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Posts from the ‘Oegstgeest’ category

Skuumkoppen

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2024

A popular beer from an original small independent brewery on the island of Texel is called ‘Skuumkoppen’. It refers to the white on breaking waves.

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Sea of Clouds

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2024

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Moon

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2024

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Sunset


The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2024

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Wisteria


The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2024

The Lens Artist Photo Challenge #301 is ‘floral’. A red rose against the drop of Wysteria.

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Rose

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2024

The Lens Artist Photo Challenge #301 is ‘floral’. A red rose against the drop of Wysteria.

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Red Rose

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2024

The Lens Artist Photo Challenge #301 is ‘floral’. A red rose against the drop of Wysteria.

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That’s why they called it the blues

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2024

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Delicate

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2024

The Lens Artist Photo Challenge celebrates its 300th episode! A big cheer for the four founders for starting it and keeping it alive. This one is ‘delicate’.

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Wisteria 2

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2024

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Sky with Tears

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2024

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Wisteria

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2024

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Cat in Grass

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2024

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Spring Pops Up


The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2024

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Organic

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2024

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Mad Man Moon

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2024

The Lens Artists Photo Challenge #297 is ‘music to my eyes’.  The moon through insulated glass. The story of Mad Man Moon by Genesis.

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Obscured by Trees

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2024

The Lens Artists Photo Challenge #297 is ‘music to my eyes’. Images and music are a strong way of bringing back memories, feelings, situations you once experienced. This photo clicked my memory for a Pink Floyd album ‘Obscured by clouds’. It is not so much the clouds that obscure in this image, the branches of the trees create a web of lines over the sky and sun.

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Roof Top


The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2024

Lens Artists Photo Challenge #296 is ‘abstracts’.

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Greenfield

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2024

Lens Artists Photo Challenge #296 is ‘abstracts’.

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Garden

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2024

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Birches

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2024

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Sun Peek

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2024

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Sky

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2024

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Shepherd’s Delight

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2024

The reflection of the sunset in the sky and water, a beautiful display of colors towards the East.

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White Duck

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2024

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Counting Rotors

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2024

Normally I occasionally see air ambulances or police helicopters, but I assume these are not civilian helicopters.

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Spring Sunset Skies

Skies can be amazingly dramatic these days, sometimes aided by a whiff of Sahara sand in the mix of light and clouds.

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Napkins

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – March 2024

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Drops

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest- February 2024

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Out of the Blue

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – March 2024

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Mother Duck

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – February 2024

To our surprise we found this duck sitting on a nest, hidden in the grasses of our front garden. Finally ten little chicks came out.

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Easter

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – March 2024

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Good Morning

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest- March 2024

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Thinking in the Rain

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – February 2024

Winter rain and a bronze statue.

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Liberation 1945

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 1945

This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #292 is ‘People here, there and everywhere’.

I do not know who took this photo, I do not know the date. We assume it is just after World War 2, May 1945. And we assume my father took it. The photo lacks focus unfortunately, but that adds to the thrill of figuring out what is on it. Luckily we could ask the youngest sister of my father (my last aunt still alive); she thinks it is taken just after the war.

There is a parade on the street, observed by people; among them the sisters and brother of my father from the top window of my grandfather’s house (called Weltevreden) where my father lived. The point of view is from a window of the house where my mother lived, and where I would be born 14 years later.

The negative is quite poorly and damaged, but a sweep through Lightroom and Snapseed provided this old memory.

More Soft Rain

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest- February 2024

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Soft Rain

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – February 2024

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Growing Up

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – February 2024

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Growing Up Magnolia 2

I started documenting the Magnolia, taking a photo a day from the kitchen window. Here is the second gallery.

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At The Start Of The Day

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest- March 2024

Sunrise on the J.H. Oortbrug.

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Carriage Wheels

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April

An old photo of ‘ringsteken’ (if you follow the link you can see some photo’s in action). A traditional activity where horse pulled carriages try to pick off little metal rings from a rope held piece of wood hanging over the road. For lens artists challenge #290 Circular by Wonders.

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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Growing Up Magnolia

I started documenting the Magnolia, taking a photo a day from the kitchen window. Here is a first gallery.

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Sunrise

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest- March 2024

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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Water Watcher

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – February 2024

A familiar sight in the neighborhood. He never looks good on iPhone but now on Nikon the details of his feathers are quite impressive.

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Rose

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – March 2024

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Magnolia

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – January 2024

After dropping its leaves the Magnolia immediately prepares to grow out again in Spring, I always wonder where they get their weather information.

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Glass

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – February 2024

The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #289 is ‘tools of photo composition’.  Light, form and shapes when they appear not to be there.

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Weather with you

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – February 2024

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Birches

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – January 2024

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Sunrise

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – January 2024

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