Reaching for the Sky
The LAPC theme #385 is ‘unusual crop’. The skyline over Den Haag, building activities and old spires.
Shot with iPhone 15 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.
Posts from the ‘church’ category
Rejected Photos
Lens-artists Photo Challenge #382 is about rejected photos. What do you do with photos you do not like? You can throw them away, or you can keep them. And if you keep them what can you do with them? First a story of myself, how I work. And in the end an example.
I am a snap shooter for a long time. When looking at this question for myself, I have to distinguish between the analog age and the digital age. But in both ages it is about quality, how you can assess that and what instruments are available after shooting. And above all: how can you be creative, and how much room is there to experiment?
The analog age was expensive: film was expensive, darkroom materials were expensive too. And being a poor student I shot as efficient as possible. You had to be patient while shooting, and selective. You also needed to trust your skills. Experience was essential to figure out what worked and what not. To produce good prints you needed to develop darkroom skills. And some negatives were impossible to print. But you kept them all. I never threw away negatives. That decision was beneficial in the digital age. After scanning my negatives, I properly made them look like what I had in mind when shooting them. What the darkroom did not deliver, software did.
In the digital age the cost of a photo is nearly non existent. The original photo (the former negative) can be copied lots of times. From the start technology offers instruments to oversee the quality of the photos. What you shoot is instantly visible on the camera. You can try different changes in the photo. Adjustments like shutter time, focus, and shutter opening can be tested most of the time. The RAW format offers flexibility for editing the ‘negative’ after the shoot. Software offers lots of creative tools to change the photo, or create new images.
So, do you keep rejected (bad) photos or not? I do reject photos, overseeing the result on my camera. I keep photos that can come to a good result after editing. The rest I remove straight away (e.g. bracketing shots).What I keep is stored on my NAS, where I use Lightroom as my archiving tool. I use editing tools to tweak a photo slightly. My favorite is Snapseed for web and social media publication. And Lightroom and Photoshop for prints.
The digital age is a time for unlimited creativity. The photos of ‘dinner at Wiveton Bell’ are an example of testing out the iPhone in a very dark situation. I shot about 8 frames, I kept them all but had my doubts. At home I worked them in Lightroom and Snapseed. And was surprised by what came out. And the ones that did not work were indeed deleted.
On the left the photo published and on the right the original RAW file.
Dinner at the Wiveton Bell in Norfolk
Having dinner at the Wiveton Bell. A beautiful moonlight night, an open invitation to play with the iPhone. The results did surprise me.
The bottom right photo is taken with the night modus. The rest with the manual mode of ‘real light’.
The one of the church reminds me of a medieval painting.
Shot with iPhone 15 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.
Berlin Gendarmenmarkt
One of the beautiful squares in Berlin: the Gendarmenmarkt. On one side you find the Deutscher Dom a.k.a. Neue Kirche (German Cathedral), and opposite the Französischer Dom (French Cathedral). The top photo reflects the latter in the doors of the Deutscher Dom.
Shot with iPhone 15 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.
Gedächtnis Kirche Berlin
One of the memorial landmarks of Berlin is the Kaiser Wilhelm Gedächtnis Kirche. In its simplicity it is a powerful landmark and memorial.
Shot with iPhone 15 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.
Over the bridges
A more detailed view of the photo I published yesterday of Leiden. Leiden used to be famous for fabrics, and canals provided the infrastructure for the logistics. Some of the canals were filled up in the second half of the 20th century. However, there are debates about opening a few of them again. These discussions focus on sustainability and environmental quality.
Shot with iPhone 15 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.
(The) Doors Revisited
This week’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #361 is ‘Doors revisited’. That theme was also the brief for LAPC #20. A door is a pass way to another space behind it. That space can be something we know already. Or something we like to imagine to see there when we go through. And in books you can end up in another world. In this post a few doors I met in my life. One I used for a long time, most I just passed by or passed through on holidays.
The word ‘doors’ for me is also linked to the band The Doors. The name of the band came from a book by Aldous Huxley, The doors of perception. And Huxley took it from William Blake, who used it as a metaphor:
“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro’ narrow chinks of his cavern . Doors lead you to another side or space, break on through to the other side.”
‘Break on through to the other side’ became the title of a Doors’ song.
So a lot can be said about doors. Luckily, we still have the photos. Here are a few from my conscious memory.
This is the front door to the house I was born and lived in for 25 years. The photo is shot on Ilford XP with a Pentax K1000.
This door in Caylus is ready to be knocked. Shot on Nikon D70.
I looked through my archive. It struck me that lots of the doors I saw there are doors of small or bigger churches. This one is on Karpathos. Shot on Nikon D70.
Another church door on Karpathos, shot on Kodak TriX with Nikon F90.
A chapel door in Lesbos, also shot on Nikon D70.
Exploring Delft: A Glimpse of City Hall and New Church
The city hall of of Delft with the steeple of the New Church in the background.
Shot with iPhone 15 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta Click the picture for a larger version
Capturing Katwijk: Church and Rooftops
This part of Katwijk is not much photographed, I guess. The roofs and the tower of the church made a nice composition.
Shot with iPhone 15 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta Click the picture for a larger version
A Walk Through The Park
England, Southwell – April 2025
The cemetery of Southwell’s Minster.
Shot with Nikon Zf, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.
Southwell Minster Choir Gate
Choir Gate of Southwell’s Minster.
Shot with Nikon Zf, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.
Rusper Church
Shot with iPhone 15 Pro Max edited using Snapseed, GrainLab and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.
Southwell Minster Window
A window of Southwell’s Minster.
Shot with Nikon Zf, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.
D-Day 80 years ago
Today we remember that 80 years ago thousands were willing to pay the highest price to give us our freedom. John Steele landed on the pinnacle of this church in the early morning of June 6 1944 in Sainte-Mère-Église.
To the brave and courageous
Who were willing to pay the ultimate price
And gave me my freedom
As a precious treasure
Never to be taken as a right
But like they did then to be defended
Again and again
Lest not forget
shot with Nikon D7000, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.
Hill of Slane
Some photos do not fit the LAPC’s themes, so there is a rest category ‘last chance’ being #280. I never am guided by the themes in the photos I shoot. Some fit in, some don’t. But I never know the theme while shooting. Here is one from the archive I recently stumbled upon, never published.
Slane Hill in Ireland. Close to Slane Castle castle that is famous among other historical facts, for being the recording site for U2’s The unforgettable fire’ in 1984. And famous open air concerts.
Outside the village is The Hill of Slane with a small old ruined chapel, a ruined monastery and a graveyard, overlooking the landscape and the river Boyne.
The most interesting place is a small hill with undergrowth right behind the site, from which this photo was taken.
shot with Nikon D70, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.
Little Chapel – Naxos 1983
This week LAPC #254 is ‘spiritual places’; I use an old photo that I also published in October 2021 of a little chapel in Naxos that could do with some tender loving care for lens artistists challenge #168: seen better days. I edited it with a lighter atmosphere and took out the most obvious dust and scratches this time, so if you want to compare, here is that post.
About the B4 retouch series:
I browsed my archive for pictures to publish. Some of them are partly retouched but still, like most of the archive, do have scratches, dust and stains.
The picture was originally shot with Pentax K1000 on Kodak Plusx, scanned from negative and tweaked using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.
Lighthouse and Church
The Netherlands, Katwijk – March 2023
Shot with iPhone 13 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta Click the picture for a larger version
Katwijk aan Zee
The weekly theme for LAPC #239 is ‘finding peace’.
Shot with iPhone 13 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta Click the picture for a larger version
Shere Church in mono
St. James’ church in Shere.
shot with Nikon D70, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version
Shere Church
St. James’ church in Shere.
shot with Nikon D70, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version
Abbaye de Beaulieu
Detail of the Abbaye de Beaulieu.
- Archive France
- shot with Nikon D70, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.
Church Gate
Lens Artists Photo Challenge #204 for this week is ‘doors and doorways’. The partly open gate of the church in Montmorrilon, France.
shot with Nikon D70, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.
Portal
Bayeux is an old village in Normandy France. Home of the Bayeux Tapestry. Here the entrance to the cathedral.
shot with Nikon D70, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version
Mont Saint Michel
Le Mont Saint Michel is an old village on a rock in a bay on the west of France in Brittany. It is positioned in between Normandy and Brittany, and is famous for its abbey.
shot with Nikon D70, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version
From the archive: Chapelle Finistère 1981
The B4 retouch series
I browsed my archive for pictures to publish. All of them are not completely retouched yet. Scratches, dust and stains are not removed.
The picture was originally shot with Pentax K1000 on Kodak Plusx, scanned from negative and tweaked using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.
Rome Wedding 1993
The theme for this week Lens-artists challenge #157 is ‘getting away’.
View on St. Peter Square in Rome.
Originally shot with Nikon F301 on Kodak TriX, scanned from negative and tweaked using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.
Church
Originally shot with Nikon D70, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version
Waalse Kerk
Shot with iPhone 11 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta Click the picture for a larger version
Geometry
The 141th Weekly Lens Artists Challenge is ‘geometry ’.
The altar and backdrop of the Chester cathedral in England.
The B4 retouch series
I browsed my archive for pictures to publish. All of them are not completely retouched yet. Scratches, dust and stains are not removed. Shot with Nikon F90 on Kodak TriX, scanned from film and edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version.
Merry Christmas
Christmas is about light, shining in the dark, a promise of possibilities, of new events. Small sparks that may turn into the brightness of a beautiful sun, offering warmth, comfort, trust, security, well being and new life.
I wish you lots of light in the coming year, to see and observe the difference between the light and the darkness, to embrace and accept them both as parts of our life.
This year’s last Lens-Artists Challenge (#128) is ‘And here comes the holiday season………..’
Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version
Hirondelles
The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #123 is ‘Found in the Neighborhood’.
Well, this is a photo of a neighborhood from a long time ago during a holiday in France.
The B4 retouch series
I browsed my archive for pictures to publish. All of them are not completely retouched yet. Scratches, dust and stains are not removed.
Shot with Nikon F90 on Kodak TriX, scanned from film and edited using Snapseed and Marksta, Click the picture for a bigger version
Tower
Shot with iPhone 11 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version
Church Wall
The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #116 is ‘symmetry’.
Shot with iPhone 11 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version
Tower
The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #114 is ‘Negative Space’.
The term ‘negative space’ to me is confusion: technically it is the space around the main subject of a photo. It means ‘negative’ as opposed to ‘positive’ attention for the main subject. The word ‘negative’ as a noun brings back good old memories. Being older I actually worked and work with negatives (for the millennials: it has to do with film, the light sensitive stuff we used to put in a camera to get a photo on (in negative) that later could be printed (in positive).
So ‘negative space’ is about the focus a viewer of a photo is offered in a photo. If there is a lot to see around the subject, than that distracts from that subject. In other words: it is a creative tool a photographer can use.
Shot with iPhone 11 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version
Church
The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #113 is ‘A labor of love’.
Regardless one’s opinion about religion: faith is a labor of love.
Shot with iPhone 11 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version
Rome 1998
The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #110 is ‘Creativity in a time of Covid’.
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.
Originally shot with Nikon F301 on Kodak TriX, scanned from negative and tweaked using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.
Sign
Malta, Valletta – November 2010
The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #85 is ‘treasure hunt’
This note was pinned on one of the doors of the co-cathedral in Valletta Malta.
Especially the addition of narrow heels makes it even more interesting to read.\
If you want to join or participate in the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenges just follow the link above.
Shot with Nikon D7000, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version
History Window
England, Chester – September 1980
The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #79 is ‘a window with a view’
Chester Cathedral, a window in the Cloisters.
If you want to join or participate in the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenges just follow the link above.
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.
The picture was are originally shot with a Pentax K1000 on Ilford FP4, scanned from negative and tweaked using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.
Portal
Ireland, Slane – October 2008
This one is for Dutch goes the photo’s ‘portal’ theme.
Slane Hill in Ireland. Close to Slane Castle castle that is famous among other historical facts, for being the recording site for U2’s The unforgettable fire’ in 1984.
Never judge an album by its cover, but part of the castle burned in 1991, but was restored in 2001. Slane Castle is also famous for its concerts and festivals; a lot of famous band and artists performed there.
Outside the village is The Hill of Slane with a small old ruined chapel, a ruined monastery and a graveyard, overlooking the landscape and the river Boyne.
shot with Nikon D70, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.
Pick the Place: Rome 3
Italy, Rome – May 1997
The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #65 is ‘pick a place’.
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.
For more information on how to join the Weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenges, click here for details.
Shot with Nikon F90 on Kodak TriX, scanned from film and edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version
Pick your Place: Karpathos
Greece, Karpathos – September 2009
The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #65 is ‘pick a place’.
Karpathos, a small island between Turkey and Crete. At a time I still used film.
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.
For more information on how to join the Weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenges, click here for details.
Shot with Nikon F90 on Kodak TriX, scanned from film and edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version
Nieuwstraat Leiden
The Netherlands, Leiden – September 2018
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Last of Summer
The Netherlands, Leiden – September 2018
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Hooglandse Kerk
The Netherlands, Leiden – September 2018
The Hooglandse Kerk in Leiden.
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Ascend – Bell Tower
This Weekly Photo Challenge theme is ‘ ascend’ .
Spain, Mijas el Pueblo – November 2017
shot with iPhone 6s plus using Hueless, edited using Snapseed and Marksta, click the picture for a larger version
A list of other entries to this theme; if you do not want to be on this list let me know and I remove the link
- Study for “Return”, All 3 Versions / “귀환”을 위한 습작, 3가지 모두 – YK crafts:
- Medicinalmeadows Time of Fallow
- Christmas tree topper |
- sukies original Weekly Photography Challenge: Ascend
- Chocholwska Valley in Polish Tatra Mountains – Ascending Towards Higher Mountains. – Light Vision – Art & Photography Blog
- Strength is Soul Deep – megakaosdesigns
- WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge – Ascend_6 – Sketches By Nitesh
- Weekly Photo Challenge: Ascend – DesertWitches
- Life is for Living Every Day WordPress Photo Challenge: My Adventure Walking on the Great Wall of China
- An Introvert Talks Kitesurfing in Tarifa
- thechangingpalette are we there yet?
- WPC – Ascend – Reunion
- Weekly Photo Challenge: Ascend – Mara Eastern
- Reunion
- Ascend – My Journey Across China
- Ascend – Dream and Flutter
- yi-ching lin photography range
- Carto’s Logbook Ascend — To the heights in San Diego
- Ascend – Becky’s Ramblings
- LIVING WITH MY ANCESTORS DP Weekly Photo Challenge — Ascend
- thoughts and entanglements Silence Broken
- Weekly Photo Challenge: Ascend – Adrian Evans Photography
- thoughts and entanglements TRUST
- Weekly Photo Challenge: Ascend – Jedi by Knight
- Weekly Photo Challenge: Ascend – Sketch and Painting World
- Haiku: A Guide In Mid-Winter – whippetwisdom.com
- Photo Challenge and Poem: Ascend – Relaxed & Forward: AnnaBlakeBlog
- The Day After Strasburg Historic Homes :The Stairs
- CONNECTED Ascend
- Exploring the World around us Ascend – WPC
- Searching for Uthopia – DISCOVER WHEN LOST
- A Story About Old Stairs – Blog of Hammad Rais
- Soaring on up in 2018: Moving upwards past the lows – psychologistmimi
- Weekly Photo Challenge – Ascent – redstuffdan
- Ascending towards the Almighty – Vj Dogra
- Study for “Return” – 2 / “귀환”을 위한 습작 – 2 – YK crafts:
- Annointed – Scribbled to Paper
- Weekly Photo Challenge: Ascend – Two Black Dogs
- Ascend – Standing out – What’s (in) the picture?
- Zimmerbitch DP Photo Challenge:
Ascend – White Church
This Weekly Photo Challenge theme is ‘ ascend’ .
Spain, Mijas el Pueblo – November 2017
shot with iPhone 6s plus using Hueless, edited using Snapseed and Marksta, click the picture for a larger version
A list of other entries to this theme; if you do not want to be on this list let me know and I remove the link
- Zimmerbitch DP Photo Challenge: ascend
- WPC: Ascent – Riding the Rails – A Trivial Mind At Work
- myguiltypleasures weekly photo challenge – ascend
- Travel Crusade Twisted alleys of Barot Valley
- SERENDIPITY UP, UP AND AWAY AT THE TUSKEGEE AIR HANGAR
- Weekly Photo Challenge: Ascend – knit equals joy
- Ascend, Cast your Mind Higher-Photo Challenge – Calling-all-RushBabes
- Frank J Casella Photoblog Ascend – The Power of Prayer
- Not a Typical Grandma Ascend
- WPC: Ascend – MK pix
- Unlikely Allies: Squid & Whale / 뜻밖의 동맹: 대왕오징어와 고래 – YK crafts:
- A. JoAnn Going Up?
- Tarjani sheth It is You who choose to Ascend..!
- Laidig’s Broadway Littlest Peak
- Up, up in the air – Hapless Press
- A drive in the Oltrepò Pavese, Lombardy – ALMOST ITALIAN
- JaniceHeck Daily Post Photo Challenge: Ascend
- Mainline_Matter Jet Ascend Amidst UFOs
- Ascend: Masonry Staircase – Rebecca Wiseman Portfolio
- Ascend: “See ya later” – Rebecca Wiseman Portfolio
- Ascend: Moon Rise – Rebecca Wiseman Portfolio
- WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge – Ascend_1 – Sketches By Nitesh
- Ascend – Weekly Photo Challenge – Tea, Wine, and Cheese, Please!
- Dance of the Seed – Sgeoil
- Chasing Serenity with a Lens Weekly Photo Challenge: Ascend
- iScriblr Weekly Photo Challenge : Ascend
- Weekly Photo Challenge: Ascending over Mt Adams – Cats and Trails and Garden Tales
- Weekly Photo Challenge: Ascend |
- Stuff and what if… Look Up! WPC: Ascend
- Dr D in Oz Landscape above the clouds
- Ouch!! My back hurts!! Ascend
- The Land Slide Photography Ask Me
- Mirth and Motivation Photo Challenge: ASCEND
- Black Sun, Dark Moon – Kim K. McCrea
- Stairs to the roof – Stories from A Closet of Errors
- Ascend: To Move Upward, To Rise – 27 CROSSES
- At the Break of Dawn – Nes Felicio Photography
- Stephanie’s RV Travels Scuba diving at Point Lobos State Park and Marine Sanctuary.
- Forest Garden WPC: Ascend!
- Weekly Photo Challenge – Ascend – jwdwrites
- scillagrace Weekly Photo Challenge: Ascend
- thechangingpalette WPC: Ascend
- The Incredible Lightness of Seeing Weekly Photo Challenge: Ascend
- The Power of Ascension – Lofty Goals – Adventuresnluv
- Ascend from Within: Manifesting a Reality of Higher Consciousness – thepositivemedia
- Leya WPC: Ascend
- WPC: Ascend – Snapshots: Styles And Smiles
- WPC: Ascend… – quite simply
- Worth the climb – Thin spiral notebook
- Ascend – Mistyroads
- Many faces of Ascend – abbisoul
- The highest point – Living in Paradise…
- wpc: ascend – meditative journey with saldage
- Ascend Weekly Photo Challenge
- Weekly Photo Challenge – Ascend – HAGAR DIAB
- Lins Doodles WPC Ascend
- Stupidity Hole Branch Ascending
- bend branches Stone steps ascending
- Writings from the Meadow Ascend – weekly photo challenge
- Highasakite Eirik Jeistad
- Jaspa’s Journal Lanyon Quoit Neolithic Tomb In The Mist At Dusk
- The Ambitious Drifter Walking Up To Heaven
- The Malevolence of Everyday Objects – J HARDY CARROLL
- Stephen Rees’s blog Weekly Photo Challenge: Ascend
- Weekly Photo Challenge-Ascend – WoollyMuses
- del’s other stuff… ascending or, what goes up!
- Taking a stroll above Chinatown – Travel with Intent
- Oby Akhigbe Ascending Into The Clouds
- No Fixed Plans Weekly Photo Challenge: Ascend
- Ascend – By Sarah
- thoughts and entanglements A Cherita – Groovy
- The Archives of Wisdom: Pop Culture Kings A Cheeky Cat
- The Petaluma Spectator Goodbye 2017! Now We Ascend to an Ersatz If Not Faux New Year…2018!
- thoughts and entanglements DP Weekly Photo Challenge:Ascend
- Girl with the Paw Print Tattoo Weekly Photo Challenge: My Ascension
- Half a photograph Pillars
- WPC: Ascend – Candle in a Cave
- Ruined for Life: Phoenix Edition Weekly Photo Challenge: Ascend
- Weekly Photo Challenge : Ascend – Blog #2
- A Walk in the Garden Weekly Photo Challenge: ASCEND
- Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge: Ascend – GalOnTrip
- Ascend
- Photo Challenge: Ascend – justlifeslittlestories
- Weekly Photo Challenge: Ascend – My Vancouver Island Life
- The Daily Post Photo Challenge: Ascend – SUPERNOVABEAUTY
- HX Report Weekly Photo Challenge – Ascend
- What Rhymes with Stanza? reaching
- Pines & Palms – Beach Books
- The Hockey Mom Fit Life Flamsbana
- Cast a look on the world Ascending
- Once a Day Photos | Bye Birds –
- Chronicles of an Anglo Swiss Photo Challenge: Ascend
- WPC: Ascent – The Great Wall – A Trivial Mind At Work
- castelsarrasin Ascend: Weekly Photo Challenge
- Ascend – photo challenge – Phototraveler: Wanders and Wonders
- Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge: Ascend – Cee’s Photography
- Click This, TAPG! Weekly Photo Challenge – Ascend
- Ladybugs |
- The Breath of the Earth – Listening For Thunder
- ASCEND ~ The Gift Of A Dream – corazon181
- WPC: Ascend – eljaygee
- Mon beau manoir Weekly Photo Challenge : Ascend
- The Lazy Wanderer Up Up and Away
- Weekly Photo Challenge: Ascend – That #Prov14:30 Life
- Mostly Monochrome Towards the Heavens
- Books, Music, Photography, & Movies WPC: Ascend
- This and That WPC: Ascend
- Bears and Angel – Arizona Mary Photos
- Mucho Spanish Weekly Photo Challenge: Ascend
- MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO Ascend
- la parole a été donnée à l´homme pour cacher sa pensée Ascend – Weekly Photo Challenge
- The Reluctant Photographer Modern Times
- VOGUE RESORT & SPA – AONANG, KRABI – e-Travelers Club Travel Update
- “Enjoying the Ruins” – Pique Images
- Weekly Photo Challenge: Ascend – codziennik
- stenoodie Weekly Photo Challenge: Ascend
- Light Words WPC Ascend
- Peacock-Ascend WPC – EmotionalNotions
- Jump! Bust The Fear… – Success Strategies
- UNGEMALTES Weekly Photo Challenge: Ascend
- Ascend – My Point of View
- umgeBUCHt Weekly Photo Challenge: Ascend
- Mittened Hands There She Goes
- Madame Zenista Aspire to ascend
Scale: Gate 1991
An old photo taken in February 1991 through the gate of De Burcht in Leiden, The Netherlands looking at the Hooglandse Kerk.
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.
The Netherlands, Leiden – February 1991
Originally shot with Nikon F301 on Kodak TriX, scanned from negative and tweaked using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.
A list of other entries to this theme; if you do not want to be on this list let me know and I remove the link
- WPC: scale – Under a Cornish Sky
- Travel Crusade Riding through the enticing elegance of Nainital
- Shoot ‘N Go Weekly Photo Challenge: Scale
- WPC: Scale – Waterfall – A Trivial Mind At Work
- Boston Skyline – scenethat
- Zimmerbitch DP Photo Challenge: scale
- theonlyD800inthehameau Weekly Photo Challenge: Scale
- Right Steps & Poui Trees Big Gardens, Tiny Car: Weekly Photo Challenge – Scale
- SERENDIPITY SCALE – PERSPECTIVE AND THE SIZE OF THINGS
- A Sunny Perspective – Growing Self
- Air you can see – Oh, border!
- A Clear View – Full-Time
- Scale – Sunyar Unseen India
- Scale – tea & paper
- Scale: Mountain Road – Rebecca Wiseman Portfolio
- The Land Slide Photography Lone Fisherman
- Light Words WPC Scale Of The Fires
- The Shower of Blessings Weekly Photo Challenge – Scale
- Photo Challenge – Scale – Photography in Pearls
- Weekly Photo Challenge: Scale – Intensity Without Mastery
- Stupidity Hole Stanwell Beach
- Scale: Kites on a Cloudy Day – Rebecca Wiseman Portfolio
- The dreamer blogger The scale of protection
- Scale: When Small looks Big – Rebecca Wiseman Portfolio
- cambodian beginnings Scale
- Yashica Pentamatic Fanatic Scale – Weekly Photo Challenge
- Photo Challenge____People For Scale – Calling-all-RushBabes
- Na’ama Yehuda Scaled Contrast
- Weekly Photo Challenge : Between The Gigantic Faces – Celina2609’s Blog
- Singapore Botanic Gardens: Swing Me, Mama! – Sunrise, Sunset
- Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenge: Scale – Chateaux des Fleurs
- ….on pets and prisoners….. wpc: scale
- The Ambitious Drifter Spaceships In Stone
- weekly photo challenge scale – photo roberts blog
- Ouch!! My back hurts!! On a Scale of One to Five!
- Scale in public art – Hapless Press
- Meager beginnings – Thin spiral notebook
- WPC: Scale – Snapshots: Styles And Smiles
- Perspectives – Stories from A Closet of Errors
- WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – SCALE 3 – AugenBlicke
- Scale / Mittakaava / WPC – artkorppi II
- Picture Worthy Oct 11, 2017 – WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: Scale
- WEEKLA PHOTO CHALLENGE – SCALE 2 – AugenBlicke
- WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – SCALE – AugenBlicke
- coolquilting WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: Scale
- gypsy life How I interpreted Scale…
- myguiltypleasures weekly photo challenge – scale
- Scale-Wordless Wednesday
- Scale – aleka art work
- Weekly Photo Challenge-Scale – WoollyMuses
- Sitting on the foot of a giant – picturesimperfectblog
- River Walking – Kim K. McCrea
- Words Like Honey Weekly Photo Challenge: Scale
- Stephen Rees’s blog Weekly Photo Challenge: Scale
- rivrvlogr Scale
- WPC: Scale – Snapshots: Styles And Smiles
- Scale – Nomad
- Scales Fall From Human Eyes – Beach Books
- Midlife Crisis Crossover! Scales of Danger!
- Daily Post Photo Challenge: Scale – SUPERNOVABEAUTY
- scale – STREET-PHOTOGRAPHY-COLLAGES
- Endless Summer – A. JoAnn
- Weekly WordPress Photo Challenge: Scale – The Apples in My Orchard
- scale – andy townend
- stenoodie Weekly Photo Challenge: Scale
- WordsVisual Scale
- Laidig’s Broadway Moth Country
- Tales Of Mindful Travels WordPress Photo Challenge: Scale!
- WPC: Scale – Huge Spider? – A Trivial Mind At Work
- Weekly Photo Challenge: Scale Garden Perspectives
- Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenge: Scale – nancy merrill photography
- Scale – Weekly Photo Challenge – Tea, Wine, and Cheese, Please!
- Unusual – By Sarah
- Scale – Greenkeeper – Tom. Fotoblog
- Cardinal Guzman behind the scenes
- A Writer’s Voice On a Grand Scale
- Weekly Photo Challenge: Scale – Cindimatography
- Photo Challenge: Scale – Photoessayist The Blog
- Stuck – Eirik Jeistad
- Weekly Photo Challenge : Scale – Diecast Car Collector
- The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge #1 – Dame Traveller
- Books, Music, Photography, & Movies WPC : Scale
- thelonerose BALLOONS–photo challenge scale
- What’s cooking at the Blue Fox Cafe Scale
- A Walk Among The Bones / J HARDY CARROLL
- Jaspa’s Journal The Spruce Goose: The Biggest Airplane Ever Built
- Zoom Zoom Trickery – Just Another Nature Enthusiast Scale
- Here & Abroad Weekly Photo Challenge: Scale
- Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge: Scale – Cee’s Photography
- Tuesday Photo Challenge – Sand – Dutch goes the Photo!
- No Fixed Plans Weekly Photo Challenge: Scale
- la parole a été donnée à l´homme pour cacher sa pensée Weekly Photo Challenge – Scale
- Albatz Travel Adventures Giant Buddhas in Manuha Temple in Bagan
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- Po’ Girl Shines Weekly Photo Challenge: Scale
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- Small Size but Huge Eater – From Hiding to Blogging
- Weekly Photo Challenge: Scale – My Vancouver Island Life
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- thoughts and entanglements Weekly photo Challenge: Scale
- Weekly Photo Challenge: Scale – Gedankenkruemel
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- Mittened Hands Along the River Spree
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- castelsarrasin Scale: WeeklyPhoto Challenge
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- Ruined for Life: Phoenix Edition Weekly Photo Challenge: Scale
- Weekly Photo Challenge: Scale – Jinan Daily Photo: The Sequel
Layered: Into Light
This weekly theme is ‘layered’.
Huemore
England, Burnham Market – August 2017
Shot with iPhone 6s plus using Huemore edited using Snapseed and Marksta Click the picture for a larger version
A list of other entries to this theme; if you do not want to be on this list let me know and I remove the link
- The Daily Post Photo Challenge: Layered – SUPERNOVABEAUTY
- Spirit of Dragonflies WPC – Layered in Nature
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- Layered (Photo Challenge) – Amalgamated Blog
- dunelight Milwaukee: Louis’s Last Regatta
- Slice of Life: Layers – 1DR What Else? A journey into the cloud…
- Bajan Beauty – Layered – Tachispeaks
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- Layered: Beautifully, Naturally and Perfectly! – The Unstoppable Optimist!
- The People Upstairs – Beyond the Window Box
- Layered – WazirNama
- On the Beach In Black And White – Say It With A Camera
- under the surface – the colour of things
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- Green – take a walk
- Carto’s Library Layered — A City in the Sky
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- the texture and the depth is in the eyes!!! – Site Title
- Valentina Cirasola Layered
- Layered — Island in the Net
- Three Sisters – writingrealities
- The World Is a Book… The more you look, the more you find…
- When the Smoke Cleared – Chirps and Buzzes
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- life beneath layers – mslazyboots
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- Layers – Word Press Weekly Challenge – far’n’wide travel
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Texture: Wall
This weekly theme is ‘texture’,
England, Shere – May 2017
shot with iPhone 6s plus using Hueless, edited using Snapseed and Marksta, click the picture for a larger version
A list of other entries to this theme; if you do not want to be on this list let me know and I remove the link
- altered squares Asphalt III
- Photo Challenge; Textures Of Inspiration – Searching For Elsewhere
- Na’ama Yehuda Textured Conflict
- WPC: Textures – Neighborhood In Corduroy – A Trivial Mind At Work
- Stephen Rees’s blog WPC: Textures part 2
- Shi Yali Photography Tenacious Roots Textures
- The Texture of Mother Nature – Growing Self
- SERENDIPITY GARDEN TEXTURES – THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE
- Spirit of Dragonflies WPC – Textures
- WPC: Textures – snaphappi
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- Textures – Photos by Emilio
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- Galen911 “I Heard The Sands Whispering My Name”
- Indira’s Blog Textures- Weekly Photo Challenge
- Textures in Nature – A BUM WITHOUT A BEACH
- The Ambitious Drifter Patterns In Stone
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- A Life Retired Weather Texture and nature
- Forest Garden A Different Texture
- Tropical textures – Bird Flight
- Mittened Hands British Bricks
- Feasts For Fingertips – Listening For Thunder
- thoughts and entanglements WeeklyPhoto Challenge:Textures
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- Textures: Rocky – Rebecca Wiseman Portfolio
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Heritage: War Memorial
The weekly theme is ‘heritage’.
Shere is a beautiful little village. Its church has been the backdrop of a few films.
And of course there is a war memorial.
England, Shere – May 2017
shot with iPhone 6s plus using Hueless, edited using Snapseed and Marksta, click the picture for a larger version
A list of other entries to this theme; if you do not want to be on this list let me know and I remove the link
- The City That Never Sleeps – Flying On Empty Thoughts
- Craigmillar Castle – Walking Talking
- Rotorua – Painted in words
- Anil’s Blog Heritage : Bern’s Zytglogge
- Heritage – Mahabalipuram – India – XDrive
- Heritage: Weekly Photo Challenge The Church
- sukies original Weekly Photography Challenge: Heritage
- Musin’ With Susan We Should Be Ashamed
- Image Coffee Lite Heritage : Mezzogiorno di Siena, Toscana
- Photo_Challenge_Heritage
- The Beauty Along the Road Our Wild Food Heritage
- Learning Bow Hunting – From Hiding to Blogging
- How to remove GPS location information from photos on Mac and Windows
- yi-ching lin photography lost and found
- Making the Days Count heritage – a photo challenge
- Heritage: The Daily Post Photo Challenge – I scrap 2
- Blarney – Thirty by Thirty
- Heritage – A Living Tradition: Weekly Photo Challenge – Petchary’s Blog
- Sounds like wish Weekly photo challenge: Heritage
- Only in Lyon – Journeys of Len
- Murtagh’s Meadow Hawthorn hedgerows
- The Daily Post Heritage
- Abandoned Eirik Jeistad
- On the trail of the ‘vanishing people’ – The Alpha Odyssey
- Heritage – The Inkwell
- Mon beau manoir Weekly Photo Challenge : Heritage
- WPC – Religious heritage – Awa on the Road
- Bailly Homestead – Heaven’s Sunshine
- 83 Unsung Heroes Proper Footballers
- Thursday’s Special: Traces of the Past & WPD: Heritage – Justine Taylor Photography
- Heritage
- Ain’t Found A Good Title Blog WPC – Heritage – SS Graf Waldersee – Photography
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- Thursday’s Special: Traces of the Past and WPD: Heritage – Cee’s Photography
- Weekly Photo Challenge: Heritage – Marginalia
- Damiology WPC: Heritage
- Photo Challenge – Heritage – The Diary of a Weird Teen Boy
- Carto’s Logbook Heritage — San Francisco’s Cable Cars
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- Reflections at Bukit Chandu – The Battle of Pasir Panjang Ridge – Living for Experiences
- My Battlebox Experience at Fort Canning – Living for Experiences
- Heritage – Classic Beauty Muriel – Land of Images
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- RuthsArc Weekly Photo Challenge – Heritage
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- Nan’s Farm-Inside Out The Oldest Street in England
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- Living Heritage – LifeBlog
- 467 Inheritance: Born to be eaten or birthright to eat? – LA FLORALIE 3
- Heritage and History – HorseAddict
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- What’s (in) the picture? Heritage: Shiva Temple
What's (in) the Picture? 