What's (in) the Picture?

Chris Breebaart Photography – finding stories

Posts from the ‘Snapseed’ category

Grey Day

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – December 2021

The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #179 is Serene. A grey morning in Autumn.

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Hazy

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – December 2021

The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #179 is Serene. A grey morning in Autumn.

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Serene Autumn

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – December 2021

The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #179 is Serene. A little canal on a grey morning in Autumn.

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Almost Winter Solstice Sunrise

The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #179 is Serene.

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Aquatic Silhouette

France, Saint Malo – July 2013

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

The shore before Saint Malo, in Brittany.

shot with Nikon D7000, edited using Snapseed and Marksta.  Click the picture for a larger version.

Barfleur

France, Barfleur – July 2013

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

The harbor of Barfleur, a small village in the West of Normandy.

shot with Nikon D7000, edited using Snapseed and Marksta.  Click the picture for a larger version.

Millennium Wheel

England, London – April 2015

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

Shot with Nikon D7000, edited using Snapseed and Marksta.Click the picture for a bigger version

Palace Evolution

England, London – April 2015

The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #178 is You Choose. The palace of Westminster, long seen as the mother of parliaments and an example of a well functioning parliament, but in recent years showing a decline of parliamentary sovereignty to a more and more authoritarian executive. Shot from the London Eye as a view from an observer from a distance.

Shot with Nikon D7000, edited using Snapseed and Marksta.Click the picture for a bigger version

Grey Morning

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – December 2021

The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #178 is You Choose. A grey morning in Autumn, on the edge of Winter.

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How Amsterdam Airport Schiphol was created

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – December 2021

The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #178 is You Choose. The only thing I chose for this blog was the subject and the photo. The choice to build this canal was made long ago, and one of the spin offs is Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.

Before the pandemic I used to cross this canal twice a day, and I took loads of photos of it, but just recently I found out about its history and historical purpose.

As most of you probably know the Dutch have a long relationship with water, and learned how water could be managed over the ages. About half of The Netherlands is below sea level; the question was and is how to keep it dry? Some say that God created the world but the Dutch created The Netherlands. In reality we manage water. In days of climate change that gets more complex. Not only the amount of water coming in by rivers and rain is growing, the soil of The Netherlands sinks as well.

In 1840 this canal was build. From 1848 the former lake the Haarlemmermeer was turned into the Haarlemmermeerpolder and this canal was used to dump the water of that lake into the North Sea. Schiphol (ship hell) was a spot in that former lake notorious for ship wrecks as the story goes.

Nowadays the canal takes out the water from the West of The Netherlands to the sea at Katwijk.

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Consider the Lillies

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – December 2021

The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #178 is You Choose. About choices in life. Some are easy if there is a lot to choose from.

Shot with iPhone 11 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version

Row

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – February 2008

Theme #177 of Lens Artists Photo Challenge is celebrating.

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

Cyclame

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – November 2021

Theme #177 of Lens Artists Photo Challenge is celebrating.

Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version

Float

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – November 2021

Theme #177 of Lens Artists Photo Challenge is celebrating. Float on the wind.

Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version

Fall Back

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – November 2021

Theme #177 of Lens Artists Photo Challenge is celebrating. Beauty.

Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version

Plumes against a green backdrop

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – November 2021

Theme #177 of Lens Artists Photo Challenge is celebrating. Beauty.

Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version

High Lights

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – November 2021

Theme #177 of Lens Artists Photo Challenge is celebrating. A moment during the day, seeing the light of the sun split. A moment of presence and focus, being quiet for a moment. Thinking of Nicolas Cramer.

Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version

Light

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – November 2021

Theme #177 of Lens Artists Photo Challenge is celebrating. A moment during the day, seeing the light of the sun split on a shrubbery in the front garden. A moment of presence and focus, being quiet for a moment to celebrate life.

Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version

Evidence of Autumn

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – November 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.

Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version

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.

Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version

Dogs

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.

Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version

Autumn

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – November 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.

Shot with iPhone 11 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version

Life Cycle

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – November 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.

Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version

Lights

England, Southwell – December 2015

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, as I wrote earlier.

shot with iPhone 6s plus using Hueless,  edited using Snapseed and Marksta, click the picture for a larger version

Sheringham Shore

England, Sheringham – September 2021

Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version

Brancaster

England, Brancaster – September 2021

Thinking back, and looking forward to Spring and Summer.

Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version

Autumn Sunset

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – November 2021

The Autumn was short this year. High temperatures were pleasant, but the amazing colors on leaves that are normal for this time of year, were not present. And when the weather changed the leaves came off the trees very fast. Luckily the sunsets are always there.

Shot with iPhone 11 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version

Short Cut

England, Weasenham St. Peter – September 2021

A small short cut in Norfolk advised by TomTom delivers wonderful scenery.

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Blue

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – November 2021

Christmas is coming. Some people can’t wait to set up their gardens with light figures. Here is one I would consider, if I would decorate the garden. For this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #175 Follow your bliss.

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Sail Away

England, Sheringham – September 2021

Set your own course guided by your heart. For this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #175 Follow your bliss.

Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version

Cliff

England, Sheringham – September 2021

For this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #174 Shapes and Designs.

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Up Front

England, Brancaster – September 2021

For this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #174 Shapes and Designs.

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Brancaster Beach

England, Brancaster – September 2021

Shot with iPhone 11 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version

Pigs

England, Thetford – September 2021

Pigs in a field, from a car. For this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #174 Shapes and Designs.

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Autumn

The Netherlands, Zoetermeer – October 2021

Wild mushrooms. For this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #174 Shapes and Designs.

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Blowing in the Wind

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – October 2021

Grass in the garden, waving in the wind. For this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #174 Shapes and Designs.

Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version

Roof Abstract

The Netherlands, Zoeterwoude – May 2015

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

shot with iPhone 6s plus using Hueless, edited using Snapseed and Marksta, click the picture for a larger version

Concrete

The Netherlands, Den Haag – July 2015

The concrete factory of Dyckerhoff Basal in Den Haag. The theme for this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #173 is interesting architecture.

shot with iPhone 6s plus using Hueless, edited using Snapseed and Marksta, click the picture for a larger version

Little Town

The Netherlands, Schiedam – May 20215

Schiedam, a small town under the smoke of Rotterdam, with its own iconic windmill. Just a little street in a little town, old and more modern mixed. The theme for this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #173 is interesting architecture.

shot with iPhone 6s plus using Hueless, edited using Snapseed and Marksta, click the picture for a larger version

Fly Over Bicycle

The Netherlands, Zoetermeer – July 2015

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.

shot with iPhone 6s plus using Hueless, edited using Snapseed and Marksta, click the picture for a larger version

Windmills

England, Sheringham – September 2021

Windmills on the horizon at Sheringham, Norfolk. Modern shapes of an iconic object. The theme for this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #173 is interesting architecture.

Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version

Wells next the Sea

England, Wells next the Sea – September 2021

The theme for this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #172 is a day of my week. The photo above was one of a series I took during a morning when I visited a little village in Norfolk, Wells next the Sea. From the dock the view on the low tide coastline was amazing: boats, gulls, water, sun and clouds. It felt like a photographer heaven where there is too much to shoot in a short time. So this week I publish some of the photo’s from that morning in September.

Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version

Up the Junction

England, Wells next the Sea – September 2021

The theme for this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #172 is a day of my week. The photo above was one of a series I took during a morning when I visited a little village in Norfolk, Wells next the Sea. From the dock the view on the low tide coastline was amazing: boats, gulls, water, sun and clouds. It felt like a photographer heaven where there is too much to shoot in a short time. So this week I publish some of the photo’s from that morning in September.

Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version

In the Balance

England, Wells next the Sea – September 2021

The theme for this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #172 is a day of my week. The photo above was one of a series I took during a morning when I visited a little village in Norfolk, Wells next the Sea. From the dock the view on the low tide coastline was amazing: boats, gulls, water, sun and clouds. It felt like a photographer heaven where there is too much to shoot in a short time. So this week I publish some of the photo’s from that morning in September.

Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version

Light at the End

England, Wells next the Sea – September 2021

The theme for this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #172 is a day of my week. The photo above was one of a series I took during a morning when I visited a little village in Norfolk, Wells next the Sea. From the dock the view on the low tide coastline was amazing: boats, gulls, water, sun and clouds. It felt like a photographer heaven where there is too much to shoot in a short time. So this week I publish some of the photo’s from that morning in September.

Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version

From a Distance

England, Wells next the Sea – September 202

The theme for this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #172 is a day of my week. The photo above was one of a series I took during a morning when I visited a little village in Norfolk, Wells next the Sea. From the dock the view on the low tide coastline was amazing: boats, gulls, water, sun and clouds. It felt like a photographer heaven where there is too much to shoot in a short time. So this week I publish some of the photo’s from that morning in September.

Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version

Seagulls

England, Wells next the Sea – September 2021

The theme for this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #172 is a day of my week. The photo above was one of a series I took during a morning when I visited a little village in Norfolk, Wells next the Sea. From the dock the view on the low tide coastline was amazing: boats, gulls, water, sun and clouds. It felt like a photographer heaven where there is too much to shoot in a short time. So this week I publish some of the photo’s from that morning in September.

Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version

At Low Tide

England, Wells next the Sea – September 2021

The theme for this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #172 is a day of my week. The photo above was one of a series I took during a morning when I visited a little village in Norfolk, Wells next the Sea. From the dock the view on the low tide coastline was amazing: boats, gulls, water, sun and clouds. It felt like a photographer heaven where there is too much to shoot in a short time. So this week I publish some of the photo’s from that morning in September.

Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version