{"id":31,"date":"2006-06-25T16:31:47","date_gmt":"2006-06-25T15:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk:80\/paws\/?page_id=31"},"modified":"2007-01-13T07:27:17","modified_gmt":"2007-01-13T06:27:17","slug":"week-24","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=31","title":{"rendered":"Week 24: AMS morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early morning on June 11th I found myself in Amsterdam. I love cities in the early morning; the streets are peaceful and empty, one can really sense the city waking up. It is a special atmosphere, especially when it is between 6 and 7 on a Sunday morning in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>One can see traces of whatever went on the night before and guess at the story behind this scene:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/24.jpg\" alt=\"4710\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark II, 16-35mm L Canon, ISO 400)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A restaurant employee hoses down the sidewalk in front of the restaurant:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/24alt1.jpg\" alt=\"4719\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark II, 16-35mm L Canon, ISO 200)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One of the many canal streets, devoid of people at this early hour:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/24alt2.jpg\" alt=\"4714\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark II, 16-35mm L Canon, ISO 100)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>More traces of Saturday night, on top of a poster advertising some kind of leftist event:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/24alt3.jpg\" alt=\"4722\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark II, 16-35mm L Canon, ISO 200)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A bicycle left on an Amsterdam street overnight is sure to be used for various unintended purposes:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/24alt4.jpg\" alt=\"4720\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark II, 16-35mm L Canon, ISO 200)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After prowling the streets a bit, I wandered over to the Vondelpark, a beautiful oasis on the south side of the city centre. I was amused by this sign at the entrance, outlining the various prohibitions:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/24alt5.jpg\" alt=\"4689\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark II, 24-70mm L Canon, ISO 200)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>At this early hour, the park was quiet and peaceful, in contrast to the more or less unsavoury things that go on there at night. Here a man is reading a newspaper in the morning sunshine:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/24alt6.jpg\" alt=\"4693bw\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark II, 24-70mm L Canon, ISO 200)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A couple is walking through the park:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/24alt7.jpg\" alt=\"4705\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark II, 200mm L Canon, ISO 400)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;while another couple is busy making out on a bench:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/24alt8.jpg\" alt=\"4707\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark II, 200mm L Canon, ISO 400)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early morning on June 11th I found myself in Amsterdam. I love cities in the early morning; the streets are peaceful and empty, one can really sense the city waking up. It is a special atmosphere, especially when it is between 6 and 7 on a Sunday morning in the summer. One can see traces [&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\/31"}],"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=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/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=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}