{"id":11141,"date":"2008-04-08T11:05:37","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T08:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=11141"},"modified":"2008-04-08T11:05:37","modified_gmt":"2008-04-08T08:05:37","slug":"amsterdam-in-black-and-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/08\/amsterdam-in-black-and-white\/","title":{"rendered":"Amsterdam in black and white"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>While I was walking the streets of Amsterdam, I caught myself many times thinking about how particularly nice the city looks in black and white.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t get me wrong, there is plenty of color and brightness in there.\u00a0 But, the combination of rainy weather and straight lines of strict architecture forms was always suggesting desaturated high contrast black and white imagery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mamchenkov\/2393705827\/in\/set-72157604418574019\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3027\/2393705827_95fc9fec33.jpg?resize=333%2C500\" alt=\"Amsterdam Central\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wish I was any better in photography.\u00a0 Maybe then I could have captured the black and white magic of Amsterdam as good as it deserves it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mamchenkov\/2394441964\/in\/set-72157604418574019\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2271\/2394441964_f3dd610cfa.jpg?resize=500%2C292\" alt=\"Amsterdam skyline\" width=\"500\" height=\"292\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here are some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/search\/?q=amsterdam+bw&amp;m=tags&amp;ss=2&amp;ct=0&amp;s=int\">excellent images from Flickr<\/a> which came up in search results.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>While I was walking the streets of Amsterdam, I caught myself many times thinking about how particularly nice the city looks in black and white.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t get me wrong, there is plenty of color and brightness in there.\u00a0 But, the combination of rainy weather and straight lines of strict architecture forms was always suggesting desaturated &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/08\/amsterdam-in-black-and-white\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amsterdam in black and white<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[1465,262,1464,479],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-11141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-photography","tag-amsterdam","tag-black-and-white","tag-netherlands","tag-tourism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.8 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"While I was walking the streets of Amsterdam, I caught myself many times thinking about how particularly nice the city looks in black and white. 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