Travel Photo (captions required)

Challenge #4 in the Travel and Sports series. Hosted by bikinchris.

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Tell a story about a place (you have traveled to) with a photo and a caption. Please note my example photo and caption from the Netherlands. Most popular wins. The image should show and explain something about the culture of the area.

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Announced:

Friday, 12th February, 2010 (GMT)

Submissions:

Friday, 19th February, 2010 – Thursday, 25th February, 2010 (GMT)

Voting:

Friday, 26th February, 2010 – Thursday, 4th March, 2010 (GMT)

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None. Anything goes.

Capture date rules:

No restrictions.

Additional rules:

You must include a caption, or you will be disqualified. You can write the caption in any langauge. So if English is not your best langauge, you can write it in your native tongue, so no excuses.
No shots of the red light district that show something we can't show families.
In fact, no shots we can't show families anyway.
Remember to show something about the life and culture of the area you are highlighting. Failure to have captions explaining where and what is happening will result in disqualification.

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Alkmaar Cheese market

by bikinchris

The Alkmaar cheese market is held every Friday. This is a tourist attraction, but they actually seel the cheese here. In this photo the blue carrier and blue hats are used to keep the cheese seperate from other buyers. This wheels of cheese are very heavy and they use a special walk to keep the load from swinging. Thye are taking the wheels to be weighed in the weigh house.

Camera:	Nikon D100
Lens:	AF-D 28-200
Submitted:	Thursday, 4th February, 2010 03:05 (GMT)
Taken:	Friday, 2nd July, 2004
Focal length:	28 mm
Shutter speed:	1/180 sec
Aperture:	F7.1
ISO:	320
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