A sunrise like this on a Spring morning over the water. A gift on any day but if it is your birthday? Lens Artists Photo Challlenge #193 is ‘they say it is your birthday’.
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A picture that does not fit in a category has to fit in ‘odds and ends’, lens artists photo challenge #189.
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A picture that does not fit in a category has to fit in ‘odds and ends’, lens artists photo challenge #189.
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A grey morning with fog in Winter.
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The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #179 is Serene. A grey morning in Autumn.
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The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #179 is Serene. A grey morning in Autumn.
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The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #179 is Serene. A grey morning in Autumn.
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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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This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge (#162) is ‘all about the light’.
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And again: which one do you prefer? This monochrome version or the version I published earlier?
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Another one for Hammad’s freshly start up Weekly Sky Challenge #1.
Into the sunset, a reminder of a wonderful Summer we had, albeit in strange times.
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The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #116 is ‘symmetry’.
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The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #115 is ‘Inspiration’.
The canal that runs through my village is always an inspiration. Each season has its new perspective. The image is a bit shaky, using the zoom on the iPhone.
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The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #114 is ‘Negative Space’.
I am not sure if this photo is about ‘negative space’. But it shows a way of looking at ‘space’ for sure.
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The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #114 is ‘Negative Space’.
I am not sure if this photo is about ‘negative space’. But it shows a way of looking at ‘space’ for sure.
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The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #108 is ‘Sanctuary’.
A skipper, very focused on his motor.
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The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #108 is ‘Sanctuary’.
Returning home from a boat ride, into the sunset.
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The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2020
The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #95 is ‘All Wet’.
You might think seeing this photo ‘this is not all wet, is it?’ And indeed it is not. Some say God created the world and The Dutch created The Netherlands.The first is a question of belief and the latter is a question of opinion. The fact is that a big part of the low lands (Netherlands) are under sea level. This canal is one of the waterworks that manages to keep Dutch feet dry. This canal is taking water from ‘polders’ back to the sea. If we could not manage water this way you would be looking at the sea, with the building on the left just above the sea level. So it is not all wet, it is managed wet and we prefer it that way.
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The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2020
The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #94 is ‘At Home’.
The world is small, only go out for walks and necessary shopping. The skies are quiet. Once a while a passenger plane comes in, mostly it is cargo.
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The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – February 2010
The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #85 is ‘treasure hunt’
A sunrise over the canal.
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The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – August 2019
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The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – August 2019
The theme for Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #62 is ‘silhouettes’.
Instead of ‘hard’ silhouettes I find it sometimes more pleasing to show some details in the darker parts.
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The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – August 2019
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The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2019
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The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2019
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The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2019
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The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – March 2019
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The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – October 2018
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The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – October 2018
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The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – November 2018
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The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – November 2018
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The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – October 2018
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The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – September 2018
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The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – June 2018
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The weekly theme is ‘place in the world’. Where do you belong?
Images of the place I live, my place(s) in the world. Number 3: the Oortbridge and the canal.
Water is an essential, crucial and critical element of life in The Netherlands. Half of the country is below sea level so we need to manage water. Each day I pass the J.H. Oortbridge over the canal that leads from Warmond to Katwijk. The canal is – apart from being a means of transportation and recreation – used to dump excess sweet water into the sea at low tide. This week’s theme ‘place in the world’ associated with the name giver of this bridge is funny: Jan Hendrik Oort was a famous Dutch astronomer and a pioneer in exploring space outside our world.
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2018
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A list of other entries to this theme; if you do not want to be on this list let me know and I remove the link
This weekly theme is ‘unlikely’.
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2018
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This weekly theme is ‘favorite place’
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – March 2018
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This weekly theme is ‘I’d rather be…’.
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – March 2018
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The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – March 2018
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The weekly theme is ‘tour guide’.
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – February 2018
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The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – October 2017
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What's (in) the Picture? 