Birds
An iPhone long lens shot of the horizon, catching geese by accident, against a heavy rain sky. I cropped the motorway A44 out on this one.
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Posts from the ‘birds’ category
Blues
A long shot with an iPhone; a heavy rain sky with birds over motorway A44.
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Heron Times 2
This Heron is a frequent visitor along the little canal in front of the house.
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Heron
This Heron is a frequent visitor along the little canal in front of the house.
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Autumn Announcing
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Bird Under A Wire
A small bird in a big Amsterdam Central Station. The things you see while waiting for a train.
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Swift
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – July 2025
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Jonathan Livingston I presume?
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Rendezvous
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The Bird
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Downside Up Duck
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – February 2025
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Mr. Duck
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – February 2025
This little guy is going to be a daddy soon, as Spring is coming in.
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Duck Bath
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Meet The Ducks
This week Lens Artist Photo Challenge #335 is exploring color versus monochrome aka black and white. Compare a color photo with a monochrome print of it. What works better?
Two landscapes, originally shot in color. I do prefer the monochrome version. That was tweaked with GrainLab.
Yesterday I publiced this one in color. I do like it, the bleak colors of Winter light are nice. But I prefer this mono version, even if it was originally shot in color. The dark spots are much more toned and I do like the grain feel of Kodak Tri X.
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Green Aliens
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Offspring
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Going Up Going Down
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Geese at Waterside: A Scenic View in Oegstgeest
A slightly ‘bigger’ picture than the one of a week ago.
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Geese at Waterside: Autumn Mood Setting in Oegstgeest
Geese tidying up at the waterside, Autumn clean up before Winter is on its way? This week’s theme for LAPC #319 is ‘setting a mood’.
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Over Looking
The weekly LAPC #312 is sense of scale’.
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Balance
Sunset over a rooftop.
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Spectacular Scheveningen Beach at Sunset – June 2024
The beach of Scheveningen, a few hours before sunset. The hour before sunset is always a kind of holy grail for photographers, but at about three hours before sunset the light over sea starts to change dramatically. The domain of gulls, flying around over the beach restaurants, scavaging for food, lit up against a backdrop of golden rays.
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Golden Sunset in Scheveningen Beach: A Gull’s Domain
The beach of Scheveningen, a few hours before sunset, domain of gulls soaring and an incidental kite surfer against a backdrop of golden rays.
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Scheveningen Boulevard Work: Fence and Gulls Composition
The Pier of Scheveningen, blocked out by a fence that is erected to work on the boulevard. A weird composition of lines, colours and objects, filled in with some gulls. And I do like the lamp post.
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Scheveningen and Katwijk aan Zee Diptych
The Netherlands, Scheveningen – June 2024 (top)
The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – June 2024 (bottom)
LAPC 308 is about perfect pairs, by creating a diptych (two images placed in proximity to one another, forming a pair). Every self respecting town and village needs a ferris wheel.
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On The Beach
A view showing the curve of the Dutch seafront looking at Scheveningen in the South from Katwijk aan Zee.
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Pole King
Sea and Beach king.
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Co-existence in Habitat: A Heron’s View of Oegstgeest, Netherlands
LAPC #306 is ‘habitat’. As humans we share the earth with lots of natural life, we share habitats (the human home, the natural ecosystem), we co-exist. Our relation with earth is not balanced. It tilts favorably towards the human interest, disrupting the natural habitats of many. If we as humans do not change our relationship with earth, then humanity kills itself, leaving a planet to recover from being abused. Not survival of the fittest, but termination of the dumbest.
A Heron, sitting on a lamppost, overlooking the articificial canal, as a cyclist uses a cycling path in the background.
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Swan
Rijnhaven, Kop van Zuid, Rotterdam.
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White Duck
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Water Watcher
A familiar sight in the neighborhood. He never looks good on iPhone but now on Nikon the details of his feathers are quite impressive.
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See the sun
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Pond Life
A sunny afternoon in Winter for this week’s Lens Artists Challenge #286 ‘Weather’.
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Circles
For LAPC #285 is ‘warm colors’. Temperature is not high right now but the warmth of color in the sun is something to enjoy.
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Gull
A dark rain sky as a backdrop for LAPC # 283 ‘dramatic’.
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On the edge of 2023
2023 is in its final day, tomorrow opens a brand new year. Not a complete blank canvas, but one with lots of room and opportunities for new initiatives, changes, life! I wish you a wonderful new year in freedom, as a gull on his wings soaring the sea and land. Carpe diem!
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Fly By
This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #265 is ‘Black and White or Monochrome’.
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Swans
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Swan and Fisherman
Lens Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #262 is ‘framing’. This is Burton Mill Pond in West Sussex.
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Chicken Tree
Lens Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #262 is ‘framing’.
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Heron
Lens Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #262 is ‘framing’.
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Offspring
This week LAPC #260 is ‘overlooked’.
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Paris 2003: watching gulls go by
This week LAPC #260 is ‘overlooked’. Taking the word literally, one from the film archives. One of the ponds in Les Tuileries in Paris, looking at the small arch and the Louvre.
About the B4 retouch series:
I browsed my archive for pictures to publish. Some of them are partly retouched but most do have scratches, dust and stains.
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Swan
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Donna Donna
Swallows in the sky, reminding of an old song made very popular by Joan Baez but in its origin it is a yiddish folk song.
This week’s Lens Artists Challenge is ‘Simplicity Photography’.
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Young Swans 2
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Seagull
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Young Swans
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Cold Dive
This week LAPC 243 is ‘it’s tricky’. Lots of tricky things.: a cold day, a cold sea, a cold dive. Snapping on the iPhone with zoom, tricky and a bit cheeky.
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Swans and Moonlight
The weekly lens artists challenge #242 is ‘new experiences’. A month ago we had a partial public space power cut, the streetlights of a part of the neigbourhood were off for an hour and the moon showed its grace beautifully. Power inside the houses was still there. Power cuts are fortunately rare, and this one was quite a nice experience!
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