For our trip to the Netherlands, I carried my digital Fujifilm X-T5 along with my Minolta CLE 35mm film camera from 1980. I shot on Kodak Portra 400 and Kodak Gold 200. It is an amazing and beautiful country. I’ve presented this set of film images in slideshow format with captions.
A bicycle sits on the bank of an Alkmaar, the Netherlands, canal above a boat.
Two boats docked in the canal in Alkmaar, the Netherlands.
A copy of the Alkmaar newspaper sits in the window of a closed bakery.
The giant ice cream cones that double as trash cans sit outside most of the ice cream shops in the Netherlands.
Bicycles outside a shop in Alkmaar.
Reflections in the window of a closed shop.
A bakery cart sits idle waiting on the next customer.
The windmill in the city center of Alkmaar presides over the canal.
Mirror on a blind corner of the Alkmaar canal, leading to a very low bridge that boaters must lay down to fit under.
A feather on the sidewalk.
A man walks outside the Amsterdam stock exchange wearing his motorcycle helmet.
Now with an H&M in the ground floor, this building was taken over by the Nazis in World War Two and served as the head of the SS for the Netherlands.
A restaurant with a Michelin star in Amsterdam once hid a family of 16 during the war. 15 survived, only the older grandmother who became ill did not survive the war.
An Amsterdam walking tour guide shows a photo of a restaurant in front of that restaurant depicting the owner during the war that hid a family of 16 receiving an award from the mayor.
A canal in Amsterdam.
Boats docked in the canals of Amsterdam.
Flowers adorn the railing of a bridge over a canal in Amsterdam.
Street art in Amsterdam.
A woman sits in her apartment window over a street in Amsterdam.
A bicycle covered in flowers on a bridge in Amsterdam.
The lobby of a nice hotel in Amsterdam.
Shutters adorn the exterior of a building in Amsterdam.
I love the layers in this shot. The bikes in front, the woman in her houseboat window in the middle, and a man working in the doorway of a building in the back, in Amsterdam.
The glass covering over Amsterdam Centraal train station.
Activity at Amsterdam Centraal train station.
A quiet Netherlands town street.
A canal in Enkhuizen, the Netherlands.
Enkhuizen, the Netherlands.
Enkhuizen, the Netherlands.
Enkhuizen, the Netherlands.
Enkhuizen, the Netherlands.
Enkhuizen, the Netherlands.
Enkhuizen, the Netherlands.
Enkhuizen, the Netherlands.
Enkhuizen, the Netherlands.
Enkhuizen, the Netherlands.
Enkhuizen, the Netherlands.
Enkhuizen, the Netherlands.
Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands
Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands
Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands
Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands
Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands
Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands
Rental boats on the canal in Alkmaar, the Netherlands.
Alkmaar, the Netherlands.
Street art in Alkmaar, the Netherlands.
The cheese market in Alkmaar, the Netherlands.
The cheese market in Alkmaar, the Netherlands.