{"id":93,"date":"2007-07-22T11:21:20","date_gmt":"2007-07-22T10:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk:80\/paws\/?page_id=93"},"modified":"2007-07-22T11:21:20","modified_gmt":"2007-07-22T10:21:20","slug":"week-29-amsterdam-mostly","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=93","title":{"rendered":"Week 29: Amsterdam mostly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A selection of images from my house and from my weekly wanderings in Amsterdam.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Main<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen I visited Bordeaux for the first time, back in 1997 or 98, I bought a magnum of one of the better St-Emillion wines from my son&#8217;s year of birth, 1989, to be drunk on his 18th birthday. Well, Moses turned 18 on 7th July but he was not at home that day, so we did not get around to drinking the wine until last weekend:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2007\/29.jpg\" alt=\"2582\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nThe alternates<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><em>Alternate 1<\/em><br \/>\nA frequent scene from my home. Our cat Taco has the sometimes annoying habit of planting himself in inconvenient or unsafe places, like here. But we are his people so we have to adjust to him&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2007\/29alt1.jpg\" alt=\"2574\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Alternate 2<\/em><br \/>\nAnother scene from home. Behind our subdivision there are some farms. The hay has been harvested and baled:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2007\/29alt2.jpg\" alt=\"2559\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Alternate 3<\/em><br \/>\nNear Hilversum is the village of Kortenhoef. Its main business is boating and other water sports. Even some of the houses are built on platforms on the water:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2007\/29alt3.jpg\" alt=\"2574\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The rest of the alternates are from Amsterdam. When the weather is nice on a Saturday or Sunday, we very often go into the city. It is an endless well of images for me&#8211;I just sit in an outdoor cafe and watch the human traffic.<\/p>\n<p><em>Alternate 4<\/em><br \/>\nA vendor of temporary tatoos on Rembrandtplein. Obviously, she uses her own products:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2007\/29alt4.jpg\" alt=\"2529\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Alternate 5<\/em><br \/>\nA decorated guy, also on Rembrandtplein:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2007\/29alt5.jpg\" alt=\"2534\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Alternate 6<\/em><br \/>\nCouple on Rokin:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2007\/29alt6.jpg\" alt=\"2538\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Alternate 7<\/em><br \/>\nThe setting sun illuminates a canal, near the Rijksmuseum:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2007\/29alt7.jpg\" alt=\"2544\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Alternate 8<\/em><br \/>\nSteve Bloom wildlife exhibition in the Westerpark (near Anne Frank&#8217;s house):<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2007\/29alt8.jpg\" alt=\"2644\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Alternate 9<\/em><br \/>\nSpencer Tunick was recently in Amsterdam to take one of his famous pictures of lots of naked people. Amsterdam is a place that appreciates nudity, hence this big photograph near Prinsengracht:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2007\/29alt9.jpg\" alt=\"2633\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A selection of images from my house and from my weekly wanderings in Amsterdam. Main When I visited Bordeaux for the first time, back in 1997 or 98, I bought a magnum of one of the better St-Emillion wines from my son&#8217;s year of birth, 1989, to be drunk on his 18th birthday. Well, Moses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":60,"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\/93"}],"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=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}