Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #215 – Planes, Trains, and Automobiles… and the Places They Take Us.
On the road to Antwerp, a view on Zeeland, passing over the Volkerakdam, that was created by the Delta Works after the floods of 1953.
Shot with iPhone 13 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta Click the picture for a larger version
This week lens artists challenge #214 is ‘favourite finds’. A typical Dutch landscape on a warm day, with boats coming and going to the lakes. The find was the little ferry we used to cross this water, the river Zijl near Leiden.
Shot with iPhone 13 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta Click the picture for a larger version
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – July 2022
Lens Artists Photo Challenge #211 is ‘what is your groove’. Basically I enjoy looking around, up and down till something strikes me as interesting. And sometimes it shows right at your door step.
Shot with iPhone 13 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta Click the picture for a larger version
Lens Artists Photo Challenge #211 is ‘what is your groove’. Basically I enjoy looking around, up and down till something strikes me as interesting. Like kids playing with water, a dog who is mad of water and two adults testing a drone at a garden party.
Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version.
This is the railway bridge across the Hollands Diep, in the delta of the South West of The Netherlands. Shot from a riding car, so a bit soft in focus.
Shot with iPhone 13 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta Click the picture for a larger version
LAPC #209 is surreal. This is the railway bridge across the Hollands Diep, in the delta of the South West of The Netherlands. Shot from a riding car, so a bit soft in focus.
Shot with iPhone 13 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta Click the picture for a larger version
This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge is #207 is ‘Seeing Double ‘. Just outside the Westfield Mall of the Netherlands.
Shot with iPhone 13 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta Click the picture for a larger version
The Netherlands, Warmond – May 2022
Lens Artists Weekly Challenge #200 is ‘Three of a kind’.
Shot with iPhone 13 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta Click the picture for a larger version
Lens artists photo challenge #199 is ‘mechanical/industrial’. Last Saturday was national windmill day. Here a Dutch landscape on a water front. The mill was used in the past to get water out of the polder into this little lake.
Shot with iPhone 13 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta Click the picture for a larger version
Spring is putting the leaves back on the trees, always a wonderful moment of the year, seeing everything blossom and grow.
Shot with iPhone 13 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta Click the picture for a larger version
The Lens-artists challenge #197 is ‘rule of thirds’. The rule of thirds is a rule of thumb how to compose images. There are more ‘rules’; another is the ‘s’ like in the photo above. Whatever rule you like to use: break them and tweak them till you are happy with the result of the photo you are putting together. In the end your gut tells a lot about what constitutes a decent picture to your liking.
Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version
Shot with iPhone 13 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta Click the picture for a larger version
Covid is still among us, but slowly we start up to the new normal. That means going back to the office some days a week, hence being in a train again. Here a view out of the window.
Shot with iPhone 11 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version
A picture that does not fit in a category has to fit in ‘odds and ends’, lens artists photo challenge #189.
Shot with iPhone 11 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version
A picture that does not fit in a category has to fit in ‘odds and ends’, lens artists photo challenge #189.
Shot with iPhone 11 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version
A picture that does not fit in a category has to fit in ‘odds and ends’, lens artists photo challenge #189. Though this one could have been in ‘cleaning’, ‘swans in habitat’, ‘grooming for professionals’ etc.
Shot with iPhone 11 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version
This week lens artists photo challenge is ‘that special place‘. The empty branches of a tree in Winter. During this pandemic I realized that the immediate outside of my house is an inspiration for photos. During the seasons and days it is always nice to look out and sometimes catch a nice view. Looking back over the years I realize that I have always been intrigued by little details near the places where I lived. Making these places special in a certain way.
Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version
This weeks challenge #187 is ‘water’.
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
This weeks challenge #187 is ‘water’. Texel one of the West Frisian Island in the Wadden Sea.
Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version
This weeks challenge #187 is ‘water’. Texel one of the West Frisian Island in the Wadden Sea.
Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version
This weeks challenge #187 is ‘water’. The Galgenwater in Leiden. In the background a replica a of the mill that was used by the father of Rembrandt van Rijn, who was born to the left of the bridge in the distance in 1606, 410 years before this photo.
shot with iPhone 6s plus using Hueless, edited using Snapseed and Marksta, click the picture for a larger version
This weeks challenge #187 is ‘water’. The Reeuwijkse Plassen is a lake area in the West of The Netherlands.
Shot with Nikon D7000, edited using Snapseed and Marksta.Click the picture for a bigger version
A grey morning with fog in Winter.
Shot with iPhone 11 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta Click the picture for a larger version
A grey morning with fog in Winter.
Shot with iPhone 11 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta Click the picture for a larger version
Bayeux is an old village in Normandy France. Home of the Bayeux Tapestry.
shot with Nikon D70, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version
The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #179 is Serene. A grey morning in Autumn.
Shot with iPhone 11 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta Click the picture for a larger version
The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #179 is Serene. A grey morning in Autumn.
Shot with iPhone 11 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta Click the picture for a larger version
The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #179 is Serene. A grey morning in Autumn.
Shot with iPhone 11 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta Click the picture for a larger version
The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #179 is Serene. A little canal on a grey morning in Autumn.
Shot with iPhone 11 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta Click the picture for a larger version
The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #178 is You Choose.
The shore before Saint Malo, in Brittany.
shot with Nikon D7000, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.
The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #178 is You Choose.
The harbor of Barfleur, a small village in the West of Normandy.
shot with Nikon D7000, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.
The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #178 is You Choose. The only thing I chose for this blog was the subject and the photo. The choice to build this canal was made long ago, and one of the spin offs is Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.
Before the pandemic I used to cross this canal twice a day, and I took loads of photos of it, but just recently I found out about its history and historical purpose.
As most of you probably know the Dutch have a long relationship with water, and learned how water could be managed over the ages. About half of The Netherlands is below sea level; the question was and is how to keep it dry? Some say that God created the world but the Dutch created The Netherlands. In reality we manage water. In days of climate change that gets more complex. Not only the amount of water coming in by rivers and rain is growing, the soil of The Netherlands sinks as well.
In 1840 this canal was build. From 1848 the former lake the Haarlemmermeer was turned into the Haarlemmermeerpolder and this canal was used to dump the water of that lake into the North Sea. Schiphol (ship hell) was a spot in that former lake notorious for ship wrecks as the story goes.
Nowadays the canal takes out the water from the West of The Netherlands to the sea at Katwijk.
Shot with iPhone 11 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta Click the picture for a larger version
Theme #177 of Lens Artists Photo Challenge is celebrating.
Originally shot with Nikon D70, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version
The Autumn was short this year. High temperatures were pleasant, but the amazing colors on leaves that are normal for this time of year, were not present. And when the weather changed the leaves came off the trees very fast. Luckily the sunsets are always there.
Shot with iPhone 11 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version
For this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #174 Shapes and Designs.
Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version
The concrete factory of Dyckerhoff Basal in Den Haag. The theme for this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #173 is interesting architecture.
shot with iPhone 6s plus using Hueless, edited using Snapseed and Marksta, click the picture for a larger version
This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge (#164) is ‘Looking Up/Looking Down’.
Again one from the archives and hence monochrome. In August 1992 I visited Crete and old town of Chania. The old lighthouse in the old harbour.
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.
Originally shot with Nikon F301 on Kodak TriX, scanned from negative and tweaked using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.
This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge (#163) is ‘keep walking’.
This is the Klinkenberger Plas, a favorite for a short walk.
Shot with iPhone 11 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version
This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge (#163) is ‘keep walking’.
This is the Klinkenberger Plas, a favorite for a short walk.
Shot with iPhone 11 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version
This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge (#162) is ‘all about the light’.
Shot with iPhone 11 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta Click the picture for a larger version
This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge (#162) is ‘all about the light’.
Shot with Nikon D7000, edited using Snapseed and Marksta.Click the picture for a bigger version
This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge (#162) is ‘all about the light’.
This artificial lake used to be meadow. The lake was created by dredging sand, that was needed for roads, new build areas and a railway line. And now it is a recreational area, Klinkenberger Plas.
Shot with iPhone 11 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version
The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #159 is ‘Postcards’.
Sailing away from Dover and its white cliffs.
shot with Nikon D7000, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.
Shot with iPhone 11 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version
Right in front of the door, a young swan family takes a nap sometimes.
Shot with iPhone 11 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version
Right in front of the door, a young swan family takes a nap sometimes.
Shot with iPhone 11 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version
The theme for this week Lens-artists challenge #157 is ‘getting away’.
View on a fountain on the square in front of Saint Peter in Rome.
Originally shot with Nikon F301 on Kodak TriX, scanned from negative and tweaked using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.
The theme for this week Lens-artists challenge #156 is ‘black and white’.
I am happy I am old enough to have worked with film and negatives. I still shoot black and white digital, but film is something different.
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
The theme for this week Lens-artists challenge #155 is ‘on the water’.
This reminds me of a beautiful lazy, sunny song, On the Beach – Chris Rea
Originally shot with Nikon D70, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.
The theme for this week Lens-artists challenge #155 is ‘on the water’.
Strandhill in Sligo is a small town, looking out over the Atlantic Ocean to the West. Rising over it is Knocknarea with Queen Maeve.
shot with Nikon D70, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.
What's (in) the Picture? 