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Art

The Netherlands, Lisse – September 2021

In the garden of castle De Keukenhof is also a museum and between the plants there is modern art on display.

Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version.

White

The Netherlands, Lisse – September 2021

This is the garden of castle De Keukenhof, which as the name gives away, provided the name for the famous bulb flower exposition the Keukenhof. There is an extremely beautiful set of Dahlia’s flowering in the beautiful garden. A pleasure to explore all different types of Dahlia’s.

Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version.

Red

The Netherlands, Lisse – September 2021

This is the garden of castle De Keukenhof, which as the name gives away, provided the name for the famous bulb flower exposition the Keukenhof. No idea what the name of this flower is, but it is a beauty.

Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version.

On Display

The Netherlands, Lisse – September 2021

Castle De Keukenhof is also a popular wedding venue.

Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version.

Into the Light

The Netherlands, Lisse – September 2021

This is the garden of castle De Keukenhof, which as the name gives away, provided the name for the famous bulb flower exposition the Keukenhof. There is an extremely beautiful set of Dahlia’s flowering in the beautiful garden. A pleasure to explore all different types of Dahlia’s.

Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version.

Orange

The Netherlands, Lisse – September 2021

This is the garden of castle De Keukenhof, which as the name gives away, provided the name for the famous bulb flower exposition the Keukenhof. There is an extremely beautiful set of Dahlia’s flowering in the beautiful garden. A pleasure to explore all different types of Dahlia’s.

Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger versio

Deep Purple

The Netherlands, Lisse – September 2021

This is the garden of castle De Keukenhof, which as the name gives away, provided the name for the famous bulb flower exposition the Keukenhof. There is an extremely beautiful set of Dahlia’s flowering in the beautiful garden. A pleasure to explore all different types of Dahlia’s.

Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version.

Light and Day

The Netherlands, Lisse – September 2021

This is the garden of castle De Keukenhof, which as the name gives away, provided the name for the famous bulb flower exposition the Keukenhof. There is an extremely beautiful set of Dahlia’s flowering in the beautiful garden. A pleasure to explore all different types of Dahlia’s.

Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version.

Dahlia Garden Castle Keukenhof

This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge (#164) is ‘Looking Up/Looking Down’.

This is the garden of castle De Keukenhof, which as the name gives away, provided the name for the famous bulb flower exposition the Keukenhof. There is an extremely beautiful set of Dahlia’s flowering in the beautiful garden. A pleasure to explore all different types of Dahlia’s.

Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version.

From the archive: Tree Oegstgeest 1978

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – November 1978

This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge (#164) is ‘Looking Up/Looking Down’.

An old photo of an old tree, still standing.

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.

The picture was originally shot with Pentax K1000 on Kodak Plusx, scanned from negative and tweaked using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.

At the Heart

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – August 2021

Shot with iPhone 11 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version

Gull Over Wire

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – August 2021

This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge (#163) is ‘keep walking’.

This is the Klinkenberger Plas, a favorite for a short walk.

Shot with iPhone 11 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version

Here’s looking at you kid

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – August 2021

This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge (#163) is ‘keep walking’.

This is the Klinkenberger Plas, a favorite for a short walk.

Shot with iPhone 11 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version

Boating

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – August 2021

This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge (#162) is ‘all about the light’.

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Cadzand

The Netherlands, Cadzand – March 2014

This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge (#162) is ‘all about the light’.

Shot with Nikon D7000, edited using Snapseed and Marksta.Click the picture for a bigger version

Where Cows Once Grazed

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – August 2021

This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge (#162) is ‘all about the light’.

This artificial lake used to be meadow. The lake was created by dredging sand, that was needed for roads, new build areas and a railway line. And now it is a recreational area, Klinkenberger Plas.

Shot with iPhone 11 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version

Missed the point

The Netherlands, Cadzand – March 2014

This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge (#162) is ‘all about the light’.

Shot with Nikon D7000, edited using Snapseed and Marksta.Click the picture for a bigger version

Mirror

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – August 2021

This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge (#162) is ‘all about the light’.

Shot with iPhone 11 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version

This will pass

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – August 2021

This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge (#162) is ‘all about the light’. This Summer is what it is, not the best one we had. Grey, cloudy, rain, and from time to time some sun in between.

Shot with iPhone 11 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version

Sky Blue

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – August 2021

This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge (#162) is ‘all about the light’. Maybe not a photo you would expcect when it is about ‘light’. But it is. I always love reading quotes from people on blogs, but I am too lazy to look up this one. Someone said: photography is painting with light. Which is true basically, glass, metal or later film was made to be sensitive to light to store images. Sensors do the same, but we are not aware of that process. Just the result.
Last weeks I was looking at the sky more and more because a friend (I call him a friend even though I have not yet him personally for our first beer) Andy Townend ‘shoots a sky a day’ on his Facebook and IG account. A sky with clouds is a painting in light. I long to see blue skies, it is too wet and grey this Summer.

Shot with iPhone 11 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger versio

Shoes

The Netherlands, Naarden – June 2007

This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge (#161) is ‘feet and shoes’. Trying to find something that fits into this theme was difficult. I am not really into shoes or feet, let alone photos of them! However, I found one. I think. During a visit to the bi-annual photo exhibition at Naarden (FFN) in 2007 I shot these photographers clicking away on a just married couple.

Originally shot with Nikon D70, edited using Snapseed and Marksta.  Click the picture for a larger version

Rain

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – August 2021

We did not have a lot of Summer yet, grey and wet, cold weather so far.

Shot with iPhone 11 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version

Thistles

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – August 2021

Just around the corner there is a field where flowers are grown for commercial sales.

Shot with iPhone 11 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version

Agapanthus Blues

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – August 2021

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The Heart of the Matter

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – August 2021

The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #160 is ‘Your Inspiration’.

One of the biggest inspirations is nature and flowers. In times of Covid19 the back garden is a place to be.

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Bee on Sunflower

The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #160 is ‘Your Inspiration’.

One of the biggest inspirations is nature and flowers. In times of Covid19 the back garden is a place to be.

Shot with iPhone 11 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version

Red Rain

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – July 2021

In the garden, Summer is quite wet at the moment.

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Young family

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – July2021

Right in front of the door, a young swan family takes a nap sometimes.

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Swans

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – July2021

Right in front of the door, a young swan family takes a nap sometimes.

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Rose

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – June 2021

The theme for this week Lens-artists challenge #153 is ‘Wonderful World’.

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Two Towers

The Netherlands, Noordwijk – February 2014

Noordwijk beach in Winter. One from the archive.

shot with Nikon D7000, edited using Snapseed and Marksta.  Click the picture for a larger version.

Grass

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – March 2021

The Lens Artists Photo Challenge#142 for this week is ‘you pick it’.

So here is the first pick: an old grass in sunlight.

Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version

Reflection

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest- April 2021

The Lens Artists Photo Challenge#143 for this week is ‘colorful April’.

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Den Bosch

The Netherlands, May 2004

The theme for this week Lens-artists challenge #156 is ‘black and white’.
I
am happy I am old enough to have worked with film and negatives. I still shoot black and white digital, but film is something different.

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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Shot with Nikon F90 on Kodak TriX, scanned from film and edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version

Duck

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2021

The theme for this week Lens-artists challenge #155 is ‘on the water’.

Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version

Sweet Pea

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – July 2021

The theme for this week Lens-artists challenge #155 is ‘on the water’.
Probably not exactly as John intended but here is some water: rain drops.

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Grass 3

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – June 2021

The theme for this week Lens-artists challenge #154 is ‘one photo two ways’. Monday I posted the first one of these perspectives, yesterday the second. This is the one that I like best, the hint of the plumes in the light.

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