Open Skies
This Summer the sky seems to be a source for me. Clouds are magnificent at times.
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This Summer the sky seems to be a source for me. Clouds are magnificent at times.
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This Summer the Sky seems to be a source for me. A love and hate one, incoming flights can be annoying. But clouds are magnificent at times.
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This Summer the Sky seems to be a source for me. A love and hate one, incoming flights can be annoying. But clouds are magnificent at times.
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This Summer the Sky seems to be a source for me. A love and hate one, incoming flights can be annoying. But clouds are magnificent at times.
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This Summer the Sky seems to be a source for me. A love and hate one, incoming flights can be annoying. But clouds are magnificent at times.
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This Summer the sky seems to be a source for me. A love and hate one, incoming flights can be annoying. But clouds are magnificent at times.
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This Summer the Sky seems to be a source for me. A love and hate one, incoming flights can be annoying. But clouds are magnificent at times.
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Lens Artists Photo Challenge #211 is ‘what is your groove’. Basically I enjoy looking around, up and down till something strikes me as interesting. A wonderful way of looking around is at the passenger seat of the car, riding shot gun. This is a navigable aqueduct, leading a waterway over the A4 motorway near Steenbergen in Noord-Brabant.
The A4 is one of our routes to Belgium and France. Reading the name on the aqueduct (Steenbergen at the sea) made me chuckle the first time, because the actual North Sea is more to the West. Last time passing I shot this photo. And when I made this post, I found some interesting information on Wikipedia about Steenbergen.
Guy Gibson, Wing Commander, the first CO of the RAF‘s 617 Squadron, who led the famous “Dam Busters” raid in 1943, crashed September 19 1944 with his navigator, Jim Warwick, in a de Havilland Mosquito XX, KB267, aircraft in this municipality. Coming back from a raid on Germany they crashed, probably caused by a malfunction of the fuel system. They are buried in the RC cemetery of Steenbergen.
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The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – July 2022
Lens Artists Photo Challenge #211 is ‘what is your groove’. Basically I enjoy looking around, up and down till something strikes me as interesting. And sometimes it shows right at your door step.
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It must be a reflection or something else because the moon was not up at 11.30 am. Yet it seems to appear in this shot.
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This is the railway bridge across the Hollands Diep, in the delta of the South West of The Netherlands. Shot from a riding car, so a bit soft in focus.
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LAPC #209 is surreal. This is the railway bridge across the Hollands Diep, in the delta of the South West of The Netherlands. Shot from a riding car, so a bit soft in focus.
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LAPC #209 is surreal. The iPhone camera has improved quite a bit: this is a photo taken under a streetlamp of a family of swans, sleeping on the side of the mood in front of our house. It is 3 am, and it could be an image of a dream.
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This is an entry for ‘texture’, the monthly Thursday Special Pick a Word of Lost in translation. Each month five words, to be visualized in a photo. It is fun to play with.
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Sunset against dramatic clouds.
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Sunset against dramatic clouds.
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A blue sky with clouds, highlighting soaring birds.
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A blue sky with clouds, highlighting soaring birds.
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This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge is #207 is ‘Seeing Double ‘. The Westfield Mall of the Netherlands.
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This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge is #207 is ‘Seeing Double ‘. Just outside the Westfield Mall of the Netherlands.
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The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – June 2022
A blue sky with shapes and figures and the odd straight line.
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This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge is #206 ‘Treasures’. One of my treasures is not seeing these big birds approaching Schiphol Amsterdam.
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This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge is #206 ‘Treasures’. One of my treasures is not seeing these big birds approaching Schiphol Amsterdam.
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View inside the departement of Infrastructure and Water-management Den Haag.
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This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge is #206 ‘Treasures’.
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This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge is #206 ‘Treasures’. Life deserves to be treasured as it rolls out with us on our journey through our years. Lots of change happens during that trip. One of The Netherlands most wonderful features is the low horizon. Meaning we have so much sky, as a giant canvas to show clouds and patterns. The flat horizon does not attract too much attention, just offers some texture to the straight line. Showing the changes over the years as urbanization and commercial estates grow.
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The view from the departement of Infrastructure and Water-management on Central Station Den Haag.
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About a week ago I published this photo in a monochrome version (click here to go there). Which one do you prefer?
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Lens Artists Photo Challenge #204 for this week is ‘doors and doorways’. An old photo of the opening of parliament in The Netherlands, the third Tuesday of September.
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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Lens Artists Photo Challenge #203 for this week is ‘local vistas’. The restaurant of De Bijenkorf in Den Haag.
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Fashion outlet center Batavia Stad.
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Lens Artists Photo Challenge #203 for this week is ‘local vistas’.
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Lens Artists Photo Challenge #203 for this week is ‘local vistas’.
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Lens Artists Photo Challenge #203 for this week is ‘local vistas’.
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Overtaking a farmer in a field next to the motorway. The Netherlands is as flat as a pancake here, and imagine a sea level about six meters higher than where we are. Well we are used to it. Lens Artists Photo Challenge #203 for this week is ‘local vistas’.
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Lens Artists Weekly Challenge #202 is ‘Minimalism/Maximilism‘.
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Lens Artists Weekly Challenge #202 is ‘Minimalism/Maximilism‘.
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Lens Artists Weekly Challenge #202 is ‘Minimalism/Maximilism‘.
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Lens Artists Weekly Challenge #202 is ‘Minimalism/Maximilism‘.
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Lens Artists Weekly Challenge #202 is ‘Minimalism/Maximilism‘.
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Lens Artists Weekly Challenge #202 is ‘Minimalism/Maximilism‘.
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Lens Artists Weekly Challenge #202 is ‘Minimalism/Maximilism‘. I think this would categorize in maximalism. But I might be wrong.
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At times the incoming traffic for Schiphol gets annoying. Especially when it is cloudy. The limit for approach is 600 feet here. They do create graphic images at time. That is a small benefit.
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