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On this stormy day, I got some salty seawater on my lips again. Would almost say that to me it tastes better than wine. Not that strange because it seems that there's still flowing seawater in my veins , lol.
Hope you'll enjoy this image like I've enjoyed taking this one. Thank you in advance for your comment.
This sunset image was captured east of Middelburg, Zeeland, the Netherlands. At the left side you see the silhouetted steeple of 'de Lange Jan' ('Long John') and at the right side you see the silhouetted 'Oostkerk' ('East Church').
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Referring to the narritive and my additional comment on THIS ONE , I like to continue the series 'People In The Air' with a rather similar, but in my opinion, a slightly better one.
Hope you'll like this image as well. Thanks in advance for your comment.
PS: when you like to distinguish the people on the beach, you'll have to view this image at full screen size, lol.
This, to me, impressive scene was captured last Monday on the peninsula South-Beveland, the Netherlands.
I really hope that it's impressive to you as well and that you'll like it. Thanks in advance for your comments.
As you can see by the lush green trees, this image was captured some while ago in Haarlem, a town in the province North-Holland, the Netherlands.
Depicted is the traditional windmill "De Adriaan".Think it's a too nice image to keep it in the 'bin'.
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The depicted tall ship is the Russian Kruzenshtern
It's sailing outward bound after a port-call in Flushing, Zeeland, the Netherlands. By checking-out this link you can read more about this vessel.
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I like to continue this series with this one
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When you check-out next link, you can read more about Hendrik Willem van Loon. Although van Loon was emigrated to the USA, he continued to feel Dutch himself. He made many trips to Europe and returned occasionally to the Netherlands. He was particularly impressed by the town of Veere. Between 1927 and 1931, after a difficult period in the USA, he was settled permanently in the house 'The Houttuyn' located on the quay of Veere. He completed his books there and bore occasional stir by his flamboyant lifestyle and special initiatives. One of these initiatives was that he, with the assistance of Frits Philips, organised in 1928 a sailing event for local fishermen with their wooden fishing boats. For the very poor (from financial point of view) fishermen an excellent opportunity to gain some extra money and goods that they couldn't afford to buy, so the enthousiasm to participate was rather great. The 'Stichting Behoud Hoogaars' (SBH), a foundation runned by volunteers to reconstruct ancient Dutch wooden fishing boats, decided in 1994 however to keep this sailing event again, but on a yearly basis now and for the present owners of different types of ancient wooden boats. This series will show you some images of the 2012 event.
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PS: the reason for my recently absence on Caedes is that last Wednesday a dear and close family member passed away suddenly. The burial was held yesterday.
You can clearly see by the seaweed on the embankment at the left side of this image, that this canal is subject to tides. It connects the town of Zierikzee, Zeeland, the Netherlands directly with the Eastern Scheldt. Because of the Eastern Scheldt Storm Surge Barrier, the difference between ebb and flood is limited.
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When there's a breeze she whispers gently, in a storm however she roars like a lion. Never is her sound the same. Although I got used to it, the never ending song of the sea is never boring to me.
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I like to listen to the never ending song of the sea. To me it's even finer than good music.
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Edit: to avoid some possible misunderstanding, I like to provide you with some additional information:
This image was captured with a Nikon D5000 body and a AF-S Micro Nikkor 85mm 1:3 5 G ED VRII lens (Nikon call its macro lenses 'Micro'). Because of poor lighting conditions (both dark and windy weather), I've chosen for an optimal shutter time versus an optimal f-stop. The highest possible f-stop number therefore was 14.3 (a higher number was in these conditions not possible). The distance to the subject was 0.6 m. You can check on THIS SITE, that the DOF was from 0.59 m (near limit) to 0.61 m (far limit), so a total DOF of only 0.02 m (an extremely shallow DOF is a common effect in macrophotography).
I got used with this phenomenon. Therefore I used a manual FL-setting (Focal Length-setting) of about 0.61 m (somewhat farther than the real distance to the subject). By using this 'trick' I achieved that the range from 0.6 - 0.62 m was depicted clearly. Everything outside this range is not a lack of focus, as suggested below by Ted (ted3020), but just BOKEH!
Anoter F² (Foofy Friday) image, taken in the garden of my wife with one of my Nikon bodies with an AF-S Micro Nikkor 85mm 1:3 5 G ED VRII lens attached. Please realize that the real diameter of the biggest geranium flower is about 3.4 centimetres (1.3 inch). The other ones are even smaller.
About the presentation, I like to say this: My fiend Sandi (tigger3) said in her comment on my 'Pink Petunia' image: "I love the way they pop through the framework, one of these neat editing tricks I know nothing about."
My friend Lyn (LynEve) has taught me how to do this. She has even made a basic tutorial. Please check-out THIS LINK to read more about it. It will probably cost some attempts and patience to achieve a reasonable result, but please give it a try and you'll see that it's worth the effort.
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In spite of the threatening sky, the crew of the reconstructed ancient wooden Belgian fishingboat 'D'n Bruinen' (The Brown One) is preparing the boat for a ride on the Lake of Veere, Zeeland, the Netherlands.
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Have some hoar frost images in my bin, which are, in my opinion, too fine to let them there. So here's #2.
Hope you'll agree with me and enjoy it. Thanks in advance for your comment.
When I am on a photo shoot, a scene is mostly captured by me from different angles. In order to upload a photo to Caedes, only one of them is selected, the others disappear on two of my external hard drives (the one functions as a storage and the other as a back-up medium), often called by me: 'my shoebox', lol. This method implies, on the one hand, that a depicted scene won't become dull or boring to you, but, on the other hand, that many good shots remain unused.
This post is such a shoebox image. Hope that it may show to you what I've tried to explain. Hope too that you'll like this, almost by me forgotten, shot. Thanks in advance for your comment.
Owd Bob recently said in his comment on one of my images: "You just cannot take the 'Captain' out of the Sea!!...can you eh...lol."
Think he's right. Therefore this image of the pilot tender 'Gemini' on its way to a seagoing vessel on the North Sea near Flushing, Zeeland, the Netherlands.
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SB (Shoebox) image.
I had some doubts whether to post this image or not because it has caused a kind of dilemma to me. Chosing another angle or cropping this image according the rules of thirds may, on the one hand, have created a more interesting composition, but would, on the other hand, have deleted a part of either the wonderful sky or the reflections. So I decided to ignore this 'dogma' (please notice the quotes). Hope that I took the right decision.
I'm curious what's your opinion about that, so thanks for your comment in advance.
About four years ago, I've posted a rather similiar image, but I think this one has a higher quality. You see a part of the tiny town of Veere, Zeeland, the Netherlands, its traditional windmill, named 'The Cow', and a part of the Lake of Veere.
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On this image some reconstructed ancient Zeeland wooden fishing boats can be seen. These boats were built at the end of the 19th century, begin 20th century, and are recently reconstructed to keep them for historical reasons (as a kind of 'living monument'). During the reconstruction a small propulsion engine was built in as well, only for safety purposes (emergency propulsion). It's hard to imagine that fishermen had the courage to sail on them on the North Sea in the past, with no other propulsion means than sails. My late granddad was one of them. He survived on July 18th, 1924 a disaster in which 15 of his fellow-fishermen drowned after their tiny boats were struck (and sunk) by a heavy storm. Nowadays these 'living monuments' are only used for leisure/pleasure sailing rides on lakes in Zeeland. Sailing will keep them in a better condition rather than to give them only a passive role.
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