{"id":37,"date":"2006-08-02T06:34:14","date_gmt":"2006-08-02T05:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk:80\/paws\/?page_id=37"},"modified":"2007-01-13T07:28:20","modified_gmt":"2007-01-13T06:28:20","slug":"week-30","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=37","title":{"rendered":"Week 30: AMS summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not big on flowers, but occasionally I see one in my garden which veritably asks to be photographed:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/30.jpg\" alt=\"5475\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark II, Leica 100mm Apo Macro Elmarit, ISO 200)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The rest of the images are from an afternoon in Amsterdam. A glorious, sunny day, spent looking at photographs at the gallery FOAM, but more importantly just enjoying the weather and the city.<\/p>\n<p>FOAM is a gallery on Keizersgracht, two blocks down from the Flower Market, and is a highly recommended place to visit if you are in Amsterdam. I frequently go there, this time to see a Daido Moriyama exhibition:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/30alt1.jpg\" alt=\"5515\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark II, 16-35mm L Canon, ISO 100)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After seeing the exhibition, I was inspired and fantasized about being a great street photographer <em>a la<\/em> Winogrand:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/30alt2.jpg\" alt=\"5521\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark II, 16-35mm L Canon, ISO 100)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/30alt3.jpg\" alt=\"5538\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark II, 24-70mm L Canon, ISO 100)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Eye contact is normally a good thing, but as the next picture shows, it is not always of the friendly variety. I stopped to photograph this trike, and noticed that the tatooed guy had turned around to look at me with a not-too-happy expression. Moments after I had taken the picture, he gave me the one-finger salute; but I had not noticed that the girl had been giving me one all along:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/30alt4.jpg\" alt=\"5555\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark II, 24-70mm L Canon, ISO 100)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I then waited for my wife and daughter to return from their shopping. I sat on the edge of the canal near the Flower Market and just watched the boat traffic passing by. There were big boats:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/30alt5.jpg\" alt=\"5546\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark II, 24-70mm L Canon, ISO 100)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>and small ones:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/30alt6.jpg\" alt=\"5548\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark II, 24-70mm L Canon, ISO 100)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Finally, walking back to the car, I could not resist this sign of a true oasis:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/30alt7.jpg\" alt=\"5560\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark II, 24-70mm L Canon, ISO 100)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not big on flowers, but occasionally I see one in my garden which veritably asks to be photographed: (Canon 1D Mark II, Leica 100mm Apo Macro Elmarit, ISO 200) The rest of the images are from an afternoon in Amsterdam. A glorious, sunny day, spent looking at photographs at the gallery FOAM, but [&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\/37"}],"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=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37\/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=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}