Tulip
The Lens Artists Photo Challenge this week is #195: colorful expressions.
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White tulip
The Lens Artists Photo Challenge this week is #194: bokeh.
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Who’s afraid of red, yellow and blue?
The Lens Artists Photo Challenge this week is #194: bokeh. With a 😉 to the paintings by Barnett Newman.
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Bee
The Lens Artists Photo Challenge this week is #194: bokeh. A wild bee over new blossom.
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Red
The Lens Artists Photo Challenge this week is #194: bokeh. Spring is the time for bulb flowers: daffodils, tulips, hyacinths. The garden is popping with tulips right now. And in two weeks the flower parade will take place after two years of absence. Looking forward to it, especially the smell of the flowers.
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Tulips
The Lens Artists Photo Challenge this week is #194: bokeh. Spring is the time for bulb flowers: daffodils, tulips, hyacinths. The garden is popping with tulips right now. And in two weeks the flower parade will take place after two years of absence. Looking forward to it, especially the smell of the flowers.
Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version
Standing Out
The Lens Artists Photo Challenge this week is #194: bokeh. Spring is the time for bulb flowers: daffodils, tulips, hyacinths. The garden is popping with tulips right now. And in two weeks the flower parade will take place after two years of absence. Looking forward to it, especially the smell of the flowers.
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Steady as it goes
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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Snow
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Snow Spring
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Tears of a Tulip
A good bunch of flowers is always a nice present, on any occasion. Lens Artists Photo Challlenge #193 is ‘they say it is your birthday’.
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Cyclamen
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Window Rose
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Out of the dark
This week Lens Artists Photography Challenge #192 is ‘Earth Story’.
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Purple
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Bleak Morning
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Swan
This week Lens Artists Photography Challenge #191 is ‘Curves’.
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Mad Man Moon
This week Lens Artists Photography Challenge #191 is ‘Curves’.
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Sun is up
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Daffodil
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Spring
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Grass
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Orange
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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Grass
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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In the Window
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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Ripples
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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Push
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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Swans
A picture that does not fit in a category has to fit in ‘odds and ends’, lens artists photo challenge #189. Though this one could have been in ‘cleaning’, ‘swans in habitat’, ‘grooming for professionals’ etc.
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Green Leaves
This week lens artists photo challenge is ‘that special place’. The time when the trees start to grow out again, Spring is in full swing and it gets warmer.
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Winter Water
This week lens artists photo challenge is ‘that special place‘. The empty branches of a tree in Winter. During this pandemic I realized that the immediate outside of my house is an inspiration for photos. During the seasons and days it is always nice to look out and sometimes catch a nice view. Looking back over the years I realize that I have always been intrigued by little details near the places where I lived. Making these places special in a certain way.
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Au clair de la lune
This week lens artists photo challenge is ‘that special place‘. The moon is a big inspiration for stories and songs. The Dark Side of the Moon is a brilliant album by Pink Floyd, Mad man Moon on Trick of the Tail by Genesis, R.E.M.’s Man on the moon, Moon over Bourbon Street by Sting are some of them. And of course a French folk song ‘Au clair de la lune’. And the moon has impact on our lives on this planet: the moon causes tides on seas, and apparently has impact on the menstrual cycle.
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Winter Light
The sun through bare trees on a Winter’s day with fog.
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Evening
This weeks challenge #186 is ‘Low Light’. Modern camera’s and even smartphones offer possibilities to take photo’s in poor light conditions. That can be at night or dusk, dawn, but also in poorly lit situations like a museum, church etc. In the old days of film the limits where much tighter. When light was not plenty available there were two options: making the film more sensitive (a few stops) and develop longer. Or flash. I hate flashing, so I always tried to work with existing light. Nowadays that is much more easy with digital technology. Here a photo mady by iPhone on an evening just after dusk.
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At the Garden Center
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J.H. Oortbrug
A grey morning with fog in Winter.
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Flower Field in Winter
A grey morning with fog in Winter.
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Waiting for Spring
A grey morning with fog in Winter. If the pandemic learned me something, it is that you do not have to go far to find beautiful items for photography. I can not wait to get out in the world again, but this is 500 meters away from where I live, on route to the supermarket. This week’s theme for the Lens Artists Photo Challenge #184 is ‘Travel has taught me’.
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Flowers waiting for Spring
A grey morning with fog in Winter.
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Swans
A grey morning with fog in Winter.
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Lined Up
A grey morning with fog in Winter.
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Grey Day
The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #179 is Serene. A grey morning in Autumn.
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Boat
The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #179 is Serene. A grey morning in Autumn.
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Hazy
The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #179 is Serene. A grey morning in Autumn.
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Serene Autumn
The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #179 is Serene. A little canal on a grey morning in Autumn.
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Almost Winter Solstice Sunrise
The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #179 is Serene.
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Grey Morning
The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #178 is You Choose. A grey morning in Autumn, on the edge of Winter.
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How Amsterdam Airport Schiphol was created
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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Consider the Lillies
The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #178 is You Choose. About choices in life. Some are easy if there is a lot to choose from.
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Row
Theme #177 of Lens Artists Photo Challenge is celebrating.
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Cyclame
Theme #177 of Lens Artists Photo Challenge is celebrating.
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