Skywatch Friday

In ye ol' days the people of Amsterdam depended on watertowers like these for their drinking water. It costed one cent per bucket:






















A few weeks ago I took this shot from a moving train on my way from Amsterdam to Breda. You can actually see the reflection of my camera in the window:






















Last week and the week before I showed you a picture of one of two buildings know as "The Piramids" but are actually shaped after the christmas-tree in the architect's office. Here's the same building from yet a different angle:























I also showed you where a friend of mine lives; That same building again:


















Note: Every SWF-picture published here is shot with my trusty Nokia N93 mobile phone and is unedited. For more Skywatch Friday photo's from around the globe, please check http://skyley.blogspot.com/

Skywatch Friday

Last saturday I was at a festival and took this shot through the window from a terrace. You can tell by the bird-dropping...The strange dome-shape is actually the shadow of a shed behind me.

















At this same festival at the edge of my hometown of Amsterdam we witnessed the setting sun:


















The next day I was at a friends' place:


















Last week I showed you a picture of one of two buildings know as "The Piramids" but are actually shaped after the christmas-tree in the architect's office. Here's the same building from a different angle:






















Note: Every SWF-picture published here is shot with my trusty Nokia N93 mobile phone and is unedited. For more Skywatch Friday photo's from around the globe, please check http://skyley.blogspot.com/

Skywatch Friday

Last week I showed you a picture of a construction with a flag on top of it, taken at a festival. Here's the same flag on the same construction. Later that day. Or earlier. Or the day before. Or after. I can't seem to remember.






















Near my place there are twin-appartmentbuildings, commonly known as "The Piramids". Whilst actually they should be referred to as "The Christmas trees" as the architect stated he modelled them after the christmas-tree in his office. Here's (part of) one of them.






















It's a bit less than half an hour walk to one of my favourite parks so sometimes we take a tram. This one's taken, sitting at the tramstop-bench. You can see the tramstop's uncommon ceiling.
















Note: Every SWF-picture published here is shot with my trusty Nokia N93 mobile phone and is unedited. For more Skywatch Friday photo's from around the globe, please check http://skyley.blogspot.com/

Skywatch Friday

Yesterday I was at a picknick, celebrating a friend's birthday. This is how the bridge looks that leads to the park-entrance:
















It looked like it was going to rain but it stayed at dripping a bit for just a few minutes:

















Today we first went to the beach at IJmuiden (at the coast, not far from The hague).

Here you see my son and a friends' son playing:
















It was too darn hot so we decided to go to Ruigoord ("Roughplace", sort of a freeheaven for artists and the likes, not far from the country's capital and often compared to the Danish Christiania) for the start of the yearly "Landjuweel" (Landjewel)-festival.

There was lots to see but here's a small impression.

The local church-building:






















People at the start-sign (But you can't see the people playing drums behind these people) of the festival, a bit after eight in the evening:

















The place was (and usually is) packed with selfmade climbing-structures and art-objects made out of waste and other leftovers:
















Both in IJmuiden and Ruigoord we went for a swim. Salt water was met at the beach; sweet water was at the lake at the edge of Ruigoord. Sorry, no pictures of great looking women in bikini. Other sides can provide you with those...;-)

Note: Every SWF-picture published here is shot with my trusty Nokia N93 mobile phone and is unedited. For more Skywatch Friday photo's from around the globe, please check http://skyley.blogspot.com/