{"id":7623,"date":"2011-10-31T07:37:33","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T06:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/?p=7623"},"modified":"2011-10-31T07:56:48","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T06:56:48","slug":"zombie-walk-amsterdam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/7623","title":{"rendered":"Zombie Walk Amsterdam"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I mentioned in an earlier post<\/a> on Saturday I went into Amsterdam to check out the Zombie Walk<\/a>.\u00a0 I think I may have had my expectations too high after photos I\u2019d seen from walks in other cities.\u00a0 Most of them took place in the day and it was just people walking like zombies for fun.\u00a0 This was ok but not really like that, it was more like a zombie party.<\/p>\n

It was terribly organized. We waited at Dam Square and even though we saw about 4-5 police officers none of them had any idea what was going on.\u00a0 The traffic wasn\u2019t stopped so when the zombies came there was a gridlock between the vehicles that were along with the zombies and the public transit.<\/p>\n

When the zombies arrived I sort of got pushed with the crowd into this one spot, and I thought it was going to be great because I was right in front.\u00a0 Unfortunately I was right at the entrance to Dam Square in an intersection and the zombies were packed quite tightly together.\u00a0 It was hard to get photos because when they\u2019d come up to me they were TOO close and I had trouble focusing.\u00a0 I did manage to salvage a few photos though.<\/p>\n

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\nMy favorite part of the evening wasn\u2019t even the zombies, it was this little boy in his skeleton costume.\u00a0 He had a great time trying to scare all the people waiting around in the square.\u00a0 It was hilarious to watch.<\/p>\n

What bothered me most was that it wasn\u2019t just people being zombies for fun, like a proper zombie attack kind of walk. There were party trucks blaring music, with zombies drinking and smoking and dancing on top.\u00a0 Cars with zombie people driving along and the greater majority of the zombies were walking along smoking, drinking or taking photos themselves, rather than really acting the part.<\/p>\n

All in all, regardless of my complaints, it was a fun evening.\u00a0 I\u2019m going to keep my eyes open in case there is a regular, daytime, just for fun zombie walk and when that happens I will get my do-over.<\/p>\n

Oh, and did my diffuser<\/a> make any difference?\u00a0 I have no idea!\u00a0 I use my flash so rarely that I can\u2019t tell if the photos came out better or not because of it. I\u2019ll test it out another time, maybe for x-mas portraits!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I mentioned in an earlier post on Saturday I went into Amsterdam to check out the Zombie Walk.\u00a0 I think I may have had my expectations too high after photos I\u2019d seen from walks in other cities.\u00a0 Most of them took place in the day and it was just people walking like zombies for …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,49],"tags":[138,881,606],"class_list":["post-7623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-life-in-nl","category-photography","tag-amsterdam","tag-photography-artsy-fartsy","tag-zombie-walk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7623"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7633,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7623\/revisions\/7633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}