Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/04/25
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Hello Nathan,
The good thing about Holland is that it has no mountains!
I need a horizon, so :http://www.wajsman.com/2003_16.jpg really is to my
liking, being land that once was sea!
Nice to hear you found a house.
Best regards,
Michiel Fokkema
Nathan Wajsman (private) wrote <http://www.wajsman.com/2003_16.jpg>
> These days I am living a somewhat nomadic existence between Zurich and
> Amsterdam, and so you will notice that my postings may be slightly
> delayed, as is the case with these two weeks, that there are more
> pictures from the Netherlands than from Switzerland, and that there
> are more pictures taken with the Leica CL, since I often need to
> travel light. With that...
>
> The most important thing about a new place are the people. We are
> fortunate in having good friends in the Netherlands, who have been of
> enormous help to us during this transition, Bert and his partner
> Themmy. We got together with them in Week 15, during our househunting
> in the Netherlands. Here is Themmy in a bar in Amersfoort. Pictures
> like this have convinced me that at least with the f2 lenses, the
> short rangefinder base of the CL is of no concern:
>
> http://www.wajsman.com/2003_15.jpg
> (Leica CL, 40mm Rokkor, Neopan 1600)
>
> Here is Bert during a conversation in his backyard:
> http://www.wajsman.com/2003_15alt1.jpg
> (Leica M6, 35mm Summilux, Fuji Acros)
>
> And Themmy and my wife reviewing house brochures after a long day of
> househunting:
> http://www.wajsman.com/2003_15alt2.jpg
> (same as alt1)
>
> When I tell a Dutch person that I am moving from Switzerland to the
> Netherlands, they often tell me jokingly, "You do realise that we have
> no mountains up here?" And right they are, as the Week 16 pictures
> show. The first is taken near the place where we are going to live,
> Almere. Just a flat landscape only punctuated by a canal and a line of
> trees:
> http://www.wajsman.com/2003_16.jpg
> (Leica M6, 50mm Summilux, Fuji Acros)
>
> This is the flower season in the Netherlands. The first alternate was
> taken near Lisse, where the famous flower park Keukenhof is located:
> http://www.wajsman.com/2003_16alt1.jpg
> (Leica CL, 40mm Rokkor, Fuji Provia 100F)
>
> The Netherlands may not have mountains, but it does have beaches (and
> sometimes the water is even warm enough to swim in it...). One of the
> most popular seaside resorts is Noordwijk:
> http://www.wajsman.com/2003_16alt2.jpg
> (Leica CL, 40mm Rokkor, Fuji Provia 100F)
>
> The complete PAW index is at:
> http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw2003.htm
> and comments and critique are always welcome and appreciated.
>
> Nathan
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