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Urban Knitting in Almere

harald — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:29:10 +0000

My photo shoot today took me to Almere-Haven, where more than 250 volunteers knitted for the Flevolands Vlijt project, which was initiated by artists Bertina Slettenhaar and Mariël Bisschops. The knitted/crocheted outfits in mostly blue and green tones are symbolizing a tribute to water, wrapped around living elements, the trees.

Flevolands Vlijt – Images by Harald Walker

Local Dutch Elections

harald — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:51:34 +0000

For a couple of weeks I have been following the Dutch local elections now with my camera. While usually these local elections would not be considered to be very interesting beyond the borders of our community, this time they are. On March 3rd the voter can choose between 16 political parties for the city council of Almere (188.335 inhabitants). Our city is one of the few cities in the Netherlands where the extreme right PVV party of Geert Wilders is participating for the first time. During the election campaign the 4th Balkenende government fell, when the PvdA ministers left the coalition. The results of these local elections are considered to be a strong indication for the nationwide election in June.

Full coverage of the local Dutch elections (additional images will be added)

Bended winter world

harald — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 19:12:04 +0000

After Christmas we went to stay in the Weserbergland close to Hameln for a week and we were lucky with the weather. After we arrived we had ice rain and a lot of snow turning the nature into a surrealistic landscape. I had brought my Lensbaby Composer lens and as it wasn’t really great weather to take regular landscape photos, I used the Lensbaby on my Nikon D300S to take a series of photos and a short video of the transformed winter landscape.

The colorful world of Amococo

harald — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:13:20 +0000

This weekend the Amococo Luminarium of the Architects Of Air was visiting our town. The Amococo is an inflatable building inspired by Islamic architecture. It has 4 large colored domes, linked together by separate walk-through areas. We visited it three times to take pictures and shoot some videos. For my cameras the extreme intensity of the colors was a real challenge.

HDR to the rescue

harald — Sun, 04 May 2008 13:39:10 +0000

We just traveled through the German Eifel region for a week and have been not as lucky with the weather as we hoped for. Instead of blue skies and sun we had a lot of cloudy days and rain. This made the photography more challenging and high dynamic range (HDR) imaging turned out to be a lifesaver in some situations. With 3 shots, each with a different exposures, I was able to create HDR images with much more details and a dramatic atmosphere as the example below illustrates. In some cases this technique couldn’t be used as it was too windy, which makes it impossible to merge 3 single exposures together to one sharp image.

Welcome to the new Mediasculp site

harald — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 09:15:42 +0000

After years of neglect it was about time to update this site. Some of its content will not return as it was too outdated and other things will come back step by step.

Bridges of the World

harald — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 19:26:35 +0000

In September we went for another vacation in Normandy France. There we took several bridge panoramas at the river Seine, including my contribution to the the 3rd Word Wide Panorama shoot. In the week of the Equinox, September 18-22, 2004, photographers around the world created VR panoramas on the theme “Bridges”. The Word Wide Panorama site external features 187 panoramas from 37 countries.

QuicktimeVR: Summer solstice captured

harald — Fri, 23 Jul 2004 19:18:55 +0000

People say that photos are worth more than words. It’s true – no words could ever completely represent the beauty of the Shirakawa Village in Japan, the Zurich China Garden in Switzerland, the windmills of Kinderdijk in the Netherlands, the north rim of the Grand Canyon in Arizona or many other spectacular locations. During the summer solstice weekend, June 19-21, more than 110 photographers in 32 countries captured QuickTime VR panoramas to represent the UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) theme of World Heritage. While being on our way to Normandy/France we also participated in this project and took 2 panoramas of World War I cemeteries just north of Arras (France). Even though they are not on the UNESCO list, we feel they should be, as a lesson from history.