The moment I seen this curvy path, I knew I want to use it in a composition. I wanted to have it to pull your eyes into the photo, towards this crazy looking hotel. I could not get higher, to get more of an overview of the path, so I did a vertorama, while having the camera right over the railing. So what do you think? Did it work?

This is a two shot vertorama, taken in Zaandam, Netherlands

I spend yesterdays evening in the Zaanse Schans near Amsterdam, taking sunset photos with a local photographer Michiel Buijse. If you don’t know Michiels work, check out his page here behindthelenscap.nl. We had very few people around and quite a nice sunset, so there should be some very nice photos (a little preview in the photos to the side :)).

And here is a first one for you, taken earlier in the evening, with the help of a 10 stop ND filter. This is a single exposure, edited in Lightroom and Photoshop.

Let’s continue with another photo from Amsterdam. Today it’s the Montelbaans Tower during a very clear blue hour.

This is a single exposure, edited mostly in Lightroom, with few tweaks in Photoshop.

I almost always carry a 70-200mm lens with me, and I almost never use it. Yesterday, I left it at the flat, as I was going to an area with mostly tight small streets, and of course I ended up in an area where I could have use it so much. But that only means I’m going back there again today smile emoticon:)

For this photo, I wanted to use the bridge as a frame Church of Saint Nicholas (so I used a bridge frame as a picture frame :)) and I think it looks quite ok. Still, I will probably take this one again, with a longer lens, to give more space to the Church.

This is a single exposure, edited mostly in Lightroom, with few tweaks in Photoshop.

Not many updates from me lately, but I will try to get better. I’m currently in Amsterdam, so that’s why also todays photo is from here. August will be a very busy month for me, since I’m traveling almost all the time (4 days at home overall :)). So while there wont be updates every day, there will be some. I think I will gat back to standard daily updates in late autumn, when I already have no regular work.

So as said, this is a shot from Amsterdam, the De L’Europe Amsterdam hotel. I tried this shot few times before, but only with the TSE lens I managed to do a vertorama, and so I got the whole hotel and it’s reflection into one shot.