Sun set on winter solstice
Animation of the sun touching the weather vane of the Utrecht Domtoren.
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The Netherlands 3D: combining elevation data
Rising the Dutch Mountains by combining bathymetric (from EMODnet, Rijkswaterstaat) and topographic data (Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland) with MODIS imagery. Rendered in Blender.
Gazing at the stars… and a comet
Neowise, officially known as C/2020 F3, is a 3-mile-wide chunk of ice and dust on a 6,000-year loop around the solar system. Just before it made its closest approach to the Earth, I took a series of time lapses of the sky above the island of Terschelling.
Gaasperdammertunnel: langste landtunnel auto’s
Met de opening van de 3 km lange tunnelbuizen in de richting van knooppunt Holendrecht is de Gaasperdammertunnel, de langste landtunnel van Nederland, in gebruik genomen. Luchtfoto’s Waterschapshuis.
Satellite imagery of a cloudless Europe
Sediments flowing into the North Sea: NASA captures beautiful painting of Western Europe under an extremely rare fair sky on Feb. 27th 2019.
Captured the sun touching the Dom tower
Utrecht Domtoren winter solstice from frédérik ruys on Vimeo.
Winter solstice in Utrecht: finally captured the sun touching the weather vane of the Dom on the earliest sunset of the year.
Our galaxy as seen from the Southern hemisphere
Series of photos taken on the Busanga plains in Kufue National Park (Zambia). Bush fires lit the skies.
Huge 10 million pixels globe in Science Museum Tokyo
Love this 14 tons, 6 m wide aluminium #globe with 10,362 organic electroluminescent (#OEL) tiles (each one 96 mm2). More than 10 million pixels #animating our planet @miraikan #tokyo pic.twitter.com/sMdaax8g4b
— frédérik ruys (@fruys) 14 augustus 2018
Domtoren zonder steigers in Japan
De Domtoren in Utrecht staat voorlopig in de steigers, maar de Domtoren in Nagasaki is nog in volle glorie te bewonderen. Op onze reis door Zuid-Korea en Japan kwamen we hem tegen en maakten we een filmpje.