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Tiengemeten


Tiengemeten
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Copyright: Nel Diepstraten (NellyD) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 409 W: 0 N: 698] (2737)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-04-08
Categories: Nature
Camera: Canon 350 D
Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop
Date Submitted: 2007-05-10 6:06
Viewed: 311
Points: 24
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
This picture I took on Easter-monday of this year, when we made a walk at this nature reserve called Tiengemeten. Tiengemeten is an island in the Dutch province of South Holland. And here's some history about Tiengemeten wich I looked up on the internet:

By the beginning of the seventeenth century, a sandbar measuring just about five hectares had been deposited in the Haringvliet. At the time, half a hectare was called a ‘gemet’, hence the name: Tien gemeten.

Little by little, between 1750 and 1860, the Dutch built dykes to create polders on the land. Finally, the island comprised seven hundred hectares of agricultural land, plus three hundred hectares outside the dykes: the Blanke Slikken.

Until the 1940s, Tiengemeten seemed to be a forgotten piece of the Netherlands. After the Second World War, things suddenly changed. The plans to re-allocate the land followed each other in rapid succession. Tiengemeten would perhaps become a large residential island, an airport for cargo planes, a nuclear power plant, a bungalow park or later a storage depot for contaminated sludge. Each time the plans fell through. In the eighties and nineties, it became clear that a policy was needed for the Netherlands’ remaining nature. The Cabinet adopted the nature policy plan, which incorporated an ambitious plan for a national ecological network for the country. Tiengemeten belonged here, because it offered unique opportunities for the recovery of rare freshwater tidal flora and fauna. In 1994, the province of South Holland scrapped the plans to store sludge there and designated Tiengemeten as an area in which nature should be allowed to develop.
Following the decision to convert Tiengemeten into a nature reserve, Natuurmonumenten (with government aid) bought Tiengemeten in 1996.
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Hoi Nel,
A wonderful simple, but beautiful image of this special Dutch island :) Particular the composition is fine, the diagonal of the trees from right top to lower left maskes this an interesting view. The brightness and colours need some adjustment IMO, so I made a WS to show the difference. Anyway a superb posting, well done and TFS!
Hans

hi nel!
very beautiful view on this scene, great composition.
tfs
zoran

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  • biblio Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 590 W: 6 N: 225] (2498)
  • [2007-05-10 10:28]

Hi Nel
Lovely composition, it looks very dry!! Good effort and thanks for sharing.
Groetjes
Chris

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  • Fons Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1505 W: 1 N: 111] (11397)
  • [2007-05-10 12:16]
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Als kind hoorde ik de booeren spreken van een roe en een gemet.
Tien gemeten gaat over de grootte
Dank me aan die "gemeten" te
herinneren!

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  • juyona Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 2390 W: 0 N: 770] (12756)
  • [2007-05-10 12:43]

Hola Nel,
bello trabajo y buen pov y dof,
saludos amiga

Hallo Nel.
Ik hoorde net dat tiengemeten terug gegeven wordt aan de natuur. Zo te zien aan jouw opname is dat zeker de moeite waard. Erg mooie compositie met een goed lijnenspel.
een beauty.
Frans

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  • korbee Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 890 W: 0 N: 659] (7809)
  • [2007-05-10 14:06]

Hoi Nel ik vind dit een heerlijke simpele foto,het lijkt wel ergens in Australie,mooi!
jan

Hi Nel, wonderful perspective in your simple and beautiful composition, very well done, ciao Silvio

Hi Nel,
Wat een heerlijk ruim landschap - ik had wel eens wat gehoord over Tiengemeten, maar het fijne wist ik er niet van.
Dus bedankt voor de foto en in het bijzonder ook de bijbehorende informatie.
Gr.
Els
:)volgen

Merhaba Nel.
Nice perspective, TFS and best wishes.

Yasin.

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  • SkyF Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1666 W: 136 N: 1263] (6138)
  • [2007-05-12 7:50]

Hi Nel,
amazing how far nature has come since you took the shot, here we still had snow at Easter, now everything is green and blooming.
I like this composition, has those great earth tones and wondeful depth.
TFS..Sky

Excellent compo, field textures and trees. Simple and effective landscape.

TFS,

Andreea

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