Fog and Streetlights
The weekly theme for LAPC #235 is shadows and reflections in monochrome.
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Posts from the ‘Trees’ category
Sunrise Lounging
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – December 2022
Sunrise at the start of Winter. Sustainable and solar elements remind of sun loungers at the beach or pool.
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Autumn 2022 – Canal in grey light
It is the end of the year and the Weekly Photo Challenge is ‘Last Chance’.
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Christmas Light
Wishing all of you a merry Christmas today, and my best wishes for a wonderful 2023. May all you wish for become real.
It is the end of the year and the Weekly Photo Challenge is ‘Last Chance’.
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Autumn 2022 – Tree
It is the end of the year and the Weekly Photo Challenge is ‘Last Chance’.
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Autumn 2022 – Birds
It is the end of the year and the Weekly Photo Challenge is ‘Last Chance’.
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Autumn 2022 – Trees
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – November 2022
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Autumn 2022 – Leaves
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Autumn 2022 – Rows
The theme for the weekly lens artists challenge is ‘diagonals‘.
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Autumn 2022 – Bridge
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Historical Tax House
The theme for the weekly lens artists challenge is ‘home sweet home‘. In the middle ages one had to pay tax (toll) to use the canal to enter goods into a city. This is a toll house in Oegstgeest at the Leidsevaart or Trekvaart. I am not following the brief, pointing to the places people should visit in The Netherlands. They are well known, and the paths towards them are flattened by millions of tourists. I just point to small places telling a bit about my flat country.
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Autumn 2022 – Canal
The theme for the weekly lens artists challenge is ‘textures‘. The canal in Autumn .
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Autumn 2022: Pylon Perspectives
Autumn 2022.
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Autumn 2022: Bridge
Autumn 2022.
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Autumn starts
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Polder
Lens Artists Weekly Challenge #200 is ‘Every little thing’. The horizon is low, things look small in a distance.
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Winter Light
The sun through bare trees on a Winter’s day with fog.
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Reeuwijkse Plassen
This weeks challenge #187 is ‘water’. The Reeuwijkse Plassen is a lake area in the West of The Netherlands.
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Evening
This weeks challenge #186 is ‘Low Light’. Modern camera’s and even smartphones offer possibilities to take photo’s in poor light conditions. That can be at night or dusk, dawn, but also in poorly lit situations like a museum, church etc. In the old days of film the limits where much tighter. When light was not plenty available there were two options: making the film more sensitive (a few stops) and develop longer. Or flash. I hate flashing, so I always tried to work with existing light. Nowadays that is much more easy with digital technology. Here a photo mady by iPhone on an evening just after dusk.
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Boat
The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #179 is Serene. A grey morning in Autumn.
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Hazy
The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #179 is Serene. A grey morning in Autumn.
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Grey Morning
The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #178 is You Choose. A grey morning in Autumn, on the edge of Winter.
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Autumn
The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #176 is One image/one story. That theme matches the subject of my photo blog: What’s (in) the picture? Finding stories. Photo’s tell stories. My story (what made me click my shutter), and the story of the spectator.
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From the archive: Les Tuileries Paris
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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Colors of Autumn
This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge (#167) is Colors of Autumn.
At the moment there is not much Autumn colors to be seen in The Netherlands, so one from the archive. The river Rur near Heimbach.
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Bridge Revisited 2
A few weeks ago I posted a photo of this bridge ‘Blossom bridge’.
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Bridge Revisited
The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #149 is ‘cool colors, blue and green.
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Bike and Bridge: Green and Blue
The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #149 is ‘cool colors, blue and green.
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Blossom Bridge
The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #147 is ‘garden’. This is a little park in the neighbourhood.
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Marten Toonder Path Sunset
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Blossom
The Lens Artists Photo Challenge#142 for this week is ‘you pick it’. This is the Willinklaan. In Spring it looks like this, in Autumn the trees are dark red.
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Dusk
The 140th Weekly Lens Artists Challenge is ‘change of scenery’.
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Ardennes 1977
The 139th Weekly Lens Artists Challenge is about ‘natural light’. A view over the hills of the Ardennes in Belgium.
The B4 retouch series
I browsed my archive for pictures to publish. All of them are not completely retouched yet. Scratches, dust and stains are not removed.
Sunrise
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Oud Poelgeest
Two weeks ago I published a color version of this view. This is a silver monochrome, with a different feel towards it. It suggests a different age and time. Mono, with a hint of sepia, brings this image back years to the previous century. Or am I old and going soft in melancholy? The 137th Weekly Lens Artists Challenge is about ‘soft’.
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Winter Rain
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Sunrise
The 136th Weekly Lens Artists Challenge is about ‘things that start with the letter S’. That is easy: a sunrise.
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Ardennes 1977
This week’s theme of the weekly lens artists challenge (#134) is ‘from forgotten to favorite’. Are there images that I hoped would turn out right, but did not. And could you turn them by editing into ‘keepers’? If so, show an example.
This challenge sends me back to the days of film. Ample of good objects around, but did they come out on film the way I hoped? In those days you could not check the backside of your camera, and try a few settings and tweaks to find out what worked best. It was shoot and go. Film was expensive so most of the time it was a lucky shot based on intuition and experience. Most of them came out ok, some really were disappointing.
The photo above has a story behind it that comes close to this theme. At the end of the post is the scanned negative of the original photo. I am not sure the edited one above is a keeper, but it shows my line of thought and the original intention of framing this rock wall in a forest in the Ardennes. It did not strike me as a spot I would go for a pick nick. The road next to it, mud, rock, nothing to see but passing cars. But the details of the rock and the trees, with the strange object of the pick nick table triggered my shutter. This photo was kept on archive for a long time. It was in my secondary school notebook (the time we actually wrote with pens on paper). And recently when I was scanning my archive from negative it popped up again.
In a way I do like the object. It is kind of sinister and powerful. I wonder about your thoughts on it.
The B4 retouch series
I browsed my archive for pictures to publish. All of them are not completely retouched yet. Scratches, dust and stains are not removed.
Winter Sunrise
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Winter Sunset
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Just before curfew
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Road
The theme for the lens-artists #132 is ‘striped and checked’.
The B4 retouch series
I browsed my archive for pictures to publish. All of them are not completely retouched yet. Scratches, dust and stains are not removed.
The picture was originally shot with Pentax K1000 on Kodak TriX, scanned from negative and tweaked using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.
My hometown 7: Errands
A test shot for a new long zoom lens.
The B4 retouch series
I browsed my archive for pictures to publish. All of them are not completely retouched yet. Scratches, dust and stains are not removed.
The picture was originally shot with Pentax ME super II on Kodak TriX, scanned from negative and tweaked using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.
Winter Sunrise
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Dusk
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Bridge
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Willows
The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #123 is ‘Found in the Neighbourhood’.
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Autumn
The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #123 is ‘Found in the Neighbourhood’.
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Five Trees
The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #123 is ‘Found in the Neighbourhood’.
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What's (in) the Picture? 