Gold
The last stages of the Allium flower.
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Posts from the ‘garden’ category
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In The Mix
The early sunrise light is almost magical.
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Morning
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Heatwave
Climate change seems to kick in, with a heatwave stronger than before the last week. Sit in the garden, having a drink, have a read. Chill.
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Summer Rose
LAPC #403 focuses on photography tools: perspective, depth and scale. Roses in the warm after sunrise light.
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The End of Allium
LAPC #403 focuses on photography tools: perspective, depth and scale. Normally it is better to cut the flower off after it has died, to keep the food in the bulb for next year. But an Allium turns into something quite spectacular.
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Allium Times
LAPC #403 focuses on photography tools: perspective, depth and scale. Sometimes framing helps to tell a story.
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Alone
LAPC #403 focuses on photography tools: perspective, depth and scale. A ‘iPhone long shot’ of an Allium.
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Bleu
LAPC #399 ís ‘stuck in a place’. Egidio offers a way to create motivation or inspiration to go out and about. This method is in my words ‘open up to what is right under your nose’. For me the garden is always a source of inspiration.
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Fleurs
LAPC #399 ís ‘stuck in a place’. Egidio offers a way to create motivation or inspiration to go out and about. This method is in my words ‘open up to what is right under your nose’. For me the garden is always a source of inspiration.
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Mono Water Drips
LAPC #399 ís ‘stuck in a place’. Egidio offers a way to create motivation or inspiration to go out and about. This method is in my words ‘open up to what is right under your nose’. For me the garden is always a source of inspiration, especially when it has rained and the sunlight creats little diamonds on leaves. In this case Hosta and water drops.
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Water Drops on a Bed of Green
LAPC #399 ís ‘stuck in a place’. Egidio offers a way to create motivation or inspiration to go out and about. This method is in my words ‘open up to what is right under your nose’. For me the garden is always a source of inspiration, especially when it has rained and the sunlight creats little diamonds on leaves. In this case, the same Hosta and water drops in color.
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The Dark Side
LAPC #399 ís ‘stuck in a place’. Egidio offers a way to create motivation or inspiration to go out and about. This method is in my words ‘open up to what is right under your nose’. For me the garden is always a source of inspiration, especially when it has rained and the sunlight creats little diamonds on leaves. In this case, Hosta and water drops.
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Wood
An abstract of the texture of garden furniture.
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Watered Wood
The theme of LAPC #398 is ‘choose your color’. The brief is to present a photo with a dominant color. Despite being a big fan of monochrome, I do love colors. The fun of colors is their subjectivity; any color has fans and haters. The sense making of colors is as diverse as people are unique. And that’s good. We need colors and images in our life to tell our stories.
An abstract of the texture of garden furniture with a little pool of water.
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Last Garden Tulips of 2026
The last of tulip shots of the garden for this year.
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Magnolia
Magnolia, it is not only about bulbflowers this Spring.
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At the back
It is not only flowers on fields around the villages, but every garden has its own share of bulbflowers popping out in the Spring.
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Tulips up Front
It is not only flowers on fields around the villages, but every garden has its own share of bulbflowers popping out in the Spring.
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Magnolia in Mono
The Magnoliaa few weeks ago, ready to burst out into Spring.
The foreground is here the show stealer, the background adds just context to the frame. For this week’s LAPC (#392) ‘foreground, middle and background’.
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Capturing Spring Rain: Foreground, Middle, and Background
A shower of Spring rain with sun lighting up the drops. Setting the scene in the middle ground as the foreground and background form the stage setting. The theme of this week’s LAPC (#392) is ‘foreground, middle and background’.
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Sunrise Sparkles
The Magnolia against the upcoming sunlight for this week’s LAPC theme week (#391) ‘Phone photography’.
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A matter of taste and choice – episode 8
The garden comes back to green and colors. This tree was a new addition and looked quite poorly but is recovering day by day.
The LAPC theme this week (#391) is ‘Phone photography’.
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A matter of taste and choice – Episode 7
This week’s theme #390 is ‘color in black and white’. The theme focuses on the cognitive fact that our brains still know a color, even if it is in a grey tone. So the sky is blue, the grass green etc. Here you can see what colors do in greys, and if that is appealing or not to your taste pallet. For me this challenge is a bit of fun: most of the time I am looking at the world translating colors straight into grey tones, seeing if a photo is working in monochrome or not. Thanks Egidio for this challenge.
If you visit my blog – like I hope you do or from now start to do – you must have recognized my ‘old’ love for monochrome. When I started this hobby, mono was fashionable and a standard for news photography. And it was cheaper. In this series I offer you two versions of a photo. And you can prefer one over the other, or not.
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All Seasons Lavender
Long ago each season had its own indicators: vegetables, flowers, products. But nowadays in a world economy you can eat vegetables all year round. And now you can have lavender all year round as well. Not the whole year but starting from Spring.
Lavender for me is a ride through the Provence, with the scent in the air as you oversee fields of purple. In Summer.
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When you see Daffodils, Spring calls
Daffodils are among the first bulbflowers to pop up in Spring.
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Garden Center
Spring is coming. even when we are still in Winter.
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Forsythia
Spring is around the corner. The garden wakes up slowly, with the Forsythia claiming the first flowering spot.The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – February 2026
This weeks Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #387 is Shadowed. How do you use shadows in photography.
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Winter Spring
Even in Winter there is blossom. Like Spring is already here.
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Winter Blossom
Even in Winter there is blossom. And in monochrome it looks like snow :-).
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Winter Blossom
Even in Winter there is blossom.
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Spring Ready
The last leaves of the Magnolia
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Wisteria
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More Leaves Leaving
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Leaves Leaving
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Night View
The garden at night. The Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #375 is ‘where to find the mysterious’.
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Reflection
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Letting go
Autumn is the time of year were beauty is short and temporarily. Glimpses of moments that pass quickly and are gone fast. The end is the start of the new cycle of growth for the next year.
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Autumn Details
Autumn is there, colors and details of the leaves are beautiful. Glimpses of moments that pass quickly and are gone fast.
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Red Autumn
Autumn is there, colors of leaves are beautiful.
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Where Green Goes Red
Autumn is there, colors of leaves are beautiful. A spot of green is all that remains for a short while.
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In the wind
Autumn is there, colors of leaves are beautiful. Unfortunately we had a lot of wind, so lots of leaves are off.
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Hosta
Autumn is approaching, the rain and gray skies are more and more the new normal. Luckily there is the occasional sun to enjoy, and the beautiful coloring of plants and trees.
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Autumn Announced
Autumn is approaching, the rain and grey skies are more and more the new normal. Luckily there is the occasional sun to enjoy.
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Agapanthus
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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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