Exhibition II
Another photo made at Schloss Moyland: a series of bare rooms for exhibitions. On the link to the map below you can see the Schloss (castle) in its moat and surrounded by its gardens. It is a beautiful...
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An evening on the south side of Zutphen with a sun going down on the other side of the IJssel (not visible on this photo).
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A few weeks a go I took a trip along the IJssel from Deventer to Zutphen with some friends. This is the ship we sailed in: an old “tram-boat”, built around 1920, that sailed along the river Ruhr in...
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A shot from the tram ship in the Deventer harbour: a sort of “Botter” with the marks DV1 (Deventer 1). Botters with their high bows were used for fishing in the then Zuiderzee.
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The second commission by Hoogovens, a steel factory in IJmuiden on the Noordzee. This etching was to present to relations of the company. When I made this etching there were still four blast-furnaces...
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The bow of the Tram boat seen from the tiny steering cabin. The IJssel is ahead.
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This is from the tiny poop deck looking forward of the tram boat. The cabin is quite full with three people. In the distance the tower of the big church at Deventer. The mark on the map below points...
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These barges are typical for the Dutch rivers and canals. They are important for carrying carry bulk goods around Holland and Germany. This deeply laden one just fitted in my lense.
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Only the towers of the two big churces of Deventer are visible her: the Lebuinus on the left and the Bergkerk on the right.
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On the banks of the IJssel are the ruins of a medieval castle: the Nijenbeek. Only the oldest part, the ‘donjon’ is left. If you zoom in to on the map below you can see the square tower.
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Again a view of the ruins of the Nijenbeek. Until WWII people still lived in the castle. At the end of the war german soldiers had a stronghold in the tower and theu were shelled from across the river....
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A lot of the trees along the river get the full force of the wind. These poplars lost branches in a storm one autumn.
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A photo taken on Queen’s day this year. A little girl is playing her violin to try and earn some coins from passers-by.
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Also from the last Queen’s day: huge plastic balls in which children could ‘roll’.
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