My travelcompanion Lexi (pic heavy) - update 2 june - Castle Haarzuilen

Twirl! Nice.

The colour red goes very well with Lexi's dark hair.
October seems so far away.

wow, she really comes around. very nice shots and quite a travel she had so far. sorry if i havent read every post and its been mentioned before, but has the difference in temperature and humidity affected the body so far? while i do own a few seamless male bodies, they are displayed/stored in a dry room 24/7 with almost a constant temperature.
kind regards
tjolnir

A Man wrote:The colour red goes very well with Lexi's dark hair.
October seems so far away.

Thank you! Indeed it looks smashing.

Tjolnir wrote:wow, she really comes around. very nice shots and quite a travel she had so far. sorry if i havent read every post and its been mentioned before, but has the difference in temperature and humidity affected the body so far? while i do own a few seamless male bodies, they are displayed/stored in a dry room 24/7 with almost a constant temperature.
kind regards
tjolnir

Not so much the temperature and humidty, I think, but all the traveling caused a bit of discolorization of her body. Which isn't too bad though. Worse is her body wore down, so she's not holding many poses now. And since she's tan, a replacement is impossible to get.

GubernatorFan wrote:Twirl! Nice.

Twirling made her dizzy (or maybe it was from all the compliments), so she had to sit down.

A few days later she went fishing.

Is she fishing for that mech-whale in the background of the lake?

Still a nice contrast between her outfit and the green environment

The mech-whale in the background might be an explanation for why she caught nothing (apparently). But there might be another. Is there a line? She does score bonus points for looking more stylish than any fisherman I could imagine.

Interesting location for fishing. Does the “mech-whale” actually have a purpose, or is it just artistic?

Lexi has her work cut out bringing the whale ashore.

More great shots! she sure gets around!

I probably should have replied sooner, but Lexi wanted to eat first. Which took awhile

Valiarde wrote:Is she fishing for that mech-whale in the background of the lake?

Still a nice contrast between her outfit and the green environment

Thank you! Apparantly she was.

GubernatorFan wrote:The mech-whale in the background might be an explanation for why she caught nothing (apparently). But there might be another. Is there a line? She does score bonus points for looking more stylish than any fisherman I could imagine.

Thank you! She did catch it though.
A 1/6 scale line would be hard to spot

Stryker2011 wrote:Interesting location for fishing. Does the “mech-whale” actually have a purpose, or is it just artistic?

Thank you! It's mainly artistic (AFAIK), but it serves as a platform for the birds.

BAMComix wrote:More great shots! she sure gets around!

Thank you! Although most of the recent pics were fairly closeby to where we live.

Gizems nice Kittens wrote:Lexi has her work cut out bringing the whale ashore.

It did get her hungry.

After dinner Lexi wanted to show how big a fish she caught. For once she's not exaggerating, but I don't think her arms can spread wide enough to tell the true size.

You are a very skillfull Photographer with a beautyful Model. Some of the Pictures looks like so real

Whoah! That is such a cool skeleton display. What a novel idea.

I love the skeleton display too. But wait, are you saying her arms cannot open up beyond that? The clothing is too restrictive?

Ephiane wrote:You are a very skillfull Photographer with a beautyful Model. Some of the Pictures looks like so real

Thank you so much for your kind words!

Stryker2011 wrote:Whoah! That is such a cool skeleton display. What a novel idea.

It's a skeleton of a sperm whale that is on display on a beach at Fuerteventura.
I've taken a picture of it in february 2020, but without Lexi. Now I put the picture on my TV and used it as a backdrop.

GubernatorFan wrote:I love the skeleton display too. But wait, are you saying her arms cannot open up beyond that? The clothing is too restrictive?

No, the skeleton is really large. I could have opened her arms further, but then her hands didn't pose the way I wanted to.

A few days later (so still in october) she went on a daytrip. She didn't drive herself this time. She took a good look at the former sea (Zuiderzee), but nowadays a lake, the IJsselmeer (Lake IJssel). Water on both sides of the dyke through it.




She wanted to take a good look across it.


On the way back we passed a replica of a 17th century sailingship


This is in Lelystad, which is a city built where formerly was a sea.

Lexi is pretty curious and adventurous, isn't she? And she does look ever so sharp in this outfit. That ship would have been interesting to visit, but got to keep it in scale. Every time you have her near water's edge, I feel like she should be wearing a safety vest.

She certainly gets around

Lexi had a big appetite and now she shows us interesting ships.

Beautiful pictures. Love all the places and indeed Lexi is looking great in that outfit.
Inspires me to go out for a walk. The sun better come out soon.

Like the sailing ship. There was a similar one at port in St. Petersburg, Florida several years back when I was on vacation. Very cool.

GubernatorFan wrote:Lexi is pretty curious and adventurous, isn't she? And she does look ever so sharp in this outfit. That ship would have been interesting to visit, but got to keep it in scale. Every time you have her near water's edge, I feel like she should be wearing a safety vest.

Indeed she is adventurous. The ship is open for visits, although not right now.

BAMComix wrote:She certainly gets around

Indeed she does. But since I joined here I have mostly been showing pictures of the last 7 years, and I think I'm nearly through my backlog.

Gizems nice Kittens wrote:Lexi had a big appetite and now she shows us interesting ships.

Indeed she has

Diana wrote:Beautiful pictures. Love all the places and indeed Lexi is looking great in that outfit.
Inspires me to go out for a walk. The sun better come out soon.

Thank you so much. I hope better weather comes around! It gets more sunny here at least.

Stryker2011 wrote:Like the sailing ship. There was a similar one at port in St. Petersburg, Florida several years back when I was on vacation. Very cool.

Since the ship goes down so well, a few more pics of it.

NIIICCE. Really dig the closer shots.

The ship is awesome.

Thank you both! I was hoping to return to the ship (maybe with Lexi's friend Keira, I heard that when she was shown the pictures she needed to be physically restrained because she wanted to go there too), but that hasn't happened yet.

Now Lexi shows you some typical dutch scenery (pics are still from last october).

A bridge over a canal. This type of drawbidge (or similar types) can be found on most canals.


From the same spot, but looking across the canal.


The road along the canal, and the dutch polders. The railing on the right side of Lexi (for the viewer, it's her left side) is the same railing you saw in the background of the previous picture. So you will probably realize that the water level in the canal is higher than the surrounding polder. Which means that if the dyke breaks, you've got an enormous bathtub.


The polders. Yup, that's what you call a flat country. To the right of Lexi, in the distance, you can faintly see some of the higher officebuildings of Amsterdam.


A (very) small town a bit further along the canal. Typical style of houses build in the fifties and sixties, build after WW2 when the economy was booming again. You can find these kind of houses in literally every town or settlement in the Netherlands. There's small ferry crossing the canal (the yellow boat at the right of the picture).


At the end of the day, the sun sets.

Beautiful photos and scenery.

Now I know why Lexi really wanted to have a boat for herself.
She inspected the dike and found it unsafe.

Amazing shots in the sunlight! very well captured

Those sunset shots are gorgeous. Love those.