Overasseltse Vennen

On Thursday, June 2nd 2011, Joyce and I took Chance for a walk at the Overasseltse Vennen. They are also referred as the Hatertse Vennen. The Vennen are located around the St. Walrickweg, the road from Nijmegen to Overasselt.

The only real info about “Vennen” in English, I found here on Wikipedia.org.I also found some info in Dutch on this site. Also some Dutch info on this site.

But I guess I could Google so many sites and they still would not be able to show you all the beauty this area has to offer! I am not a biologist, but I did make some nice pictures to show you around this beautiful area. Hope you’ll like it! And if you have the chance, go there yourself some day for a beautiful walk in an wonderful area.

Early morning in Cuijk

After posting some pictures I made while driving from/to work, I also wanted to share some pictures I made this morning. I came home seeing wonderful sunlit clouds and I just had to walk with Chance as soon as I got home. Chance didn’t mind at all .

I used the “Sunset” settings of my Nikon Coolpix P500 to make this first shot.

Automatic program on the Nikon P500.

The “Jan van Cuijk molen” (windmill) near our house.

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I am still working on my long post about FedCon XX. Seeing I have to work again tomorrow morning and have a friend coming over the afternoon/evening/night… I hope to be able to write on Monday, as we celebrate a National free day here in the Netherlands on that day. So please keep checking! Updates on Flickr and Facebook. Other update options are through e-mail subscription and RSS feed.

Have a nice day! Older image, only used as illustration

The sun

Ever since I was a child, I have been fascinated by the sun. Sunrise and sunset to be more precise. Or when the sun is “playing” with the clouds. Seeing I have been working the night shift this week, I went to work during sunset and drove home during sunset. I know it’s dangerous, but I have tried to make some pictures while driving.

Please keep in mind that I had to shoot the picture(-s) as I was driving.

I have created a new folder on my Flickr space to share these pictures with you.

A while ago, while I was lingering at the waterside with Joyce and Chance in Linden, I had my Nikon camera with me.

I am also still working on my long, very long, post about FedCon XX. I “only” have the Sunday left to cover. So I will leave you with these pictures and I wish you a good day.

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A short day in Nijmegen

On Saturday, April 16th 2011, Joyce and I had to go to Nijmegen. Nijmegen is the oldest city of the Netherlands, closely followed by Maastricht. Since I had to buy a bag for my new Nikon P500 camera, I took it along. I had bought a Sandisk memory card for it, the extreme SDHC 16GB. I had searched the internet and believed it to be one of the best cards available and ready for the super fast interface of the P500. So far, I didn’t have any problems with it and it was working super fast…

A bike trip of 47 kilometers

Saturday, April 2nd 2011, promised to be a wonderful spring day. Seeing Joyce didn’t have to work, we decided to take our bikes and ride around for the afternoon. George didn’t want to come along, so it was just the two of us. I took along my small Sony DSC-W90, because it seemed fun to make some pictures along he way. We only knew we wanted to start by going to Center Parcs Heijderbos. After that, we would just see where the road would take us.

_{I have tried to link as much stuff to sites containing more information. Unfortunately, most sites are in Dutch. But if you’re interested, please click and hopefully you will understand some of it…}