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Posts from the ‘City’ category

City of Rembrandt

A black and white view of a canal in Leiden, featuring trees lining the banks, historic buildings, and reflections in the water under a cloudy sky.
The Netherlands, Leiden – August 2026

A view on the city where Rembrandt van Rijn was born, Leiden. It was the home where he grew up. There he started his now famous career as a painter. Later, he moved to Amsterdam.

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #366 is ‘City Mouse/Country Mouse’. I am not familiar with the story. But as the brief puts it ‘there is no place like home’. Home is where the heart is.

Shot with iPhone 15 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.

Cross Town Wedding

In the charming streets of Delft, a couple dressed as bride and groom had us questioning whether we’d stumbled upon a wedding or a spontaneous costume party. Either way, love was in the air, or at least some excellent snap photo ops!

Shot with iPhone 15 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta Click the picture for a larger version

Exploring Delft: A Glimpse of City Hall and New Church

The Netherlands, Delft – June 2025

The city hall of of Delft with the steeple of the New Church in the background.

Shot with iPhone 15 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta Click the picture for a larger version

Studying Hard

The Netherlands, Delft – June 2025

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #356 is ‘Quiet Hours’. 

Delft has a technical university with a long history in engineering and water management. The plan for Dutch coast defense implemented in the Delta Works originated here. Deltares is a major technological institute for research focusing on water management.

Shot with iPhone 15 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta Click the picture for a larger version

Government Departments Soaring Over Den Haag

The Netherlands, Den Haag – June 2024

Government departments rise up in the sky. For some the only way is up.

Shot with iPhone 15 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta Click the picture for a larger version

Swan

The Netherlands, Rotterdam – May 2024

Rijnhaven, Kop van Zuid, Rotterdam.

Shot with iPhone 15 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta Click the picture for a larger version

Palace Evolution

England, London – April 2015

The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #178 is You Choose. The palace of Westminster, long seen as the mother of parliaments and an example of a well functioning parliament, but in recent years showing a decline of parliamentary sovereignty to a more and more authoritarian executive. Shot from the London Eye as a view from an observer from a distance.

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

Rome Wedding 1993

Italy, Rome – March 1993

The theme for this week Lens-artists challenge #157 is ‘getting away’.

View on St. Peter Square in Rome.

Originally shot with Nikon F301 on Kodak TriX, scanned from negative and tweaked using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.

Walkie-Talkie

England, London – August 2014

A view on the City with 20 Fenchurch Street (aka Walkie-Talkie) in August 2014,.

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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Shot with an unknown point and shoot pocket camera on Kodak TriX, scanned from film and edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version

Paris Then December 1981

France, Paris – December 1981

The theme of Lens-Artists #124 is ‘Now and then’.

Paris in December 1981. A view from the hill of Sacré Coeur into the city at the end of the Winter afternoon just before sunset. A shot on Kodak Color II brought back to monochrome. Camera unknown.

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 on Kodak color II, scanned from negative and tweaked using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.

About Rooftops

The Netherlands, Rotterdam – October 2020

The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #117 is ‘A photo Walk’.

Last week I had to kill some time in Rotterdam near the Central Station.
Just behind the roof of Central Station is Delftse Poort. Until 2009 the highest building in The Netherlands. The five highest buildings in The Netherlands are all in Rotterdam.

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

Opposites (Crossroads)

This week’s theme is ‘opposites’.

Where to go? Valletta on Malta.

Malta, Valetta – September 2011

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

A list of other entries to this theme; if you do not want to be on this list let me know and I remove the link