The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #110 is ‘Creativity in a time of Covid’.
About the B4 retouch series:
I browsed my archive for pictures to publish. Some of them are partly retouched but most do have scratches, dust and stains.
Originally shot with Nikon F301 on Kodak TriX, scanned from negative and tweaked using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.
The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #110 is ‘Creativity in a time of Covid’.
Looking back to our history we have known barriers and borders, preventing us to do what we wanted, or keeping us in. The Berlin Wall in November 1989, just before it ‘fell’.
About the B4 retouch series:
I browsed my archive for pictures to publish. Some of them are partly retouched but most do have scratches, dust and stains.
Originally shot with Nikon F301 on Kodak TriX, scanned from negative and tweaked using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.
The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #110 is ‘Creativity in a time of Covid’.
Looking back in the archive for another challenge, I dug up some old images. This is Turkey, 1987. It must be Fuji film, and probably Nikon F301 with a long lens, but I am not sure.
About the B4 retouch series:
I browsed my archive for pictures to publish in – an originally – small series. That series caught on a bit more than I thought. All of them are not retouched yet. Scratches, dust and stains are not removed.
The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #110 is ‘Creativity in a time of Covid’.
Sometimes a sunset can give courage and hope.
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The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #110 is ‘Creativity in a time of Covid’.
In The Netherlands, lock down started in March this year. For me the biggest impact was the obligation to stay in or close around the house. I hate talking about ‘normal’ or the ‘new normal’ but all of a sudden I was not on my bicycle twice a day to the station to take the train to commute to work. And hence my ‘spontaneous inspiration’ diminished for taking photos on my iPhone. Luckily the garden was a real treat in colors, flowers, sun (we just exit the heatwave), and still is. The biggest ‘creativity’ was doing DIY in and around the house. The DIY shops thrived during the lock down, everybody got working on projects.
So, how creative am I during times of Covid? I am still the same person in looking at objects; the world I can physically see however is smaller. Lock down is lifted gradually, so my world is growing again. But this limitation led me to see much more detail and up close, and wonder about the smaller things in life that are important, which I took for granted or did not give attention before. Which helps me to be patient, and support people who keep us going forward (care staff, hospital staff, scientists and even the government and all others who keep the country going). Challenging, but not impossible. Balancing, experiencing the unknown.
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The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #109 is ‘Under the sun’.
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The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #109 is ‘Under the sun’.
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The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #109 is ‘Under the sun’.
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The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #109 is ‘Under the sun’.
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The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #109 is ‘Under the sun’.
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The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #109 is ‘Under the sun’. Even when it rains we are under the sun.
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The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #108 is ‘Sanctuary’.
The backyard is the sanctuary, being not too big but full with Agapanthus, who particular enjoy this Summer season. The flowers are a sanctuary for bees, buzzing over from the neighbor’s hives.
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The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #108 is ‘Sanctuary’.
Sometimes you have to go elsewhere to find a sanctuary. New horizons.
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The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #108 is ‘Sanctuary’.
As a kid I liked to look up at the clouds in the sky, dreaming away with the shapes. And sometimes had the feeling that the sky was not up there but down. Peter Gabriel wrote a beautiful song about it, Downside Up.
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The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #108 is ‘Sanctuary’.
A skipper, very focused on his motor.
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The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #108 is ‘Sanctuary’.
Returning home from a boat ride, into the sunset.
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The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #108 is ‘Sanctuary’.
Corona times give another dimension to life, and the need to take regular stay-cations, or do things differently. In this case working with my hand instead of working with my head. The backyard is the sanctuary, being not too big but full with flowers, among them roses. The flowers are a sanctuary for bees, buzzing over from the neighbor’s hives.
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The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #108 is ‘Sanctuary’.
I have not participated in the LAP for a few weeks due to DIY at home. Corona times give another dimension to life, and the need to take regular stay-cations, or do things differently. In this case working with my hand instead of working with my head. The backyard is the sanctuary, being not too big but full with Agapanthus, who particular enjoy this Summer season. The flowers are a sanctuary for bees, buzzing over from the neighbor’s hives.
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The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #105 is ‘Spring’.
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The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #104 is ‘Summer’.
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The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #104 is ‘Summer’.
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The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – June 2020
The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #104 is ‘Summer’.
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The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #104 is ‘Summer’.
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The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #104 is ‘Summer’.
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The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #104 is ‘Summer’.
Flowers and bee.
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The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #103 is ‘Surprise’.
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The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #103 is ‘Surprise’.
Framing a cloudy sunset I got a surpise of a gull flying by.
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The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #103 is ‘Surprise’.
A nice gin and tonic, a cold surprise on a warm day.
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The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #102 is ‘A Quiet Moment’.
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The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #102 is ‘A Quiet Moment’.
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The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #102 is ‘A Quiet Moment’.
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The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #102 is ‘A Quiet Moment’.
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The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #102 is ‘A Quiet Moment’.
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The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #102 is ‘A Quiet Moment’.
The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #102 is ‘A Quiet Moment’.
A baby toad sitting in the sun, in our backyard.
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The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #101 is ‘single flower’.
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The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #101 is ‘single flower’.
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The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #101 is ‘single flower’.
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The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #101 is ‘single flower’.
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The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #101 is ‘single flower’.
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The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #100 is ‘the long and winding road’.
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The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #100 is ‘the long and winding road’.
Walking on water is difficult, but if you are afraid to fall (and get wet) you will never learn.
The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #100 is ‘the long and winding road’.
First congratulations and big thanks to Tina, Ann- Christine, Amy and Patti, for starting this weekly challenge after the WordPress WPC stopped.
The present state of the world and us living on it is far from ideal. By acknowledging this and embrace it, we can start to take steps. Racism, global warming, privilege, hunger, economic greed, poverty all have to do with our behaviour as people. So we can change it. That is a long and winding road. And it will never be perfect or ideal.
When all you can see is dark, the heart sinks. But there is always light, powerful light. One little shimmer can spark change and lighten up our lives. Embrace sparks, encourage them to glow and burn.
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The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #99 is ‘old and new’.
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The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #99 is ‘old and new’.
A polder is a piece of land below the surrounding water level. It is artificial because it is created by man. Dykes are build to make it dry and keep the water out, and canals are made to pump water out, dumping it in canals that eventually bring it back to sea. In the background you see a dyke: behind the dyke is water of a lake. If the dyke was not there you would look at the lake :-). So this is old and new land.
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The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – June 2020
The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #99 is ‘old and new’.
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The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2020
The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #99 is ‘old and new’.
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The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2020
The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #99 is ‘old and new’.
During the Corona crisis, most air traffic came to a stop. The skies are blue, and occasionally a plan (mostly cargo) comes over.
Normally every minute a plan approaches Schiphol Amsterdam Airport 25 kilometres to the North. The old is no longer, this new is for the time being.
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The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #99 is ‘old and new’.
Bees are under thread of extinction worldwide. If we loose them our ecosystems will stop. The simple thing of a flower and a bee makes our world work.
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The Netherlands, Rijnsburg – May 2020
The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #98 is ‘delicate colours’.
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