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Posts from the ‘Seagull’ category

Jonathan Livingston I presume?

The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – June 2025

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Going Up Going Down

The Netherlands, Zwanenburg – October 2024

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Spectacular Scheveningen Beach at Sunset – June 2024

The Netherlands, Scheveningen – 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 Netherlands, Scheveningen – June 2024

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 Netherlands, Scheveningen – June 2024

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

The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – June 2024

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

The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – June 2024

Sea and Beach king.

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Gull

England, Walmer – December 2023

A dark rain sky as a backdrop for LAPC # 283 ‘dramatic’.

aShot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version.

On the edge of 2023

England, Walmer – December 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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Paris 2003: watching gulls go by

France, Paris – December 2003

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.

Shot with Nikon F90 on Kodak TriX, scanned from film and edited using Snapseed and Marksta . Click the picture for a bigger version.

Seagull

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest- May 2023

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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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Groningen 2006: Run if you can’t fly

The Netherlands, Groningen- October 2006

A photo from the archives. A view in a park in Groningen.

shot with Nikon D70, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version

Seagulls

England, Wells next the Sea – September 2021

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

England, Wells-next-the-Sea, September 2021

Wells-next-the-Sea in Norfolk. One for lens artists weekly photo challenge #171: weird and wonderful.

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Gull Over Wire

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – August 2021

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

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – August 2021

This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge (#163) is ‘keep walking’.

This is the Klinkenberger Plas, a favorite for a short walk.

Shot with iPhone 11 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version

Gull

France, Le Conquet – August 1996

Sunset at Le Conquet.

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.Shot with Nikon F90 on Kodak TriX, scanned from film and edited using Snapseed and Marksta.
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At The Beach

The Netherlands, Noordwijk – August 2018

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Walk the Line

The Netherlands, Noordwijk – July 2018

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Seagull

The Netherlands, Leiden – July 2018

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