Given how much shorter the days are becoming here in the north now that we’re past the solstice, I figure I’ll have a chance to catch more city-lights photos with the long dark nights that’ll fill the coming six months :-/, so I can spare two in one post. As I mentioned in an earlier post, the apartment I’m now in gives me lovely views at all hours from high above the city – including these shots from mid-August, with a sliver of moon and the earliest glimmers of dawn before sunrise.
Imagine my surprise, while up by NL’s excellent public transit network in a small town north of Amsterdam for our first team-tennis match of the season (we won 4-2, thanks very much), to see this lone California poppy brightening the sidewalk scene as a little memory of (my other) home for me :-).
There’s a degree of honor on my side and trust on yours about these urban and country canal categories: the one above was taken one evening when I went for a walk by my apartment after work, while the one below, much more clearly urban in nature, is on my bike ride home from where I play tennis, which is a now a very different path than the Schinkeleilandenpark bike path which I used to photograph a lot, going and coming from tennis.
Sunset from my apartment on my birthday, just over a month ago, was pretty much a full two hours later than it is already now :-(. That’s the seasons here…
Above, a sunset photo still in my folder from March, and below the last from a lovely sunset evening concert at the Muziekgebouw up by the harbor in May.
Wrapping up the last photos from the lovely Open Garden days exploration, back in June. These photos come from two different gardens, one of which was behind the house with the small museum whose story I’ve photographed :-).
Above, a sunset photo still in my folder from March, and below the last from a lovely sunset evening concert at the Muziekgebouw up by the harbor in May.
Wrapping up the last photos from the lovely Open Garden days exploration, back in June. These photos come from two different gardens, one of which was behind the house with the small museum whose story I’ve photographed :-).
(so much world, so little time....) 