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Posts from the ‘Voorhout’ category
Dramatic Monochrome Skies Over The Netherlands – August 2024
The sky over The Netherlands is a wonderful object for photos, we do have lot of sky over our flat land above the low horizon. And that sky can be quite dramatic, even more in monochrome.
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Vivid Summer Fields: A Colorful Display in Voorhout, Netherlands (August 2024)
The Netherlands, Voorhout – August 2024
In Summer the fields that grow the Spring’s bulb flowers (tulips, daffodils and hyacinths) may grow other flowers. Some years the fields are flooded or covered up to be gassed, to clean, other years they produce crops like these.
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Netherlands Landscape: Summer Scene with Cows, Windmill, and Farm
The Netherlands is as flat as a pancake. That is the way foreigners describe my precious habitat. It is not completely accurate, we do have some hills and dunes. The advantage of a flat surface is that we have lots of sky above the horizon. Here a typical Summer scene: rain filled sky and cows in the meadows, the odd windmill and farm.
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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?
Flower Parade 2024 (3)
The Netherlands, Voorhout – April 2024
The yearly flower parade of the Bollenstreek showing bulb flower creativity and offering mesmerizing smells.
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Flower Parade 2024 (2)
The Netherlands, Voorhout – April 2024
The yearly flower parade of the Bollenstreek showing bulb flower creativity and offering mesmerizing smells.
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Flower Parade 2024 (1)
The Netherlands, Voorhout – April 2024
The yearly flower parade of the Bollenstreek showing bulb flower creativity and offering mesmerizing smells.
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Old Memories
This is an old cart that was used in the past at flower auctions. Long ago I used to work in the Summer months at the bulbflower auction Flora Rijnsburg (Now part of the Royal Flora Holland Group). These carts transported flowers through sales at the clock and distribution of them to the buyer via a transporter belt. They were extremely heavy and not easy to handle.
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Flower Parade 2024
The yearly flower parade of the Bollenstreek showing bulb flower creativity and offering mesmerizing smells. A first photo, I post more soon.
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Light
This week’s Lens Artists Challenge #287 is ‘Sound’. The road is busy, the sound of cars is in my ears as I try to frame this mill against the sunset, trying to avoid a car in the frame at first. Then zooming out and coming back to the road I ended up with this one, showing the lamplight and the cars coming and fading in the distance. This is the last in a series of four of Windmill ‘Hoop doet leven’ in Voorhout against the Winter sunset. The first three in a list in order of publication:
- Winter sunset
- Winter sunset with car
- Windmill in Winter sunset (monochrome version of the first one)
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Windmill at Winter Sunset
An iconic view of The Netherlands for many tourists. Windmill ‘Hoop doet leven’ in Voorhout against the Winter sunset.
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Winter Sunset
For LAPC #285 is ‘warm colors’. A warm toned Winter sunset.
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Winter Sunset
An iconic view of The Netherlands for many tourists. Windmill ‘Hoop doet leven’ in Voorhout against the Winter sunset for LAPC #284 ‘day&night’.
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Dark: Hoop Doet Leven
The windmill ‘Hoop doet leven’ between Oegstgeest and Voorhout in a backdrop of rain with matching cars to the dark sky.
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Curved Straight Road
The iPhone in pano mode creates weird lines.
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Frank
At the flower parade in Voorhout.
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Fields
The Netherlands, Voorhout/Rijnsburg – April 2023
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Wings / Freedom
The Netherlands, Voorhout – April 2023
The yearly flower parade of the Bollenstreek showing bulb flower creativity and offering mesmerizing smells. And a fly over of a DC3.
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Flower Parade 2023: Photographers
The yearly flower parade of the Bollenstreek showing bulb flower creativity and offering mesmerizing smells. Just snaps of the iPhone of the floats and other stuff that caught my attention.
Over the years I collected photos of photographers shooting their photos and nowadays, videos. Here are a few.
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Flower Parade 2023: Music
The yearly flower parade of the Bollenstreek showing bulb flower creativity and offering mesmerizing smells. Just snaps of the iPhone of the floats and other stuff that caught my attention. Apart from the floats and flowers, music is an important part of the parade.
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Flower Parade 2023 (Part 3)
The yearly flower parade of the Bollenstreek showing bulb flower creativity and offering mesmerizing smells. Just snaps of the iPhone of the floats and other stuff that caught my attention.
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Flower Parade 2023 (Part 2)
The yearly flower parade of the Bollenstreek showing bulb flower creativity and offering mesmerizing smells. Just snaps of the iPhone of the floats and other stuff that caught my attention.
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Flower Parade 2023 (Part 1)
The yearly flower parade of the Bollenstreek showing bulb flower creativity and offering mesmerizing smells. Just snaps of the iPhone of the floats and other stuff that caught my attention.
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More Flowers of Spring
The Netherlands, Voorhout/Rijnsburg – April 2023
Lens Artists Photography Challenge #245 is ‘Environment’.
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First Flowers of Spring
The Netherlands, Voorhout and Lisse – April 2023
The beginning of April, and a first view of the bulbs starting to flower slowly.
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Spring Daffodils
The Lens Artists Photo Challenge #241 is Spring. The Daffodils are the first of the commercial grown bulb flowers to pop up each year. Here a field near Voorhout.
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Hoop doet leven
The windmill ‘Hoop doet leven’ between Oegstgeest and Voorhout in a Winter sun.
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Silhouetted Windmill
The silhouette of the windmill ‘Hoop doet leven’ between Oegstgeest and Voorhout in a Winter sun.
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Windmill ‘Hoop doet leven’
The silhouette of the windmill ‘Hoop doet leven’ between Oegstgeest and Voorhout in a Winter sun.
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Low Horizon: View on Oegstgeest
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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Glider
Lens Artists Weekly Challenge #200 is ‘Every little thing’.
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Delta
Lens artists photo challenge #199 is ‘mechanical/industrial’. I have a soft spot for planes coming over against the backdrop of the sky.
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Red Field
The Lens-artists challenge #197 is ‘rule of thirds’. The rule of thirds is a rule of thumb how to compose images. But a photo that creates a journey of the eye can also be made by using lines and colors. Even when the horizon is not on 1/3.
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Flower Parade 2022
The Netherlands, Voorhout – April 2022
After two years of pandemic, the flower parade was finally back!
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Hyacinths
The Lens Artists Photo Challenge#144 for this week is ‘taking flight’. The flying objects in this photo are the clouds, chasing on the frisky Northern wind this morning. Covering the familiar display of rows of hyacinths in full bloom.
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Pastorale
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Afterglow 2
The Netherlands, Voorhout – May 2020
The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #97 is ‘pastimes’.
A last afterglow on the bulb fields. If you want to see flowers in bloom just check out the archives of flowers and Voorhout.
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Out In The Country
The Netherlands, Voorhout – May 2020
The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #97 is ‘pastimes’.
Meadows and scenery in a typical Dutch polder landscape.
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Afterglow
The Netherlands, Voorhout – May 2020
The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #97 is ‘pastimes’.
Normally the bulb fields attract tourists in the Spring. The colours are always fantastic to see. Let alone the smell. In The Netherlands we are in an intelligent lockdown since March 12th. To prevent people from flocking into the bulb fields the growers decided to chop the heads sooner than normal. After all the bulbs that are on the field are meant to be sold, you can order them online from August. The flowers are taking too much strength out of the bulbs, that is why they are chopped off after flowering. Last weekend we spotted two fields still in bloom, and decided to have a closer look on a bicycle ride. This is what we found.
If you want to see flowers in bloom just check out the archives of flowers and Voorhout.
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Red Lines
The Netherlands, Voorhout – April 2018
The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #81 is ‘find something red’
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Bridge With Red In Background
The Netherlands, Voorhout – April 2018
The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #81 is ‘find something red’
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Forward
The Netherlands, Voorhout – April 2019
The yearly flower parade of the Bollenstreek.
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In hindsight
The Netherlands, Voorhout – April 2019
The yearly flower parade of the Bollenstreek.
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Big Bird
The Netherlands, Voorhout – April 2019
The yearly flower parade of the Bollenstreek.
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Evolution in Flowers
The Netherlands, Voorhout – April 2019
The yearly flower parade of the Bollenstreek.
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Bird
The Netherlands, Voorhout – April 2019
The yearly flower parade of the Bollenstreek.
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Flower Parade 2
The yearly flower parade of the Bollenstreek.
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Flower Parade
The Netherlands, Voorhout – April 2019
The yearly flower parade of the Bollenstreek.
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Place in the World – Music
The weekly theme is ‘place in the world’. Where do you belong?
Images of the place I live, my place(s) in the world. One is a bit hard to grasp: music. ‘Place in the world’ brought me immediately to In My Place by Coldplay. Can this song be about flowers?
Last month, exploring the flower fields with tulips near my village (place), I came across this setting. Taking this photo, the power lines and the lonely house set the atmosphere; the flowers are almost gone, some are still there. Flowers come and go, and you have to wait another year for them, but singing flowers? Well, it checks boxes, but not all of them. Perhaps I cross lines I should not cross? Do enjoy the song and the photo.
The Netherlands, Voorhout – April 2018
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In My Place – Coldplay
In my place, in my place
Were lines that I couldn’t change
I was lost
I was lost, I was lost
Crossed lines I shouldn’t have crossed
I was lost
Yeah how long must you wait for it?
Yeah how long must you pay for it?
Yeah how long must you wait for it?
I was scared, I was scared
Tired and under prepared
But I wait for it
If you go, if you go
Leave me down here on my own
Then I’ll wait for you (yeah)
Yeah how long must you wait for it?
Yeah how long must you pay for it?
Yeah how long must you wait for it?
Sing it, please, please, please
Come back and sing to me, to me, me
Come on and sing it out, now, now
Come on and sing it out, to me, me
Come back and sing it
In my place, in my place
Were lines that I couldn’t change
And I was lost
Songwriters: Martin / Berryman / Buckland / Champion
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A list of other entries to this theme; if you do not want to be on this list let me know and I remove the link
- Reflections and Nightmares- Irene A Waters (writer and memoirist) My Place in the World: Weekly Photo Challenge
- The Library of Light – Journeys of Len
- Zimmerbitch Daily Post Photo Challenge: my place in the world
- sonja benskin mesher .place.
- Beside Seaside – Beach Books
- In the arms of nature – VJ’s Fotoplore
- Place in the World – Beside her… – The alien speaks
- Photo Challenges – Place in the World – Netdancer’s Musings
- My Little Corner of the World-Photo Challenge – Calling-all-RushBabes
- Peppered With Stories Mumbai My Muse
- The Art of Disorder Weekly Photo Challenge: A Place in the World Where We Belong
- MIGHTY OAKS, MOUNTAINS, AND WHERE THE RIVERS RUN – Marilyn Armstrong – Serendipity – Seeking Intelligent Life on Earth
- Indigo Acres – Growing Self
- Blase’
- Found Rainbow at Dawn – Ruth E. Hendricks Photography
- WPC: Place in the World – Christine’s Blog
- purpleviolas Weekly Photo Challenge : Place in the World, Purple Haze
- Right Steps & Poui Trees “Nuh Wey Nuh Betta Dan Yard”: Weekly Photo Challenge – Place In The World
- WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE: PLACE IN THE WORLD – Words We Women Write
- My Safest Place in the World – The Daily Post. #WPC – syncwithdeep
- Mama Cormier WPC – My Place in the World is Near Water
- Place In The World – Mainline_Matter
- Once a Day Photos | Rays of Light
- bend branches View from the Caldera
- MythRider Weekly Photo Challenge: Place in the World
- Being here – Being in Nature
- WPC – My Place in the World – Julie Powell – Photographer & Graphic Artist
- Proscenium Finding Neverland
- Oh, the Places We See . . . A Place in the World: Pawleys Beach at Dawn
- Purple Rosemary Where ever I go, there I am
- Shoot ‘N Go WPC: Place in the World
- Ouch!! My back hurts!! Place in the World
- There’s never just one place: weekly photo challenge – willowsoul
- Kanlaon Place in the World: The Daily Post Photo Challenge, 9 May 2018
- Beijing Daily Photo 2 WPC: Place in the World
- The Ambitious Drifter My Places
- Quiet place – Thin spiral notebook
- thoughts and entanglements Blossom Drizzle
- WPC: Place in the World – Jinan Daily Photo: The Sequel
- thoughts and entanglements Wordless Wednesday – #Street Mural #Brooklyn
- Stupidity Hole Walkway by the Harbour
- Here & Abroad WPC: Place in the World
- A Safe Space – iball round the world
- My Place – Poetry in Pictures
- Weekly Photo Challenge – Place In The World – Thoughts of an Idle Mind
- Traveling at Wits End My Place: From an Itinerant Photographer
- Leya WPC: Place in the World
- The Incredible Lightness of Seeing Weekly Photo Challenge: Place in the World
- rivrvlogr My Place in the World
- Place In The World – Life Amazing
- Kuwait Scientific Center – nenskei
- WPC: Place in the world – eljaygee
- My place out of this world – picturesimperfectblog
- from sand to stars The Umbrellas of Madinah
- Twenty Four WPC – place in the world
- Weekly Photo Challenge-My-Worldly-Place – WoollyMuses
- Water – Desertedroad
- Find Your Place – J. Wilder Bill
- Weekly Photo Challenge: Place in the World |
- Jaspa’s Journal The Calli, Campi and Canali of Cannaregio, Venice
- Venice – My Place in the World – The Narrow Bamboo Gate
- Writings from the Meadow Photo Challenge: Place in the World
- WPC — Natural Wonders – This, That, and The Other
- Roland’s Photo Blog WPC: Place in the World
- Chasing Waterfalls – koolest1uknow
- MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO My Place In The World
- Nomad Place in the world
- The World’s Common Tater Place in the World
- Célebes 3.0 Bitácora del camino: 2) El río Ebro
- No Fixed Plans WPC: My Place in the World
- Home is Where My Art is – By Alanna Pass
- Place – More 2 Explore
- Santa Fe – Journal
- Natsukashi Kansai WPC: My Place in the World
- WPC: Place in the World – Ruined for Life: Phoenix Edition
- Irrevocable condition – Stories from A Closet of Errors
- Weekly Photo Challenge: Place in the World – codziennik
- Norwegian Mountains Eirik Jeistad
- Photo challenge: Place in the world – The Chronicles of Kira
- Na’ama Yehuda Soul Place
- Aberdeen Photography Project – ggpowell.com Photography
- Bodh Gaya, India – Sree is travelling A river has dried up but relax! It’s not due to climate change
- Herman van Bon Photography, photography, fine art, photographic, landscape, art, gallery, South Africa
- Stephen Rees’s blog Weekly Photo Challenge: Place in the World
- Weekly Photo Challenge: Place in the World – Restless Accountant
- Insignificance – Splattered Brains
- castelsarrasin My Place in the World – Weekly Photo Challenge
- Lindy Low LeCoq ~ In My Shady Garden ~ Wordless Wednesday ~
- scillagrace Weekly Photo Challenge: A Place in the World, The World in a Place
- Roots and belonging – Alive and Trekking
- The World Is Made of Money – J HARDY CARROLL
- Chronicles of an Anglo Swiss Photo Challenge: Place in the World
- Bench – Oh, border!
- Half a photograph Headspace
- By the sea |
- Who I am Daily Prompt Weekly Photo Challenge
- Wordless Wednesday: Happy Place – Whippet Wisdom – a Highland Journey
- Light Words WPC Finding Carol Lee
- Tempest Weekly Photo Challenge # 10: Place in the World
- Simply Photos Wandering West Beach
- Water – Mistyroads
- JN Real Estate Valuation Services Photo Challenge: Place in the World
- umgeBUCHt Weekly Photo Challenge: Place in the World
- Spirit in Politics Photo Challenge: A Place Where Beauty Is Renewed
- City at Dusk – Words Won’t Do Photography
- What’s cooking at the Blue Fox Cafe A Place in the World
- Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge: Place In The World – Cee’s Photography
- Weekly Photo Challenge – Explored by Mafaza
- Cloud Gazing – WPC Place in the World – ReconnectedMind
- 67steffen Weekly Photo Challenge: Place in the World
- Which place in the world? – Travel with Intent
- Exploring the Ancient Life of the Omaguas, Amazonian People (El Coca, Ecuador) – indahs: dive, travel & photography
- THE ICONOPHILE The Drop
- Here Am I – Ohm Sweet Ohm
- Goldilocks Lifestyle Travel Top 7 things about Sabah
- Mittened Hands The Long and Winding Road
- UNGEMALTES Weekly Photo Challenge: Place in the World
- stenoodie Weekly Photo Challenge: Place in the World
- Haibun: Sacred Forest – Whippet Wisdom – a Highland Journey
- Madame Zenista I belong here and I belong there…
- Nowhere Else in the World is as Safe as Home – From Hiding to Blogging
What's (in) the Picture? 