Sky with Tears
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Posts from the ‘Oegstgeest’ category
Wisteria
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Cat in Grass
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Spring Pops Up
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2024
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Organic
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Mad Man Moon
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 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
Lens Artists Photo Challenge #296 is ‘abstracts’.
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Garden
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Birches
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Sun Peek
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Sky
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Shepherd’s Delight
The reflection of the sunset in the sky and water, a beautiful display of colors towards the East.
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White Duck
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Counting Rotors
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
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Drops
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Out of the Blue
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Mother Duck
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
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Good Morning
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Thinking in the Rain
Winter rain and a bronze statue.
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Liberation 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
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Soft Rain
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Growing Up
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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
Sunrise on the J.H. Oortbrug.
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Carriage Wheels
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
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
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
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Magnolia
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 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
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Birches
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Sunrise
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Street Light Shine
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Willows
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Magnolia Triple
The Magnolia is in front of the house, outside the kitchen window. Lens Artists Photo Challenge #288 is ‘window shopping’. It is a beautiful view to see it daily taking small steps into Spring.
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Going for Gold
Lens Artists Photo Challenge #288 is ‘window shopping’. Most of the time it is an activity associated with shop displays. I take a different angle, and use windows to shop for something new.
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Blue Sky
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Over The Lake and Far Away
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See the sun
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Flying Blues
This week’s Lens Artists Challenge #287 is ‘Sound’. Seeing this incoming flight immediately gives the association of its sound. The memory provides that information instantaneously. The image pleases the eye, it is not necessarily the ears agree.
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Mono Flowers
Being spoiled by the availability of fresh and cheap cut flowers all year, I’m not too fond of fake flowers. But sometimes they make a nice statement.
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Pond Life
A sunny afternoon in Winter for this week’s Lens Artists Challenge #286 ‘Weather’.
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What's (in) the Picture? 