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Asteroid B 612: Capturing the Power of the Moon

The Moon just stands there it seems, and mostly I do not pay too much attention to it. The power of the moon is enormous though, as it influences the level of the seas on Earth. At odd moments in the evening or morning I grab my camera when I spot the moon, I just can’t resist. This is one of those times, the haziness reminds me of the sand in the Sahara, the setting of Le Petit Prince, a beautiful book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Could this moon be asteroid B 612? The power of imagination, see what your eyes can not see.

Archive Oegstgeest

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Co-existence in Habitat: A Heron’s View of Oegstgeest, Netherlands

LAPC #306 is ‘habitat’. As humans we share the earth with lots of natural life, we share habitats (the human home, the natural ecosystem), we co-exist. Our relation with earth is not balanced. It tilts favorably towards the human interest, disrupting the natural habitats of many. If we as humans do not change our relationship with earth, then humanity kills itself, leaving a planet to recover from being abused. Not survival of the fittest, but termination of the dumbest.

A Heron, sitting on a lamppost, overlooking the articificial canal, as a cyclist uses a cycling path in the background.

Archive Oegstgeest

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Flower Parade 2024 (3)

The Netherlands, Voorhout – April 2024

The yearly flower parade of the Bollenstreek showing bulb flower creativity and offering mesmerizing smells.

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Flower Parade 2024 (2)

The Netherlands, Voorhout – April 2024

The yearly flower parade of the Bollenstreek showing bulb flower creativity and offering mesmerizing smells.

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Flower Parade 2024 (1)

The Netherlands, Voorhout – April 2024

The yearly flower parade of the Bollenstreek showing bulb flower creativity and offering mesmerizing smells.

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Flower Parade 2024

The yearly flower parade of the Bollenstreek showing bulb flower creativity and offering mesmerizing smells. A first photo, I post more soon.

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Mother Duck

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – February 2024

To our surprise we found this duck sitting on a nest, hidden in the grasses of our front garden. Finally ten little chicks came out.

Archive Oegstgeest

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Thinking in the Rain

Winter rain and a bronze statue.

Archive Oegstgeest

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Growing Up

Archive Oegstgeest

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Growing Up Magnolia 2

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – March 2024

I started documenting the Magnolia, taking a photo a day from the kitchen window. Here is the second gallery.

Archive Oegstgeest

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Growing Up Magnolia

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – February/March 2024

I started documenting the Magnolia, taking a photo a day from the kitchen window. Here is a first gallery.

Archive Oegstgeest

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Water Watcher

A familiar sight in the neighborhood. He never looks good on iPhone but now on Nikon the details of his feathers are quite impressive.

Archive Oegstgeest

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Seafront Silhouette

The theme for this week’s Lens Artists Challenge #286 is ‘Weather’.

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Moving the Posts

Sea view.

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Just Passing

A ferry passes an anchored cargoship in the Channel. For LAPC #285 ‘warm colors’.

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Catching Up

The Channel from the England/Kent side, two ships catching up in the reflection of the sunlight. For LAPC #285 ‘warm colors’.

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Division Line

A view from the Kingsdown cliffs. A powerline cuts the image.

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Kingsdown Beach

A view from the Kingsdown cliffs up north.

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Kingsdown Beach and Cliffs

The cliffs at Kingsdown at noon for LAPC #284 ‘day&night’.

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Shipping Lane

The Channel from the coast of Kent at Walmer for LAPC #284 ‘day&night’. Start of the morning.

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The whole of the moon

I pictured a rainbow
You held it in your hands
I had flashes
But you saw the plan
I wandered out in the world for years
While you just stayed in your room
I saw the crescent
You saw the whole of the moon
The whole of the moon

The Waterboys – Whole of the moon

The moon over The Channel for LAPC #283 ‘quote or poem’.

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Moon Night

The Channel under a silver moon for LAPC # 283 ‘dramatic’.

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Deal

An old house on Queen Street in Deal, for LAPC #283 ‘dramatic’.

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Dusk

The Channel at dusk for LAPC # 283 ‘dramatic’.

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Gull

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

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View on Deal Pier

A view up north towards Deal.

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St. Margaret’s Bay

St. Margaret’s Bay, seeing the ferries to and from Dover.

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A Brand New Day

The start of a brand new year, the first day with 365 following, given this is a leap year. A calm sea, the light breaking into the waves, painting a gorgeous sky in the clouds. It’s all in the details. The small boat heading out to a new port of call.

archive England

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On the edge of 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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Swans

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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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Walk the Dog

At sunrise on the marshes at Blakeney.

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Sunrise over Marshes

Sunrise over the marshes near Blakeney.

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Marshes at Sunrise

Sunrise over the marshes near Blakeney.

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Dog Walk

Dog walk at sunrise on the marshes near Blakeney.

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Blakeney Point

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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

England, Blakeney/Morston Quay – January 2023o

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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Blakeney Hotel and Harbor at Sunrise

Blakeney at sunrise.

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Views of Blakeney

England, Blakeney – January 2023

The theme for LAPC 234 is ‘messages’. Views from the sea towards Blakeney on different times of the day.

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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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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.

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