Nearly there - the ice rink

Nearly there - the ice rink, originally uploaded by dccrowley.

The ice rink in Gytsjerk/ Giekerk is frozen over. Just another day or three and it will be thick enough to skate on.

First ice from doncrowley on Vimeo.

It's cold here and the folks here are expecting to be able to skate by the end of the week. These kids are on small irrigation canals without skates testing how the ice is

Froukje state

froukje state, originally uploaded by dccrowley.

This restaurant, Froukje State, (kind of in the middle of no where ) has just received a Michelin star in November 2008. You can eat there for about 100-150euro p.p. I think it's really cool that we have a place like this near here.

Hoping for ice this year :)

Ice skating in Friesland with mill, originally uploaded by Paul van Eijden Photography.

This is a photo I found on Flickr which was taken in Rypstjerk (Rijperkerk). Seemingly taken last year, I only remember there being one or two days when people could skate. Fabulous photo from Paul van Eijden.

Flickr fotowalk Leeuwarden

Flickr fotowalk Leeuwarden, originally uploaded by dccrowley.

Thursday November 27, 2008 from 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Meetup at 6pm and we leave for the walk around Leeuwarden shortly after that. We expect to be back before 8pm
Paddy O'Ryan Irish Pub
Goveneursplein 37
Leeuwarden, Friesland

Om 18u-20u. We komen bij elkaar om 18u en vertrekken kort daarna! Een van de laatste koop avonden voor sinterklaas :) Heel veel sfeer en 'nachtfotografie'. Voor degenen die daarna zin in hebben kunnen we de kroeg induiken.

Meetup bij de ierse pub op de goveneurs plein. Dus zetten in je agenda :)

Meer info: Liwadder groep op Flickr.

Thursday evening 27 November 18:00h-20.00h I want to catch the atmosphere of the last real Saint Nick late night shopping. So yeah, night photography and atmosphere.


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Twitter meetup in Leeuwarden

Twitterborrel Leeuwarden, originally uploaded by dccrowley.

Just had a cool meetup in Leeuwarden with a group of people who also use twitter. It's the third meet up I've organized and it went great imo. Met some new people and got to meet some I hadn't seen for a while :) I have a wee write up over at my other blog The BFF

Full moon

It's getting dark early here already. 9pm is dark here, and last night it was cold. Just 3°C! I was in Leeuwarden and cycled home after dark when I saw this beautiful full moon, and the moonlight on the fields.

I have a point and shoot camera, but I put this through photoshop. No color changes. Just increasing the tone, using LAB mode and pasting the result on top of the original, I put the opacity at about 20% in soft light mode.

Leeuwarden Flickr photowalk

DSC06945, originally uploaded by dccrowley.

This is the irish pub Goveneurs Plein in Leeuwarden. The weather wasn't great... and this photo was taken the next day :) But I met lots of people including Sint Smeding, Tessa, Hidde de Vries, Stephen Hay, Robin Papa, Arjan Eising... Sure more could have turned up, but the weather spoilt it a bit. Still I really enjoyed it.

And we are doing it again. Thursday evening 27 November 18:00h-20.00h I want to catch the atmosphere of the last real Saint Nick late night shopping. So yeah, night photography and atmosphere. After that I want to do a Photowalk in Harlingen, which is a gorgeous town... we'll need daylight for it though... that's later.

Don't forget to stick Thursday evening 27 November 18:00h-20.00h in your calander :)

Flickr Photowalk in Leewarden (sept 2008)

DSC02094.JPG, originally uploaded by dccrowley.

Flickr if you don't know it, is a great place to store your photos. I've been using it for about 3 years. A group of us are organizing a Photowalk in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands for Sunday, September 7th, 2008 at 2pm.

What is a photowalk? We meet up, wander around town taking photos, chating and when we are finished we might grab a beer as well.

I'm so happy this is going to happen. If you want to join us you are more than welcome. Drop a note at the Liwadders group or just turn up :)

Grotere kaart weergeven

Street Crime

heftig, originally uploaded by dccrowley.

Op www.waldnet.nl zag ik onder misdaad op straat 3 vermiste katten. Ik kan er niet meer tegen. Ik ga verhuizen naar een veiliger oord.

This made me laugh. Our local news website has a section 'street crime'. All it includes is 3 missing cats :D

Bosch - the lost wadden island may have been found!

SunsetBW, originally uploaded by Niels Denekamp.

I have covered the lost Wadden island of Bosch here before, but Expatica an english language site covering dutch news is reporting that some remnants of the island may have been found off the east coast of Schiermonnikoog. Read more:

• Traces of sunken island found off Schiermonnikoog
• Earlier post here: Bosch - the lost wadden island
• Bosch (dutch lang. wikipedia page put through Google translate)

Fierljeppen in Gytsjerk

Found this on Google, It was filmed near where we live. This is very popular here.

Friesian clogs

wooden shoes & newspaper inlay, originally uploaded by kokjebalder.

Another photo not by me. I love clogs but the Friesian ones are quite different to the traditional dutch ones. Friesian ones alway have a leather strap on the inside. There are a lot of really awful looking ones on sale by the way, so have a good look around.

Strijklicht

Strijklicht, originally uploaded by sindala.

This photo was not taken by me. It is a classic Friesian photo though, landscape, light and colour.