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Pont de Normandie

Pont de Normandie is a beautiful bridge over the river Seine between Le Havre and Honfleur. It towers over you as you approach it. The first time I passed it I was in admiration and also in awe.
This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #181 is double dipping: send in a photo that is related to another creative challenge on WordPress. This photo is a response to the monthly Thursday special of Lost in Translation. A beautiful blog with great creative photography. Each month one can enter photo’s portraying words: in December 2021 Introspective, Anticipating, Befriending, Choices, Wish.
This photo describes anticipation and choices. If you choose to cross a bridge like this, what will it be like?

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Millennium Bridge Saint Paul’s View

Millennium Bridge and St. Paul’s in London.

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Millennium Wheel

The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #178 is You Choose. The London Eye.

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Walks

England, Wells next the Sea – September 2021

The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #176 is One image/one story. That theme matches the subject of my photo blog: What’s (in) the picture? Finding stories. Photo’s tell stories. My story (what made me click my shutter), and the story of the spectator.

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Brancaster Beach

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Harwich Sunrise Sky

The sky at sunrise in Harwich. For this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #174 Shapes and Designs.

Archive England

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Roof Abstract

A roof of a shopping mall. The theme for this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #173 is interesting architecture.

Archive Zoeterwoude

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Fly Over Bicycle

A fly over for bicycles (we do have lots of bicycle lanes in The Netherlands) in Zoetermeer, architecture as art. The theme for this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #173 is interesting architecture.

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From the archive: Roof Terrace 1992

This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge (#164) is ‘Looking Up/Looking Down’.

Again one from the archives and hence monochrome. In August 1992 I visited Crete and old town of Chania. This was the view up to a very appealing roof terrace.

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.

Click the picture for a bigger versionOriginally shot with Nikon F301 on Kodak TriX, scanned from negative and tweaked using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.

Soft Blues

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – August 2021

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Where Cows Once Grazed

This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge (#162) is ‘all about the light’.

This artificial lake used to be meadow. The lake was created by dredging sand, that was needed for roads, new build areas and a railway line. And now it is a recreational area, Klinkenberger Plas.

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This will pass

This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge (#162) is ‘all about the light’. This Summer is what it is, not the best one we had. Grey, cloudy, rain, and from time to time some sun in between.

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Samos 1983

The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #158 is ‘Along back country roads’.

The airport of Samos is just near a beach. Luckily there were about two flights a day. The backroads of the Greek islands are the ferry services between them.

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 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.

Evening Clouds

The theme for this week Lens-artists challenge #154 is ‘one photo two wa ys’. These clouds I shot at dusk. I was curieus what the iPhone would do in low light. These are four shots of the sky. They vary on zoom/frame and one I adjusted the light measuring. So two times two.

Archive Oegstgeest

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Blue Flight

The theme for this week Lens-artists challenge #153 is ‘Wonderful World’.

Archive Oegstgeest

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Sky 5

Archive Oegstgeest

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Sky 4

Archive Oegstgeest

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Sky 3

Archive Oegstgeest

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Swallows and Clouds

Archive Oegstgeest

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Off White

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #150 is ‘Let’s go wild’.

Archive Oegstgeest

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Feathers

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #150 is ‘Let’s go wild’.
A sunset.

Archive Oegstgeest

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Sky 2

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #150 is ‘Let’s go wild’.
A sunset.

Archive Oegstgeest

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Couple

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #150 is ‘Let’s go wild’.
Near our house there is an artificial lake created by the need for sand for infrastructural building. The sand was used to build a railway and as a base for houses and roads. On the banks is big nest box for Sand Martins. They come all the way from Africa and normally hatch in steep river walls. After creating their offspring they move back to Africa. In the setting sun they play in the sky, chasing each other.

Archive Oegstgeest

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Sky 1

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #150 is ‘Let’s go wild’.
A sunset.

Archive Oegstgeest

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Fly Blue

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #149 is ‘cool colors, blue and green. Here the blue side of it.

Archive Oegstgeest

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Sunset

Archive Oegstgeest

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Sunset

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #145 is ‘getting to know you’. Nice to see more sunsets now the days are longer.

Archive Oegstgeest

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Melt

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #145 is ‘getting to know you’. A phenomenon I know my entire life is the weather. However, it still has it surprises, ice rain on a Spring Day?

Archive Oegstgeest

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Lake and clouds

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – March 2021

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Sunrise

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – February 2021

Archive Oegstgeest

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Pylon

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – January 2021

The theme for the lens-artists #132 is ‘striped and checked’.

Archive Oegstgeest

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Dusk

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – December 2020

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Sunrise

Archive Oegstgeest

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Ferry

The Netherlands, De Cocksdorp – January 2019

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.

archive Texel

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Heather lines

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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Obscured by Clouds 2

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – September 2020

Details of a cloudy sky for the Weekly Sky Challenge.

Archive Oegstgeest

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Tower

Archive Nunspeet

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Ahoy

Another one for Hammad’s freshly start up Weekly Sky Challenge #1.

Into the sunset, a reminder of a wonderful Summer we had, albeit in strange times.

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Electric

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – October 2020

A pylon against a back drop of clouds and sunrays for the Weekly Sky Challenge.

Archive Oegstgeest

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Obscured by Clouds

Details of a cloudy sky for the Weekly Sky Challenge.

Archive Oegstgeest

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About Rooftops

The Netherlands, Rotterdam – October 2020

The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #117 is ‘A photo Walk’.

Last week I had to kill some time in Rotterdam near the Central Station.
Just behind the roof of Central Station is Delftse Poort. Until 2009 the highest building in The Netherlands. The five highest buildings in The Netherlands are all in Rotterdam.

Archive Rotterdam

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Tree Line

The Netherlands, Nieuw-Vennep A44 – August 2020

The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #116 is ‘symmetry’.

Again on the road, a view over the fields obscured by rain.

Archive Nieuw Vennep

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Sunset

The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #114 is ‘Negative Space’.

Archive Oegstgeest

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Approach

The Netherlands, Hoofddorp – August 2020

The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #114 is ‘Negative Space’.

A plane approaching a runway at Schiphol Amsterdam.

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Tower

The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #114 is ‘Negative Space’.

The term ‘negative space’ to me is confusion: technically it is the space around the main subject of a photo. It means ‘negative’ as opposed to ‘positive’ attention for the main subject. The word ‘negative’ as a noun brings back good old memories. Being older I actually worked and work with negatives (for the millennials: it has to do with film, the light sensitive stuff we used to put in a camera to get a photo on (in negative) that later could be printed (in positive).

So ‘negative space’ is about the focus a viewer of a photo is offered in a photo. If there is a lot to see around the subject, than that distracts from that subject. In other words: it is a creative tool a photographer can use.