flowerfields Photo

Photographer’s Note

The Netherlands are famous for their flowers, specially the tulips. They export billions of flowers into the world, and here you can see the fields as they grow. The entire region is a colourful paintbucket in spring! No need to paint your Eastereggs anymore if you take a trip to that part of Holland around this time of the year...

This picture is taken near the Keukenhof, a floral garden and big tourist attraction near Leiden. This flower garden is all about such colourful springflowers as tulips and daffodils and many many more. It's open from March 25th until May 20th. Therefore I guess that is the main season to see the flowers bloom. It depends on the weather too of course, but I would advise you April for a visit. It's not too far from Amsterdam by the way!

carper, Cool-ice, robbertjan, elena, nwoehnl, hojper, ChrisJ, quegardens, lost, Rockyboy, summer89, Tomernayer, RGatward has marked this note useful

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carper (66132) 2004-04-13 6:02

Mooie lijnen laat je ons hier zien Mina,
Lijnen van kleuren, bloemenvelden, goede compositie, goed gedaan

spence (1554) 2004-04-13 6:03

Lines and colours. Stunning. I have to see this one day, and I will! Wonderful graphic shot.

Cool-ice (5289) 2004-04-13 6:03

Cet étalement de plans et de couleurs est réellement superbe.
La composition est simple mais c'est ce qui fait son efficacité ici.
J'aime vraiment beaucoup le graphisme que cela donne au final.
Bravo, Mina !

robbertjan (2906) 2004-04-13 6:06

Dag Mini. The flowers are indeed very beautiful. You captured this scene very good. Lovely stripes and good colors. Well done!

elena (1054) 2004-04-13 7:01

Great point of view, wonderful colourful stripes. This reminds me i need to go to the Netherlands in the spring next time... do you know exactly from when to when we can see this?

nwoehnl (120) 2004-04-13 7:24

An explosion of colors in this wonderfully geometric shot, Mina. Great use of lines, and I enjoy that they are slightly tilted and not fully horizontal. I might have been tempted to clone out that car (?) in the back but on the other hand it is totally dwarfed by the splendor of this view anyway ;-) Well captured!

hojper (2830) 2004-04-13 9:19

Mina, this is so artistic it is almost unreal. Fantastic abstract geometry painting. Only a pity you didn't manage to combine the two sets of fields with lines running in different directions in a more balanced manner. It would be worth it to go back for.

ChrisJ (70521) 2004-04-13 9:27

Great design shot

desman (2132) 2004-04-13 9:46

c'était il y a trois ans la mode bailladère. C'est complètement dépassé ! ;-) (bravo)

lost (694) 2004-04-13 14:45

Fantastic colors..and grafism..well done

Rockyboy (20582) 2004-04-13 15:11

Those tulip fields are wonderful, Mina. I like the colors and the lines very much and that give me the idea to visit Netherlands one of theses days... Very well done!

claudiaf (4406) 2004-04-13 16:53

Lovely colors.

summer89 (5414) 2004-04-15 11:59

Great photo, Mina.

I love this lines of colors that you get capture. You note it's very good, too.

Well done

Tomernayer (512) 2004-04-21 8:50

Really one of the best picture i've in this site, great work, amazing place!

RGatward (19751) 2004-05-03 5:42

I missed this the oher day. Nothing to add, but have a smiley face.

Proxilva (2157) 2004-05-06 6:31

and i thought that only japanese tourists went there ;) just kidding.
great lines, nice colors... how come you're so high up? the land is totally flat there (just like the rest of holland)
did you climb on the bus or something...

explomars (4230) 2004-06-01 13:26

Tres belle cette alternance des tonalités rouges et jaunes.J'ai été à deux doigts d'aller en hollande ce week end pour cette photo.Bravo Mina

colinbrenchley (6133) 2005-07-26 8:02

These shots with tight cropping isolating parts of the landscape and not the whole to me always seem to have tremendous impact. The composition required more thought than just taking the photo. I like it!
Regards Colin