The Netherlands, "part II"

[Kai]

Inspired by Stephan's pictures from the Netherlands I would like to add a few pictures...

For me, the Netherlands has a special photographic appeal because people, history and modernity are combined here in a very special way. The many bicycles, the people on the streets and in the cafes. The beautiful windows, old gables, historic towers, churches and bridges. The functional new buildings - from the "classic modern" to today.
The pictures shown here come from Rotterdam, The Hague, Haarlem (the New York district of the same name is named after this) and Egmond (named after the Counts of Egmond).
 

I took the pictures with different cameras and lenses, most of the pictures are NIR pictures (greater than 720 nm) in 2017 and 2022.

First pictures from Egmond. The first two images are on the subject of haze. The UV image was taken at 50mm focal length, the IR image at 340mm (both slightly cropped). There are less than 10 minutes between the pictures.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The next pictures are taken in Haarlem. Above all, they show the historical side. But I also found a beautiful school building of classical modernism.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There is a lot of modernity to admire in The Hague, especially around the Central Station and the Technical University. In the older part is the M. C. Escher Museum. Worth seeing! (from inside :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rotterdam is my favorite city in this respect. Unfortunately I only took an IR picture there...

 

 

 

(This last picture was taken in Haarlem again...)

[colinbm]

Beautiful collection, lots of stand-outs.

[dabateman]

Excellent images.

[Nate]

Super shots Kai

Sure have an eye for pics that tell a story. The last two are my favorites.

[StephanN]

Excellent

 

Love the moustache on the light-house, and boy, the wind must have been strong in Haarlem, bending the street-lamp

[Doug A]

Superb images. The modern buildings are my favorite. The gray and white borders add to the presentation.

 

Thanks for sharing,

Doug A

[Kai]

Thank you all for your kind comments!!! :)

[Cadmium]

These are great photos!  Very nice to see.

[Andrea B.]

A really well done series.  I've always thought that it is not so easy to create a series. One has to vary the subject matter yet maintain an overall relationship between the images. Compositions must vary with some balance amongst all the verticals, diagonals, angles and so forth. Well, I could go on....but I won't ! 

 

The particular dark sepia finish you have chosen is quite interesting. I actually did not quite realize, for a moment or two, that these are IR photographs! I was absorbed instead with the scenes and their details. Yet the IR is there, quite obviously. Cool!

 

#18 and #20 are my faves. (#18 is the Den Haag Central scene with building reflections. #20 is the allée of trees in front of the unusual narrow building.) I also like #15 very much. The two bright, narrow verticals are wonderful against all the small, dimmer horizontal rectangles.

[Kai]

@Andrea: Thank you very much for your detailed and kind comment on these pictures!
The IR pictures are not taken through a classic IR filter, but through a ZWB2. I'll post a separate post on that soon...

[Unscenerie]

I'm enjoying your travel and architecture photography, Kai.

Those IR images show so much contrast!

[Wayne Harridge]

Great series of images, IR and architecture always seem to work well together.