Sun Peek
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Posts from the ‘spring’ category
Sky
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Shepherd’s Delight
The reflection of the sunset in the sky and water, a beautiful display of colors towards the East.
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White Duck
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Counting Rotors
Normally I occasionally see air ambulances or police helicopters, but I assume these are not civilian helicopters.
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Spring Sunset Skies
Skies can be amazingly dramatic these days, sometimes aided by a whiff of Sahara sand in the mix of light and clouds.
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Rows
It is that time of year again, bulbflowers spreading colors and aromas around.
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See See the Sun
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Haagse Poort
Office building Haagse Poort in Den Haag as seen from the train.
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Mother Duck
To our surprise we found this duck sitting on a nest, hidden in the grasses of our front garden. Finally ten little chicks came out.
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Leiden
A few weeks ago I published a photo from the same point of view, but with basking sunny weather. This one is showing an overcast day, in the middle of the week. The previous one was shot with iPhone13promax, and this one is iPhone15promax. Spot the differences :-).
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Good Morning
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Leiden Townhall
The townhall of Leiden.
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By train
This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #292 is ‘People here, there and everywhere’. One of the stations in Den Haag, Laan van Nieuw Oost-Indië.
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Liberation 1945
This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #292 is ‘People here, there and everywhere’.
I do not know who took this photo, I do not know the date. We assume it is just after World War 2, May 1945. And we assume my father took it. The photo lacks focus unfortunately, but that adds to the thrill of figuring out what is on it. Luckily we could ask the youngest sister of my father (my last aunt still alive); she thinks it is taken just after the war.
There is a parade on the street, observed by people; among them the sisters and brother of my father from the top window of my grandfather’s house (called Weltevreden) where my father lived. The point of view is from a window of the house where my mother lived, and where I would be born 14 years later.
The negative is quite poorly and damaged, but a sweep through Lightroom and Snapseed provided this old memory.
Growing Up
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Growing Up Magnolia 2
I started documenting the Magnolia, taking a photo a day from the kitchen window. Here is the second gallery.
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First Terrace Sun
The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #291 is ‘Cityscapes’. The first sun got people out to enjoy the rays while having a drink on the junction of the Oude Rijn and Nieuwe Rijn in Leiden. On the right De Waag, the weighing house.
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Carriage Wheels
An old photo of ‘ringsteken’ (if you follow the link you can see some photo’s in action). A traditional activity where horse pulled carriages try to pick off little metal rings from a rope held piece of wood hanging over the road. For lens artists challenge #290 Circular by Wonders.
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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Growing Up Magnolia
I started documenting the Magnolia, taking a photo a day from the kitchen window. Here is a first gallery.
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Wisteria Thinker
Lens Artists Photograph Challenge #253 is ‘Fragments’. Fragmented thoughts under a canape of flowers.
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Zijl
How much more Dutch can a landscape be? Flat, low horizon, water, boat and windmill. and Water Lillies as a substitute for tulips 😂. De Zijl near Leiden.
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Little Beach
De Zijl near Leiden.
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Fly me to the Moon
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Marten Toonderpad
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Wisteria 2
This year the wisteria was flowering like never before, and the smell and view was so enjoyable. Now it is over its peak, lucklily we still have the photos and memories.
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Young Swans 2
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Bridges
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Hospital
The Lens Artists Photo Challenge #251 is ‘buildings and other structures’. This the Alrijne Hospital in Leiden. The wings form a beautiful shape with some organic trees and green under a contrasting sky.
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Seagull
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Young Swans
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Rain
April was wet, and that’s probably why the garden is bursting in flowers and growth.
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Four Trees
Lens Artist Photo Challenge #250 (hurray) is ‘Cloudscapes or Skyscapes’.
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Skyscape
Lens Artist Photo Challenge #250 (hurray) is ‘Cloudscapes or Skyscapes’.
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Wisteria
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2023
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Sunset
Lens Artist Photo Challenge #250 (hurray) is ‘Cloudscapes or Skyscapes’.
Living in a land flat as a pancake, makes one used to see a low horizon and lots of sky. Hence we do not pay too much attention to it probably, if it’s blue it’s fine, if it’s grey there is a lot of grey. The only exception are sunrises and sunsets. They can be majestic.
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Mill at Night
A bit of a ‘a bit of this, a bit of that on a junk pile shot’. Molen De Valk in Leiden, the entrance of an underground parking, a lamplight and a building crane. Still there is some magic in it.
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Flower Landscape
The bulb flower season is behind us. A view on the fields as a reminder.
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Sand Fence
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Apple Blossom
One of my most loved moments is the sight of apple blossoms in Spring. This was early Apri.
The LAPC theme #248 is ‘mood’.
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Morning Trees
The LAPC theme #248 is ‘mood’.
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Henry’s first beach visit
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Chairs
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Chair
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Fields
The Netherlands, Voorhout/Rijnsburg – April 2023
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Canal
The LAPC theme #247 is ‘backlit’. The light is frontal but for the clouds are back lit.
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Flower Parade 2023: Photographers
The yearly flower parade of the Bollenstreek showing bulb flower creativity and offering mesmerizing smells. Just snaps of the iPhone of the floats and other stuff that caught my attention.
Over the years I collected photos of photographers shooting their photos and nowadays, videos. Here are a few.
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Flower Parade 2023: Music
The yearly flower parade of the Bollenstreek showing bulb flower creativity and offering mesmerizing smells. Just snaps of the iPhone of the floats and other stuff that caught my attention. Apart from the floats and flowers, music is an important part of the parade.
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Flower Parade 2023 (Part 3)
The yearly flower parade of the Bollenstreek showing bulb flower creativity and offering mesmerizing smells. Just snaps of the iPhone of the floats and other stuff that caught my attention.
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Flower Parade 2023 (Part 2)
The yearly flower parade of the Bollenstreek showing bulb flower creativity and offering mesmerizing smells. Just snaps of the iPhone of the floats and other stuff that caught my attention.
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