What's (in) the Picture?

Chris Breebaart Photography – finding stories

Posts from the ‘England’ category

Short Cut

England, Weasenham St. Peter – September 2021

A small short cut in Norfolk advised by TomTom delivers wonderful scenery.

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

Sail Away

England, Sheringham – September 2021

Set your own course guided by your heart. For this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #175 Follow your bliss.

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

Cliff

England, Sheringham – September 2021

For this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #174 Shapes and Designs.

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

Up Front

England, Brancaster – September 2021

For this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #174 Shapes and Designs.

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

Brancaster Beach

England, Brancaster – September 2021

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

Harwich Sunrise Sky

England, Harwich – September 2021

The sky at sunrise in Harwich. For this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #174 Shapes and Designs.

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

Pigs

England, Thetford – September 2021

Pigs in a field, from a car. For this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #174 Shapes and Designs.

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

Windmills

England, Sheringham – September 2021

Windmills on the horizon at Sheringham, Norfolk. Modern shapes of an iconic object. The theme for this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #173 is interesting architecture.

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

Pamela Mae

England, Wells next the Sea – September 2021

The theme for this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #172 is a day of my week. The photo above was one of a series I took during a morning when I visited a little village in Norfolk, Wells next the Sea. From the dock the view on the low tide coastline was amazing: boats, gulls, water, sun and clouds. It felt like a photographer heaven where there is too much to shoot in a short time. So this week I publish some of the photo’s from that morning in September.

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

Wells next the Sea

England, Wells next the Sea – September 2021

The theme for this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #172 is a day of my week. The photo above was one of a series I took during a morning when I visited a little village in Norfolk, Wells next the Sea. From the dock the view on the low tide coastline was amazing: boats, gulls, water, sun and clouds. It felt like a photographer heaven where there is too much to shoot in a short time. So this week I publish some of the photo’s from that morning in September.

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

Up the Junction

England, Wells next the Sea – September 2021

The theme for this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #172 is a day of my week. The photo above was one of a series I took during a morning when I visited a little village in Norfolk, Wells next the Sea. From the dock the view on the low tide coastline was amazing: boats, gulls, water, sun and clouds. It felt like a photographer heaven where there is too much to shoot in a short time. So this week I publish some of the photo’s from that morning in September.

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

In the Balance

England, Wells next the Sea – September 2021

The theme for this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #172 is a day of my week. The photo above was one of a series I took during a morning when I visited a little village in Norfolk, Wells next the Sea. From the dock the view on the low tide coastline was amazing: boats, gulls, water, sun and clouds. It felt like a photographer heaven where there is too much to shoot in a short time. So this week I publish some of the photo’s from that morning in September.

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

Light at the End

England, Wells next the Sea – September 2021

The theme for this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #172 is a day of my week. The photo above was one of a series I took during a morning when I visited a little village in Norfolk, Wells next the Sea. From the dock the view on the low tide coastline was amazing: boats, gulls, water, sun and clouds. It felt like a photographer heaven where there is too much to shoot in a short time. So this week I publish some of the photo’s from that morning in September.

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

From a Distance

England, Wells next the Sea – September 202

The theme for this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #172 is a day of my week. The photo above was one of a series I took during a morning when I visited a little village in Norfolk, Wells next the Sea. From the dock the view on the low tide coastline was amazing: boats, gulls, water, sun and clouds. It felt like a photographer heaven where there is too much to shoot in a short time. So this week I publish some of the photo’s from that morning in September.

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

Seagulls

England, Wells next the Sea – September 2021

The theme for this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #172 is a day of my week. The photo above was one of a series I took during a morning when I visited a little village in Norfolk, Wells next the Sea. From the dock the view on the low tide coastline was amazing: boats, gulls, water, sun and clouds. It felt like a photographer heaven where there is too much to shoot in a short time. So this week I publish some of the photo’s from that morning in September.

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

At Low Tide

England, Wells next the Sea – September 2021

The theme for this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #172 is a day of my week. The photo above was one of a series I took during a morning when I visited a little village in Norfolk, Wells next the Sea. From the dock the view on the low tide coastline was amazing: boats, gulls, water, sun and clouds. It felt like a photographer heaven where there is too much to shoot in a short time. So this week I publish some of the photo’s from that morning in September.

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

Hole with a view

England, Sheringham – September 2021

Sheringham Golf Club

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

Let’s Roll

England, Brancaster – September 2021

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

Caught in the middle

England, Wells-next-the-Sea, September 2021

Wells-next-the-Sea in Norfolk. One for lens artists weekly photo challenge #171: weird and wonderful.

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

Hair

England, Thornham – September 2021

The Orange Tree Inn in Thornham.

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

Trailer Park

England, Wells next the Sea- September 2021

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.

At the start of my photo path I used to get comments ‘why do you shoot that? That is not a nice photo!’. In a time of film it was impossible to show a result quickly to make my idea visible. Wait, be patient, wait for the print! But a film needed to be developed, and sometimes I could not create the envisioned result in my darkroom. Nowadays you lust look at the back of your camera and share that with the critic. And sometimes even that does not make sense, but it shows a picture.

Photography is about seeing, observing the world. And be ready for the decisive moment as Henri Cartier-Bresson said. My photo’s are my story of the world, my way of giving ‘voice’ to something that made me press the shutter, that reflects inside me. That is extremely subjective. But I learned (via this blog and other feed back) that my story most of the times is different from the one of spectators. My story is not their story. So, what’s behind this photo?

Martin Parr is in my humble opinion a brilliant satirist of the wealthy world. I enjoy his pictures of people, showing how human they are in their environment and behavior. And sitting in a holiday trailer park I was wondering what would be a way of framing what that park meant to me. All the trailers look the same, so I pictured a small bit. With the sky. A holiday at the sea in a trailer park. Hopefully with blue skies.

So what is your story with this photo?

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

Sitting in the rain

England, Thornham – September 2021

The Orange Tree Inn in Thornham.

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

Wetlands

England, Brancaster – September 2021

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

QE 2

England, Dartford Crossing M25 – September 2021

Something ordinary, a bridge to cross. But some bridges make it a bigger experience. Queen Elizabeth bridge at Dartford Crossing.

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

The Ship

England, Brancaster – September 2021

The Ship, the local in Brancaster, Norfolk. The labelling of the walls is quite artful, A bit of street art for this week’s Lens Artists photography challenge #170 Street Art.

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

Bike Park

England, Swaffham, Norfolk – September 2021

A bicycle park facility at Tesco’s in Swaffham in Norfolk. A bit of street art for this week’s Lens Artists photography challenge #170 Street Art.

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

Dogs, is it raining cats?

England, Thornham – September 2021

The Orange Tree Inn in Thornham.

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

QE 1

England, Dartford Crossing M25 – September 2021

Something ordinary, a bridge to cross. But some bridges make it a bigger experience. Queen Elizabeth bridge at Dartford Crossing. For this week’s lens artists challenge #169: the ordinary.

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

Road Sunrise

England, Horsham – September 2021

A sunrise on a road near Horsham for this week’s lens artists challenge #169: the ordinary.

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

Tesco Click and Collect

England, Horsham – September 2021

A click and collect with a hazy morning sun for this week’s lens artists challenge #169: the ordinary.

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

White Horse

England, Bollington – May 2013

The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #160 is ‘Your Inspiration’.

It is nice to look around for striking objects. This one is originally color but in mono the horse comes out.

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

Memory

England, Tideswell – May 2013

The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #160 is ‘Your Inspiration’.

My inspiration for photography is triggered in any place I am, just looking around, looking for the things that strike my eye. One of the maybe peculiar subjects is tombstones or graveyards. Colleville sur Mer, Margraten, Père Lachaise or a little village graveyards in England. They all tells stories about life and people who lived those lifes. In my ‘archive graveyard’ you can find some examples. This is the graveyard at the parish church of Tideswell.

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

Patience

England, Tideswell – May 2013

The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #160 is ‘Your Inspiration’.

My inspiration for photography is triggered in any place I am, just looking around, looking for the things that strike my eye. It can be near home in the garden, on the road to work or during travels. In the latter case it helps that all I see is new, so my curiosity is raised a bit more than when I cycle the well known route to the station. This dog was waiting patiently for the return of the boss at the post office in Tideswell.

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

Poppies

England, High Halstow – July 2013

The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #159 is ‘Postcards’.

A landscape of poppies and other flowers near High Halstow Medway in Kent.
In memory of Andrea White.

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

We’ll meet again

England, |Dover – August 2013

The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #159 is ‘Postcards’.

Sailing away from Dover and its white cliffs.

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

Horses in the Fog

England, Fayegate – 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

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
.

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

Geometry

England, Chester – July 2010

The 141th Weekly Lens Artists Challenge is ‘geometry ’.

The altar and backdrop of the Chester cathedral in England.

The B4 retouch series
I browsed my archive for pictures to publish. All of them are not completely retouched yet. Scratches, dust and stains are not removed.
Shot with Nikon F90 on Kodak TriX, scanned from film and edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version.

Stonehenge

England, Stonehenge – June 2005

The 139th Weekly Lens Artists Challenge is ‘special moments’. (click the photo for a the bigger picture, this one needs it 🙂 )

The B4 retouch series
I browsed my archive for pictures to publish. All of them are not completely retouched yet. Scratches, dust and stains are not removed.
Shot with Nikon F90 on Kodak TriX, scanned from film and edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version

Merry Christmas

England, Southwell – December 2016

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………..’

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

Repost: The Full Moon Inn

England, Morton – December 2017

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.

Shot with iPhone 6s plus using Huemore edited using Snapseed and Marksta Click the picture for a larger version

British Museum

Close-up of a marble statue depicting a classical figure, focusing on the face and upper torso, with soft lighting highlighting the textures and contours.
England, London – September 1980

The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #121 is ‘Focus on the subject’.

British Museum in London. Again one from the film archive.

The B4 retouch series
I browsed my archive for pictures to publish. All of them are not completely retouched yet. Scratches, dust and stains are not removed.

The  picture was originally shot with a Pentax K1000 on Ilford FP4, scanned from negative and tweaked using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.

Distance

England, Avebury – August 2008

The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #90 is ‘distance’.

This is Avebury in August 2008. In times where rules of social distancing are not needed, distances can be there between people.

shot with Nikon D70, edited using Snapseed and Marksta.  Click the picture for a larger version

Camera Hanging Out

England, Southwell – December 2019

This one is for Dutch goes the photo’s weekly photo ‘rest’ theme.

Southwell is a little town near Nottingham. After a car crashed into a shop with the intention to rob it, a camera was installed.
Hopefully it creates some rest and a safer feeling.

shot with iPhone X,  edited using Snapseed and Marksta, click the picture for a larger version

Lake Side

England, Burton Mill Pond – November 2005

This is a scene from 2005 at Burton Mill Pond in West Sussex.

If you want to join or participate in the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenges just follow the link above.

shot with Nikon D70, edited using Snapseed and Marksta.  Click the picture for a larger version.

Ripples: The Swan And The Boat

England, Burton Mill Pond – November 2005

The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #80  is ‘leading lines’

This is a scene from 2005 at Burton Mill Pond in West Sussex.

If you want to join or participate in the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenges just follow the link above.

shot with Nikon D70, edited using Snapseed and Marksta.  Click the picture for a larger version.