Re: Nathan's PAW 32: Driving around

Thanks, Mark. I did not talk to the bird, but it was clearly semi-domesticated, living in a fishing village. The close-up was taken at a distance of maybe 1.5 meters--there is no way any heron around where I live would let me get this close.

The starling picture, incidentally, was taken with the 50mm Summilux. I get my share of focusing errors with this lens on the Canon 20D, but when it works the results are great.

The clouds on the coastal roads should be darker, you are right. I chose to leave them as is, partly because of laziness, and partly because these were not GeeBee clouds anyway :-)

Thanks for looking and commenting.

Nathan

Mark Bohrer wrote:

Nathan:
I'm curious: does that great blue heron speak Dutch? (I figure the starling probably does.)

Really like the sharpness and color in the starling picture - and the 'I'm not afraid' attitude of the bird as he watches from the edge of the basket.

The B&W s-curve of the road's nice too, but selection of the sky with the magnetic lasso and the brightness/contrast mask in Photoshop would probably make the cloud detail pop a bit more. I also like the view through the rain-dropped window.

The immensity of the sailboat scene is striking too. All very nice!

At 01:46 PM 8/22/2005, you wrote:

I am behind in posting for a couple of good reasons: my sister from Poland was visiting me for a couple of weeks, so I did not have that much time to edit; and I have taken a lot of pictures during that period, so the editing has taken longer than usual. In any event, here is week 32. We were driving around the northern part of the country to show my sister something else than Amsterdam.

The main is a view from the Afsluitdijk, the outermost dike in the North Sea. It is about 30 km long, and quite tall. It will come in handy when the sea level rises in the next few decades.
http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_32.jpg

As the clouds in the preceding shot indicate, it was a wet day, as has been the case during most of the alleged summer this year. But that does not stop me from taking pictures:
http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_32alt1.jpg

Here is a nice coastal road near the town of Stavoren in southern Friesland:
http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_32alt2.jpg

A couple of days later the weather was nicer and we went to Volendam, a touristy but nice small town north of Amsterdam. I photographed the local wildlife, fantasizing that I was Doug Herr:
http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_32alt3.jpg
http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_32alt4.jpg
http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_32alt5.jpg

People in Friesland seem friendlier than elsewhere in Holland. Perhaps it is just the slower pace of life in small towns. I snapped a shot of this man riding his bicycle with a small dog. He noticed, and what did he do? He came over to me, posed for this picture and we had a brief chat.
http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_32alt6.jpg

In the same town we happened upon an antique car/bike meet, and I was thrilled to see this 50cc Zündapp, which was my absolute dream machine when I was a teenager in Denmark. A brief conversation with the owner confirmed that it was indeed the one I craved--it was from 1977:
http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_32alt7.jpg

The complete PAW index is at:
http://www.nathanfoto.com/indexpaw2005.html
and comments and critique are always welcome and appreciated.

Nathan
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