 
 Wednesday 08/09/2010
The Money Masters Unedited shots of bikers reflected in a puddle in Amsterdam. Taken with my Panasonic DMC-FZ8. No editing, no magic tricks, no Photoshop. If you look closely, you'll notice that shiny tall building in the background, that is the "Nederlandsche Bank", the central Bank of the Netherlands, and what makes it so shiny, is all the gold, diamonds and cash money that they store in there. Where they got it from and why it is all locked up inside a shiny building instead of being out there, stimulating the Dutch people to consume, consume and then consume some more to keep the economy running, only the Money Makers know, but I sure would love to have a short pit-stop there and load up on some fresh cash, mine is starting to smell funny from all the rain, haha. Almost weekend ;-D 
Money Masters Movie I've made a wicked reflection movie of this puddle too, check it out on my YouTube page! 
Tuesday 07/09/2010
Beamer Puddle Panorama Unedited shots of buildings and a Beamer, reflected in a puddle in Amsterdam. Taken with my Panasonic DMC-FZ8. No editing, no magic tricks, no Photoshop. If you come here sometimes, you'll know that I love bikes, but to my great shame I have to admit that my (by far!) most popular photo is this shot of a BMW standing around in the best city in the world, it had almost 22 000 (!) views in the 3 years it has been online here on Flickr and it keeps going strong, 271 comments, 720 times favorites, you get the picture...is this ironic or what?! The guy who strongly dislikes cars and posts picture of bikes almost every day, has an instant hit with a freakin' photo of a freakin' car, lol...nway, it's Tuesday, that means the weekend is getting near ;-) 
Beamer Panorama Movie 've made a wicked reflection movie of this puddle too, check it out on my YouTube page!
Monday 06/09/2010
The Puddle People Unedited shots of people reflected in a puddle in Amsterdam. Taken with my Panasonic DMC-FZ8. No editing, no magic tricks, no Photoshop. I like taking reflection photos a lot and I like it even more when there are people in my puddle, it just adds a nice human touch (pun intended ;) to the overall wickedness of the shots. What makes this an even more desirable element of a proper puddle picture is of course the fact that you can often see the confused, amused, irritated and distorted facial expressions of those encountering a seemingly insane man pointing a camera or mobile phone into a random wet spot by the side of the road, somewhere in the best city in the world...have a good start into the new week :) 
Puddle People Movie What's that, did I shoot a movie of this puddle as well?! Why yes, thanks for asking, and it's of course on my YouTube page!
Sunday 05/09/2010
This Wicked World Unedited shots of buildings, reflected in a puddle in Amsterdam. Taken with my Panasonic DMC-FZ8. No editing, no magic tricks, no Photoshop. Since last Thursday the boiler of the heating installation of the building where I live makes horrible noises during the nights, it sounds like a tiny man with a giant hammer is trapped inside the pipes and is trying to break free by hitting on the metal for hours at a time. It started at 2 in the morning Thursday night, then at 3 on Friday and last night it started around 5'ish, giving me hope that by next week the noise will begin after I have left the house for work already. This is my only chance of getting some proper sleep, the crappy company that installed the heating system keeps coming back, pretending to fix it and making it worse each time. Effectively this means that I have paid for having my life messed up, a service that is gladly supplied by Dutch handy-men and construction workers...everybody is good at something they say and in this case I can only confirm that they did a perfect job, hahaha. If this continues, I will lose my mind and probably end up living in the (unheated but silent) gutter, sitting somewhere alone with my bottle of cheap wine, mumbling to myself 'It was supposed to keep us warm, not ruin our lives' while people walking by try to hit me in the forehead with little coins...what a wicked world ;-D 
Saturday 04/09/2010
Double Vision Galore Unedited shots of buildings and people reflected in a puddle in Amsterdam. Taken with my Panasonic DMC-FZ8. No editing, no magic tricks, no Photoshop. I really likes this double-vision style, but I almost never shoot pictures in this way, for some reason that I don't understand, they don't seem to be 'real' reflections and mostly not worthy of my time, but when I actually do take some of these shots and look at them on my PC afterwards, I often end up liking them a lot...wtf is wrong with me?! I promise that I'll try to make many more of these babies from now on, because you seem to like them as well, going by the views and comments I've received from all the puddle lovers yesterday. Have a nice weekend, enjoy :)) 
Double Vision Galore Movie I've made a wicked movie of this puddle too, watch it on my YouTube page!
Friday 03/09/2010
Double Vision Friday Unedited shots of buildings at the Singel canal in Amsterdam, reflected in the canal. Taken with my Panasonic DMC-FZ8. No editing, no magic tricks, no Photoshop. I am such a lucky guy, after having worked several Fridays and even a Saturday in the last weeks, I am back to my old lazy schedule of working Monday - Thursday only. Whenever I tell somebody that I work 4 days a week, they get dreamy eyes and imagine how good their lives could be if they had the same reduced work hours, not knowing that everybody can ask his/her boss for less work, it's a new Dutch law, if you ask, they can't say 'No', and even though you'll lose 20% of your salary and vacation days, you'll gain 52 free days per year, and of course you'll pay 20% less taxes, it's a win-win situation that I've been abusing for my personal gains for manymany years already. I can only recommend it, and if I can convince only one person to at least look at the possibility of reducing their work load and increasing their fun part of life by posting this picture, my mission was successful...thank God it's Friday and I don't have to work, yay :D 
Double Vision Friday Movie I've made a wicked reflection movie of the canal too, check it out on my YouTube page!
Thursday 02/09/2010
The Fat Cats Unedited shots of the Amstel Hotel reflected in a puddle in Amsterdam. Taken with my Panasonic DMC-FZ8. No editing, no magic tricks, no Photoshop. Last weekend I was out puddle hunting when I came across this lovely wet spot that contained one of my favorite buildings, the Amstel Hotel, that I've reflected on successfully in the past and intend to do so in the not too distant future again...while shooting a movie of this pretty place I noticed some rich people getting out of their car and preparing to spend a luscious weekend in the luxury retreat of this high-class Hotel that I'll hopefully be able to afford one of these days when the 'AmsterSam World Domination Plan' has been fully implemented...if things work out the way I imagine them to do, I'll be the owner of that place by then anyway, eat your heart out Mick Jagger, mhuahaha ;-P 
Fat Cats Movie Check out the movie of the Fat Cats on my YouTube page!
Wednesday 01/09/2010
AmsterTram Unedited shot of myself, reflected on the side of a tram passing me by in Amsterdam. Taken with my Panasonic DMC-FZ8. No editing, no magic tricks, no Photoshop. You might know this already, I like taking reflection pictures of myself...this is not really such an exciting exercise in itself, many people do this and many are really good at it, usually a reason for me to withdraw from the battlefield and search for other areas of activities that are not so overcrowded by the unwashed masses, but for some strange reason I can't seem to stop taking the self shots and posting them here on the Interwebs, I guess I'm addicted or something :) 
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