Workshop Cityphotography

Last weekend me and my brother, took a workshop cityphotography.
The workshop took place in our town Amersfoort (the Netherlands), and was organized by fotocursus Amersfoort .

The city center is really historical, so we were able to take some nice pictures.
This picture shows the tower in our city, it also marks the center of Holland.

But with all these historical buildings I prefer to shoot in Black/White. Now that I got tips during the workshop, I most likely go back a few times to retry my pictures. But with some pictures I'm happy already.

The next picture is called "VW at Wallstreet", because the famous Wallstreet is named after a street like this.

Any improvements on my city pictures I will upload in the future.

The Tarsier

This year we went to the "Magandang" island of Bohol (Philippines). The island is famous for the "Chocolate hills" and is home to the Tarsier.

These animals look nice and you may wanna touch them. But it's better for the animals you don't! Manny of these Tarsiers, are kept just for the tourist, and you can see them next to the road. They are really stress full animals, and do to this stress they won''t become as old as their free brothers and sisters.

So if you go there to see them, don't touch them and make sure not to flash to get them on the picture.

Just look them in their amazing eyes, and if the owner asks if you wanna hold it walk away.

The Not-so Ugly Duck

While taking a leisure walk around the park nearby my house, we decided to take a break near the water where all the ducks are taking their "siesta." This juvenile duck started to walk towards us by his lonesome. I got up from the bench we were sitting and just when he was under it, I leaned down and immediately took his photo across the path.

But it found out that we didn't had any food with us. So, it gave us a big quack!

The lonely traveller

This snail was crossing a path in the park, on a sunday morning. Normally the path is verry crowded with people, but now nobody was arround.

The snail used this window off opportunity, to get accross safely. For me it was a nice change to take some pictures of this. First some in colour then some black/white pictures.

Mirror, mirror at the wall, who is the slowest of us all?

This is one of my experiments, I'm still trying to improve the idea but for now I'm happy with this one.
Every time it rains the front yard is full with snails. And since it's raining I can't or I don't wanna go outside.

So then why not taking pictures inside. My table studio now comes in handy, added a couple of lamps and a mirror. Then with the internal flash of the camera and a low ISO, this is the result.