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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The theme for the weekly lens artists challenge is ‘perfect patterns‘.
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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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The garden of castle De Keukenhof.
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Bee at work in the garden of castle De Keukenhof.
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This week lens artists challenge #214 is ‘favourite finds’. The garden is always a source for wonderful flowers and photos.
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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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This week lens artists challenge #214 is ‘favourite finds’. The garden is always a source for wonderful flowers and photos.
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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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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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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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Lens Artists Photo Challenge #203 for this week is ‘local vistas’.
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Lens Artists Photo Challenge #203 for this week is ‘local vistas’.
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Lens Artists Photo Challenge #203 for this week is ‘local vistas’.
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Lens Artists Weekly Challenge #202 is ‘Minimalism/Maximilism‘.
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Lens Artists Weekly Challenge #202 is ‘Minimalism/Maximilism‘.
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Lens Artists Weekly Challenge #202 is ‘Minimalism/Maximilism‘.
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The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2022
Lens Artists Weekly Challenge #200 is ‘Three of a kind’.
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Lens Artists Weekly Challenge #200 is ‘Every little thing’.
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Lens Artists Weekly Challenge #200 is ‘Every little thing’.
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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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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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The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2022
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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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The Lens-artists challenge #197 is ‘rule of thirds’. The rule of thirds is a rule of thumb how to compose images. There are more ‘rules’; another is the ‘s’ like in the photo above. Whatever rule you like to use: break them and tweak them till you are happy with the result of the photo you are putting together. In the end your gut tells a lot about what constitutes a decent picture to your liking.
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The Netherlands, Voorhout – April 2022
After two years of pandemic, the flower parade was finally back!
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Each year the growers of bulbs try to keep the public out of the fields. If people enter the fields there is an imminent risk of diseases to the bulbs. It is impossible to patrol all fields so soft tactics with signs are being used. And some growers have volunteers to address people who do enter their fields. But in the end it all is depending on the behavior and goodwill of people. Unfortunately some think a field is public space. The other day I heard an anecdote about this ‘freedom confusion’. One day a grower saw a family enter his field, passing by at that moment. He noticed that the car of the man was left open. So he sat in the car. The man ran from the field to his car asking ‘what are you doing? this is my car!’. The grower just replied: ‘and that is my field you entered’.
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The Lens Artists Photo Challenge this week is #195: colorful expressions. The iPhone13 Pro has a great macro functionality. I just tried it out resulting in this detail of a rose.
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The Lens Artists Photo Challenge this week is #195: colorful expressions.
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The Lens Artists Photo Challenge this week is #195: colorful expressions.
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The Lens Artists Photo Challenge this week is #195: colorful expressions.
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The Lens Artists Photo Challenge this week is #195: colorful expressions.
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