The Netherlands, Voorhout – April 2024
The yearly flower parade of the Bollenstreek showing bulb flower creativity and offering mesmerizing smells.
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The Netherlands, Voorhout – April 2024
The yearly flower parade of the Bollenstreek showing bulb flower creativity and offering mesmerizing smells.
Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version.
The Netherlands, Voorhout – April 2024
The yearly flower parade of the Bollenstreek showing bulb flower creativity and offering mesmerizing smells.
Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version.
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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The yearly flower parade of the Bollenstreek showing bulb flower creativity and offering mesmerizing smells. A first photo, I post more soon.
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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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Some photos do not fit the LAPC’s themes, so there is a rest category ‘last chance’ being #280. I never am guided by the themes in the photos I shoot. Some fit in, some don’t. But I never know the theme while shooting. I’m privileged to live in a country with lots of flowers, having fresh ones weekly in the house.
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Some photos do not fit the LAPC’s themes, so there is a rest category ‘last chance’ being #280. I never am guided by the themes in the photos I shoot. Some fit in, some don’t. But I never know the theme while shooting. I’m privileged to live in a country with lots of flowers, having fresh ones weekly in the house.
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Flowers are colorful but sometimes more color is added artificially. The lens artists photo challenge #279 is ‘magical’.
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This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #265 is ‘Black and White or Monochrome’. I love working in non color. I am not interested if it is black and white and grey tones or a one color/tone photo.
So here a photo that might be black and white and monochrome.
I developed my skill to identify a good monochrome or black and white photo when I still used film. Translating colors into grey tones is important. If you do not ‘see’ it immediately then see if your camera or phone has a black and white setting. Contrary to an old analogue camera your tests are free and you can see the result immediately. I prefer to shoot in black and white , not in color. Either by using the ‘mono’ setting of my iPhone, or an app like Blackie or Lenka.
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Spot the Sunflower!
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This week’s Lens Artists Challenge is ‘Simplicity Photography’.
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If the soil is not being cleaned by flooding or gassed by covering it in plastic, the fields that are covered in Daffodils, Hyacinths or Tulips in Spring, in Summer are growing cut flowers for sales.
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A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
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Lens Artists Photograph Challenge #253 is ‘Fragments’. Fragmented thoughts under a canape of flowers.
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This year the wisteria was flowering like never before, and the smell and view was so enjoyable. Now it is over its peak, lucklily we still have the photos and memories.
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When blossoms go.
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The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2023
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The Netherlands, Lisse Keukenhof – May 2023
The Keukenhof is one of the most fantastic flower gardens in the world, displaying the beauty of millions of bulb flowers on display in a fantastic park. To close the bulb season the last photos of bulb flowers this year.
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The bulb flower season is behind us. A view on the fields as a reminder.
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One of my most loved moments is the sight of apple blossoms in Spring. This was early Apri.
The LAPC theme #248 is ‘mood’.
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The LAPC theme #248 is ‘mood’.
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The Netherlands, Voorhout/Rijnsburg – April 2023
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The yearly flower parade of the Bollenstreek showing bulb flower creativity and offering mesmerizing smells. Just snaps of the iPhone of the floats and other stuff that caught my attention.
Over the years I collected photos of photographers shooting their photos and nowadays, videos. Here are a few.
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The yearly flower parade of the Bollenstreek showing bulb flower creativity and offering mesmerizing smells. Just snaps of the iPhone of the floats and other stuff that caught my attention. Apart from the floats and flowers, music is an important part of the parade.
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The yearly flower parade of the Bollenstreek showing bulb flower creativity and offering mesmerizing smells. Just snaps of the iPhone of the floats and other stuff that caught my attention.
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The yearly flower parade of the Bollenstreek showing bulb flower creativity and offering mesmerizing smells. Just snaps of the iPhone of the floats and other stuff that caught my attention.
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The yearly flower parade of the Bollenstreek showing bulb flower creativity and offering mesmerizing smells. Just snaps of the iPhone of the floats and other stuff that caught my attention.
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Tulips are the last Spring bulb flowers to appear. The reds are in house, the others are in the garden. Lens Artists Photography Challenge #245 is ‘Environment’.
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The Netherlands, Voorhout/Rijnsburg – April 2023
Lens Artists Photography Challenge #245 is ‘Environment’.
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The Netherlands, Voorhout – April 2023
At this time of Spring the bulbfields deliver their richness and beauty in rows of flowers, stretching over the land like post stamps. Living in this area of The Netherlands for a long time, this is quite a ‘normal’ event. I try to remember the first time I saw it as a child, being amazed by the perfume and splendour of the fields, just to keep me appreciating it as it should.
Lens Artists Photography Challenge #245 is ‘Environment’.
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The Netherlands, Voorhout and Lisse – April 2023
The beginning of April, and a first view of the bulbs starting to flower slowly.
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The Lens Artists Photo Challenge #241 is Spring. The Magnolia slowly opens up, with in the background a passing bicycle to add some Dutch flavour to the photo :-).
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The Lens Artists Photo Challenge #241 is Spring. The Magnolia slowly opens up.
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The Lens Artists Photo Challenge #241 is Spring. March still delivers snow from time to time.
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The Lens Artists Photo Challenge #241 is Spring. The Daffodils are the first of the commercial grown bulb flowers to pop up each year. Here a field near Voorhout.
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The first bulbflowers come out on the land, as always, Daffodils first.
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Spring is here, the garden awakes slowly.
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