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München, Dachau en Salzburg: vakantie 2014

Emma and me like to travel a lot. Especially she likes Germany, and I like to go to new places. So it became München since it was also close to the Alps.

We’ve seen a lot of stuff and we experienced a lot of diversity. I mean, we stayed at a 4 star hotel in a shady neighbourhood, and used Couchsurfing to crash at an awesome guy’s place. We saw the horrific Dachau, and cheered at the finals of the World Cup. Saw nature in the Alps, and enjoyed the exciting city center of München. Here’s some pics, but be sure to check out the whole gallery for your enjoyment.

 

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Check out the whole gallery

Arnhem Central Station

So I went to Utrecht to celebrate my girlfriends graduation, got back and took these pics.

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Lightning in Arnhem; an infrared love story.

Last night, I couldn’t sleep. Then it started to rumble in the sky; lightning.

I left my 5D2 at work so I was left with my 11 year old camera, the EOS 10D, modified IR camera. With a fisheye lens. Usually not your typical combination for some storm/lightning photography. So what was the result?

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This photo is actually 4 pics merged together, blended in. Total shuttertime: 80 seconds.

 

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Here’s one of the photo’s, with a 20 seconds shutter time.

 

A happy 2014 from Roma / Rome!

First of all, I’d like to wish you all a very happy and healthy 2014! It’s been a while since I posted something, and I actually still have to post some America photo’s.

Anyway, my girlfriend and me went to Rome for New Years Eve. I fixed my website and uploaded the gallery. Since it was a LOT of photo’s, I decided to devote a page to it. Enjoy!

The Coloseum

The Coloseum

View the Rome gallery

Catacombes de Paris

Last week My gf and I were in Paris, and what a trip that was. We’ve seen the most beautiful people, tasted the finest wines and cheeses. Met many interesting people, talked to artists, enjoyed the many romantic views and we’ve visited the well known touristic spots. 

Of course we’ve visited the Champs Elysee, seen the Arc du Triomf, Basilique du Sacré Coeur de Montmartre, Eiffel tower, Notre Dame and many more famous places. But we’ve also visited a more infamous place: the Catacombes de Paris.

Underneath the romantic city with hints to a long gone past, there is a 290 km long network of tunnels. Initially these were made to mine chalk. However, from 1786 till the 19th century, these tunnels were used to store the bones of about 6 million French people. Nowadays you can visit the final resting place of these poor souls. Here are some of the pics I’ve taken.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some happy stuff soon, no worries.

More Berlin.

And here’s some more Berlin shots I did last weekend.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well that was a really large post with lot’s of photo’s. But hey it’s a photo-blog, what’d you expect?

Good day!

Berlin 1/5

So, we went on a new trip… to the amazing capital of Germany; Berlin!

Hoped you like these!

Greece 4/7

And there was more from that trip…

 

 

 

 

 

Small bicycle tour

Did a small bicycle tour, saw some skaters, took pics. Results:

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Went with my GF for a walk, we came back with this.

Greece 3/7

And we continue with photo’s from Greece!

Incredibly busy road, this photo is untouched, all visual effects done on the camera. Gotta love my 5DMII

A low quality, bad, overcontrasted and underlighted photo. Still I like it, good memories, good story.

Emma intergrating in Greec culture. Seriously DO support Greece because those warriors over there… you don’t want them to invade the rest of Europe!

Our awesome couchsurfing-host brought us to the opening of a salsa-club. We got a very nice demonstration of Salsa dancing. Sexy!

Wasn’t aware communism was still so active in countries. This was an eye-opener for me.

This was the place where we stayed. This was STEEP!

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And here’s more pics…

 

 

 

 

 

“Walking on a Sunday morning”.

Hi guys! Had a couchsurfing guest at my place last night. Was brief, but fun. In the morning I brought her to the center of Arnhem where she had to do an English test. Anyway, on my way back I took some pics.

 

 

 

Most of them are quite in the same style I’ve been working for a while. Of course there will be people saying they’re photoshopped… I just call it processing.

Till next post!

 

Picking up the old habbit.

Going to focus a bit more on skateboarding photography. So if anyone in Arnhem is interested or knows people, let me know!

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And here we go again!

At saturday I did another bicycle GeoCache trip, here are the results!

Some random Emmerich shots!

Emmerich is a nice place, but scary too. And in the summer it can become pretty hot and dry. So here are some new pictures for you.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ABOUT ME

steve-o-ii

I'm a blogger who likes to travel, take photos, write stories about my adventures, do bicycle trips, model and print 3D, create websites, create video's, play airsoft, watch Formula 1 and much more.

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Wink deer Scotland Highland Wildlife Park
Low grass Scottish forest
Tree branches with moss in Scotland
Sun through trees in forest Scotland
Ruthven barracks abandoned Scottish castle ruins
Scotland classic highlands and mountains view
Suspension bridge in Scotland
Princes Street Edinburgh Scotland
Medieval bridge in Scotland
Silverstone Formula 1 circuit England aerial shot
Old waterworks in Austrian forest
Burghausen Castle Germany seen from Austria
Meadow and countryside road Germany
Huelva mine Rio Tinto various buildings Spain
Mountain top Reales de Sierra Bermeja, Estepona Spain
Gibraltar mountain with Europe,Africa, Morocco and Spain in one photo
Moroccan mountains seen from Spain Gibraltar
Sail yaght near Gibraltar with Moroccan mountains in the background
Conil de la Frontera foggy misty morning city walk, Spain
Rio Tinto collapsed old bridge red river Spain
Rio Tinto red mineral chemical water Spain Huelva mines
Huelva mina train tracks, rio tinto Spain
Mars ehh Huelva Rio Tinto mines red landscape
Abandoned mines, train depot control room, Rio Tinto, Huelva Spain
Abandoned mines, train depot hangar Rio Tinto, Huelva Spain
Abandoned mine wagons and train depot, Rio Tinto, Huelva Spain
Abandoned old Spanish Rio Tinto mining lift tower
Portugal most western point Cabo Da Roca/cape Roca
Olhao graffiti painted abandoned church urbex
Spanish ultra thin wild spider