N207
Road views from the N207.
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Posts from the ‘Landscape’ category
Klinkenberg Triple
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On Wings
Lens Artists Photo Challenge #266 is ‘Time’. It takes a lot of time to tell everything about the concept of time. One aspect of time is how fast or how slow it is.
One common misunderstanding about time is that it can fly. It does not. It is us being mesmerized how a certain amount of time goes faster in specific situations. Eg when you are on holiday, or having a great 😊 time. Each second, minute, hour, day is exactly the same as it ever was. Sometimes time seems to go slower too! Again, a misconception. But what is the figurative opposite of flying? In most of those moments I do wish time could fly.
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Fly By
This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #265 is ‘Black and White or Monochrome’.
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Lane 5 Schiphol Amsterdam
This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #265 is ‘Black and White or Monochrome’. The fifth strip of Schiphol is nicknamed the Polderbaan.
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Faces of Yemen 1998
25 years ago I was fortunate to visit Yemen. For this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #263 ‘A face in the crowd’ I will publish some street portraits of that trip. Looking back at old photos can raise questions: what happened to them in those 25 years? Especially now this beautiful country is suffering from a terrible war.
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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Swan and Fisherman
Lens Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #262 is ‘framing’. This is Burton Mill Pond in West Sussex.
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Fira 1979
This week LAPC #259 is ‘unbound’. Again one from the archives, that I published earlier for LAPC. #164. The then small town of Fira, on the island Thira aka Santorini, built on the edge of a former caldera. Since 1979 tourism boomed extremely on this beautiful island. I feel fortunate to have visited it before that tourist flood. But each time I see photos of this place I long to go back. The beaches are perfect: volcanic ashes that does not stick like sand.
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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Sunset
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One Sky Two Views
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – June 2023
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On A Mission
This week’s Lens Artists Challenge is ‘Simplicity Photography’.
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What happens on a bulb field in Summer?
If the soil is not being cleaned by flooding or gassed by covering it in plastic, the fields that are covered in Daffodils, Hyacinths or Tulips in Spring, in Summer are growing cut flowers for sales.
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Any Way the Wind blows
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Au Suivant!
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Stonehenge Analogue
This week LAPC #254 is ‘spiritual places’.
- 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
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Running Behind
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Zijl
How much more Dutch can a landscape be? Flat, low horizon, water, boat and windmill. and Water Lillies as a substitute for tulips 😂. De Zijl near Leiden.
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Four Trees
Lens Artist Photo Challenge #250 (hurray) is ‘Cloudscapes or Skyscapes’.
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Flower Landscape
The bulb flower season is behind us. A view on the fields as a reminder.
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Hill of Tara and Stone of Scone and Coronation Chair
The Hill of Tara was the location for the inauguration of the High Kings of Ireland. The candidate should lay his hand on the stone, and if earth roared in acceptance, the candidate should be King. The present stone is not the original one. The original Lia Fáil (Irish for “stone of destiny”) used at Tara for inaugurating the High Kings of Ireland, was taken by the King of Scotland and move to Scone. In 1296, during the First Scottish War of Independence, King Edward I of England took the stone as spoils of war and removed it to Westminster Abbey, where it was fitted into a wooden chair – known as the Coronation Chair or King Edward’s Chair – on which most subsequent English and then British sovereigns have been crowned. For the full story I refer to Wikipedia’s Stone of Scone.
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Sand Fence
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Fields
The Netherlands, Voorhout/Rijnsburg – April 2023
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More Flowers of Spring
The Netherlands, Voorhout/Rijnsburg – April 2023
Lens Artists Photography Challenge #245 is ‘Environment’.
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Flower Fields
The Netherlands, Voorhout – April 2023
At this time of Spring the bulbfields deliver their richness and beauty in rows of flowers, stretching over the land like post stamps. Living in this area of The Netherlands for a long time, this is quite a ‘normal’ event. I try to remember the first time I saw it as a child, being amazed by the perfume and splendour of the fields, just to keep me appreciating it as it should.
Lens Artists Photography Challenge #245 is ‘Environment’.
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Polder Road with Zoetermeer Skyline
Skyline Zoetermeer.
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Dune View
The Netherlands, Noordwijk – February 2023
The weekly theme for LAPC #244 is ‘glowing moments’.
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First Flowers of Spring
The Netherlands, Voorhout and Lisse – April 2023
The beginning of April, and a first view of the bulbs starting to flower slowly.
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Roadside View
A polder near Zoetermeer.
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Downhill Ski Slope
The Netherlands, Zoetermeer – March 2023
Snowworld in Zoetermeer.
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Noordwijk Beach Scapes
The Netherlands, Noordwijk – February 2023
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Spring Daffodils
The Lens Artists Photo Challenge #241 is Spring. The Daffodils are the first of the commercial grown bulb flowers to pop up each year. Here a field near Voorhout.
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Off Beach: A Question
This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge 240 is hosted by John Steiner. He invites to show my favorite type or style of photography as the road I have chosen to take most often. And that creates a bit of a problem for me. I need direction.
Basically my attention gets caught and produces an image. It is not conscious, it is in the context where I am. And it results in an array of subjects. It is easier to say what road I do not take: fashion, portraits, urban. But travel, cities, landscapes etc are part of the portfolio. Maybe I can not choose to continue in a specific direction?
I think I have to ask the visitors of this blog to give an answer to John’s question, for I can’t for myself. What do you think? Is there a red line in my snaps? Or is it a mixed bag of pieces? I appreciate your feedback.
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Homes by the Sea
The weekly theme for LAPC #239 is ‘finding peace’.
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Windmill ‘Hoop doet leven’
The silhouette of the windmill ‘Hoop doet leven’ between Oegstgeest and Voorhout in a Winter sun.
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Morning Flight 3
At sunrise on the marshes at Blakeney. The weekly theme for LAPC #237 is ‘bringing softness’. I pulled the camera following a flight, coming in towards the rising sun, and here coming into the light.
Here is morning flight 1, here is morning flight 2. And if you follow my blog you have seen the photo of the same flock after they passed the sun ‘winter sunrise over the marshes’.
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Morning Flight 2
At sunrise on the marshes at Blakeney. The weekly theme for LAPC #237 is ‘bringing softness’. I pulled the camera following a flight, coming in towards the rising sun. Here is morning flight 1.
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Morning Flight
At sunrise on the marshes at Blakeney. The weekly theme for LAPC #237 is ‘bringing softness’. How sweeter can it get?
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Sunrise over Marshes
Sunrise over the marshes near Blakeney.
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Marshes at Sunrise
Sunrise over the marshes near Blakeney.
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Dog Walk
Dog walk at sunrise on the marshes near Blakeney.
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Blakeney Point
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Winter Sunrise over Marshes
The sun rises, on one of the first days of January, over the marshes at Blakeney.
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Views of Blakeney
England, Blakeney – January 2023
The theme for LAPC 234 is ‘messages’. Views from the sea towards Blakeney on different times of the day.
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Holkham Dunes
England, Holkham – January 202
The theme for LAPC 234 is ‘messages’. The dunes and the retreated sea create a wonderful open space that connects land, sea, sky and men. A space for stories, dreams and desires.
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Wrecked and stranded
England, Blakeney – January 2023
The theme for LAPC 234 is ‘messages’. At some places old and abandonded boats can be found in the salt marshes. Messages and old stories.
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Having a stroll
England, Blakeney – January 2023
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Polesden Lacey
England, Great Bookham – December 2022
The Lens Artists Photo Challenge #233 is ‘a one lense walk‘. At the end of 2022 we visited Polesden Lacey, a now National Trust estate.
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View from a House on Blakeney Marshes
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Autumn 2022 – Grey Toned Light
It is the end of the year and the Weekly Photo Challenge is ‘Last Chance’.
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Trees in rain
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What's (in) the Picture? 