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Rainy Night in Amsterdam

by Dana Marin | Feb 13, 2019 | All Photos, Amsterdam | 0

After dark, Amsterdam’s streets have a very cosy look and feel. I love how the orange light...

A Perfect Day Trip to Nijmegen: Your Guide to the Oldest City in the Netherlands

by Dana Marin | Aug 28, 2018 | All Photos, City Guides, The Netherlands | 0

The first thing I learned about Nijmegen was that it claims to be the oldest city in the...

Days Like This

by Dana Marin | May 15, 2018 | All Photos, Amsterdam | 0

… are the reason I love May 🙂

Photographing People: a Winter Day with Léa

by Dana Marin | Jan 21, 2018 | All Photos, People and Stories | 3

What better way to fight the winter blues than going out for a photo shoot? Well, at least that’s my solution for dealing with the grey days. This time, instead of going out by myself, I took my gorgeous friend Léa for a...

Beautiful entrances in Utrecht

by Dana Marin | Nov 5, 2017 | All Photos, The Netherlands | 0

A bit of the charm and cosiness that define Utrecht, revealed by pictures of house...

Seeing the world in black and white

by Dana Marin | Oct 19, 2017 | All Photos, Thoughts | 2

There is a general agreement on the fact that black and white photography is artistic photography. If you look for “fine art” photos on Google, you’ll discover that most of them are black and white. For a while, I kept asking...

Late August

by Dana Marin | Aug 20, 2017 | All Photos, Amsterdam | 0

It’s almost the end of August which means, basically, the end of summer. I started to notice a few yellow leaves here and there and that made me sad. Autumn colours are amazing, don’t get me wrong, but nothing...

Beautiful rainy day in Amsterdam

by Dana Marin | Jun 3, 2017 | All Photos, Amsterdam | 0

A photo and video essay about a beautiful rainy day in Haarlemmerbuurt,...

Spring Snow Time in Amsterdam

by Dana Marin | May 18, 2017 | All Photos, Amsterdam, Nature | 6

Every year, somewhere between April and May, the elm trees cover the streets of Amsterdam in what is called the “spring snow”. There are a lot of these trees in the city, more than 75,000 of them. The seeds...

Chasing the Sun in Bucharest

by Dana Marin | Apr 21, 2017 | All Photos, Travels | 0

I just returned to Amsterdam from a lovely Easter holiday in Romania, where I spent a few days in Bucharest and the rest in the countryside. I took great pleasure in the 20 degree Celsius temperature, which is almost summer by...

Night in Amsterdam

by Dana Marin | Apr 6, 2017 | All Photos, Amsterdam | 1

In the diffuse light of evening, Amsterdam looks even more romantic and cosy than during the day. I love how mysterious the city looks in the dark, I love the lights reflecting on each possible surface. I love the big windows...

One Autumn Sunday in Amsterdam

by Dana Marin | Oct 21, 2016 | All Photos, Amsterdam | 0

It’s that time of the year again: each morning, when I get out of the house, I wonder what shade of autumn colours I’ll see that day. Autumn is just beautiful. Does it rain in the Netherlands in autumn? Yes, it does....

Amsterdam architecture: The Pyramids

by Dana Marin | Oct 13, 2016 | All Photos, The Netherlands | 0

There is no need to go to Egypt to see pyramids — you can find some right here, in Amsterdam! The buildings, situated on the Marcanti Eiland, in front of the De Marktkantine, were designed by Soeters Van Eldonk Architects....

The autumn is not yellow yet

by Dana Marin | Oct 11, 2016 | All Photos, Amsterdam | 1

This weekend I went out for a walk in the Jordaan neighbourhood, and I have to say that I was amazed by how much green there is still on the streets and on the canals. I was expecting more yellow leaves, more autumn-like...