In The Dutch Mountains
The Netherlands, as its name indicates, is flat. ‘Flat as a pancake’. But sometimes it looks as if we have mountains.
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Posts tagged ‘cows’
Atom Heart Mother Revisited
The famous Hipgnosis cover of Atom Heart Mother is iconic. I am not sure, but I think this is not a Holstein Cow.
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Haarlemmer Trekvaart Hares
Hares in the fields, where normally cows wander.
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Watering Wild Cows
‘Wild cows’ enjoy the water in the dunes near Valkenburg. The image is taken by hand on the maximum zoom of the iPhone, so it is a bit unsharp.
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Imagining the Blooming Flower Fields of Voorhout
In about six months these fields will be covered with blooming bulb flowers. Can you imagine the colors?
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About The Horizon
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Dramatic Monochrome Skies Over The Netherlands – August 2024
The sky over The Netherlands is a wonderful object for photos, we do have lot of sky over our flat land above the low horizon. And that sky can be quite dramatic, even more in monochrome.
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Netherlands Landscape: Summer Scene with Cows, Windmill, and Farm
The Netherlands is as flat as a pancake. That is the way foreigners describe my precious habitat. It is not completely accurate, we do have some hills and dunes. The advantage of a flat surface is that we have lots of sky above the horizon. Here a typical Summer scene: rain filled sky and cows in the meadows, the odd windmill and farm.
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Exploring Dutch Tourist Attractions: A Photo Gallery
Leann Cole suggested ‘tourist attractions, near and far’ as LAPC’s 307. My motivation for going to places changed in my life time. From ‘active’ holidays (including climbing some big mountains by bycicle) to complete leisure (eg seeing the Greek Isles with lots of lazy moments). And in between the travels to dig into the culture and essence of a place on earth, to learn and experience it. But wherever I went as a ‘photographer’ I tried to capture where I was. To be stunned by what is just there in front of you, the unexpected. And yes, the times I did visit an ‘iconic attraction’ I tried to find my own way of framing it, trying to keep away form the cliches that are so widely known. For this challenge I dig into my blogs archive, all the photos are here published already.
Over the years I learned to value and appreciate my own way of looking, being surprised by my own views of what I saw and how I saw it. To appreciate simple things of beauty that stuck out or the composition of objects. If you travel far, you are only there for a moment, if you stay close to home you have access all of the time. But being close to home the challenge is bigger to stay open, to see what is there, to not take it for granted.
Today is the ‘near’ version. So close to where I live, but for tourists reasons to travel. I just browsed and picked out some themes that may strike recognition: flowers, flower parade, Rotterdam and its architecture and harbour, Leiden (my alma mater and birthplace of Rembrandt), windmills, flat lands, watermanagement (polder, canals) and the beach. All of them so near and familiar.
I hope you do enjoy the gallery, and if you want to plunge deep into more of it I invite you to search by category finding Amsterdam, Den Haag, more flower fields and flowers and who knows Dutch clogs?
Black and White Cows
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Feeding Cows
Lens artists photo challenge #199 is ‘mechanical/industrial’. Cows are fed at the stable. My first entry to cell pic Sunday.
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Cow
The theme of Lens-Artists #124 is ‘Now and then’.
Meeting a cow in the main street can be a surprise. During Covid pandemic the cow might be the only object in the street.
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Church and Cows
The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #115 is ‘Inspiration’.
The Dutch landscape is a continuous source of inspiration. Sometimes in a wide view, sometimes in a close up to pick up some details. A church on a dyke, cows in the polder.
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Pastorale
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Tiny: Cows
Scene from a train. Cows in a landscape seem small.
The Netherlands, Leidschendam – Ocotber 2016
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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
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- Tiny, Mighty, And Picture Incher – Life In My Tin Can
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- Kanlaon Tiny 2: New York, Upper East Side & Bletchley Park, England
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- Tiny (WPC) – Perspective is everthing
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- s1ngal Mighty Tiny
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- Weekly Challenge: Tiny… – Through Jersey Eyes
- Weekly Photo Challenge: Tiny – Whimsey Pie
- Tiny Baby Lizard – Living for Experiences
- Karen Hill Long Neck Hilltribe-Padaung
- Tiny Little Stars – Geriatri’x’ Fotogallery
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- Photo Challenge: Tiny – Poems From Psalms And Nature
- WPC: Tiny – Rodo Dovris – Blink
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- A Day In The Life Weekly Photo Challenge: Tiny
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What's (in) the Picture? 