Guided Tour

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I’m back. I’ve been on my holidays . I have had a couple of weeks in Greece  together with my family. However that isn’t so blog relevant. I thought I’d pick up where I left off which was at the National museum in Amsterdam. This shot and the previous in the series were taken on the last 20 mins of opening time .That’s all I had left by the time I’d got there from  the Leica Pop-Up store. Still It will not be my last visit to Amsterdam I’m sure.

Girl in the Gallery

Girl in the Gallery

The Night watch Explained

Nightwatch explained

 

This little girl explains the Nightwatch to her disbelieving companion.

De Staalmeesters

De Staalmeesters

 

People in galleries facinate me just as much as the paintings themselves.What struck me when I first saw this shot of De Staalmeesters painted by Rembrandt in 1662 was “what if the people in the painting could talk?” What would they be saying? I’ll leave that to you dear reader :0)

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.

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.