A quiet winter, except maybe for it’s cold ending. For some reason only pictures from my neighborhood in Amsterdam, commuting stations and from my office. Find the picture with the IJsselmeer frozen over…
Amsterdam
The biggest party of the Amsterdam Gay Pride.
Yesterday people interested could take a peak preview of the artwork in the new metro Station Rokin in Amsterdam. The items on the walls represent things found while digging out the station. Oddly satisfying to see an upside-down duck, or a (stoned?) upside down shrimp.
I made the same pictures last year, but on April 10. So, the blossom is almost three weeks earlier! Climate change is horrible and destructive, but this is a nice present today…
The mayor of Amsterdam lives in one of the canal houses on the Herengracht in Amsterdam. Like a lot of these houses, they look quite simple from the outside, but are palaces from the inside. And I wouldn’t say no to a garden the size he has! The city of […]
Winter is being chased away; the birds sing all night and flowers are springing up. Can’t wait…!
The Old Church in Amsterdam is the oldest building of the city. I was lucky enough to have a beautiful experience here, a concert in a dark church during sunrise. Broken mirrors on the floor like pools of water – an exposition of Marinus Boezem – scattered the light on the […]
Some miscellaneous pictures from Amsterdam and Alkmaar, January 2017.
White winters in Amsterdam are rare, so another series of a white afternoon in Amsterdam West. Today a particularly pointy frost!
A beautiful time-lapse of the traffic on the IJ. The IJ, the waterway splitting Amsterdam in two, is one the busiest waterways in the Netherlands. Can’t stop looking at this time-lapse, especially the ferries crossing between all the other traffic.