Got a new gizmo from my brother Carlos and had to get out and try it, so half
of today’s pictures were made with an 85mm Zeiss 1.4 portait lens on my
battered little Sony NEX 5 with a new phase detection AF (LA-EA2) adapter.
I’m geeking out. Merry Christmas.
**click on the pics to zoooom them**
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- Amstel River West Bank taken from the Skinny Bridge (Magere brug)
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- Theatre Carré and hogesluis, from the Skinny bridge
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- Stopera and Hermitage, from the Skinny bridge
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- Stopera and Hermitage, from the Skinny bridge
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- The Old Bell English pub on the Rembrandtplein
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- Food stand, chili con carne, chestnuts, corn on the cob, pea soup, chicken sandwich, orange juice.
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- Skating around Rembrandt
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- What the hell is going on in this picture?
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- What’s wrong with this picture? EVERYTHING! Scary stuff at the Winterland skating rink, Rembrandtplein
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- Winterland, Rembrandtplein
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- Mom feeding her tiny baby on a bench in front of a strip club.
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- Attack of the yarn-bombers!
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- Bubble-blowing bear outside a toy shop (Tinkerbell) on the Spiegelgracht
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- Bubble-blowing bear outside a toy shop (Tinkerbell) on the Spiegelgracht
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- Maxim Cafe on the Korte Leidsedwarsstraat wrapped up for Christmas
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- Dan Murphy’s Irish pub, Anno 1665, Leidseplein
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- The new Mini Coupé
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- Fountain of the American Hotel on the Leidseplein
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- Great architecture and lettering style on the Atlanta building.
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- Fantastic lamps in the Kuoni building office
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- Kuoni building at the entrance of the Vondel Park
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- Vondel Park at night. Apparently you can’t see your veins in blue light.
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- Beautiful architecture and lighting at the entrance of the Vondel Park
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- Mighty tree with a house and fendce built up to it.
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- Entrance to an alley beween houses near the museumplein
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- Glass and steel sculpture on the sidewalk in front of a glass art shop
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- Glass and steel sculpture on the sidewalk in front of a glass art shop
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- Pieter Cornelisz Hooftstraat – the high end ‘Rodeo Drive’ of Amsterdam
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- Another beautiful example of Amsterdam architecture.
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- Diamond cutters offices along the museumplein.
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- Ladies enjoying their “I Amsterdam” sign pictures. They made about 1000 of them.
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- Ice skating rink behind the Rijksmuseum
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- Concertgebouw (Concert building at the end of the Museumplein – by Van Gogh museum)
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- House entrance with fantastic iron work and glass portico
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- House doorway with beautiful unsupported wooden portico
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- Brandweer – fire station decorated for Christmas
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- Ladies transporting their living Christmas tree on a bike.
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- Tiny Christmas village in someone’s living room window.
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- Beautiful graffiti on a side street near Albert Cuyp Street market
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- Beautiful graffiti on a side street near Albert Cuyp Street market
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- Graffiti on a wall of a playground
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- Graffiti on a wall of a playground
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- Kids game on a playground. If anyone knows more about this, let me know.
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- Abandoned street piano getting warped in the rain.
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- Beautiful mistletoe, but can you stand under it? Tricky.
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- Sign in front of a midwife’s association office.
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- Sleeping house tiger as seen though someone’s window.
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- Swarming corporate offices of the Netherland’s version of Facebook, Hyves.
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- Bar Moustache. Everything’s better with a moustache.
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- Shopping frenzy on the Utrechtsesstraat
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- Tiny Christmas village with circling Santa sleigh in a shop window on Utrechtsesstraat
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- The neighbour girl’s bike.
That playground thing is for funnel ball. and it looks like pufn’stuff…
So how does it work? (and do you mean H.R.?)