Just from Diemen NL #4

 (Photographs from the town of Diemen, suburb of Amsterdam, my hometown for the last 22 years.)

Somebody left her bike behind.

Greetings from Diemen NL #3

How to organize color om a dull day?

(Often when I go out into my hometown Diemen, the somewhat sleepy suburb of Big City Amsterdam, I take my camera with me. I try to capture accidental beauty and sometimes unplanned alienation of the banal aspects of the everyday scenery. I started to do this from 2004, the year we came to live here,  at first in black and white, from 2006 in color.)

Photo. 2021/11/30 Diemerplein, Diemen NL, 3.05 pm.

Follow the Icon 1 Henri Cartier Bresson

In many photographs I make I trace an influence of a picture I once saw. I am aware of that, sometimes during the moment I shoot the photograph, sometimes afterwards.  Sometimes the Icon Photo will be a very famous one, sometimes a rather anonymous snapshot.

So my plan is to post from time to time a photo made by me, accompanied by a description in words of the Icon Photo and the name of the photographer.

The idea behind Follow the Icon is that, although as  a photographer I developed a reasonable signature and style of my own, I often am influenced by other examples. I do not mind at all; I think this a very interesting phenome.

Today: Follow the Icon 1-Because of Henri Cartier Bresson.

A man is anonymously cycling through a street. At the right moment, the cyclist perfectly placed into the composition, the photographer pushes the button. A somewhat longer exposure time whereby the speed of the cyclist becomes tangible. (My picture I made this year in Cork, the photo of CB was somewhere in the back of my mind)

Henri Cartier-Bresson in Tralee (Ireland) AD 2016?

Photograph: Tralee, 2016/8/30 5.34 pm.

February 5.

At 3.45 pm this afternoon the shadow of my apartment was perpendicular to the ditch along the road, where a cyclist passed by. Diemen, 3.45 pm.

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.

Up: Houtribdijk Lelystad-Enkhuizen. 13/9/5 5.03 pm

Under: Houtribdijk Lelystad-Enkhuizen. 13/9/5 5.07 pm

Het land langs # 20 (Along the Country Side # 20)

 

 

UP: This was made from an artificial little hill. Yes, it’s my bike in the left corner underneath.

The only way to get here is on foot or by bike. Standing the this top one is overlooking a former sea. It’s right: God created the world, we Dutch created our country from the sea. Flevoland_Hanzestrook. 2013/05/17 5.31 pm

MIDDLE: Passing this spot it was a bit like being on another planet. But No, it is Holland, Polder Flevoland. Flevoland_Hanzestrook. 2013/05/17 5.43 pm

UNDER: When dusk was there I felt being in the Twilight Zone. Flevoland_Randmeer. 2013/05/18 8.50 pm

Zelfportretten 217-219 (Self portraits 217-219)

217-On my way biking in the polder of Flevoland (Near Dronten 13/03/27, 6.19 pm)

218- That morning I felt like a weeping willow. My long hair like long grey wintry twigs, hanging in my face. So I made up my mind and went to a hairdresser. (Diemen 13/04/05 8.04 am)

219-Short hair makes that someone can feel very barren. Like a brick in a dry wall (Diemen 13/04/08 3.08 pm)

Diemer Landschap

Zo’n om de lantaarnpaal gegooide fietsband is voor de hardwerkende fotograaf een buitenkans!
Foto Diemen Sportlaan. 17/6/09. 15.28 uur.

Diemer Landschap

1 van de zaken die me (fotografisch) blijven interresseren: De schoonheid van het gemaakte landschap. Ooit heeft iemand bedacht dat er fietsklemmen* op deze plek moesten komen. Geel leek wel een aardig kleurtje. Niemand kon bevroeden dat in het lage zonlicht op een Novembernamiddag er een prachtig kleurenspel zou onstaan van rode fietsreflectors, gele fietsklemmen, verkleurende boombladeren en een Hollandse wolkenlucht.
*De fiets staat er redelijk stevig in, maar ik verkies de zgn. nietjes.
Foto: Harmoniehof. Diemen. 13/11/08. 15.41 uur.

Knardijk

Knardijk

Met voorsprong
benoem ik U tot
Fietspad nr 1.

Op Uw betonpad
voortsuizen
gewordt tot meditatie.

(Tekst en foto: Knardijk. 28/06/08. 16.20 uur.)

Vakantieland.

(even klikken op de foto, om hem groter te zien)
De familie Bijsterbosch gaat naar het buitenverblijf met deze fraaie pinksterdagen.
Op de foto kun je als je hem aanklikt de badende Schotse Hooglanders zien,
Foto: Fietspad Egmond daan de Hoef-Bergen aan Zee. 5/5/08. 11.31 uur.

Parkeerplaatsfotografie.

Foto: Galjoen, Diemen-Noord, 21/10/2007, 17 uur 52.