DNB

Victorieplein

Apollohal seen from Muzenplein

From here to "Apollo House"

Smoke on the Hobbemakade

Full Moon Museumplein

Passing by the Nicolaas Witsenkade

Albert Cuypstraat

Albert Cuyp

Een markt met een ingang, omdat het een straat is.

Ik sta stil bij de ingang, fiets aan de hand, kan naar binnen kijken.

Als het donker is kan ik door de straat heen fietsen.

Van liefde alleen het begin willen, dat is tot waar?

Nachoem M. Wijnberg * Geb 1961

ALBERT CUYP * Uit tien * Contact, Amsterdam, 2007


On my 39th birthday a friend gave me this nice poem of Nachoem M. Wijnberg.

Stadhouderskade

The other side of the Dijsselhofplantsoen

't Blauwe Theehuis (Blues Before Sunrise)

Vondelpark "Blues Before Sunrise"

Tonight I made an interesting journey through the Vondelpark. Steve McQueen made an artwork of the park by exchanging the white streetlights for blue ones. I looked forward to go there already yesterday (as it was my birthday yesterday) but it was raining unfortunately. 
In this photo the park looks very blue but I experienced it as something more subtle, especially when I was wandering around there for a while. The paths were dark and at the same time there were many people on the move. Bikers and joggers mainly but also other strollers like me. I crawled into the bushes to get good shots of the scenery (not so easy without a tripod). There was a full moon but still it felt dim. Disorientation. The blue lights added something strange mechanical to this whole experience.In a reaction on this image a good friend send me this following quote: "Tibetan myths relate how the earth was created from a void that emitted a blue light."On the left side there are two men recording the scenery on video.

Vondelpark "Blues Before Sunrise"

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Stadhouderskade

I was standing on the bridge over the Stadhouderskade at the Weteringlaan and looking at the Rijksmuseum when I made this image. Look at how black and still the water was on that evening. I think that the purple lights come from Van Beek but I'm not completely sure.