Close to the edge
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Posts from the ‘sun’ category
Chimney
When we had Summer 2023 sunsets.
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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.
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.
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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Sunset
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Rust Never Sleeps
The Netherlands, Leiden – June 2023
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Sea Fog
Sea fog creeps in from the sea, making a warm day chilly for a moment.
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Hot Summer Dawn
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Playfully Parked
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Front Garden
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Skyscape
Lens Artist Photo Challenge #250 (hurray) is ‘Cloudscapes or Skyscapes’.
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Canal Triptique
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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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Polder Road with Zoetermeer Skyline
Skyline Zoetermeer.
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Fly By
The weekly theme for LAPC #244 is ‘glowing moments’.
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Dune View
The Netherlands, Noordwijk – February 2023
The weekly theme for LAPC #244 is ‘glowing moments’.
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Roadside View
A polder near Zoetermeer.
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Gold Linings
The weekly theme for LAPC #244 is ‘glowing moments’.
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Pylons
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – February 2023
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Sunrise
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Spring Daffodils
The Lens Artists Photo Challenge #241 is Spring. The Daffodils are the first of the commercial grown bulb flowers to pop up each year. Here a field near Voorhout.
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Fresh Lounge
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Off Beach: A Question
This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge 240 is hosted by John Steiner. He invites to show my favorite type or style of photography as the road I have chosen to take most often. And that creates a bit of a problem for me. I need direction.
Basically my attention gets caught and produces an image. It is not conscious, it is in the context where I am. And it results in an array of subjects. It is easier to say what road I do not take: fashion, portraits, urban. But travel, cities, landscapes etc are part of the portfolio. Maybe I can not choose to continue in a specific direction?
I think I have to ask the visitors of this blog to give an answer to John’s question, for I can’t for myself. What do you think? Is there a red line in my snaps? Or is it a mixed bag of pieces? I appreciate your feedback.
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Hoop doet leven
The windmill ‘Hoop doet leven’ between Oegstgeest and Voorhout in a Winter sun.
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Dog Walk
Dog walk at sunrise on the marshes near Blakeney.
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Blakeney Point
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New Year’s Day
New Year’s Day, the sun through fog over a parking at Morston Quay near Blakeney.
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Solstice
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2023 – Over the Bridge
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Autumn 2022 – Walk the Dogs
It is the end of the year and the Weekly Photo Challenge is ‘Last Chance’.
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Christmas Light
Wishing all of you a merry Christmas today, and my best wishes for a wonderful 2023. May all you wish for become real.
It is the end of the year and the Weekly Photo Challenge is ‘Last Chance’.
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Autumn 2022 – Sun
The theme for the weekly lens artists challenge is ‘diagonals‘.
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Rate
Window
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Solar Power
Lens-Artists weekly photo challenge #198 is ‘light and shadow’. Solar panels along the A4 motor way south of Schiphol Airport.
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City Hall Leiden
The Lens-artists challenge #197 is ‘rule of thirds’. The rule of thirds is a rule of thumb how to compose images. There are more ‘rules’; another is the ‘s’ like in the photo above. But there are other ‘rules’ to make a photo attractive, and one is the use of lines. The city hall of Leiden.
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Hyacinths
The Lens Artists Photo Challenge this week is #195: colorful expressions.
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Winter Light
The sun through bare trees on a Winter’s day with fog.
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High Lights
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.
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Samos 1983
The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #158 is ‘Along back country roads’.
The airport of Samos is just near a beach. Luckily there were about two flights a day. The backroads of the Greek islands are the ferry services between them.
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.
Saint Peter Square 1993
The theme for this week Lens-artists challenge #157 is ‘getting away’.
View on a fountain on the square in front of Saint Peter in Rome.
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Decomposing Tulip
The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #148 is ‘spots and dots’. The tulips lasted weeks this year, but unfortunately heavy wind made them wither fast.
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Sunset
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Sunset
The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #145 is ‘getting to know you’. Nice to see more sunsets now the days are longer.
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Sun
The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #145 is ‘getting to know you’. In Spring work on the garden starts, to prepare for Summer and warmer weather, outside dining and cooking, relaxing in the sun, reading a book. When the sun is low, the light is sometimes fantastic and reflects on the dry grass shoots of last year.
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There is always the sun
The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #122 is ‘The sun will come out tomorrow’.
The sun is always there, even when you do not see it. On this day it was out sparkling over the canal, high lighting a beautiful sky.
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Fly By
The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #103 is ‘Surprise’.
Framing a cloudy sunset I got a surpise of a gull flying by.
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Silver Linings
The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #102 is ‘A Quiet Moment’.
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What's (in) the Picture? 