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15 July 2008

Keukenhof Sunshine Weekend




the girls in bloom



Back in April, Emma's friends popped over for their annual Sunshine weekend and they certainly got lucky with the sun. We visited the famous Keukenhof flower park which is apparently the most photographed place in the world. Judging by the number of photos I took, I can see why!






photographer crazy







The problem is that once you've taken one photo of a tulip...






Keukenhof Sunshine Weekend - 05


...then the rest look all the same!






Keukenhof Sunshine Weekend - 03


But I tried some blurred variations like below:






Keukenhof Sunshine Weekend - 15








beyond the tulip



Plus a bit of B/W photoshopping:






lonely red tulip


But I soon was over-flowered and started looking for people inspiration and there's hundreds of them there like below:






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My mum would've loved it just like these below. Scorching hot weather and still in rain coats - just in case!






time for a rest


The girls enjoyed their time:






windy mill
ding-a-ling

And I even found time to mess about with Emma:






multi tulips


There was some map confusion below:






where shall we go next?


But we eventually found the worlds largest (plastic) tulip:






the worlds largest (plastic) tulip


I've picked a few of my favourite photos below but there's plenty more on my Flickr account here or in slideshow format here




Keukenhof Sunshine Weekend - 07








ice cream tulip






Keukenhof Sunshine Weekend - 23






lonely yellow tulip






Emma posing portrait






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