View of Scheveningen from Katwijk aan Zee
View on Scheveningen in the distance.
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Intentional Creative Movement – Bicycle
This week’s Lens Artitsts Photo Challenge (#321) is Intentional Camera Movement (ICM). These photos are from a workshop in 1997 in France, where we had to create movement with a low shutter speed while following the subject. Basically a fun excercise but done on film. So the result literally came to light after developing the film. The excitement and anxiety about the possible results were out of scale! Patience.
These film archives are the source of my 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.
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Exploring the Amsterdam-Sloterdijk Power Plant
A fossil power plant on smoke, next to the A5 in Amsterdam-Sloterdijk.
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Terrace Life
LAPC #316 is ‘Finding beauty in unexpected places’.
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Coming In – Going Out
Incoming and outgoing traffic at Schiphol Amsterdam. Just a drive by, and no worries, I was not driving the car.
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An evening at Katwijk aan Zee Around Sunset – August 2024
The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – August 2024
Sometimes it just happens. You are in a place and the light is fantastic, and there is so much to frame in a photo. The sunset is spectacular and for some odd 30 minutes you are in a photography candy shop. This is a selection of what ended up on my phone on that hot August evening.
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Stunning Black and White Sunsets in Katwijk (Give a Little Bit)
The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – August 2024
Yesterday I told you about my passion and history in monochrome. And that I do shoot sunsets in black and white. Here is another one of the same sunset, but framed different. I will publish an overview of all those shots of same sunset that evening. Each of them show a bit of it, it’s in my humble opinion nice to see the big picture.
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Monochrome Magic: Capturing Black and White Sunsets
If you did not notice, I am a big fan of monochrome. In fact, monochrome film was way back the medium I started with. It was cheap and you print your own photos in a darkroom. That was adventurous and frustrating at the same time. Not to sound old, but nowadays with wonderful software, editing images is easier, faster and more fun. And you instantly see what you get! But sometimes I do miss the anxiety of the darkroom, seeing a photo come up in the developer. Back to now. I do shoot sunsets in black and white, and here is one. The atmosphere of the shot is different, more dark and eerie.
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Beach Fun: Captivating Sunset in Katwijk aan Zee, Netherlands
The theme for this week LAPC 316 is ‘Destanation: Fun‘. Going to the beach is fun, but witnessing a brilliant sunset on a warm Summer evening, while a dispaly of boats and windmills complete the scene, is true fun. I published a few of them already two weeks ago (see the archive Katwijk). I hope you still have fun watching them.
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They Call Me The Breeze
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Between The Lines
Dramatic morning over the Haarlemmermeerpolder near Abbenes.
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Windmill De Valk in Leiden, Netherlands – A Living Museum Since 2000
Windmill De Valk is one of few left in the city. It is a museum, but since 2000 is it being used for milling again.
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East and West Border at Moltkebrücke in November 1989
The view on the Moltkebrücke over the river Spree on an Autumn morning in November 1989. The world was waiting for the Berlin Wall to open formally. Further upstream the Spree was part of the border between East and West. We are walking towards the transitpoint for foreigners in the Invalidenstrasse (link to interactive map of the former Berlin Wall) to enter East Berlin.
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.
Originally shot with Nikon F301 on Kodak TriX, scanned from negative and tweaked using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.
Grey Rainy Sky Regatta in Warmond, Netherlands
A small regatta on its way under a grey rainy sky.
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Horses
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Rowing Backwards
At rowing you move forward by looking backwards all the time, and with a cox the course is set.
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Castle ‘Oud Poelgeest’
Castle Oud Poelgeest.
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Scenic A12 Motorway Lights Fade in June 2024 – Den Haag
The lights seem to fade slowly along the A12 motorway leading into Den Haag.
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Scenic Skies
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Carpet Crawlers: A12 Motorway in Den Haag | June 2024
The A12 motorway leading into Den Haag downtown. You have to get into town to get out of the car, a free wording of a slogan used in the sixties and later in a beautiful Genesis song ‘Carpet Crawlers’ (the link to the Ray Wilson/Steve Hackette live version of 2014 in the Royal Albert Hall)
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On The Beach
A view showing the curve of the Dutch seafront looking at Scheveningen in the South from Katwijk aan Zee.
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Allium Bulbflowers in Oegstgeest, Netherlands – A Twin Set of Mono and Color
Allium is one of our favorite bulbflowers in the garden. I present it as a twin set of mono next to color. Each version brings out different qualitaties in the flower I think, but that is of course subjective.
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Exploring Rotterdam’s Kop van Zuid | Twins (5)
Architecture can be beautiful in full color as well in monochrome. In ‘twins’ I show the monochrome twin of the color shot at the Kop van Zuid in Rotterdam. The fift and last set is again New Orleans.
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Exploring Rotterdam’s Kop van Zuid | Twins (4)
Architecture can be beautiful in full color as well in monochrome. In ‘twins’ I show the monochrome twin of the color shot at the Kop van Zuid in Rotterdam. The fourth set is New Orleans.
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Exploring Rotterdam’s Kop van Zuid | Twins (3)
Architecture can be beautiful in full color as well in monochrome. In ‘twins’ I show the monochrome twin of the color shot at the Kop van Zuid in Rotterdam. The third set is the Montevideo.
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Exploring Rotterdam’s Kop van Zuid | Twins (2)
Architecture can be beautiful in full color as well in monochrome. In ‘twins’ I show the monochrome twin of the color shot at the Kop van Zuid in Rotterdam. The second set is an old elevator at the Rijnhaven.
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Exploring Rotterdam’s Kop van Zuid | Twins
Architecture can be beautiful in full color as well in monochrome. In ‘twins’ I show the monochrome twin of the color shot of the high risings in Rotterdam on the Kop van Zuid in Rotterdam. The first set is De Rotterdam by Rem Koolhaas.
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Exploring Rotterdam’s Kop van Zuid | Blocked
The Netherlands, Rotterdam – May 2024
LAPC challenge #305 is about composition: two rectangles as a play tool to frame a photo. Sometimes you get lots more than two, which adds to another aspect of composition: repetition. Not sure if this qualifies as a valid entry, but I do like the building. This is De Rotterdam by Rem Koolhaas.
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On the beach
LAPC challenge #305 is about composition: two rectangles as a play tool to frame a photo.
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Exploring Rotterdam’s Kop van Zuid | Floats
The Rijnhaven in Rotterdam seen from the Kop van Zuid in Rotterdam.
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Exploring Rotterdam’s the Kop van Zuid: Old Trade
The Rijnhaven in Rotterdam seen from the Kop van Zuid in Rotterdam.
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Exploring Rotterdam’s Kop van Zuid | New Orleans Skyscraper
The Kop van Zuid in Rotterdam is home to various highrisings, some named after big cities. This is New Orleans.
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Erasmus Bridge
The Erasmus bridge in Rotterdam.
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Dirty Window
This weeks LAPC # 304 is ‘Background: behind the subject’. A dirty window of a terrace at the beach.
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Skuumkoppen
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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Sea of Clouds
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Horsham in May 2024: Leisure
A pub, one of the best places for community connections (connect LAPC 303).
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Horsham in May 2024: Contrast
Reading a book on a bench, looking up and seeing this makes a monochrome fan jump. (connect LAPC 303)
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Horsham in May 2024: Capturing Connections
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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Horsham in May 2024: Bench in Shade
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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Horsham in May 2024: Parking Space
A walk through Horsham starts here.
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Hoek van Holland / Hook of Holland
Hoek van Holland, looking at Maasvlakte, the harbor of Rotterdam.
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Harbor Rotterdam
The Netherlands, Rotterdam – May 2024
Hoek van Holland, waiting for departure.
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Ship
Hoek van Holland, waiting for departure.
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Half a day of work
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Old Memories
This is an old cart that was used in the past at flower auctions. Long ago I used to work in the Summer months at the bulbflower auction Flora Rijnsburg (Now part of the Royal Flora Holland Group). These carts transported flowers through sales at the clock and distribution of them to the buyer via a transporter belt. They were extremely heavy and not easy to handle.
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Leiden Central Station
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Sun Peek
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Old Wall
An old commercial estate on the Haarlemmerweg in Leiden.
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Haagse Poort
Office building Haagse Poort in Den Haag as seen from the train.
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What's (in) the Picture? 