Tulips
The Lens Artists Photo Challenge this week is #194: bokeh. Spring is the time for bulb flowers: daffodils, tulips, hyacinths. The garden is popping with tulips right now. And in two weeks the flower parade will take place after two years of absence. Looking forward to it, especially the smell of the flowers.
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Standing Out
The Lens Artists Photo Challenge this week is #194: bokeh. Spring is the time for bulb flowers: daffodils, tulips, hyacinths. The garden is popping with tulips right now. And in two weeks the flower parade will take place after two years of absence. Looking forward to it, especially the smell of the flowers.
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Snow
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Tears of a Tulip
A good bunch of flowers is always a nice present, on any occasion. Lens Artists Photo Challlenge #193 is ‘they say it is your birthday’.
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Out of the dark
This week Lens Artists Photography Challenge #192 is ‘Earth Story’.
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First Tulip
This week Lens Artists Photography Challenge #192 is ‘Earth Story’.
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Daffodil
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Daffodils
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Grass

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Grass
A picture that does not fit in a category has to fit in ‘odds and ends’, lens artists photo challenge #189.
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Float
Theme #177 of Lens Artists Photo Challenge is celebrating. Float on the wind.
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Fall Back
Theme #177 of Lens Artists Photo Challenge is celebrating. Beauty.
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Plumes against a green backdrop
Theme #177 of Lens Artists Photo Challenge is celebrating. Beauty.
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High Lights
Theme #177 of Lens Artists Photo Challenge is celebrating. A moment during the day, seeing the light of the sun split. A moment of presence and focus, being quiet for a moment. Thinking of Nicolas Cramer.
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Evidence of Autumn
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.
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Life Cycle
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.
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Autumn
Wild mushrooms. For this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #174 Shapes and Designs.
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Blowing in the Wind
Grass in the garden, waving in the wind. For this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #174 Shapes and Designs.
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Wellie
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Art
In the garden of castle De Keukenhof is also a museum and between the plants there is modern art on display.
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White
This is the garden of castle De Keukenhof, which as the name gives away, provided the name for the famous bulb flower exposition the Keukenhof. There is an extremely beautiful set of Dahlia’s flowering in the beautiful garden. A pleasure to explore all different types of Dahlia’s.
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Red
This is the garden of castle De Keukenhof, which as the name gives away, provided the name for the famous bulb flower exposition the Keukenhof. No idea what the name of this flower is, but it is a beauty.
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On Display
Castle De Keukenhof is also a popular wedding venue.
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Orange
This is the garden of castle De Keukenhof, which as the name gives away, provided the name for the famous bulb flower exposition the Keukenhof. There is an extremely beautiful set of Dahlia’s flowering in the beautiful garden. A pleasure to explore all different types of Dahlia’s.
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Deep Purple
This is the garden of castle De Keukenhof, which as the name gives away, provided the name for the famous bulb flower exposition the Keukenhof. There is an extremely beautiful set of Dahlia’s flowering in the beautiful garden. A pleasure to explore all different types of Dahlia’s.
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Light and Day
This is the garden of castle De Keukenhof, which as the name gives away, provided the name for the famous bulb flower exposition the Keukenhof. There is an extremely beautiful set of Dahlia’s flowering in the beautiful garden. A pleasure to explore all different types of Dahlia’s.
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Red Grass
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Dahlia Garden Castle Keukenhof
This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge (#164) is ‘Looking Up/Looking Down’.
This is the garden of castle De Keukenhof, which as the name gives away, provided the name for the famous bulb flower exposition the Keukenhof. There is an extremely beautiful set of Dahlia’s flowering in the beautiful garden. A pleasure to explore all different types of Dahlia’s.
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Plumes
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At the Heart
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Opening Up
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Future Image
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Way to go
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Dahlia’s
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Dahlia 2
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Dahlia
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Agapanthus Blues
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The Heart of the Matter
The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #160 is ‘Your Inspiration’.
One of the biggest inspirations is nature and flowers. In times of Covid19 the back garden is a place to be.
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Bee on Sunflower
The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #160 is ‘Your Inspiration’.
One of the biggest inspirations is nature and flowers. In times of Covid19 the back garden is a place to be.
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Grass
The Lens Artists Photo Challenge#142 for this week is ‘you pick it’.
So here is the first pick: an old grass in sunlight.
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Sweet Pea
The theme for this week Lens-artists challenge #155 is ‘on the water’.
Probably not exactly as John intended but here is some water: rain drops.
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Grass 3
The theme for this week Lens-artists challenge #154 is ‘one photo two ways’. Monday I posted the first one of these perspectives, yesterday the second. This is the one that I like best, the hint of the plumes in the light.
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Grass 2
The theme for this week Lens-artists challenge #154 is ‘one photo two ways’. Yesterday I posted the first one of these perspectives, today the second. Tomorrow the one that pleases me most.
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Grass
The theme for this week Lens-artists challenge #154 is ‘one photo two ways’. Today, Tuesday and Wednesday I will show different variations on the same subject.
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Rain

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #150 is ‘Let’s go wild’.
The Netherlands does not really have original wild parts where nature still rules; we do have nature, but nature is being managed. We manage and maintain our dense populated country all over, to achieve efficiency (the post stamp like farm fields, outlined by straight canals from the sky, a view tourists seem to enjoy approaching Schiphol Airport etc) or benefits of scale and standardization. But not all can be controlled. One thing we have to adjust to and have no control over is the weather and the effects of climate change. Spring was very wet and had heavy showers. We can manage the extra water and rising sea levels, but the intensity of the rain is a more and more a given.
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The Last of Tulips Gallery
This Spring the tulips in the front garden were a pleasure to enjoy for weeks. A last impression of these gorgeous and fierce flowers.
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Lavender
The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #149 is ‘cool colors, blue and green. And purple as third color 🙂
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Last of the Tulips
The tulips gave us weeks of colorful joy this year, but in May a storm started to end their blooming period. The petals gone, the stems left behind. Derelict.
If you enjoy photography and want to play with words each month seeing if you can express the word in an image, visit Paula’s Lost in Translation blog. It is fun to do, but her photography is wonderful and inspiring as well. Well worth a visit and a follow.
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Crocus
The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #148 is ‘spots and dots’.
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Light
The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #148 is ‘spots and dots’.
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