Wet Wet Wet
It is wet in Holland. After weeks of extreme drought, it is now raining a lot and the sewage system often can’t handle it. Took some snapshots with my N70:
World Wide Panorama Gardens online
In the period of June 20th through 25th, hundreds of VR photographers joined the World Wide Panorama effort shooting panoramas of their interpretation of the theme ‘gardens’. In all, over 300 photographers submitted their work for the project.
The World Wide Panorama team is proud to announce the World Wide Panorama: Gardens website is now open to the general public.
More information: http://geoimages.berkeley.edu/wwp606
I participated for the 6th time in the World Wide Panorama project. All of my panoramas can be seen here.
Selfmade HD video
Today I shot a couple of sequences of wakeboarders on the central lake in Almere and though, that I should be able to create a short high definition video from those images, since the original resolution of the Nikon D200 is 3872×2592 pixel.
I used a Photoshop action to crop and resize the images to 1280×720 pixel, which is the 720p resolution, a common HD format. With Quicktime Pro I imported all 69 images and created a movie with 6 frames per second (the D200 probably shot +/- 5 frames per second), resulting in a clip of 11 seconds. The Wide Time effect of Apple’s Motion software was used to create transitions between the individual frames.
Quicktime h.264 version (28MB) – click on the image to start the movie:
click here to download
click here to download the divx version (5.52MB)
Almere city architecture – part II
Tonight I went out again to take more pictures of the new center.
Equipment: Nikon D200 + Nikkor AF-S DX 18-200mm 1:3.5-5.6 G ED
1,5,8: Side By Side (architect: Firts van Dongen)
4: Block 5
2,3,6: Block 4 (architect: Gigon & Guyer)
7: Block 2 (architect: David Chipperfield)
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Almere city architecture
Finally we had a nice sunset and blue sky, so I went out with my new Nikon and took some images of the modern architecture in the city.
1. Silverline (architects: Claus & Kaan)
2. Media Markt
3. Urban Entertainment Center (architect: William Alsop)
4. The Wave (architect: René van Zuuk)
5. Silverline and Side By Side (architect: Frits van Dongen)
6. The Wave
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Queensday 2006 in Almere
This year Beatrix, queen of the Netherlands, celebrated the anual queensday (koninginnedag in Dutch) in the Flevoland province and visited Zeewolde and Almere. Chris and I took some images.
Some more images on other websites:
Weblog van Kenneth Verburg: Koningshuis in Almere
Fotochemie: Koninginnedag in Almere…
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Traffic situation in the Randstad
The Randstad is the central area of Holland between Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Utrecht. Here we find the highest density of population and of course regular traffic jams. This animation shows the traffic situation today between 6am and 8pm.You can clearly see the morning and afternoon rush hour. One second of animation represents 30 minutes.
It has been a relatively normal day. On bad days the way from Almere to Amsterdam is completely red.
Apple Quicktime 7 is required to watch the movie.
Comments(3)Almere traffic on a normal Tuesday
I though it would be interesting to see how the traffic situation in Almere changes during a day, so based on the site with the traffic information I created a small animated movie. It shows the traffic condition in Almere between 6am and 8pm on April 4, 2006. Almere is a fast growing town, which currently has 179.059 inhabitants. By 2010 it will be more than 200.000. Handling the growth of traffic is a real challenge, both inside of the city and even more in the direction of Amsterdam, where it is already collapsing every day.
Apple Quicktime 7 is required to watch the movie.
Almere traffic information
Via the blog of Douwe Habesma I came across a link to online traffic information of our fast growing city.
Have a look at this map on a Monday morning, when most of us are standing still on our way to work in Amsterdam. Sometimes it takes me up to 30 minutes to even get on the freeway. On a good day I can reach the office in Amsterdam within 25 minutes but if the traffic jams are bad, it can take 60-90 minutes. I tried public transport a couple of times but including waiting and walking it takes at least 60 minutes if you don’t miss a train or bus.
Strange mouse over effect on almere.nl
When I just visited a page on the site of my home town, I came across a strange and annoying mouse over bug. When crossing links they change background color and remain dark blue, which makes it kind of hard to read the text.
I expected some Internet Explorer only code and had a look at the messy source code of the page. What I found was even better and something I have not seen before.
<td height=’14′
onMouseOver=this.bgColor=’#F2E8E7′
onMouseOver=this.style.cursor=’hand’
onMouseOut=this.bgColor=’transparent’>
<a xhref=’smartsite.dws?id=3911′ class=’sitemap’>
Afvalbeleid</a></td>
How is a web-browser supposed to know what to do? Actually in the content part of the page you will hardly see any double-quotes enclosing HTML tag attributes. I guess their content management system, which is Smartsite from a Dutch company called Seneca Web Development can’t handle it. Needles to say, that you can achieve the same mouse over effect with a few lines of CSS code without any java-script. The w3c html validator reports in total 2019 errors just for this page.
