Identifying Mountain in The Netherlands - A Challenging Adventure!

[Andre]

So Omcheeto challenged me to find that mountain in The Netherlands..

Yippie!

Ok. Here's an easy one. It's a picture my sister emailed me last week:

This should be an easy one for Andre. He lives in the http://stories-etc.com/Netherlands.htm", and should be able to identify that mountain in the background.

Not too hard indeed, except that it was Oregon. So today I checked if we really had so many bulb flowers here, and this is the result.

and then suddenly two Oystercatchers cross the view finder...

Unprepared but still nice: the 100% crop. (sorry for the width)

 

[lisab]

Very beautiful.

No Jan Herte tractors?

 

[Andre]

Some more;

What you can do with 12mm wide angle:

However immediately after the blooming the tulips are decapitated...

 

[Andre]

Very beautiful.

No Jan Herte tractors?

Thanks Lisa, Indeed that herten species is not common here. maybe in a museum for endangered tractors.

 

[FtlIsAwesome]

museum for endangered tractors :D :D

 

[Andy Resnick]

[PLAIN]http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/2716/dsc6169.jpg

Sorry- I couldn't resist.

I took this last night- it's a compact fluorescent bulb, taken through a BG3 filter: there's a story why I did this- bear with me, there's a good punchline at the end.

My Ultraphot III was free- the terms were that I had to haul the (disassembled) beast out of the warehouse. It was a gamble that paid off, because hidden in all the drawers was a full set of epi-DIC objectives, a full set of luminars, and more- plus, the scope is in perfect working condition. There was also a bunch of Schott and Kopp color glass filters, which I no idea what to do with. Since I now have a color camera, I re-discovered the glass filters and have been seeing what I can do with them: I'm thinking solar photography, but in any case when I was wandering around looking at stuff through the various filters I noticed that looking at a CFL through the BG3 filter was *really* weird. In fact, looking at *any* intense light though that filter (and only that filter- not the RG645, OG2, 5-60 or 2-60, or any of the other ones) results in the appearance of what can be described as 'sparkles', 'tiny ants', or 'light-dark dashes' crawling around the source. I made my wife look and verify that she saw it, too- I was starting to think there was something *really* wrong with my eyes- but I am convinced it's an optical illusion: I can't capture the effect with a camera.

I did some digging, and the BG3 passband is restricted to only the blue cone sensitivity. So now I am *convinced* it's a biological effect, some combination of bleaching the cones and saccadic movements of the eye. I urge you to get a BG3 filter (they are reasonably cheap) and see for yourself- it's truly bizarre.

 

[drizzle]

SOOO BEAUTIFUL Andre :!)

Thanks for sharing.

However immediately after the blooming the tulips are decapitated...

How dare he! Couldn't they just give it to people/hospitals/schools... Oh wait 'nothing's free'