Running On Empty
The coast path between Blakeney and Cley next the sea is used often by joggers.
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Posts from the ‘Nikon Zf’ category
The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner
I published this one in a black and white version earlier, but this is the original. The coast path between Blakeney and Cley next the sea is used often by joggers.
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Watery Dogs
Lens-Artist’s Photo Challenge #384 is ‘astonishment’. The brief is to show in a photo a feeling of surprise or wonder. These two dogs (Murphy left and Cooper right) keep me wondering for years already. It is about their addiction to water in general. If there is water anywhere (preferably muddy) they dive in. Here they have a bath hunting for the ball in at the quayside of Blakeney.
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Juno 2
The quayside and harbour of Blakeney just before sunrise.
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First Light of a Winter Sunrise on the Marshes
England, Blakeney – December 2025
Lens-Artist’s Photo Challenge #383 is ‘patterns and designs’. Sunrises are always amazing, but the marshes being touched by the first rays is amazing to see.
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On The Marshes
Lens-Artist’s Photo Challenge #383 is ‘patterns and designs’. The sunrise distorted in the lens.
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When The Morning Comes
Lens-Artist’s Photo Challenge #383 is ‘patterns and designs’. The sunrise over marshes near Blakeney.
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Cley Next The Sea
Lens-Artist’s Photo Challenge #383 is ‘patterns and designs’. The sunrise over the famous Cley windmill and Cley next the sea.
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Sunny Rain
Lens-Artist’s Photo Challenge #383 is ‘patterns and designs’. A Winter rain shower over the quaside of Blakeney.
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Rainbows
Lens-Artist’s Photo Challenge #383 is ‘patterns and designs’. Being caught in Winter shower in Blakeney, resultated in a gorgeous full and double rainbow. As we can see here, the story of the pot of gold is probably not true.
Shot with Nikon Zf (the two portrait photos),and iPhone 15 Pro Max (the landscape) edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version
Juno
The quayside and harbour of Blakeney.
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Seal Trips
The quayside of Blakeney. Here you can go on a small boat to see Blakeney Point, visit the seals.
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Walk
The path along the seafront in Blakeney.
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Blakeney
The seafront in Blakeney.
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Down To The Harbour
Westgate Street in Blakeney, the access to the Quay at the seafront.
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Old Pub
The King’s Arms in in Blakeney. Founded in 1763. And still sells fresh beer.
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Keeping Warm
England, Blakeney – December 2025
An alley in Blakeney.
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Marshes With a bit of Cley Next The Sea (on the left)
The last in the series of monochrome, more or less minimal photos for this week’s Lens artists photo challenge #381 (minimalism in black and white photography).
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Marshes
Lens artists photo challenge #381 is ‘minimalism in black and white photography’. The marshes at first sunlight, as the light details the waving reeds.
Shot with Nikon Zf,edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.
View on Cley Next The Sea
Lens artists photo challenge #381 is ‘minimalism in black and white photography’. Overlooking the marshes at first sunlight in the direction of Cley next the sea.
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No Horizon
Lens artists photo challenge #381 is ‘minimalism in black and white photography’. The marshes at first sunlight.
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The Runner
Lens artists photo challenge #381 is ‘minimalism in black and white photography’. The marshes at Blakeney are a place for running and hiking.
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Bus Stop Morning
Lens artists photo challenge #381 is ‘minimalism in black and white photography’. A bus stop at sunrise.
If you wonder how it looks in color? Here is an iPhone shot of 2024 at the same spot. In the monochrome the sun is not over the horizon, in the color one it is.
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Smoking at Work: Reichstag Berlin
From the roof of the Reichstag. A member of staff has a smoke break. A slightly less common street detail nowadays for LAPC #371.
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From the Reichstag Roof
Views from the roof of the Reichstag. The panorama in the middle of the topline is from the iPhone15promax. On the bottom row on the left, you can see several notable ‘towers’. There is the television tower on Alexanderplatz, the International Trade Center, Berlin Cathedral, and the Red Town Hall. On the top right on the left the dome of the Französischer Dom, and on the right the Deutchser Dom (on Gendarmenmarkt).
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Panorama shot with iPhone 15 Pro Max.
Reichstag Dome
The dome on the Reichstag offers a wonderful panoramic view on Berlin. And you can walk the rest of the roof as well to look over the city. Here an impression in monochrome.
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From the roof of the Reichstag
A view from the roof of the Reichstag, overlooking Tiergarten. On the left The Victory Column. On the right side is the Carillion, a 42 meter hight bell tower. And in the background the Teufelsberg.
I am not sure this photo is dreamy enough to enter Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #369 ‘dreamy’.
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Berlin: Charlie left in November 1989
Checkpoint Charlie, symbol of the cold war.
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Berlin U-Bahn
Berlin has a wonderful (and cheap) public transportation infrastructure. One of the building blocks is the U-Bahn.
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Berlin Holocaust Memorial (2)
Another impression of the the Memorial to the murdered Jews in Europe.
Shot with iPhone 15 Pro Max and Nikon Zf, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version
Holocaust Memorial Berlin
Last September I revisited Berlin after 46 years. One of the reasons to come back was to visit the Memorial to the murdered Jews in Europe. I had read stories and seen photos, and I wondered how I would take photo’s of it. And what it would be like to wonder through it. This visit I had my first experience with the monument. Here is the first impression (and the coming days I will publish some more).
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Bahn Tower Potsdamer Platz Berlin
The Bahntower on the Potsdamer Platz, headoffice of the Deutsche Bahn.
Potsdamer Platz was the vivid heart of Berlin. During World War II, it was almost completely destroyed. Since 1961 Potsdamer Platz was a no man’s land, a death strip as part of the Berlin Wall. After the fall of Berlin Wall this was the biggest property developing area in a major city in Europe.
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Berlin Brandenburger Gate (2)
Brandenburger Gate (Brandenburger Tor) is a symbol of unity for Berlin and Germany. Nowadays the Pariser Platz (Paris Square) is a pedestrian and bicycle area.
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Blue Hydrangea
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Outstanding
In the front garden, next to the Japanese Anemone, there is a Knautia Arvensis. It is more easily known as Field Scabiosa.
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Star
In the front garden, next to the Japanese Anemone, there is a Knautia Arvensis. It is more easily known as Field Scabiosa. It is literally a star.
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Japanese Anemone
To close the series of the Japanese Anemone, a last one in color.
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Monochrome Moods
I like monochrome photography for many reasons. One of them is the ability to play with the mood in the photo. Just by adjusting the aperture time or the opening of the lens, the same light delivers a different mood. This one and the photo I published yesterday, were shot on the same day.
Lens- Artist Challenge #364 is ‘Quiet Moment’. Close ups of natural beauty are a wonderful instrument to just be quiet, enjoying the view. And to realize all is connected.
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Delicate
Lens- Artist Challenge #364 is ‘Quiet Moment’. Close ups of natural beauty are a wonderful instrument to just be quiet, enjoying the view. And to realize all is connected.
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Growing Up
The aim is to get up into the light and find your place among the rest of the garden.
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Japanese Anemone
The Japanese Anemone in the front garden at close look.
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Morning Rain
The morning sun reflecting the drops of rain that the night left behind.
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Cley Windmill
This is the famous Cley windmill at Cley next the sea. It’s by far the best name for a coastal village. Interestingly, it actually does not have a sea front. The mill was owned by the family of James Blunt.
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Choices And Preferences 1 (Cley next the sea)
I have a fondness for black and white aka monochrome. That grew on me. Mono was cheaper 50 years ago and more ‘easy’ to handle in a dark room. Monochrome gives something extra at times. The sphere, the grain. And over all these years I learned to see objects in monochrome, visualizing what something looks like in grays.
When I bought my first Nikon digital camera (the D70), I naively asked ‘where is the monochrome setting?’. It was not there. Shooting was color only. If I wanted mono I had to create it myself afterwards in Lightroom, Photoshop or an app like Snapseed. But lucky for me, on the iPhone and on the recent Nikon Zf, there are monochrome settings. To be honest, that was one of the reasons to buy a Zf. So now I have a choice: mono or color.
I know the taste of my ‘audience’ is different than mine. In three days I like to find out more about your taste. What do you fancy more: a photo in mono or in color?
This is the famous Cley windmill at Cley next the sea. It’s by far the best name for a coastal village. Interestingly, it actually does not have a sea front. The mill was owned by the family of James Blunt. The photo was shot in color.
Shot with Nikon Zf, 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.
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Southwell Minster Choir Gate
Choir Gate of Southwell’s Minster.
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Timeless Guildford
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Angel Gate Guildford
The old Posting House in Guildford now the Angel Hotel.
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Blue Belled Graveyard
Near the High Street of Guildford is a St. Mary’s Church with an old graveyard. The Church where Lewis Caroll used to preach under his real name.
- archive England
- archive Guildford
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Blue Sunrise
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What's (in) the Picture? 