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Posts from the ‘spring’ category

Spring

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – February 2021

This week the Lens Artists Challenge is about ‘the personal photographic journey’.

You can find a short overview of my photographic journey on ‘my about/Chris Breebaart’ page .
I hope you do not mind me referring to that information briefly.
This week an uplifting photo of Spring. I am looking

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Dandelions

The NetherLands, Vught – May 2012

The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #105 is ‘Spring’.

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Red 3

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – June 2020

The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #101 is ‘single flower’. 

Archive Oegstgeest

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Polder

The Netherlands, Rijnsaterwoude – June 2020

The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #99 is ‘old and new’.

A polder is a piece of land below the surrounding water level. It is artificial because it is created by man. Dykes are build to make it dry and keep the water out, and canals are made to pump water out, dumping it in canals that eventually bring it back to sea. In the background you see a dyke: behind the dyke is water of a lake. If the dyke was not there you would look at the lake :-). So this is old and new land.

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Bloom

 

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2019

Yesterday this blog hit its 200.001 view. Numbers are not that important, and I am not into maximizing visitors numbers, but it makes me slightly proud of myself :-).

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Idyllic

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2019

 

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Sunset

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2019

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Blossom Afterglow

The Netherlands, Vught – May 2019

In four weeks the blossom is gone and green is poppping out every where, this is how it looked four weeks ago: Blossom

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In hindsight

The Netherlands, Voorhout – April 2019

The yearly flower parade of the Bollenstreek.

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Flower Parade

The Netherlands, Voorhout – April 2019

The yearly flower parade of the Bollenstreek.

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View

 

The Netherlands, Den Haag – March 2019

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Spring: Night Blossom

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – March 2019

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Early Spring 2

The Klinkenbergerplas in Oegstgeest.

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – March 2018

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Early Spring

The Klinkenbergerplas in Oegstgeest.

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – March 2018

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Power Lines

Jan Wilspark at Oegstgeest.

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The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – March 2018

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Twisted – Letting Go

The weekly theme is ‘twisted’.

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2018

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A list of other entries to this theme; if you do not want to be on this list let me know and I remove the link

Liquid – White Swan

The weekly theme is ‘liquid’.

The Netherlands, Leiden – April 2018

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A list of other entries to this theme; if you do not want to be on this list let me know and I remove the link

Place in the World – J.H. Oortbridge

The weekly theme is ‘place in the world’. Where do you belong?
Images of the place I live, my place(s) in the world. Number 3: the Oortbridge and the canal.

Water is an essential, crucial and critical element of life in The Netherlands. Half of the country is below sea level so we need to manage water. Each day I pass the J.H. Oortbridge over the canal that leads from Warmond to Katwijk. The canal is – apart from being a means of transportation and recreation –  used to dump excess sweet water into the sea at low tide. This week’s theme ‘place in the world’ associated with the name giver of this bridge is funny: Jan Hendrik Oort was a famous Dutch astronomer and a pioneer in exploring space outside our world.

 

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2018

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A list of other entries to this theme; if you do not want to be on this list let me know and I remove the link

Place in the World – Music

The weekly theme is ‘place in the world’. Where do you belong?

Images of the place I live, my place(s) in the world. One is a bit hard to grasp: music. ‘Place in the world’ brought me immediately to In My Place by Coldplay. Can this song be about flowers?
Last month, exploring the flower fields with tulips near my village (place), I came across this setting.  Taking this photo, the power lines and the lonely house set the atmosphere; the flowers are almost gone, some are still there. Flowers come and go, and you have to wait another year for them, but singing flowers? Well, it checks boxes, but not all of them. Perhaps I cross lines I should not cross? Do enjoy the song and the photo.

The Netherlands, Voorhout – April 2018

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In My Place – Coldplay
In my place, in my place
Were lines that I couldn’t change
I was lost

I was lost, I was lost
Crossed lines I shouldn’t have crossed
I was lost

Yeah how long must you wait for it?
Yeah how long must you pay for it?
Yeah how long must you wait for it?

I was scared, I was scared
Tired and under prepared
But I wait for it

If you go, if you go
Leave me down here on my own
Then I’ll wait for you (yeah)

Yeah how long must you wait for it?
Yeah how long must you pay for it?
Yeah how long must you wait for it?

Sing it, please, please, please
Come back and sing to me, to me, me
Come on and sing it out, now, now
Come on and sing it out, to me, me
Come back and sing it

In my place, in my place
Were lines that I couldn’t change
And I was lost

Songwriters: Martin / Berryman / Buckland / Champion

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A list of other entries to this theme; if you do not want to be on this list let me know and I remove the link

 

Unlikely – Dragon

This weekly theme is ‘unlikely’.

The Netherlands, Voorhout – April 2018

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A list of other entries to this theme; if you do not want to be on this list let me know and I remove the link

 

Unlikely – Fairies

This weekly theme is ‘unlikely’.

The Netherlands, Alphen a/d Rijn – April 2018

The Netherlands, Alphen a/d Rijn – April 2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Lines: Lighthouse

This weekly theme is ‘lines’.

The Netherlands, Noordwijk – April 2018

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