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Dennis Lemckert — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:25:12 +0000

I found this former pay-phone while walking through The Hague. I don’t know if it’s supposed to be a work of art, or just a plain prank and a play on the word ‘cell’ (in Dutch, both a pay-phone and a shower end with ‘cel’). Anyway, as it’s being posted here and there, I figured I’d put it on my own blog as well.

Scheveningen Fireworks Festival

Dennis Lemckert — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:20:20 +0000

At the moment, the Scheveningen Fireworks Festival is held. This festival organizes a yearly competition between teams of various countries, who makes the biggest and most beautiful fireworks.

So far, the Thursday entries have been cancelled and the Friday entries did suffer from strong winds. My hopes now are set on today, Saturday.

I’ve posted the best photos so far here. When there’s more after tonight, I’ll add them to the gallery.

Update sun 2009/08/23:

Due to camera mishap, I’ve completely lost the Dutch competitor. However, I did get the Chinese and US entries. I’ve uploaded them to the gallery. Enjoy!

Scheveningen beach

Dennis Lemckert — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:04:21 +0000

I’ve posted before on Scheveningen, but this beach resort never ceases to amaze me. One of the most popular sites on the Dutch Coast. On one of the hottest days so far this year, I’ve spent an afternoon taking photographs there. The best so far have been added to the gallery ‘The Hague’.

The best of the lot (in my opinion) is this photo of a young boy, completely mesmerized playing in the sand of the beach. I found him below the Pier Head of the Scheveningen Harbor. I only needed to point down and shoot.

A Tourist in my own hometown

Dennis Lemckert — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:12:55 +0000

One can be a tourist in one’s own hometown.

I do like to wander around a lot, hiking and such and I’ve been to various places over half of Europe, but usually I don’t take a closer look to my own town. Now, with my shiny new camera I’ve started to look a bit deeper into The Hague, the Netherlands.

I’ve opened up a gallery dedicated to The Hague exclusively. From time to time I’ll post a photo on the front page and tell a bit about it.

Perhaps a visitor will get intrigued in my city and decides to visit it sometimes.

During my wanderings I’ve encountered a few people who were OK with me taking a picture of them, so I’m glad to present a few portraits of them. Perhaps I’ll be able to grab all kinds of people to render a good overview of the variety of the inhabitants and visitors of The Hague.

Sunset at Scheveningen Beach

Dennis Lemckert — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:26:19 +0000

Scheveningen.
Yes, I know, most non-Dutch can’t even begin to pronounce the name of one of the most popular beach resorts in the Netherlands. However, when temperatures reach the levels as last week (mid-25C and up), it’s still one of the most desirable places to be.
Thank goodness I live in The Hague and only need to travel about 20 minutes by public transportation or a 1.5hours walk to get here.
Enjoy the warmth!

This picture took me quite a few to get. The maximum I had available was a 55-200 Telezoom, so I needed to crop it a little to get this clean a picture. Because of the massive amounts of light one gets while taking photographs directly into the sun, I needed to pinch the aperture to F32 to prevent damage to the sensor and to get the nice red hue in the clouds as can be seen here.

And, no.. The little black dots aren’t noise. They’re seagulls

and another one.. at almost maximum zoom:

Kodak halts production of Kodachrome film

Dennis Lemckert — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:12:46 +0000

It had to come to this. Kodak stops the production of Kodachrome film. Not too surprising, knowing there’s only one processing plant in the world left.

The rolls were hidiously expensive for my father to ‘just hand them over’ to his kid, so I never was able to use one for real. I had to do it with Black&White film. Thank goodness I WAS allowed to use my father’s camera though.

Personally I think the fact I’ve never been able to use Reversal Film as a kid, made me choose for the 35mm Film in the end.

Kodak hands three reasons for the discontinuing:

Difficulty in processing
Other available film-types
Digital photography

LOMO LC-A turns 25

Dennis Lemckert — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:37:30 +0000

The Lomo LC-A, free image from wikipedia

It’s nice to see, that in these current days with all kinds of techno whiz-bang cameras, a simple semi-automatic analog camera like the Lomo still runs strong.

Wired has an interesting story on it’s history and it’s current use.

Dennis Lemckert — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:16:36 +0000

This photo’s rather interesting in my opinion. I’ve tried to fiddle around a bit with perspective and the result’s rather pleasing.

I’ve tried to make a blend between the round tower and the square sides of the lower building. The clear blue sky makes for a nice background, so the building as a whole kind of stands out.

130 Megapixel scanner-camera

Dennis Lemckert — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:51:14 +0000

Fixing a manual lens to a digital scanner apparently makes for interesting projects and nice results. The posted image is …rather big

Photo imported from Flickr, (c) Spyuge

Resized images

Dennis Lemckert — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:42:52 +0000

Wow. Never realized I had THAT small amount of upload bandwidth. I used to upload my photos full-size, but it turns out my upload can’t cope with that, so the viewing’s kind of ..slow.

I’ve decided to resize my photos to a more sensible 900×600 (3×2 ratio, due to the capabilities of my camera). That actually means that, while the works still remain in CC-by-nc-sa license, I have to find a way to eventually be able to supply the original-sized photos as well.