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Posts from the ‘Architecture’ category
Galapagos
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Sugar Cake: estate Sandenburg
The Netherlands, Langbroek – July 2023
Kasteel Sandenburg in Langbroek. An old estate in the center of The Netherlands. Lovingly nicknamed the sugar cake. I wonder why.
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Water Tower
This week’s Lens Artists Challenge is ‘Simplicity Photography’.
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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.
Parking Westfield
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Hospital
The Lens Artists Photo Challenge #251 is ‘buildings and other structures’. This the Alrijne Hospital in Leiden. The wings form a beautiful shape with some organic trees and green under a contrasting sky.
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Lighthouse and Church
The Netherlands, Katwijk – March 2023
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Katwijk aan Zee
The weekly theme for LAPC #239 is ‘finding peace’.
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Burnham Market – Chelsea by the Sea 1
England, Burnham Market – January 2023
Burnham Market in Norfolk, nicknamed Chelsea by the Sea, is a lovely village with a wonderful atmospheric town center.
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Shere Church in mono
St. James’ church in Shere.
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Shere Church
St. James’ church in Shere.
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Historical Tax House
The theme for the weekly lens artists challenge is ‘home sweet home‘. In the middle ages one had to pay tax (toll) to use the canal to enter goods into a city. This is a toll house in Oegstgeest at the Leidsevaart or Trekvaart. I am not following the brief, pointing to the places people should visit in The Netherlands. They are well known, and the paths towards them are flattened by millions of tourists. I just point to small places telling a bit about my flat country.
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Abbaye de Beaulieu
Detail of the Abbaye de Beaulieu.
- Archive France
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Trees in rain
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Rain at De Vink
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Rain and lights
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Antwerp Alleys
Impressions of a walk throught Antwerp. Some alleys and small streets. This week lens artists challenge #213 is ‘here comes the sun’.
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Antwerp Cathredal of Our Lady
Belgium, Antwerp – August 2022
Impressions of a walk throught Antwerp. Here the Cathedral of Our Lady. This week lens artists challenge #213 is ‘here comes the sun’.
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Antwerp Fronts
Belgium, Antwerp – August 2022
Impressions of a walk throught Antwerp. three fronts of houses: from old to more modern. This week lens artists challenge #213 is ‘here comes the sun’.
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Antwerp Grote Markt: Morning Drinks
Belgium, Antwerp – August 2022
Impressions of a walk throught Antwerp. Here the Grote Markt, overseen by the Cathedral of Our Lady, where some people enjoy a coffee in the morning sun while others prefer a Belgium beer. This week lens artists challenge #213 is ‘here comes the sun’.
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Antwerp Grote Markt
Belgium, Antwerp – August 2022
Impressions of a walk throught Antwerp. Here the Grote Markt with the townhall and all those beautiful facades and views, overseen by the Cathedral of Our Lady. This week lens artists challenge #213 is ‘here comes the sun’.
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TUI
This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge is #206 ‘Treasures’. One of my treasures is not seeing these big birds approaching Schiphol Amsterdam.
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Fly Over
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Public Transport Hub
This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge is #206 ‘Treasures’.
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Chartres 2002
One from the archive. A group at Chartres admires the details on the front of the cathedral. One for ‘the eyes have it’, the theme for lens artists photo challenge #205.
- Archive B4-retouch series
- Archive France
- Archive Chartres
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.
Policy Making
The view from the departement of Infrastructure and Water-management on Central Station Den Haag.
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Church Gate
Lens Artists Photo Challenge #204 for this week is ‘doors and doorways’. The partly open gate of the church in Montmorrilon, France.
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Restaurant
Lens Artists Photo Challenge #203 for this week is ‘local vistas’. The restaurant of De Bijenkorf in Den Haag.
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Crossing Borders
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Sky Lines
mLens artists photo challenge #199 is ‘mechanical/industrial’. I have a soft spot for planes coming over against the backdrop of the sky.
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Free Bird
Lens-Artists weekly photo challenge #198 is ‘light and shadow’.
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Sepia over Den Haag
The Lens-artists challenge #197 is ‘rule of thirds’. The rule of thirds is a rule of thumb how to compose images. But a photo that creates a journey of the eye can also be made by using lines and colors. This is the view from Den Haag Central Station to Scheveningen.
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Meting Delta
The Lens-artists challenge #196 is ‘humor‘. A bit of a weird moment meting a Delta plane overhead.
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Back to the Office
Hybrid working is part of the new normal: so some days at home, some at the office. It is nice to see Den Haag again.
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Take Off
This week Lens Artists Photography Challenge #192 is ‘Earth Story’.
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Sunset through a dirty car window
This week Lens Artists Photography Challenge #192 is ‘Earth Story’.
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Big Blue Bird
Ready for taking off into the blue skies.
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The Roof
A picture that does not fit in a category has to fit in ‘odds and ends’, lens artists photo challenge #189.
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Musée Carré d’Art 1997
This week lens artists photo challenge is ‘that special place’. In this photo it refers to the moment of the photo. I was lying on the floor figuring out if the reflections of the Musée Carré d’Art could build up to some composition. Then, a young girls came into the frame, and I just snapped.
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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Arles 1997
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
Lhasa 2004 Bank of China
This weeks challenge #186 is ‘Low Light’. A guard of the Bank of China in Lhasa.
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 Fuji Film, scanned from negative and tweaked using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version
Kathmandu 2004
This weeks challenge #186 is ‘Low Light’. In black and white light is key for tones in the picture. It needs body (black) but soft greys give it atmosphere. Here I used the darker tones for the main objects of the photo, the couple playing cards, while having a drink and a bite. But all these signs in the background about what to do in Kathmandu add to the atmosphere of the photo.
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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Mobile
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Le Marais
Having a drink.
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Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa
Mona Lisa is one of the most famous and genius works of art in the world. I was lucky to view it for the first time when the Louvre was not modernized. On a Monday morning in February 1984 me and a friend were the only persons in the room to admire her mysterious smile. In 2008 I saw her again from a distance, in a sea of pressing people, holding up phones and camera’s to get a glimpse of her. I have not been there since, but I can imagine what it must look like on a normal day before the pandemic. A wave of smartphones will be raised towards her, in a never ending stream of people on visiting times of the Louvre. Apparently 80% of the visitors of the Louvre come to see her.
I read in an article that at present people seek personal attention in combination with important objects and/or moments. A selfie is the instrument to gain that attention on Instagram or Twitter or Facebook or Tiktok. Mona Lisa/Lisa Gherardini never wanted that attention, a brilliant artist painted her portrait. And the rest is history. She must feel lonely now, no one is coming to see her. Or is she finally getting her well deserved rest.
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Portal
Bayeux is an old village in Normandy France. Home of the Bayeux Tapestry. Here the entrance to the cathedral.
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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.
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St. Paul’s
Millennium Bridge and St. Paul’s in London.
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Millennium Bridge Saint Paul’s View
Millennium Bridge and St. Paul’s in London.
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