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Posts from the ‘birds’ category
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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Morning Flight 3
At sunrise on the marshes at Blakeney. The weekly theme for LAPC #237 is ‘bringing softness’. I pulled the camera following a flight, coming in towards the rising sun, and here coming into the light.
Here is morning flight 1, here is morning flight 2. And if you follow my blog you have seen the photo of the same flock after they passed the sun ‘winter sunrise over the marshes’.
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Morning Flight 2
At sunrise on the marshes at Blakeney. The weekly theme for LAPC #237 is ‘bringing softness’. I pulled the camera following a flight, coming in towards the rising sun. Here is morning flight 1.
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Morning Flight
At sunrise on the marshes at Blakeney. The weekly theme for LAPC #237 is ‘bringing softness’. How sweeter can it get?
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Dog Walk
Dog walk at sunrise on the marshes near Blakeney.
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On the Wing
New Year’s Day, geese on the wing over the marshes near Blakeney.
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New Year’s Day
New Year’s Day, the sun through fog over a parking at Morston Quay near Blakeney.
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Winter Sunrise over Marshes
The sun rises, on one of the first days of January, over the marshes at Blakeney.
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Winter Sunrise at Cley Marshes
The sun rises over Cley next the Sea on a cold Winter morning in early January.
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Fog, water and birds
The weekly theme for LAPC #235 is shadows and reflections in monochrome.
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Salt Marshes at Blakeney
England, Blakeney – January 2023
The theme for LAPC 234 is ‘messages’. The coast of north Norfolk is one big nature resort with salt marshes and wildlife. The continuous change of the sea water coming in and out, the light changes during the day time and the vastness and beauty are stunning.
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Murphy’s and Cooper’s Law
England, Blakeney – January 2023
The theme for LAPC 234 is ‘messages’. Meet Murphy (the brown Show Cocker) and Cooper (the white brown). Both of them love water (and mud) and love chasing a ball together. When there is water or mud (preferably both) and a ball to catch, they do not stop playing.
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Birds at Holkham Beach
England, Holkham – January 2023
The Lens Artists Photo Challenge #233 is ‘a one lense walk‘. The first week of 2023 we had a short stay at Norfolk; the beauty of its coast and its wildlife gave ample opportunities for photos. The Nikon D500 has the 18-105 mm lens on it.
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Free Bird
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Autumn 2022 – Birds
It is the end of the year and the Weekly Photo Challenge is ‘Last Chance’.
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Autumn 2022 – Sitting Ducks
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Autumn 2022: Water Leaves
Autumn 2022.
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Autumn 2022: Herron
Autumn 2022.
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Groningen 2006: Run if you can’t fly
A photo from the archives. A view in a park in Groningen.
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Swan Canal
Recently the swan family – see my photos of July in the archive – is swimming up and down the little canal in front of the house, enjoying the food on top of the water. I published some photos of them the last few days, this is the last one.
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Mono Swan Trojka
Recently the swan family – see my photos of July in the archive – is swimming up and down the little canal in front of the house, enjoying the food on top of the water. I will publish some photos of them the coming days.
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Green
Recently the swan family – see my photos of July in the archive – is swimming up and down the little canal in front of the house, enjoying the food on top of the water. I will publish some photos of them the coming days.
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Role Model
Recently the swan family – see my photos of July in the archive – is swimming up and down the little canal in front of the house, enjoying the food on top of the water. I will publish some photos of them the coming days.
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En Passant
Recently the swan family – see my photos of July in the archive – is swimming up and down the little canal in front of the house, enjoying the food on top of the water. I will publish some photos of them the coming days.
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Family Lunch
Recently the swan family – see my photos of July in the archive – is swimming up and down the little canal in front of the house, enjoying the food on top of the water. I will publish some photos of them the coming days.
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Food Division
Recently the swan family – see my photos of July in the archive – is swimming up and down the little canal in front of the house, enjoying the food on top of the water. I will publish some photos of them the coming days.
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Swans
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Family
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – July 2022
Lens Artists Photo Challenge #211 is ‘what is your groove’. Basically I enjoy looking around, up and down till something strikes me as interesting. And sometimes it shows right at your door step.
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Spot the Pigeons
Lens Artists Photo Challenge #211 is ‘what is your groove’. Basically I enjoy looking around, up and down till something strikes me as interesting. Being in a lovely small English town, enjoying a lunch, seeing some pigeons on a nice old red bricked house.
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Swan Sleep
LAPC #209 is surreal. The iPhone camera has improved quite a bit: this is a photo taken under a streetlamp of a family of swans, sleeping on the side of the mood in front of our house. It is 3 am, and it could be an image of a dream.
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Darker Skies
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Duo
A blue sky with clouds, highlighting soaring birds.
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Little Duckies off Track
The Lens-artists challenge #196 is ‘humor‘. Some early youngsters walking the footpath, hitting some rain water, being out of their depth.
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Swan
This week Lens Artists Photography Challenge #191 is ‘Curves’.
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Swans
A picture that does not fit in a category has to fit in ‘odds and ends’, lens artists photo challenge #189. Though this one could have been in ‘cleaning’, ‘swans in habitat’, ‘grooming for professionals’ etc.
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Strandhill 2008 (available light)
This weeks challenge #186 is ‘Low Light’. Using the available light is primarily a question of creativity and secondarily the available technology. The advice when using a Kodak Instamatic (a very old point and shoot film camera in the 1970’s) was to keep the sun in the back. My advice is not to do that. When using film it was a calculated guess (the result came after developing of the film). Nowadays in digital times the result is immediately available on your camera, hence a source of more playing around and tweaking. Playing with light is playing with the source of light. This photo of Strandhill was taken on a ‘normal’ sunny day. The angle used makes it much more dramatic. This photo ‘See Sea’ gives an idea of the light as it was that day. The fog and dark sky added to the atmosphere (in the Archive Ireland you can find two more photo’s of this perspective taken at the same moment).
Strandhill in Sligo is a small town, looking out over the Atlantic Ocean to the West. Rising over it is Knocknarea with Queen Maeve.
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Swans
A grey morning with fog in Winter.
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Lined Up
A grey morning with fog in Winter.
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Row
Theme #177 of Lens Artists Photo Challenge is celebrating.
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Seagulls
The theme for this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #172 is a day of my week. The photo above was one of a series I took during a morning when I visited a little village in Norfolk, Wells next the Sea. From the dock the view on the low tide coastline was amazing: boats, gulls, water, sun and clouds. It felt like a photographer heaven where there is too much to shoot in a short time. So this week I publish some of the photo’s from that morning in September.
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Caught in the middle
Wells-next-the-Sea in Norfolk. One for lens artists weekly photo challenge #171: weird and wonderful.
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The Ship
The Ship, the local in Brancaster, Norfolk. The labelling of the walls is quite artful, A bit of street art for this week’s Lens Artists photography challenge #170 Street Art.
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Getting on a Fence
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Gull Over Wire
This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge (#163) is ‘keep walking’.
This is the Klinkenberger Plas, a favorite for a short walk.
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Here’s looking at you kid
This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge (#163) is ‘keep walking’.
This is the Klinkenberger Plas, a favorite for a short walk.
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Swan
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Young family
Right in front of the door, a young swan family takes a nap sometimes.
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