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Building a home in a peanut butter pot

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Building a home in a peanut butter pot. No joke, no tricks, just found this pot with the wasp and the first attempt to build a nest, I suppose  . . .  Very carefully put the peanut butter pot back, but the next day it was gone. Don't know how or why, just feel lucky that I took a shot when I found it.

Old Fuji's seem to have a second life!

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Normally I don't talk about camera's but there is one camera I like so much that I will make an exception . . .   The Fuji X-Pro1. I have two of these machines and one of them, the oldest, unfortunately stopped working. Did it all, remove battery, reset, a few days without battery, nothing seems to work. I just place it on my desktop because I like it (her?) looks.  Days went by and I used my other camera's ( no, not only Fuji). Once in a while I checked the forums on the internet and I found this! Loose screws One minute and only one little screwdriver and my X-Pro1 works again.  This was the first picture I made when we meet again . . . .

Time changes

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When I was young you saw many of them. They were teachers at the girls school, worked in the hospital, helping older people, taking care of disabled or spend their time in the nunnery praying. But whatever they did, they were a normal part of our environment. Nothing strange, not rare, people to respect. But time has changed many things and this seems to be one of them.

Sometimes I feel like . . . . . :-)

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Luckily it's only sometimes, but recognised it immediately when walking through Dordrecht.  The city of Dordrecht and more specific the centre, turned out to be more beautiful than I expected, so there will be more photo's to come . . . .

Touched by the Sun . . .

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Working on a serie about light, sun, shadows, the tools we use when taking and developing a picture. Might be more tools, but these are the ones I've choosen. The light, mostly coming from the sun, even when she ( is the sun a she?) not visible. We need the light, we need the sun, I need the light, I need the sun, just to be happy. Most of us feel better, happier, less sorrowful when the sun shines. Therefore an ode to the sun . . . . I think that this photo nicely shows that starting up something can be difficult . . . Maybe more in the future . . .

From the hip?

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I like to take streetshots and whenever it's possible I try to ask if it's allright to take a shot. Asking by showing the camera or really asking and anything in between with my most charming smile.  Amsterdam, a free city? Not so much anymore, this place is only allowed for residents.  I like the dresses they're wearing. But then I heard of shooting from the hip, never did that, never tried it because I thought it would make me feel sneaky. But I gave it a try and took one shoot.  Still don't feel happy with that so this will probably my last shot from the hip . . .