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Posts from the ‘sky’ category

Rembrandt’s View

The Netherlands, Leiden – September 2023

Lens Artists Photo Challenge #266 is ‘Time’. It takes a lot of time to tell everything about the concept of time.

One of the best musical stories about time is by Pink Floyd: Time of the brilliant timeless album The Dark Side of the Moon, that was released 50 years ago.

This week I try to show aspects that come to my mind. The first is history at present. Places where important moments in time happened. Which you observe from the present.

This is a recent sunset over the Galgewater in Leiden. ‘Where? Why? Of what importance?’ I hear you say. At the bridge on the left side of the frame Rembrandt van Rijn was born. A copy of the mill his father used for his business is on the right. The only thing Rembrandt would have seen is the sunset, and the mills. All the buildings and boats etc are ‘after Rembrandt’.

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Fly By

The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee

This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #265 is ‘Black and White or Monochrome’.

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Lane 5 Schiphol Amsterdam

The Netherlands, Schiphol Amsterdam – August 2023

This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #265 is ‘Black and White or Monochrome’. The fifth strip of Schiphol is nicknamed the Polderbaan.

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Outlet

The Netherlands – Katwijk aan zee

This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #265 is ‘Black and White or Monochrome’.

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A Cloudy Windy Day At The Beach

The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – August 2023

A windy day with some beautiful clouds on a Sunday at the beach in Katwijk. The clear views showed the curve of the coastline, with the silhouette of Scheveningen in the south, and beyond that, the harbor of Rotterdam.

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Pyloned Sunset

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – August 2023

Lens Artists Photo Challenge #264 is ‘primary colours’.

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Thought Trails

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – August 2023

Lens Artists Photo Challenge #264 is ‘primary colours’.

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Primary Colour

The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – August 2023

Lens Artists Photo Challenge #264 is ‘primary colours’.

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Coming Over

The Netherlands, Schiphol Amsterdam – August 2023

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Incoming

The Netherlands, Amsterdam Schiphol – August 2023

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Swan and Fisherman

England, Burton Mill Pond – November 2005

Lens Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #262 is ‘framing’. This is Burton Mill Pond in West Sussex.

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Wet Lands

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – July 2023

Lens Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #262 is ‘framing’. A wetland recreated from meadows.

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Up Hill Landing

The Netherlands, Lijnden/Schiphol Amsterdam – June 2023

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Sky

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest- June 2023

June was a warm month with beautiful sunder skies. Hoping August will bring some more than grey clouds.

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Light over Dark

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest- July 2023

Lens Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #261 is ‘work in progress’. The sky is never finished.

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Dots

The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – June 2023

June was a beautiful month full of sun and warmth. July was less, let’s hope August has some more blue skies for us. This week LAPC #259 is ‘unbound’.

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Fira 1979

Greece, Santorini/Thira – July 1979

This week LAPC #259 is ‘unbound’. Again one from the archives, that I published earlier for LAPC. #164. The then small town of Fira, on the island Thira aka Santorini, built on the edge of a former caldera. Since 1979 tourism boomed extremely on this beautiful island. I feel fortunate to have visited it before that tourist flood. But each time I see photos of this place I long to go back. The beaches are perfect: volcanic ashes that does not stick like sand.

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.

Sugar Cake: estate Sandenburg

The Netherlands, Langbroek – July 2023

Kasteel Sandenburg in Langbroek. An old estate in the center of The Netherlands. Lovingly nicknamed the sugar cake. I wonder why.

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Time to go Home

The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – June 2023

There is a moment you have to leave the beach and head home.

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One Sky Two Views

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – June 2023

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McD

The Netherlands, Sassenheim – July 2023

Lens Artists Photography Challenge #258 us ‘Fences’.

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Water Tower

The Netherlands, Sassenheim – July 2023

This week’s Lens Artists Challenge is ‘Simplicity Photography’.

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Donna Donna

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – June 2023

Swallows in the sky, reminding of an old song made very popular by Joan Baez but in its origin it is a yiddish folk song.

This week’s Lens Artists Challenge is ‘Simplicity Photography’.

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Blue Beach

The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – June 2023

This week’s Lens Artists Challenge is ‘Simplicity Photography’.

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See Sea, The Sun

The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – June 2023

This week’s Lens Artists Challenge is ‘Simplicity Photography’.

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Sea Fog

The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – June 2023
The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – June 2023

Sea fog creeps in from the sea, making a warm day chilly for a moment.

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What happens on a bulb field in Summer?

The Netherlands, Lisse – June 2023
The Netherlands, Sassenheim – June 2023

If the soil is not being cleaned by flooding or gassed by covering it in plastic, the fields that are covered in Daffodils, Hyacinths or Tulips in Spring, in Summer are growing cut flowers for sales.

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In Flow

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – June 2023
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – June 2023

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Out of the Light

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – June 2023
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – June 2023

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Stonehenge Analogue

England, Stonehenge – June 2005

This week LAPC #254 is ‘spiritual places’.

  • 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. Shot with Nikon F90 on Kodak TriX, scanned from film and edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version

Shot with Nikon D70, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.

Stonehenge Digital

England, Stonehenge – August 2006

This week LAPC #254 is ‘spiritual places’. In August 2006 I was lucky to visit the inside of Stonehenge at sunrise. It was rather cloudy but it was a beautiful experience to be within the circles of stone, without crowds of people around.

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Boat Trip

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – June 2023

Lens Artists Photograph Challenge #253 is ‘Fragments’. Fragment of a journey.

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