Auteur: Namita
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Castle Kaldenbroek Limburg
After seven months of not being able to meet due to Corona, my mother and my sister and our partners spend a few days together in this old house which is actually a castle. It was nice to spend time together after not being able to meet because we had to be extra careful because…
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Along the river “De Waal” Nijmegen
You can never miss out on a stroll along the river “De Waal” when in Nijmegen. There are always nice views to be seen over the water and the clouds that are floating by. You can go for a walk, or have a bite or a drink on de “Waalkade”.
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“Marker Wadden” an artificial island in a lake that once was the sea
An artificial island, Marker Wadden, recently opened for public in a lake, Markermeer, where once was the Zuiderzee. The Zuiderzee was cut off from the North Sea in the 1930’s by the Afsluitdijk. The salt water disappeared and the lake Markermeer emerged, in 2016 the artificial island “Marker Wadden” was created using sediments from the…
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Summer minimal landscapes Friesland III
[flickr_tags tags=”Dokkum, Wadden, 2020, III” tags_mode=”all”] Last of the Friesland series. View from a dyke over a field with horses grazing, even further away in the distance is the sea and the Wadden Islands. Empty rows in a harvested field. A field with grain in the summer, a tree in the distance, rather reminds me…
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Summer minimal landscapes Friesland II
[flickr_tags tags=”Dokkum, Wadden, 2020, II” tags_mode=”all”] Harvester in a field in Friesland the north of The Netherlands, view from a dyke in the distance there are some sheep grazing and anxiously waiting for the few passers by to come nearer. It was a windy day, the windmills in the field were spinning in rapid fashion.
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Summer minimal landscapes Friesland I
[flickr_tags tags=”Dokkum, Wadden, 2020, I” tags_mode=”all”] Summer in Friesland in the North of The Netherlands. In the upper most part of where land was taken from the sea. Lone dykes protect us from the sea. A red roof can be seen behind the dyke, a red pole with nothing around. From the dyke you can…
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Summer Streetportraits
Last day of summer makes you reflect on the past summer. Of course during Covid times it was harder to go out on the street, but there were a lot of enjoyable days walking the streets of Amsterdam and seeing people enjoy summer, a man eating an ice cream, a woman squinting her eyes while…
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Zaanse Schans during Covid Times
Last year just before my big operation I got married and we took a boat from Amsterdam to Zaanse Schans with our family and friends. On our one year anniversary we revisited the place, just the two of us by car. Due to Covid-19 there were far less tourists this time at Zaanse Schans to…
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Street portraits Amsterdam
Various portraits of people passing me by on the streets of Amsterdam. A young man staring into the distance at Nieuwmarkt, a man on a bicycle smiling at his friend near Bijlmer Arena, an elderly woman in the Jordaan crossing the street with her rollator and oxygen tank, two tourists leaving a coffeeshop at Nieuwmarkt.
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At the Circus Zanzara
Elk jaar in december zet Circus Zanzara zijn tent op in het Westerpark. Zanzara betekent “Mug”; het is een klein circus met een super leuke show voor kinderen en hun (groot-)ouders. De show loopt meestal tot ergens in januari.
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Never Be That Person
Amsterdam CS during rush hour. Like in life, people pass you by, some faces pop out and some faces blur in the background. More so when you suddenly get life threatening Ill and you don’t know how long you have left. Some people surface and stand right beside you, help you pull trough and give…
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Perfecte dag aan het strand
Deze laatste week van oktober hadden we een paar zonnige dagen. Tot die tijd leek het constant te regenen, maar plotseling brak de zon door en hadden we drie prachtige, zij het koude, dagen. Op dinsdag kwam Ineke, die ik ken sinds we acht jaar oud waren, helemaal uit Enkhuizen om me op te halen…
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De winkelier – Viswinkel Staatsliedenbuurt
In mijn buurt is er een winkel waarop op het raam staat “Viswinkel”. Dat betekent “Vishandel”. Je kunt er aanstekers, bestek, tassen, tajines, alles wat je maar kunt bedenken, kopen, behalve vis, zo lijkt het, in deze winkel. Meestal is de winkel gesloten, maar op sommige dagen, wanneer de zon schijnt, opent de winkeleigenaar de…
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Skaters
Skaters in the Amsterdam Staatsliedenbuurt near Westerpark at van Beuningenplein and at Marnixplantsoen. Pictures taken at the end of summer in the afternoon.
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Playground
Exploring negative space at the playground. End of summer start of autumn is one of my favorite times to go out and take pictures. Shadows are long, warm light bounces of the buildings at the end of the day you can find excellent light and dark contrasts during that time.
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Getting it right
Visiting Zaanse Schans by boat with our family and friends. Chinese tourists come in busloads just to take the perfect shot. It turns out that our blond friends are a special attraction, more interesting then the windmills that they came to see.
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