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Sometimes photography is just about being at the right place at the right time. I didn't plan to take this picture at all. I was just driving home after I already took some pictures, when the sky suddenly turned pink. I stopped the car immediately, got out and took a couple of shots. I was just in time, because 2 minutes later the pink sky was completely gone. I already posted a similar shot a few days ago but I thought this sunset was so beautiful it deserved another exposure. Besides that, the colors are very Flickr-ish.

What I like most on this photo isn't the colors but the people on the foreground. If you look closely they are communicating with each other, they are not skating.

Note: these are the real colors as spotted that day, no PS enhancements needed. Well, only a few basic corrections.

1/100 s
f/2.2
ISO 200
50mm

Explore #14 January 8 2009 and Frontpage

Tags:   Bergen op Zoom Bergse Plaat Boulevard Bergse Plaat Pink sunset with skaters DDD5 Dolle Doka Donderdag Shot with Canon's Nifty-Fifty Also known as the Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 ii Flickr colors - not intended! Just luck Ice skating in Holland No monochromatic schizophrenia today Zen and the art of archery HCB This is no HDR “To photograph is to hold one's breath when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.” Quote from H C-B Geen zwart/wit vandaag pink 2 minutes part 2 pink two minutes tjintjelaar joel tjintjelaar

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This was the view I had when driving to the office on Friday morning. The light was golden and very bright - I had to use my sunglasses- , the sky pink, purple, white and blue. There is very few to see: some houses, a flock of birds and an endless horizon. And it was cold, very cold.

f/3.2
ISO 100
1/4000s

PS CS3
Silver Efex Pro - Red FIlter
No Crop

Explore #120 January 11 2009

Tags:   Winter landscape Can less be more? -9 C Monochromatic disorder monotone hallucination ECM ECM Record Cover YsplixBlack tjintjelaar joel tjintjelaar A27 holland the netherlands minimal monochrome winter landscape

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I took this shot right after the last rays of sunlight have disappeared. I don't know exactly where I took this shot. I asked a little boy who was playing out there where the heck I was and he told me twice but I totally forgot. Only thing I remember is that I found myself in a very small village with a very long name, a lot of dogshit because my expensive shoes were all over it , a ditch and a beautiful tree. At the horizon I could see the exhaust fumes of nearby industry.

f/7.0
ISO100
3 Exposures

PS CS3
Photomatix Pro
Silver Efex Pro - Pro Contrast

Explore #62 February 12 2009

Tags:   monochromatic hdr 3exp B&W after sunset Black and white HDR nightshot tijntjelaar Ysplix Photomatix SE Pro I just don't understand that I can't find this photo in Scout anymore S***w Scout Vierlingweg Volckerdorp Völckerdorp Reimerswaal

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View this On Black or Extra Large, it really is better.
For another view on this, check The Doors of Perception

f/12.9
ISO 100
1/8 s

PS CS3
Silver Efex Pro

#92 Explore, 21 February 2009

Tags:   Flushing Dishoek Zeeland Zeeuwen Black and White Dodging and burning Seascape SilverEfexPro Poles water Dirty shoes and pants Tjintjelaar Northsea Noordzee Lots of dodging and burning burnt a hole in my LCD groins golfbrekers groynes mud and water on my shoes, wet socks, that sucks Monochromatic delirium selenium Somewhere beyond the sea pilings Dionysian Apollonian eclectic Epicurean Vlissingen

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'If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through narrow chinks of his cavern."
- Aldous Huxley - The Doors of Perception

Aldous Huxley took this title from William Blake's "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" the famous English poet and printmaker.
The Doors named theirselves after this title.

f/9.9
ISO100
1/12s
24mm

PS CS3
Silver Efex Pro

Explore #402, February 22 2009

Tags:   Aldous Huxley The Doors of Perception William Blake The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Dionysian Apollonian Vlissingen Flushing B&W Monochromatic aberration Dodging and burning till you burn a hole on your screen Ysplix Dishoek selenium GoldStarAward Zeeland Zealand 1953 Flood Disaster in Zealand Flushing or Vlissingen was one of the stricken areas of this disaster in 1953 The Doors Tjintjelaar Did you know that Aldous Huxley died exact the same day as J.F. Kennedy? Wet shoes again as I was standing in the water Very low angled shot environmental pictures Black sky pilings groyne groynes groin groins ggwttwerqnuiytotywrrcqc zzskasdarerebeqwwerwrwewe Darkest dreams The gate to heaven or hell?

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