Amsterdam Triptych

Amsterdam Triptych

I have so many shots of bicycles and bridges from Amsterdam  It’s difficult to now which one to  share with you. I made this one just for fun using Niks Analog Efex Pro 2

Polished Performance

Polished Performance

 

Diamond cutters at work cutting the facets of a Diamond or two.

Time Trial

Time Trial

 

The evening before we were in Brussels we stayed at a hotel in Masstricht where the lobby and bar were decorated with cycling paintings and Jerseys from teams that have stayed there before us.Here is a fave.

Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert

Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert

The Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert (French) or Koninklijke Sint-Hubertusgalerijen (Dutch) is a glazed shopping arcade in Brussels that preceded other famous 19th-century shopping arcades such as the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan and The Passage in St Petersburg. Like them it has twin regular façades with distant origins in Vasari’s long narrow street-like courtyard of the Uffizi, Florence, with glazed arcaded shopfronts separated by pilasters and two upper floors, all in an Italianate Cinquecento style, under an arched glass-paned roof with a delicate cast-iron framework.

Bearded Man

Beard of the Day

 

Among all the tourist magnets there are in Brussels I was more taken by this chaps beard. Impressive don’t you think.

Atomium

Atomium

The Atomium is a building in Brussels originally constructed for Expo ’58, the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair. Designed by the engineer André Waterkeyn and architects André and Jean Polak, it stands 102 mtr’s (335ft)tall. Its nine 18mtrs (59ft)in diameter stainless steel clad spheres are connected so that the whole forms the shape of a unit cell of an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times.

Bored on a Bus Trip

 

Bus Trip

 

While on a long bus trip in Germany,the traffic was very heavy. We were in all around 2 hours behind our plan. So I used the time to try out my Leica M9-P with the Novoflex LeiNik adapter and, my Nikkor 20mm f/2.8 lens. I Chose a 21 mm lens from the lens recognition menu on the M9-P .

You can see the same setup on my Leica MP HERE