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Shutters

France, St. Antonin Noble Val – July 2004

The theme for this week Lens-artists challenge #156 is ‘black and white’.

St. Antonin de Noble Val is a small village in France, with a scenic old town center. Shutters and balconies line the fronts of the houses.

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

High Street

The theme for this week Lens-artists challenge #156 is ‘black and white’.

St. Antonin de Noble Val is a small village in France, with a scenic old town center. Shutters and balconies line the fronts of the houses.

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

Den Bosch

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.

Archive B4-retouch series

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

Church

Archive Greece

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Beach

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

Archive Greece

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See Sea

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.

Archive Ireland

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Strandhill

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.

Archive Ireland

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Duck

The theme for this week Lens-artists challenge #155 is ‘on the water’.

Archive Oegstgeest

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Karpathos

The theme for this week Lens-artists challenge #155 is ‘on the water’.

Originally shot with Nikon D70, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.

Sweet Pea

The theme for this week Lens-artists challenge #155 is ‘on the water’.
Probably not exactly as John intended but here is some water: rain drops.

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Swans

Archive Oegstgeest

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Leaves come back

Archive Oegstgeest

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Grass 3

The theme for this week Lens-artists challenge #154 is ‘one photo two wa ys’. Monday I posted the first one of these perspectives, yesterday the second. This is the one that I like best, the hint of the plumes in the light.

Archive Oegstgeest

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Grass 2

The theme for this week Lens-artists challenge #154 is ‘one photo two wa ys’. Yesterday I posted the first one of these perspectives, today the second. Tomorrow the one that pleases me most.

Archive Oegstgeest

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Grass

The theme for this week Lens-artists challenge #154 is ‘one photo two wa ys’. Today, Tuesday and Wednesday I will show different variations on the same subject.

Archive Oegstgeest

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The theme for this week Lens-artists challenge #154 is ‘one photo two wa ys’. These clouds I shot at dusk. I was curieus what the iPhone would do in low light. These are four shots of the sky. They vary on zoom/frame and one I adjusted the light measuring. So two times two.

Archive Oegstgeest

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Wall

Archive Oegstgeest

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Blue Flight

The theme for this week Lens-artists challenge #153 is ‘Wonderful World’.

Archive Oegstgeest

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Waalse Kerk

Archive Leiden

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White

The theme for this week Lens-artists challenge #153 is ‘Wonderful World’.

Archive Oegstgeest

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Pink Rose

The theme for this week Lens-artists challenge #153 is ‘Wonderful World’.

Archive Oegstgeest

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Delft over Bridges

The theme for this week Lens-artists challenge #153 is ‘Wonderful World’.

Delft, like other cities in the West of The Netherlands, has an extended canal system, that was used in the past for transport. Lots of little bridges connect the city streets.

Archive Delft

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Gerecht Leiden

The theme for this week Lens-artists challenge #152 is ‘Shadows and Shades’.

Archive Leiden

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Leiden Breestraat

The theme for this week Lens-artists challenge #152 is ‘Shadows and Shades’.

Archive Leiden

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Delft Dog

The theme for this week Lens-artists challenge #152 is ‘Shadows and Shades’.

Archive Delft

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Delft

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #152 is ‘Shadows and Shades’.

Archive Delft

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Latin School

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #152 is ‘Shadows and Shades’. This is a school Rembrandt went to.

Archive Leiden

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Consider Waterlilies

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #152 is ‘Shadows and Shades’.

Archive Delft

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Delft

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #152 is ‘Shadows and Shades’. Delft was the first city I visited since we went into the pandemic. It is a beautiful old town, famous for pottery (Delft’s Blauw/Delft Blue), the painter Johannes Vermeer and the fact that here William of Orange was murdered. The light was stunning on this warm and sunny day, it reminded me of the South of France.

Archive Delft

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Sky 5

Archive Oegstgeest

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Sky 4

Archive Oegstgeest

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Rapenburg Leiden

Archive Leiden

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Houtstraat Leiden

Archive Leiden

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Sky 3

Archive Oegstgeest

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Swallows and Clouds

Archive Oegstgeest

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Gravensteen Leiden

The Gravensteen in Leiden, Netherlands.

Archive Leiden

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Off White

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #150 is ‘Let’s go wild’.

Archive Oegstgeest

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Feathers

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #150 is ‘Let’s go wild’.
A sunset.

Archive Oegstgeest

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Sky 2

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #150 is ‘Let’s go wild’.
A sunset.

Archive Oegstgeest

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Couple

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #150 is ‘Let’s go wild’.
Near our house there is an artificial lake created by the need for sand for infrastructural building. The sand was used to build a railway and as a base for houses and roads. On the banks is big nest box for Sand Martins. They come all the way from Africa and normally hatch in steep river walls. After creating their offspring they move back to Africa. In the setting sun they play in the sky, chasing each other.

Archive Oegstgeest

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Sky 1

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #150 is ‘Let’s go wild’.
A sunset.

Archive Oegstgeest

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Rain

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #150 is ‘Let’s go wild’.
The Netherlands does not really have original wild parts where nature still rules; we do have nature, but nature is being managed. We manage and maintain our dense populated country all over, to achieve efficiency (the post stamp like farm fields, outlined by straight canals from the sky, a view tourists seem to enjoy approaching Schiphol Airport etc) or benefits of scale and standardization. But not all can be controlled. One thing we have to adjust to and have no control over is the weather and the effects of climate change. Spring was very wet and had heavy showers. We can manage the extra water and rising sea levels, but the intensity of the rain is a more and more a given.