Land of Rules Photo

Photographer’s Note

After my previous posts of selling cannabis in the Flower Market and consuming soft drugs in Coffeeshops, some of you may think that the Netherlands is a free-for-all, land of no-rules. That's a wrong idea. Even the soft drugs business is controlled and there is no tolerance towards hard drugs.
In this picture you see a strong reminder that rules are to be obeyed, even in a small rural road.
This is the Polder Het Koegras. Polders are embanked parcels of land, at or bellow sea level. The water in the polders must be regulated by ditches, canals, dikes and pumping stations (formerly the famous windmills; nowadays electric pumping). Polders make up 60% of the Netherlands. The biggest polders in the world are those of the IJsselmeer, reclaimed from the Zuider Sea and constituting now the province of Flevoland.
Het Koegras is a big producer of flowers and bulbs. In its centre lies the village of Julianadorp, part of the municipality of Den Helder, province of Noord-Holland. Julianadorp celebrates 100 years in 2009.
See a general view in my photo Polder Het Koegras.
Location in WikiMapia: 52.9155272, 4.7210312.

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Floydian (30970) 2009-05-22 10:46

Hi Francisco,

Maybe because we live with so many on small ground those rules are needed to control things. Sometimes even i wondering about all these rules, but because i'm used to it and i also see what kind of mess it is in other countries it's not that bad after all ;-)
Your previous one with the coffee shop was nothing special for me, we have a lot of them in my hometown and i'm glad they are there.....once underground (that will happen when you forbid them) you can't control it anymore.
This area is well known to me...along these roads i drove a lot searching to tulip fields, early April it's still too soon...

Regards,

Henk

ribeiroantonio (21967) 2009-05-22 20:17

Terra de Regras - só é pena o exemplo não ser seguido por Portugal, pelo menos no que diz respeito ao políticos!
António

Docarmo (8844) 2009-05-22 21:27

Oi Francisco,
O teu POV equidistante dos ângulos da base deste triângulo foi uma idéia genial! Combina maravilhosamente bem com o tema que fala em "regras". O triângulo formado pela estrada, a simetria, a regra dos terços, os pontos dourados.
Parabéns!
Docarmo

Bluejeans (33017) 2009-05-27 10:49

Oi amigo ,
Só Portugal e que não é um pais de regras a começar pela classe politica e banqueiros , muito triste :(, fantástica profundidade de foto , é uma interessante recta cá virava logo pista de corridas :), parabéns!!
Um abraço Gonçalo