1st day of christmas on the beach
Michiel de Brieder
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Dear friends,
we don't celibrate christmas at our house because of a family accident some years ago.... Well, I won't bother you with that, but my mother and I went down to my mothers' birthcity and we took a nice long walk along the beach. Of course I took my camera with me and here are some of the shots I took:
kite-surfing:
A windmill:
a picture shot into the sun.. I like it
The big peer of Scheveningen (as this place is called):
I hope you like them and if you want to view some more photos (I have a very nice large pano up in the gallery) please take a look at the entire gallery:
http://www.pbase.com/giel/scheveningen_2004
So I hope you enjoyed coming in.
Regards
we don't celibrate christmas at our house because of a family accident some years ago.... Well, I won't bother you with that, but my mother and I went down to my mothers' birthcity and we took a nice long walk along the beach. Of course I took my camera with me and here are some of the shots I took:
kite-surfing:
A windmill:
a picture shot into the sun.. I like it
The big peer of Scheveningen (as this place is called):
I hope you like them and if you want to view some more photos (I have a very nice large pano up in the gallery) please take a look at the entire gallery:
http://www.pbase.com/giel/scheveningen_2004
So I hope you enjoyed coming in.
Regards
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the three last pictures on your post are *da bomb*, IMHO!
Especially #4... I think it's foggy, hazy, moody look is quite special.
Lovely work!
Thanks so much for sharing!
Take care!
-- thiago
A lot of kite surfing here but not with my 3x :cry
3,4 & 5 are amazing
Nir Alon
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Yesterday, it was -20C here, and there were some folks kite skiing on a freeway construction site near my house. I didn't brave the cold nor the police to get close enough to photograph them! Tragically, during a freak windstorm a week or two ago, a fellow that was kite skiing on a frozen lake was killed. Extreme sports are not my thing, but they must be compelling for those that do them in those extremes.
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I like these two the most, the big peer because I've never seen anything like that before. What kind of peer is it?
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the weather was excellent for shooting! Lot's of light even @ f/5.6 (70-200 f/4 + TC) I could get some really fast shutter times @ ISO 100, and 400 was a killer
Thanks for dropping in!!
Michiel de Brieder
http://www.digital-eye.nl
Nice of you to drop in!
Michiel de Brieder
http://www.digital-eye.nl
Michiel de Brieder
http://www.digital-eye.nl
Thanks for the kind comments! I must say, I'm very much intrigued by the Kite skiing thing.. I'd really love to try sometime.. in warmer weather of course it was 4 degrees celcius, but there was a strong wind..
Thanks for dropping in!
Michiel de Brieder
http://www.digital-eye.nl
Some pictures of the old walkway and the modern peer can be found here: http://scheveningen.fol.nl/pier.htm the text is dutch again, but the pics are okay
Here's a photo I took of the bathhouse (It's called "Het Kurhaus")
It's not the best photo of the outing but hey, it illustrates the story
here's some history translated from the page about the peer:
[font=Verdana, Arial] 1901 - the peer is officially opened by Prince Hendrik
1943 - after a fire in "Café-Variété" (on the walkway) the walkway is partially destroyed
1948 - The first designs for the actual new peer are being made
1955 - The old remains of the walkway are taken away
1959 - the building of the new peer was started
(381 meter length, and a towerheight of 45)
1961 - the opening of the new Peer by the late Prince Bernard
1993 - the start of renovations on the peer
[/font]Thanks for dropping in Dee! And kudos on the Calendar it is awesome!!!!
Michiel de Brieder
http://www.digital-eye.nl