I thought this was a very cool shopping mall, so I got up in the middle and took a vertical HDR.  The security guard came over and asked what I was doing. I told him that I was an American doing HDR, and then he just walked away.

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I found this in an old church in Amsterdam. I thought it was very strange but cool, and I new the HDR technique would add a very interesting and surreal touch to this unique find. I don’t know… maybe people will hate this one, but I find it a mesmerizing take on the old “puddle reflection” shot.

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Oude Kerk is a huge and beautiful church that is right in the middle of Amsterdam’s red light district.  The entire floor of the church is lined with graves, covered with heavy and stone engraved slabs over the last several hundred years.  It’s hard to describe exactly how many graves line the floor, but I have tried to do so with this angle and lens.

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Here is the grandiose altar of the same church I featured a few days ago in a different photograph. There are some really nice details throughout the little bits and pieces in this shot. If you have a big monitor and a fast connection, click here to see the original size.

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I really like the black moody walls of the interior of this Amsterdam church. I am not sure I was supposed to take pictures in there. They said no… but then, I argued, “But this is HDR!” … a retort to which they had no reply.

Below that picture, I posted another one from a different church there in Holland that I thought was very cool also. The light really hit the shiny tiles nicely.

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I will take a break from posting Iceland pictures while I go out today exploring in the wiles of geysers and earth-turned-inside-out to bring you this shot from Amsterdam.

Will got very tired of carrying my tripod, and he claimed to be tired after standing all day at the game conference. I told him just to be quiet because he was in the house of God and God didn’t want to hear his blasphemous belly-aching.

This shot below looks great, with amazing details, in this large on black version.

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Here is a church that was near the hotel I stayed in Amsterdam. They were having some sort of fashion show inside, of all things, but the stained glass was more interesting.

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I’m headed back to Amsterdam soon because of the games conference, and I found this unposted shot in my library.

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Here is a new picture of Eva in Amsterdam. This one came out pretty well. I also posted an older one of her and June from Kenya. Note that the blonde is not the one from Kenya.

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I grabbed this just before sunset in the Netherlands. I like the blues in the homes on the nearside.

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Holland at sunset…

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It’s been a while since I posted some pictures of Holland, so here is a cool church and um… some cool squnched up old building.

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