SoulPixels» SoulPixels, the soul and the pixels of photography

Track with ice

Maarten — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 19:50:56 +0000

Yesterday I received the intriguing photo book of Bernard Fuchs called “Roads and Paths“. When I was in my early teens I would often fantasize about where a path or road would lead to. Some of these ancient roads would lead to other continents of over high mountains, up to the top, where they would end. This books show roads and paths, small, hidden or unclear and indecisive.

Today I walked to a nearby park when I saw a car track which was filled with pieces of ice. This brought my mind back to the book, which I bought after only having a look at the front cover and reading the title. After not making photos for some weeks I finally took a couple, one of them you can see below.

52. Track with Ice. Click on the photo to enlarge.

Copyright © 2000 - 2010
This feed is for personal, non-commercial use only.
The use of this feed on other websites breaches copyright. If this content is not in your news reader, it makes the page you are viewing an infringement of the copyright. (Digital Fingerprint:
63b530a85dcfe3b575211cdfaec66486 (38.107.191.111) )

Snow and Dogs

Maarten — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:32:58 +0000

Snow in the Netherlands. Just a little, many people would say, but the whole infrastructure is out of order. For many kids it is great fun since their holidays started this weekend.

351. Snow and Dogs. Click on the photo to enlarge.

Curbstone Paris

Maarten — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:30:17 +0000

As part of my Curbstone project I took some curbstone photos with my Voigtlander 15mm lens on a Leica M8. More results can be seen in the Curbstone gallery.

Curbstone near the Louvre, Paris. Click on the photo to enlarge.

Old Paris

Maarten — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:19:15 +0000

In these days of “everything sharp” photos I felt this photo fitted perfectly with the mood I sensed in Paris.

Old Paris. Click on the photo to enlarge.

Louvre Cafe

Maarten — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:54:57 +0000

Part of the Louvre are lots of places where you can just enjoy Paris and look at other people. Le Cafe Marly surely is one of them. To look at the people looking at other people is just as much fun!

Louvre Cafe, Paris. Click on the photo to enlarge.

A man in Paris

Maarten — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:35:51 +0000

Walking along the Seine river I saw this man looking at me. He must have been there for a long time already.

A man in Paris. Click on the photo to enlarge.

Panorama from Arc de Triomphe

Maarten — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:55:42 +0000

I took two panoramas when I was on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. This one is taken while looking in the direction of Bois de Boulogne, which you can see if you look down my favorite avenue just right from the middle. The avenue right of that one leads to La Defense with the modern version of the Arc de Triomphe called La Grande Arche.

Eiffel tower and La Defense from Arc de Triomphe. Click on the photo to enlarge.

Seine and Eiffel tower in the autumn

Maarten — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:51:30 +0000

Another photo from my trip to Paris.

288. Seine and Eiffel tower in the autumn. Click on the photo to enlarge.

Eglise Saint-Sulpice

Maarten — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:20:34 +0000

Eglise Saint-Sulpice was near our hotel in Paris and near the Jardin du Luxembourg. Both we visited on the first afternoon we were in Paris last week. Eglise Saint-Sulpice plays an important role in the famous book of Dan Brown, the Da Vinci Code. More photos I made in Paris can be found in my gallery “Paris“.

285 Eglise Saint-Sulpice, Paris, France. Click on the photo to enlarge.

Sheep transport in Ireland

Maarten — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:58:47 +0000

Sheep transport by cable car from Dursey island to Ballaghboy, Ireland, 2005

Click on it to enlarge.

Empire State Building with an iPhone

Maarten — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:08:09 +0000

I’ve been a bit to busy this week to go out and take pictures so I’m posting something from the Jay Maisel workshop I did last year in September. The last evening we were up on the roof of “the bank”. After the sun set some of us went inside to drink wine and have a nice snack. Others like me stayed up on the roof and took more photos. In the photo below, on the left, you might be able to recognize a famous photographer using his iPhone to take photos of the Empire State Building.

Empire State Building with an iPhone. Click on it to enlarge.

Afsluitdijk

Maarten — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:21:04 +0000

Today, driving home from a customer in the city of Leeuwarden I took the road over the Afsluitdijk (or Closure Dike. It turned a sea into a lake; read more using the link). The road was very empty so I took out my camera a took some photographs while driving. This photo was taken near the monument by architect Willem Marinus Dudok. You can see the statue of Cornelis Lely, just onder the pedestrian bridge.

263 Afsluitdijk and sky. Click on it to enlarge.

Where’s Jonathan (when I need him)?

Maarten — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:00:02 +0000

259 Where’s Jonathan (when I need him)? Click on it to enlarge.

At the end of our holiday on the island of Texel we took the ferry back to the mainland. There are always many seagulls waiting for passenger to feed them their left over bread.

Looking at the beach

Maarten — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:46:48 +0000

People sitting at the edge of a large beach in the north of Texel, The Netherlands, in the background you can see the lighthouse. If you look at the photos on the Picture-a-day page (no. 256a) you can see the vastness of the beach.

256b Looking at the beach. Click on it to enlarge.

Looking inside

Maarten — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:28:32 +0000

In a cafe yesterday I saw this nice scene. Although the face is not sharp, I have other photos where the kids face is sharp, I like this one best. She sees me taking the picture. More photos on the Picture-a-day page.

254b Looking inside. Click on it to enlarge.

Hipshot

Maarten — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:58:20 +0000

During a food festival in De Koog on the island of Texel, yesterday evening, I experimented with some hipshots. I’ve done this kind of photography a couple of times before, sometimes with good results.

252a Hipshot during Texel Culinair. Click on it to enlarge.

Fresh Shrimps

Maarten — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:32:40 +0000

Today we were in the harbor of Oudeschild, a village on the island of Texel, to buy fresh unpeeled grey shrimps. These North Sea shrimps which are well known for their taste. The many (German) tourists on Texel often come down to the harbour on Fridays to get the fresh shrimps and peel them at home, like we did. It took us two and a half hours to peel the kilo we bought.

251b Shrimp crates, Oudeschild harbor, Texel. Click on it to enlarge.

Found Photos

Maarten — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:30:47 +0000

When we bought our current house, three years ago, I found a couple of roles of B&W negatives. I recently scanned them. A couple more of them can be found on the Found Photos page.

Holiday, Found Photos. Click on it to enlarge.

Translucide

Maarten — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:09:05 +0000

This evening I walked around on the ArtZuid sculpture route near my home in Amsterdam. The sculpture Translucide of Antoine Poncet reflected the light and the color of the sky beautifully. I’ve also added some more photos to the ArtZuid gallery.

227 Antoine Poncet – Translucide. Click on it to enlarge.

ArtZuid, Sculptures and Architecture in Amsterdam

Maarten — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 16:51:28 +0000

In my neighborhood for the first time a sculpture route will be opened on the 16th of August. It is called ArtZuid, Sculptures & Architecture in Amsterdam (“Zuid” means South). Although it is not yet officially opened many of the sculptures are already in place. It is suddenly much more lively on these avenues. I like it very much. I hope they will do it every year. There is a gallery with more pictures on the ArtZuid page.

218 ArtZuid2009 Bended Bus. Click on it to enlarge.