① memo 20191008 ~ Rembrandt Bridge ~ The bridge (Lange Houte Brugge) over the Old Rhine (this part is called ‘Galgewater’ because of the gallows that once stood there) in Leiden, Holland, were Rembrandt was born and that he watched being build in 1611 (rebuild 1983). The bridge connects the Weddesteeg street (were Rembrandt lived) with the Galgewater street – filmed October 2009.
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.