By amir2000
Ptilotus exaltatus spike forms in soft color
Some subjects reward patience more than spectacle, and Ptilotus exaltatus is one of them when seen close with quiet light and room to breathe.
I worked these spikes as a small study rather than a singl...
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By amir2000
Storm clouds and stars over Noord-Holland
Sometimes you set out for northern lights and the sky offers a slower lesson that is all tone, structure, and patient light.
Moonlight lifts texture from stacked cloud and lays a quiet gradient across fla...
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By amir2000
Hoverfly and daylily color study in Amsterdam
On a bright garden corner a hoverfly settled into the orange of a daylily and turned busy movement into small stillness.
Light was soft enough to hold saturation without harsh flare and the petals act...
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By amir2000
Coots on calm water in Amsterdam
Amsterdam’s canals carry more than reflections and traffic, they hold daily lives for birds adapted to the city’s rhythm and noise.
On a quiet stretch, adult and juvenile Eurasian coots moved through soft, eve...
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By amir2000
Sail 2025 arrived with the Amsterdam 750 celebrations.
During Amsterdam 750, the harbor became a stage for tall ships.
Light shifted between soft overcast and warm sun, which helped separate wood grain, rope fiber, and polished metal.
The Harlin...
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By amir2000
Hands at work during Sail Amsterdam 2025
Amsterdam wakes under soft overcast as Sail Amsterdam 2025 fills the harbor.
The city marks 750 years and crews start before the first crowds arrive to the quays.
Riggers climb, teams check lines, and the...
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By amir2000
Amsterdam Sloterdijk rhythm of lines
Soft grey morning at Amsterdam Sloterdijk reveals structure while tucking distractions into the background.
I walked the station edges and new towers looking for frames where lines carry tempo and repetition h...
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By amir2000
Amsterdam summer rhythm on streets and water
Amsterdam in summer moves in small scenes that pass by quietly.
A bright tie dye shirt cutting across a gray wall under the trees.
Three cyclists sharing the wind on a country road in Landelijk Noord....
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By amir2000
Teleport Towers at Amsterdam Sloterdijk
Soft rain left Amsterdam Sloterdijk quiet and clear of glare.
The sky became one broad softbox above the rail tracks and the plaza.
Teleport Towers sat in even light and clean shadow that fit its measured ...
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By amir2000
Amsterdam summer jumps in black and white
Amsterdam in summer turns the water into a stage where small scenes unfold in quick beats.
A deck becomes a launching line and the canal becomes the audience that answers with ripples.
A shout cuts the a...
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By amir2000
Vertical in Sloterdijk living on layered terraces
In Sloterdijk Amsterdam this tower stacks homes like terraces in the sky.
Concrete edges trace clean lines while wood panels and plants soften the frame and invite the eye closer.
From street lev...
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By amir2000
In my last posts I shared how a small set of scripts grew into a working photo pipeline for renaming, resizing, watermarking, metadata and upload.
Since then the system crossed a line for me.
It now matches how I actually shoot and publish.
Toda...
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By amir2000
European Peacock on buddleia in summer light
Macro is about the moments that slip past when you blink.
The garden is quiet and the buddleia carries a soft perfume across the path.
A European Peacock lands and opens its wings and the whole shrub ...
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By amir2000
NautaDutilh facade in Zuidas, Amsterdam
In Amsterdam’s Zuidas the glass begins to act like water and the street becomes a mirror that changes with every step.
At the NautaDutilh office building the facade folds the sky into ribbons that slip ac...
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By amir2000
Crowne Plaza towers as a brick and glass symphony
In Amsterdam’s Zuidas district two towers rise like instruments in a concert hall where the street is the audience.
They are the Crowne Plaza and its glass and brick companion, a duet that plays...
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By amir2000
Night reflections along the Amstel
Along the Amstel the city leans into the water and comes alive after dark.
Streetlamps line the quay like pearls on a thread and their reflections stretch across the canal.
Old facades glow in warm tones and ea...
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By amir2000
Valley by MVRDV in Zuidas
It looks like it should not work and yet it does with a kind of quiet certainty.
Too many angles present themselves and too much apparent chaos sits far from symmetry.
Then the eye resolves the parts and a structure app...
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By amir2000
Inside the Royal Palace on Dam Square
In the heart of Amsterdam, where the city squares open wide and the past still whispers, stands the Royal Palace on the Dam.
It has watched over centuries of ceremony, quiet state visits, and public gathe...
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By amir2000
Night along Lisbon’s Ponte 25 de Abril
Lisbon is a city of hills, tiles, and views that stretch toward the Atlantic.
At night something shifts and the edges soften and the river listens quietly.
Down by the Tagus the Ponte 25 de Abril be...
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By amir2000
Reading Power Station over still water at night
Along the Tel Aviv coastline, where the Yarkon River touches the edge of the city, the Reading Power Station stands like a monument of function.
At night it becomes something else entirely.
It beco...
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By amir2000
HAUT in the Amstel district seen from above
High vantage of Amsterdam’s newest landmark emerges in the Amstel district.
HAUT stands tall as a timber residential tower that carries warmth into a skyline of brick and glass.
Its sharp lines and c...
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By amir2000
The following of October 7th war, in April 2024, Israel faced an unprecedented wave of ballistic missile and drones attacks from Iran.
The missiles and drones were intercepted by Israel, USA and more members in the coalition.
In this attack there...
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By amir2000
King George Street geometry in Tel Aviv-Jaffa
Geometry speaks in silence and the street listens with steady patience.
On King George Street in Tel Aviv-Jaffa modern lines rise with quiet strength and simple intent.
This structure stands firm whe...
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By amir2000
Black and white geometry in Amsterdam Zuidas
Some buildings ask for attention and then wait.
Others, like this one in Amsterdam’s Zuidas, command it from the first glance.
Glass and angle turn light into motion and symmetry into quiet drama.
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By amir2000
Sunset sailboat off the coast of Tel Aviv
Some scenes do not ask to be captured.
They demand it.
This sunset off the coast of Tel Aviv was one of them.
The sky stretched in bold layers of color, glowing red over soft violet, while the sea roll...
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By amir2000
Brick and glass in motion at Amsterdam Zuidas
Some buildings demand your attention not by size but by the way they seem to move.
I found one like that while walking through Amsterdam’s Zuidas on a quiet afternoon.
It did not shout for notice.
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By amir2000
October 7 Memorials: Remembering Through the Lens
By Amir Darzi
Photography by amir2000.nl
All images © Amir Darzi
A Quiet Forest of Memory: Re’em Nova Party October 7 Memorial
In the calm of the Re’em Forest, surrounded by eucalyptus tre...
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By amir2000
Step 1: From Selection to Scoring
Not long ago, I shared a behind-the-scenes look at my photography automation system a pipeline I built to streamline my publishing process.
That post marked the beginning of a big shift. I had created something f...
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By amir2000
Rain held in place on a winter stem
Macro photography slows everything down.
It is not only about getting closer.
It is about paying closer attention and letting a small subject fill the frame with meaning.
You begin to notice things that would...
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By amir2000
Arches National Park glimpses through stone windows
Red rock holds light like a vessel and releases it in slow waves across the desert.
Arches National Park sits just outside Moab in Utah where wind and water carve clean shapes from stubborn ston...
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By amir2000
📸 As a photographer, I spend a lot of time working with images — not just capturing them, but organizing, resizing, naming, watermarking, captioning, keywording, uploading, checking for duplicates, and updating my website and blog.
It’s a lot...
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By amir2000
A beam of desert light inside Antelope Canyon
There are places where time loosens its grip and the day slows to a quiet breath.
Antelope Canyon is one of them, a narrow seam under the Arizona desert where stone and light negotiate in whispers.
W...
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By amir2000
Autumn light and mountain scale in Grand Teton
Wyoming opens in wide breath, the kind that clears your head before you even lift the camera.
The Tetons rise in hard relief and the valley floor spreads like a quiet table set for weather and time.
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By amir2000
Tiny translucent mushrooms on a damp forest log
Macro photography slows everything down and rewards attention to very small changes in light and texture.
On a damp forest floor the air held the smell of leaf mold and the soft hiss of distant rain...
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By amir2000
Night photography in Tel Aviv rewards patience and attention more than spectacle.
When most of the city settles into dinners and conversations, the arteries along Ayalon Highway begin to sing.
Light stacks into lines, trains slide through the fra...
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