What's (in) the Picture?

Chris Breebaart Photography – finding stories

Peter Gabriel Amsterdam

Some iPhone shots of the Amsterdam show of the i/o tour, a fabulous show of Peter Gabriel and his wonderful band. The artwork was amazing to watch, each song got a different artful backdrop. When you are 73 years old and still able to touch people this way, creating new work.

Visiting concerts like this makes me dream of being able to bring a proper camera and shoot it from the front of the stage and backstage as a concert photographer. That would be wonderful and challenging. Now it is a look from the distance meeting the limitations of the iPhone; which is by itself a really remarkable camera.

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Wisteria 2

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2023

This year the wisteria was flowering like never before, and the smell and view was so enjoyable. Now it is over its peak, lucklily we still have the photos and memories.

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Bridges

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest- May 2023

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Hospital

The Netherlands, Leiden – May 2023

The Lens Artists Photo Challenge #251 is ‘buildings and other structures’. This the Alrijne Hospital in Leiden. The wings form a beautiful shape with some organic trees and green under a contrasting sky.

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Rain

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2023

April was wet, and that’s probably why the garden is bursting in flowers and growth.

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Four Trees

The Netherlands, Woubrugge – May 2023

Lens Artist Photo Challenge #250 (hurray) is ‘Cloudscapes or Skyscapes’.

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Skyscape

The Netherands, Oegstgeest – May 2023

Lens Artist Photo Challenge #250 (hurray) is ‘Cloudscapes or Skyscapes’.

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Sunset

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2023

Lens Artist Photo Challenge #250 (hurray) is ‘Cloudscapes or Skyscapes’.

Living in a land flat as a pancake, makes one used to see a low horizon and lots of sky. Hence we do not pay too much attention to it probably, if it’s blue it’s fine, if it’s grey there is a lot of grey. The only exception are sunrises and sunsets. They can be majestic.

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Mill at Night

The Netherlands, Leiden – May 2023

A bit of a ‘a bit of this, a bit of that on a junk pile shot’. Molen De Valk in Leiden, the entrance of an underground parking, a lamplight and a building crane. Still there is some magic in it.

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Who is afraid of pink, yellow, white, red, orange and blue?

The Netherlands, Lisse Keukenhof – May 2023

The Keukenhof is one of the most fantastic flower gardens in the world, displaying the beauty of millions of bulb flowers on display in a fantastic park. To close the bulb season the last photos of bulb flowers this year.

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Flower Landscape

The Netherlands, Lisse – May 2023

The bulb flower season is behind us. A view on the fields as a reminder.

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Hill of Tara and Stone of Scone and Coronation Chair

Ireland, Hill of Tara – October 2008

The Hill of Tara was the location for the inauguration of the High Kings of Ireland. The candidate should lay his hand on the stone, and if earth roared in acceptance, the candidate should be King. The present stone is not the original one. The original Lia Fáil (Irish for “stone of destiny”) used at Tara for inaugurating the High Kings of Ireland, was taken by the King of Scotland and move to Scone. In 1296, during the First Scottish War of Independence, King Edward I of England took the stone as spoils of war and removed it to Westminster Abbey, where it was fitted into a wooden chair – known as the Coronation Chair or King Edward’s Chair – on which most subsequent English and then British sovereigns have been crowned. For the full story I refer to Wikipedia’s Stone of Scone.

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Canal Triptique

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2023

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Apple Blossom

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2023

One of my most loved moments is the sight of apple blossoms in Spring. This was early Apri.

The LAPC theme #248 is ‘mood’.

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Out in the Rain

The Netherlands, Lisse – May 2023

The LAPC theme #248 is ‘mood’.

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Waiting for the Sun

The Netherlands, Noordwijk – April 2023

The LAPC theme #248 is ‘mood’.

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Morning Trees

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2023

The LAPC theme #248 is ‘mood’.

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See Sea

The Netherlands, Katwijk – April 2023

The LAPC theme #248 is ‘mood’.

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Morning

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2023

The LAPC theme #248 is ‘mood’.

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Stripes

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2023k

The LAPC theme #247 is ‘backlit’.

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Canal

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – March 2023

The LAPC theme #247 is ‘backlit’. The light is frontal but for the clouds are back lit.

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Wings / Freedom

The Netherlands, Voorhout – April 2023

The yearly flower parade of the Bollenstreek showing bulb flower creativity and offering mesmerizing smells. And a fly over of a DC3.

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Flower Parade 2023: Photographers

The. Netherlands , Voorhout – April 2023

The yearly flower parade of the Bollenstreek showing bulb flower creativity and offering mesmerizing smells. Just snaps of the iPhone of the floats and other stuff that caught my attention.

Over the years I collected photos of photographers shooting their photos and nowadays, videos. Here are a few.

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Flower Parade 2023: Music

The Netherlands, Voorhout – April

The yearly flower parade of the Bollenstreek showing bulb flower creativity and offering mesmerizing smells. Just snaps of the iPhone of the floats and other stuff that caught my attention. Apart from the floats and flowers, music is an important part of the parade.

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Flower Parade 2023 (Part 3)

The Netherlands, Voorhout – April 2023

The yearly flower parade of the Bollenstreek showing bulb flower creativity and offering mesmerizing smells. Just snaps of the iPhone of the floats and other stuff that caught my attention.

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Flower Parade 2023 (Part 2)

The Netherlands, Voorhout – April 2023

The yearly flower parade of the Bollenstreek showing bulb flower creativity and offering mesmerizing smells. Just snaps of the iPhone of the floats and other stuff that caught my attention.

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Flower Parade 2023 (Part 1)

The Netherlands, Voorhout – April 2023

The yearly flower parade of the Bollenstreek showing bulb flower creativity and offering mesmerizing smells. Just snaps of the iPhone of the floats and other stuff that caught my attention.

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Sunset

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – February 2023

The Lens Artists Photo Challenge #246 is ‘still life’.

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Tulips in and around the House

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2023

Tulips are the last Spring bulb flowers to appear. The reds are in house, the others are in the garden. Lens Artists Photography Challenge #245 is ‘Environment’.

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Grey Sky Day

The Netherlands, Noordwijk – March 2023

Lens Artists Photography Challenge #245 is ‘Environment’. I am happy to live near to the sea and beach. Even on a grey day.

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