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Wisteria Thinker

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2023

Lens Artists Photograph Challenge #253 is ‘Fragments’. Fragmented thoughts under a canape of flowers.

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Wisteria 2

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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Wisteria

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2023

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Who is afraid of pink, yellow, white, red, orange and blue?

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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Flower Landscape

The Netherlands, Lisse – May 2023

The bulb flower season is behind us. A view on the fields as a reminder.

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Apple Blossom

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2023

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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Out in the Rain

The Netherlands, Lisse – May 2023

The LAPC theme #248 is ‘mood’.

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Fields

The Netherlands, Voorhout/Rijnsburg – April 2023

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Flower Parade 2023: Photographers

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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Flower Parade 2023: Music

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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Flower Parade 2023 (Part 3)

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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Flower Parade 2023 (Part 2)

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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Flower Parade 2023 (Part 1)

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 in and around the House

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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More Flowers of Spring

The Netherlands, Voorhout/Rijnsburg – April 2023

Lens Artists Photography Challenge #245 is ‘Environment’.

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Flower Fields

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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First Flowers of Spring

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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Magnolia 2

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – March 2023

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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Magnolia

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – March 2023

The Lens Artists Photo Challenge #241 is Spring. The Magnolia slowly opens up.

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Spring Snow

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – March 2023

The Lens Artists Photo Challenge #241 is Spring. March still delivers snow from time to time.

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Spring Daffodils

The Netherlands, Voorhout – March 2023

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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First Daffodils

The Netherlands, Noordwijk – March 2023

The first bulbflowers come out on the land, as always, Daffodils first.

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Spring

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – March 2023

Spring is here, the garden awakes slowly.

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Amaryllis

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – December 2022

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Autumn 2022 – To the heart

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – December 2022

The theme for the weekly lens artists challenge is ‘perfect patterns‘.

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Wet Rose

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – October 2022

This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #221 is ‘favourite flowers’. The mild weather makes the garden explode in last flowers. This rose is one of them.

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Rose

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – September 2022

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Golden Grass

The Netherlands, Lisse – August 2022

The garden of castle De Keukenhof.

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Busy Bee

The Netherlands, Lisse – August 2022

Bee at work in the garden of castle De Keukenhof.

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Echinacea

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – Jul 2022

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Rose

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – Jul 2022

This week lens artists challenge #214 is ‘favourite finds’. The garden is always a source for wonderful flowers and photos.

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Castle Keukenhof

The Netherlands, Lisse – August 2022

This week lens artists challenge #214 is ‘favourite finds’. In the garden of castle De Keukenhof is a beautiful display of dahlia each Summer.

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Rose

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – Jul 2022

This week lens artists challenge #214 is ‘favourite finds’. The garden is always a source for wonderful flowers and photos.

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More Dahlia

The Netherlands, Lisse – August 2022

This week lens artists challenge #214 is ‘favourite finds’. In the garden of castle De Keukenhof is a beautiful display of dahlia each Summer.

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Dahlia

This week lens artists challenge #213 is ‘here comes the sun’. In the garden of castle De Keukenhof is a beautiful display of dahlia each Summer.

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Pretty Pink

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – July 2022

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Wet Party Lights

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – June 2022

This is an entry for ‘texture’, the monthly Thursday Special Pick a Word of Lost in translation. Each month five words, to be visualized in a photo. It is fun to play with.

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Rose

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – June 2022

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White, Red, Yellow, Blue

Lens Artists Photo Challenge #203 for this week is ‘local vistas’.

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Blue on Red

The Netherlands, Sassenheim – June 2022

Lens Artists Photo Challenge #203 for this week is ‘local vistas’.

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Poppy

The Netherlands, Sassenheim – June 2022

Lens Artists Photo Challenge #203 for this week is ‘local vistas’.

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Dive In

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – June 2022

Lens Artists Weekly Challenge #202 is ‘Minimalism/Maximilism‘.

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Attract

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – June 2022

Lens Artists Weekly Challenge #202 is ‘Minimalism/Maximilism‘.

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Reveal

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – June 2022

Lens Artists Weekly Challenge #202 is ‘Minimalism/Maximilism‘.

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Agapanthus and Allium

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2022

Lens Artists Weekly Challenge #200 is ‘Three of a kind’.

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Chrysant

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2022

Lens Artists Weekly Challenge #200 is ‘Every little thing’.

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Chrysant

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2022

Lens Artists Weekly Challenge #200 is ‘Every little thing’.

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Allium

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2022

Lens Artists Weekly Challenge #200 is ‘Every little thing’. Lots of small things, but flowers, and how they open up meeting the sun, are all around. Here the first part of an Allium flower courageously opens up.

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Penultimate Last of the Tulips 2022

The Netherlands, Lisse – April 2022

The growing era of daffodils, hyacinths and tulips for this year is gone. Here a few photos of a little piece of land, with a nice skyline and sun.

The Lens-artists challenge #197 is ‘rule of thirds’. The rule of thirds is a rule of thumb how to compose images. But a photo that creates a journey of the eye can also be made by using lines and colors. Even when the horizon is not on 1/3.

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