Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/12/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nathan Wajsman wrote: > Last week was of course dominated by Sinterklaas on Dec. 5th. According > to tradition, he has helpers called Zwarte Piets (Black Peter) who in > the old days would punish the "bad" children. Nowadays Zwarte Piet is > more popular than Santa Claus, and is friendly and funny. Here are a > couple of them in action on the shopping street in Almere, playing with > the children and handing out candy: > http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_49.jpg > http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_49alt1.jpg > http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_49alt2.jpg Nathan great fun photos. Unfortunately you need colour to capture the tones of their clothes. > > The next three pictures are around my home, taken while walking the dog > on a foggy and frosty Saturday morning. Frozen berries of some kind > (shows you how much I know about plants): > http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_49alt3.jpg rose hips. > A couple of foggy scenes: > http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_49alt4.jpg > http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_49alt5.jpg > > The last two are also fog scenes, but from the town where my children go > to school, Hilversum. I took these the other day, right after having > dropped off the kids in the morning: > http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_49alt6.jpg > http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_49alt7.jpg Good fog scenes. Never been to Hilversum, so look forward to seeing it in proper daylight sometime. Peter