The weekly LAPC (Lens Artists Photo Challenge) #183 is ‘memorable events’. One of the ‘themes’ I always look for is ‘windows’; all kinds of windows, showing different styles of houses, culture and local weather.
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The weekly LAPC (Lens Artists Photo Challenge) #183 is ‘memorable events’. One of the ‘themes’ I always look for is ‘windows’; all kinds of windows, showing different styles of houses, culture and local weather. This is Cordes sur Ciel in the south of France. As all photos on travel, they keep memories alive.
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The weekly LAPC (Lens Artists Photo Challenge) #182 is ‘interesting objects’. Golden hour on Lesbos.
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The weekly LAPC (Lens Artists Photo Challenge) #182 is ‘interesting objects’. One of the most shot objects must be the sunset.
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The weekly LAPC (Lens Artists Photo Challenge) #182 is ‘interesting objects’. Zeno of Elea is famous for a set of paradoxes. One of them is the paradox of Achilles and the tortoise.
In the paradox of Achilles and the tortoise, Achilles is in a footrace with the tortoise. Achilles allows the tortoise a head start of 100 meters, for example. Suppose that each racer starts running at some constant speed, one faster than the other. After some finite time, Achilles will have run 100 meters, bringing him to the tortoise’s starting point. During this time, the tortoise has run a much shorter distance, say 2 meters. It will then take Achilles some further time to run that distance, by which time the tortoise will have advanced farther; and then more time still to reach this third point, while the tortoise moves ahead. Thus, whenever Achilles arrives somewhere the tortoise has been, he still has some distance to go before he can even reach the tortoise.
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The weekly LAPC (Lens Artists Photo Challenge) #182 is ‘interesting objects’. One of the most shot objects must be the sunset.
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The weekly LAPC (Lens Artists Photo Challenge) #182 is ‘interesting objects’.
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The weekly LAPC (Lens Artists Photo Challenge) #182 is ‘interesting objects’. Off the west coast of Lesbos.
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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The weekly LAPC (Lens Artists Photo Challenge) #182 is ‘interesting objects’. This is the front of the city hall of Caylus. The clock and the shutters caught my attention, together with the deep blue sky.
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Having a drink.
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La Défense seen from the Arc de Triomphe.
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Yesterday I posted a photo of the Pont de Normandie. Today another one in monochrome showing the ‘hill’ effect and its beautiful shapes.
This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #181 is double dipping: send in a photo that is related to another creative challenge on WordPress. This photo is a response to the monthly Thursday special of Lost in Translation. A beautiful blog with great creative photography. Each month one can enter photo’s portraying words: in December 2021 Introspective, Anticipating, Befriending, Choices, Wish.
This photo describes anticipation and choices. If you choose to cross a bridge like this, what will it be like?
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Pont de Normandie is a beautiful bridge over the river Seine between Le Havre and Honfleur. It towers over you as you approach it. The first time I passed it I was in admiration and also in awe.
This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #181 is double dipping: send in a photo that is related to another creative challenge on WordPress. This photo is a response to the monthly Thursday special of Lost in Translation. A beautiful blog with great creative photography. Each month one can enter photo’s portraying words: in December 2021 Introspective, Anticipating, Befriending, Choices, Wish.
This photo describes anticipation and choices. If you choose to cross a bridge like this, what will it be like?
shot with Nikon D70, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version
shot with Nikon D70, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version
Off the west coast of Lesbos.
No man is an island,
Entire of itself,
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thy friend’s
Or of thine own were:
Any man’s death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind,
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee. John Donne
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
Mona Lisa is one of the most famous and genius works of art in the world. I was lucky to view it for the first time when the Louvre was not modernized. On a Monday morning in February 1984 me and a friend were the only persons in the room to admire her mysterious smile. In 2008 I saw her again from a distance, in a sea of pressing people, holding up phones and camera’s to get a glimpse of her. I have not been there since, but I can imagine what it must look like on a normal day before the pandemic. A wave of smartphones will be raised towards her, in a never ending stream of people on visiting times of the Louvre. Apparently 80% of the visitors of the Louvre come to see her.
I read in an article that at present people seek personal attention in combination with important objects and/or moments. A selfie is the instrument to gain that attention on Instagram or Twitter or Facebook or Tiktok. Mona Lisa/Lisa Gherardini never wanted that attention, a brilliant artist painted her portrait. And the rest is history. She must feel lonely now, no one is coming to see her. Or is she finally getting her well deserved rest.
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January 2008 I joined WordPress. This is the first photo I published on WordPress. A taverna in a hamlet in Greece. Quite obvious what struck me in this picture: all men, all apparently in thoughts. What is going on?
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Bayeux is an old village in Normandy France. Home of the Bayeux Tapestry. Here the entrance to the cathedral.
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Le Mont Saint Michel is an old village on a rock in a bay on the west of France in Brittany. It is positioned in between Normandy and Brittany, and is famous for its abbey.
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The Lens Artists Photo Challenge#180 is showing favorite pictures of 2021. Yesterday’s post showed the top ten of photos that got the most views last year. In this post I will pick my favorites. Some new work from this year, and some archive shots.
The Lens Artists Photo Challenge#180 is showing favorite pictures of 2021. In this post I will show the top ten of photos that got the most views last year. In another post tomorrow I will shot my personal favorites. Surprisingly the number one comes from 2016.
Wishing you all a wonderful, happy, healthy and inspirational new year. I hope we are able to travel more, be near to loved ones and friends and enjoy the world and our communities in more harmony together.
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Bayeux is an old village in Normandy France. Home of the Bayeux Tapestry.
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Millennium Bridge and St. Paul’s in London.
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Millennium Bridge and St. Paul’s in London.
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Millennium Bridge towards Tate Modern in London.
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Millennium Bridge and St. Paul’s in London.
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The O2 Arena maiden name Millennium Dome in Greenwich.
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The sunrise reflected in the windows and sky as the moon sits still in the sky. Wishing you and your loved ones a merry Christmas and a wonderful, inspirational and exciting 2022 in good health and with plenty of love.
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The O2 Arena maiden name Millennium Dome in Greenwich.
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The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #179 is Serene. A grey morning in Autumn.
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The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #179 is Serene. A grey morning in Autumn.
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The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #179 is Serene. A grey morning in Autumn.
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The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #179 is Serene. A little canal on a grey morning in Autumn.
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The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #179 is Serene.
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The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #178 is You Choose.
The shore before Saint Malo, in Brittany.
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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.
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The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #178 is You Choose. The London Eye.
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The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #178 is You Choose. The palace of Westminster, long seen as the mother of parliaments and an example of a well functioning parliament, but in recent years showing a decline of parliamentary sovereignty to a more and more authoritarian executive. Shot from the London Eye as a view from an observer from a distance.
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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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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.
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The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #178 is You Choose. About choices in life. Some are easy if there is a lot to choose from.
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Theme #177 of Lens Artists Photo Challenge is celebrating.
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Theme #177 of Lens Artists Photo Challenge is celebrating.
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Theme #177 of Lens Artists Photo Challenge is celebrating. Float on the wind.
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Theme #177 of Lens Artists Photo Challenge is celebrating. Beauty.
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Theme #177 of Lens Artists Photo Challenge is celebrating. Beauty.
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