Sunday 29 June 2014

Addicted to Colour

my niece Katie
my niece Katie
My niece Katie of almost 16 spent the weekend with me in Amsterdam. The first day she wanted to go shopping (what else does a teenager want to do in Amsterdam?) so we went to the Leidsestraat, a major shopping street and meandered our way through all the shops. Surprisingly, I bought more stuff than she did! I hadn't been shopping for clothes in ages and the sales were on everywhere. We ended our shopping spree having tea and apple pie at a lovely coffeeshop in the old centre of Amsterdam. We started dreaming about starting a place like that of our own in Zwolle, the town where she lives.
Katie and I in 'Toastable'
Katie and I in 'Toastable'
Today we went out to photograph: she wants to go to a vocational school for imagination and she asked me if I could teach her a thing or two about photography. We started with colour and pattern: just looking for colour or pattern without making stories or adding too much to the image. Here are my colour images:
colourful ropes
colourful ropes
blue car with red taillight
blue car with red taillight
blue and green container
blue and green container 
colourful flowers
colourful flowers
eyes of Vincent van Gogh
eyes of Vincent van Gogh
Katie in action
Katie in action
Nespresso window
Nespresso window
orange flower on iron sheet
orange flower on iron sheet
red pair of scissors
red pair of scissors
pink fence
pink fence
red bicycle basket
red bicycle basket
red bicycle lock
red bicycle lock
ashtray on red table
ashtray on red table
Katie in full swing
Katie in full swing
yellow motorcycle
yellow motorcycle 
banana-mango smoothie
banana-mango smoothie
Back at home we looked at her pictures and I was pleasantly surprised: she quite got the hang of it and understood what it was all about. Let's see what she is going to do later on in life. In the mean time: we had a great weekend!

2 comments:

  1. Mooie blog. Wat leuk, zo'n weekend met Katie. Mooie foto's trouwens. Ik neem aan dat jullie het heel erg naar de zin hebben gehad. Nelleke

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    1. Het was heel gezellig, heb ik er nu maar bij gezet.

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