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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
July 2023
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
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
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
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
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
June 2023
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
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
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
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
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
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
May 2023
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
January 2023
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
September 2022
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
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
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
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
August 2022
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
May 2022
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
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
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
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
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
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
April 2022
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
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
March 2022
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
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
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
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
February 2022
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
October 2021
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
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
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
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
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
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
September 2021
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
June 2021
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
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
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
May 2021
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
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
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
April 2021
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
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
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
March 2021
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
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
Harbour
An ampty harbour in Uithuizen.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/381 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 21000 lux EV 12.9
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
February 2021
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
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
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
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
January 2021
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
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
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
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
December 2020
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
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
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
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
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
November 2020
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
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
October 2020
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
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
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
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
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
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
September 2020
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
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
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
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
August 2020
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
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
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
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
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
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
June 2020
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
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
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
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
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
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
April 2020
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Where
Where is everybody?
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/13 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 23 lux EV 3.1
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
Free
Free to move, unhindered.
6 mm • f/2 • 1/139 sec. • 20 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 7600 lux EV 11.4
December 2019
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
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
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
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
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
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
November 2019
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
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
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
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
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
October 2019
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
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
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
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
September 2019
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
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
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
August 2019
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
July 2019
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
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
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
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
June 2019
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
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
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
May 2019
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
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
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
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
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
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
April 2019
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
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
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
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
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
March 2019
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
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
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
February 2019
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
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
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
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
Throughway
Cycling always goes through.
85 mm • f/2.8 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 5400 lux EV 10.9
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
December 2018
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
November 2018
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
August 2018
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
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
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
July 2018
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
February 2018
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
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
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
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
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
January 2018
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Lingerie
Wrappings for wrappings
16.3 mm • f/5.6 • 1/50 sec. • 2000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 210 lux EV 6.3
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Amélie
A short encounter with Amélie.
183.4 mm • f/4 • 1/500 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld 22000 lux EV 13
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
June 2017
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
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
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
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
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
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
May 2017
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
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
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
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
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
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
April 2017
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
September 2016
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Coolest
Yes, he is!
200 mm • f/3.2 • 1/1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld 14000 lux EV 12.3
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
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
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
June 2016
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
May 2016
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
February 2016
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
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
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
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
January 2016
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
October 2015
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
July 2015
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
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
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
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
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
June 2015
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
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
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
May 2015
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
April 2015
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
February 2015
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
September 2014
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
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
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
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
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
August 2014
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
May 2014
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
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
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
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
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
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
April 2014
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
November 2013
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
October 2013
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
July 2013
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
March 2013
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
October 2012
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
July 2012
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
November 2011
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
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
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
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
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
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
October 2011
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
July 2011
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
February 2011
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
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
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
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
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
January 2011
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
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
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 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
July 2010
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
March 2010
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
February 2010
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
November 2009
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
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
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
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
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
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
October 2009
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
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
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
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
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
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
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