Impressions of a bridge in Winter (4)
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Posts from the ‘Monochrome’ category
Impressions of a bridge in Autumn (3)
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Impressions of a bridge in Winter (2)
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – December 2024
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Impressions of a bridge in Winter (1)
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Another Bridge
Crossed to a new year, 2025 is just started. I wish everyone a wonderful 2025 in good health, with loads of love and moments in which wishes become reality. Where we can talk and bridge judgments.
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Monochrome Leaves
The first photos of my new camera, the Nikon Zf. A retro FM2 on the outside but on the inside full of brilliant Nikon Z technology. Its a real hands on camera, with manual settings. I’m learning to use it. One of the reasons to buy it was the availability of three monochrome presets.
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Dry Feet
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Museum at night (2)
The Scheepvaartmuseum/National Maritime Museum in Amsterdam.
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Klinkenberger Plas
The Klinkenberger Plas in Autumn.
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Drawing Lines
The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – November 2024
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Saving Lifes
The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – November 2024
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Leaving
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View of Scheveningen from Katwijk aan Zee
View on Scheveningen in the distance.
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One Step Before Beyond
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – October 2024
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Over Pass
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – October 2024
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Over The Bridge
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – October 2024
The access to the J.H. Oortbrug.
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From The Bridge, Into The Distance
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Glimpse
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – October 2024
This week lens artists challenge #323 is ‘silence’. How to depict silence?
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The Link
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Intentional Creative Movement – Bicycle
This week’s Lens Artitsts Photo Challenge (#321) is Intentional Camera Movement (ICM). These photos are from a workshop in 1997 in France, where we had to create movement with a low shutter speed while following the subject. Basically a fun excercise but done on film. So the result literally came to light after developing the film. The excitement and anxiety about the possible results were out of scale! Patience.
These film archives are the source of my B4 retouch series.
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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Exploring the Amsterdam-Sloterdijk Power Plant
A fossil power plant on smoke, next to the A5 in Amsterdam-Sloterdijk.
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The monochrome loneliness of the SUP Paddler
Another – monochrome – photo of the SUP Paddler. The full sunrise colorful one is here.
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Finding Beauty in the Ordinary: Canal Reflections
LAPC #316 is ‘Finding beauty in unexpected places’. One of the objects for photographs is the canal that runs through my village. It is quite ordinary, there is a vast amount of small and little canals to dispose of water in The Netherlands. To manage water in a country that is partly under sea level, one has to build infrastructure to keep dry feet. Two pictures taken at the same moment of the day, slightly different in monochrome style. The first is with the silvertone setting, the last with the dark setting on the iPhone. It changes the atmosphere completely. And one may be more beautiful than the other, it is all in the eye of the beholder.
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Terrace Life
LAPC #316 is ‘Finding beauty in unexpected places’.
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An evening at Katwijk aan Zee Around Sunset – August 2024
The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – August 2024
Sometimes it just happens. You are in a place and the light is fantastic, and there is so much to frame in a photo. The sunset is spectacular and for some odd 30 minutes you are in a photography candy shop. This is a selection of what ended up on my phone on that hot August evening.
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Stunning Black and White Sunsets in Katwijk (Give a Little Bit)
The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – August 2024
Yesterday I told you about my passion and history in monochrome. And that I do shoot sunsets in black and white. Here is another one of the same sunset, but framed different. I will publish an overview of all those shots of same sunset that evening. Each of them show a bit of it, it’s in my humble opinion nice to see the big picture.
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Monochrome Magic: Capturing Black and White Sunsets
If you did not notice, I am a big fan of monochrome. In fact, monochrome film was way back the medium I started with. It was cheap and you print your own photos in a darkroom. That was adventurous and frustrating at the same time. Not to sound old, but nowadays with wonderful software, editing images is easier, faster and more fun. And you instantly see what you get! But sometimes I do miss the anxiety of the darkroom, seeing a photo come up in the developer. Back to now. I do shoot sunsets in black and white, and here is one. The atmosphere of the shot is different, more dark and eerie.
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Beach Fun: Captivating Sunset in Katwijk aan Zee, Netherlands
The theme for this week LAPC 316 is ‘Destanation: Fun‘. Going to the beach is fun, but witnessing a brilliant sunset on a warm Summer evening, while a dispaly of boats and windmills complete the scene, is true fun. I published a few of them already two weeks ago (see the archive Katwijk). I hope you still have fun watching them.
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Dramatic Monochrome Skies Over The Netherlands – August 2024
The sky over The Netherlands is a wonderful object for photos, we do have lot of sky over our flat land above the low horizon. And that sky can be quite dramatic, even more in monochrome.
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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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On Track
A balanced rollercoaster at Drievliet.
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Captivating View at Drievliet from the Ferris Wheel
The Netherlands, Den Haag – August 2024
Drievliet is a small and very old amusement park. A view from the ferris wheel looking at downtown Den Haag.
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Captivating Views and Exciting Rides: Drievliet, The Hague’s Charming Amusement Park
Drievliet is a small and very old amusement park. Over fifty years ago I first went there on a school trip. Then most of the attractions had to be moved by muscle power. Last week I had my second visit to Drievliet with our grand children. The park is dramatically changed but still has the same appeal to kids: lots of fun to be had on rides, slides, rollercoasters, ferris wheels, merrygorounds etc. And of course the fries and icecream in between. The weather was not that good, but the clouds added to the view from the ferris wheel looking at downtown Den Haag.
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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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Discover the Corbulo Tunnel Connection in The Netherlands | August 2024
Building tunnels is not common in The Netherlands, the soil is mostly consisting of clay on top of a sandpackage. However, recently a new connection between motorway A4 and A44 was opened: the Corbulo Tunnel (link to a video). This is a shot from the first time I travelled throught it. The weekly LAPC #312 is sense of scale’
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Atmosphere in Mono
The sky and clouds are a magnificent and continuous source of inspiration.
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Windmill De Valk in Leiden, Netherlands – A Living Museum Since 2000
Windmill De Valk is one of few left in the city. It is a museum, but since 2000 is it being used for milling again.
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East and West Border at Moltkebrücke in November 1989
The view on the Moltkebrücke over the river Spree on an Autumn morning in November 1989. The world was waiting for the Berlin Wall to open formally. Further upstream the Spree was part of the border between East and West. We are walking towards the transitpoint for foreigners in the Invalidenstrasse (link to interactive map of the former Berlin Wall) to enter East Berlin.
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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Missing His Twin
This obelisk misses his twin, now standing in Paris on the Place de la Concorde, site for a lot of sports during the Paris 2024 Olympics.
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.
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Cairo 2002: Vintage Balcony Scene Captured on Kodak TriX | B4 Retouch Series
A left over from an earlier LAPC ‘balconies’.
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.
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Scheveningen Summer Beach View – June 2024
A view at a beach in Scheveningen. Waiting for the Summer to really start with some higher temperatures.
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Asteroid B 612: Capturing the Power of the Moon
The Moon just stands there it seems, and mostly I do not pay too much attention to it. The power of the moon is enormous though, as it influences the level of the seas on Earth. At odd moments in the evening or morning I grab my camera when I spot the moon, I just can’t resist. This is one of those times, the haziness reminds me of the sand in the Sahara, the setting of Le Petit Prince, a beautiful book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Could this moon be asteroid B 612? The power of imagination, see what your eyes can not see.
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2nd Balcony Scene, but it’s not Shakespeare
LAPC 309 is about balconies. I have to admit that I do not pay special attention to balconies, unless they trigger me as I look around and they catch my eye. This in Rethymnon on Crete. My first entry was an original monochrome on film. With this one I could not decide between the original and the edited monochrome version. Hence you see them both. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
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1st Balcony Scene, but it’s not Shakespeare
LAPC 309 is about balconies. I have to admit that I do not pay special attention to balconies, unless they trigger me as I look around and they catch my eye. This in Antwerp. My previous entry was an original monochrome on film. With this one I could not decide between the original and the edited monochrome version. Hence you see them both. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
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Capturing the Essence of a Typical Dutch Summer in Oegstgeest
June was wet, and July started wet but seems to end with more sun and less rain. It is a typical Dutch Summer.
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Capturing the Charm of Paris: Balcony and French Windows in December 1993
LAPC 309 is about balconies. I have to admit that I do not pay special attention to balconies, unless they trigger me as I look around and they catch my eye. I do however ‘collect’ French windows. So occasionally they pop up in a frame. This is one of those, in one of my favourite cities, Paris. From the analogue archive of December 1993.
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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Grey Rainy Sky Regatta in Warmond, Netherlands
A small regatta on its way under a grey rainy sky.
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Horses
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Framed
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What's (in) the Picture? 