Amsterdam

May 31 and June 1, 2012

Impressions

City Tour

Immediately after arriving in Amsterdam, we were loaded onto a tour bus for a city tour.

Amsterdam Barge on one of the wider canals
Amsterdam Apartments with beams for tackles to lift goods into the higher floors.

While I was photographing canal scenes, a barge pulled even with me. The barge, mostly empty, contained some young people and some other people with serious cameras. The people with the cameras began photographing the young people, so I photographed all of it. Are they up-coming stars, models, or something else? Perhaps someone can fill me in.

Amsterdam Barge photo shoot.
Amsterdam The photo subjects.

Flower Auction

One of Amsterdam’s larger industries is a clearing house for flowers. While many flowers are raised locally, flowers also come to the auction houses from other countries. Once sold by auction, the flowers are then shipped to their destinations in other countries; primarily, but not exclusively, countries in Europe.

Amsterdam These are containers of flowers boxed for shipping
Amsterdam This auction floor is one of 12.
Amsterdam The bidding is automated. This is what the bidders see and use as a criteria for purchase.
Amsterdam flowers ready to ship
Amsterdam many flowers ready to ship