I am a big fan of the painters Bartholomeus Johannes van Hove and Jan Weissenbruch, who painted the streets of The Hague. It is wonderful to see how these painters captured the everyday life, with a beautiful use of light and shadow. I wondered if this style could also be captured in photos, and decided to give it a try last Sunday. I got out of bed early on Sunday, to take advantage of the light of the rising sun, and to also capture the blue hour. Now I just have to find an authentic place where I could take pictures. It’s a good thing that I live in such a beautiful authentic town. The carriages of the past have been replaced in my photo by a motorbike, and the people with authentic clothing by people with the now everyday clothing. Tried to get the streets that were dark to an object that is in the light at the end. I also did my best to get the shadows in the photo. The first thing you notice as a photographer is that the environment does not always cooperate for such a photo. The streets were quiet, making it difficult to put people on them. These painters usually painted people at work, but in my case the people were going to the church. I found it very difficult to get this style into a photo, but I really enjoyed working with such a challenge. I now understand why these painters were the masters of their work, and my photos definitely won’t match it. Despite this, I still think the photos turned out beautiful. Below are the photos I took, and at the end the photos I took in the blue hour.