① memo 20190908 ~ Sound of Polder Irrigation ~ Tractor spraying water on the polder grasslands from a ditch, last Friday recorded with the Sony ECM-B1M Digital Shotgun Microphone, in the Super-directional Mode, with Auto levels and low cut filter on, using both the supplied Sony fuzzy wind screen, plus – in addition as a second layer – another different fuzzy wind screen (previously used on a old Canon DM-100 mic) – the camera is a Sony A7S Mark II.
① memo 20190819 ~ Dam Polder Quay ~ Path on the ‘Dammekade’ quay (from around 1000 AD) bordering the peat grassland area of the Dam Polder around Alphen – one of the first polders in Holland.
① memo 20190730 ~ Buttermilk Waterway Gouda ~ The Karnemelksloot (transl. ‘buttermilk ditch’) waterway has been dug late 1500s (Carnemelxsloot) and was used for the supply of buttermilk, required for pig farming within the city walls of Gouda, Holland.