Purple Gold
Autumn sunrise over the canal.
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Posts from the ‘Oegstgeester kanaal’ category
Fishing
Fishing against the backdrop of an Autumn sunrise.
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Close To The Mono Edge
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Close To The Colorful Edge
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Moon over Oegstgeest
The Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #375 is ‘where to find the mysterious’. The full moon over the canal. A sight not often seen. This is a different photo of the same scene I posted yesterday.
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Mondschein
The Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #375 is ‘where to find the mysterious’. The full moon over the canal. A sight not often seen.
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On Water
On a warm Summer’s day, there are traffic jams on the canal.
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Stunning Sunset Over Oegstgeester Kanaal
And yes, another sunset. Well, they come around every day. This one is a golden gem.
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Boats
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The Bird
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Clouds and Rays
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Impressions of a bridge in Winter (7)
The last in a series of seven photos, taken on a foggy morning from the J.H. Oortbrug in Oegstgeest.
The photos can be found in the archive Oegstgeester Kanaal, link down here.
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Impressions of a bridge in Winter (6)
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Impressions of a bridge in Winter (5)
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Impressions of a bridge in Winter (4)
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Impressions of a bridge in Autumn (3)
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Impressions of a bridge in Winter (2)
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – December 2024
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Impressions of a bridge in Winter (1)
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Another Bridge
Crossed to a new year, 2025 is just started. I wish everyone a wonderful 2025 in good health, with loads of love and moments in which wishes become reality. Where we can talk and bridge judgments.
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Dry Feet
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Blue Canal in Autumn
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Walking Dogs
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – October 2024
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One Step Before Beyond
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – October 2024
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Over Pass
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – October 2024
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From The Bridge, Into The Distance
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The Link
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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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The Sunny Side
This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #322 is ‘there is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in’. It is from a verse by Leonard Cohen about imperfection and beauty. This photo is just a blunt statement: the light comes from the right. But considering my more frequent photo moments in the early morning on this spot, it is after noon. A total different view on the same view. The way the light hits a scene gives it meaning. And shows different details. It softens, warms an strikes with a tender touch, showing the deeper beauty. Not perfect, but priceless.
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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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Exploring Dutch Tourist Attractions: A Photo Gallery
Leann Cole suggested ‘tourist attractions, near and far’ as LAPC’s 307. My motivation for going to places changed in my life time. From ‘active’ holidays (including climbing some big mountains by bycicle) to complete leisure (eg seeing the Greek Isles with lots of lazy moments). And in between the travels to dig into the culture and essence of a place on earth, to learn and experience it. But wherever I went as a ‘photographer’ I tried to capture where I was. To be stunned by what is just there in front of you, the unexpected. And yes, the times I did visit an ‘iconic attraction’ I tried to find my own way of framing it, trying to keep away form the cliches that are so widely known. For this challenge I dig into my blogs archive, all the photos are here published already.
Over the years I learned to value and appreciate my own way of looking, being surprised by my own views of what I saw and how I saw it. To appreciate simple things of beauty that stuck out or the composition of objects. If you travel far, you are only there for a moment, if you stay close to home you have access all of the time. But being close to home the challenge is bigger to stay open, to see what is there, to not take it for granted.
Today is the ‘near’ version. So close to where I live, but for tourists reasons to travel. I just browsed and picked out some themes that may strike recognition: flowers, flower parade, Rotterdam and its architecture and harbour, Leiden (my alma mater and birthplace of Rembrandt), windmills, flat lands, watermanagement (polder, canals) and the beach. All of them so near and familiar.
I hope you do enjoy the gallery, and if you want to plunge deep into more of it I invite you to search by category finding Amsterdam, Den Haag, more flower fields and flowers and who knows Dutch clogs?
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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Somewhere, over the Rainbow
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Monochrome Waters
This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #265 is ‘Black and White or Monochrome’.
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Sunset
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Boat Trip
Lens Artists Photograph Challenge #253 is ‘Fragments’. Fragment of a journey.
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J.H. Oortbrug
The line of the bridge is curved, your eyes are right.
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In the light of grey
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Marten Toonderpad
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Bridges
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Seagull
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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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Red Light
The J.H. Oortbrug in the fog.
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The Bridge
The weekly theme for LAPC #235 is shadows and reflections in monochrome.
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Autumn 2022 – Canal
The theme for the weekly lens artists challenge is ‘textures‘. The canal in Autumn .
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Spring Sun
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What's (in) the Picture? 