Het land langs # 23 (Along the Country Side # 23)

It was the last real summer’s day of 2013. At least in Holland. The wind was from the South East. I went for a bike ride along the dike between Lelystad and Enkhuizen. It is a dike through The Ijsselmeer, a huge inner lake in the northern part of Holland. The dike is about 30 kilometers long. Just sitting on the bike I felt very small in the enormous blue space.

Time & Space turned into just one dimension.

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Het land langs # 22 (Along the Country Side # 22)

My weblog & Facebook friends may have noticed that I did not publish new posts for a while. I was away, giving some workshops at Buitenkunst (www.buitenkunst.nl) . Which in itself a very inspiring activity. For me, and I hope for my participants too. My groups made some beautiful presentations, among them a big slide show in the theatre about photographing democratically. Which has to do with treating equally every element in the photo, every detail is of the same importance. Looking for the perfect banal.

In another workshop my group made a beautiful show of photographs as a décor for a concert of tango music.

Very inspiring, but I can’t find hardly the time to take new photographs and more over to think of new stories.

But sometimes I can bike around for a while and take some typical Dutch Landscape Pictures.

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Hollandse Panorama's

Afgelopen vrijdag ben ik met een straffe noordwesterwind in de rug van Enkhuizen naar Lelystad gefietst om in de polder op Buitenkunst een fotografieworkshop ”Landschap en Ruimte” te geven. Panoramafoto’s hebben al snel een ruimtelijke werking. Toch staat de foto in de schaduw van de ervaring van wind, licht, lucht en de geur van het (zoete) IJsselmeerwater.
Onderweg ben ik 1 x ingehaald, heb zelf 2x ingehaald en heb 4 x fietsende tegenliggers gehad. De auto’s waren weer eens niet te tellen.
Foto boven: IJsselmeer. 12/6/09. 14.47 uur.
Foto onder: Dijk Lelystad-Enkhuizen. 15.32 uur.