Leaving Centraal Station in Amsterdam one of the first areas you will happen across is the Damrak home of every kitchy tourist attraction in the city it seems, here resides the ‘Sex Museum,’ the ‘Medieval Torture Museum,’ and cheesiest cheese shops looking to trade their wares for your cash.

Not to know it today but the Damrak was once Amsterdam’s busiest canal with the north end open to the Zuiderzee what a sight it would have been with trade ships lining the quays all the way to Dam square, the hustle and bustle of goods from all over the world passing from sailors holds through merchant hands to the rest of Europe.

In recent years the area has been given a face lift and the riff raff run out to reinvent the area into the start of the Red Carpet or Rode Loper route to draw tourists deeper into the city but there are still plenty of kitchy souvenir shops and attractions sure to fill your shopping bags with many thing you never knew you needed

I took this on Sept 10th, 2017 with my D750 and Nikon 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens at 44mm 20 sec f/11 ISO100 processed in LR, PS +Lumenzia, Topaz , Luminar and DXO

Disclaimer: My style is a study of romantic realism as well as a work in progress

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Make:	NIKON CORPORATION
Model:	NIKON D750
Exposure:	20
Aperture:	f/11.0
ISO Speed:	100
Focal Length:	44 mm
Lens:	28.0-300.0 mm f/3.5-5.6