{"id":11,"date":"2006-02-07T06:59:39","date_gmt":"2006-02-07T05:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk:80\/paws\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2007-01-12T13:53:46","modified_gmt":"2007-01-12T12:53:46","slug":"week-5","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=11","title":{"rendered":"Week 05: China in AMS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, I went to Amsterdam to see the Chinese New Year celebrations. The narrow streets of our Chinatown were very crowded, and I was not able to get close enough to get decent pictures of the dragon.  So, as I often do in such situations, I focused on the action around me instead. <\/p>\n<p>It was really crowded, with a Texas man in the foreground:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/5.jpg\" alt=\"2050\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark II, 16-35mm L Canon, ISO 100)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Inside the temple:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/5alt1.jpg\" alt=\"2068\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark II, 16-35mm L Canon, ISO 1000)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Another photographer caught my eye:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/5alt2.jpg\" alt=\"2071\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark II, 16-35mm L Canon, ISO 100)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On the way to my car, I ran into these Mozarts on the Dam square:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/5alt3.jpg\" alt=\"2078\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark II, 16-35mm L Canon, ISO 100)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The next four alternates are completely different: black &#038; white images, far removed from the hustle and bustle of Amsterdam. Last week was quite cold and wintry, although there was no snow. I stopped at a rest area south of Utrecht on my way to work one morning and took some pictures of the adjacent road and fields.<\/p>\n<p>A typical Dutch country road:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/5alt4.jpg\" alt=\"2087\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark II, 16-35mm L Canon, ISO 400)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Same road, different viewpoint:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/5alt5.jpg\" alt=\"2097\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark II, 16-35mm L Canon, ISO 400)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Frozen weeds and fence:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/5alt6.jpg\" alt=\"2094\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark II, 16-35mm L Canon, ISO 400)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And finally, while walking my dog, I took this self-portrait, inspired by an Ansel Adams picture:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/5alt7.jpg\" alt=\"2023\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark II, 16-35mm L Canon, ISO 100)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, I went to Amsterdam to see the Chinese New Year celebrations. The narrow streets of our Chinatown were very crowded, and I was not able to get close enough to get decent pictures of the dragon. So, as I often do in such situations, I focused on the action around me instead. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":61,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}