Grey Sky Day
Lens Artists Photography Challenge #245 is ‘Environment’. I am happy to live near to the sea and beach. Even on a grey day.
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Lens Artists Photography Challenge #245 is ‘Environment’. I am happy to live near to the sea and beach. Even on a grey day.
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This week LAPC 243 is ‘it’s tricky’. Lots of tricky things.: a cold day, a cold sea, a cold dive. Snapping on the iPhone with zoom, tricky and a bit cheeky.
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The Netherlands, Katwijk – February 2023
Sometimes the color and mono have a fight. Two totally different tones and feelings to the same photo. And an answer to the question I phrased in the previous two posts.
This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge 240 is hosted by John Steiner. He invites to show my favorite type or style of photography as the road I have chosen to take most often. And – I was not really honest when I wrote this – that creates a bit of a problem for me. I might need direction.
Basically my attention gets caught and produces an image. It is not conscious, it is in the context where I am. And it results in an array of subjects. It is easier to say what road I do not take: fashion, portraits, urban. But travel, cities, landscapes etc are part of the portfolio.
I asked visitors feedback, and I am happy that those who took time to answer (thank you!) confirmed my own view on ‘my work’. Describing it as ‘random variety’ ‘context orientated’; I am in the place I should be (and I feel comfortable in). And it is a true pleasure to receive these kind phrased comments. So: I keep doing what I do, snap in context, it is fun!
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The weekly theme for LAPC #237 is ‘bringing softness’.
Right now the coast at Katwijk is work in progress. Sand is dredged out of the sea, pressed through tubes and added just before the beach under the water. 5,5 cubic meters of sand. Making it safe again and compliant to standards. As always Rijkswaterstaat does an amazing job.
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The weekly theme for LAPC #237 is ‘bringing softness’. Softness can be achieved in processing a sharp photo. Or just use zoom on an iPhone and do not keep it still while pressing the shutter. It gives the softness that makes this beach view interesting.
Right now the coast at Katwijk is work in progress. Sand is dredged out of the sea, pressed through tubes and added just before the beach under the water. 5,5 cubic meters of sand. Making it safe again and compliant to standards. As always Rijkswaterstaat does an amazing job.
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Blakeney at sunrise.
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England, Holkham – January 202
The theme for LAPC 234 is ‘messages’. The dunes and the retreated sea create a wonderful open space that connects land, sea, sky and men. A space for stories, dreams and desires.
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England, Blakeney – January 2023
The theme for LAPC 234 is ‘messages’. At some places old and abandonded boats can be found in the salt marshes. Messages and old stories.
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Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version.
The theme for the weekly lens artists challenge is ‘diagonals‘.
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The Lens-artists challenge #197 is ‘rule of thirds’. The rule of thirds is a rule of thumb how to compose images. There are more ‘rules’; another is the ‘s’ like in the photo above. Whatever rule you like to use: break them and tweak them till you are happy with the result of the photo you are putting together. In the end your gut tells a lot about what constitutes a decent picture to your liking.
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A picture that does not fit in a category has to fit in ‘odds and ends’, lens artists photo challenge #189.
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A picture that does not fit in a category has to fit in ‘odds and ends’, lens artists photo challenge #189.
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This weeks challenge #187 is ‘water’. The Galgenwater in Leiden. In the background a replica a of the mill that was used by the father of Rembrandt van Rijn, who was born to the left of the bridge in the distance in 1606, 410 years before this photo.
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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’. 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.
Shot with Nikon F90 on Kodak TriX, scanned from film and edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger 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
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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Set your own course guided by your heart. For this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #175 Follow your bliss.
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The theme for this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #172 is a day of my week. The photo above was one of a series I took during a morning when I visited a little village in Norfolk, Wells next the Sea. From the dock the view on the low tide coastline was amazing: boats, gulls, water, sun and clouds. It felt like a photographer heaven where there is too much to shoot in a short time. So this week I publish some of the photo’s from that morning in September.
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The theme for this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #172 is a day of my week. The photo above was one of a series I took during a morning when I visited a little village in Norfolk, Wells next the Sea. From the dock the view on the low tide coastline was amazing: boats, gulls, water, sun and clouds. It felt like a photographer heaven where there is too much to shoot in a short time. So this week I publish some of the photo’s from that morning in September.
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This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge (#162) is ‘all about the light’.
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The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #122 is ‘The sun will come out tomorrow’.
The sun is always there, even when you do not see it. On this day it was out sparkling over the canal, high lighting a beautiful sky.
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Another one for Hammad’s freshly start up Weekly Sky Challenge #1.
Into the sunset, a reminder of a wonderful Summer we had, albeit in strange times.
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Shot with iPhone 11 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version
The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #108 is ‘Sanctuary’.
A skipper, very focused on his motor.
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The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #108 is ‘Sanctuary’.
Returning home from a boat ride, into the sunset.
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The theme for Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #62 is ‘silhouettes’.
Instead of ‘hard’ silhouettes I find it sometimes more pleasing to show some details in the darker parts.
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The theme for Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #60 is ‘framing the shot’.
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The theme for Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #60 is ‘framing the shot’.
For more information on how to join the Lens-Artists Photo Challenges, click here for details.
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Shot with iPhoneX edited using Snapseed and Marksta Click the picture for a larger version
Shot with iPhoneX edited using Snapseed and Marksta Click the picture for a larger version
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The Netherlands, Katwijk – August 2018
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View down to the high rises of government in Den Haag.
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The weekly theme is pedestrian. That might be about anything linked to ‘walking by foot’ or ‘ordinary’. This photo is from a walk on an early Autumn evening, just as the light starts to fail.
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A list of other entries to this theme; if you do not want to be on this list let me know and I remove the link
The weekly theme is pedestrian. That might be about anything linked to ‘walking by foot’ or ‘ordinary’. This photo is from a walk on an early Autumn evening.
shot with iPhone 6s plus using Hueless, edited using Snapseed and Marksta, click the picture for a larger version
A list of other entries to this theme; if you do not want to be on this list let me know and I remove the link
The weekly theme is pedestrian. That might be about anything linked to ‘walking by foot’ or ‘ordinary’. This photo is from a walk on an early Autumn evening.
shot with iPhone 6s plus using Hueless, edited using Snapseed and Marksta, click the picture for a larger version
A list of other entries to this theme; if you do not want to be on this list let me know and I remove the link
This weekly theme is ‘satisfaction’,
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A list of other entries to this theme; if you do not want to be on this list let me know and I remove the link
The weekly theme is ‘heritage’.
This old building used to be a flower mill. The factory closed in the eighties of the last century. Finally it has its new purpose: hotel, offices and expensive appartments.
shot with iPhone 6s plus using Hueless, edited using Snapseed and Marksta, click the picture for a larger version
A list of other entries to this theme; if you do not want to be on this list let me know and I remove the link
The weekly theme is ‘heritage’.
This old building used to be a flower mill. The factory closed in the eighties of the last century. Finally it has its new purpose: hotel, offices and expensive appartments.
shot with iPhone 6s plus using Hueless, edited using Snapseed and Marksta, click the picture for a larger version
A list of other entries to this theme; if you do not want to be on this list let me know and I remove the link
The weekly theme is ‘reflecting’.
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A list of other entries to this theme; if you do not want to be on this list let me know and I remove the link
This weekly theme is ‘fun’. There are lots of ways to have fun.
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A list of other entries to this theme; if you do not want to be on this list let me know and I remove the link
This weekly theme is ‘fun’. There are lots of ways to have fun.
shot with iPhone 6s plus using Hueless, edited using Snapseed and Marksta, click the picture for a larger version
A list of other entries to this theme; if you do not want to be on this list let me know and I remove the link