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Category Archives: The Netherlands

Klosterhof Neuburg…Good for Body and Soul

Last weekend we wandered over to a beer festival at a near by Cloister in Heidelberg.  Of course we had triple booked the weekend and totally missed the fest, but with minutes to spare before closing time we were able to walk through the Hofladen, or Farm store.
What an amazing little place!  So many wonderful...

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Hey…It’s OK to Fake it!

Last year at this time I was wandering the amazing blooming flower fields of Holland.  This year, unable to attend the fan fare that hails the arrival of these blooming “onions” I am forced to pretend in my local U-pick tulip patch.
OK so it may only be three small rows but they certainly are beautiful,...

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Sharing the Passion…more from the Expo

Through the Large Format Photography forum we have been lucky enough to meet a fellow large format addict…who is denial of the aforementioned affliction.
It was he who told us about the Photo Expo in Houten Netherlands, so we arranged a meet up at the event.
Eddie Gunks, with a character as large as his camera, he...

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Our Nugget of Gold…Houten Photo Expo 09

Our nugget of gold as mentioned in the last blog, turned out to be a hand turned, hand ground Derogy lens, made in Paris around 1860.
This lens which will be used for portrait photography, in a large format studio camera.  It is a lens that comes for sale once in a lifetime, so you can...

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