Boat Ride at Dusk
A sunset over the Galgewater in Leiden.
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Posts from the ‘Summer’ category
Curved Straight Road
The iPhone in pano mode creates weird lines.
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N207
Road views from the N207.
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Lakenhal Leiden
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Seafront Views
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At The Beach
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Retro Front
Lens Artists Photo Challenge #266 is ‘Time’. The last time I will post about ‘time’.
At the Breestraat in Leiden, one can see an example of a shop front that has been brought back to its old look from years ago. They call it retro. Beautiful.
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On Wings
Lens Artists Photo Challenge #266 is ‘Time’. It takes a lot of time to tell everything about the concept of time. One aspect of time is how fast or how slow it is.
One common misunderstanding about time is that it can fly. It does not. It is us being mesmerized how a certain amount of time goes faster in specific situations. Eg when you are on holiday, or having a great 😊 time. Each second, minute, hour, day is exactly the same as it ever was. Sometimes time seems to go slower too! Again, a misconception. But what is the figurative opposite of flying? In most of those moments I do wish time could fly.
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Canal Parade Pride Leiden
Lens Artists Photo Challenge #266 is ‘Time’. It takes a lot of time to tell everything about the concept of time. One aspect of time is change. In time society changes in most cases. These changes can be political (eg equal voting rights), economical (eg equal pay for men and women) or social (eg inclusion). But of course there are more emancipatory changes possible and needed.
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Rembrandt’s View
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
This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #265 is ‘Black and White or Monochrome’.
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Outlet
This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #265 is ‘Black and White or Monochrome’.
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Orchids
This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #265 is ‘Black and White or Monochrome’. I love working in non color. I am not interested if it is black and white and grey tones or a one color/tone photo.
So here a photo that might be black and white and monochrome.
I developed my skill to identify a good monochrome or black and white photo when I still used film. Translating colors into grey tones is important. If you do not ‘see’ it immediately then see if your camera or phone has a black and white setting. Contrary to an old analogue camera your tests are free and you can see the result immediately. I prefer to shoot in black and white , not in color. Either by using the ‘mono’ setting of my iPhone, or an app like Blackie or Lenka.
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Red Leaves with Raindrops
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Swans
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Dirty Windows
When you sand clean your outside walls, windows get dirty.
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Primary Colour
Lens Artists Photo Challenge #264 is ‘primary colours’.
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Dahlia’s at Castle Keukenhof
Spot the Sunflower!
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Incoming
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Chicken Tree
Lens Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #262 is ‘framing’.
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Heron
Lens Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #262 is ‘framing’.
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Wet Lands
Lens Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #262 is ‘framing’. A wetland recreated from meadows.
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Leiden Breestraat
Lens Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #262 is ‘framing’. A view of the Breestraat in Leiden.
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Galapagos
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Sunset
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Close to the edge
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Up Hill Landing
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Web
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Sky
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
Lens Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #261 is ‘work in progress’. The sky is never finished.
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Chimney
When we had Summer 2023 sunsets.
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Offspring
This week LAPC #260 is ‘overlooked’.
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Wet
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Summer Storm Behind Glass
On July 5th a storm created havoc, lots of rain and fallen trees.
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Paths
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1979 Steps (about 600)
This week LAPC #260 is ‘overlooked’. Again one from the archives, the then small town of Fira, on the island Thira aka Santorini, built on the edge of a former caldera. The old harbor is deep down, and 600 steps lead you up to the town balancing on the edge of the caldera. Donkeys are used for comfort against payment. 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.
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Orange
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Dots
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
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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Before the Storm
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Holiday
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Time to go Home
There is a moment you have to leave the beach and head home.
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Sunset
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Consider Water Lillies
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Rust Never Sleeps
The Netherlands, Leiden – June 2023
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McD
Lens Artists Photography Challenge #258 us ‘Fences’.
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Swan
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Water Tower
This week’s Lens Artists Challenge is ‘Simplicity Photography’.
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Blue Beach
This week’s Lens Artists Challenge is ‘Simplicity Photography’.
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