11/16/14

Raindrops

One of our projects was to take some photos in the rain. Since we live in The Netherlands we have a lot of rain, so we have enough opportunities to take rain pictures. So on a rainy day in November I took my car and made some photos in Rotterdam in my car with raindrops on my windows. It was the first time I took rain pictures and I was really surprised by the dramatic effect these raindrops have on your pictures. So see for yourself if you like them.










Geometric shapes

We also had a project called geometric shapes and the goal was to make pictures with geometric shapes in a realistic way. 

So I went to Rotterdam and shot some pictures of the new "Central Station", "The Cubic Houses" and the "Blaak" trainstation. The last one is a new overpass for cyclists on the A15 Highway South of Rotterdam. 

All photos are in black and white.









Reflections

As explained in my other posts I took a photography class at André Nijenhuis (see my links page). This year I continued and one of our projects was making pictures with reflections.

The first 3 pictures are shot in Paris:













The next one is shot in Rotterdam:














This one is my wife's car with a reflection of our house:






The last one is the famous Hotel New York in Rotterdam, but I thougt this one looked better in black and white:




10/29/14

Rotterdam central station

In march 2014 the completely rebuild Rotterdam central station was re-opened. It was desingned by "Team CS": a cooperation of Benthem Crouwel Architects, Meyer en Van Schooten Architecten and West 8.

Click this link to learn more about Rotterdam central station 





10/19/14

Rotterdam market hall

Rotterdam is well known for its modern achitecture. Recently a new market hall has been opened and it is a wonderfull piece of modern architecture, designed by a Dutch architect Winy Maas with a spectacular ceiling designed by two Dutch artists Arno Coenen en Iris Roskam. In my opinion this is another spectacular Rotterdam landmark! See for yourself.














10/18/14

New York black and white

Most of my travel photos are in color. But for my streetphoto blog I mostly use black and white. Sometimes black and white gives a special effect on photos. So I converted some of my New York photos into black and white. Hope you like them.










10/12/14

Las Vegas July 2014

At the end of our round trip we stayed in Las Vegas for two days. So in this post some photos of the Las Vegas strip by day and night.




























See also my Las Vegas street photos on my other blog:
Post: What happens in Vegas