Winter Walk

December 2010 - Wassenaar

All of these are within a five minute walk of my house.

Getting Home

Winter 2010 - Train Ride

Getting home at the end of my first semester in Dublin was... and Adventure. Many people studying abroad had trouble getting back to America, but there I was, having just as much trouble getting back to Holland.

My flight out of Dublin was canceled due to a huge snowstorm in The Netherlands and they were projecting that the Dublin Airport would be shut the next day. So, I flew to London on a flight that was delayed due to snow in London, arrived at about 1:30am, took the Gatwick Express into London, then took a too expensive taxi to the Hotel I was supposed to stay in overnight. By that time it was 3:30, and I had to be in the station ready to catch the Euro Rail at 6:30. I took a nap. The Euro Rail took me through France and Belgium, where I transferred to a local train to The Netherlands. Finally, exhausted, but amazed at the sights outside my window I pulled out my camera.

 Less than 24 hours after I left, and after traveling through five countries, (Ireland, The UK, France, Belgium, The Netherlands,) I was home. The next day, I got on a plane to Germany.

Wishing for Winter

I may or may not have listened to Christmas carols last night.

Also I've just gone on a big digital editing kick, so hopefully more posts more often.

I need to shoot in square more often.

These two are from SLC and the High Line in NYC

Snow in September

Well, not actually, but photos of - yes. 

From a snow day in January of last year:

You may be wondering why you've never seen these double images before or again. 

Simple - as a Diana Mini is plastic, it broke. 

This means that instead of taking 72 half frames, it takes 36

And my photos end up being mostly vertical.

No Longer MIA

The reason I was missing for a week was that I visited a friend in Chicago, and had little to no computer time. Now I am at the O'Neill Theatre Center, where I will be for the next five weeks. Yay!

My room, on the third floor, with no fan, is making me dream of winter, so perhaps it is apt to continue my winter photos?

The Hobbit Door

The Turret

Some more branches covered in snow...

And some more of the arbor.
I may have been really cold then, but I sure miss it now!

Snow Days

The arbor covered in snow,

Tree branches,

And Westlands. I always find that this building looks most majestic when it's covered in snow.

Dealing With Summer

I am in Houston, TX right now, and it is hot. Like 98 F or 37 C hot. 

Needless to say, I cannot wait for the milder weather in Connecticut and/or Holland.

With thoughts of cooler weather, I thought I'd go into my digital snow day photos:

The Teahaus,

Bikes rendered useless :)

Westlands through branches

And Mead Way covered in snow.

I also had my Diana Mini with me on this snow day. 

Check out the photos, like this:

Here.

Diana Mini Goes To NYC

My mother and I went into the city a ton while she was here.

I brought along Diana Mini.
One of the things we did was wander along the High Line at sunset.

Some of the photos are rather grainy, but I don't mind. That's what you get with film!
And next time, for sunsets, a higher ISO!



You can see so much of the city from there. Like this building:



I took this photo through the railing!


The great thing about this camera is the way you can play with light.



I love all the little light squiggles!
This is probably my favourite:


I would encourage everyone to visit the High Line, it's so beautiful.
It will be wonderful in the summer; I can't wait!

Film Camera

I recently got myself a Diana Mini. Which is an adorable tiny film camera.

Then, it snowed (as it is now) and of course, I had to go have fun.

I was taking it set so that I took half frames, which turned out pretty fun


Something else fantastic you can do, is since you advance the film, you can layer images.




Doesn't this look just like a barn in the woods?

Snow

This Saturday it was supposed to snow again,

but it missed us (in NY) and dumped it all on the South.
As in, three feet of snow in Maryland. What?
Well this winter Holland was (and still is to some extent)
covered in an unusually large amount of snow.
To celebrate that:





This nature reserve is literally a two minute walk from my house.
From this direction, you can see nothing but trees and a field.


And my father.

But from this direction:


There are tons of people skating on the pond!

A few other shots of the snow around my village: