Christmas 2025: How Big A Reindeer Are You?
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Posts from the ‘Christmas’ category
Christmas 2025: New Balls
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Christmas 2025: Merchandising S*** Show
Christmas sales have kicked off, and you even can change your toilet area into a Christmas atmosphere. If it is tasteful? I am not sure about that.
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Mesmerizing Candles
A Christmas photo, but the view of burning candles is always mesmerizing and inspirational.
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Merry Christmas
On the eve of Christmas a colorful rose, wishing everybody a merry Christmas. And I can’t resist to put a wish under it from the heart, quoting John Lennon: war is over, just imagine. In 2025 be your own truth, people are not meant to be all the same. One of the joys in life is that we are different, and being different creates the potential for change. As long as we can listen to one another, knowing there is the freedom to choose your own believes and live them without being a threat to the other, there is a future and lots of potential. Love, laugh (especially about yourself), live.
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Elvis Is In The Tree At Christmas!
Rest assured people of The Netherlands, Elvis is available for your trees at Christmas! It brings a smile to my face (LAPC #326 is ‘this made me smile’)
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The Last of Christmas
Last weekend we stored the Christmas decorations for this season of light.
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Jingle
Jingle in monochrome, time to put the decorations away, and focus on the new coming year.
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Flying Circus: Merry Christmas
Wishing you all a merry Christmas, as darkness and shadows seem to grow in the world, our own bright lights are able to light up all corners of the world. Simply be.
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It’s easy to hold a lot of balls in the air at Christmas
A detail of the ceiling at Westfield Mall of the Netherlands, showing it is easy to hold lots of balls in the air at once at Christmas, but it looks kind of magical. The lens artists photo challenge #279 is ‘magical’.
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Christmas Trends 6
Christmas is days away, but the garden centers are filled to the brim with items. I like this one.
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Christmas Trends 5
Christmas is days away, but the garden centers are filled to the brim with items. And displayed in fashion.
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Christmas Trends 4
Christmas is days away, but the garden centers are filled to the brim with items. I have a soft spot for snow globes, I admit it.
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Christmas Trends 3
Christmas is days away, but the garden centers are filled to the brim with items. Apart from the usual, my eye landed on some new objects. Miffy or in Dutch Nijntje. Lens Artists Photo Challenge #271 is ‘contrasts’.
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Christmans Trends 2
Christmas is days away, but the garden centers are filled to the brim with items. Apart from the usual, my eye landed on some new objects. Lens Artists Photo Challenge #271 is ‘contrasts’.
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Christmas Trends 1
Christmas is days away, but the garden centers are filled to the brim with items. Apart from the usual, my eye landed on some new objects. Lens Artists Photo Challenge #271 is ‘contrasts’.
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Christmas Light
Wishing all of you a merry Christmas today, and my best wishes for a wonderful 2023. May all you wish for become real.
It is the end of the year and the Weekly Photo Challenge is ‘Last Chance’.
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Lights
The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #176 is One image/one story. That theme matches the subject of my photo blog: What’s (in) the picture? Finding stories. Photo’s tell stories. My story (what made me click my shutter), and the story of the spectator, as I wrote earlier.
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Blue
Christmas is coming. Some people can’t wait to set up their gardens with light figures. Here is one I would consider, if I would decorate the garden. For this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #175 Follow your bliss.
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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………..’
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Repost: The Full Moon Inn
This year’s last Lens-Artists Challenge (#128) is ‘And here comes the holiday season………..’
The Full Moon Inn in Morton near Southwell. In normal times the pub to celebrate Christmas with friends. See you next year.
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COVID Christmas
The weekly theme for lens artists weekly photo challenge (in short LAPC) #127 is ‘precious moments’.
A memory can be triggered by here and now. Last weekend I visited Den Haag physically for the first time after the lock down started in March. It was exciting and at the same time sad to see the city and the familiar landmarks. ‘Normally’ at this time of year, the center is crowded with people doing Christmas shopping, but now it is (depending on the hour of the day) more or less quiet. At times it is however too busy. The apparent human need to cluster closely together (in shops, or at home) is probably a reason why we see a rise in cases again. Tonight a more strict lock down will be announced. To curb the second wave. Department stores like the 150 year old Bijenkorf and other ‘unnecessary’ shops will close again. That hurts them enormously. But luckily there is light at the end of this tunnel. I hope the light of Christmas will soon turn into a bright sun that opens up our now small worlds and gives us the space and opportunities to be more human again. Till then: courage.
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Snowman
We are getting close to Christmas. A feast of hope and light. In times like we live in now it is even more important to celebrate the unbearable lightness of being.
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Moustaches
The theme for Weekly Lens Artists 126 is ‘A stands for … ’. Aachen, the Christmas market.
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Red Hat
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What's (in) the Picture? 