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Photographed the full Moon tonight, this time actually using a tripod. Cropped, Canon EOS R10, Canon EF 400mm f/5.6 with 1.4x extender. F11, 1/200s, iso 200.

The Full Moon

#FullMoon #Photography #CanonR10

#photography #FullMoon #canonR10

The manual of the new old car. Normally I'm the kind of person to read the manual before using a device... maybe I have to resist that urge otherwise I won't make it to work tomorrow...
The manual of a car, but it's exceptionally voluminous.

Finally the statue by Rodin in front of the Van Abbe Museum (not in the frame).

To me the statue always seems to be twisted, distorted, against the norm, and I tried to do that justice in the photo.

#Photography #Eindhoven #CanonEOSR10 #CanonR10 #statue #Rodin

Statue by Rodin, which can be found in front of the Van Abbe Museum in Eindhoven. It is rough, of a man standing but leaning backwards, similar to the tree in the background. The angle is a closeup looking up and from the side.
#photography #statue #eindhoven #rodin #canoneosr10 #canonR10

Next Frits Philips on the Market Square.

#Photography #Eindhoven #CanonEOSR10 #CanonR10 #FritsPhilips

Statue of Frits Philips, which can be found on the market square. The photo is a closeup, with a tree in the background. From this close you notice that the statue is not really flattering. The subject is a very old man with crooked teeth and a grin.
#photography #eindhoven #canoneosr10 #canonR10 #FritsPhilips

Went to Eindhoven today to photograph some of the famous statues as a very small photography project. The intent was to make the photos somewhat different from the norm, using just one lens. Canon RF 35 F1.8 on Canon EOS R10.

First Anton Philips in front of the train station.

#Photography #Eindhoven #CanonEOSR10 #CanonR10 #Statue #AntonPhilips

Statue of Anton Philips, which is located in front of Eindhoven Central Station. The angle is close, from the side and looking up, so no background is visible. The subject is an old man carrying a hat in his hand and wearing a long overcoat.
#photography #statue #eindhoven #canoneosr10 #canonR10 #AntonPhilips

I'm home this New Year's Eve, so these are my homemade, mutant, 'oliebollen'.

A bowl of 'oliebollen' covered in powdered sugar

Happy New Year!

Glow Eindhoven 2025

Canon R10, RF-S 10-18 and RF 24 F1.8.

#Photography #Glow2025 #GlowEindhoven

A small arch made out of cubes of lights continuously changes patterns and colours and is currently blue-ish. A couple walk through it in the dark and look upwards.
A long tunnel made out of very colourful small lights has many people walking through it and lots of them taking pictures.
#photography #GlowEindhoven #Glow2025

Glow Eindhoven 2025.

Canon R10, RF-S 10-18.

#Photography #Glow2025 #GlowEindhoven

An elaborate light projection on a church, in many colours and probably the most prominent a white dove.
A light projection on the white Light Tower building in Eindhoven, which is a very short building, not much of a tower. The projection was animated but the photo freezes the moment a mermaid like woman appears with an outstretched hand.
#photography #GlowEindhoven #Glow2025

Avenue des Champs-Élysées.
#Paris #ChampsÉlysées #Photography
Avenue des Champs-Élysées through a long lens, which compresses the nearly 2km and shows all the traffic coming. Many people have taken this picture. Meanwhile two pedestrians are crossing the road, as well as two cars. The Arc de Triomphe at the end of the road is seen between the rows of trees at the side of the road.
#photography #Paris #ChampsÉlysées

Arc de Triomphe.
#Paris #ArcDeTriomphe #Photography
Arc de Triomphe on a cloudy day, with traffic in front of it. The photo is a long-ish exposure, so the cars are blurred. A woman at the side stands perfectly still on the edge of the pavement, admiring the Arc. It is as if she contemplates crossing the road, but don't worry she is just looking and walked away to the foot tunnel later on.
#photography #Paris #ArcDeTriomphe

Eiffel Tower.
#Paris #Photography #EiffelTower
Eiffel Tower at night, from very close up looking up at an angle. The tower is bathed in its night time illumination, which turns the low hanging clouds red. Bare branches of a tree are in the foreground.
#photography #Paris #eiffeltower

Still recovering, but happy I did a better time than expected this year on the quarter marathon, at the Eindhoven Marathon event. 1:17:10, though friends did almost the same time on double the distance... Anyway, for me it was ok.
#EindhovenMarathon
My selfie at the train station on the way back from the run. I'm wearing a tracksuit, the start number and the medal.
#EindhovenMarathon

By car: 13 minutes.
By public transport: 54 minutes.

Well there's your problem.

Screenshot of Google Maps indicating that the route by car takes 13 minutes and by public transport 54 minutes.

Squirrel

Canon EOS R10, EF 400mm F5.6L
1/640s, f/6.3, iso 2000
#Squirrel #Photography #CanonEOSR10 #CanonR10

Red squirrel in a tree, with an acorn in its mouth
#photography #squirrel #canoneosr10 #canonR10

Still this.
Bar graphic over 7 days showing mainly downtimes in red on the right (now) and uptimes on the left in green (a week ago). It suggests almost 50% downtime over the seven day period, but due to the short times it's actually indicated to be 97.881% uptime still. It says total downtime is 214 minutes over 42 outages.

I like photographing weird trees... It is not as straight as the others...

Canon EOS R10, RF-S 10-18mm.

A weirdly shaped tree adjacent to perfectly straight trees

#Tree #Park

#tree #park

I went walking and photographing in the Philips de Jongh Wandelpark in Eindhoven yesterday. Quite a nice place to walk through on a sunny day, which it was.

Canon EOS R10, RF 24mm F1.8 (1), RF 35mm F1.8 (2-3), RF-S 10-18mm (4).

Entrance to the Philips de Jongh walking park in Eindhoven, a shadowy path underneath the trees with people in the light in the distance.

A single thin tree in the middle of the photo in a grassy field. There are other trees around.

People lying in the sun on a grassy field of the park. Someone brought a guitar.

Long slender trees with a slightly clouded blue sky

#Photography #Park #Tree

#photography #tree #park

Use 'leading lines' they say...

Canon EOS R10, RF 24mm F1.8.

Tree trunks on the ground in a wooded area, with many branches sprouting from the trunk.

#Photography

#photography

This finch couple was sitting high up in a tree where normally much bigger birds are sitting.

Canon EOS R10 @ 1/500s ISO 800, RF 100-400 F5.6-8 IS USM @ 400mm F9, cropped.

Two finches sitting high up in the bare top of a tree; the male (reddish) sits below the female (grey-ish, yellowish); both are looking to the right as if there is something to do.

#photography #bird #finch

#photography #bird #finch

I started to put some photos on Flickr again. E.g. here is that Jay (or similar) showing up a few days ago when I had the same lens combination which resulted in so much chromatic aberration I had to turn the photo to black and white.

Image/PhotoJay in tree (b&w) by Gidi Kroon, on Flickr

For related reasons I was checking whether F11 would be useable on a cloudy day. This turned some heads.


  • Canon EOS R10, RF 100-400mm F5.6-8 IS USM, 400mm, 1/125 s, F11, ISO 250
A pigeon sitting in a tree, twisting around and looking back at the viewer

I was checking what a 800mm focal length looked like, by cropping from 400mm, for reasons. I seem to have caught suspicious looks from the local bird-life, they think it is all rather weird.

That Jay on the ground in the second photo apparently only shows up when I have a 200mm lens with a 2x extender on my camera. That's not ideal. One day I will get a better photo...


  • Both photos: Canon EOS R10, 400mm.
  • Pigeon: Canon RF 100-400mm F5.6-8 IS USM, 1/200s, F9, ISO 250
  • Jay: Canon EF 200mm f/2.8L USM II + EF 2x Extender III, 1/640, F5.6, ISO 3200


A pigeon sitting in a tree, peeking between two branches at the viewer

A bird (a Eurasian Jay) standing on the ground which consists mainly of pebbles. It appears to be looking up in surprise, or it could actually be looking down for food.

#Photography #CanonEOSR10 #Birds

#photography #birds #canoneosr10

I'm holding a partially eaten icecream in front of the wooden wheel of a water mill.

I'm back from walking around and taking pictures in Genneper Parken, which is a large park inside Eindhoven that I had somehow never been too, despite having previously lived in Eindhoven for six years and now in the region for several decades.

From the information I read I had imagined it to be a park like Central Park, or St James Park, where people gather on a sunny day. I had brought sandwiches and a towel to sit on. Yet it's more a nature area with bicycle and footpaths, and lot of bridges over the two rivers that meander through it. So more a nice area to go through rather than to gather. I did a lot of walking and I'm now very tired.

But dinner to eat and photos to sort through. The above is my icecream break at the water mill.

Flowers

Canon EOS R10 + Laowa 65mm F2.8 2x macro, handheld and I couldn't really see the screen so I was guessing focus a bit.

Closeup side view of white purple flowers

Extreme-ish closeup inside a yellow red flower

#Photography #Macro #MacroPhotography

#photography #macro #macrophotography

New film poster for Hurry Up Tomorrow with Jenna Ortega. Out 16 May in the cinema.

#JennaOrtega #HurryUpTomorrow

Film poster for Hurry Up Tomorrow, showing Jenna Ortega laying down on a red floor, looking up. It also shows the release date of 16 May. An unspecified arm is also on the floor next to her.
#JennaOrtega #hurryuptomorrow

Fly-by.

Or how to be caught out with the wrong lens on. This was a manual focus 2x macro lens...

Plane flying in the daylight sky with the Moon visible and nearby

📷 Canon EOS R10
🔭 Laowa 65mm F2.8 2x macro
1/800 s, ISO 500. F2.8 I think. Cropped.
Cc-by.

#Photography #Plane #Moon

#photography #moon #plane

I guess we'll have baby pigeons soon.

Two pigeons, sitting in a tree, kissing

📷 Canon EOS R10
🔭 Canon RF 100-400mm
400mm, F9, 1/1600 s, ISO 3200, cropped
Cc-by.

#Photography #Pigeons

#photography #pigeons

New poster for Hurry Up Tomorrow, the film with Jenna Ortega in the lead.
instagram.com/p/DG5wE_gxS4Q/

The poster for the film "Hurry Up Tomorrow", showing extreme close-ups of the faces of the leads with Jenna Ortega on the left more clearly shown in red light and the other two more in the background in darkish blue light

#JennaOrtega #HurryUpTomorrow

#JennaOrtega #hurryuptomorrow

Buzzards (I presume) seen from my balcony. The local newspaper in Best had just printed an article that they were spotted in town and they were not wrong. I think I saw four flying together over my flat, I don't know whether that's normal behaviour.

Photos by me, re-use allowed with attribution (cc-by). Canon EOS R10, Canon RF 100-400, cropped.
#Photography #Bird #BirdOfPrey #Buzzard

A bird of prey sitting in a tree, calling out. Photo is a half length portrait.
A bird of prey sitting in a tree, giving side eye to the photographer
A bird of prey flying in the sky looking to the ground for prey
#photography #bird #birdofprey #buzzard

First stills released of the film Hurry Up Tomorrow with Jenna Ortega. The film will be released 16 May.
deadline.com/2025/02/hurry-up-…
#JennaOrtega #HurryUpTomorrow
Photo of the film Hurry Up Tomorrow, showing Jenna Ortega sitting in a car of which the windows are covered in rain drops. The whole scene is lit in only red light.
#JennaOrtega #hurryuptomorrow

Done testing for now with this obligatory water droplet macro shot.
#Photography #MacroPhotography #Canon #Laowa #Godox
Water droplets on a spider plant leaf, illuminated by flash light.
#photography #canon #macrophotography #laowa #godox

Glad it's winter and there are no insects about, testing out my macro lens.

Canon R10 with Laowa 65mm F2.8, either with Godox speedlite flash off-camera or the light of my Samsung phone when I had already put the speedlite away.

Plastic toy, purple, animal shaped, with its front paws in the air in celebration, a bridge leading to a plastic city hall thing out of focus behind it.

Closeup of the eye of a small plastic toy. I didn't dust it off before taking the photo.

#Photography #macro #Laowa #Canon #Godox #Samsung

#photography #macro #Samsung #canon #laowa #godox

Don't handhold macro shots they say. Don't use the built-in flash and don't use maximum aperture. They are probably right.

(This is nowhere near the maximum magnification btw)

Closeup of a croissant. Because it's a handheld macro shot with built-in flash and maximum aperture, it's not a very good photo. Particularly the depth of field is very shallow.

New toy: a Laowa 2x macro lens. Comes very favourably out of reviews, also for non-macro distances. It's the crop sensor advantage that this is small-ish and cheap-ish, while still being a super-sharp f/2.8 apochromatic lens. Now I have to learn to manually focus, and to use (flash) lighting.
#Laowa #Macro
Phone photo of a mirrorless camera, Canon R10. What's new is the Laowa 65mm F2.8 2x Macro lens mounted on it. The lens is small-ish because it is made for crop sensor cameras like the R10.
#macro #laowa

I went to the Christmas market in Maastricht today. It was nice and cold and crowded. It gets dark quickly this close to midwinter.

Photos taken with Canon EOS R10 and Canon RF 28 F2.8. Cc-by.
#ChristmasMarket #Maastricht #Photography

A ferris wheel lights up a dark evening, many people enter the Christmas market through an entrance shaped like a present consisting of many small lights. In the background the ancient church is lit up by a red light.
Many people walk among the Christmas market stalls.
Christmassy figures in a decorative tower on top of a food stall with children playing in a patch of fake snow, and a Santa Claus figure.
A Santa Claus figure descends above the crowd looking at the Christmas market stalls.
#photography #maastricht #christmasmarket

Varada Sethu, the new Doctor Who companion.
bbc.com/news/entertainment-art…
#VaradaSethu #DoctorWho
Screen capture of the trailer of the 2025 Doctor Who series, showing Varada Sethu as the new companion. She's inside the Tardis, a big open space (inside a police phone box), left of the screen looking to the empty right of screen, worried.
#DoctorWho #varadasethu

My 1000th Wordle today! Not a stellar performance, only in the fifth guess.
#Wordle
My Wordle stats today. Exactly 1000 played. Also 97% win, 5 current streak, 106 max streak, today's word in guess 5.
#Wordle

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice with Jenna Ortega and The Pod Generation with Emilia Clarke arrived on blu-ray!

The German release of the latter has an alternative title Baby To Go, which isn't even in German. In my own country hardly any discs are released anymore, so we have to make do with these German releases.
#JennaOrtega #BeetlejuiceBeetlejuice #EmiliaClarke #ThePodGeneration #BabyToGo

Blu-rays that have just arrived: The Pod Generation (as Baby To Go) with Emilia Clarke and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (in 4k) with Jenna Ortega, the latter not pictured on the cover. Both are the German releases and photographed before unwrapping.
#JennaOrtega #EmiliaClarke #ThePodGeneration #beetlejuicebeetlejuice #BabyToGo

It's even official news at Deadline: deadline.com/2024/12/wednesday…
#JennaOrtega #Wednesday
Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams, looking disheveled, with fires burning behind her.
#JennaOrtega #Wednesday

Wednesday season 2 wrapped filming, now we can start waiting for it to be released in 2025.
instagram.com/p/DDKM1eJJwbp/
#JennaOrtega #Wednesday
Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams in gothic surroundings, because when is she not.
#JennaOrtega #Wednesday

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