Autumn Sunrise Road
Sunrise on an Autumn morning, from a car (not driving).
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Posts tagged ‘Leiden’
Red Mill
Sunrise on an Autumn morning, from a car (not driving).
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Autumn Atmosphere
The same location, two photos.
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Connected
On the platform waiting for a connection being connected by mobile phone.
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Over the bridges
A more detailed view of the photo I published yesterday of Leiden. Leiden used to be famous for fabrics, and canals provided the infrastructure for the logistics. Some of the canals were filled up in the second half of the 20th century. However, there are debates about opening a few of them again. These discussions focus on sustainability and environmental quality.
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City of Rembrandt
A view on the city where Rembrandt van Rijn was born, Leiden. It was the home where he grew up. There he started his now famous career as a painter. Later, he moved to Amsterdam.
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #366 is ‘City Mouse/Country Mouse’. I am not familiar with the story. But as the brief puts it ‘there is no place like home’. Home is where the heart is.
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Old Front
Detail from a front in the Breestraat in Leiden. In den vergulden Turk used to be a restaurant. It moved decades ago to a different spot in town. It then changed its name to Wienerwald. The top of the original front is still there, and recently brought back to its old splendor.
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On The Corner
A detail of a front in the Breestraat in Leiden with the tower of the townhall.
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Red Yellow
Red and yellow fronts of houses in the Breestraat in Leiden.
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Sunny Street: Breestraat Leiden
The Breestraat in Leiden with the townhall.
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Dessert
The delicious ending of a wonderful dinner.
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Exploring Leiden’s Scenic Canals: A Summer Evening
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #359 is ‘Tools of Photo Compositions: Lines, Colors and Patterns’.
A sunset over the Galgenwater in Leiden. A warm Summer night, with lots of boats cruising the canals. In the background the replica of the windmill of Rembrandt van Rijn’s father.
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Water Play
The iPhone 15 Pro Max is a wonderful clever piece of photographic technology. It is the ideal snap instrument, that is always in my pocket. The quality of the images is improved immensely over the years. And to be honest, I shoot most of my photos with it nowadays. Just because I always have my phone with me. What I still do not like is the quality of images when you use the zoom. This shot is on full zoom and the details disappear. Unfortunately I was not able to move closer at that moment. At these moments I wish I had my Nikon Zf at hand, with a nice long lens.
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Leiden Breestraat
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Leiden Breestraat
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De Valk
Windmill De Valk is one of few left in the city. It is a museum, but since 2000 is it being used for milling again.
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Leiden seen in passing by: Tree obscuring monument
The Netherlands, Leiden – October 2024
A tree obscures the Flowermill (Meelfabriek) is an old industrial monument as seen from a passing car while not driving.
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Leiden seen passing by: Monumental New Life
The Netherlands, Leiden – October 2024
The Flowermill (Meelfabriek) is an old industrial monument being converted into hotels and apartments. As seen from a passing car while not driving.
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Leiden seen passing by : Zijlpoort
The Zijlpoort in Leiden seen from a passing car while not driving.
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Windmill De Valk in Leiden, Netherlands – A Living Museum Since 2000
Windmill De Valk is one of few left in the city. It is a museum, but since 2000 is it being used for milling again.
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Exploring Dutch Tourist Attractions: A Photo Gallery
Leann Cole suggested ‘tourist attractions, near and far’ as LAPC’s 307. My motivation for going to places changed in my life time. From ‘active’ holidays (including climbing some big mountains by bycicle) to complete leisure (eg seeing the Greek Isles with lots of lazy moments). And in between the travels to dig into the culture and essence of a place on earth, to learn and experience it. But wherever I went as a ‘photographer’ I tried to capture where I was. To be stunned by what is just there in front of you, the unexpected. And yes, the times I did visit an ‘iconic attraction’ I tried to find my own way of framing it, trying to keep away form the cliches that are so widely known. For this challenge I dig into my blogs archive, all the photos are here published already.
Over the years I learned to value and appreciate my own way of looking, being surprised by my own views of what I saw and how I saw it. To appreciate simple things of beauty that stuck out or the composition of objects. If you travel far, you are only there for a moment, if you stay close to home you have access all of the time. But being close to home the challenge is bigger to stay open, to see what is there, to not take it for granted.
Today is the ‘near’ version. So close to where I live, but for tourists reasons to travel. I just browsed and picked out some themes that may strike recognition: flowers, flower parade, Rotterdam and its architecture and harbour, Leiden (my alma mater and birthplace of Rembrandt), windmills, flat lands, watermanagement (polder, canals) and the beach. All of them so near and familiar.
I hope you do enjoy the gallery, and if you want to plunge deep into more of it I invite you to search by category finding Amsterdam, Den Haag, more flower fields and flowers and who knows Dutch clogs?
Afraid of light
The Netherlands, Leiden – May 2024
Junction Ommevoort A44-N434.
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Soon to open
Junction Ommevoort A44-N434.
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Leiden Central Station
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Old Wall
An old commercial estate on the Haarlemmerweg in Leiden.
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Leiden
A few weeks ago I published a photo from the same point of view, but with basking sunny weather. This one is showing an overcast day, in the middle of the week. The previous one was shot with iPhone13promax, and this one is iPhone15promax. Spot the differences :-).
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Bicycles Breestraat
Bycycles passing the townhall of Leiden at the Breestraat, for Lens Artists Photo Challenge #292 ‘People here, there and everywhere’.
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Leiden Townhall
The townhall of Leiden.
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First Terrace Sun
The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #291 is ‘Cityscapes’. The first sun got people out to enjoy the rays while having a drink on the junction of the Oude Rijn and Nieuwe Rijn in Leiden. On the right De Waag, the weighing house.
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Waiting
The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #289 is ‘tools of photo composition’. Waiting for a train, enjoying the sun.
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En passent
Leiden on a rainy Winter day for this week’s Lens Artists Challenge #286 ‘Weather’.
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Oegstgeesterweg
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Autumn Paths
Autumn is coloring the trees in the local park Leidse Hout.
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Sky High
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Autum
Autumn is coloring the first trees in the local park Leidsche Hout.
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White Glove
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Tears in sunlight
The iPhone improved amazingly for taking photos over the years, but long shots are still a way off what I would like.
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Boat Ride at Dusk
A sunset over the Galgewater in Leiden.
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Lakenhal Leiden
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Retro Front
Lens Artists Photo Challenge #266 is ‘Time’. The last time I will post about ‘time’.
At the Breestraat in Leiden, one can see an example of a shop front that has been brought back to its old look from years ago. They call it retro. Beautiful.
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GnT o’clock
Lens Artists Photo Challenge #266 is ‘Time’. It takes a lot of time to tell everything about the concept of time.
One of the most heard excuses for having a drink is connected to time. ‘I never drink before 10 pm, but somewhere in the world it is 10 pm’. Cheers.
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Canal Parade Pride Leiden
Lens Artists Photo Challenge #266 is ‘Time’. It takes a lot of time to tell everything about the concept of time. One aspect of time is change. In time society changes in most cases. These changes can be political (eg equal voting rights), economical (eg equal pay for men and women) or social (eg inclusion). But of course there are more emancipatory changes possible and needed.
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Rembrandt’s View
Lens Artists Photo Challenge #266 is ‘Time’. It takes a lot of time to tell everything about the concept of time.
One of the best musical stories about time is by Pink Floyd: Time of the brilliant timeless album The Dark Side of the Moon, that was released 50 years ago.
This week I try to show aspects that come to my mind. The first is history at present. Places where important moments in time happened. Which you observe from the present.
This is a recent sunset over the Galgewater in Leiden. ‘Where? Why? Of what importance?’ I hear you say. At the bridge on the left side of the frame Rembrandt van Rijn was born. A copy of the mill his father used for his business is on the right. The only thing Rembrandt would have seen is the sunset, and the mills. All the buildings and boats etc are ‘after Rembrandt’.
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Leiden Breestraat
Lens Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #262 is ‘framing’. A view of the Breestraat in Leiden.
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Galapagos
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Rust Never Sleeps
The Netherlands, Leiden – June 2023
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Zijl
How much more Dutch can a landscape be? Flat, low horizon, water, boat and windmill. and Water Lillies as a substitute for tulips 😂. De Zijl near Leiden.
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Little Beach
De Zijl near Leiden.
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Hospital
The Lens Artists Photo Challenge #251 is ‘buildings and other structures’. This the Alrijne Hospital in Leiden. The wings form a beautiful shape with some organic trees and green under a contrasting sky.
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Mill at Night
A bit of a ‘a bit of this, a bit of that on a junk pile shot’. Molen De Valk in Leiden, the entrance of an underground parking, a lamplight and a building crane. Still there is some magic in it.
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What's (in) the Picture? 