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February 2009
Februari 22, 2009
Yesterday I went to "Ostrecht" (Ossendrecht) to do an item for
www.regioactueel.nl about the arival of the Carnival Prince in town. On the picture below is the arrival of the Prince at the old
townhall.
The Carnival prince of "Ostrecht" is arriving at the old town hall
In the evening I attended a special carnival church service in the Catholic church in "Wjeeldrecht" (Hoogerheide/Woensdrecht). The service
was carried out by the priest and the carnival prince of "Wjeeldrecht". For this I also did an item on
www.regioactueel.nl with some pictures.
The Carnival church service in "Wjeeldrecht"
At first, I did not know what to think of it but after the service I had to admit that it was not bad. The people were very serious about it,
it was a nice service and after the service, te people attending the service could get something to drink and a snack.
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Februari 14, 2009
Today we had the first serious real life test of our five meter
high tripod. To get nice pictures of the carnaval parade in Wouwse
Plantage, we used the tripod, secured to the bullbar of our Suzuki
Samurai 4X4.
Our camera construction
It worked perfect. We parked the car on a nice spot, a little more
then an hour before the parade started and installed our equipment.
When the parade started, my son Vincent got in the car with a laptop
computer to control his Nikon D70s that was high in the air. One of
the pictures we made is here.
One of the
pictures we made today (picture by Vincent)
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Februari 12, 2009
Today I am working on my laptop from home, using a VPN connection
to the office. In my lunchbreak I took some pictures of my grandson
Tygo who is almost eleven weeks old now.
My grandson Tygo
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Februari 8, 2009
For the photography course I am doing, I needed to make some
glamour pictures. To make those pictures I needed a model and a
studio so then my search started.
It took some time but finaly I found a small company in The Hague
that has a nice studio and a model, Veronika, for the pictures. Now
I could take the pictures I needed for my course.
The model, Veronika,
in the studio in The Hague
I went to The Hague by train and arrived with time to spare.
On my way back home I was not so lucky. I was tired and hungry when I
arrived at the station and I was looking forward to the trainride home with
time to relax and eat some small breads I bought.
Unfortunately there was a problem with the electricity so there were
no trains riding from The Hague to Rotterdam :-(
Because my parents live nearby, I called them and my father drove to
the station to pick me up. I had a coffee and relaxed a bit at my
parents house and later that evening, my wife drove all the way to my
parents house to bring me home after we had another coffee with
my parents.
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Februari 2, 2009
Last month, Vincent and I build a five meters high tripod to make "aerial"
photos and this afternoon we did some tests with it.
On top of the tripod was my Nikon S210 with the timer set on ten seconds.
After pressing the button, we had ten seconds to get the tripod vertical and
steady but it worked out very well.
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Februari 1, 2009
Yesterday and today, Hoogerheide was the home of the Cyclo-Cross World Championships
2009 and we as regioactueel team
made a few articles with a lot of photos of the event. In spite of the very cold weather
we had a very good time (but very cold hands and feet).
We had official UCI press cards and had to wear a yellow "UCI PHOTO" vest.
I used my Fuji S5 with the 18-200 lens and the Nikon D70s with the 70-300 lens and
I was happy with the pictures I made. It is so much easier to make these pictures if
you are there as an official press photographer.
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