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Posts from the ‘Schiphol’ category

All Along The Watchtower

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Going Up Going Down

The Netherlands, Zwanenburg – October 2024

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About The Road

The Netherlands, Schiphol Amsterdam – October 2024

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Coming In – Going Out

Incoming and outgoing traffic at Schiphol Amsterdam. Just a drive by, and no worries, I was not driving the car.

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Citroën Traction Avant at Amsterdam Schiphol

Driving passed Schiphol we were overtaken by four Citroën Traction Avant. Three of them were into sticker collecting, the fourth was beautiful pristine.

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Fly Over

The Netherlands, Schiphol Amsterdam – August 2024

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In the air today

The Netherlands, Rijsenhout – September 2023

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On Wings

The Netherlands, Hoofddorp – August 2023
The Netherlands, Hoofddorp – August 2023

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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Lane 5 Schiphol Amsterdam

The Netherlands, Schiphol Amsterdam – August 2023

This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #265 is ‘Black and White or Monochrome’. The fifth strip of Schiphol is nicknamed the Polderbaan.

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Coming Over

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Incoming

The Netherlands, Amsterdam Schiphol – August 2023

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Up Hill Landing

The Netherlands, Lijnden/Schiphol Amsterdam – June 2023

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Close encounter

The Netherlands, Schiphol – August 2022

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Approach

The Netherlands, Schiphol – August 2022

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Wiggle

The Netherlands, Schiphol – August 2022

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TUI

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – June 2022

This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge is #206 ‘Treasures’. One of my treasures is not seeing these big birds approaching Schiphol Amsterdam. 

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Fly Over

The Netherlands, Amsterdam Schiphol – June 2022

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Take Off

The Netherlands, Amsterdam Schiphol – April 2022

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Crossing Borders

The Netherlands, Amsterdam Schiphol – April 2022

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Sky Lines

The Netherlands, Amsterdam Schiphol – April 2022

mLens artists photo challenge #199 is ‘mechanical/industrial’. I have a soft spot for planes coming over against the backdrop of the sky.

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Free Bird

The Netherlands, Schiphol – April 2022

Lens-Artists weekly photo challenge #198 is ‘light and shadow’.

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Meting Delta

The Netherlands, Schiphol Amsterdam – April 2022

The Lens-artists challenge #196 is ‘humor‘. A bit of a weird moment meting a Delta plane overhead.

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Take Off

The Netherlands, Schiphol Amsterdam – March 2022

This week Lens Artists Photography Challenge #192 is ‘Earth Story’. 

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Sunset through a dirty car window

The Netherlands, Schiphol Amsterdam – March 2022

This week Lens Artists Photography Challenge #192 is ‘Earth Story’. 

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Big Blue Bird

The Netherlands, Amsterdam – March 2022

Ready for taking off into the blue skies.

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How Amsterdam Airport Schiphol was created

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – December 2021

The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #178 is You Choose. The only thing I chose for this blog was the subject and the photo. The choice to build this canal was made long ago, and one of the spin offs is Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.

Before the pandemic I used to cross this canal twice a day, and I took loads of photos of it, but just recently I found out about its history and historical purpose.

As most of you probably know the Dutch have a long relationship with water, and learned how water could be managed over the ages. About half of The Netherlands is below sea level; the question was and is how to keep it dry? Some say that God created the world but the Dutch created The Netherlands. In reality we manage water. In days of climate change that gets more complex. Not only the amount of water coming in by rivers and rain is growing, the soil of The Netherlands sinks as well.

In 1840 this canal was build. From 1848 the former lake the Haarlemmermeer was turned into the Haarlemmermeerpolder and this canal was used to dump the water of that lake into the North Sea. Schiphol (ship hell) was a spot in that former lake notorious for ship wrecks as the story goes.

Nowadays the canal takes out the water from the West of The Netherlands to the sea at Katwijk.

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Just passing by: Schiphol Amsterdam Airport

The Netherlands, Amsterdam – September 2020
The Netherlands, Amsterdam – September 2020
The Netherlands, Amsterdam – September 2020
The Netherlands, Amsterdam – September 2020

The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #115 is ‘Inspiration’.

One of my favorite activities while being on the road in the passenger seat, is snapping photos. Here a drive by of Schiphol Amsterdam Airport.

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Approach

The Netherlands, Hoofddorp – August 2020

The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #114 is ‘Negative Space’.

A plane approaching a runway at Schiphol Amsterdam.

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Interruption

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2020

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

During the Corona crisis, most air traffic came to a stop. The skies are blue, and occasionally a plan (mostly cargo) comes over.
Normally every minute a plan approaches Schiphol Amsterdam Airport 25 kilometres to the North. The old is no longer, this new is for the time being.

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Candid: Three Hats

The Netherlands, Schiphol Amsterdam – May 2003

The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #66 is ‘candid’.

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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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Arrival

The Netherlands, Schiphol Amsterdam – August 2019

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Schiphol Sunrise

The Netherlands, Amsterdam – January 2019

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Skies over Runway 5 Revisited

The Netherlands, Schiphol – June 2018

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Skies over Runway 5

The Netherlands, Schiphol – June 2018

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Crossroad Traffic

The Netherlands, Schiphol/Lijnden – June 2018

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Easy Jet

Easyjet coming in easy.

The Netherlands, Zwanenburg – March 2018

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I’d rather be ….flying into the sun

This weekly theme is ‘I’d rather be…’.

The Netherlands, A5 Lijnden – February 2018

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Weathered – Take Off

This week theme is ‘weathered’.

The Netherlands, Amsterdam – January 2018

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Transformation: Approach

The weekly theme is ‘transformation’.

 

The Netherlands, Amsterdam – November 2017

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Elemental: Sky

This weekly theme is ‘elemental’.

The Netherlands, Amsterdam Schiphol – July 2017

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Elemental: Earth and Wind

This weekly theme is ‘elemental’.

Without earth and wind a take off would be impossible.

The Netherlands, Schiphol Amsterdam A5 – June 2017

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Texture: On their way

This weekly theme is ‘texture’.

The Netherlands, Schiphol Amsterdam A5 – June 2017

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Satisfaction: Holiday

This weekly theme is ‘satisfaction’,

Thinking of holidays in the sun while passing Schiphol Amsterdam in the rain.

 

The Netherlands, Schiphol Amsterdam – July 2017

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Satisfaction: Sky 2

This weekly theme is ‘satisfaction’,

The fifth landing strip of Schiphol Amsterdam bathing in sunlight. Unfortunately the weather is not that good right now. But it is nice to see a sky with fluffy clouds at times soon again.

The Netherlands, Schiphol Amsterdam – July 2017

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Collage Arrival

This weekly theme is ‘collage’

 

The Netherlands, Schiphol Amsterdam – June 2017

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Delta Arrival

This weekly theme is ‘delta’: change or transition.

The Netherlands, Schiphol – June 2017

 

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Wish: Should I Stay Or Should I Go?

The weekly theme is ‘wish’.

The Netherlands, Haarlemmerliede – February 2017

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Wish: Take Off into the Sunset

The weekly theme is ‘wish’.

Longing for some sun to warm my bones.

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The Road Taken: Travel

This week’s theme is ‘the road taken’.

The start of many travels, Schiphol Amsterdam Airport.

 

The Netherlands, Schiphol – February 2017

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Shadow: Sunset

This week’s theme is shadow.

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