Posts Tagged ‘look’

I’ve seen some of his work, and, if you ask me, Gerben van Es is a great photographer.
My personal favorite is a picture of soldiers out on patrol in Afghanistan. To the left is a high mud wall; the soldiers walk towards the camera in the center of the photograph. They are serious and watchful. [...]

If you’ve come here via the Radio Netherlands website, you’ve probably already heard about the disaster today.
But in case you haven’t, basically, a car was driven through a crowd of people watching the Queen visit the city of Apeldoorn. Four people were killed and 13 injured. The driver, a native Dutchman, was arrested but sent [...]

April 30th: Koninginnedag!
Koninginnedag, or Queen’s Day, celebrates the former Queen Juliana’s birthday. When her daughter Beatrix succeeded her on Queen’s Day 1980, she decided to keep the holiday on April 30 as a tribute to her mother. (The decision was made easier by the fact that the weather on her own birthday (January 31) would [...]

This week on Curious Orange (the radio show)…
It’s part two of our series on the Dutch in Afghanistan - “Just Doing My Job”.
We’ll hear stories of soldiers working, fighting, and rebuilding in Afghanistan… including the guy who walks in front of the trucks - scanning for road-side bombs, a police officer who volunteered to go [...]

I know, you’ve already seen a lot of my photos of spring time in Holland… don’t worry, this isn’t more floral photos… it’s a video!!
Last week I went to Heemstede, a suburb of Haarlem, to meet Jan Brouwer and Chris Cornet, two members of “Groei en Bloei” (”Grow and Bloom”), the Royal Dutch Horticultural Society. [...]