Amsterdam 14

Amsterdam is de (titulaire) hoofdstad en naar inwonertal de grootste gemeente van Nederland.
Amsterdam dankt zijn naam aan de ligging bij een in de 13e eeuw aangelegde dam in de Amstel. De plaats kreeg kort na 1300 stadsrechten en groeide in de Gouden Eeuw uit tot een van de belangrijkste haven- en handelssteden ter wereld.
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Hi, I am John Ouwens. In the late sixties I was born in Rotterdam and after some wanderings I ended up in Kinderdijk, a lovely village in the Alblasserwaard, famous for its windmills and vast polder landscape. About 30 years ago I bought my first SLR camera, the period of regularly going to the development center with my knees buckling to see what results I had shot (and then being proud of the result). About 7.5 years later I got rid of the camera for various reasons, but it always kept itching...Around 2000 I bought another camera, a digital one, not too expensive, to see if it would still be so much fun. And indeed I am still very enthusiastic and eager to learn. By reading a lot about it, following workshops, but especially by doing it a lot, I am a real autodidact, as they call it. An amateur photographer, who is not easily satisfied with his own work and is always critical.

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