Give me one too…

Give me one too

‘Streets of Amsterdam’-series

Family, mom, dad and kids, with rented red Mac Bike bicycles, in the busy touristic centre of Amsterdam. The boy and girl in front of the carrier bicycle eating salted chips, and sharing some with dad – Amsterdam Street photography

Two boys and the wolves

It’s already a few weeks on Saturdays that I’ve been following a photography course in Artis Amsterdam zoo. Last Saturday, it was the 3d out of 4 meetings, and our assignment of the day was to make a photo-story with a series of images. We had the first snow just a day before, so it was a special occasion to make photo’s on a snowy but sunny day in Artis. I had hoped that maybe I could go make some pics at the Arctic wolves’ enclosure that day, because I knew that a new group of wolves had arrived at the zoo some time last year, and some months a go, the news had been spread that three young wolves were born. So since I hadn’t been able to go see them yet, this assignment would make for a great opportunity to go see what was happening at the wolves’ .

I must say, I really was lucky with the photo-opportunities, and enjoyed my afternoon with the wolves, and those two boys, they did too 😉 …

“Two boys and the wolves…”

– Artis Amsterdam Zoo – a photo-story … :

Safely hidden behind a wooden wall and a fence grown with ivy, there’s the wolves’ enclosure.

Usually, it’s rather quiet there for the little group of arctic wolves, but today…

… something is happening near the fence

Two boys have started throwing snowballs …

and they seem to have attracted the wolves’ attention

… after all, this snow is new for these young wolves too! It’s giving them a snowy nose!

Then one of the boys discovers a crack in the wall, and straight away a stick goes in…

That too draws the curiosity of the wolves

Finally, it’s time for the boys to move on, and for the wolves to withdraw

… after all, this is *THEIR* territory

Playful

Day before yesterday, ‘Playful’ was chosen to be featured at the RedBubble homepage. That’s a great honour, and I was so delighted about it, that I decided to make it my second pic to upload to this photo blog.

This photo of this playful group of children is one of a series photographs that is somehow precious to me.
I made them long ago, 1992, when we travelled to Ethiopia for a meeting. It was only a few years after the war, the poverty was appalling… And these kids… they just allowed me photographing them, with a spontaneity that touched my heart.
Even now, so many years later, I still bow for them, in reverence.

Yes, indeed, it was an incredible experience… one never to forget. And that’s exactly what makes these pics so precious…: the images help me to remember, more lively than my memory ever could…

Photo made with Pentax ME super and scanned from print – © steppeland 1992