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Posts from the ‘The Netherlands’ category
Capturing Views from a Train Window
Lines in the sky seen from one of the most beautiful frames for pictures in The Netherlands: a train window offering a beautiful frame with always changing content in it.
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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?
Castle ‘Oud Poelgeest’
Castle Oud Poelgeest.
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Over The Water
Over grown canal and reflections, the division between the park of Oud Poelgeest and the local ice ring.
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Scenic A12 Motorway Lights Fade in June 2024 – Den Haag
The lights seem to fade slowly along the A12 motorway leading into Den Haag.
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Scenic Skies
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Stunning May and June 2024 Rose Garden in Oegstgeest, Netherlands
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May and June 2024
A rose is a rose is a rose, someone wrote that a long time ago. But it is still true, each rose is unique. So much symbolism and sweetness in a picture. The garden offers them in abundance this year.
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Lavender
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Carpet Crawlers: A12 Motorway in Den Haag | June 2024
The A12 motorway leading into Den Haag downtown. You have to get into town to get out of the car, a free wording of a slogan used in the sixties and later in a beautiful Genesis song ‘Carpet Crawlers’ (the link to the Ray Wilson/Steve Hackette live version of 2014 in the Royal Albert Hall)
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On The Beach
A view showing the curve of the Dutch seafront looking at Scheveningen in the South from Katwijk aan Zee.
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Pole King
Sea and Beach king.
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Tranquil Oegstgeest Canal Scene in June 2024
The grass on this side of the little canal is the same as on the other side of the canal, the light is just different.
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Allium Bulbflowers in Oegstgeest, Netherlands – A Twin Set of Mono and Color
Allium is one of our favorite bulbflowers in the garden. I present it as a twin set of mono next to color. Each version brings out different qualitaties in the flower I think, but that is of course subjective.
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May 2024: Nocturnal Garden Scene in Oegstgeest, Netherlands
A wet garden at night. And by the way, I love that WordPress AI generating amazing titles that I can not come up with. I stick with them as long as they make me smile. Nocturnal, sounds like a great piece of music.
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Co-existence in Habitat: A Heron’s View of Oegstgeest, Netherlands
LAPC #306 is ‘habitat’. As humans we share the earth with lots of natural life, we share habitats (the human home, the natural ecosystem), we co-exist. Our relation with earth is not balanced. It tilts favorably towards the human interest, disrupting the natural habitats of many. If we as humans do not change our relationship with earth, then humanity kills itself, leaving a planet to recover from being abused. Not survival of the fittest, but termination of the dumbest.
A Heron, sitting on a lamppost, overlooking the articificial canal, as a cyclist uses a cycling path in the background.
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Exploring Rotterdam’s Kop van Zuid | Twins (5)
Architecture can be beautiful in full color as well in monochrome. In ‘twins’ I show the monochrome twin of the color shot at the Kop van Zuid in Rotterdam. The fift and last set is again New Orleans.
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Exploring Rotterdam’s Kop van Zuid | Twins (4)
Architecture can be beautiful in full color as well in monochrome. In ‘twins’ I show the monochrome twin of the color shot at the Kop van Zuid in Rotterdam. The fourth set is New Orleans.
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Exploring Rotterdam’s Kop van Zuid | Twins (3)
Architecture can be beautiful in full color as well in monochrome. In ‘twins’ I show the monochrome twin of the color shot at the Kop van Zuid in Rotterdam. The third set is the Montevideo.
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Exploring Rotterdam’s Kop van Zuid | Twins (2)
Architecture can be beautiful in full color as well in monochrome. In ‘twins’ I show the monochrome twin of the color shot at the Kop van Zuid in Rotterdam. The second set is an old elevator at the Rijnhaven.
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Exploring Rotterdam’s Kop van Zuid | Twins
Architecture can be beautiful in full color as well in monochrome. In ‘twins’ I show the monochrome twin of the color shot of the high risings in Rotterdam on the Kop van Zuid in Rotterdam. The first set is De Rotterdam by Rem Koolhaas.
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Exploring Rotterdam’s Kop van Zuid | Bench
A bench at the Rijnhaven in Rotterdam on the Kop van Zuid in Rotterdam.
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Exploring Rotterdam’s Kop van Zuid | Old and New
The De Rotterdam towers over the old warehouses on the Kop van Zuid in Rotterdam. The use of housing changed from industrial to living.
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Exploring Rotterdam’s Kop van Zuid | Blocked
The Netherlands, Rotterdam – May 2024
LAPC challenge #305 is about composition: two rectangles as a play tool to frame a photo. Sometimes you get lots more than two, which adds to another aspect of composition: repetition. Not sure if this qualifies as a valid entry, but I do like the building. This is De Rotterdam by Rem Koolhaas.
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On the beach
LAPC challenge #305 is about composition: two rectangles as a play tool to frame a photo.
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Exploring Rotterdam’s Kop van Zuid | Floats
The Rijnhaven in Rotterdam seen from the Kop van Zuid in Rotterdam.
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Exploring Rotterdam’s the Kop van Zuid: Old Trade
The Rijnhaven in Rotterdam seen from the Kop van Zuid in Rotterdam.
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Exploring Rotterdam’s Kop van Zuid | New Orleans Skyscraper
The Kop van Zuid in Rotterdam is home to various highrisings, some named after big cities. This is New Orleans.
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Swan
Rijnhaven, Kop van Zuid, Rotterdam.
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Erasmus Bridge
The Erasmus bridge in Rotterdam.
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Poppies in Dutch Landscape
This weeks LAPC # 304 is ‘Background: behind the subject’. Poppies against a familiar backdrop in the landscape of The Netherlands,
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Dirty Window
This weeks LAPC # 304 is ‘Background: behind the subject’. A dirty window of a terrace at the beach.
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Skuumkoppen
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
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Moon
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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 Lens Artist Photo Challenge #301 is ‘floral’. A red rose against the drop of Wysteria.
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Hoek van Holland / Hook of Holland
Hoek van Holland, looking at Maasvlakte, the harbor of Rotterdam.
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Red Rose
The Lens Artist Photo Challenge #301 is ‘floral’. A red rose against the drop of Wysteria.
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Afraid of light
The Netherlands, Leiden – May 2024
Junction Ommevoort A44-N434.
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Soon to open
Junction Ommevoort A44-N434.
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Insight
Stenaline Brittanica, Hoek van Holland, waiting for departure.
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Harbor Rotterdam
The Netherlands, Rotterdam – May 2024
Hoek van Holland, waiting for departure.
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Ship
Hoek van Holland, waiting for departure.
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That’s why they called it the blues
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Delicate
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Wisteria 2
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Half a day of work
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Sky with Tears
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What's (in) the Picture? 