Boat

Suppletion of 5,5 million cubic meters of sand – Coastal defense maintenance

The Netherlands, Katwijk – February 2023

The weekly theme for LAPC #237 is ‘bringing softness’. Softness can be achieved in processing a sharp photo. Or just use zoom on an iPhone and do not keep it still while pressing the shutter. It gives the softness that makes this beach view interesting.

Right now the coast at Katwijk is work in progress. Sand is dredged out of the sea, pressed through tubes and added just before the beach under the water. 5,5 cubic meters of sand. Making it safe again and compliant to standards. As always Rijkswaterstaat does an amazing job.

Katwijk archive

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Blakeney Hotel and Harbor at Sunrise

Blakeney at sunrise.

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

Holkham Dunes

England, Holkham – January 202

The theme for LAPC 234 is ‘messages’. The dunes and the retreated sea create a wonderful open space that connects land, sea, sky and men. A space for stories, dreams and desires.

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

Wrecked and stranded

England, Blakeney – January 2023

The theme for LAPC 234 is ‘messages’. At some places old and abandonded boats can be found in the salt marshes. Messages and old stories.

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

Moon over Marshes

England, Blakeney – 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. The marshes on the quay of Blakeney around sunrise.

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

Juno

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

Autumn 2022 – Boat

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – November 2022

The theme for the weekly lens artists challenge is ‘diagonals‘.

Archive Oegstgeest

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Zijl

This week lens artists challenge #214 is ‘favourite finds’. A typical Dutch landscape on a warm day, with boats coming and going to the lakes. The find was the little ferry we used to cross this water, the river Zijl near Leiden.

Archive Leiden

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Night Boat to Harwich

The Netherlands, Hoek van Holland – July 2022

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Row Row Row your boat

The Lens-artists challenge #197 is ‘rule of thirds’. The rule of thirds is a rule of thumb how to compose images. There are more ‘rules’; another is the ‘s’ like in the photo above. Whatever rule you like to use: break them and tweak them till you are happy with the result of the photo you are putting together. In the end your gut tells a lot about what constitutes a decent picture to your liking.

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

Ripples

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – March 2022

A picture that does not fit in a category has to fit in ‘odds and ends’, lens artists photo challenge #189.

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

Push

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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Systematic

The Netherlands, Scheveningen – July 2004

This week lens artists photo challenge is ‘that special place’. The beach is a place to relax, let go and create space and a fresh head. And you can see more than water and beach at times. This one is also an entry for Paula’s pick a word competition on ‘Lost in Translatation’. It looks like the surfers are in chaos, but actually they use the water and wind systematic.

Archive Scheveningen

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Galgenwater Leiden

This weeks challenge #187 is ‘water’. The Galgenwater in Leiden. In the background a replica a of the mill that was used by the father of Rembrandt van Rijn, who was born to the left of the bridge in the distance in 1606, 410 years before this photo.

Archive Leiden

shot with iPhone 6s plus using Hueless, edited using Snapseed and Marksta, click the picture for a larger version

Achilles and the tortoise

The weekly LAPC (Lens Artists Photo Challenge) #182 is ‘interesting objects’. Zeno of Elea is famous for a set of paradoxes. One of them is the paradox of Achilles and the tortoise.

In the paradox of Achilles and the tortoise, Achilles is in a footrace with the tortoise. Achilles allows the tortoise a head start of 100 meters, for example. Suppose that each racer starts running at some constant speed, one faster than the other. After some finite time, Achilles will have run 100 meters, bringing him to the tortoise’s starting point. During this time, the tortoise has run a much shorter distance, say 2 meters. It will then take Achilles some further time to run that distance, by which time the tortoise will have advanced farther; and then more time still to reach this third point, while the tortoise moves ahead. Thus, whenever Achilles arrives somewhere the tortoise has been, he still has some distance to go before he can even reach the tortoise.

Archive Greece

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No One is an Island

Off the west coast of Lesbos.

No man is an island,
Entire of itself,
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thy friend’s
Or of thine own were:
Any man’s death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind,
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee. John Donne

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

Grey Day

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – December 2021

The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #179 is Serene. A grey morning in Autumn.

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The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #179 is Serene. A grey morning in Autumn.

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Barfleur

The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #178 is You Choose.

The harbor of Barfleur, a small village in the West of Normandy.

shot with Nikon D7000, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.