The Lizards of Leidseplein!
Today’s Table – Photography
Via a friend I heard about a website called Society6. A website where you can upload your photos, retain the rights to them, and they look after the printing, shipping, payment features, and re-sizing. Dream come true right?!
I have spent a fair amount of time in this last week selecting and sizing and uploading some of my vast collection of work which is now available for sale. Here it is, at long last, the Ghoti Industries Society6 store!
I have begun my store with some of my favourite photos, of some of my favourite places.
For those of you paying close attention, I have also added the link to the right hand column of this blog’s main page, and I have been tweeting some of my uploading progress via Twitter!
Now not only can you purchase my quality produced art prints, but you can choose between framed art, stretched canvases, note cards, phone covers, and phone skins, all with my stunning high quality photography on them.
I know some of you already have prints of some of these pictures hanging in your houses, and some of you have always wanted prints of my work for your very own to display, now is your opportunity.
Hang them on the wall, carry them with you, or send them to friends! I love the versatility and the possibilities available to you via Society6.
So please have a look, and if you like what you see, buy some! Then tell your friends! If you don’t like what you see, tell me so I can fix it! 😉
I’d like to thank Grace and Ivy for the introduction to such a wonderful opportunity, and to show you all her store also!
Tiptoeing through the Tulips!
For our second big tourist attraction (the first was a canal boat tour) we decided to go all out and go somewhere with a high cliché factor. We went to a tulip festival at De Keukenhof.
Now, I know we could have saved ourselves some money and gone to Floriade in Canberra, but you know, doing it this way we got to catch up with a friend we haven’t seen in a year! (G – next time we’ll be on time! I swear!) G won himself many brownie points by complimenting my new scarf too!
There were tulips …
Swans doing what swans do …
Swans wondering what we do …
Tulips …
Art tormenting swans …
Tulips …
Bells that chimed “Oh Suzannah” …
Tulips …
A windmill … (I still need to see a working one)
And tulips!
It was an amazing day and a LOT of fun. Next year we may have to go a touch earlier in the season though, as some of the tulips were a little bit past their bloom life, but that just made the photography an interesting challenge!
Until next time, tot ziens!
The Last Few Days
Let’s step back in time to last Tuesday. The movers arrived, packed everything, and took it all away.
Wednesday in the rain, we began early and shoved everything left over into a skip to head to the dump. Then we had final inspection of the property (passed with flying colours!). Then we completed final errands in town, and met up with our ride to the airport.
Quality time was spent, and goodbyes said.
Then began the first leg of the flight. 14 hours to Dubai.
After a lay over of … I forget how many hours, enough to get through security and find a wifi hotspot, we got on the next leg of the journey. 7 hours to Amsterdam. This flight was going to have some turbulence so they headed us over Iran, Turkey, and Poland.
Then there we were.
It’s kind of reassuring to know that tourist souvenirs are the same the world over.
In a taxi we headed to our hotel where we would reside for an indeterminate amount of time.
Stashing our bags and determined not to be done in by jet lag we went out for a walk and found our first canal!
We discovered quite quickly the need to be constantly aware of your surroundings, as the highly prevalent bikes move at speed and can be unforgiving!
Then I found the floating Bloemenmarkt. After having read so much about it, I was in heaven!
There is so much to see and do, and suddenly all I want to do is have a garden! I guess I’ll need a house, and at least some window boxes first …
Stay tuned for our next exciting episode!
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