Hyacinths and pond life
The flowerbeds are there again. The daffodils as always first and now hyacinths.
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Posts tagged ‘Flowers’
Merry Christmas
On the eve of Christmas a colorful rose, wishing everybody a merry Christmas. And I can’t resist to put a wish under it from the heart, quoting John Lennon: war is over, just imagine. In 2025 be your own truth, people are not meant to be all the same. One of the joys in life is that we are different, and being different creates the potential for change. As long as we can listen to one another, knowing there is the freedom to choose your own believes and live them without being a threat to the other, there is a future and lots of potential. Love, laugh (especially about yourself), live.
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Amaryllis
Some color on a grey day.
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The Last of the 2024 Roses
Summer is gone, the garden turns to Winter. The warm weather pulled out some more flowers.
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Rose
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – October 2024
This week’s theme for LAPC #319 is ‘setting a mood’.
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Sky High
The roses did well this year.
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Rose
This week’s theme for LAPC #319 is ‘setting a mood’.
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Tractor On A Gentle Line Of Orange
The Netherlands is famous for its Spring bulbflower fields, but we produce flowers in Summer and Autumn as well.
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A Gentle Line Of Orange
The Netherlands, Wassenaar – September 2024
Yes, we produce flowers in Summer and Autumn as well.
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Capturing Vibes of Summer: Butterflies, Bees, Flowers
To remind ourselves of the Summer, a few colorful photos.
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Dahlia in Bloom at Castle De Keukenhof, Lisse – August 2024
In Summer the garden of castle De Keukenhof is filled with beautiful Dahlia’s. I just choose one for the photo.
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Vivid Summer Fields: A Colorful Display in Voorhout, Netherlands (August 2024)
The Netherlands, Voorhout – August 2024
In Summer the fields that grow the Spring’s bulb flowers (tulips, daffodils and hyacinths) may grow other flowers. Some years the fields are flooded or covered up to be gassed, to clean, other years they produce crops like these.
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Netherlands Cut Flowers Field in Oegstgeest – The Last of Thistles
Cut flowers are a common good in The Netherlands. This is the field of a grower, just around the corner. He harvested the thistles and moved them to the flower auction for sale. This is the ones left over on the field. For Lens Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #316 ‘Common Object’.
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Thistle
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Agapanthus
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – July 2024
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Purple
We are lucky to have lots of cheap supply of plants for the garden in garden centers in The Netherlands.
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Experience Inspiration at Oegstgeest Cut Flowers Field, July 2024
Just around the corner is a field where cut flowers are grown for sale. It is a small beautiful plot with different stages of different flower types. And a good spot for inspiration.
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Orchid
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Stunning May and June 2024 Rose Garden in Oegstgeest, Netherlands
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May and June 2024
A rose is a rose is a rose, someone wrote that a long time ago. But it is still true, each rose is unique. So much symbolism and sweetness in a picture. The garden offers them in abundance this year.
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Lavender
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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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Poppies in Dutch Landscape
This weeks LAPC # 304 is ‘Background: behind the subject’. Poppies against a familiar backdrop in the landscape of The Netherlands,
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Wisteria
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2024
The Lens Artist Photo Challenge #301 is ‘floral’. A red rose against the drop of Wysteria.
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Rose
The Lens Artist Photo Challenge #301 is ‘floral’. A red rose against the drop of Wysteria.
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Red Rose
The Lens Artist Photo Challenge #301 is ‘floral’. A red rose against the drop of Wysteria.
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Flower Parade 2024 (3)
The Netherlands, Voorhout – April 2024
The yearly flower parade of the Bollenstreek showing bulb flower creativity and offering mesmerizing smells.
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Flower Parade 2024 (2)
The Netherlands, Voorhout – April 2024
The yearly flower parade of the Bollenstreek showing bulb flower creativity and offering mesmerizing smells.
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Flower Parade 2024 (1)
The Netherlands, Voorhout – April 2024
The yearly flower parade of the Bollenstreek showing bulb flower creativity and offering mesmerizing smells.
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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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Flower Parade 2024
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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Easter
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Rose
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Mono Flowers
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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Amaryllis
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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Roses
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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Gypsophila
Flowers are colorful but sometimes more color is added artificially. The lens artists photo challenge #279 is ‘magical’.
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And they were all yellow
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Water Drops
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Dahlia
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Orchids
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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Red Leaves with Raindrops
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Dahlia’s at Castle Keukenhof
Spot the Sunflower!
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Orange
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Consider Water Lillies
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High Key Rose
This week’s Lens Artists Challenge is ‘Simplicity Photography’.
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What happens on a bulb field in Summer?
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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Chrysanten
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Front Garden
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Petals
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Another Rose
A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
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What's (in) the Picture? 