years ago that Germany became one.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/250 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 210 lux EV 6.3
Bus 650
Bus 650 to Assen is not primarily used to travel to Assen, because the train is faster. But to travel to one of the small villages between Groningen en Assen.
50 mm • f/11 • 1/60 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 12000 lux EV 12.1
Media Building
This mediabuilding in Hilversum always evoked mixed feelings: all those saturated colour patches... But now that I have seen it close by, I do appreciate it. The outside is clad in glass panels with reliefs of television images.
21 mm • f/9.5 • 1/350 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 54000 lux EV 14.3
September 2012
Half a Wheel
Half a wheel sticks out of the water and is supplemented by its reflection.
75 mm • f/2.8 • 1/60 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 400 lux EV 7.2
Coincidence
Here my place, moment in time, position of the sun and shower coincided in such a way that the rainbow seemed to hit the Church of Saint Nicholas in Amsterdam.
35 mm • f/11 • 1/60 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 12000 lux EV 12.1
Jan Kooijman
Dancer Jan Kooijman was the subject of an episode of Pavlov on Dutch talent as seen from a scientific perspective. Here he gives his reactions to director Remco Groen on the scientific results of our experiments. Broadcast on 8th of November, 21.00 h. Ned.3.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/25 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 170 lux EV 5.9
The Bar
Now that the days are shortening, people have conversations at a bar in temperate lighting.
75 mm • f/1.4 • 1/500 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 210 lux EV 6.3
Locked Bicycle
High quality steel chains are used to prevent bicycles from changing owner.
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/12 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 30 lux EV 3.4
East Wall
The east wall of the Grote Markt in Groningen has really become very simple in this way. An almost theatrical situation emerges.
50 mm • f/2.4 • 1/60 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 290 lux EV 6.8
On the Train
When you are looking in front of you on your way to a job, you see all kinds of backs of heads in the train. This was the most striking one today.
50 mm • f/2.4 • 1/30 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 150 lux EV 5.8
Molen de Helper
Molen de Helper is ready to turn. The sails have been applied and the miller checks if there is anybody too close, risking getting hit by the mill.
14 mm • f/6.3 • 1/1250 sec. • 125 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • handheld 108000 lux EV 15.3
Humanitas
Today the Humanitas Closeby Day. Here in Groningen children release balloons. The message: members of society that need some temporary support are helped by volunteers with friendliness and respect without any religious flavour.
21 mm • f/6.7 • 1/3000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 230000 lux EV 16.4
Sikh
When a Sikh takes a picture, it readily looks like a holy ritual, and perhaps it indeed is exactly that. On his sweater it says "I am a Sikh" with some explanation. Not everybody with a cloth wrapped around their head has the same background, spirituality or intentions with their fellow man.
75 mm • f/1.4 • 1/3000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 10000 lux EV 11.8
Porsche Drowning
A Porsche Cayenne hit the water this evening because a rented truck backed up against it and pushed it in the water. The car was less than a year old and has a new value of 120.000 Euro. Fortunately there were no passengers or a driver in the car. The owner of the car was called by the security firm that was called by the drowning car. The owner said: no, my car is still standing outside in front of my house, until he looked out of the window and saw his car sinking.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/12 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 10 lux EV 1.9
Shoes in the Sky
Students keep inventing new options: in this way shoes stay nice and airy.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/4 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 54 lux EV 4.3
Assistance Dog
With your assistance dog, your computer and your motorized wheelchair, you come a long way.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/90 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 300 lux EV 6.8
Bell Jar
This part of the Groninger Museum looks like an enormous bell jar under which they are hiding arty sweets.
35 mm • f/4 • 8 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 3.4 lux EV 0.3
Geography Lesson
Look, this is also an option! Atharina gives geography lessons in the street.
35 mm • f/5.7 • 1/2000 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 55000 lux EV 14.3
A Royal Affair
Realities that seem to converge.
135 mm • f/4 • 2 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 14 lux EV 2.3
The Interview
Master students interview a 91 year old lady on her life, health, movements and memories.
21 mm • f/4 • 1/45 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 310 lux EV 6.8
Music!
Because today this PhotoBlog exists 3 years.
75 mm • f/2 • 1/8 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 55 lux EV 4.3
To Vote
To vote in the Puddingfabriek. First she gets her voting card out of her bag and only after voting, she takes a glass of prosecco, because it may be that before it, her vote may be influenced.
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/45 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 220 lux EV 6.3
Four Pots
It seems as though you look from below at the pots, because the sun throws shadows from above on the sunshade.
50 mm • f/5.7 • 1/1500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 83000 lux EV 14.9
Red Head
At school she was nicknamed, but look how beautiful she is. A coming model.
200 mm • f/2.8 • 1/800 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Eight Steps
On the Werkmanbrug in Groningen, mixed traffic of pedestrians and cyclists is the general situation. Mostly it just organizes itself.
50 mm • f/16 • 4 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • 1000x ND filter • tripod 109000 lux EV 15.3
New Church
The New Church in Groningen has an age of 350 years old. From the archway of the tower you look over Groningen. An experience on Open Monuments Day.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/4000 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 206000 lux EV 16.2
Hoist Beams
Typical for Amsterdam: hoist beams, because the stairways are too narrow to get the furnture to the levels inside the building.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/1500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 164000 lux EV 15.9
Postcard
It went very fast: receiving a handwritten postcard has become rare. Very nice to get, particularly from Amsterdam.
90 mm • f/8 • 1/2 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 220 lux EV 6.3
Political Discussion
A discussion on the left wing between the Social Party and Green Left.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • 64x ND filter • handheld 107000 lux EV 15.3
Here comes the bride
A single glance. A whole movie, no, a whole life tumbles through my head.
200 mm • f/2.8 • 1/3200 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Smiley
Something makes him happy. But what is that really, being happy?
85 mm • f/2.2 • 1/6400 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 85000 lux EV 14.9
Brimming with Hobby
Yes, she is brimming with hobby. However, it is an expensive and very time consuming hobby.
85 mm • f/2.5 • 1/1600 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 27000 lux EV 13.3
Dangerous City
Life in the city is not without dangers.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/1500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • 16x ND filter • handheld 80000 lux EV 14.8
August 2012
IJssel
On summer evenings the IJssel is even more beatiful. The sun illuminated clouds illuminate the water and the water returns some of the light back to the clouds.
21 mm • f/3.4 • 1/350 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 6900 lux EV 11.3
Artist at Work
It is so nice to be able to work in your own environment with concentration. No appointments, no telephone, no chattering.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/250 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 420 lux EV 7.3
Marloes Coenen
For a new program in the series Pavlov by the NTR television, Marloes Coenen (multiple Mixed Martial Arts champion) contemplates how to attack this punchbag, that was instrumented to measure her punching power in our lab.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/180 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2400 lux EV 9.8
Bommen Berend
Fireworks celebrating Bommen Berend 2012. Groningen was released from the occupation in 1672 placed on the city by the bishop of Münster. Dark times in which religion and politics were strongly intertwined. We have been able to improve that situation by only a small margin since then.
40 mm • f/5 • 1/10 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 170 lux EV 6
NO!
Sometimes only a single word pops up in your head: "NO!" Oh yeah, that feels nice!
50 mm • f/3.4 • 1/750 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 15000 lux EV 12.4
Ball Gown
Ready for a dance on the Noorderzon Festival in her ball gown.
50 mm • f/3.4 • 1/60 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1200 lux EV 8.8
What is Behind that Curtain?
Nathalie takes a peek in one of the dark spaces of the last performance of "Open Mind", entitled "Imagination Sparks Movement".
21 mm • f/2.8 • 1/125 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod 210 lux EV 6.3
Amplified
On the fair everything is amplified: movement, colour, sound. But our senses and nervous system regulate everything down: we adapt to it and so you can have a pieceful conversation.
21 mm • f/6.7 • 1 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 77 lux EV 4.8
Magnetic Presence
A poster that goes with a performance on movement and imagination on the Noorderzonfestival 2012. Performance art inspired by science.
21 mm • f/4 • 3 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 9.1 lux EV 1.7
Aunt Alichia
Aunt Alichia has passed twenty years of age some time ago, but still has the flair of a real Surinam lady.
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/30 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 150 lux EV 5.8
Evolution
Here we see an important step in the evolution of the bicycle: he climbs ashore and evolves from waterbicycle to landbicycle.
24 mm • f/4 • 1/640 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 28000 lux EV 13.3
Young Photographer
David, a young talented photographer, composing an image.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/6 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 5 lux EV 0.9
The Mask
This dancer received little attention on De Dam. Could it be because of the mask?
21 mm • f/9.5 • 1/1000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 154000 lux EV 15.8
Cut
Pages of a book are cut by a knife, so that they are identical in dimensions. But the knife has acquired some dents over de years and so the signature of the knife is visible in the cut.
105 mm • f/8 • 1/10 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 1700 lux EV 9.3
Noorderzon 2012
The Noorderzon festival has started again and naturally the visitors also are part of the performing art, while walking through the light beam of the logo projector.
21 mm • f/4 • 2 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 14 lux EV 2.3
Bat
It's only a short time segment in which they can hunt, and if they do, they fly in specific patterns over your head. Here an exposure with a strobe flash unit firing at 16 flashes per second. After a few exposures you see them return wearing the latest model sunglasses.
65 mm • f/5.6 • 1/1.25 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 13 lux EV 2.3
Photo Finish
I find he photo finish photo's that I saw at the olympics absolutely fascinating. The time axis is smeared out over the horizontal side of the photo, whereby the limbs are deformed due to the movement. Here four studies from a video recording I made with 300 frames per second (512x384 pixels), interpolated to 1500 frames per second (handcoded OpenCV) and from a series of four vertical framelines, the images were composed. The background becomes nicely simple, because it is coming from a single vertical line in the images. In a real finish photo the background is often white, because it is the smeared out white finish line.
50 mm • f/4 • 4 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 6.8 lux EV 1.3
Lammerduyn
A photograph of a building and a drawing of the building. Function and form tightly connected.
21 mm • f/9.5 • 1/180 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 28000 lux EV 13.3
Comment
This lady gave a comment on the party that was unfolding behind me as part of the introduction week for students at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.
21 mm • f/9.5 • 1/500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 77000 lux EV 14.8
Aurochs
These animals have been put into the landscape again. So beautiful.
42 mm • f/5.6 • 1/50 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • handheld 4300 lux EV 10.6
Me, Myself and I
It is not always easy to place yourself on the spot of attention.
12 mm • f/11 • 1/1000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 206000 lux EV 16.2
I love Gelato
He loves gelato and she also.
21 mm • f/2.8 • 1/250 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1700 lux EV 9.3
Composite
The heart of a small composite flower shows how the partial flowers emerge. The plant cells that are visible here undergo changes in turgor (pressure) through which the buds pop open.
40 mm • f/4 • 1/8 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • tripod 350 lux EV 7
Simple Sheep
De afsluitdijk always forms a simple backdrop, in this case for a single sheep.
14 mm • f/6.3 • 1/2000 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • handheld 217000 lux EV 16.3
Front
A front is approaching over the city of Groningen.
30 mm • f/5.3 • 1/1600 sec. • 125 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • handheld 98000 lux EV 15.1
Summer
In the summer, time seems to slow down in the streets
2.5 mm • f/2.8 • 1/3800 sec. • 100 ISO • GoPro sensor • handheld 81000 lux EV 14.9
Secret Code
This ship's hull contains secret code, or so it seems. In any case, it is a collection of small dents and repairs that the ship has undergone in its 111 years of existence.
20 mm • f/6.3 • 1/1600 sec. • 125 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • handheld 139000 lux EV 15.6
Yellow Dragonfly
The name "Dragonfly" comes from the greek "derkein", which means "sharp-sighted one". The true resolution of the eyes of dragonflies is not very high (every facet forms the equivalent of a pixel in a digital photograph), but the angle of vision and colour vision is excellent up to far in the ultraviolet. This flower could therefore be a radiant object of attraction for this beautiful insect.
105 mm • f/16 • 1/200 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 140000 lux EV 15.6
Bubble
An enormous soap bubble with a short lifespan wobbles in front of the Palace on the Dam. Other people with me are looking up.
75 mm • f/13 • 1/350 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 101000 lux EV 15.2
Goodbye
A duck adjusts her feathers after an intense goodbye, a lady pulls her skirt down.
50 mm • f/2 • 1/180 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1200 lux EV 8.8
Grain
While riding the Noorderrondrit, taking a short rest and looking over the fields with the golden grain.
21 mm • f/9.5 • 1/1000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 154000 lux EV 15.8
July 2012
Razor
We started with one razor knife for shaving, and now we use five blades in a row. Everytime new and different arguments were given for increasing the number of blades. In fact I never have gotten used to the fairy tales that are sold with the products we buy.
40 mm • f/4 • 1/20 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • tripod 870 lux EV 8.3
Tiny Garden
In the middle of old Amsterdam she is reading a book in her tiny garden. Passive resistance to the hordes of tourists.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/350 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 38000 lux EV 13.8
Peace
Summer evening in peace. The dutch prairie.
20 mm • f/5 • 1/2000 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • handheld 137000 lux EV 15.6
Peize
Always a nice field to pass, during my training lap near Peize.
20 mm • f/8 • 1/400 sec. • 160 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • handheld 44000 lux EV 14
To let Go
Not easy to let go, when people are leaving.
20 mm • f/1.7 • 1/400 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • handheld 3200 lux EV 10.2
Sun in the Shadow
Like many people I simply love the sun, as long as she is in the shadow.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/1500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 164000 lux EV 15.9
Lartigue Wheel
This wheel was photographed with a presentday digital camera (GoProHero2) with a CMOS sensor and shows the effect known from the days of slitshutter camera's: a rolling wheel becomes deformed into an oval and the spokes are curved. Jacques Henri Lartigue made a photograph showing this effect, but in the other direction: the wheel leaned into the rolling direction, enhancing the sense of speed. His slitshutter moved from the top to the bottom in his camera, while this digital sensor is read out from the bottom to the top, image line by image line, giving this peculiar deformation. The advice for getting the effect of Lartigue is to turn the camera one half turn around the optical axis. (for an explanation, see my animation here: Click)
2.5 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1500 sec. • 100 ISO • GoPro sensor • handheld 32000 lux EV 13.5
Endless Summer
The summer seems endless, the bad weather forgotten.
50 mm • f/5.7 • 1/180 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 10000 lux EV 11.8
Ruled Surface
A curved surface can consist of a collection of straight line segments (a ruled surface) and in this way contain its own beauty.
21 mm • f/9.5 • 1/90 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Fountainpen
Suddenly an enormous fountainpen in the landscape. Remains of a double layered brick industrial chimney.
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/2000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 79000 lux EV 14.8
Crisis
Undressed by the crisis? Well aren't we just enjoying ourselves? Or has a certain grayness coloured the world?
2.5 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1100 sec. • 100 ISO • GoPro sensor • handheld 24000 lux EV 13.1
Butch
Here I expected a woman as certified personnel.
50 mm • f/9.5 • 1/750 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • uit de hand 115000 lux EV 15.4
Murder in the Rain
Murder investigation in Groningen.
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 9800 lux EV 11.8
Torn
Wet and torn, the announcement of last month turns up.
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 9800 lux EV 11.8
Evening Lily
A water lily closes itself in the evening. The water is slow and heavy with life.
105 mm • f/11 • 1/200 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 66000 lux EV 14.6
Music
Music kan transport you far away from here and now.
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2500 lux EV 9.8
Bun
Sometimes a father tries to feed a baby of 3 months old a bun. All with good intent. Quite sweet.
75 mm • f/2 • 1/350 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2400 lux EV 9.8
All the World's a Stage
"All the world's a stage" wrote Shakespeare in "As you like it". In which role would these people be on this stage?
21 mm • f/4 • 2 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 14 lux EV 2.3
Heerenhuis
The hollyhocks in front of this mansion grow freshly every year up to the first floor, where time has stopped since the days they used five digits for dialing a telephone number in Amsterdam.
50 mm • f/1 • 1/1500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2600 lux EV 9.9
Sinking Radiant
The sun is sinking radiantly. The curious thing is that the sun is so far away that her rays may be considered to be parallel, but in the image they clearly form angles with each other. That is due to the perspective in the image, just like parallel train rails seem to form an angle with each other.
50 mm • f/16 • 1/1000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 437000 lux EV 17.3
Salt
De roadsalt has been coming through the cracks of the Hereweg viaduct for decades and has accumulated in white threads. The pigeons don't use it, since there usually is salt already on the french fries they find.
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/15 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 18 lux EV 2.8
Ship's Cat
The ship's cat makes her little round before the weather changes.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 27000 lux EV 13.3
Little Sluice
This little sluice separates the Paterswoldsemeer from the Hoornsediep. It leaks a little and that gives a pleasant sound.
21 mm • f/4 • 1/15 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 410 lux EV 7.2
Pole Dynamics
Seen from more than one perspective, this pole is interesting. From a traffic control point of view ofcourse. But also from a physics point of view. The angle of the pole and the length of the deformed part make it possible to calculate the mass and velocity of the colliding vehicle.
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/350 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1700 lux EV 9.3
Longing for a Cigarette
Gré is longing for a cigarette on the party of the Rivierenbuurt in Groningen.
135 mm • f/5.7 • 1/3000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 166000 lux EV 15.9
Friendly Fight
This fight between father and daughter has to be done smiling.
50 mm • f/2.4 • 1/500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4900 lux EV 10.8
De Silo
The roof of the Silo is being carried by bows, while the walls are kept in by tension threads.
21 mm • f/5.7 • 1/12 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 670 lux EV 7.9
Experiment
An experiment with two snails. Snails only have a limited number of neurons, but they still display complex behaviour, especially when another snail is close by.
75 mm • f/2.8 • 1/125 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1700 lux EV 9.3
Skateposture
Recording the skateposture: the knee angled at about 90 degrees, the trunk nicely horizontal with sufficient space for circulation.
50 mm • f/6.7 • 1/30 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2300 lux EV 9.7
Biomechanics
A nice problem in biomechanics. If this would be like it is meant to look like (she carries him from the wrist and he carries himself from the wrist), they would be 20 times stronger than the average human being. Strong as steel!
21 mm • f/2.8 • 1/500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 6700 lux EV 11.3
Lunatic
Sometimes Bruno gets a little lunatic, leaning on the railing and muttering under his dogbreath.
75 mm • f/5.7 • 1/1000 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 28000 lux EV 13.3
June 2012
Old New Town
Old Amsterdam reflected in a modern overpass. The new and old town intersect.
50 mm • f/6.7 • 1/350 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 27000 lux EV 13.3
Lady Friends
It is always interesting how ladies communicate when they really want to: very close together, facing each other and both talking at the same time. The contrast with gentlemen having a conversation in the street is enormous. (photo 0192 of this blog)
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/750 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 29000 lux EV 13.4
Summer Evening
Suddenly we experience a summer evening. The piano has been dragged outside and under an oppressive atmosphere people have dinner.
21 mm • f/4.8 • 1/30 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1200 lux EV 8.8
To Fly
To fly over the city of Groningen. With western wind starting from the Stadspark, you pass over the new building for Study Financing.
500 mm • f/11 • 1/200 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 66000 lux EV 14.6
Close Your Eyes
Just adjusting some feathers and after that: close your eyes and keep your bill tightly closed!
1000 mm • f/16 • 1/320 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 56000 lux EV 14.3
EyeModel
She is a beautiful eyemodel. A long time ago I fell in love with a girl with such beautiful parts in her iris. I asked how she got them and she said "from my grandmother!".
105 mm • f/10 • 1/125 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 21000 lux EV 12.9
Thirsty
Strange how this view can make you thirsty. Talking about conditioning...
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/30 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 37 lux EV 3.8
Herewegviaduct
The Herewegviaduct in Groningen is the oldest bridge over rails in the Netherlands and was built in 1870.The thin ageing concrete has to carry us daily, and is ready for replacement. On the 26th of June, four variants will be offered to the inhabitants of the city section.
35 mm • f/16 • 1/180 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 79000 lux EV 14.8
Nap
The crane operator takes a nap, while the whole street is blocked. He knows he is the axis of the process. It is not easy to move him.
80 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 13000 lux EV 12.3
Healthy Aging
"Healthy Aging" is the theme of today. Research, like with this 84 year old lady participating, is of the essence. She had brought her sporting shoes and was ready to go.
21 mm • f/5.7 • 1/15 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 830 lux EV 8.3
Bridge Raised
The bridge is raised to let a small boat through. Sweating, a whole platoon of commuters by bicycle are waiting. The luring arrows pointing homeward are just visible.
21 mm • f/4.8 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 9800 lux EV 11.8
Health City
Our students human movement sciences love to move. On her way to a lecture on inline skates.
50 mm • f/2 • 1/25 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 85 lux EV 5
Placing a Floor
Placing a floor in a new house is done with an enormous crane. The workmen can hardly be distinguished at this scale.
21 mm • f/13 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 72000 lux EV 14.7
To Roll
When a bicycle wheel rolls over the road, each moment in time one point does not move: the contact point with the road. Using a longer exposure results in unrolling of the wheel into a snake over the road.
50 mm • f/16 • 1/6 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2600 lux EV 9.9
One Euro
Given the spending habits of people, the value of books is getting lower, while the price is getting higher. Therefore it is nice to find a masterpiece once in a while for one euro.
50 mm • f/5.7 • 1/350 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 19000 lux EV 12.8
Erotic
The piece of rug that got caught on this statue suddenly makes it more erotic.
135 mm • f/6.7 • 1/750 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 57000 lux EV 14.4
Small Twister
A small twister was formed this morning over Groningen, here looking in south eastern direction over the UMCG area. It was a nice symbol of the mood I was in.
135 mm • f/8 • 1/500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 55000 lux EV 14.3
To the Match
On her way to the game against Germany on her orange bicycle.
50 mm • f/16 • 1/6 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • 16x ND filter • handheld 42000 lux EV 13.9
Thoughtful
A moment on the stage of the Grand Theatre in Groningen this morning. A 82 year old dancer is emersed in thought.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/125 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 100 lux EV 5.3
Posture
Standing is not only functional, but is also a posture, a pose.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 6800 lux EV 11.3
Big Bag
Sometimes a lady really needs a big bag and steelnosed shoes to get through life.
50 mm • f/5.7 • 1/500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 28000 lux EV 13.3
De Omval
Suddenly we arrived at a café, called "De Omval" out in Watergraafsmeer. Numbers have their own magic. Today the thousandth photo in this PhotoBlog and we celebrated in that café that a befriended couple reached the age of one hundred together.
35 mm • f/2 • 1/60 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 100 lux EV 5.2
Image and Word Tsunami
We as consumers are almost drowning in a tsunami of images and words.
21 mm • f/5.7 • 1/500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 28000 lux EV 13.3
Golden Notes
She played golden notes that rose up from her soprano saxophone and I was ecstatic.
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/750 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3700 lux EV 10.4
Zilch
Women are self confident and take their place in the streets of Amsterdam.
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/750 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 29000 lux EV 13.4
Interrogation Room
Mart Smeets waiting in the interrogation room for his interrogators Frank Evenblij and Erik Dijkstra for the television program Bureau Sport.
75 mm • f/1.4 • 1/60 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 50 lux EV 4.2
Rust
Rusting makes this metal front mudguard thinner. Chinese cooks love rusting knives, because they are self-sharpening.
50 mm • f/2.4 • 1/30 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 290 lux EV 6.8
Scoliosis
During the Night of Art and Science in Groningen, this artist showed in an impressive way what it is like to have to be corrected for having a scoliosis (a sideward curvature of the vertebral column).
75 mm • f/2 • 1/25 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 170 lux EV 6
Opening
At the opening of the new Minerva building, a long red dress was cut by Henk van Os, the known art historian. His judgement on the required length was quite different from that of his assistant.
35 mm • f/2.8 • 1/30 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 200 lux EV 6.2
IJsselspoorbrug
It has really become part of the trip, the fire-engine red IJsselspoorbrug. Hard to take a picture between the bridge elements, but those red triangles fit nicely in the image.
35 mm • f/2.8 • 1/2000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 27000 lux EV 13.3
May 2012
MotorCat
A rather strange scene with this motorcat in a shopping window on the Haarlemmerdijk on my way to the DutchView Studio.
50 mm • f/6.7 • 1/180 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Little Portrait
Waiting for the traffic light, I saw a small portait hanging in the air of a girl with a large headset. She was embedded and absent at the same time.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/90 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 9800 lux EV 11.8
De Zwaan
The Erasmusbrug in Rotterdam displays a fantastic visual lesson in forces. Even the somewhat sagging cables that hold the road in place tell a part of the story. The moon, enthusiastically looking up at the sun, can be part of it all.
50 mm • f/9.5 • 1/1500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 231000 lux EV 16.4
Captured in Realtime
With a kinect sensor, these housemates are capture using homemade software in realtime with 25 frames/second. Aim the sensor at a moving inhabitant and you have a living statue in real xyz coordinates. Alienating and beautiful at the same time.
50 mm • f/16 • 1/3.3333 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1500 lux EV 9.1
Moving Violin
Sometimes a violin can move you. Also this electric version.
75 mm • f/5.7 • 1/750 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 42000 lux EV 13.9
Digital City
Rotterdam has always been very forward. In this reflection it definitely becomes a digital city.
50 mm • f/9.5 • 1/180 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 28000 lux EV 13.3
Sax
The light under the trees of the bookmarket on the Spui made this a wonderful image. I can still hear the jazz...
75 mm • f/4 • 1/1500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 41000 lux EV 13.9
Friendship
They pay attention to different things, but they belong together. The unspoken friendship.
50 mm • f/11 • 1/1500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 310000 lux EV 16.8
Orange by Coincidence
It was still hanging up since Queensday, but it can remain until the European Championship soccer, said the portrayed spokesman. But that orange of the mailbox is purely coincidental.
21 mm • f/6.7 • 1/750 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 57000 lux EV 14.4
Attentive
Sitting on your nest, you have to pay attention. It's a job, with five eggs to take care of, while all kinds of creatures pass by.
500 mm • f/11 • 1/125 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 10000 lux EV 11.9
Collision
Even such a magnificent flying organism can make a mistake and try to find a way out through the glass. But glass is not a part of the enviroment in which the brain and eyes have found their design. Wen I put him on a piece of paper outside, he vibrated for a minute with his wings to get ready again and became airborne.
105 mm • f/20 • 1/125 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 34000 lux EV 13.6
The Nest
It's going well with the nest, Breeding, building and waiting.
500 mm • f/11 • 1/400 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 33000 lux EV 13.6
Fusion
Somewhere during growth something special must have happened. Perhaps it is not a coincidence that this tree is part of the Teylers Museum.
50 mm • f/2 • 1/125 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 850 lux EV 8.3
Jump into Chaos
Sometimes you make a jump into total chaos, but somehow you know that something surprising may emerge.
75 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 13000 lux EV 12.3
Cool Cat
When you are a cool cat, posing is easy! Yeah!
50 mm • f/4 • 1/500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Can you still catch your train?
Depends on many factors, including your shoes.
35 mm • f/9.5 • 1/60 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 9200 lux EV 11.7
13
The world is full of information, meant for only a few iniated people.
50 mm • f/6.7 • 1/1500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 115000 lux EV 15.4
Back to the Water
Back to the water and back to crawling.
21 mm • f/4 • 1/4000 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 55000 lux EV 14.3
It's a Living
As a one-man-band walking to your audience: it's a living.
21 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3400 lux EV 10.3
Brand Sensitive
Manufacturers often put their brandname large on the product. So large that it dominates the design. It makes people brand sensitive.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/180 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4900 lux EV 10.8
Different
One day you realise you are different. It makes you a bit self conscious, but it also offers possibilities.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/4000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 13000 lux EV 12.3
Too Big!
The poster that was made about my fascination with human movement has become a little big. It did not even fit in the window. It appears on railway stations throughout the Netherlands as an invitiation to visit the Night of Art and Science in Groniningen on the 2nd of June and was made by the organisation "City of Talent".
21 mm • f/6.7 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 19000 lux EV 12.8
Catching
Two bricks that have been thrown up are caught simultaneously. The hands close exactly in the highest point of the trajectory of the bricks. The hands adjust themselves to the rotating bricks. Routine in high tempo, but every catch is different.
500 mm • f/8 • 1/60 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 840 lux EV 8.3
History
There is a lot of history in this image of a house on station Leeuwarden: The roof construction visible in the reflection, but also the window panes tell a story. Only the smallest ones have survived: not only is the chance lower that they are struck, they are also stronger.
135 mm • f/6.7 • 1/60 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4600 lux EV 10.7
Horse Tram
This man operates a horsetram through Groningen and protests against the possible arrival of an electric tram through the Oosterstraat.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/180 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4900 lux EV 10.8
Happinez
Just getting away for a while from grey reality on a railway station at night. Happinez with light coming from straight above, like in the tropics.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/25 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 42 lux EV 3.9
(E)motion
Today I finished (E)motionTracker 1.0. A software package that can read emotions from a face in real time, using optical flow.
500 mm • f/11 • 1/800 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 66000 lux EV 14.6
Wall
I would love to be able to stick my head out of this window to look at the world every morning, protected by that little angel.
50 mm • f/5.7 • 1/500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 28000 lux EV 13.3
Warped Building
Amsterdam is really alive. Even the buildings are organic and warped.
21 mm • f/4.8 • 1/350 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Eyecontact
Sometimes the artist has direct eyecontact with her work.
50 mm • f/2.4 • 1/45 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 220 lux EV 6.3
Signal
A simple signal. It creates a bond between workers of the Dutch Railway System
50 mm • f/3.4 • 1/4000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 79000 lux EV 14.8
April 2012
Sponge Throw
On queens day some people play the most extraordinary games.
75 mm • f/4.8 • 1/1000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 39000 lux EV 13.8
Queens Night
From downtown you can hear music already. Queens Night demands proper preparations.
500 mm • f/11 • 1/160 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 13000 lux EV 12.2
Citybus
A trip in the citybus in darkening Amsterdam. Light, space, time, all melting into a memory of the day.
50 mm • f/4 • 3 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 9.1 lux EV 1.7
Writer
Life as an Italian writer in Amsterdam, sitting near the bookmarket on Het Spui.
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/90 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3500 lux EV 10.3
Contrast
The contrast between the advertised world and the real one.
75 mm • f/4 • 1/60 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 820 lux EV 8.2
Chromawall
The studio is ready for an interview. The background you just have to imagine.
21 mm • f/6.7 • 1/25 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 960 lux EV 8.5
Variation
In the street you see all kinds of sizes in people, compact and more elongated. Variation is the basis of life.
50 mm • f/2 • 1/2000 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 6800 lux EV 11.3
Watching Out
Watching out and staying immobile.
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/1500 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2500 lux EV 9.8
Peperbus
The Peperbus of Zwolle in the hail.
135 mm • f/9.5 • 1/350 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 54000 lux EV 14.3
Dreams
This house already dreams of summer.
21 mm • f/9.5 • 1/500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 77000 lux EV 14.8
Tile Reflections
A wall with glazed tiles gives an exceptional reflection pattern. The floor reminds me a bit of an old fashioned handkerchief.
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/25 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 980 lux EV 8.5
Shadow
The shadow of one candle formed by the light of another one. Excellent restaurant in Den Bosch.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/15 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 200 lux EV 6.2
Linnaeusborg
The Linnaeusborg, the new building for Life Sciences in Groningen.
21 mm • f/9.5 • 1/500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 77000 lux EV 14.8
The Future
Here the first image through my crystal ball. It appears to be a camera, but of the old type: a wooden viewcamera. Not so unlikely that there is a camera in my future.
130 mm • f/0.72 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 220 lux EV 6.3
Crystal Ball
If it is possible to see the future in a crystal ball, it should be possible to also take a photograph of it. The man who sold me the ball did not want to give me a guarantee that it would work. It does become a lens with a record opening of f/0.72. Tomorrow I will show the photograph.
85 mm • f/10 • 1.6 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 170 lux EV 6
Four spectacles
The woman on the left told me that she had been collecting dolls for decades, but was now tired of them and wanted to sell.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/45 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 150 lux EV 5.8
Inside the Bottle
When the speed of light changes in glass, the spirit is inside the bottle.
50 mm • f/3.4 • 1/4000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 79000 lux EV 14.8
Harsh Light
With the clear spring sky you get nice hard shadows, graphical and simple.
135 mm • f/16 • 1/1500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 655000 lux EV 17.9
Lecture
Always great to listen to a good lecture. Here at a meeting of Behavioural and Cognitive Neurosciences in Groningen.
21 mm • f/8 • 1/15 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 410 lux EV 7.2
Archeology
There is quite some history under this old town. Under churches, buildings and streets. The city has been described already in 1040 A.D as Villa Cruoninga.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/350 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 31000 lux EV 13.5
Expectancy
In the Gold Office, guests are expected at dusk.
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/1000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 4900 lux EV 10.8
Cortège
This photo of a cortège in Leiden, is gathering dust here in Groningen at an alarming rate.
50 mm • f/6.7 • 1/90 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 6900 lux EV 11.3
Dust
Shaking some dust from the feathers on this clear easter morning
500 mm • f/11 • 1/125 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 41000 lux EV 13.9
Purchase
Sometimes you are really glad with your purchase, even when it has a strip accross the eyes
21 mm • f/5.7 • 1/500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 28000 lux EV 13.3
Tea
A building with a past and a certain depth.
21 mm • f/8 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 27000 lux EV 13.3
Street Puzzle
A visual puzzle that emerged by reusing bricks. Not easy to reconstruct the original drawing from this.
21 mm • f/6.7 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld handheld 19000 lux EV 12.8
Hunter
A sunfish is a hunter and you can see that from the shape of their pupil: slightly elongated at the front to allow forward view in stereo.
90 mm • f/4 • 1/60 sec. • 2500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 100 lux EV 5.3
Black Water
Nice how shapes and reflections come together.
105 mm • f/6.3 • 1/500 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 54000 lux EV 14.3
The Experiment
It's about science and experiments and there is concentration.
85 mm • f/2.2 • 1/100 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 1300 lux EV 8.9
Birds of Paradise
Sometimes what is in our heads comes out in a very strong way.
50 mm • f/9.5 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 38000 lux EV 13.8
March 2012
No No
Having had a lot to swallow, even under protest.
50 mm • f/9.5 • 1/180 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
Thanks and Goodbye
After six and a half year we close the forum PhotoPlaza.
50 mm • f/4 • 1.5 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 18 lux EV 2.7
Morning Mist
The morning mist sometimes brings wonderful light
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/3000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 40000 lux EV 13.8
Teamwork
An amplifier is attached to a subject for measuring fast muscle responses. This is teamwork in our lab!
21 mm • f/2.8 • 1/30 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 100 lux EV 5.2
Airship
Found this airship, the "Apollonia" in Grou, under a crescent Moon and with Venus between the rigging.
21 mm • f/4 • 8 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3.4 lux EV 0.3
Apple Store Amsterdam
A huge building where mainly young people wander. The amusing aspect of the architecture is that the quest that people make becomes transparent.
21 mm • f/4.8 • 1/90 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1800 lux EV 9.3
Smile
We can distinguish a genuine smile from an affected one.
50 mm • f/1.7 • 1/180 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 890 lux EV 8.3
True Love
Spring is often associated with being in love.
500 mm • f/8 • 1/1000 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 175000 lux EV 16
Daylight
Photographing a painting you can do in diffuse daylight. Colour temperature is great and you don't easily get reflective highlights. This art trading couple know this!
50 mm • f/5.7 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
Giving a Lecture
When you give a lecture like me on neuromechanics, this is what you see sometimes.
50 mm • f/2 • 1/15 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 100 lux EV 5.2
A Child's World
Imagine what the child in this trolley sees? Strange? No! Everything is new and absurd for a child, so this is no problem to handle.
50 mm • f/5.7 • 1/125 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 6900 lux EV 11.3
Vismarkt
People on their way over the vismarkt. Distributed over de available space, but frozen in time.
50 mm • f/6.7 • 1/4000 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 306000 lux EV 16.8
Morning Shadows
Creamy walls with the deep shadows of guided limetrees. It is morning and the day holds many promises!
135 mm • f/13 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 72000 lux EV 14.7
Organza
A dress made of organza in daylight and artificial light; wonderful.
50 mm • f/6.7 • 1/30 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1100 lux EV 8.7
Street in a Bottle
The double reflection of the houses in a bottle gives the impression that the Fokingestraat has a canal.
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/180 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7100 lux EV 11.3
War Child
Radio 538 settled today on the Grote Markt in Groningen to gather money for War Child. A lady in a wheelchair puts a coin in the piggy bank. On the left hand in the glass house there is live radio. On the screen in the background the scene repeats itself also live.
50 mm • f/5.7 • 1/350 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 19000 lux EV 12.8
Early Spring
It can be felt clearly by many people: spring is here and she is early. An unorganized party on the Grote Markt.
21 mm • f/8 • 1/500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 55000 lux EV 14.3
House of the Panda
The house of the Panda. There is cursing and sneaky dancing.
50 mm • f/6.7 • 1/4 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 310 lux EV 6.8
Dream Door
This door was opened into a dreamworld of colours.
21 mm • f/9.5 • 1/8 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 620 lux EV 7.8
Citizen's Arrest
This absurd "theatre play" for three men and a woman was performed in a main shopping area.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/125 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 840 lux EV 8.3
St. Servaas Basiliek
The tower of the St. Servaas Basiliek has been painted red and looking like this behind the truncated sycamore trees, it almost feels South American.
50 mm • f/9.5 • 1 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 150 lux EV 5.8
Extremes
Jazz flute player Tilmann Dehnhard plays all sizes of flutes, from piccolo to contrabass flute.
75 mm • f/1.4 • 1/125 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 100 lux EV 5.3
Taillight
These small lights replace the original large taillight of this dutch city bicycle, like small dried up fruits. Most likely none of them work.
50 mm • f/5.7 • 1/125 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 6900 lux EV 11.3
Unadorned
The trees are still unadorned, but the sun has power. Spring is coming.
50 mm • f/6.7 • 1/750 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 57000 lux EV 14.4
Museum
The Groninger Musuem in the calm: a curious collection of blocks in which the reflection gives the needed balance.
35 mm • f/4 • 1/1.4286 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 39 lux EV 3.8
Where?
"Do you want to know where we are?" is written in dutch on the window. We are in the Oude Kijk in 't Jatstraat in Groningen opposite art merchant Ongering.
50 mm • f/3.4 • 1/180 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3600 lux EV 10.3
Colour Relaxed
A man in relaxed colours is always attractive for women: they simply can not keep their eyes off him.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/60 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 3300 lux EV 10.2
Binoculars
With binoculars you can search the horizon. It is essential that the optical axes are parallel. If not, you can look through them, but the constant correction done by the eye muscles that is needed gives fatigue in the end.
180 mm • f/8 • 1/400 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 17000 lux EV 12.6
Flute
A picture of a flute is only an image for someone who does not play the plute, but a flute player mentally rotates this image immediately, so that the hands can find their place on the instrument.
24 mm • f/16 • 1.3 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 540 lux EV 7.6
Friends
Friends meet at station Groningen.
50 mm • f/1.2 • 1/8 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 20 lux EV 2.8
Punch and Frown
It appears that it is almost impossible to suppress a frown during punching.
75 mm • f/5.7 • 1/500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 28000 lux EV 13.3
February 2012
Turning Shoes
High in the sky two pairs of shoes are slowly turning in the wind.
75 mm • f/4 • 12 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 2.3 lux EV -0.3
Barnacle Geese
Barnacle Geese start to make formations to be able to fly to areas like Nova Zembla quite soon.
200 mm • f/9 • 1/2000 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 442000 lux EV 17.3
Abalone II
Logarithmic spirals emerge when the rate of growth is proportional to the size of the shell.
105 mm • f/8 • 1/1.6667 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 150 lux EV 5.7
Abalone I
This abalone has a row of holes for respiration. During growth more holes are formed. The shape is covered with mathematical curves. The colours are formed by interference through very thin layers of mother-of-pearl.
105 mm • f/8 • 1/13 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 1100 lux EV 8.7
Coffeeshop
Three reflections: two mirror images and a non-mirrored image. Two singlefold and a double reflection. The hollow mirror is the key to this game.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/45 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 600 lux EV 7.8
Chess Tournament
The fourth Batavia Grolsch Chess Tournament offers some interesting battles. On the right hand side Manuel Bosboom (2394) en on the left David Klein (2391)
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/90 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 300 lux EV 6.8
Our Living Room
"The city, our livingroom" can be read as a slogan on the wastebin and for this young couple that is indeed the case.
35 mm • f/2 • 1/350 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 600 lux EV 7.8
Streetphotography
With the advent of camera's with improved sensitivity in the dark, streetphotography at night has become more popular.
50 mm • f/1.1 • 1/125 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 33 lux EV 3.6
Wedding
This sympathetic couple comes to be wed through the backdoor of the townhall. The driver waits patiently behind the wheel until the ceremony is over.
50 mm • f/3.4 • 1/125 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 2500 lux EV 9.8
Between parentheses
The ducks wash themselves between parentheses and curly brackets, so that they will enter spring clean.
135 mm • f/5.7 • 1/500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 28000 lux EV 13.3
Shame
To the cinema on Sunday afternoon.
50 mm • f/13 • 1/250 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 72000 lux EV 14.7
Loneliness
The lonenliness of the modern man.
50 mm • f/5.7 • 1/350 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 9700 lux EV 11.8
Puzzle Ice
On melting ice sometimes a jigsaw puzzle emerges.
90 mm • f/4 • 1/125 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1700 lux EV 9.3
Accumulating Ice
The accumulating ice near the lighthouse of Urk forms many layers. The deeper the light penetrates into the layers, the more blueish-green it comes out of it again. The ice simply eats lots of red light, that's the reason.
35 mm • f/16 • 1/90 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 39000 lux EV 13.8
Dead
It is arduous when your loved one has died. The future extends in front of you with its endless ramifications of possibilities, but the colour has disappeared.
50 mm • f/9.5 • 1/250 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 19000 lux EV 12.8
La Rheine
The window of this massage parlour illuminates this wet, chilly and windy gate. Time for a hotstonemassage!
35 mm • f/2.0 • 1/90 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 79 lux EV 4.8
Reflections
Reflections of windows often betray mechanical tension in buildings. The building opposite the corner of this house is deformed, judged by the reflections of the glass. When standing in front of the building, the right hand carrying wall has sunken somewhat. This happens more often on the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam. The building next to it is perfectly straight.
50 mm • f/16 • 1/125 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 55000 lux EV 14.3
Ice on the Diepenring
With the exception of two bridges, you could skate around the Diepenring in Groningen. The falling snow made it difficult to see the cracks and so there were falls. But the pleasure was none the less.
20 mm • f/7.1 • 1/400 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • handheld 55000 lux EV 14.3
Skating on the Schildmeer
The Schildmeer in the province of Groningen forms the backdrop of a fantastic skating tour. The weather is turning.
20 mm • f/7.1 • 1/4000 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • handheld 550000 lux EV 17.6
On the Keizersgracht
The canals in Amsterdam are frozen over. For many people an exceptional experience.
50 mm • f/16 • 1/1500 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 655000 lux EV 17.9
New Life
Of many pregnancies it is not certain for others who the father is.
50 mm • f/4.8 • 1/90 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 1800 lux EV 9.3
Dishwasher
Inside the dishwasher.
8 mm • f/13 • 30 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod 2.4 lux EV -0.2
Viewbox
On the Grote Markt you can find a huge viewbox through which you can see, but that also offers reflections of the surrounding city.
135 mm • f/9.5 • 1/180 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 28000 lux EV 13.3
Studying by Rail
Studying by rail. All those hours not lost. Concentration is essential and it helps to highlight kilometers of words.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/60 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 210 lux EV 6.3
Skate Roll-over
It was possible again! Skating on natural ice on my own invention (patent nr. EP 0 958 007 B1): a speedskate with roll-over motion, made possible with a mechanism with 7 hinges, optimised with a computer simulation. The mechanism allows longer contact with the ice, making the push-off phase more effective.
20 mm • f/7.1 • 1/320 sec. • 125 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • handheld 35000 lux EV 13.7
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 cuvÝe of 85% CarmenÜre 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