Den Bosch canals
Den Bosch has a lot of canals. You can even take boat tours on them, despite the low passageways. Took this shot last August.
Almost full
Quick shot of the moon from three days ago!
Gouvernement
The weather was really nice for a change, actually very good for this shot. The blue hour is still way to early (can’t leave the house at random ;)) so I have to do with “night” shots. What you see here is the seat of the provincial government, we call it the Gouvernement. The building is partly built in the water of the river Maas, partly on the bank and partly on an island in the river. For this picture I took several shots (on a tripod of course) with different shutter speeds, and combined them using masking. As always: click for a larger version!
On copyright and Scott Bourne
Well what do you know! Scott Bourne changed his copyright stance, changing from rights-managed to open sharing - be it for just a couple of months - as a test to see if open sharing works better than the old model!
I had a run-in with Scott Bourne once, about copyright (when Twitter decided to show pictures in the timelines), where he insisted providing a link in a tweet was bad for your copyright. I decided to stop following Scott Bourne right then, since it was quite obvious he was always right - well, in his mind. Very curious on how this test turns out.
Sint Jan
The Sint Janskerk (Saint Johns Church) in Maastricht is built right next to the Sint Servaasbasiliek (Basilica of Saint Servatius). The two churches form a church twin, unique for the Netherlands. The church was founded around 1200, as a parish church, so the Sint Servaaskerk could be used as a pilgramige church. The original tower collapsed in 1366, and was rebuilt in the second half of the 15th century. The current church was built in the 14th and beginning of the 15th century. The church now is a protestant church. The tower was painted red in 1984 when the church was restored.
About the picture: it is a composition of a number of shots with different shutter speeds (DRI). Although I like the picture, I’m sure I’m going to give it another try. Right now you don’t see anything of the church itself and it is quite visible in one of the shots. So expect another version soon.
About comments
Today I have switched back to the Disqus commenting system again, after a detour where I wanted to try out the Google+Blog plugin. Google+Blog didn’t work with Disqus, so I had to switch to the standard Wordpress commenting system, but although Google+Blog looks nice in theory, I’m not generating that much content on G+ that I want to sync with my blog. Another thing is Google+Blog inflated my database as it generates lots of versions of the posts it syncs, even though there were no differences at all between versions. This however caused my automatic database backup to fail, after which I needed to start looking for another solution. Luckily I found one in XCloner. Maybe a bit to much for my needs, but it is working, which is the most important thing.
The watchtower
This watchtower called “De Duiventoren” is located in Heusden, Noord-Brabant. Heusden is an old fortified town (old as in first mentioned in 722). The city walls are much younger of course, this tower was built around 1355 and was rebuild in 1984.
The photo is a HDR. I took 3 exposures (-2,0,2), handheld, which I converted to 5 TIFF images (generating a -4 eV and a 4 eV exposure). After generating a HDR picture, I did some adjustments to tone down the greens. Then some sharpening and a little vignetting.
Posting and posting (and posting)
Even if I didn’t post anything new here, I’ve been busy posting photos on the internets everyday! But something had changed! Flickr has been very static since I got a Pro account years ago, so much I decided to not renew my Flickr Pro account. Only now some change is coming, but I guess this is because of other sites gaining a lot attraction. So, I needed to get another solution, which I found in Google+ Photos. Google+ Photos is part of Google+ (my profile is here) which is a quite lively social network (even if numerous reports tell otherwise, I guess it depends on the kind of people you have in your circles).
Since February 17 I’ve been posting a photo each day (so that’s 15 days in a row!). At first I’ve been digging through my archives for shots I hadn’t shared already. Yesterday was my first shot taken with my new camera. Below you’ll find the shots I haven’t shown here since my last post to this blog. Enjoy!
I’ll try to update my blog each day with a new photo.
Click the photos for larger versions!
And the last one: a panorama shot last night with my new Canon 60D.
Looking out
Again one from the archives, shot nearly two years ago. Our French bulldog Mikey is looking out the window at everything that moves. Kind of how I feel right now, waiting to get out with my camera to shoot something new!
The woods
Taken during a walk in the woods near Hoenderloo, the Netherlands.
I shot 3 exposures, converted them to 5 TIFFs (creating an extra -4 eV and a 4 eV version), then used Photomatix to create an HDR. The sky turned up really ugly, so I partly masked in the sky from the original 0 eV shot.
Click the image for a larger version.