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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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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Hoek van Holland, looking at Maasvlakte, the harbor of Rotterdam.
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Hoek van Holland, waiting for departure.
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Hoek van Holland, waiting for departure.
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The Lens Artists Photo Challenge #297 is ‘music to my eyes’. Images and music are a strong way of bringing back memories, feelings, situations you once experienced. This photo clicked my memory for a Pink Floyd album ‘Obscured by clouds’. It is not so much the clouds that obscure in this image, the branches of the trees create a web of lines over the sky and sun.
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An old commercial estate on the Haarlemmerweg in Leiden.
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Office building Haagse Poort in Den Haag as seen from the train.
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A few weeks ago I published a photo from the same point of view, but with basking sunny weather. This one is showing an overcast day, in the middle of the week. The previous one was shot with iPhone13promax, and this one is iPhone15promax. Spot the differences :-).
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Bycycles passing the townhall of Leiden at the Breestraat, for Lens Artists Photo Challenge #292 ‘People here, there and everywhere’.
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The townhall of Leiden.
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The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #291 is ‘Cityscapes’. The first sun got people out to enjoy the rays while having a drink on the junction of the Oude Rijn and Nieuwe Rijn in Leiden. On the right De Waag, the weighing house.
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An old photo of ‘ringsteken’ (if you follow the link you can see some photo’s in action). A traditional activity where horse pulled carriages try to pick off little metal rings from a rope held piece of wood hanging over the road. For lens artists challenge #290 Circular by Wonders.
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 theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #289 is ‘tools of photo composition’. Light, form and shapes when they appear not to be there.
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Central Station Den Haag, a busy mobility hub. This week’s Lens Artists Challenge #287 is ‘Sound’
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Being spoiled by the availability of fresh and cheap cut flowers all year, I’m not too fond of fake flowers. But sometimes they make a nice statement.
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An iconic view of The Netherlands for many tourists. Windmill ‘Hoop doet leven’ in Voorhout against the Winter sunset.
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Old garden furniture, showing the effects of wind and weather for LAPC # 283 ‘dramatic’.
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Arriving by LeShuttle (formerly known as Eurotunnel) and passing through Dover to catch a different glimpse of the famous white cliffs.
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The Pier of Deal on a wet evening at the end of December.
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Each time I pass here on the way to or from Calais, I take a picture of the power lines in St. Georges-sur-l’Aa.
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Belgium, Veurne and Koksijde – December 2023
On the road to Calais and Le Shuttle, on a dark grey morning through le plat pays of Jacques Brel.
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Each time I pass here on the way to or from Calais, I take a picture of the power lines in St. Georges-sur-l’Aa.
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Jingle in monochrome, time to put the decorations away, and focus on the new coming year.
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Grass as it can be.
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Westfield Mall of the Netherlands, quite uniqe. The lens artists photo challenge #278 is ‘unique’.
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These sculpture (nicknamed The Elgin Marbles) are originally from the Parthenon in Athens. Lord Elgin supposedly bought them from the Ottomans, who occupied the present Greece at that moment. The Greek try to return these marbles for decades, the UK government refuses, saying it’s British heritage. Last week a meeting of the UK prime minister with the prime minister of Greece was cancelled, after the Greek PM reiterated the ownership of the marbles. How mesmerizing and wonderful must it be to see these ornaments in the place they belong, on top of the Acropolis over Athens.
The lens artists photo challenge #278 is ‘unique’.
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A Magnolia tree. Autumn is a time of rapid changes. It can be light and sunny with wonderful colors on display, or grim and dim in rain. Both have its unique beauty in my humble opinion.
The lens artists photo challenge #278 is ‘unique’.
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The pattern of raindrops or the clouds through the window is unique each time you watch it. The wind being the big agency driving it all. The lens artists photo challenge #278 is ‘unique’.
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The commute from Den Haag to Leiden by train.
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The Leidse Hout, another cycle track on a dijk.
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Two prints from the same panorama source on the iPhone. Choose your favorite! LAPC #276 is ‘looking up/looking down’.
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The Netherlands, Abbenes – November 2023
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