The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May and June 2024
A rose is a rose is a rose, someone wrote that a long time ago. But it is still true, each rose is unique. So much symbolism and sweetness in a picture. The garden offers them in abundance this year.
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The A12 motorway leading into Den Haag downtown. You have to get into town to get out of the car, a free wording of a slogan used in the sixties and later in a beautiful Genesis song ‘Carpet Crawlers’ (the link to the Ray Wilson/Steve Hackette live version of 2014 in the Royal Albert Hall)
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A view showing the curve of the Dutch seafront looking at Scheveningen in the South from Katwijk aan Zee.
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Sea and Beach king.
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The grass on this side of the little canal is the same as on the other side of the canal, the light is just different.
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Allium is one of our favorite bulbflowers in the garden. I present it as a twin set of mono next to color. Each version brings out different qualitaties in the flower I think, but that is of course subjective.
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A wet garden at night. And by the way, I love that WordPress AI generating amazing titles that I can not come up with. I stick with them as long as they make me smile. Nocturnal, sounds like a great piece of music.
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LAPC #306 is ‘habitat’. As humans we share the earth with lots of natural life, we share habitats (the human home, the natural ecosystem), we co-exist. Our relation with earth is not balanced. It tilts favorably towards the human interest, disrupting the natural habitats of many. If we as humans do not change our relationship with earth, then humanity kills itself, leaving a planet to recover from being abused. Not survival of the fittest, but termination of the dumbest.
A Heron, sitting on a lamppost, overlooking the articificial canal, as a cyclist uses a cycling path in the background.
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Architecture can be beautiful in full color as well in monochrome. In ‘twins’ I show the monochrome twin of the color shot at the Kop van Zuid in Rotterdam. The fift and last set is again New Orleans.
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Architecture can be beautiful in full color as well in monochrome. In ‘twins’ I show the monochrome twin of the color shot at the Kop van Zuid in Rotterdam. The fourth set is New Orleans.
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Architecture can be beautiful in full color as well in monochrome. In ‘twins’ I show the monochrome twin of the color shot at the Kop van Zuid in Rotterdam. The third set is the Montevideo.
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Architecture can be beautiful in full color as well in monochrome. In ‘twins’ I show the monochrome twin of the color shot at the Kop van Zuid in Rotterdam. The second set is an old elevator at the Rijnhaven.
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Architecture can be beautiful in full color as well in monochrome. In ‘twins’ I show the monochrome twin of the color shot of the high risings in Rotterdam on the Kop van Zuid in Rotterdam. The first set is De Rotterdam by Rem Koolhaas.
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A bench at the Rijnhaven in Rotterdam on the Kop van Zuid in Rotterdam.
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The De Rotterdam towers over the old warehouses on the Kop van Zuid in Rotterdam. The use of housing changed from industrial to living.
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LAPC challenge #305 is about composition: two rectangles as a play tool to frame a photo. Sometimes you get lots more than two, which adds to another aspect of composition: repetition. Not sure if this qualifies as a valid entry, but I do like the building. This is De Rotterdam by Rem Koolhaas.
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LAPC challenge #305 is about composition: two rectangles as a play tool to frame a photo.
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The Rijnhaven in Rotterdam seen from the Kop van Zuid in Rotterdam.
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The Rijnhaven in Rotterdam seen from the Kop van Zuid in Rotterdam.
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The Kop van Zuid in Rotterdam is home to various highrisings, some named after big cities. This is New Orleans.
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Rijnhaven, Kop van Zuid, Rotterdam.
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The Erasmus bridge in Rotterdam.
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This weeks LAPC # 304 is ‘Background: behind the subject’. Poppies against a familiar backdrop in the landscape of The Netherlands,
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This weeks LAPC # 304 is ‘Background: behind the subject’. A dirty window of a terrace at the beach.
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A popular beer from an original small independent brewery on the island of Texel is called ‘Skuumkoppen’. It refers to the white on breaking waves.
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The outside terrace of The Parrot in Forest Green/Dorking.
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A pub, one of the best places for community connections (connect LAPC 303).
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Reading a book on a bench, looking up and seeing this makes a monochrome fan jump. (connect LAPC 303)
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The best way to explore and connect is to walk around and be surprised with what is in view! It’s the best way to connect to a town for me (LAPC 303)
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A bench in the lazy shade offers a view, looking up to see the top and roofs of the houses. It’s a way to connect to a town for me (LAPC 303)
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A walk through Horsham starts here.
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Today we remember that 80 years ago thousands were willing to pay the highest price to give us our freedom. John Steele landed on the pinnacle of this church in the early morning of June 6 1944 in Sainte-Mère-Église.
To the brave and courageous
Who were willing to pay the ultimate price
And gave me my freedom
As a precious treasure
Never to be taken as a right
But like they did then to be defended
Again and again
Lest not forget
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The view from the outside terrace of The Parrot in Forest Green/Dorking.
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Murphy, a Showstopper. He is quite a showman himself, adorable and so cute. Never stops playing until he falls over.
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The Lens Artist Photo Challenge #301 is ‘floral’. A red rose against the drop of Wysteria.
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The Lens Artist Photo Challenge #301 is ‘floral’. A red rose against the drop of Wysteria.
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Hoek van Holland, looking at Maasvlakte, the harbor of Rotterdam.
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The Lens Artist Photo Challenge #301 is ‘floral’. A red rose against the drop of Wysteria.
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Junction Ommevoort A44-N434.
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Junction Ommevoort A44-N434.
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Stenaline Brittanica, Hoek van Holland, waiting for departure.
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Hoek van Holland, waiting for departure.
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Hoek van Holland, waiting for departure.
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