lightandshadowjourney wrote:
Hope to be there in Amsterdam during blossoming time and would like to hear suggestions on shots that are not the same as everyone else's. I tend to shoot a wide shot, landscape and portrait, then find items of interest and finally go for shots as close up as I can get. Shooting a Sony A65 with Tamron 18-270. We'll do a river cruise after on the Rhine with lots and lots and lots of photo ops, ending in Basel and Zurich.
Hope you realize that Keukenhof is NOT in Amsterdam, it is in the town of Lisse, and about 1 1/4 - 1 3/4 hour train ride away from Amsterdam - depending on the connection.
Also hope you have the dates checked out and verified: Keukenhof opens on March 24 and closes on May 16.
Beyond that: Look for "artistic plantings" - bands of colour, different designs in the plantings.
Through the two months of opening, the colour of the park changes here and there by layered plantings: different bulbs planted at different depth and blooming at different times. If you keep any eye open, you can probably find where the "new colour" is already developing while the "old colour" is still there.
Wear comfortable walking shoes: The park is 80 acres large!
If you should happen to be there between April 20-24, and especially on April 23, the "Bloemen Corso" (flower parade) is a must-see.
http://www.bloemencorso-bollenstreek.nl/en/http://www.bloemencorso-bollenstreek.nl/media/44604/bloemencorsobollenstreek-folder-2016.pdfDon't feel sorry for the flowers, if it wasn't for this parade, they'd end up on the compost heap a week earlier: The business of the area is to grow bulbs and sell them, not to grow flowers.
If you're staying in Amsterdam, there is a tourist information office in front of the Central Station, look for the letters VVV. They can tell you everything you want/need to know about Keukenhof and the Bloemen Corso - and then some!