Ultimate Rhoads

Posted: **Fri Jan 18, 2008 6:19 pm**

In mid-December we went to Northern Europe for a few days.

These are from the sculpture park on the sea front in Den Haag, Netherlands taken the morning after we had dinner with 'The Flying Dutchman'

. It was that cold the sand had frozen.

The sculptures are famous and any members from NY might have seen work by the artist on the subway.

The sun was very bright so in this photo we all closed our eyes and opened them just as the clicker was pressed, hence my stupid face!

These are all of my favorite city; Antwerp in Dutch Falnders, Belgium. Taken during the day and night, they show the main shopping street, the Meir (do you recognise it Stewie with all those H&M's?!) and the city square where at Christmas time they have Ice Skating. I love the promanade that runs along the river and always go up there at lunch time and after dinner in the evenings.

Antwerp was icy cold and beautiful and remains the place I am determined to buy a second home.

5 minutes after I got up

Posted: **Fri Jan 18, 2008 7:31 pm**

beautiful photos ian. you make me want to visit these places. someday...
jessica looks more beautiful in each photo as well.
who's the kid?

Posted: **Fri Jan 18, 2008 8:14 pm**

frank wrote:beautiful photos ian. you make me want to visit these places. someday...
jessica looks more beautiful in each photo as well.
who's the kid?

You would love northern Europe it is beautiful in the cold and warm, when you visit I will take you to Antwerp myself and be your guide. The kid is my daughter Dawn who went to Europe with us this time

Thanks for the kind words about Jessica, I am a very lucky man. It was her birthday on Tuesday but don't tell her I mentioned it

Posted: **Fri Jan 18, 2008 8:21 pm**

excellant photo's, truly beautiful

and yes you are a very lucky man

as a cinematographer in training i must ask, what camera did you use for the pics? im assuming a digital SLR of some kind.

Posted: **Fri Jan 18, 2008 8:23 pm**

oh yeah i almost forgot, "frozen sand"???

WTF?

Posted: **Fri Jan 18, 2008 8:32 pm**

xx123456

Posted: **Fri Jan 18, 2008 8:33 pm**

Trigger wrote:These are all of my favorite city; Antwerp in Dutch Falnders, Belgium. Taken during the day and night, they show the main shopping street, the Meir (do you recognise it Stewie with all those H&M's?!)

H&M's.. I'm going to one tomorrow

! To bad I've got no pictures of my visit to antwerp, but it was a lovely day!

Yes frozen sand.. Is that odd?
I've got to take pictures from Ghent one day.. It's so normal for me cause I go there every day, but its actually a beatifull city too.

That are some really nice quality photographs!

Posted: **Fri Jan 18, 2008 8:43 pm**

rice_pudding wrote:excellant photo's, truly beautiful and yes you are a very lucky man

as a cinematographer in training i must ask, what camera did you use for the pics? im assuming a digital SLR of some kind.

Jessica took the photo's and her camera is a Canon EOS 20D its digital SLR.

Stewie wrote:
H&M's.. I'm going to one tomorrow ! To bad I've got no pictures of my visit to antwerp, but it was a lovely day!

Yes frozen sand.. Is that odd?
I've got to take pictures from Ghent one day.. It's so normal for me cause I go there every day, but its actually a beatifull city too.

That are some really nice quality photographs!

I love Dutch,Flanders and Gent is lovely as well, I am coming back to Flanders soon and I will meet up with you for a drink.

Posted: **Fri Jan 18, 2008 11:01 pm**

Trigger wrote:
rice_pudding wrote:excellant photo's, truly beautiful and yes you are a very lucky man

as a cinematographer in training i must ask, what camera did you use for the pics? im assuming a digital SLR of some kind.
Jessica took the photo's and her camera is a Canon EOS 20D its digital SLR.

Jessica has a good eye for photography

kinda makes me want to get my old SLR and go take some shots, very inspiring!

Posted: **Fri Jan 18, 2008 11:04 pm**

Stewie wrote: Yes frozen sand.. Is that odd?

well... yes!

i've been some pretty damn cold places but i've never known sand to freeze!?

what is meant by "frozen" exactly?

Posted: **Sat Jan 19, 2008 2:02 am**

Beautiful pictures, Ian.
I got Mike the Canon EOS 40D for Christmas, and judging from those photos, I did a good job in picking the right camera.
You do have 2 lovely women in your life. Frank and I will eventually get to vist over there with y'all.
Maybe you can buy us the tickets and mail them since, well, you know......

It's a thought.....

Posted: **Sat Jan 19, 2008 2:03 am**

Lovely pics and lovely fam, Ian.

Posted: **Sat Jan 19, 2008 2:23 am**

Where's Dutch?

Posted: **Sat Jan 19, 2008 11:11 am**

rice_pudding wrote:
Stewie wrote: Yes frozen sand.. Is that odd?
well... yes!

i've been some pretty damn cold places but i've never known sand to freeze!?

what is meant by "frozen" exactly?

Its not actually fully frozen, but I can't explain.. Its like a mix of sand and snow

And yes Trigger, I would like to meet you too.. But my english is crap

Posted: **Sat Jan 19, 2008 11:18 am**

Nice pics Ian!

Brings back some memories, was a bit cold that day!

Ultimate Rhoads

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