Blakeney
The seafront in Blakeney.
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Posts from the ‘water’ category
Snowwhite
Theme for Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #380 is ‘what’s around the corner’.
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Heron in Snow
Theme for Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #380 is ‘what’s around the corner’. A grey Heron in falling snow.
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Frederik van Eedenpad
Theme for Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #380 is ‘what’s around the corner’. Snow, no ice.
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Bridging 2025 to 2026
The year 2025 ends and we cross over to 2026. I hope the new year will be a good one. I wish it brings some of the desires I cherish in my heart. I am sure others cherish these desires as well.
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Across
The canal in the fog.
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Going Home
The Groene Maredijk in the Leidse Hout.
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Going To Sea
A small milestone maid: yesterday I passed the 300.000 views on this blog. Thank you.
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Meerkoeten aka Moorhens
Moorhens in the canal.
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Autumn in Oegstgeest
Autumn colors color the village.
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Purple Gold
Autumn sunrise over the canal.
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Fishing
Fishing against the backdrop of an Autumn sunrise.
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Close To The Mono Edge
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Close To The Colorful Edge
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Lake Side
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Moon over Oegstgeest
The Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #375 is ‘where to find the mysterious’. The full moon over the canal. A sight not often seen. This is a different photo of the same scene I posted yesterday.
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Mondschein
The Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #375 is ‘where to find the mysterious’. The full moon over the canal. A sight not often seen.
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Autumnal Perspective
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Heron Times 2
This Heron is a frequent visitor along the little canal in front of the house.
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Heron
This Heron is a frequent visitor along the little canal in front of the house.
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Wind Surfing Valkenburg
The Netherlands, Valkenburg – October 2025
The lake near Valkenburg during a forceful wind.
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Looking East (and for the West)-Berlin
The last time, before this visit in September, I saw this part of Berlin was in November 1989. This side was West Berlin, the Spree and across was East Berlin. The Berlin Wall cut straight to the right. It was just 20 meters from the East wall of the Reichstag.
Now the Bundestag offices connect both sides of the river. The tension of the Berlin Wall is literally out of sight. But not forgotten. Seven crosses are just outside this frame on the right side. They remind us of the people who tried to flee East Germany and were killed.
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Over the bridges
A more detailed view of the photo I published yesterday of Leiden. Leiden used to be famous for fabrics, and canals provided the infrastructure for the logistics. Some of the canals were filled up in the second half of the 20th century. However, there are debates about opening a few of them again. These discussions focus on sustainability and environmental quality.
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City of Rembrandt
A view on the city where Rembrandt van Rijn was born, Leiden. It was the home where he grew up. There he started his now famous career as a painter. Later, he moved to Amsterdam.
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #366 is ‘City Mouse/Country Mouse’. I am not familiar with the story. But as the brief puts it ‘there is no place like home’. Home is where the heart is.
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Catch if you can
A long dry Summer with a garden begging for rain.
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On Water
On a warm Summer’s day, there are traffic jams on the canal.
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Stunning Sunset Over Oegstgeester Kanaal
And yes, another sunset. Well, they come around every day. This one is a golden gem.
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Exploring Leiden’s Scenic Canals: A Summer Evening
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #359 is ‘Tools of Photo Compositions: Lines, Colors and Patterns’.
A sunset over the Galgenwater in Leiden. A warm Summer night, with lots of boats cruising the canals. In the background the replica of the windmill of Rembrandt van Rijn’s father.
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Low Tide
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #359 is ‘Tools of Photo Compositions: Lines, Colors and Patterns’.
The harbor of Le Conquet at low tide during sunset, as equestrians pass by. To say I was surprised when I spotted the horses, is an understatement.
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 and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version
Water Play
The iPhone 15 Pro Max is a wonderful clever piece of photographic technology. It is the ideal snap instrument, that is always in my pocket. The quality of the images is improved immensely over the years. And to be honest, I shoot most of my photos with it nowadays. Just because I always have my phone with me. What I still do not like is the quality of images when you use the zoom. This shot is on full zoom and the details disappear. Unfortunately I was not able to move closer at that moment. At these moments I wish I had my Nikon Zf at hand, with a nice long lens.
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Hosta After Rain
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Frigate
During the NATO summit navy vessels patrolled the coast. This is a impressionistic long shot of a frigate finding its way through the windmills.
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Jonathan Livingston I presume?
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Modern Times: Don Quixote needs swimming lessons
In our times Don Quixote would be busy fighting a plenty of windmills. Most of them you find at sea, would he take swimming lessons?
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Some Like It Hot
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Goede Hoop
Windmill ‘Hoop doet leven’ in Voorhout.
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Boats
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The Bird
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Dutch Horizons
The Dutch landscape has low horizons and is flat (but not as a pancake). Canals cut through it. Bicycle paths offer easy access for exploring. These photos are just behind the dunes at Noordwijk. They are at the edge of the Maandagse Wetering. On the horizon is Voorhout.
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Spring Cycling: Maandagse Wetering
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On The Waterfront: Maandagse Wetering
The Maandagse Wetering, a good spot to enjoy the sun while fishing.
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Last Field
All the bulb flowers of Spring are now gone. We have to wait for next year to see tulips, daffodils and hyacinths ruling the fields of our flat lands. Until then we enjoy nature exploding in its full force, and after that its decline into Winter. But for now it’s amazing how fast everything springs out.
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On the beach
The Netherlands, Noordwijk – March 2025
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All Quiet
The Netherlands, Noordwijk – March 2025
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Clouds and Rays
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High Key
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First Spring Day Sunset
The first Sunset of Spring.
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Flower Landscape
The Netherlands, Voorhout – March 2025
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Hyacinths
The Netherlands, Voorhout – March 2025
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Hyacinths and pond life
The flowerbeds are there again. The daffodils as always first and now hyacinths.
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