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A street view in Charlottenburg featuring a black car parked in front of two shop windows displaying sale signs and colorful balloons.
Germany, Berlin – September 2025

A street in Charlottenburg.

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Berlin Mall

Every big city has its own mall, a big shopping center. Most of the times the shops and brands are the same as in the mall next to where you live. And the food court can be slightly different. The Mall of Berlin is no exception to that rule. The location (Leipziger Platz) makes it interesting, as does the architecture.

As always I can not choose: color, or mono?

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Short Cut

England, Guildford – April 2025

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Shop In Line

England, Guildford – April 2025

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Guildford High Street

England, Guildford – April 2025

Guildford High Street.

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Exploring Guildford: The Surrey Scholar

England, Guildford – April 2025

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #350 (congratulations!) is ‘zooming’. A zoomlens gets you nearer to the subject, and can be used for lots of creative effects. The brief for this LAPC is to be creative, but in this photo I used the zoom just to get closer to a section of the ‘full picture’ of the Surrey Scholar on High Street in Guildford. The zoom puts the statue in a different light, taking the context away.

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Holt Shops at Night

England, Holt – January 2025

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Shopping

The Netherlands, Denmark Haag – December 2024

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Festive Lights

The Netherlands, Denmark Haag – December 2024

Lots of lights guide the Christmas shoppers.

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Horsham in May 2024: Capturing Connections

England, Horsham – May 2024

The best way to explore and connect is to walk around and be surprised with what is in view! It’s the best way to connect to a town for me (LAPC 303)

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Black Friday

The Netherlands, Leidschendam – November 2023

Westfield Mall of the Netherlands, quite uniqe. The lens artists photo challenge #278 is ‘unique’.

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Christmas Trends 6

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – October 2023

Christmas is days away, but the garden centers are filled to the brim with items. I like this one.

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Christmas Trends 5

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – October 2023

Christmas is days away, but the garden centers are filled to the brim with items. And displayed in fashion.

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On display

Lens Artists Photo Challenge #270 is ‘on display’. These photos were part of an assignment of a photo class in France in 1998.

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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On display

The Netherlands, Naarden – June 2005

Lens Artists Photo Challenge #270 is ‘on display’. A window display and street display of a shop in Naarden, The Netherlands.

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Holt

England, Holt – January 2023

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Lights

The Netherlands, Den Haag – September 2022

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Passage

The Netherlands, Den Haag – September 2022

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Violin

The Netherlands, Leidschendam – June 2022

This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge is #207 is ‘Seeing Double ‘. The Westfield Mall of the Netherlands.

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Going Zara

This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge is #207 is ‘Seeing Double ‘. The Westfield Mall of the Netherlands.

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Shopping Spree

The Netherlands, Leidschendam – June 2022

This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge is #207 is ‘Seeing Double ‘. The Westfield Mall of the Netherlands.

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Going By

The Netherlands, Leidschendam – April 2022

The Mall of the Netherlands.

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Aspact

The Netherlands, Leidschendam – April 2022

The Mall of the Netherlands, if you are looking for presents, you probably will find some here.
Lens Artists Photo Challlenge #193 is ‘they say it is your birthday’.

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Kathmandu Street life 2004

Nepal, Kathmandu – April 2004

This weeks challenge #186 is ‘Low Light’. Monochrome gives a soft grey tone from light to dark, aand nice details in the darker areas, which you can not see easily by eye.

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.

Shot with Nikon F90 on Kodak TriX, scanned from film and edited using  Snapseed and Marksta
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COVID Christmas

The Netherlands, Den Haag – December 2020

The weekly theme for lens artists weekly photo challenge (in short LAPC) #127 is ‘precious moments’.

A memory can be triggered by here and now. Last weekend I visited Den Haag physically for the first time after the lock down started in March. It was exciting and at the same time sad to see the city and the familiar landmarks. ‘Normally’ at this time of year, the center is crowded with people doing Christmas shopping, but now it is (depending on the hour of the day) more or less quiet. At times it is however too busy. The apparent human need to cluster closely together (in shops, or at home) is probably a reason why we see a rise in cases again. Tonight a more strict lock down will be announced. To curb the second wave. Department stores like the 150 year old Bijenkorf and other ‘unnecessary’ shops will close again. That hurts them enormously. But luckily there is light at the end of this tunnel. I hope the light of Christmas will soon turn into a bright sun that opens up our now small worlds and gives us the space and opportunities to be more human again. Till then: courage.

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On the rack 2

The Netherlands, Hoofddorp – October 2019

The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #70 is ‘monochrome’.

If you want to join or participate in the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenges just follow the link above.

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