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Post by pieter on Mar 19, 2020 17:09:06 GMT -7
Dear friends, I made and evening walk through my city of Arnhem, thursday evening, around 22:00 hours. The city was empty of course and I took some time to take images to make an impression of Arnhem today.  The Public prosecuters building in Arnhem. (Photo: Pieter Pluijgers) |
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Post by pieter on Mar 19, 2020 17:22:11 GMT -7
 (Photo: Pieter Pluijgers) The Public prosecuters building in Arnhem, het Openbaar Ministerie. (Photo: Pieter Pluijgers)(Photo: Pieter Pluijgers)[/font][/i] ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openbaar_Ministerie )  (Photo: Pieter Pluijgers) |
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Post by pieter on Mar 19, 2020 17:24:10 GMT -7
 (Photo: Pieter Pluijgers) (Photo: Pieter Pluijgers) (Photo: Pieter Pluijgers) |
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Post by pieter on Mar 19, 2020 17:25:52 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Mar 19, 2020 17:27:49 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Mar 19, 2020 17:32:07 GMT -7
 An empty bus in an empty city (Photo: Pieter Pluijgers) An empty bus in an empty city (Photo: Pieter Pluijgers) Empty parking lot in an empty city. Normally this parking lot is filled with dozens of cars. (Photo: Pieter Pluijgers) (Photo: Pieter Pluijgers) (Photo: Pieter Pluijgers) |
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Post by pieter on Mar 19, 2020 17:35:40 GMT -7
 Empty train station of Arnhem, Arnhem Central. (Photo: Pieter Pluijgers) Empty bus station of Arnhem next to Arnhem Central. (Photo: Pieter Pluijgers) An empty bus drives over the Nelson Mandela bridge from Arnhem South to the bus station of Arnhem next to Arnhem Central. (Photo: Pieter Pluijgers) |
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Post by pieter on Mar 19, 2020 17:42:31 GMT -7
 Empty horeca square Koren Market in Arnhem (Foto Pieter Pluijgers) Empty horeca square Koren Market in Arnhem. Under normal circumstances this square is filled with teenagers, young students in their twenties and working youth who go out Thursday evening. In the Netherlands you are allowed to drink from the age of 18. (Foto Pieter Pluijgers) Empty student and young working people bar 'The Move'. Normal an incredibly crowded bar with very pretty girls and handsome women and cheerful student and working boys and young men. (Foto Pieter Pluijgers)-1423145978.JPG) The same bar 'The Move' in normal times (in contrast with the other images above here not a photo of Pieter Pluijgers)-1423145987.JPG) The same bar 'The Move' in normal times (The same bar 'The Move' in normal times) |
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Post by pieter on Mar 19, 2020 17:47:56 GMT -7
 Arnhem city centre (Foto Pieter Pluijgers) Arnhem city view (Foto Pieter Pluijgers) The John Frost Bridge from a Bridge to far (Foto Pieter Pluijgers) Bus gathering point in Arnhem centre east (Foto Pieter Pluijgers) All people stay in their apartments (Foto Pieter Pluijgers) |
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Post by karl on Mar 19, 2020 19:22:04 GMT -7
Pieter
Excellent illustrative photography of a ghost appearing Arnhem at that hour of 22:00 hrs. With this, what a drastic change with the Bar, The Move.. The place by all appearances in normal times is very very active and popular, a very good pleasant place to meet with friends and also to meet new ones.
Our world is changing is it not? The next issue will be the post life after this is all over with and then to pick up the pieces and put them back once again..
Karl
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Post by pieter on Mar 19, 2020 20:28:57 GMT -7
Dear Karl,
Thank you for your reply. The images were taken with my Apple I-Phone 7. As long as I can go outside I will keep taking images with my I-phone and Canon 5D Single-lens reflex camera and with my TV JVC GY-HM700 HD Camcorder. The problem with RTV-Arnhem is that the restictions become so severe that it is hard to do my job. The risks of my job are high today. But I will keep taking images and filming. That is what I have always done and that is what I will continue to do. Even if I can only film from my baclony and from my front door of my home.
My I-Phone
Canon 5D Single-lens reflex camera
Cheers,
Pieter
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Post by jeanne on Mar 20, 2020 15:50:37 GMT -7
Dear friends, I made and evening walk through my city of Arnhem, thursday evening, around 22:00 hours. The city was empty of course and I took some time to take images to make an impression of Arnhem today. Pieter, These are amazing photos of your city. You must have felt like you were in another very strange world. Thanks for posting...I think the U.S. is probably heading toward similar scenes very shortly... Jeanne |
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Post by pieter on Mar 22, 2020 8:17:49 GMT -7
Jeanne,
Yes, I was and I am in another strange world. The fresh air outside is amazing, because there is little pollution of the heavy 24 hours a day traffic we have here in normal days (transport routes large highways from Rotterdam to the German Ruhrgebiet area, and from Belgian Flanders, Belgian Wallonia and France to the North of the Netherlands and Northern-Germany and Denmark). I wake up at 6 in the morning due to the heavy traffick sounds of large transport trucks, cars, vans, SUV's, touring car busses, long distance transport busses, commercial business men driving their BMW's, Volkswagen Gulf cars, Mercedez Benzes, Audi's, expensive Peugeot's, Citroën's, Renaults, Lexus cars, Alfa Romeo's, Porche's, Volvo's, Jaguar's, Bentley's, and the normal folks in their Opel, cheaper model Volkswagen Up cars, Toyota Aygo's (the same chassis as the Volkswagen Up), European (German) Fords (has nothing in common with the American Ford, these are European cars), Hyundai, Daihatsu and Mitsubishi, Nissan, Honda and Suzuki cars. Really folks 24 hours a day traffick, which slows down or becomes less dense at night (but the large trucks keep gping) but which swells again in the morning.
This video show a highway near Arnhem on a normal day
Arnhem is in a densly populated area in Europe near the Dutch, German, Belgian Industries and large transport routes (transport trains and higways).
I have to get used to the quiet, to the less densly populated roads, sidewalks, boulevards, squares, alley's and public places. This is March 2020. The Corona virus has hit the world.
Cheers,
Pieter
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Post by Jaga on Mar 22, 2020 22:48:08 GMT -7
Pieter, great pictures
New York major was very upset today that the New Yorkers go outside so much, in spite of a huge spike of cases there. In Idaho there were many people, me including, walking today in the park due to Sping finally coming. We should have the same discipline like Europeans, but we still don't.
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Post by pieter on Mar 23, 2020 5:13:22 GMT -7
Jaga,
Don't think Europeans are more discipined, because they aren't. People are people, and you have disciplined ones, undisciplined ones and indifferent people. The most important thing is to keep your distance to other people. In the Netherlands the norm is 1,5 meter distance between people. That is hard for many people but it is propagated by health specialists, government spokes people, mayors, doctors and etc. What does it mean to keep distance    Keep 1,5 meter distance, give each other space, limit the amount of time you spend in this place and wash your hands at home.Cheers,
Pieter
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