Winter in the Netherlands is often a period of grey weather with a lot of rain and cold winds. Not so much of fun, but sometimes we get "lucky" and have a bit of snow. For me as a photography lover, that is a great opportunity to go out.
This year we haven't had those conditions yet, but hopefully a few snowy days will come. These pictures are from last year during a -15 Celsius morning in the north eastern part of the Netherlands, called Twente. I went to that place since there are some typical old buildings that I thought would look nice in a snowy landscape.
In my home town Arnhem there are some small hills. Unlike most other parts of the Netherlands. So when the opportunity is there, people from Arnhem are coming to the old white building that is on top of the hill in the city park to ride their sledges down the hill. It's a sort of a tradition for young and old.
And where you see the young kids with their parents carefully go down the first few times eventually you even see the elder people are going down head first like the child in them has awoken all of the sudden. It's big fun to watch and for me as photographer who doesn't do a lot of action photography, it was big fun too!
The white house on top of the building is a restaurant and they served hot chocolate, soup and other warm snacks trough a window, as this snow fun happened in the midst of a long lockdown. The Mayor of Arnhem allowed the people their much desired little spark of fun for the weekend and after that the restaurant was not allowed to serve alcoholic beverages anymore and group forming was also not allowed. Nonetheless the people were thankful they had had this opportunity to forget about Covid for a while. A virus outbreak after this event never happened.
A few shot I made in the park prior to the snow fun.
Hope you are all enjoying the weekend and hope you like this winter shots from the Netherlands.
Cheers,
Thijs
