Don Quichotte has to stand tall nowadays
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Posts from the ‘Landscape’ category
Klinkenberger Plas
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Capturing Road Side Views: The Sun Also Rises – Colchester
Ending the year in the UK, a roadside view from the car over a foggy countryside. Hence the sharpness is not optimal.
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Capturing Road Side Views: Fakenham
Ending the year in the UK, a roadside view from the car over a foggy Norfolk countryside. Hence the sharpness is not optimal.
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Capturing Foggy Countryside: We Stand Alone – Stowmarket, Suffolk
England, Stowmarket – Little Stonham – December 2024
Ending the year in the UK, a roadside view from the car over a foggy Suffolk countryside. Hence the sharpness is not optimal. This is another one I used GrainLab to put in an analogue grain feeling. It softened the darks and gave the photo a more balanced view in the highlights. Snapseed tends to distort big surfaces in the sky, and this is a nice retouch effect to repair that.
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Capturing Foggy Countryside: England Roadside Views – Stowmarket, Suffolk
Ending the year in the UK, a roadside view from the car over a foggy Suffolk countryside. Hence the sharpness is not optimal. This is the first time I used GrainLab to put in an analogue grain feeling. It softened the darks and gave the photo a more balanced view in the highlights. Snapseed tends to distort big surfaces in the sky, and this is a nice retouch effect to repair that.
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Surf’s Up
The weekly LAPC #327 is ‘five elements’. Four of the Greek (fire, water, earth, sky) and metal from a Chinese philosophical edge. The only fire in this photo is invisible and contained in the wind sweeping the water onto the beach. And as far for metal, it keeps the wooden fence together. Water, sky and earth in abundance. Funny we do not look in ‘elements’ to a photo.
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From The Bridge, Into The Distance
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Going Up Going Down
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There is a Crack in Everything: A Photographic Journey
This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #322 is ‘there is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in’. The quote is from a verse by Leonard Cohen about imperfection and beauty, redemption, healing and growth to overcome pain and hurt. The origin is more ‘cosmic’ and is much older (e.g. Rumi): the only perfect ‘being’ (the light) is the source of all. As humans we are not perfect but we can let the light in to heal our wounds and pain. And essentially learn from it.
Yesterday I showed a photo from the bright side, this one is from the sunrise, and I must say I love the light and the atmosphere.
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The Sunny Side
This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #322 is ‘there is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in’. It is from a verse by Leonard Cohen about imperfection and beauty. This photo is just a blunt statement: the light comes from the right. But considering my more frequent photo moments in the early morning on this spot, it is after noon. A total different view on the same view. The way the light hits a scene gives it meaning. And shows different details. It softens, warms an strikes with a tender touch, showing the deeper beauty. Not perfect, but priceless.
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Watering Wild Cows
‘Wild cows’ enjoy the water in the dunes near Valkenburg. The image is taken by hand on the maximum zoom of the iPhone, so it is a bit unsharp.
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Imagining the Blooming Flower Fields of Voorhout
In about six months these fields will be covered with blooming bulb flowers. Can you imagine the colors?
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About The Horizon
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Arcadian View
A view over the meadows in an old Dutch masters light.
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Tractor On A Gentle Line Of Orange
The Netherlands is famous for its Spring bulbflower fields, but we produce flowers in Summer and Autumn as well.
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A Gentle Line Of Orange
The Netherlands, Wassenaar – September 2024
Yes, we produce flowers in Summer and Autumn as well.
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Bicycle Adventures: Wassenaar’s Picturesque Zijwatering Canal
A bicycle tour brought us to the Zijwatering, a canal from Wassenaar to the Oude Rijn (in the time of the Roman Empire the present Old Rhine was part of the Rhine estuary and came into the Northsea at Katwijk). It was a surprise and also a delight to see the beauty of the landscape under a beatiful early Autumn sun. The bottom photo is a panorama, using this feature on the iPhone makes straight lines bend.
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Glasshouses in The Netherlands: A Common Object | Lens Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #316
The use of glasshouses is widespread in The Netherlands for all kinds of crops and flowers. Lens Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #316 is ‘Common Object’.
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They Call Me The Breeze
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Between The Lines
Dramatic morning over the Haarlemmermeerpolder near Abbenes.
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Covered
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One Tree
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Essex
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Rows
It is that time of year again, bulbflowers spreading colors and aromas around.
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Hyacinths
It is that time of year again, bulbflowers spreading colors and aromas around.
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Light
This week’s Lens Artists Challenge #287 is ‘Sound’. The road is busy, the sound of cars is in my ears as I try to frame this mill against the sunset, trying to avoid a car in the frame at first. Then zooming out and coming back to the road I ended up with this one, showing the lamplight and the cars coming and fading in the distance. This is the last in a series of four of Windmill ‘Hoop doet leven’ in Voorhout against the Winter sunset. The first three in a list in order of publication:
- Winter sunset
- Winter sunset with car
- Windmill in Winter sunset (monochrome version of the first one)
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Winter Sunset
For LAPC #285 is ‘warm colors’. A warm toned Winter sunset.
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Winter Sunset
An iconic view of The Netherlands for many tourists. Windmill ‘Hoop doet leven’ in Voorhout against the Winter sunset for LAPC #284 ‘day&night’.
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The White Cliffs of Dover
Arriving by LeShuttle (formerly known as Eurotunnel) and passing through Dover to catch a different glimpse of the famous white cliffs.
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View on Deal Pier
A view up north towards Deal.
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As Below So Above
England, Walmer – December 2024
The panoramic mode on the iPhone is not a favorite setting for me. On Instagram you get bombarded by adds about all Apple did not tell you about taking photos on iPhone: some work, eg using panorama setting for a wider angle (the fun for me using an iPhone is to be curious about all you can do finding it out for yourself).
But making a panorama having a straight line in front of you (a road eg) is hilarious. What would a sky panorama look like? So I did a 360 sky and a 180 horizon of the sea front at Walmer. Just for fun.
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A colorful road to Christmas
On the road to Christmas to Le Shuttle in Belgium.
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Wired
Each time I pass here on the way to or from Calais, I take a picture of the power lines in St. Georges-sur-l’Aa.
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On the road to Christmas
Belgium, Veurne and Koksijde – December 2023
On the road to Calais and Le Shuttle, on a dark grey morning through le plat pays of Jacques Brel.
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On the road
Each time I pass here on the way to or from Calais, I take a picture of the power lines in St. Georges-sur-l’Aa.
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Hill of Slane
Some photos do not fit the LAPC’s themes, so there is a rest category ‘last chance’ being #280. I never am guided by the themes in the photos I shoot. Some fit in, some don’t. But I never know the theme while shooting. Here is one from the archive I recently stumbled upon, never published.
Slane Hill in Ireland. Close to Slane Castle castle that is famous among other historical facts, for being the recording site for U2’s The unforgettable fire’ in 1984. And famous open air concerts.
Outside the village is The Hill of Slane with a small old ruined chapel, a ruined monastery and a graveyard, overlooking the landscape and the river Boyne.
The most interesting place is a small hill with undergrowth right behind the site, from which this photo was taken.
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Advertising (Empty) Space
Empty spaces along a motorway used for commercial expressions. Empty spaces is the theme of LAPC #277.
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Layered Panorama
Two prints from the same panorama source on the iPhone. Choose your favorite! LAPC #276 is ‘looking up/looking down’.
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In betweens
Lens Artists Photo Challenge #276 is ‘looking up/looking down’. Road side view while not driving myself.
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Tree Line
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Lines of Trees
The Netherlands, Abbenes – November 2023
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Moving on
Lens Artists Photo Challenge #273 is ‘Symmetry’.
The trip from Den Haag to Leiden by train, offers a diverse view on fields and trees.
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Lines
The trip from Den Haag to Leiden by train, offers a diverse view on fields and trees.
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In the distance
The trip from Den Haag to Leiden by train, offers a diverse view on fields and trees.
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Blowing in the wind
The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – September 2023
Lens Artists Photo Challenge #269 ‘over the edge’.
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At the Edge of a Field
Lens Artists Photo Challenge #269 ‘over the edge’.
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There, near the windmill (‘Daar bij die molen’)
The Netherlands, Alphen aan den Rijn – September 2023
Windmill Vrouwgeestmolen at the Heimanswetering.
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Dutch Landscape
Flat, low horizon, roads lined with trees cutting through farmland and meadows.
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Curved Straight Road
The iPhone in pano mode creates weird lines.
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What's (in) the Picture? 