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Grass 2

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – June 2021

The theme for this week Lens-artists challenge #154 is ‘one photo two ways’. Yesterday I posted the first one of these perspectives, today the second. Tomorrow the one that pleases me most.

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Grass

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – June 2021

The theme for this week Lens-artists challenge #154 is ‘one photo two ways’. Today, Tuesday and Wednesday I will show different variations on the same subject.

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Evening Clouds

The theme for this week Lens-artists challenge #154 is ‘one photo two ways’. These clouds I shot at dusk. I was curieus what the iPhone would do in low light. These are four shots of the sky. They vary on zoom/frame and one I adjusted the light measuring. So two times two.

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Blue Flight

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – June 2021

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

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White

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2021

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

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Pink Rose

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – June 2021

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

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Delft over Bridges

The Netherlands, Delft – June 2021

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

Delft, like other cities in the West of The Netherlands, has an extended canal system, that was used in the past for transport. Lots of little bridges connect the city streets.

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Gerecht Leiden

The Netherlands, Leiden – Juni 2021

The theme for this week Lens-artists challenge #152 is ‘Shadows and Shades’.

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Leiden Breestraat

The Netherlands, Leiden – Juni 2021

The theme for this week Lens-artists challenge #152 is ‘Shadows and Shades’.

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Delft Dog

The Netherlands, Delft – June 2021

The theme for this week Lens-artists challenge #152 is ‘Shadows and Shades’.

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Delft

The Netherlands, Delft – June 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #152 is ‘Shadows and Shades’.

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Latin School

The Netherlands, Leiden – June 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #152 is ‘Shadows and Shades’. This is a school Rembrandt went to.

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Consider Waterlilies

The Netherlands, Delft – June 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #152 is ‘Shadows and Shades’.

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Delft

The Netherlands, Delft – June 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #152 is ‘Shadows and Shades’. Delft was the first city I visited since we went into the pandemic. It is a beautiful old town, famous for pottery (Delft’s Blauw/Delft Blue), the painter Johannes Vermeer and the fact that here William of Orange was murdered. The light was stunning on this warm and sunny day, it reminded me of the South of France.

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Gravensteen Leiden

The Netherlands, Leiden – June 2021

The Gravensteen in Leiden, Netherlands.

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Off White

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – June 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #150 is ‘Let’s go wild’.

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Feathers

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #150 is ‘Let’s go wild’.
A sunset.

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Sky 2

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #150 is ‘Let’s go wild’.
A sunset.

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Couple

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #150 is ‘Let’s go wild’.
Near our house there is an artificial lake created by the need for sand for infrastructural building. The sand was used to build a railway and as a base for houses and roads. On the banks is big nest box for Sand Martins. They come all the way from Africa and normally hatch in steep river walls. After creating their offspring they move back to Africa. In the setting sun they play in the sky, chasing each other.

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Sky 1

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #150 is ‘Let’s go wild’.
A sunset.

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Rain

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #150 is ‘Let’s go wild’.
The Netherlands does not really have original wild parts where nature still rules; we do have nature, but nature is being managed. We manage and maintain our dense populated country all over, to achieve efficiency (the post stamp like farm fields, outlined by straight canals from the sky, a view tourists seem to enjoy approaching Schiphol Airport etc) or benefits of scale and standardization. But not all can be controlled. One thing we have to adjust to and have no control over is the weather and the effects of climate change. Spring was very wet and had heavy showers. We can manage the extra water and rising sea levels, but the intensity of the rain is a more and more a given.

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Bridge Revisited 2

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2021

A few weeks ago I posted a photo of this bridge ‘Blossom bridge’.

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Bridge Revisited

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest -May 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #149 is ‘cool colors, blue and green.

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Fluitenkruid/Cow Parsley

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #149 is ‘cool colors, blue and green. Here the green side of it.
In Dutch we call this fluitenkruid, in english it is called Cow Parsley. I had to look that up 🙂

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Fly Blue

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #149 is ‘cool colors, blue and green. Here the blue side of it.

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The Last of Tulips Gallery

This Spring the tulips in the front garden were a pleasure to enjoy for weeks. A last impression of these gorgeous and fierce flowers.

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Lavender

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #149 is ‘cool colors, blue and green. And purple as third color 🙂

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Bike and Bridge: Green and Blue

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest -May 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #149 is ‘cool colors, blue and green.

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Last of the Tulips

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2021

The tulips gave us weeks of colorful joy this year, but in May a storm started to end their blooming period. The petals gone, the stems left behind. Derelict.

If you enjoy photography and want to play with words each month seeing if you can express the word in an image, visit Paula’s Lost in Translation blog. It is fun to do, but her photography is wonderful and inspiring as well. Well worth a visit and a follow.

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Crocus

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – March 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #148 is ‘spots and dots’.

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Light

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #148 is ‘spots and dots’.

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Yellow

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #148 is ‘spots and dots’.

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Decomposing Tulip

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #148 is ‘spots and dots’. The tulips lasted weeks this year, but unfortunately heavy wind made them wither fast.

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Rain

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #148 is ‘spots and dots’. This Spring is cold and wet, with grey skies and gusts of rain. So far.

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Cold Spring Rain

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #147 is ‘garden’.

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Garden

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #147 is ‘garden’.

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Blossom Bridge

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #147 is ‘garden’. This is a little park in the neighbourhood.

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