Hello photography lovers!

This weekend there is national monument weekend in the Netherlands! That means, 5000 monuments that normally require a fee to enter are free to visit this weekend! And a couple of privately owned monuments are also open for visiting! This is a unique opportunity to see some beautiful buildings and gardens in the Netherlands!

And this year they are organizing a photography competition!
And because of that I was invited yesterday to see one of those monuments without people in them!
Well with some of my co-photographers of course!

Hunting lodge Mokerheide

This in 1905 build hunting lodge was completely restored this year and on the occasion of the first opening during this weekends monument day we were invited to make some advertisement on Instagram!

Yes, a real influencer job! But I would like to call it inspiratory job! I try to inspire people to go out,visit nice places and shoot!

I love taking pictures with other photographers around! You can learn a lot of them and you can use them as model to!

This is the old dovecote! They made a nice spiral staircase in it! And because we were invited to promoot the photography competition, I made these kind of pictures!

the grand entry of the lodge! they had a lot of money to build this! It is build in jugendstil!

I love this staircase!

I wanted to try a bit more closeups of the details of the building! i need to practice that a bit more! The stained glass windows were beautiful but i didn't take good pictures of them!

So if you are in or near the Netherlands this weekend, you can check the website of open monumeneten dag 2024 if there are some nice monuments open for you to visit! Take a good look because some of them are only on reservation base! that is to prevent to much people coming to the highlights of the weekend!

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