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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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.

There is a hole in the house

DSC04675, originally uploaded by dccrowley.

Take a good look at the bottom and first floor af these appartments in the middle of the photo. Did someone try to cut or blow there way in or out? I have no idea what was going on here. But it looked really weird. Have a look at google maps to see where they are. This photo was taken from the 'Rengerspad'. The squarish roofs are the buildings in question.
Location
N 53.209798
E 5.793808

The pink "us mem"

DSC04679, originally uploaded by dccrowley.

This is the result of a student prank. A statue painted pink. But "Us mem" the cow is a symbol of Friesland. It was painted pink out of protest at the increasing homo hatred in the country.

The Netherlands has always been a very tolerant country for homo's with Amsterdam being often considered one of the most homo friendly cities in the world. But a section of one of the immigrant groups in Amsterdam who are traditionally 'repulsed' by homosexuality have taken to violence.

Lets just say that the police don't seem to be in charge of the situation yet. But that most people here are expecting them to sort the situation out.

What the students here in Leeuwarden did today was to highlight the current situation.