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Pyloned Sunset

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – August 2023

Lens Artists Photo Challenge #264 is ‘primary colours’.

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Thought Trails

Lens Artists Photo Challenge #264 is ‘primary colours’.

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Up Hill Landing

The Netherlands, Lijnden/Schiphol Amsterdam – June 2023

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Sky

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest- June 2023

June was a warm month with beautiful sunder skies. Hoping August will bring some more than grey clouds.

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Light over Dark

Lens Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #261 is ‘work in progress’. The sky is never finished.

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Sugar Cake: estate Sandenburg

The Netherlands, Langbroek – July 2023

Kasteel Sandenburg in Langbroek. An old estate in the center of The Netherlands. Lovingly nicknamed the sugar cake. I wonder why.

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Sunset

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – June 2023

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Cracked Sky

Lens Artists Photograph Challenge #253 is ‘Fragments’.

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Waiting for the Sun

The Netherlands, Noordwijk – April 2023

The LAPC theme #248 is ‘mood’.

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Grey Sky Day

The Netherlands, Noordwijk – March 2023

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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Polder Road with Zoetermeer Skyline

The Netherlands, Zoetermeer- March 2023

Skyline Zoetermeer.

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Fly By

The Netherlands, Noordwijk – February 2023

The weekly theme for LAPC #244 is ‘glowing moments’.

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Lighthouse and Church

The Netherlands, Katwijk – March 2023

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Dune View

The Netherlands, Noordwijk – February 2023

The weekly theme for LAPC #244 is ‘glowing moments’.

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Roadside View

The Netherlands, Zoetermeer – March 2023

A polder near Zoetermeer.

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Reflection

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – March 2023

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Spot the bird

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – March 2023

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Spotlight

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – March 2023

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Cold Dive

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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Noordwijk Beach Scapes

The Netherlands, Noordwijk – February 2023

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Shadow walking

The Netherlands, Katwijk – February 2023

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Fresh Lounge

The Netherlands, Katwijk – February 2023

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Sea View: An Answer

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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Walk on the Wild Side

The Netherlands, Katwijk – February 2023

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 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. Maybe I can not choose to continue in a specific direction? Or I shouldn’t?

I think I have to ask the visitors of this blog to give an answer to John’s question, for I can’t for myself. What do you think? Is there a red line in my snaps? Or is it a mixed bag of pieces? I appreciate your feedback.

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Off Beach: A Question

The Netherlands, Katwijk -February 2023

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 that creates a bit of a problem for me. I 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. Maybe I can not choose to continue in a specific direction?

I think I have to ask the visitors of this blog to give an answer to John’s question, for I can’t for myself. What do you think? Is there a red line in my snaps? Or is it a mixed bag of pieces? I appreciate your feedback.

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Sky Triptych

The skies over the beach in Noordwijk are impressive and dramatic. and weirdly peaceful if you take time to go deeper into them. The weekly theme for LAPC #239 is ‘finding peace’.

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Open Skies

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – July 2022

This Summer the sky seems to be a source for me. Clouds are magnificent at times.

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Steenbergen at Sea and the Dam Buster Raid

The Netherlands, Steenbergen – August 2022

Lens Artists Photo Challenge #211 is ‘what is your groove’. Basically I enjoy looking around, up and down till something strikes me as interesting. A wonderful way of looking around is at the passenger seat of the car, riding shot gun. This is a navigable aqueduct, leading a waterway over the A4 motorway near Steenbergen in Noord-Brabant.

The A4 is one of our routes to Belgium and France. Reading the name on the aqueduct (Steenbergen at the sea) made me chuckle the first time, because the actual North Sea is more to the West. Last time passing I shot this photo. And when I made this post, I found some interesting information on Wikipedia about Steenbergen.

Guy Gibson, Wing Commander, the first CO of the RAF‘s 617 Squadron, who led the famous “Dam Busters” raid in 1943, crashed September 19 1944 with his navigator, Jim Warwick, in a de Havilland Mosquito XX, KB267, aircraft in this municipality. Coming back from a raid on Germany they crashed, probably caused by a malfunction of the fuel system. They are buried in the RC cemetery of Steenbergen.

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Windmill en passant

The Netherlands, Noordwijkerhout – August 2022

Lens Artists Photo Challenge #211 is ‘what is your groove’. Basically I enjoy looking around, up and down till something strikes me as interesting. A wonderful way of looking around is during bicycle hikes. This small old windmill is next to an old transport canal from Haarlem to Leiden, and the railway Leiden to Haarlem. I shot it ‘passing by/en passant’ so the framing may seem a bit odd (and yes, it was safe to do that at that time 🙂 ).

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Blues

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – July 2022

Sunset against dramatic clouds.

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Over Rooftops

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – July 2022

Sunset against dramatic clouds.

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Duo

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – July 2022

A blue sky with clouds, highlighting soaring birds.

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On the wing

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – July 2022

A blue sky with clouds, highlighting soaring birds.

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Blue Sky Signatures

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – June 2022

A blue sky with shapes and figures and the odd straight line.

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Sky Lines

The Netherlands, Amsterdam Schiphol – April 2022

mLens artists photo challenge #199 is ‘mechanical/industrial’. I have a soft spot for planes coming over against the backdrop of the sky.

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Free Bird

The Netherlands, Schiphol – April 2022

Lens-Artists weekly photo challenge #198 is ‘light and shadow’.

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Soft Blues

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – August 2021

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This will pass

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – August 2021

This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge (#162) is ‘all about the light’. This Summer is what it is, not the best one we had. Grey, cloudy, rain, and from time to time some sun in between.

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Sky Blue

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – August 2021

This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge (#162) is ‘all about the light’. Maybe not a photo you would expcect when it is about ‘light’. But it is. I always love reading quotes from people on blogs, but I am too lazy to look up this one. Someone said: photography is painting with light. Which is true basically, glass, metal or later film was made to be sensitive to light to store images. Sensors do the same, but we are not aware of that process. Just the result.
Last weeks I was looking at the sky more and more because a friend (I call him a friend even though I have not yet him personally for our first beer) Andy Townend ‘shoots a sky a day’ on his Facebook and IG account. A sky with clouds is a painting in light. I long to see blue skies, it is too wet and grey this Summer.

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Sky 5

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2021

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Sky 4

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2021

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Sky 3

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2021

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Swallows and Clouds

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – June 2021

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Off White

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – June 2021

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

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Feathers

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2021

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

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Sky 2

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2021

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

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Couple

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2021

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.

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Sky 1

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2021

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

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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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Electric

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – October 2020

A pylon against a back drop of clouds and sunrays for the Weekly Sky Challenge.

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