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Enjoying a lovely day

nobody@flickr.com (kees straver (will be back online soon friends)) — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 11:14:21 -0700

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I´ve just finished a 9 day work week at the hospital and today was my first day off, so what better way to celebrate freedom than to grab my bike and spend a whole day shooting photos of everything I came across. This shot was from a couple of months ago because I really just got back from hunting in Amsterdam.

Flying high over Rio de Janeiro

nobody@flickr.com (kees straver (will be back online soon friends)) — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 11:07:08 -0700

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This is the view you´ll get when you´re standing on the platform at Corcovado. Every time I see this shot i´m always wondering what the view must be like from the helicopter. I didn´t do the helicopter tour because they where asking a lot of money for just a couple of minutes. I guess this view of Rio de Janeiro is the second best view you can get.

The incredible skies above Rio de Janeiro – Brazil

nobody@flickr.com (kees straver (will be back online soon friends)) — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 11:26:09 -0700

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I took this shot for the roof of the hotel I was staying at in Rio de Janeiro. This is a sun rise shot and the sun still took a while to rise after I took this shot.

Blue hour music at Amsterdam

nobody@flickr.com (kees straver (will be back online soon friends)) — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 11:20:05 -0700

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We have been having so nice weather here in Amsterdam these last few days and especially at night. The few clouds that were visible during the day time completely disappear when the sun has set, leaving a clear blue hour sky and because it summer it also last for a long time.

The building that you see here is the Music Building on the IJ. The music building is a concert hall for contemporary classical music on the IJ in Amsterdam and it´s a ten-minute walk from Amsterdam Central station.
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Camera: Canon EOS 5D MarkII
Exposure: 30 sec
Aperture: f/ 14.0
Focal Length: 17 mm
ISO Speed: 100

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Focussing on the sand, Scheveningen - The Netherlands / Crystal ball

nobody@flickr.com (kees straver (will be back online soon friends)) — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 11:15:10 -0700

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it´s been awhile since I last posted a Crystal ball shot on my stream and I had another challenge to complete. The challenge came from Remco ter Wal on my last Crystal ball photo Facing the wind.
The challenge was: Use the Crystal ball as a magnifying glass, The Dutch make chips.
I immediately thought of microchips, and what a microchips made of? Yes SILICON!!!!
Silicon is the eighth most common element in the universe by mass, but very rarely occurs as the pure free element in nature. It is more widely distributed in dusts, sands, planetoids and planets.
Silicon has many industrial uses. It is the principal component of most semiconductor devices, most importantly integrated circuits or microchips.

I think this is another challenge that I think I completed but that is for you to decide.
If anyone has any ideas for a challenge feel free to comment me and i´m more than willing to give it a go

Caught in silhouette

nobody@flickr.com (kees straver (will be back online soon friends)) — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 11:19:11 -0700

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This is a shot of the Sint Nicolaaskerk (Church of St. Nicholas) in the heart of Amsterdam, taken from the bridge connecting the Nemo building with the central train station of Amsterdam.
Officially the church was called St. Nicholas inside the Walls, i.e. the oldest part of the Amsterdam defence works.
The facade is crowned by two towers with a rose window in between. The centre of this window is formed by a bas relief depicting Christ and the four Evangelists, made in the Van den Bossche and Crevels workshop in 1886. A sculpture of the patron saint of both the church and the city of Amsterdam was placed in a niche in the upper section of the gable top. The well-known sculptor Bart van Hove (1850-1914) made the sculpture in 1886. The crossing is articulated by a large octagonal tower with a baroque dome and lantern and crowned by a cross.
The basis of the ground plan is the scheme of the classic three-aisled cross-basilica, i.e. a nave, two aisles and a single transept. The choir is located as is usual, at the end of the nave. In the corners formed by the transept and the nave, two chapels are located, traditionally devoted to Mary and Joseph.
Inside the newly renovated church, a 19th century Sauer Organ can be found, on which concerts are given and mass is accompanied.
The church is still a very active parish, which serves the city centre. It boasts 3 choirs, 2 of which sing choral evensongs every Saturday at 5pm.

Fire breathing dragon

nobody@flickr.com (kees straver (will be back online soon friends)) — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 11:24:15 -0700

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I´m back on the mend after being bedbound for two week.
It seemed that a bacteria really liked my throat so much that it nestled itself in my tonsils and had a great time there, it had so much fun that it inflamed all of my lymph nodes in my mouth and neck. This made it almost impossible to swallow or to talk thanks to the swelling.
But I´m feeling a lot better now thanks to the antibiotics I got from the hospital.
This photo illustrates how my throat felt the last two weeks. I didn´t have any pictures of broken glass or of a bunch of needles and I just don´t feel like setting up a photo at this stage.

I want to thank everybody for you kind words.

The universe is speeding by / Star trails

nobody@flickr.com (kees straver (will be back online soon friends)) — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 11:02:13 -0700

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The universe is a highway and I want to ride it all night long.
Man it´s been a long-time since I made a star trail photo and I got off easy with this one. The star trails you see here were made from my bedroom window, so while my camera was working hard I was watching Star Wars - Revenge of the sith.

I promise I’ll put more effort in my next star trail. Hope you´ll enjoy this one.
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Camera: Canon EOS 5D MarkII
Exposure: sec 30
142 shots (1 hour and 18 minutes in total)
Aperture: f/ 4.0
Focal Length: 17 mm
ISO Speed: 400

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Here come the tourists - Amsterdam channel cruise

nobody@flickr.com (kees straver (will be back online soon friends)) — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 11:14:44 -0700

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We had some awesome weather here in Amsterdam today and the tourists on this channel boat where very lucky indeed to pick this day to do some sightseeing.

Channel cruises like this one is a fantastic way to seen all of the wonderful sight Amsterdam has to offer and I can recommend it to anyone, having done a couple of them my self .
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Camera: Canon EOS 5D MarkII
Exposure: sec 1/100
Aperture: f/ 10.0
Focal Length: 17 mm
ISO Speed: 50

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Facing the wind / Crystal Ball

nobody@flickr.com (kees straver (will be back online soon friends)) — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:55:52 -0700

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A few weeks ago a contact of my FaceMePLS’
posted a comment on this photo with a challenge. His challenge for me was to capture some thing in my crystal ball that has anything do with modern Dutch. So that’s why I captured this wind turbine in my crystal ball. Everybody knows that windmills are typically Dutch so a wind turbine has a relationship with the windmill but just in a modern fashion.
I don’t know if I completed the challenge, that’s for my contact to decide.

Textures of Uruguay

nobody@flickr.com (kees straver (will be back online soon friends)) — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 11:53:07 -0700

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I took this shot in a lovely city called Colonia in Uruguay. It’s only one hour by boat from Buenos Aires. It’s a sleepy little town with a lovely city centre full of house that while fall apart just by looking at them. The thing that made this town even more stunning where all the old cars in the streets. I was lucky enough to be there around autumn which gave an old feel to the whole scene.

Ps: If you ever decide to go to this lovely town be sure to bring mosquito repellant with you. There where really a lot of them even in the cooler periods.
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Camera: Canon EOS 5D MarkII
Exposure: 1/80 sec
Aperture: f/ 8.0
Focal Length: 32 mm
ISO Speed: 200

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A Dutch windmill, Amsterdam – The Netherlands. Crystal ball

nobody@flickr.com (kees straver (will be back online soon friends)) — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:24:07 -0700

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Some things just look better Large and on BLACK…… Enjoy!!!

I just got home from a whole day of shot and as you can see, I brought my Crystal ball with me. To be honest, I never leaf home without it. I took this shot just a few hours ago while I was cycling from Amsterdam to Ouderkerk aan de Amstel (translated this means) old church at the Amstel (Amstel is a river). The weather was perfect and the wind wasn’t blowing too hard. This isn’t the only Crystal ball shot I made today. I’ve tried to capture some Dutch scenes in my Crystal ball both classic and modern scenes and I’m trying to expend trough out The Netherlands, taking my Crystal ball to different cities locations. So if anyone as any suggestions please tell my and how knows, I might just capture it in my Crystal ball.
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Camera: Canon EOS 5D MarkII
Exposure: 1/800 sec
Aperture: f/ 11.0
Focal Length: 105 mm
ISO Speed: 400

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Enter the twilight zone – star trail video time lapse

nobody@flickr.com (kees straver (will be back online soon friends)) — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:48:34 -0700

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It took me a few days but I finally finished my little star trail project. This is the same shot as my previous post with only one small difference, the stars are moving and they are leaving there trails behind.

I had to make 99 different star trails to get this result. I started with 1 shot, than I combined shot 1 with shot 2 and after that I combined shot 1 and shot 2 with shot 3 etc, etc, etc….. Until I reached shot 99. I did some calculations and it took me in total about 16.5 hours to create this movie. Crazy isn’t it. This is a time lapse shot. The movie lasts for a bout 10 seconds but it shows about 50 minutes of real time. I would love to create a time laps shot of about 2 hours, that would be so cool. Unfortunately that would take me twice as long to finish so I would be doing that this time soon.

Ps. I hope you would get sick watching this video
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Camera: Canon EOS 5D MarkII
Exposure: 30 sec
99 shots (50 minutes)
Aperture: f/ 4.0
Focal Length: 17 mm
ISO Speed: 320

Software:
Star trails

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How to paint the sky – star trail

nobody@flickr.com (kees straver (will be back online soon friends)) — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:51:01 -0700

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Watch the Time laps video of this shot.

My hands where itching to try out some star trail shot. The weather wasn’t too good the last week so I had to wait till the weather cleared up. I was going for an exposure of about 2 hours but there was too much condensation on my lens so I only got about 50 minutes. I’m trying out something new with star trails but this takes a long time to create but I hope to have it finished tomorrow, I’ hope it works out the way I hope.
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Camera: Canon EOS 5D MarkII
Exposure: 30 sec
99 shots (50 minutes)
Aperture: f/ 4.0
Focal Length: 17 mm
ISO Speed: 320

Software:
Star trails

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Iguacu waterfalls, Foz do Iguacu – Brazil. Crystal ball

nobody@flickr.com (kees straver (will be back online soon friends)) — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:04:40 -0700

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Some things just look better Large and on BLACK…… Enjoy!!!

Alright my fiends, I guess my crystal ball is trying to tell us something and it has something to do with waterfalls in South America. Yes it’s the wonderful location of Foz do Iguacu with it amazing Iguacu falls which is located on the border of Brazil and Argentina.

Looks like there’s a spotlight for everyone

nobody@flickr.com (kees straver (will be back online soon friends)) — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 12:31:29 -0700

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Nothing much to say just want to wish you’ll a great weekend.

Ps. Hope you’re enjoying the World Cup

The end is far far away

nobody@flickr.com (kees straver (will be back online soon friends)) — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 12:18:19 -0700

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Don’t worry my friends, I haven’t gone trough all my holiday photos jet, I just like to throw something different on my stream ones in a while.

Ps. I’ll be on nightshifts in the hospital these couple of days (I start at 23:00). I don’t know how busy it’s going to be, but I will get back to you I just don’t know when ;-)
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Camera: Canon EOS 5D MarkII
Exposure: sec (1/80)
Aperture: f/ 18.0
Focal Length: 400 mm
ISO Speed: 500

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When the Tango music has stopped – Buenos Aires.

nobody@flickr.com (kees straver (will be back online soon friends)) — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:08:50 -0700

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I took this shot from the rooftop of the hotel I stayed at. The nighttimes in Buenos Aires are very nice and I had no troubles using my camera on the streets of Buenos Aires.
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Camera: Canon EOS 5D MarkII
Exposure: sec (30)
Aperture: f/ 11.0
Focal Length: 24.0mm
ISO Speed: 400

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The obelisk, Buenos Aires – Argentina

nobody@flickr.com (kees straver (will be back online soon friends)) — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 12:44:54 -0700

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Some things just look better Large and on BLACK…… Enjoy!!!

I couldn’t help myself, I had to bring my crystal ball with me on my trip trough south-America. I hope you’ll enjoy Buenos Aires this way.

The other side of the clouds

nobody@flickr.com (kees straver (will be back online soon friends)) — Thu, 27 May 2010 11:11:26 -0700

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Some things just look better Large and on BLACK…… Enjoy!!!

This has got to be the best part of flying, looking outside and seeing the clouds passing me by. This is one of those rare occasions where you can look down on the clouds instead of the standard view. But this view makes it a lot harder to recognize shape in the clouds.