May 31

I went for a ride to Alkmaar to see the flower bulb fields there, but they were a bit of a dissapointment.  I want a windmill behind my field of tulips. And I just couldn’t find the right one. So I drove my tiny car back to Lisse, where I decided to take some shots of a tulip field with the sky as background-the usual surroundings are rather boring metal sheds.

I played around with Lightroom, increasing the blacks which gave me rather saturated candy colors. I thing it gives the picture a nice banding effect; the cool blue and green offset with the rather warm pink flowers in the middle. I’m not too worried about the sun’s light messing up the sky in my picture. Well not really.

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May 31

The Japanese Cherry trees (Prunus serrulata) were in bloom, so I grabbed my Nikon D700, slapped the 105mm Micro VR on it and shot some pics. The wind occasionally moved my subject about, so it was quite hard capturing the flowers.

As far as the picture goes, I can do better, but the one below is the best one of the bunch :-)

I did nothing to enhance the picture, just slapped on a border, burned the website name into the corner and voila.

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