Dear all,
Saturday February 25 I had another meeting with the Urban Photo Collective in Utrecht. This times theme was Mirror Magic and the location was around the Rabo Building in the centre of Utrecht. A building with lots of glass walls and as the weather was sunny lots of mirror magic was expected.
My results are on my website: Iamnotsimple
If you would also like to see what other photografers made of this theme please go to Flickr.com and do a search on UPC0212
All photos of the Urban Photo Collective members of February will be shown.
Have fun,
Arjan
Sunday, 26 February 2012
Friday, 10 February 2012
Ortisei, February 10, 2012
Hi all,
I have finished skiing for this year. Though a bit early, but temperatures dropped till minus 18C on the mountain and with a strong wind it became just to cold in the lifts.
Well, a little bit of metrics then:
During the last 6 days I used 108 different lifts, the total height difference was 28.661 meters and the total slopes length was 163 km.
This was wintersport for this year, tomorrow I will drive back to Almere which is a total distance of 1.088 km.
CU,
Arjan
I have finished skiing for this year. Though a bit early, but temperatures dropped till minus 18C on the mountain and with a strong wind it became just to cold in the lifts.
Well, a little bit of metrics then:
During the last 6 days I used 108 different lifts, the total height difference was 28.661 meters and the total slopes length was 163 km.
This was wintersport for this year, tomorrow I will drive back to Almere which is a total distance of 1.088 km.
CU,
Arjan
Wednesday, 8 February 2012
Ortisei, February 2012
Hi all,
As the 11 City Skating tour fever in Holland slowly gets to its climax ( will it go on or not!), I am enjoying my yearly wintersport vacation in the beautiful area of Val Gerdena. The start of the week was freezingly cold with daily temparatures of -15C, but now (Wednesday 8 Feb) the temperature in the mountains dropped to only -7 and it is sunny all day. Although the cold we were almost all the week able to have our lunch on the mountain in the outside, just keep out of the wind and in the sunshine!
Tomorrow is Seela Ronda time. A ski tour of about 65 km around the Sella Massive. Mostly it is done clockwise, but this time we go the other way around.
On the picture both routes of the Ronda are signed. Red and Green. We will start in the left upper corner of the picture and go counterclockwise around the Sella Massive (following the green line).
Saturday will be the day of my trip back to Holland.
CU soon,
Arjan
As the 11 City Skating tour fever in Holland slowly gets to its climax ( will it go on or not!), I am enjoying my yearly wintersport vacation in the beautiful area of Val Gerdena. The start of the week was freezingly cold with daily temparatures of -15C, but now (Wednesday 8 Feb) the temperature in the mountains dropped to only -7 and it is sunny all day. Although the cold we were almost all the week able to have our lunch on the mountain in the outside, just keep out of the wind and in the sunshine!
Tomorrow is Seela Ronda time. A ski tour of about 65 km around the Sella Massive. Mostly it is done clockwise, but this time we go the other way around.
On the picture both routes of the Ronda are signed. Red and Green. We will start in the left upper corner of the picture and go counterclockwise around the Sella Massive (following the green line).
Saturday will be the day of my trip back to Holland.
CU soon,
Arjan
Sunday, 29 January 2012
Urban Photo Collective – Utrecht (Papendorp)
Almere, 29 January 2012
Hi all,
Yesterday afternoon I spent some hours with the Urban Photo Collective in Utrecht. We went to a new part of the town with lots of office buildings and as it was Saturday there were not many people and traffic around. Lots of time to look around and make some nice pictures. Theme of this afternoon was High Contrast. With a little sun and some clouds around lots of apportunities to create some nice shots. If you have time please have a look at my website: http://urban.iamnotsimple.nl/#18.0
Monday, 19 December 2011
Crosscup Almere 11th December 2011
In wintertime 3 times a crossrun is organized by the Athletics Club of Almere. The photoclub of which I am a member is asked by the organisation to make a photoshoot of these runs. Although it was very cold it was great fun to participate in this shoot. The results are published on this link:
crossloop
You can check who made the pictures in the right corner.
Have fun,
Arjan
crossloop
You can check who made the pictures in the right corner.
Have fun,
Arjan
Monday, 28 November 2011
28/11/2011 Kovalam - Almere
Hi all,
The last few days in India were very relaxing.
We spend a full day and night at a houseboat on the Backwaters. a 900km network of waterways that fringe the coast and trickle far inland. Long before the advent of roads, these waters were the slippery highways of Kerala and many villagers still use paddle-power as their main form of transport.
And furthermore 2 days at Kovalam. A small beachresort where really nothing was going on. You could do some swimming in the ocean or buy your last souvenirs, visit the lighthouse and that was it. One good thing about Kovalam I must admit: the seafood dishes were absolute delicious!
Well that was about it for this trip. Tine (our tourleader) mailed that India was weeping after we left the country. Or in other words: It rained cats and dogs.
During my stay in India I had much pleasure in creating a special serie of pictures. This serie is named: Betweeen +8 and -6. My first selection consists of 18 pictures of portrets of Indian people, all with glasses. Please have a look at my website via this link
More pictures will be published in due course.
Have fun,
Arjan
The last few days in India were very relaxing.
We spend a full day and night at a houseboat on the Backwaters. a 900km network of waterways that fringe the coast and trickle far inland. Long before the advent of roads, these waters were the slippery highways of Kerala and many villagers still use paddle-power as their main form of transport.
And furthermore 2 days at Kovalam. A small beachresort where really nothing was going on. You could do some swimming in the ocean or buy your last souvenirs, visit the lighthouse and that was it. One good thing about Kovalam I must admit: the seafood dishes were absolute delicious!
Well that was about it for this trip. Tine (our tourleader) mailed that India was weeping after we left the country. Or in other words: It rained cats and dogs.
During my stay in India I had much pleasure in creating a special serie of pictures. This serie is named: Betweeen +8 and -6. My first selection consists of 18 pictures of portrets of Indian people, all with glasses. Please have a look at my website via this link
More pictures will be published in due course.
Have fun,
Arjan
Monday, 21 November 2011
21-11-2011 Thekkady
This Hi All.,
Exact one week ago was my last post, so here is another update.
Afte Mysore we went to the mountains of Wayanad, where we spend two days at an eco resort in the middle of coffee, rubber and pepper plantations. Usually you have a room with a view, but I had a room with a mango tree. The tree was growing in the middle of my room and going out through the roof. I wouldn't like be there in the rainy season :-)
Furthermore there was unfortunately very little to do. We had some walks with a guide through the plantations and a visit to some local people to have a (I must admit) very good lunch. The evenings and night were very pleasant as the temperature dropped till about 20C.
Next to the west: Fort Cochin. A city along the coast, bloody hot and humid. Temperature went far above the 30C, probably going to the 40C. I had a look at the coast in the morning to see the Chenese fishingnets, wandered around the Dutch palace with some nice wall paintings and had a very nice lunch at the Kashi Art Cafe. The only place so far I have seen where modern art was exhibited. Although the pieces shown were a bit macabre.And in the evening a late dinner with grilled fresh fish.
Today I am in Thekkady and it is a bit of a cloudy and cool day. Nevertheless I am still wearing only t-hirt and shorts. Yesterday at Fort Cochin we had a bus change, because the old one was broken. Something with the compression which could not be fixed in a day and was serious enough to get us another bus. Without the compression the old bus would not be able to take us up into the mountains were we now are.
This morning we made a nature walk through the bush and saw some monkeys, birds, a frog which looked like a leave. In the afternoon I made a tour by boat on the lake and saw lots of birds, some deer and monkeys again..
Now I am killing some time till dinner and then I have to pack for our trip into the Backlands on a houseboat.
CU,
Arjan
Exact one week ago was my last post, so here is another update.
Afte Mysore we went to the mountains of Wayanad, where we spend two days at an eco resort in the middle of coffee, rubber and pepper plantations. Usually you have a room with a view, but I had a room with a mango tree. The tree was growing in the middle of my room and going out through the roof. I wouldn't like be there in the rainy season :-)
Furthermore there was unfortunately very little to do. We had some walks with a guide through the plantations and a visit to some local people to have a (I must admit) very good lunch. The evenings and night were very pleasant as the temperature dropped till about 20C.
Next to the west: Fort Cochin. A city along the coast, bloody hot and humid. Temperature went far above the 30C, probably going to the 40C. I had a look at the coast in the morning to see the Chenese fishingnets, wandered around the Dutch palace with some nice wall paintings and had a very nice lunch at the Kashi Art Cafe. The only place so far I have seen where modern art was exhibited. Although the pieces shown were a bit macabre.And in the evening a late dinner with grilled fresh fish.
Today I am in Thekkady and it is a bit of a cloudy and cool day. Nevertheless I am still wearing only t-hirt and shorts. Yesterday at Fort Cochin we had a bus change, because the old one was broken. Something with the compression which could not be fixed in a day and was serious enough to get us another bus. Without the compression the old bus would not be able to take us up into the mountains were we now are.
This morning we made a nature walk through the bush and saw some monkeys, birds, a frog which looked like a leave. In the afternoon I made a tour by boat on the lake and saw lots of birds, some deer and monkeys again..
Now I am killing some time till dinner and then I have to pack for our trip into the Backlands on a houseboat.
CU,
Arjan
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