This photo of Lilies is out of focus, but this masterpiece is the first thing you see when you enter the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. The close ups came out better and show the brush strokes. The explanation is handy. The Van Gogh Museum does an outstanding job explaining every aspect of Van Gogh, including the science of studying and verifying his paintings. His influences are interesting as well. This museum makes a lot of knowledge accessible.
The first photo has GIMP Colors->Auto->White Balance and Auto->Color Enhance applied. The second picture is the actual exposure. Using a point and click, fully auto.
View from the penthouse apartment at 38 L’Avenue de la Bourdenais.
Tried Dutch alcohol at this wonderful cafe overlooking the canal and Rembrandt’s house. They don’t have cocktails like we do so we had it their way, straight. They have jenever (like gin) and corenwign. The corenwign we were served was a really good brand. We liked it a lot. It was like high end tequila. The jenever was strong, not unpleasant but not that pleasant either, to us. We had the “young” version of each of these. Old is spicier in the case of jenever, and the spice is juniper berries.
Nicci Carrera 