Nimavenl - Nicole's Random Ramblings

Today's Random Act of Wildness: Watching the birds soaring through the sky. I waited for the rain to appear today as I was rather looking forward to splashing through puddles. Sadly, no such luck. It was quite windy though, which made going for a walk a lot of fun. Spotted many different birds out enjoying the windy weather and even got a glimpse of a beautiful (and huge!) moon. The birds looked like they were enjoying themselves a great deal - seeing them surfing the winds always makes me wish I could fly, too. Although... Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.  ~ Henry David Thoreau It's probably a good thing we can't fly. If humans could fly without the aid of technology, we would no doubt 'conquer' even more of our beautiful planet and turn even the wildest and most inaccessible places into wastelands filled with garbage. We've already caused so much damage to the parts of the planet we can reach, all in the name of pr...

#01 - Polderscape The Challenge: Find a route I've never photographed along. Stop every 100 steps or so to take a photo. As I've explained in previous posts, I don't like taking photos of strangers. This means I plan to photograph locations, structures, natural features and perhaps some animals, however not people. I'll go for a nosey around town today and decide where to go. I've got a few ideas already... #02 - Cows The hoops and the hurdles: While it was most definitely my intention to take photos in the city (downtown / in the binnenstad ), when push came to shove I felt quite uncomfortable trying to take photos with people all around. People don't stop living their lives, walking past and going about their business just because I want to take a photo of a funky building, an interesting door or a pretty window. While yelling "Oi you lot, get off the street now unless you want me to shoot you" might have seemed funny to my teenage se...

Around Alkmaar 01 A photo posted by Nicole M. Verhaaf (@nimavenl) on Jul 22, 2012 at 2:38pm PDT

I took this photo about two weeks ago. I walk along this footpath daily on my way to work.  This time I happened to be walking here on a day I wasn't working. As I wasn't talking or rushing or trying to get somewhere, I had my phone out and was taking photos of random things along the way. Blurry trees and traffic lights, blurry buildings in the semi-dark and well, blurry shots of the pavement as well! This photo - Sure, it's weird and blurry and strange, however I love it.  I don't know exactly why, however this image feels a bit like it's the opening frame for a horror movie. Guess that's why I like it so much - it feels like it's the beginning of something. Perhaps simply the beginning of something new and different, the beginning of a journey into the future. Or, in true horror movie style, the beginning to being eaten by a monster that jumps out of the trees just ahead. Who knows...  Just imagine what would happen, what you ...