Today we celebrated Liberation Day in the Netherlands. We joined the celebrations in Wageningen, the liberation city of the Netherlands, with many spectators, Canadian, British and Dutch veterans, and many Canadian students. These students represents Canadian men and woman in service who died for the liberation of the Netherlands in World War II.
The main attraction of the Wageningen festivities, unlike other Dutch liberation cities, is the parade with many veterans and soldiers from Canadian, British, Polish, Dutch, and Belgium armed forces. Joining the parade were also many of the students from Canadian high schools celebrating and commemorating the 65th Liberation.
Throughout the parade there were many highland bagpipes bands from Canada and Great Britain.
And parading soldiers like the Polish soldiers above and Royal Dutch Navy officers below.
All photographs by Wouter Brandsma
Wouter Brandsma 
Lovin’ the pics, so much atmosphere
Great photos – particularly the first one.
Hi Wouter. Besides the usual excellence of these photos, I am also struck by their diversity. Each photo portrays a different aspect of the story. Very nice.
This is a very nice impression, I like the mood. The DOF is also great, did you use the Ricoh GRD III?
I really can’t do this with the GRD. I used the Canon 10D and a 50mm lens instead.
Very very strong series! Really your style, the whole picture but captured as details…
A wonderful event to document as you have. And lovely pictures as well.
From ‘the other side of the pond’, as a Canadian I have to say that Canadians really value and appreciate their warm relationship with the Dutch. It is something that Canadians are very proud of.
A wonderful set of pictures, in this and your Serendipity post.
I hope this warm relationship between Canada, liberators of the Netherlands and war home for our Royal family, and the Netherlands lasts forever. It was wonderful to see so many Canadian students visit the Netherlands this week commemorating the unforgettable efforts and sacrifices.
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//Dave
I hope that one day the two of us could meet up in my home country. I think your photographic interpretation of it would be very thought provoking.