Another weekend with the photoclub at Anjum

From 9 till 11 September I spent the weekend at Anjum. A small village at the Lauwersmeer in the northern part of Holland. Just a weekend of making a lot of pictures of the beautiful Dutch country side and having a good time with my friends of the club.

What does such a weekend learn to you:

• Even when the wheather is not that good for making pictures, the sun always rises
  
• Old sailing vessels look very good in black and white printing
  
• And also Seagulls have to mind their step J
  

As I am still working on preparing the pictures for publishing more will be uploaded in the near future.

http://fca.iamnotsimple.nl/#15.0

 

Have fun

Arjan

Exhibition of Fotoclub Almere 2011

Thursday September 1st, the yearly exhibition of the Fotoclub opened at Cityhall of Almere. Almost 50 photos of the members of the club are shown the coming month.

 

I participate in this exhibition with 2 of my pictures. One made at a concert of Alain Clark and one made during my holiday last year in New Dehli. Pictures of the exhibition are shown hereunder:

 

 

Kingfisher around Almere

Yesterday (August 20, 2011) I finally spotted him. A Kingfisher. A small, but very colourful bird and I spotted him at a bird watchers cabin only a 10 minute ride by bike from my homeplace.

As this bird has very strong habits to be at the same place at the same time I will try in the near future to get more pictures of him (the males have a black beak).

The pictures can be found at my site: http://nature.iamnotsimple.nl/#14.0

Enjoy,

Arjan

Urban Photo Collective - Breitner

A few months ago I joined the Urban Photo Collective in Amsterdam. This collective is an organisation in various Dutch cities and they come together once a month to practice the Urban Photography. The theme of this month actually was minimalism, but especially for the Amsterdam section it was changed to Breitner.

Breitner was a Dutch painter/photographer who lived in Amsterdam around 1890 and who mainly made his pictures in the Jordaan (a district near the old centre of Amsterdam). His pictures reflect the daily life of those times. Many housewifes, men at work, constuctionworks and the narrow alleys of the city.

Examples of his work can be seen at the following link of the city archives of Amsterdam:

http://beeldbank.amsterdam.nl/index.php?option=com_result&Itemid=9&qasked=1&qtype=nieuw&co=553199

I tried to show to you the present streetlife of the Jordaan, which is of course quite different from a century ago. The selection of my pictures can be watched at:

http://urban.iamnotsimple.nl/#10.0

 

Have fun…

Arjan

 

 

Bhutan (17/11/2010)

Hi all,

Well we finally made it to Bhutan and now I am in Trashigan.
Also the second day we had a lot of trouble getting into the plain to Calcutta. Due to havy traffic in Dehli we nearly missed our flight (they actually closed the plaindoor behind us).
The first impression of Bhutan is very good. People are very friendly, the food is hot but nice and it is very clean all around the place.
Yesterday afternoon we arrived at Trashigan were we saw the last few hours of the Trechu festival at the local Dzong (monastery). A lot of people and the monks were dancing.
Because we are now one day behind schedule we were not in the hotel we were supposed to be. It made me remember to the hotels in China I used to spend the night. Very poor conditions, but the guide promised us that it will change the better from now on.

Till later...

Bhutan 14/11/2010

Hi all,

Yesterday started all well with a fine flight to Dehli. The delay we encountered at Schiphol was overtaken by a very strong tailwind so we arrived perfectly on time in Dehli. At 2 am we arrived at the hotel where we could have only a small sleep of 3 hours.
Then it began: we were suposed to take a flight to Guwahati early in the morning but the flight was cancelled for a unknown reason. A long wait at the airport followed but no success in changing our flight. At 2 pm we went back to the hotel and now we are waiting for a flight to Calcutta (tonight at 9) and tomorrow we will go on to Guwahati and Bhutan.
The result of this all is that we are 1 day behind on our schedule and we are facing the risk that we will miss the festivals in Bhutan :-(
The tour guide and local operator are doing their utmost to keep the " damage" as low as possible.
I will keep you posted.

Bhutan November 2010 (1)

The last preparations for my trip to Bhutan are starting now. Coming Saturday I will get on the plane to New Dehli and from there I will travel by plane and bus to Bhutan. A trip I have looked out for since a long time.

Due to technical errors at Blogspot I am not able to upload a picture with my route (I will try again later this week). During my coming trip I will carry a geotag. A gadget which creates a logging of the route I will follow and afterwards I can use this logging to synchronize my pictures to these coördinates. It will solve the big problem for not knowing where a picture was taken.