Every Saturday most people in Europe have nearly the same ritual, wake up a bit late, take a breakfast and doing shopping. Leiden offers every Saturday one of the most visited market in the Netherlands. Surrounded by a beautiful old city the market get it own value in the eyes of visitors, which is not only buyers but also tourist as well. This market is well zoned according to what they sell. There are vegetables zone, fish zone, bread etc….With the day the market gets more crowded. I tried my best to make a documentation about it, but hey not every photograph should be styled in a clean manner according art. I saw some photographs of a well know Magnum photographer which in our eyes is “ordinary” not that stylish as those old photographs of this photographer. It is more a personal documentation.
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March 14, 2010 at 11:40 am |
I like the one in a coffee shop, the foto shows plenty people in crowded. Even there is a white vase (?) in front on focus.
Good shoot.
March 14, 2010 at 2:59 pm |
Mbak Tati thanks again for spending your time to take a look on my images and leaving a comment…
March 14, 2010 at 11:46 am |
woooww.. nice composition, nice moment, nice exposure !! love to see your pics!!
March 14, 2010 at 3:00 pm |
Thanks Agus, may be we should go to Bali and take a hunt together
March 14, 2010 at 12:04 pm |
wow.. i like it!
hope i be there soon..
nice shot! well done..
March 14, 2010 at 3:01 pm |
You are planning to visit Europe soon
thanks for your comment.
March 14, 2010 at 1:43 pm |
Jos … Sari .. . no comment … nice shots … nice moments … i wish that i can do it here … people here still don’t like to be captured as it is … they’d like to be “celebrity on red carpet” …
March 14, 2010 at 3:04 pm |
It depends on the mindset of people how they “see” and this is no different in how they take picture or see a picture. I am experimenting with every kind of movements in photography to find out what I like best. To me photojournalism is as what it is….
Thanks for always taking time to visit, look and leaving a comment on our Blog Bas!
March 14, 2010 at 3:16 pm |
I always like architectural photos, and a portrait of daily city life like this. They make my imagination wander to many places.
Keep up the good job.
March 14, 2010 at 3:31 pm |
Thanks Pak Johan, sometimes presenting a city as it is and not only the glamorous side of the city or presenting in a unstylized way, would give a good impression of the place…..
March 14, 2010 at 3:56 pm |
These images truly captivate the culture and atmosphere!
You can feel what the people feel while in the market.
The photography is rich and compels you to want to be a part of the scene.
Amazing!
March 14, 2010 at 4:25 pm |
Hi Christopher, thanks for spending your time to visit our blog and leaving an encouraging comment.
March 14, 2010 at 5:16 pm |
A great picture story…..I could almost smell the bread and hear the gulls.
Best regards.
March 14, 2010 at 5:36 pm |
Thanks a lot Carl, those gulls are funny if you observe their behavior every day. Sari likes them very much. Leiden is a small city and very relaxing…small old street, small shops, traditional markets, owner of shops knowing each other…really nice to live. Success with your exhibition in NY!
March 15, 2010 at 3:22 am |
aohh….its nice photos….I like the moment that has shooted…:))
it was very nature and life goes as simple as that….and you have a great job to captured those moment….
I love it ..:))
March 15, 2010 at 5:54 pm |
Dear Ali,
thanks for your visit and comments…
Regards,
Jos
March 15, 2010 at 7:41 am |
salam kenal mas…poto2 anda mantap, alami…
March 15, 2010 at 5:55 pm |
Salam kenal juga Kidi untuk menyempatkan diri mengunjungi blog kami….
Jos
March 15, 2010 at 1:59 pm |
Jos & Sari, very nice shots …..nice moments, I like all your shots it’s tell the story about the Saturday Ritual. Great! Have a nice day
March 15, 2010 at 5:57 pm |
Dear Suhadi,
thanks very much for spending your time always on our blog and making comments on our images. We love to share habbits and cultural life in a far country to our audience especially from Indonesia. Have a nice day too and greeting to your family from us.
Jos & Sari
March 15, 2010 at 3:53 pm |
Great shots……
The Black and White version is good, and the other is colorful.
March 15, 2010 at 6:00 pm |
Dear Rizki,
thanks always for your visit and comments. I saw your work too and all of the are great! A truly specialist in composing in macro photography…….
regards,
Jos
March 15, 2010 at 4:06 pm |
you’ve got what you’ve seen in a “fairy tales” art of painting not just as photojurnalist as does. Your pictures tell us more than just “ritual”, there was the touch of humanity in art of light painting…….keep on work pak, tell us more as they are (ordinary principal)
March 15, 2010 at 6:02 pm |
Dear Mr Purwo,
thanks for your kind of comment and the time you spend to take a look on our postings. At last we tried to capture the very normal thing people does and not always the glamorous side of life. Thanks for all encouraging comments.
best regards,
Jos Runarka
March 15, 2010 at 4:53 pm |
I really liked the contrast color tones of image quality I like the composition too
March 15, 2010 at 6:04 pm |
Dear Gerard,
thanks for your time visiting our blog and leaving the encouraging comment……
best regards,
Jos
March 15, 2010 at 6:01 pm |
ur composition & transferring b/w precessed is so nice.Im a photojournalism student,so i need to find out a in depth story.I like to see emotion or personal filling,i hope u will show it ur next story.best of luck & go ahead.
March 15, 2010 at 6:10 pm |
Dear Palash,
thanks for spending your time seeing and leaving a comment. I appreciate your suggestion, but due to time limit it is difficult to go in a in-depth story picture series. Since I never had the chance to take a study in photojournalism, it is a bit “learning by doing” what I do here. So your input are valuable to me. I have a project that will show what you mentioned above, all images are already made in my mind, just to go and press the shutter to deliver a series of picture which I hope will touch my audience. I know the subject very well.
Best luck to you too.
best regards,
Jos Runarka
March 15, 2010 at 8:31 pm |
Very nice!! Saturday market has always been something we longed for, especially now, when we’re so far away from those nice fresh veggies and such beautiful and colorfull flowers..!!
March 16, 2010 at 4:26 am |
Thanks Emi,
yes even nowadays kids doesn’t know where milk come from. They thought it, it came from the supermarket. Seriously!
March 16, 2010 at 12:34 am |
Nice pictures and thanks so much for sharing them with me.
I love the style in which they were taken, it really makes the viewer feel as if he’s there. My favorites are the first picture and that shot of the coffee table against the window front of the pastry shop.
Great pictures!
Christopher.
March 16, 2010 at 4:27 am |
Thank you Christopher and I am pleased that you feel like that seeing my images.
Jos
March 16, 2010 at 2:34 pm |
Beautiful street market and very good photos. I loved it!
March 16, 2010 at 6:07 pm |
Dear Rita,
thank you very much for your visit and comment.
regards,
Jos Runarka
March 16, 2010 at 5:11 pm |
An interesting photo concept … good point of interest ! Nice pictures, Tantyo
March 16, 2010 at 6:08 pm |
Dear Mr HarTantyo,
nice to see your visiting our blog again. Thanks for the comments and time you spend for visiting our blog.
Jos Runarka
March 16, 2010 at 6:55 pm |
very nice photo series. They really captured the mood of situation you described above. The black and white’s are the most I like. Well done!
March 16, 2010 at 6:58 pm |
Thanks Markus for your visit and comments. I made those images for two kind of audience, the B&W lovers and for people who like color
March 17, 2010 at 6:53 am |
Great pic, great focus and composition. actually I love bw series. well done
March 17, 2010 at 6:10 pm |
Thanks for your comments and time to visit our blog Januartha…..
March 17, 2010 at 8:59 am |
I like it, especially for the black and white photos….great job…
March 17, 2010 at 6:10 pm |
Dear Mr Jonathan Arifin,
thanks for your visit and comments…
March 17, 2010 at 3:35 pm |
hoooo I envy that cheeeeeessseeeeeee hihihi looked so tasty, mas Jos!
I like this story and pics! thank you ^_^
March 17, 2010 at 6:11 pm |
Thanks a lot Pratiwi! Should I make macro photography from the cheese
?
March 18, 2010 at 9:29 pm |
Tolle Serie Josh. Die Schaerfe der Bilder ist Leica like
Du solltest dort oefter fotografieren !
March 19, 2010 at 4:33 am |
Vielen Dank Patrick! Wir wollen naechste Wochen nach Houten fahren. Am Sonntag 28.03.2010 gibt es eine Messe ueber alte Kameras, die groesste Europas. Dannach fahren wir nach Amsterdam. Wir hoffen interesannte dingen zu sehen bekommen
March 20, 2010 at 1:22 am |
Fantastic scenery! I like how every picture looks so lively even the black and white ones.
March 20, 2010 at 6:11 am |
Thanks Tim for your time spending visiting our blog and leaving a comment
. I love your website and work too….
March 21, 2010 at 1:43 pm |
Beautiful images of real life with beautiful atmosfere.I like this kind of photos, my compliments!!!!
March 21, 2010 at 5:53 pm |
Dear Silvano Grenzi,
many thanks for you visit and leaving this encouraging comment!!!
best regards,
Jos Runarka
March 22, 2010 at 2:48 pm |
great pictures taken jos…trial a new lens? is it long focus/telephoto lens?
March 22, 2010 at 5:32 pm |
thanks Katrin! Its my old normal lens
on my Leica M8 due to the crop factor becomes a “tele” 70mm…..
March 23, 2010 at 1:32 am |
Bagus……mungkin perlu ditambah gambaran yang lebih menyeluruh atau dari posisi yang lebih tinggi dan jauh.
March 23, 2010 at 4:40 am |
Terima kasih Pak July, pengambilan pasar dari “atas” kurang memungkinkan saat ini, karena tidak ada lokasi tinggi di Leiden. Topologinya boleh dikata hampir rata. Gedung2 tuanya juga tidak dapat dimasuki…Satu-satunya cara hanya naik balon udara, tapi itu juga tidak ada…..
March 23, 2010 at 12:15 pm |
Very nice series,l I like those streets showing everyday life.
My favourite is “uitverkoop”
Regards
Manfred
March 23, 2010 at 5:52 pm |
Dear Manfred,
many thanks for spending your time looking at this “normal” shoot of mine, and not that stylized one. It is what it is……
best regards,
Jos Runarka
March 24, 2010 at 10:16 pm |
I feel that i would like to walk in one of your pictures… They make me feel included. You managed to capture the atmosphere. Very nice.
March 25, 2010 at 4:39 am |
Dear Indira,
many thanks for kindly comment. Some like this kind of images, some not…..
March 25, 2010 at 4:27 pm |
Really great work. A detailed documentary of the daily activities. Keep it up.
Argiris
March 25, 2010 at 5:28 pm |
Thank you Argiris! Something that all of us does…..
best regards,
Jos Runarka