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Not just for Street Photography

A small follow-up to my love letter

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Marcel Borgstijn
Oct 31, 2023
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At the beginning of June I wrote a love letter to my Ricoh GRII. I still feel the same way about my little companion, but I think it is time for a follow-up.

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In recent years my other cameras (DSLR’s) only have been collecting dust. I didn’t even bring them when I went on holidays. My last holidays were mainly focused on big cities so for street photography I only needed my Ricoh GR.

Last week I went to Terschelling, one of the Wadden Islands in the north of the Nederlands. The island’s length is 28km (17.6mi) long and the width just 4km (2.6mi). It has the most wonderful landscapes and variety you can imagine.

In that narrow width you will find successively a mudflat coast, a polder landscape, a forest, heathland, dunes and a wide sandy beach. It is an unique part of the world and therefor declared as UNESCO World Heritage.

Highlighted position of Terschelling in a municipal map of Friesland

As I said, I’m only using my Ricoh GR to photograph (and sometimes my mobile phone), so this week was no exception. And…

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