Henk-Jan Kooiman – Page 254 – Hajeka Photography

Jul 03 – Final moment

Just being the proud father here while my daughter is getting her school diploma.

Jul 02 – Bouquet

My daughter Karen got this wonderful bouquet from some teachers of her old school for getting her exams. Going to university next season.

Concrete, glass and some green.

My entry for the From the Ground Up V challenge on DPChallenge.com
Place 68 out of 186 with a score of 5.4821

Jul 01 – Balloons

Found this balloons on my way home today. Not specially for me, I think , my guess it was for an official opening of a new bicycle path between home and work. A wonderful path btw!

Jun 30 – Railroad station

Our railroad station (not very visible) and environment. Just wondering how this will look next year.

Jun 29 – Just a guy

Just a guy playing music on the Rembrandtplein in Amsterdam, where we celebrated the end of our school year with some drinks. We gave him some money and I asked if I could make a photo of him.

The end of time.

My entry for the Zen Photography II challenge on DPChallenge.com
Place 54 out of 146 with a score of 5.6691

Jun 29 – Just a guy

Just a guy playing music on the Rembrandtplein in Amsterdam, where we celebrated the end of our school year with some drinks. We gave him some money and I asked if I could make a photo of him.

Jun 28 – Redcurrants

Found this in my garden this afternoon. I like the range of colors. From “not ready yet” to “almost ready”.

Jun 27 – Lawn mower

Ignored my lawn for some weeks, so today I had to do something about it. These were made after the job.

Jun 26 – Shoehorn

A shoehorn and his mirror.

Jun 25 – Art again

Another “Wiki loves art” session today after work. The ING art collection. Beautiful modern art. This statue was the only one outside. “Grote steigerende”, 1974, made by Arthur Spronken.

Scaffolding

My entry for the Construction II challenge on DPChallenge.com
Place 55 out of 70 with a score of 4.6429

Jun 24 – Neo

Wanted to make a portrait of both our cats, no luck. So just Neo for today.

Jun 23 – Evening

The sunlight was almost gone (10:15 PM), but I didn’t want to miss this day, so I walked to the end of the street to make this photo. Should have taken my tripod with me, lot of noise with this ISO value.

Under the bridge

My entry for the Duotones IV challenge on DPChallenge.com
Place 123 out of 253 with a score of 5.5120

Jun 22 – Snail

Found this little guy on my garden table this morning. He was still there, sleeping in his house, when I came back home this afternoon. I’m not a snail expert, so he could be a she.

Jun 21 – Sugar bowl

Our sugar bowl with an old, but nice spoon.

Jun 20 – Lady with rose

Spent a lot of the day with editing photos I made last wednesday for “Wiki loves art”. So for today I made a photo of a rose and added it to one of the paintings. Think she could use it.

Jun 19 – Rain and sun

Just a little experiment. Two photos combined (15 minutes between them). Made through a window and just guessing the angel (no tripod). Upper left: lots of rain, lower right: the sun came back.

Jun 18 – Between the rails

A quick “lunch walk” photo. Would be nice to see a train or two on this one. Not much time to make comments. Lots of young people (age 18/19) got a good exam results today (including my daughter), so it’s party time in the neighbourhood for some days here.

Jun 17 – 313 years later

The market square at Haarlem with the Great or St. Bavo church. Made photos in the — The market square at Haarlem with the Great or St. Bavo church. Made photos in the “Frans Hals” museum today, “Wiki loves art” is running here this month. Lot of restrictions in the museum, but it was wonderful to do. I’m not a big fan of old paintings, but it’s very nice to look at them through a camera.

Reflections

My entry for the Architecture V challenge on DPChallenge.com
Place 100 out of 153 with a score of 5.0644

Jun 17 – 313 years later

The market square at Haarlem with the Great or St. Bavo church. Made photos in the — The market square at Haarlem with the Great or St. Bavo church. Made photos in the “Frans Hals” museum today, “Wiki loves art” is running here this month. Lot of restrictions in the museum, but it was wonderful to do. I’m not a big fan of old paintings, but it’s very nice to look at them through a camera.

Jun 16 – Papaver

I liked the combination of red an green here during a short walk after the rain.

A place to relax

My entry for the Promote Your Zoo challenge on DPChallenge.com
Place 42 out of 87 with a score of 5.9063

Jun 15 – Portraits

Portrait day at school. Playing a little with some portraits. Only my portrait (upperleft) wasn’t made by me (thanks John!). Homework: a decent selfportrait within two weeks

Jun 14 – Pond

Just a little playing in my garden on a lazy sunday afternoon. Tried to catch a drop falling in my (repaired) pond. The light is from my flash, but I also needed (a lot of) sun, since the water pump is solar powered.

Jun 13 – Power lines

When making landscape photos around here, it’s always hard to avoid these lines. I made the reds a little brighter here.

Jun 12 – The last lunch

The last day at work of one of my colleagues. His official farewell was yesterday, but today we gave him a nice outside lunch.

Jun 11 – On my way home

Normally there's a lot of traffic here, but I was late on my way home. There's the road, the railroad (no train), a man on a bicycle, some traffic waiting for the tunnel and a large cruise ship on the channel. The ship past the ferry before I was there (+/- 2.5 km) There seems to be an enormous amount of lampposts here. Never noticed that before. — Normally there’s a lot of traffic here, but I was late on my way home. There’s the road, the railroad (no train), a man on a bicycle, some traffic waiting for the tunnel and a large cruise ship on the channel. The ship past the ferry before I was there (+/- 2.5 km) There seems to be an enormous amount of lampposts here. Never noticed that before.