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Posts from the ‘sky’ category

Dreaming by the Sea: A Visual Escape Experience

The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – August 2024

When there are landscapes, what is the landscape of a sea called? To me watching the sea is like an escape of the real world, dreaming into the image that is presented. This is the layered story of an image, with each of the layers adding to it. The beach with the humans grounded on the sand under their feet, almost insignificant in size. The vast sea stretching into the far distance, rippled in the wind and current, offering a seemingly flat smooth surface. The boats and windmills that seem to float on the water that sparkles in the light of the lowering sun. And on top of all that the backdrop of the sky painted lightly by the softer light that lays a filter over the all of it. Put a frame around it and you have a nice photo.

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Sunset Views in Katwijk – Wind, Water and Cabins

The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – August 2024

The view at the beach from the boulevard of Katwijk aan Zee, a few hours before sunset.

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Boulevard View – Katwijk aan Zee August 2024

The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – August 2024

The view at the Northsea just before dinner 🙂 at the boulevard of Katwijk aan Zee.

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Beach Fun: Captivating Sunset in Katwijk aan Zee, Netherlands

The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – August 2024

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 Netherlands, Voorhout – 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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Vivid Summer Fields: A Colorful Display in Voorhout, Netherlands (August 2024)


The Netherlands, Voorhout – August 2024

In Summer the fields that grow the Spring’s bulb flowers (tulips, daffodils and hyacinths) may grow other flowers. Some years the fields are flooded or covered up to be gassed, to clean, other years they produce crops like these.

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Netherlands Landscape: Summer Scene with Cows, Windmill, and Farm

The Netherlands, Voorhout – August 2024

The Netherlands is as flat as a pancake. That is the way foreigners describe my precious habitat. It is not completely accurate, we do have some hills and dunes. The advantage of a flat surface is that we have lots of sky above the horizon. Here a typical Summer scene: rain filled sky and cows in the meadows, the odd windmill and farm.

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Glasshouses in The Netherlands: A Common Object | Lens Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #316

The Netherlands, Rijsenhout – August 2024

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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Noordzee Beach: A Stunning Sunset View | Lens Artists Challenge 314

The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – August 2024

The theme for this week LAPC 314 is ‘shorelines‘. My main shoreline is the beach of the Noordzee. And the views it offers, particularly at special moments of the day like a sunset. The sky looks like it offers an extra layer of reflection for the sun, a second horizon.

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All Ready For Tomorrow


The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – August 2024

The sun sets, everything is cleaned up and ready for tomorrow for new clients. It is the Summer rhythm of the beach on the shoreline of the Noordzee. The theme for this week LAPC 314 is ‘shorelines‘.

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On The Shoreline


The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – August 2024

Sunsets can be shared! The theme for this week LAPC 314 is ‘shorelines‘.

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Sunset On The Shoreline

The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – August 2024

The sun sets in Katwijk, exposing the sea to a layer of gold. The theme for this week LAPC 314 is ‘shorelines‘.

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On Track

The Netherlands, Denmark Haag – August 2024

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

The Netherlands, Den Haag – August 2024

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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Between The Lines

The Netherlands, Abbenes – August 2024

Dramatic morning over the Haarlemmermeerpolder near Abbenes.

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Fly Over

The Netherlands, Schiphol Amsterdam – August 2024

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Sky View


The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – August 2024

The sky is amazing. And everyone with a creative open mind can instantly play with it in lots of ways. Racing clouds home or seeing objects in it. And sometimes it shows an old map leading you into the unknown. The longer you look the more you find. Drawing you in more and more. Connecting with something new but familiair.

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Old Map

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – August 2024

The sky is amazing. And everyone with a creative open mind can instantly play with it in lots of ways. Racing clouds home or seeing objects in it. And sometimes it shows an old map leading you into the unknown.

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Over Looking

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – August 2024

The weekly LAPC #312 is sense of scale’.

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Downside Up Upside Down

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – August 2024

The weekly LAPC #312 is sense of scale’. When you look up to the sky for a while, it seems you are looking down from the sky to earth.

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The Enormous Scale of the Sky

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – August 2024

The weekly LAPC #312 is sense of scale’. When you look up to the sky and see a plane coming over, one is never that much aware of the enormous scale of the space over our heads.

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Atmosphere in Mono

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – August

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

The Netherlands, Leiden – August 2024

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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A Lake at Sunset

Wetlands Vlietlanden near Voorschoten on a sunny evening.

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Experience Inspiration at Oegstgeest Cut Flowers Field, July 2024

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – July 2024

Just around the corner is a field where cut flowers are grown for sale. It is a small beautiful plot with different stages of different flower types. And a good spot for inspiration.

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Warmond Regatta: Sailing Under Grey Skies in the Netherlands

The Netherlands, Warmond- June 2024

A small regatta on its way under a grey rainy sky.

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Scheveningen Summer Beach View – June 2024

The Netherlands, Scheveningen – 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 Netherlands, Oegstgeest – July 2024

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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Grey Rainy Sky Regatta in Warmond, Netherlands

The Netherlands, Warmind – June 2024

A small regatta on its way under a grey rainy sky.

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Vlaggetjesdag aka Flag Day

The Netherlands, Scheveningen – June 2024

The Kurhaus is an old style hotel in Scheveningen. It is the only left over of the historical sea facade. The rest was demolished, and replaced with high rising concrete cubes.

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Scheveningen Boulevard Work: Fence and Gulls Composition

The Netherlands, Scheveningen – June 2024

The Pier of Scheveningen, blocked out by a fence that is erected to work on the boulevard. A weird composition of lines, colours and objects, filled in with some gulls. And I do like the lamp post.

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Haring / Herring Rock

The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – June 2024

Every self respecting town and village needs a ferris wheel.

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Scheveningen and Katwijk aan Zee Diptych

The Netherlands, Scheveningen – June 2024 (top)
The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – June 2024 (bottom)

LAPC 308 is about perfect pairs, by creating a diptych (two images placed in proximity to one another, forming a pair). Every self respecting town and village needs a ferris wheel.

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Rowing Backwards

The Netherlands, Warmond – June 2024

At rowing you move forward by looking backwards all the time, and with a cox the course is set.

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Side Of Motorway

The Netherlands, Sassenheim – June 2024

The same basin of the old watertower that I posted yesterday, but now on top of the barrier of the motorway.

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Sassenheim Watertower Basin in Mono – June 2024

The Netherlands, Sassenheim – June 2024

The basin of an old watertower against the sky. It is not the nicest of buildings, but somehow it draws my attention when I see it. Last year I published its head in color, this time I choose for mono.

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Government Departments Soaring Over Den Haag

The Netherlands, Den Haag – June 2024

Government departments rise up in the sky. For some the only way is up.

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Capturing Views from a Train Window

The Netherlands, Den Haag – June 2024

Lines in the sky seen from one of the most beautiful frames for pictures in The Netherlands: a train window offering a beautiful frame with always changing content in it.

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Castle ‘Oud Poelgeest’

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – June 2024

Castle Oud Poelgeest. 

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Over The Water

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – June 2025

Over grown canal and reflections, the division between the park of Oud Poelgeest and the local ice ring.

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Scenic A12 Motorway Lights Fade in June 2024 – Den Haag

The Netherlands, Den Haag – June 2024

The lights seem to fade slowly along the A12 motorway leading into Den Haag.

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Carpet Crawlers: A12 Motorway in Den Haag | June 2024

The Netherlands, Den Haag – June 2024

The A12 motorway leading into Den Haag downtown. You have to get into town to get out of the car, a free wording of a slogan used in the sixties and later in a beautiful Genesis song ‘Carpet Crawlers’ (the link to the Ray Wilson/Steve Hackette live version of 2014 in the Royal Albert Hall)

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On The Beach

The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – June 2024

A view showing the curve of the Dutch seafront looking at Scheveningen in the South from Katwijk aan Zee.

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Pole King

The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – June 2024

Sea and Beach king.

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