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Posts from the ‘Trees’ category

There is a Crack in Everything: A Photographic Journey

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – October 2024

This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #322 is ‘there is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in’. The quote is from a verse by Leonard Cohen about imperfection and beauty, redemption, healing and growth to overcome pain and hurt. The origin is more ‘cosmic’ and is much older (e.g. Rumi): the only perfect ‘being’ (the light) is the source of all. As humans we are not perfect but we can let the light in to heal our wounds and pain. And essentially learn from it.

Yesterday I showed a photo from the bright side, this one is from the sunrise, and I must say I love the light and the atmosphere.

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The Sunny Side

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – October 2024

This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #322 is ‘there is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in’. It is from a verse by Leonard Cohen about imperfection and beauty. This photo is just a blunt statement: the light comes from the right. But considering my more frequent photo moments in the early morning on this spot, it is after noon. A total different view on the same view. The way the light hits a scene gives it meaning. And shows different details. It softens, warms an strikes with a tender touch, showing the deeper beauty. Not perfect, but priceless.

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Intentional Creative Movement – Light

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – September 2004

This week’s Lens Artitsts Photo Challenge (#321) is Intentional Camera Movement (ICM). Yesterday I published photos shot analogue on film: the result is only visible after developing the film. This one is from 2004 with my first digital Nikon D70. The fun of digital is that you can actually see on the back what the result is, and use this feedback to try again. Digital gives freedom and is cheap and gives instant feedback. 20 years of digital playing.

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

Intentional Creative Movement – Bicycle

France, Saint-Hippolyte_du_Fort – August 1997

This week’s Lens Artitsts Photo Challenge (#321) is Intentional Camera Movement (ICM). These photos are from a workshop in 1997 in France, where we had to create movement with a low shutter speed while following the subject. Basically a fun excercise but done on film. So the result literally came to light after developing the film. The excitement and anxiety about the possible results were out of scale! Patience.

These film archives are the source of my B4 retouch series.

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.


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

Stunning Autumn Gold

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – October 2024

Autumn has arrived. Some trees take a fast lane to color and shed, some take more time. Each year this tree is delight of gold.

This week’s Lens Artitsts Photo Challenga (#321) is Intentional Camera Movement (ICM). That is a creative technique, but in this case the movement was non-intentional, caused by the extreme zoom of the iPhone, my unsteady hand and the amount of light available. However, it gave an overall glow to the photos that I do like. I hope the hose of this week Anne is not offended by this entry.

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Capturing Moments: A Series of SUP Paddler Photos

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – September 2024

Maybe I am not the only one. When I see a wonderful subject, that has to be on a photo, I tend to try out different things fast, to avoid the moment goes. And in the end there is a series of photos that are hard to choose from. What is the solution? I just publish them all. So after SUP Paddler in focus and

the monochrome loneliness of the SUP Paddler here is the last of three. I hope you enjoyed all of them.

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Watering Wild Cows

The Netherlands, Valkenburg – September 2024

‘Wild cows’ enjoy the water in the dunes near Valkenburg. The image is taken by hand on the maximum zoom of the iPhone, so it is a bit unsharp.

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Unique Sunrise Photo: SUP Paddler in Focus

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – September 2024

The canal is one of my long period objects for photos. I always look if there is something worth a photo when I cross it. Most of the time it is empty, sometimes there is a boat. But this time there was a first: a SUP paddler in a beautiful moody Autumnal sunrise. As if he knew this week’s theme for LAPC #319 is ‘setting a mood’.

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Tractor On A Gentle Line Of Orange

The Netherlands, Wassenaar – September 2024

The Netherlands is famous for its Spring bulbflower fields, but we produce flowers in Summer and Autumn as well.

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A Gentle Line Of Orange


The Netherlands, Wassenaar – September 2024

Yes, we produce flowers in Summer and Autumn as well.

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Obscured by Trees

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2024

The Lens Artists Photo Challenge #297 is ‘music to my eyes’. Images and music are a strong way of bringing back memories, feelings, situations you once experienced. This photo clicked my memory for a Pink Floyd album ‘Obscured by clouds’. It is not so much the clouds that obscure in this image, the branches of the trees create a web of lines over the sky and sun.

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Rain/Reign o’er me

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – January 2024

The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #289 is ‘tools of photo composition’. Rain on a window distorts the sharpness outside, and adds something extra to the shape of the trees on this wet, Winter day.

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Over The Lake and Far Away

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – February 2024

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See the sun

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – February 2024

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A colorful road to Christmas

Belgium, Aalter – December 2023

On the road to Christmas to Le Shuttle in Belgium.

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Leidse Hout

The Netherlands, Leiden – November 2023

The Leidse Hout, a local park.

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Advertising (Empty) Space

The Netherlands, Enspijk – November 2023

Empty spaces along a motorway used for commercial expressions. Empty spaces is the theme of LAPC #277.

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Autumn Paths

The Netherlands, Leiden – November 2023

The Leidse Hout, another cycle track on a dijk. 

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Light Travels

The Netherlands, Leiden – November 2023

The Leidse Hout, another cycle track on a dijk.

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Autumn Paths

The Netherlands, Leiden – November 2023

Autumn is coloring the trees in the local park Leidse Hout.

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Layered Panorama

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – November 2023

Two prints from the same panorama source on the iPhone. Choose your favorite! LAPC #276 is ‘looking up/looking down’.

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Autumn Paths

The Netherlands, Warmond – November 2023

Lens Artists Photo Challenge #275 is ‘filling the frame’. Each photo fills a frame of course, but this is about focussing a subject, and eliminate distraction. 

A cycle path along a railroad in Autumn, two days ago I showed a version in monochrome. Yesterday the color version. Today in color featuring a cyclist. Feel free to make up your own story, or pick your favorite.

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Autumn Paths

The Netherlands, Warmond – November 2023

Lens Artists Photo Challenge #275 is ‘filling the frame’. Each photo fills a frame of course, but this is about focussing a subject, and eliminate distraction. 

A cycle path along a railroad in Autumn, yesterday I showed a version in monochrome. Today the colors and a slightly different feel. Feel free to make up your own story, or pick your favorite.

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Autumn Paths

The Netherlands, Warmond – November 2023

Lens Artists Photo Challenge #275 is ‘filling the frame’. Each photo fills a frame of course, but this is about focussing a subject, and eliminate distraction.

A cycle path along a railroad in Autumn with some added atmosphere in monochrome. Feel free to make up your own story.

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Autum

The Netherlands, Leiden – October 2023

Autumn is coloring the first trees in the local park Leidsche Hout.

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Lines

The Netherlands, Voorschoten – October 2023

The trip from Den Haag to Leiden by train, offers a diverse view on fields and trees.

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In the distance

The Netherlands, Voorschoten – October 2023

The trip from Den Haag to Leiden by train, offers a diverse view on fields and trees.

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Dutch Landscape

The Netherlands, Alphen aan den Rijn – September 2023

Flat, low horizon, roads lined with trees cutting through farmland and meadows.

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Klinkenberg Triple

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – August 2023

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Monochrome Waters

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – August 2023

This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #265 is ‘Black and White or Monochrome’.

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Swan and Fisherman

England, Burton Mill Pond – November 2005

Lens Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #262 is ‘framing’. This is Burton Mill Pond in West Sussex.

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