Going Dutch

Adrian van Ammers · May 7, 2005

Yes, I know what you say about us poor Dutch.

Well, this ride is
free anyway. I went for a drive tonight. All pictures 828 real color mode 64
ISO, full manual.
Here is a view on Alkmaar, my home town. The tower is called De
Waag, which you should pronounce with the hard Dutch g. It's were the cheese market for tourist is every Friday in season.

I went out of town and found this tulip field. Probably a test and devellop field. I never saw so many different tulips on one small field.

Next one is maybe not a great picture but nice enough to show that not all our dikes are huge. We need them though as you can see.

I guess we have in and around Alkmaar over 20 windmills. These three are the ones they will drag you to if you come as a tourist and take a tour. During day time and in season it's crowded here. But now it was my special VIP time. Nobody there but me and some sheeps.

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See more mills at http://adrian.smugmug.com/Photography/65335

MuskyDude · May 7, 2005

Lovely series Adrian, but I find that tulip shot is just amazing to look at. Your right, so many colors, so close together. Thanks for sharing your part of the world!

AJ

bfjr · May 7, 2005

Angelo · May 7, 2005

bfjr wrote:

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USAIR · May 7, 2005

Adrian
Thanks for the tour very interesting
Great photos too

Thanks
Fred

robscomputer · May 7, 2005

Adrian van Ammers wrote:

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Great pictures! This picture reminds me of my favorite artist's work.

Kirwin · May 7, 2005

Your "home" looks quite beautiful. Thank you for sharing a piece of "it"!

Adrian van Ammers · May 8, 2005

Tulips

MuskyDude wrote:

Lovely series Adrian, but I find that tulip shot is just amazing to look at. Your right, so many colors, so close together. Thanks for sharing your part of the world!
AJ

It's even bigger then what shows on the picture. It was Saterday night so nobody there to ask, but I'm curious myself about purpose and what they do with them. As a young lad I've been working in summertime in tulips. Pretty interesting work.
Here is another tulip shot. These flowers have been cut of in the meantime. It's a tof life to grow a big bulb.

Thanks for taking the time to make such a nice comment!

Nir · May 8, 2005

Adrian,

Beautiful shots! Thank you for the tour!

Skippy · May 8, 2005

Wow Look at all those Tulips

Adrian van Ammers wrote:

Yes, I know what you say about us poor Dutch. Well, this ride is
free anyway. I went for a drive tonight. All pictures 828 real color mode 64
ISO, full manual.
Here is a view on Alkmaar, my home town. The tower is called De
Waag, which you should pronounce with the hard Dutch g. It's were the cheese market for tourist is every Friday in season.

I went out of town and found this tulip field. Probably a test and devellop field. I never saw so many different tulips on one small field.

Next one is maybe not a great picture but nice enough to show that not all our dikes are huge. We need them though as you can see.

I guess we have in and around Alkmaar over 20 windmills. These three are the ones they will drag you to if you come as a tourist and take a tour. During day time and in season it's crowded here. But now it was my special VIP time. Nobody there but me and some sheeps.

See more mills at http://adrian.smugmug.com/Photography/65335

Wow ........... gosh I've only ever seen tulips like you just posted in photos only, they must grow them here in Australia somewhere, to get the bulbs, cause you see heaps of bulbs for sale here.

I love your Windmills Adrian, they are so Dutch

so to speak

I've only ever been to Holland once.....hmmmmm that was about 25 years ago gawwwwwwd am I that old

can't be :lol4

Only reason I don't plant them is it's way too windy where I live, enough to move the furniture out on the deck even.

Thank you for sharing your beloved country with us Adrian, beautifully done

Skippy (Australia)

Angelo · May 8, 2005

fantastic shots Adrian; just beautiful. thanks for sharing.

Adrian van Ammers · May 8, 2005

bfjr wrote:

Thanks Ben

Adrian van Ammers · May 8, 2005

USAIR wrote:

Thanks for the tour very interesting
Great photos too

Thanks
Fred

Thanks for your kind comment Fred

Adrian van Ammers · May 8, 2005

Nir wrote:

Adrian,

Beautiful shots! Thank you for the tour!

Nir you made quite a progress! I looked at your website. Looking good! Thanks for your nice comment, which means a lot to me coming from you!

Khaos · May 8, 2005

The tulips shot is beautiful. I also enoyed the first two windmill sjots Very nice.

Phil U. · May 8, 2005

Beautiful shots Adrian!

Daniel Chui · May 9, 2005

Adrian, good to see yah man! You are really improving... the flower shots that you posted are breathtaking... great work and excellent composition!

- Chui

Adrian van Ammers · May 9, 2005

Khaos wrote:

The tulips shot is beautiful. I also enoyed the first two windmill sjots Very nice.

Went to see your website. Looking good. Well organized. I'm still having a plan to do so

. I saw your purchase map. It seems a good idea. Does it actually work? Just wondering if it generates sales.

Adrian van Ammers · May 9, 2005

Very nice Rob, do you know which town this is? Thanks for your nice words!

robscomputer wrote:

Great pictures! This picture reminds me of my favorite artist's work.

Adrian van Ammers · May 9, 2005

Kirwin wrote:

Your "home" looks quite beautiful. Thank you for sharing a piece of "it"!

Thanks, Kirwin!

GREAPER · May 9, 2005

I love number 2 and number 4. Excellent shots. Thanks for sharing them.

Khaos · May 9, 2005

Adrian van Ammers wrote:

Went to see your website. Looking good. Well organized. I'm still having a plan to do so . I saw your purchase map. It seems a good idea. Does it actually work? Just wondering if it generates sales.

Thanks.

I'm in the middle of reorg so come back in a few weeks and there will be a lot more pics.

Not yet on the purchase area. I need to get a little more organized. I'll hopefully have my domain registered along with a new logo and business cards soon. I have one pottery place willing to hang my work and I'm working on a few other businesses. I'm reading and researching a lot on how to make some money at this. I'll give it 5 years and see where I'm at then.

I also want to have links showing work and how it looks framed.

Steve Cavigliano · May 9, 2005

Love them all Adrian

The pic of your town floored me (sweet light), then the tulips, then the windmills....... WOW!! The colors are excellent and all of your subjects are very appealing

Great eye ^5

Thanks for sharing them with us,
Steve

Andy · May 9, 2005

excellent work, adrian!

Adrian van Ammers · May 10, 2005

Hi Skippy!

Skippy wrote:

Wow ........... gosh I've only ever seen tulips like you just posted in photos only, they must grow them here in Australia somewhere, to get the bulbs, cause you see heaps of bulbs for sale here.

I love your Windmills Adrian, they are so Dutch so to speak
I've only ever been to Holland once.....hmmmmm that was about 25 years ago gawwwwwwd am I that old can't be :lol4

Only reason I don't plant them is it's way too windy where I live, enough to move the furniture out on the deck even.

Thank you for sharing your beloved country with us Adrian, beautifully done Skippy (Australia)

It's always nice to meet you

love your enthousiastic comments

BTW you can plant the bulbs in a pot or jar . They will grow and when there is too much wind you give them shelter. Don't be surprised when the bulbs come from Holland. You know we always wanna sell

SusanB · May 10, 2005

Beautiful scenes Adrian. They look almost like paintings for long ago as well as from today.

Thanks for sharing these images from a land far from where I am.

Susan

Adrian van Ammers · May 10, 2005

Khaos wrote:

Thanks.

I'm in the middle of reorg so come back in a few weeks and there will be a lot more pics.

Not yet on the purchase area. I need to get a little more organized. I'll hopefully have my domain registered along with a new logo and business cards soon. I have one pottery place willing to hang my work and I'm working on a few other businesses. I'm reading and researching a lot on how to make some money at this. I'll give it 5 years and see where I'm at then.

I also want to have links showing work and how it looks framed.

Thanks for the information. I will have a look in a few weeks!

Adrian van Ammers · May 10, 2005

Steve Cavigliano wrote:

Love them all Adrian

The pic of your town floored me (sweet light), then the tulips, then the windmills....... WOW!! The colors are excellent and all of your subjects are very appealing Great eye ^5

Thanks for sharing them with us,
Steve

Woohoo, Steve, you are making me jump with all your nice comment.

Thanks so much!

robscomputer · May 10, 2005

Adrian van Ammers wrote:

Very nice Rob, do you know which town this is? Thanks for your nice words!

The town is called Delft, located in the Netherlands painted by artist Jan Van Vermeer in 1659. The painting was done using the camera obscura, a device made to assist painter with a optical overlay of the actual subject on the canvas.

Rob

Adrian van Ammers · May 11, 2005

Hi there Daniel

Daniel Chui wrote:

Adrian, good to see yah man! You are really improving... the flower shots that you posted are breathtaking... great work and excellent composition!

- Chui

Yeah, I see quite some old STF buddies here

Andy knew what he was doing by inviting me here. Thanks for the compliment. Growing in photography is so easy with these forums and great people sharing all the goodies of beautiful pictures and technics. Thanks again.

Adrian van Ammers · May 11, 2005

robscomputer wrote:

The town is called Delft, located in the Netherlands painted by artist Jan Van Vermeer in 1659. The painting was done using the camera obscura, a device made to assist painter with a optical overlay of the actual subject on the canvas.

Rob

Thanks for the information, Rob. I should have known, Jan Vermeer is very famous here. Delft is a pretty little town.

Going Dutch

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