See See The Sun
The LAPC theme #385 is ‘unusual crop’. Here the cropping process in-camera using a zoom.
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Posts from the ‘sunrise’ category
Marshes Panorama Blakeney
To end a long set of photos of the marshes near Blakeney, a panorama shot.
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Juno 2
The quayside and harbour of Blakeney just before sunrise.
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First Light of a Winter Sunrise on the Marshes
England, Blakeney – December 2025
Lens-Artist’s Photo Challenge #383 is ‘patterns and designs’. Sunrises are always amazing, but the marshes being touched by the first rays is amazing to see.
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On The Marshes
Lens-Artist’s Photo Challenge #383 is ‘patterns and designs’. The sunrise distorted in the lens.
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When The Morning Comes
Lens-Artist’s Photo Challenge #383 is ‘patterns and designs’. The sunrise over marshes near Blakeney.
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Cley Next The Sea
Lens-Artist’s Photo Challenge #383 is ‘patterns and designs’. The sunrise over the famous Cley windmill and Cley next the sea.
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Marshes With a bit of Cley Next The Sea (on the left)
The last in the series of monochrome, more or less minimal photos for this week’s Lens artists photo challenge #381 (minimalism in black and white photography).
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The Runner
Lens artists photo challenge #381 is ‘minimalism in black and white photography’. The marshes at Blakeney are a place for running and hiking.
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Bus Stop Morning
Lens artists photo challenge #381 is ‘minimalism in black and white photography’. A bus stop at sunrise.
If you wonder how it looks in color? Here is an iPhone shot of 2024 at the same spot. In the monochrome the sun is not over the horizon, in the color one it is.
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It’s Pink
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Winter Sunrise
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Purple Gold
Autumn sunrise over the canal.
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Autumn Sunrise Road
Sunrise on an Autumn morning, from a car (not driving).
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Red Mill
Sunrise on an Autumn morning, from a car (not driving).
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Fishing
Fishing against the backdrop of an Autumn sunrise.
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Spectral Morning
Autumn sunrises can be mesmerizing, maybe because the leaves are not hindering the view?
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Dormer View
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Autumn Morning
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On The Road At Sunrise
On the road at sunrise, the A44 and A4 to Schiphol Amsterdam.
I am not sure this is filling the brief of LAPC #373 ‘looking back at landscapes’. It’s more looking forward on the road.
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Golden Summer Morning
And the sun also rises in gold on a Summer morning. And when you shoot it in color, it is literally photographer’s gold.
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Capturing Summer Mornings in Oegstgeest
Summer mornings can sometimes welcome you into a warm, joyful and laid back day. This is one of those days filled with ease. The sun also rises, each day, at more or less the same place. And when you catch it early, it is photographer’s gold.
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Summer Morning
Sun shining through the trees on the start of another warm Summer day.
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Magnolia Sunrise
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Bicycle Passing By 3
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – March 2025
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Bicycle Passing By 2
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Bicycle Passing By
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Mist Morning
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Blakeney Sunrise
England, Blakeney – December 2024
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Through The Hedges – A Morning Walk in Blakeney
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Morning Walk Blakeney
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There is a Crack in Everything: A Photographic Journey
This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #322 is ‘there is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in’. The quote is from a verse by Leonard Cohen about imperfection and beauty, redemption, healing and growth to overcome pain and hurt. The origin is more ‘cosmic’ and is much older (e.g. Rumi): the only perfect ‘being’ (the light) is the source of all. As humans we are not perfect but we can let the light in to heal our wounds and pain. And essentially learn from it.
Yesterday I showed a photo from the bright side, this one is from the sunrise, and I must say I love the light and the atmosphere.
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Autumn Sunrise
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Capturing Moments: A Series of SUP Paddler Photos
Maybe I am not the only one. When I see a wonderful subject, that has to be on a photo, I tend to try out different things fast, to avoid the moment goes. And in the end there is a series of photos that are hard to choose from. What is the solution? I just publish them all. So after SUP Paddler in focus and
the monochrome loneliness of the SUP Paddler here is the last of three. I hope you enjoyed all of them.
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The monochrome loneliness of the SUP Paddler
Another – monochrome – photo of the SUP Paddler. The full sunrise colorful one is here.
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Unique Sunrise Photo: SUP Paddler in Focus
The canal is one of my long period objects for photos. I always look if there is something worth a photo when I cross it. Most of the time it is empty, sometimes there is a boat. But this time there was a first: a SUP paddler in a beautiful moody Autumnal sunrise. As if he knew this week’s theme for LAPC #319 is ‘setting a mood’.
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Finding Beauty in the Ordinary: Canal Reflections
LAPC #316 is ‘Finding beauty in unexpected places’. One of the objects for photographs is the canal that runs through my village. It is quite ordinary, there is a vast amount of small and little canals to dispose of water in The Netherlands. To manage water in a country that is partly under sea level, one has to build infrastructure to keep dry feet. Two pictures taken at the same moment of the day, slightly different in monochrome style. The first is with the silvertone setting, the last with the dark setting on the iPhone. It changes the atmosphere completely. And one may be more beautiful than the other, it is all in the eye of the beholder.
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Good Morning
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At The Start Of The Day
Sunrise on the J.H. Oortbrug.
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Sunrise
Sunrise on the J.H. Oortbrug for lens artists challenge #290 Circular Wonders. What is most the biggest wonder? The wheels or the sun? It is the first photo of the iPhone 15 Pro Max.
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Sunrise
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Sunrise
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Clouds in my sunrise
Lens Artists Photo Challenge #276 is ‘looking up/looking down’. Road side view while not driving myself.
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Monochrome Waters
This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #265 is ‘Black and White or Monochrome’.
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Front Garden
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Stonehenge Digital
England, Stonehenge – August 2006
This week LAPC #254 is ‘spiritual places’. In August 2006 I was lucky to visit the inside of Stonehenge at sunrise. It was rather cloudy but it was a beautiful experience to be within the circles of stone, without crowds of people around.
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Sunrise
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Morning Flight 3
At sunrise on the marshes at Blakeney. The weekly theme for LAPC #237 is ‘bringing softness’. I pulled the camera following a flight, coming in towards the rising sun, and here coming into the light.
Here is morning flight 1, here is morning flight 2. And if you follow my blog you have seen the photo of the same flock after they passed the sun ‘winter sunrise over the marshes’.
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Morning Flight 2
At sunrise on the marshes at Blakeney. The weekly theme for LAPC #237 is ‘bringing softness’. I pulled the camera following a flight, coming in towards the rising sun. Here is morning flight 1.
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Morning Flight
At sunrise on the marshes at Blakeney. The weekly theme for LAPC #237 is ‘bringing softness’. How sweeter can it get?
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