Faerie Tale Land
The theme for Weekly Lens Artists 125 is ‘you can pick it’.
Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version
The theme for Weekly Lens Artists 125 is ‘you can pick it’.
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The theme of Lens-Artists #124 is ‘Now and then’.
The coast of Finistère in Summer is breath taking. This was then, but it still is amazing.
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.
The picture was originally shot with Pentax K1000 on Kodak Plusx, scanned from negative and tweaked using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.
The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #123 is ‘Found in the Neighbourhood’.
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The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #122 is ‘The sun will come out tomorrow’. And the sky is simply amazing for Weekend Sky #7.
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The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #122 is ‘The sun will come out tomorrow’.
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The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #120 is ‘what a treat’.
Coming back to an area I visited a long time ago in my youth, brings back memories about the past. The beauty of nature is sometimes overwhelming, even when it rains.
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The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #120 is ‘what a treat’.
I love to take photos from a car (rest assured, I am not doing the driving at those moments). And the result can be quite surprising at times. This one gives me the feeling of a small village, hidden in the landscape.
Shot with iPhone 11 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger versi

The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #120 is ‘what a treat’.
Coming back to an area I visited a long time ago in my youth, brings back memories about the past. The beauty of nature is sometimes overwhelming, even when it rains.
Shot with iPhone 11 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version
Another one for Weekly Sky Challenge #2. Here you can see how low our horizon is. Skies over The Netherlands.
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The Haarlemmermeerpolder under a sunny sky for the Weekly Sky Challenge.
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The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #117 is ‘A photo Walk’.
A walk over a field of heather near Vierhouten.
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The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #116 is ‘symmetry’.
Again on the road, a view over the fields obscured by rain.
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The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #116 is ‘symmetry’.
Again on the road, a view over the fields obscured by rain.
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The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #115 is ‘Inspiration’.
One of my favorite activities while being on the road in the passenger seat, is snapping photos. Here a drive by of Schiphol Amsterdam Airport.
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he theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #115 is ‘Inspiration’.
One of my favorite activities while being on the road in the passenger seat, is snapping photos.
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The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #115 is ‘Inspiration’.
The Dutch landscape is a continuous source of inspiration. Sometimes in a wide view, sometimes in a close up to pick up some details. A church on a dyke, cows in the polder.
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The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #115 is ‘Inspiration’.
Coming from a land that is flat as a pancake, mountains and hills are a source of inspiration, reflection and sport. Climbing a mountain by bicycle is a wonderful experience, offering lots of insights about who and what you are. This one was shot with Pentax Mju on Fuji Film.
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.
The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #115 is ‘Inspiration’.
Seeing something big, like a big field of heather, is always a prompt to be inspired. Even when it rains.
Shot with iPhone 11 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version
The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #115 is ‘Inspiration’.
An old travel photo from 1993 in France. The Cantal is a beautiful area with no longer active volcanoes. Landscapes inspire me. This one was amazing.
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.
Originally shot with Nikon F301 on Kodak TriX, scanned from negative and tweaked using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.
The flowering heather at Gortel, too bad the rain came in, but the view is still breathtaking
Shot with iPhone 11 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version
Shot with iPhone 11 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version
The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #108 is ‘Sanctuary’.
A skipper, very focused on his motor.
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The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #99 is ‘old and new’.
A polder is a piece of land below the surrounding water level. It is artificial because it is created by man. Dykes are build to make it dry and keep the water out, and canals are made to pump water out, dumping it in canals that eventually bring it back to sea. In the background you see a dyke: behind the dyke is water of a lake. If the dyke was not there you would look at the lake :-). So this is old and new land.
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The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #97 is ‘pastimes’.
Meadows and scenery in a typical Dutch polder landscape.
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The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #69 is ‘seeing double’.
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Road side views: West Flanders.
The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #64 is ‘countryside and/or small towns’.
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The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #64 is ‘countryside and/or small towns’.
For more information on how to join the Weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenges, click here for details.
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The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #64 is ‘countryside and/or small towns’.
A detailed shot of the hills in the south of Spain in Andalucia.
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Spain, Mijas el Pueblo – November 2017The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #64 is ‘countryside and/or small towns’.
A detailed shot of the hills in the south of Spain in Andalucia.
For more information on how to join the Weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenges, click here for details.
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The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #64 is ‘countryside and/or small towns’.
The north of France near the Channel is normally flat and quite open. But at some points you can find tree lines along roads.
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shot with iPhone X, edited using Snapseed and Marksta, click the picture for a larger version
This is the first time I post an entry in a theme of Frank’s Jansen Dutch goes the photo: Focus!
The photo is from a trip to Calais France, and shows the flat lands of Flanders on the coast of the Channel.
Each time of year these fields look different; in Summer they look bright and light, in Winter they can be grey and dark.
We make this trip a few times each year, and each time it reminds me of Jacques Brel’s chanson ‘mijn vlakke land’.
(The link to my 2014 post is not working any more, I cleaned up my blog a few months ago.
You can find the English and Dutch lyrics here.
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shot with iPhone X, edited using Snapseed and Marksta, click the picture for a larger version
shot with iPhone X, edited using Snapseed and Marksta, click the picture for a larger version
shot with iPhone X, edited using Snapseed and Marksta, click the picture for a larger version
shot with iPhone X, edited using Snapseed and Marksta, click the picture for a larger version
Early morning in Spring near Steenbergen in The Netherlands.
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Early morning in Spring near Steenbergen in The Netherlands.
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Early morning in Spring near Dinteloord in The Netherlands.
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The Klinkenbergerplas in Oegstgeest.
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The weekly theme is ‘place in the world’. Where do you belong?
Images of the place I live, my place(s) in the world. One is a bit hard to grasp: music. ‘Place in the world’ brought me immediately to In My Place by Coldplay. Can this song be about flowers?
Last month, exploring the flower fields with tulips near my village (place), I came across this setting. Taking this photo, the power lines and the lonely house set the atmosphere; the flowers are almost gone, some are still there. Flowers come and go, and you have to wait another year for them, but singing flowers? Well, it checks boxes, but not all of them. Perhaps I cross lines I should not cross? Do enjoy the song and the photo.
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In My Place – Coldplay
In my place, in my place
Were lines that I couldn’t change
I was lost
I was lost, I was lost
Crossed lines I shouldn’t have crossed
I was lost
Yeah how long must you wait for it?
Yeah how long must you pay for it?
Yeah how long must you wait for it?
I was scared, I was scared
Tired and under prepared
But I wait for it
If you go, if you go
Leave me down here on my own
Then I’ll wait for you (yeah)
Yeah how long must you wait for it?
Yeah how long must you pay for it?
Yeah how long must you wait for it?
Sing it, please, please, please
Come back and sing to me, to me, me
Come on and sing it out, now, now
Come on and sing it out, to me, me
Come back and sing it
In my place, in my place
Were lines that I couldn’t change
And I was lost
Songwriters: Martin / Berryman / Buckland / Champion
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A list of other entries to this theme; if you do not want to be on this list let me know and I remove the link
The weekly theme is ‘beloved’.
A window in a Dutch train turns into a frame of a landscape easily.
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A list of other entries to this theme; if you do not want to be on this list let me know and I remove the link
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A list of other entries to this theme; if you do not want to be on this list let me know and I remove the link
The last weekly photo challenge is ‘2017 Favourite’. Share the most meaningful photo that I have taken in 2017. Well, that is tough: which one of the odd 365 photo’s to choose? A lot of them are special to me, meaningful, but it might be that I did not publish my most meaningful photo of 2017 on my blog. So I am taking my own direction in this theme: I am not going to choose. My personal theme this week will be about photo’s that are leftovers of 2017. And they all are meaningful to me as well. I hope you do not mind. Wishing all of you a fabulous 2018.
shot with iPhone 6s plus using Hueless, edited using Snapseed and Marksta, click the picture for a larger version
Because I am not really participating in this theme you can follow the link in the first line of this post to see all the publications this week.
The last weekly photo challenge is ‘2017 Favourite’. Share the most meaningful photo that I have taken in 2017. Well, that is tough: which one of the odd 365 photo’s to choose? A lot of them are special to me, meaningful, but it might be that I did not publish my most meaningful photo of 2017 on my blog. So I am taking my own direction in this theme: I am not going to choose. My personal theme this week will be about photo’s that are leftovers of 2017. And they all are meaningful to me as well. I hope you do not mind. Wishing all of you a happy, merry Christmas and fabulous 2018.
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Because I am not really participating in this theme you can follow the link in the first line of this post to see all the publications this week.
This weekly theme is ‘satisfaction’,
A scene from the road on a Summer’s day. Unfortunately the weather is not that good right now. But it is nice to see a sky with fluffy clouds at times soon again.
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A list of other entries to this theme; if you do not want to be on this list let me know and I remove the link
The weekly theme is ‘relax’. Show something that means relaxation.
A view on the valley of the river Rur from Landal Eifeler Tor in Heimbach in the Eifel.
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Sunlight cutting through clouds can be magical.
shot with iPhone 6s plus using Hueless, edited using Snapseed and Marksta, click the picture for a larger version
Shot with iPhone 6s plus using Huemore edited using Snapseed and Marksta Click the picture for a larger version
A list of other entries to this theme; if you do not want to be on this list let me know and I remove the link