Winter in Amsterdam

I dared myself to go out a couple of times during this wintery January, risking a severe case of frostbite on my triggerfinger, to shoot some stills. Here are some impressions of Amsterdam during a wintery Januari.

This first couple of shots were taken during an icey sunny late afternoon.




This image reminds of the the Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco, more especially the signs littering the bridge stating "There is hope!". I hope the bike hangs on untill someone makes the call.


Some fiery tram tracks.



And a red-hot bicyclepath.

The next set was shot during an icey snowy late afternoon. This snowy spell, the first in many decades, made the Dutch liberal democrates come to the conclusion that there is no such thing as global warming. I am glad they are proving that we do have some political leaders in charge who know their statistics ( warning : sarcasm ).







And we do have more twats in charge who are denying global warming. The PVV don't want kids to be tought at skool about global warming at all ( warning : no sarcasm, they actually believe this ). Luckily they also have a backup plan, they'd like to stop the warm weather systems coming in from the east (former Warsaw pact), the Balkan and from the Middle East at our borders and even just send them back, to prevent non-native warm weather from poluting our society. Of course we also have TON with their innovative approach to global warming : "Eigen wolk eerst." (I am sorry, it's in dutch because we loose the pun in translation.).

Some arty frozen over bike shots.


The next one is a bit unsharp due to camerashake because I was taken over by the cold.


And a frostbitten lamppost.


The next set was shot during a gloomy freezy misty snowy late afternoon on the KNSM and Java islands in Amsterdam.




And once in a while I need to include some kind off a brick-wall-shot so I can consider myself a serious photographer again.


Only five or six of these were shot on the Nikon D200, the rest was all shot on the tiny Panasonic TZ5 compact. It was way easier to haul out the Panny and put it back quickly before my fingers were frozen solid, than the Nikon. Then again, if you're not a sissy boy like me (now you know why this store is doing well in Holland), the Nikon might have been your tool of choice.