The OLDER Photographers' thread...

Makes you think.... don't they?
(we had ou share of secret-service problems in our government last week, just google "Ronald Plasterk" and "MIVD')

Jill-of-all-Trades wrote in post #16696674
Looks like a convoy of black Fords. Secret security force that's not so good at hiding??

Well, even though the location is not specified, I think it is somewhere in Europe. You will see a lot of small black cars there. Only a license plate like that will identify you as something special!

Lbsimon wrote in post #16696692
Well, even though the location is not specified, I think it is somewhere in Europe. You will see a lot of small black cars there. Only a license plate like that will identify you as something special!

Well, not getting into where Andre actually lives, there are lots of clues within that picture.

Driving on the right hand side of the road. Eliminates places like Britain, Australia, India, etc.
The all white lines pretty much eliminate North America.
The transport truck is a cab-over design, which is rather unpopular in North America as well.
That style of license plate is European.
There are wind turbines visible in the distance.
Looks like farm land.
It appears to be raining, so not cold enough to be covered in snow, but cold enough for the trees to loose their leaves. And the grass is still green.

Well, it appears that there are characters to the left (possibly 2) and characters to the right (possibly 3) with dashes separating the groups. Which countrie have that numbering conventio with those colors?

I don't think the KGB has any significance.

France? Though, no hyphens that I can tell.

Lbsimon wrote in post #16696692
Well, even though the location is not specified, I think it is somewhere in Europe. You will see a lot of small black cars there. Only a license plate like that will identify you as something special!

If you look at the blue 'block' in the left side of the plate, it shows 'NL', indicating it is a Dutch vehicle.
(I know, not very clear in this particular pic, shot with my SGS-3 from a moving taxi-van)

This was shot somewhere between Hardenberg and Coevorden, on the N34 road in the Netherlands.

(Now thinking KGB does not ring a bell here, a reminder?? http://en.wikipedia.or​g/wiki/KGB )

The fun for me was in relation to the Dutch ice-skating sucsses on the Olympic wintergames in Sochi/Russia (3 times a full orange gold-silver-bronze standing 'clean-sweep'?). 'We' have 17 medals in total, and the Russian KGB want to know how we did it...?

The KGB rings a bell with me, and I was only 10 years old when the USSR broke up.

I was a few years older (15 at that time)...

Good night every one! Off to bed here.

I took my family out of Russia in 1981, after a struggle against the authorities for a couple of years. It was still a KGB country.

I never really took much notice of Russia until I went to Ukraine the first time. I was in a Russian speaking area and started trying to learn the language. The second trip took us through Moscow on layovers. On my third trip my flight out of Toronto was quite late and the connecting flight left before we landed. Had to spend 24 hours in Russia until I could get on another flight to Kiev.

It's definitely a country that I want to spend some time in. Just wish I was better at learning languages.

Jill-of-all-Trades wrote in post #16697875
It's definitely a country that I want to spend some time in. Just wish I was better at learning languages.

I would not. It is a polluted country (air, water), with people who are not nice, to put it mildly, with food and drinks that you have no idea what in it, very expensive for tourists, with little or expensive services, and very unpredictable. I was there a few times - still have some family and friends there, but not since ten years ago. Keep in mind, Russian is my mother tongue, and still I always felt uncomfortable there.

Jill-of-all-Trades wrote in post #16696846
The KGB rings a bell with me, and I was only 10 years old when the USSR broke up.

I think Mel's intentionally trying to make me feel old. I still remember the NKVD.

The Norwegian ice-skating team are sore losers:

20droger wrote in post #16698023
I think Mel's intentionally trying to make me feel old. I still remember the NKVD.

How old are you?! NKVD was changed into MVD in 1946.