To me there is nothing more romantic in Amsterdam than the houseboat, a variety of houseboats can be seen across the city’s canals some dating back over a century and some purpose built multilevel caravan affairs that were introduced in the 70’s to help with overcrowding in the city core.
This recent addition to the houseboat family pictured here early morning is known as a woonark or a houseark in English, it is built on a floating platform and typically has nothing that would identify it as a boat like a motor or wheelhouse.
Houseboats initially were utilized by those that couldn’t afford land prices but with the houseark sometimes built over multiple floors and complete with adjoined terraces and gardens this demographic has completely changed.
Once the domain of the underprivileged now one of the most in demand addresses in Amsterdam depending on your ligplaats a permit that entitles a houseboat owner to moor their home in a certain spot and these ligplaats are in high demand and limited in number making a prime location on a main canal as expensive as a house on some lesser canals.
I took this on Sept 10th, 2017 with my D750 and Nikon 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens at 35mm 30 sec f/4.5 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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