Fotozondagavond #45: Snow

November 24th, 2008

There was a lot of snow yesterday, but it was too friggin’ cold to go out and take a picture. I figured there’d still be snow this morning. There wasn’t. Much. Except on my car:

snow1 snow2


Fotozondagavond #44: Autumn

November 23rd, 2008

Too lazy busy.


Fotozondagavond #43: Portrait

November 2nd, 2008

Yay, here are mine (click to enlarge):

Portrait #1 Portrait #2

The first one is a happy accident. We just landed in Dubai and were sitting down for a jet-lagged breakfast (consisting of grilled seafood, but that’s another story). In any case, I was playing with my camera in the rather low light conditions and didn’t want to use my flash, for obvious reasons. The slow shutter speed resulted in a shot where the subject was captured both with his eyes closed and open. The resulting “ghost” lids over the eyes gives it a kind of spooky effect:

Portrait #1

The second picture is just a self-portrait taken while zooming out (or in). I have a bunch of those (taken whenever I feel bored).

Other portraits:


Fotozondagavond #42: "Wasgoed"

November 2nd, 2008

Nope, too lazy.


Fotozondagavond #41: Woods/Bunch ("Bos")

October 1st, 2008

Got one this time!!!

A view in the woods of Amsterdam. Sometimes, if you are real quiet, you come to a clearing in the dense forest and in the distance, you spot a shy crane. Careful not to disturb it, you slowly take out your camera to capture this rare occasion.

Still Life #1

:-)

Other “Bos”:


Fotozondagavond #40: Persevering

October 1st, 2008

I’m not, others are:


Fotozondagavond #39: Then and Now

October 1st, 2008

Inspiration, but no time…. Love the theme though. Re-take of old photographs from your youth.

Clickage:

Update 2008-11-16

Done it. My sister and me, around 1971.

Then Now


Fotozondagavond #38: Horizon

October 1st, 2008

Didn’t do anything, but these people did:


Fotozondagavond #37: Scary/Creepy/Narrow ("Eng")

August 19th, 2008

I figured I’d find some spiders and do a close-up of them, but then I realised they don’t scare me at all. Death does scare me a bit, but the Grim Reaper was not willing to pose.

In any case, last week we did have something that classifies as scary as well as narrow…

Take a look at this:

Scary #1 Scary #2

This is what Betta discovered last week when cleaning out one of our wardrobes. Note that the carpet and chipboard have already been removed here: the water had soaked through those and created mouldy patches. On first inspection we suspected a leaky pipe in the wall, but that wasn’t the problem.

I decided to take a peek under the floor in the crawl space (click to enlarge):

crawl space
Kinda looks ok..
crawl space
But, wait! What’s that?


Yep, the water from this tiny leak had been spraying against the bottom of our floor for who knows how long, soaking the wooden beams thoroughly.

Fortunately, a plumber was able to fix it in no time and now we have to wait for the floor to dry before we can cover it again.

Also, the plumber mentioned that the only piece of lead pipe we still have is from the front door to that leak. The rest (including the pipe going up to the other appartments) is already made of copper. So replacing that piece of lead is going to be relatively painless and quick.


Fotozondagavond #36: Still Life

August 19th, 2008

Late again.

Anyway, you can’t get any stiller than a cat. :-)

Still Life #1

Ok, ok, here’s some more “real” still life…

Still Life #2
Still Life #3
Still Life #4


More stillness: