Frozen southern half of Lake Winnebago in Wisconsin, through a frosty window last December. I actually had a great full view of Geneva Lake, but the window was much more frosted over at the point so no chance of photographing it… Remaining last photos from my last Ams-ORD flight in the gallery below, starting with the North Holland landscape shortly after takeoff plus some Chicago street and lakeshore shots.
Found objects as a series was spurred by manufactured items washed on the shores of Lake Ohrid, when Steve & I were there last May. I enjoy my categories, and I hope you do also: they get me out the door and they help me organize these post, amongst other benefits. With this series, I figured I’d mostly looking at the detritus of human consumption and manufacture, littering our planet in visually interesting and environmentally problematic ways. In that sense, this is a successor series to my short lived “Errant Masks” peak-covid series. These goats, hanging out on the picnic table at one of the two petting zoos in parks to the east and west of me here, caught my eye. They’re the ‘out of scope’ example, in this post. Goats, as living entities, are not in my view ‘objects,’ though you may find me disagreeing with myself later, if I photograph some well-dressed dog who is clearly the object of their human’s affection. 🙂 The gallery below gives “in scope” examples, all from my same shopping & photo stroll last Sunday. Manufactured items floating in canal, bag of bread sitting on a trash can, unexplained and disturbing item in gutter…
Quite a few accumulated sun, moon and general sky-light shots all here. Bottom right (gallery in full view mode; probably bottom photo in pared-down small-screen mode) photo with a rising sun peeking out from behind the construction was just post solstice in June; the one with a hazy ball of the sun rising futher east was just after the equinox in September. This post from last November will remind readers how that view looked before the construction really got started, and shows the Pontsteiger which I now must visit to see 😦
Amsterdam’s support for public art at neighborhood level means that interesting new things pop up frequently. 🙂 I like paying taxes into a system that provides great low-carbon public transit, public healthcare and engaging public art that’s clearly driven by a school art project.
Best sorta closer views I’ve managed to take of Ijmuiden (right) and the Zuid-Kennemerland National Park (that’s the green dunes in the center), because on this flight we took off to the north and then turned towards England so, as you see, we banked right over it all :-). Any time you see photos of Sloterplas from my apartment, this is basically what’s out there in the distance where the sun is setting – it’s all more or less due west of me. Below, more including the coastline of Noord and Zuid Holland. I also got some of the best views of the islands and peninsulas of Zeeland, and the area around Hoek of Holland and the Maeslantkering that I’ve gotten, so stay tuned :-).
Amsterdam’s “Hortus” botanical garden underwent a major renovation over the past couple years, with the greenhouse you see above as one of the lovely outcomes. A few days after I took the above photo (just a shot snapped on my bike ride home), we had the chance during an ‘away day’ workshop inside one of the Hortus buildings to do a lovely guided tour, from which came the circle gallery (if you’re in full-view) of photos below. Having been founded only in 1638, A’dam’s Hortus isn’t even the oldest botanical garden in NL (Leiden’s is), although it probably does rank amongst the 20 oldest in the world.
Windows at Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam’s centuries-old botanical garden which happens to be around the corner from our office and a good place for offsite meetings :-).
I’ll apologize for the condensation drops and reflections in the window, but I still think it’s worth the view. Here you see pretty much all of Noord-Holland, as well as the Ijmeer, Markermeer and Ijsselmeer, including of course the entire city and surroundings of Amsterdam, all the way up to Texel at the north (left) end. Below some more shots – all from my Ams-ORD flight last December.
