What's (in) the Picture?

Chris Breebaart Photography – finding stories

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Flowers waiting for Spring

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – January 2022

A grey morning with fog in Winter.

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Almost Winter Solstice Sunrise

The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #179 is Serene.

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How Amsterdam Airport Schiphol was created

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – December 2021

The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #178 is You Choose. The only thing I chose for this blog was the subject and the photo. The choice to build this canal was made long ago, and one of the spin offs is Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.

Before the pandemic I used to cross this canal twice a day, and I took loads of photos of it, but just recently I found out about its history and historical purpose.

As most of you probably know the Dutch have a long relationship with water, and learned how water could be managed over the ages. About half of The Netherlands is below sea level; the question was and is how to keep it dry? Some say that God created the world but the Dutch created The Netherlands. In reality we manage water. In days of climate change that gets more complex. Not only the amount of water coming in by rivers and rain is growing, the soil of The Netherlands sinks as well.

In 1840 this canal was build. From 1848 the former lake the Haarlemmermeer was turned into the Haarlemmermeerpolder and this canal was used to dump the water of that lake into the North Sea. Schiphol (ship hell) was a spot in that former lake notorious for ship wrecks as the story goes.

Nowadays the canal takes out the water from the West of The Netherlands to the sea at Katwijk.

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Consider the Lillies

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – December 2021

The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #178 is You Choose. About choices in life. Some are easy if there is a lot to choose from.

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Autumn

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – November 2021

The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #176 is One image/one story. That theme matches the subject of my photo blog: What’s (in) the picture? Finding stories. Photo’s tell stories. My story (what made me click my shutter), and the story of the spectator.

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Lights

England, Southwell – December 2015

The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #176 is One image/one story. That theme matches the subject of my photo blog: What’s (in) the picture? Finding stories. Photo’s tell stories. My story (what made me click my shutter), and the story of the spectator, as I wrote earlier.

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Autumn Sunset

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – November 2021

The Autumn was short this year. High temperatures were pleasant, but the amazing colors on leaves that are normal for this time of year, were not present. And when the weather changed the leaves came off the trees very fast. Luckily the sunsets are always there.

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Short Cut

England, Weasenham St. Peter – September 2021

A small short cut in Norfolk advised by TomTom delivers wonderful scenery.

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Blue

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – November 2021

Christmas is coming. Some people can’t wait to set up their gardens with light figures. Here is one I would consider, if I would decorate the garden. For this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #175 Follow your bliss.

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Brancaster Beach

England, Brancaster – September 2021

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Harwich Sunrise Sky

England, Harwich – September 2021

The sky at sunrise in Harwich. For this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #174 Shapes and Designs.

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Autumn

The Netherlands, Zoetermeer – October 2021

Wild mushrooms. For this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #174 Shapes and Designs.

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Roof Abstract

The Netherlands, Zoeterwoude – May 2015

A roof of a shopping mall. The theme for this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #173 is interesting architecture.

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Concrete

The Netherlands, Den Haag – July 2015

The concrete factory of Dyckerhoff Basal in Den Haag. The theme for this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #173 is interesting architecture.

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Little Town

The Netherlands, Schiedam – May 20215

Schiedam, a small town under the smoke of Rotterdam, with its own iconic windmill. Just a little street in a little town, old and more modern mixed. The theme for this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #173 is interesting architecture.

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Fly Over Bicycle

The Netherlands, Zoetermeer – July 2015

A fly over for bicycles (we do have lots of bicycle lanes in The Netherlands) in Zoetermeer, architecture as art. The theme for this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #173 is interesting architecture.

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Let’s Roll

England, Brancaster – September 2021

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Train

The Netherlands, Voorschoten – October 2021


One for lens artists weekly photo challenge #171: weird and wonderful.

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Cinema

The Netherlands, Den Haag – October 2021


One for lens artists weekly photo challenge #171: weird and wonderful. Waiting for No Time To Die.

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View on Scheveningen

The Netherlands, Den Haag – October 2021

A view at Scheveningen from a rainy window, over looking the new covered bicycle park in front of the Central Station.
One for lens artists weekly photo challenge #171: weird and wonderful.

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Hair

England, Thornham – September 2021

The Orange Tree Inn in Thornham.

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Sitting in the rain

England, Thornham – September 2021

The Orange Tree Inn in Thornham.

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Wetlands

England, Brancaster – September 2021

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QE 2

England, Dartford Crossing M25 – September 2021

Something ordinary, a bridge to cross. But some bridges make it a bigger experience. Queen Elizabeth bridge at Dartford Crossing.

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The Ship

England, Brancaster – September 2021

The Ship, the local in Brancaster, Norfolk. The labelling of the walls is quite artful, A bit of street art for this week’s Lens Artists photography challenge #170 Street Art.

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Bike Park

England, Swaffham, Norfolk – September 2021

A bicycle park facility at Tesco’s in Swaffham in Norfolk. A bit of street art for this week’s Lens Artists photography challenge #170 Street Art.

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Dogs, is it raining cats?

England, Thornham – September 2021

The Orange Tree Inn in Thornham.

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QE 1

England, Dartford Crossing M25 – September 2021

Something ordinary, a bridge to cross. But some bridges make it a bigger experience. Queen Elizabeth bridge at Dartford Crossing. For this week’s lens artists challenge #169: the ordinary.

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Road Sunrise

England, Horsham – September 2021

A sunrise on a road near Horsham for this week’s lens artists challenge #169: the ordinary.

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Tesco Click and Collect

England, Horsham – September 2021

A click and collect with a hazy morning sun for this week’s lens artists challenge #169: the ordinary.

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Fence

France, Les Moëres – September 2021

An ordinary fence on the side of the motor way in the north of France for this week’s lens artists challenge #169: the ordinary.

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Hybrid Working

The Netherlands, Voorschoten – October 2021

Since the pandemic started we worked from home. But now we start up to work at home and a few days at the office. Hybrid working. I enjoyed being on a train again, seeing the landscape, so familiar but so pleasingly fresh and new to my eyes, passing by. And yes, of course you meet a signpost on a photo.

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At the Heart

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – August 2021

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Gull Over Wire

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – August 2021

This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge (#163) is ‘keep walking’.

This is the Klinkenberger Plas, a favorite for a short walk.

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Here’s looking at you kid

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – August 2021

This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge (#163) is ‘keep walking’.

This is the Klinkenberger Plas, a favorite for a short walk.

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Boating

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – August 2021

This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge (#162) is ‘all about the light’.

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Where Cows Once Grazed

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – August 2021

This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge (#162) is ‘all about the light’.

This artificial lake used to be meadow. The lake was created by dredging sand, that was needed for roads, new build areas and a railway line. And now it is a recreational area, Klinkenberger Plas.

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Mirror

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – August 2021

This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge (#162) is ‘all about the light’.

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This will pass

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – August 2021

This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge (#162) is ‘all about the light’. This Summer is what it is, not the best one we had. Grey, cloudy, rain, and from time to time some sun in between.

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Sky Blue

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – August 2021

This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge (#162) is ‘all about the light’. Maybe not a photo you would expcect when it is about ‘light’. But it is. I always love reading quotes from people on blogs, but I am too lazy to look up this one. Someone said: photography is painting with light. Which is true basically, glass, metal or later film was made to be sensitive to light to store images. Sensors do the same, but we are not aware of that process. Just the result.
Last weeks I was looking at the sky more and more because a friend (I call him a friend even though I have not yet him personally for our first beer) Andy Townend ‘shoots a sky a day’ on his Facebook and IG account. A sky with clouds is a painting in light. I long to see blue skies, it is too wet and grey this Summer.

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Rain

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – August 2021

We did not have a lot of Summer yet, grey and wet, cold weather so far.

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Thistles

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – August 2021

Just around the corner there is a field where flowers are grown for commercial sales.

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