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Posted on March 9th, 2013 by Jan Hemels | 9 comments | 149 views
During one of my long walks in the beautiful city of Amsterdam I paused for a quick lunch bite in the Sarphatipark (1885) named after the Jewish doctor and philanthropist Samuel Sarphati (1813-1866) . My telelens was drawn to two beautiful ladies that were having lunch [...]
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Posted on March 28th, 2012 by Jan Hemels | 5 comments | 325 views
Yesterday when I made a fotoshoot in Amsterdam I - completely by chance - ran into the Westermarkt where they were preparing to shoot a video clip. I was there at a few minutes to 3 o'clock. It was a very interesting happening to follow. It [...]
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Posted on March 7th, 2012 by Jan Hemels | 8 comments | 234 views
Rating has been a source of controversy on this site for a long time. The last few weeks I see that I regularly receive three to five votes more than comments after which my photo drops to the second or third or even lower page. It [...]
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Posted on December 20th, 2011 by Jan Hemels | 42 comments | 946 views
Yesterday 31-10-2011 I was having an icecream at the beach when totally unexpected for me I saw a plane coming closer accompanied by another one. I grabbed my camera and made a few shots and seeing the message on the plane I realized it was the [...]
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Posted on November 1st, 2011 by Jan Hemels | 8 comments | 471 views
Last December during our 4th trip to India we revisited India's prime landmark and World Miracle the Taj Mahal. The history of this magnificent and unrivalled architectural marvel is well known and can be found in many places like on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_Mahal On our first visit to [...]
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Posted on March 3rd, 2011 by Jan Hemels | 12 comments | 647 views
This morning for the first time ever I visited the Dune Reserve of the Amsterdam Waterworks where water from the Rhine River is infiltrated through many canals into the sandy soil. After purification this water is pumped up and used as drinking water in the Amsterdam [...]
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Posted on January 28th, 2011 by Jan Hemels | 7 comments | 340 views
This morning at 7.15 hours a great fire started in Alkmaar . At 7.45 I opened the curtains of my bedroom and had this view, I took my brand new Olympus E 5 camera and made my very first shot with this acquisition After having breakfast I [...]
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Posted on December 10th, 2010 by Jan Hemels | 15 comments | 419 views
the sunset of 6 october 2010 was really exceptional, unfortunately I noticed the splendid colours rather late as I was active on the PC as usual. I went doen and took a first shot out in the garden when there was still a lot of [...]
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Posted on November 3rd, 2010 by Jan Hemels | 8 comments | 386 views
(www.eurobookings.com/?referer=woophy) After the boat trip in the Eilandspolder we had a quick lunch on a nice terrace in De Rijp enjoying the wonderful weather. The next part of the program was a visit to the splendid church dating back in its present form to 1655. The church [...]
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Posted on July 26th, 2010 by Jan Hemels | 3 comments | 366 views

Jan Hemels

Gold camera, member has published more than 10 photos with very high ratingMember of the Month, December 1st, 2010Unofficial Contest, October 30th, 2008I support Woophy, February 19th, 2010Unofficial Contest, February 28th, 2011

Photography is 25% talent and 25% luck, the other half is just hard work! I do like travelling, walking and gardening. Love taking real life People, Landscapes, Nature and Monuments. My favourites are taken with backlight or in the golden hours. For postprocessing I mainly use Picasa, Helicon View, Photoscape and incidentally Photoshop Elements. 

Country:Netherlands  NL
City:Alkmaar
Registered:February 26th, 2007
Num of photos:678
Age:66
Fans:206
Photogear:Olympus E 5 with Zuiko 14-54 mm f 2.8-3.5 II, Zuiko 50-200 F2.8/F3.5 and E 510 + kitlenses