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Chris Breebaart Photography – finding stories

Last of the Tulips

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2021

The tulips gave us weeks of colorful joy this year, but in May a storm started to end their blooming period. The petals gone, the stems left behind. Derelict.

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Crocus

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – March 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #148 is ‘spots and dots’.

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Light

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #148 is ‘spots and dots’.

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Yellow

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #148 is ‘spots and dots’.

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Decomposing Tulip

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #148 is ‘spots and dots’. The tulips lasted weeks this year, but unfortunately heavy wind made them wither fast.

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Rain

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #148 is ‘spots and dots’. This Spring is cold and wet, with grey skies and gusts of rain. So far.

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Cold Spring Rain

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #147 is ‘garden’.

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Garden

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #147 is ‘garden’.

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Blossom Bridge

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #147 is ‘garden’. This is a little park in the neighbourhood.

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Garden

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #147 is ‘garden’. We have a small back garden. At the moment tulips provide color to the fresh green. And tulips come in lots of types and shapes.

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Red

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #146 is ‘focusing on the details’.

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Rain Drops

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #146 is ‘focusing on the details’. Tulip in the rain.

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Details

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #146 is ‘focusing on the details’. Tulips in the rain.

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Tulips

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #146 is ‘focusing on the details’. Tulips are there in lots of varieties. Do not ask me the name for this one, but I do love the colors and shapes of the petals.

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Tulips

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #146 is ‘focusing on the details’. Tulips give a lot of detail when the light is behind them. Enjoying the front garden.

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Sunset

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #145 is ‘getting to know you’. Nice to see more sunsets now the days are longer.

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Blossom

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #145 is ‘getting to know you’. Spring is there, always good to see an old friend return.

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Water drops

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2021

Waterdrops on the window in sunlight

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Impressionist Garden View

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #145 is ‘getting to know you’. In Spring work on the garden starts, to prepare for Summer and warmer weather, outside dining and cooking, relaxing in the sun, reading a book. Flowers through a rainy window after the sun comes out again.

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Sun

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #145 is ‘getting to know you’. In Spring work on the garden starts, to prepare for Summer and warmer weather, outside dining and cooking, relaxing in the sun, reading a book. When the sun is low, the light is sometimes fantastic and reflects on the dry grass shoots of last year.

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Spider Lines

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #145 is ‘getting to know you’. In Spring work on the garden starts, to prepare for Summer and warmer weather, outside dining and cooking, relaxing in the sun, reading a book. When the sun is low, the light is sometimes fantastic and reflects on the silver linings of spiders.

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Melt

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #145 is ‘getting to know you’. A phenomenon I know my entire life is the weather. However, it still has it surprises, ice rain on a Spring Day?

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Tulips in Spring Rain

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2021

Watching the tulips in the front garden grow, day by day. Rain and shine.

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Tulips

Watching the tulips in the front garden grow, day by day.

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Oud Poelgeest

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2021

Some time ago I published two photos of the entrance of this castle: one in monochrome and one in color. Here is the backside of Kasteel Oud Poelgeest.

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Duck

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest- April 2021

The Lens Artists Photo Challenge#144 for this week is ‘taking flight’.

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Hyacinths

The Netherlands, Voorhout – April 2021

The Lens Artists Photo Challenge#144 for this week is ‘taking flight’. The flying objects in this photo are the clouds, chasing on the frisky Northern wind this morning. Covering the familiar display of rows of hyacinths in full bloom.

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Duck

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest- April 2021

The Lens Artists Photo Challenge#144 for this week is ‘taking flight’. This duck can fly but choose to swim by.

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Daffodil backwards

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – March 2021

The Lens Artists Photo Challenge#143 for this week is ‘colorful April’.

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Tulips

The Netherlands, Lisse – March 2008

The Lens Artists Photo Challenge#143 for this week is ‘colorful April’.
An old photo of De Keukenhof Lisse in 2008.

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Tulips

The Netherlands, Lisse – March 2008

The Lens Artists Photo Challenge#143 for this week is ‘colorful April’.
An old photo of De Keukenhof Lisse in 2008.

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Tulips 2008

The Netherlands, Lisse – March 2008

The Lens Artists Photo Challenge#143 for this week is ‘colorful April’.
An old photo of De Keukenhof Lisse in 2008.

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Tulips

The Netherlands, Lisse – March 2008

The Lens Artists Photo Challenge#143 for this week is ‘colorful April’.
An old photo of De Keukenhof Lisse in 2008.

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

Yellow

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2021

The Lens Artists Photo Challenge#143 for this week is ‘colorful April’. To start this week, not a typical Spring flower, a rose.

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Magpie

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2021

The Lens Artists Photo Challenge#142 for this week is ‘you pick it’. It is Spring and birds are building nests. This magpie hits our hanging baskets for building material.

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Blossom

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2021

The Lens Artists Photo Challenge#142 for this week is ‘you pick it’. This is the Willinklaan. In Spring it looks like this, in Autumn the trees are dark red.

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Pylon

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – January 2006

The Lens Artists Photo Challenge#142 for this week is ‘you pick it’. From the archive, a mono pylon photo.

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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Cyclamen

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – March 2021

The Lens Artists Photo Challenge#142 for this week is ‘you pick it’.

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Daffodils

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – March 2021

The Lens Artists Photo Challenge#142 for this week is ‘you pick it’.

Daffodils in the rain.

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Grass

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – March 2021

The Lens Artists Photo Challenge#142 for this week is ‘you pick it’.

So here is the first pick: an old grass in sunlight.

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