This is DP’s Photo Challenge theme from Michelle Webber: “We often superimpose a mental grid over things we photograph to help with composition. This week, let’s go literal.”
Just coincidentally, yesterday I had shot the new grid of Amsterdam Central Station’s roof. It reads Amsterdam. If I ever get a chance, I will shoot it from a helicopter! 😉


Fantastic!
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Thank you!
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Gorgeous! I hope you can hitch that helicopter ride soon.
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I hope so too, Amy! Thanks. And have a nice weekend.
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Nice frames 🙂
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Thank you so much.
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If I was wearing socks, they would now be blown off. Stunning. Simply stunning.
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I’m glad you weren’t! 😉 thank you Andy!
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STUNNING, Lucile!
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Thank you, Anna! Have a beautiful Sunday!
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Such a cool roof! I can see the letters written in the panes. Wow it would be great to take this shot by helicopter! Your pics from the ground are lovely indeed!
Happy weekend!
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It really is, Lia. When you come here with your private jet, you can perhaps invite me for a photo trip! 😉
Thanks and have a great one too!
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:)) it’s a deal!
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😀
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It’s a great roof; well photographed! ( https://harrienijland.wordpress.com/2015/04/15/behind-amsterdam-central-station/ )
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Thank you so much for dropping by and for your comment.
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Love the colours, love the place, love the pix 🙂
Lucile, Me thinks me needs to come to Amsterdam soon 😉
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Well, Gun, me thinks you should do it. It is enough love to justify the trip! 😉
Thank you for a great comment.
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that’s beautiful!
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Thank you!
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Wow, they did a great job on that and you did a wonderful job of taking photos of it.
janet
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I agree. The idea was great and well executed. And I’m glad you liked the photo too. Thank you so much, Janet.
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Now that’s a grid!!! So vibrant! This is fabulous.
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Thanks DJ, add to your list!
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wow – that is one cool roof! simply stunning! dont you love it when your photos serindipitously match the weeks photo challenge?! 🙂
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Hey Debbie! Good to see you around because the Cafe is closed again today! I’m very sad.
I do love when this happens. It has happened already a few times, so I make jokes at home saying that I have a sense of foresight…
Have a great new week!
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I am so in love with these images and think it would be so cool if you could complete the set from the air in a helicopter. Everything makes them wonderful – the subject, the angles, the colors, the perfect sky as a backdrop. I said ‘Wow’ to myself the moment I saw these. I am desperately searching for a grid here in Fiji but may come up short. Still have a bit of time though..I am on a mission but I don’t think anything I come up with will be as cool as this!
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Whist I’m happy and humbled by your lovely words, I truly think that this was way too easy a subject to shoot, because the roof structure is inviting to shoot from all angles you can think of; the design is beautiful; the colors are vibrant; and the sun was shining! And I was lucky to have done it and able to use it for the theme.
What is really a challenge is to be in Fiji, surrounded by sea and stunning open sights, and find a grid to shoot. And I am sure you will come up with something, if you don’t look for one but invent one. Just a thought. You have a skilled eye to find and capture beauty, so perhaps you could jus put a frame in front of of it. 😉
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I’m telling you Lucile that I couldn’t have shot your subject as well as you.
I like your ideas for a creative ‘grid’ shot. I’ll see if I can get inspired.
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Next time you visit Amsterdam, I’ll go there with you.
I’m looking forward to seeing what you’ll come up with.
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Its a date 😉
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Deal!
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Beautiful roof; I just love the colours
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Thank you!
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I love this roof, The colours, the grid, the fact that it’s a station! Love it 🙂
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Don’t I love it too? Please send the helicopter to me! lol
Thanks Debbie.
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Great colors and grid example.
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Thank you so much for dropping by and commenting.
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Feels like a mystical place. I just LOVE IT!!!
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Thank you so much!
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Such colorful and striking colors, well-done, Lucile! How nice Amsterdam invests in beautiful works of art and function!
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Thank you, Terri. The city invests a lot in art and has much attention to aesthetics.
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Hi Lucile. Striking colors and design. I love the art and architectural aesthetics in Amsterdam.
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Hi Patti. Thanks for dropping by.
It’s indeed special and I’m happy you like it!
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Oh, gecko poop. Now I have one more thing to do in Amsterdam. First, the bridge, now shoot the train station canopy. This is a lovely capture…nice angles, lines. And of course, colors.
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So, are you accumulating reasons to visit the city?
Thank you Badfish.
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I do not need to accumulate reasons to visit Amsterdam. I just need to be going somewhere in that vicinity! And of course, I now have that bridge as reason enough!
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Loud and clear! I won’t mention that bridge anymore.
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Ha! but what about photographing it?
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and the train station canopy???
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Total silence!
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right
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Wow, very cool design. 🙂
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Yes, it definitely is!
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