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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Lens Artist Photo Challenge #250 (hurray) is ‘Cloudscapes or Skyscapes’.
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The bulb flower season is behind us. A view on the fields as a reminder.
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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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The Netherlands, Voorhout/Rijnsburg – April 2023
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The Netherlands, Voorhout/Rijnsburg – April 2023
Lens Artists Photography Challenge #245 is ‘Environment’.
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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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Skyline Zoetermeer.
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The Netherlands, Noordwijk – February 2023
The weekly theme for LAPC #244 is ‘glowing moments’.
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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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A polder near Zoetermeer.
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The Netherlands, Zoetermeer – March 2023
Snowworld in Zoetermeer.
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The Netherlands, Noordwijk – February 2023
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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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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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The weekly theme for LAPC #239 is ‘finding peace’.
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The silhouette of the windmill ‘Hoop doet leven’ between Oegstgeest and Voorhout in a Winter sun.
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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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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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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 the marshes near Blakeney.
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Sunrise over the marshes near Blakeney.
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Dog walk at sunrise on the marshes near Blakeney.
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The sun rises, on one of the first days of January, over the marshes at Blakeney.
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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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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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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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England, Blakeney – January 2023
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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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It is the end of the year and the Weekly Photo Challenge is ‘Last Chance’.
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The Haarlemmermeerpolder under a sunny sky.
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This week lens artists challenge #214 is ‘favourite finds’. A typical Dutch landscape on a warm day, with boats coming and going to the lakes. The find was the little ferry we used to cross this water, the river Zijl near Leiden.
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Just before the rain.
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The rolls always give me the impression they are on their way, rolling.
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The views of the landscapes are taken from the car in the passenger seat. And sometimes that leads to seeing surprising objects in the front of the picture. LAPC #209 is surreal.
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LAPC #209 is surreal. In the north of France on the west coast, just over the border with Belgium, is a wood of pylons with powerlines. Like an army stepping into the world, over a field of ripples, in St. Georges-sur-l’Aa.
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LAPC #209 is surreal. The rolls always give me the impression there are on their way, rolling.
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This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge is #206 ‘Treasures’. Life deserves to be treasured as it rolls out with us on our journey through our years. Lots of change happens during that trip. One of The Netherlands most wonderful features is the low horizon. Meaning we have so much sky, as a giant canvas to show clouds and patterns. The flat horizon does not attract too much attention, just offers some texture to the straight line. Showing the changes over the years as urbanization and commercial estates grow.
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Overtaking a farmer in a field next to the motorway. The Netherlands is as flat as a pancake here, and imagine a sea level about six meters higher than where we are. Well we are used to it. Lens Artists Photo Challenge #203 for this week is ‘local vistas’.
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The Netherlands, Warmond – May 2022
Lens Artists Weekly Challenge #200 is ‘Three of a kind’.
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Lens Artists Weekly Challenge #200 is ‘Every little thing’. The horizon is low, things look small in a distance.
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The Lens-artists challenge #197 is ‘rule of thirds’. The rule of thirds is a rule of thumb how to compose images. But a photo that creates a journey of the eye can also be made by using lines and colors. Even when the horizon is not on 1/3.
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The Lens-artists challenge #197 is ‘rule of thirds’. The rule of thirds is a rule of thumb how to compose images. There are more ‘rules’; another is the ‘s’ like in the photo above. Whatever rule you like to use: break them and tweak them till you are happy with the result of the photo you are putting together. In the end your gut tells a lot about what constitutes a decent picture to your liking.
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The Lens Artists Photo Challenge this week is #195: colorful expressions.
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This week Lens Artists Photography Challenge #192 is ‘Earth Story’.
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