Autumn Announcing
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Posts tagged ‘Netherlands’
Hosta
Autumn is approaching, the rain and gray skies are more and more the new normal. Luckily there is the occasional sun to enjoy, and the beautiful coloring of plants and trees.
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Autumn Announced
Autumn is approaching, the rain and grey skies are more and more the new normal. Luckily there is the occasional sun to enjoy.
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Bird Under A Wire
A small bird in a big Amsterdam Central Station. The things you see while waiting for a train.
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Petals
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Connected
On the platform waiting for a connection being connected by mobile phone.
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Writing In The Sky
Sometimes the clouds turn into a abstract symbol.
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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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After Rain
The Netherlands, Scheveningen – September 2025
After rain comes sun at Scheveningen beach.
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Rainy Beach
A spell of heavy rain, on the border of Summer and Autumn at Scheveningen beach.
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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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Agapanthus
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Blue Hydrangea
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Outstanding
In the front garden, next to the Japanese Anemone, there is a Knautia Arvensis. It is more easily known as Field Scabiosa.
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Star
In the front garden, next to the Japanese Anemone, there is a Knautia Arvensis. It is more easily known as Field Scabiosa. It is literally a star.
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Japanese Anemone
To close the series of the Japanese Anemone, a last one in color.
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Monochrome Moods
I like monochrome photography for many reasons. One of them is the ability to play with the mood in the photo. Just by adjusting the aperture time or the opening of the lens, the same light delivers a different mood. This one and the photo I published yesterday, were shot on the same day.
Lens- Artist Challenge #364 is ‘Quiet Moment’. Close ups of natural beauty are a wonderful instrument to just be quiet, enjoying the view. And to realize all is connected.
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Delicate
Lens- Artist Challenge #364 is ‘Quiet Moment’. Close ups of natural beauty are a wonderful instrument to just be quiet, enjoying the view. And to realize all is connected.
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Outside
Lens- Artist Challenge #364 is ‘Quiet Moment’. A bicycle ride to clear the head. Seeing the bulbs for Spring being planted.
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Growing Up
The aim is to get up into the light and find your place among the rest of the garden.
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Japanese Anemone
The Japanese Anemone in the front garden at close look.
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In Hindsight
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Final Approach
Incoming flights can be annoying, on the other hand they offer a dynamic photo subject!
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Polder
Meet the edge of the polder, the dyke.
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Levels Day
During the Summer we see much more incoming traffic to Schiphol Amsterdam. Quite annoying actually, every minute a plane coming in. During day time they approach just over 600 meters, but in the evening they fly in from 1000 meters. When the wind turns West again in Autumn it will be over. However, who enjoys sitting in his garden in Autumn rain?
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Morning Rain
The morning sun reflecting the drops of rain that the night left behind.
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Catch if you can
A long dry Summer with a garden begging for rain.
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On Water
On a warm Summer’s day, there are traffic jams on the canal.
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Hovering
A plant in the front garden offers months of beauty in the sunlight of the morning sun. Using the portrait mode of the iPhone results in ‘hovering’ effects of parts of the plant that seem now unattached.
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Front Garden Beauty
A plant in the front garden offers months of beauty in the sunlight of the morning sun.
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Hosta
The Netherlands, Lisse – August 2025
The garden of castle De Keukenhof.
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Field of Dahlia 2
The Netherlands, Voorhout – August 2025
In Spring this field produces either hyacinths, daffodils or tulips. In Summer this year it produces Dahlia.
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Castle Gardens
The garden of castle De Keukenhof.
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Keukenhof Castle’s Garden
The Netherlands, Lisse – August 2025
In Summer the garden of castle De Keukenhof is filled with beautiful Dahlia’s.
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(The) Doors Revisited
This week’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #361 is ‘Doors revisited’. That theme was also the brief for LAPC #20. A door is a pass way to another space behind it. That space can be something we know already. Or something we like to imagine to see there when we go through. And in books you can end up in another world. In this post a few doors I met in my life. One I used for a long time, most I just passed by or passed through on holidays.
The word ‘doors’ for me is also linked to the band The Doors. The name of the band came from a book by Aldous Huxley, The doors of perception. And Huxley took it from William Blake, who used it as a metaphor:
“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro’ narrow chinks of his cavern . Doors lead you to another side or space, break on through to the other side.”
‘Break on through to the other side’ became the title of a Doors’ song.
So a lot can be said about doors. Luckily, we still have the photos. Here are a few from my conscious memory.
This is the front door to the house I was born and lived in for 25 years. The photo is shot on Ilford XP with a Pentax K1000.
This door in Caylus is ready to be knocked. Shot on Nikon D70.
I looked through my archive. It struck me that lots of the doors I saw there are doors of small or bigger churches. This one is on Karpathos. Shot on Nikon D70.
Another church door on Karpathos, shot on Kodak TriX with Nikon F90.
A chapel door in Lesbos, also shot on Nikon D70.
Field of Dahlia
In Spring this field produces either hyacinths, daffodils or tulips. In Summer this year it produces Dahlia.
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Night Fall
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Leaves
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Choices And Preferences 3 (Flowers)
I have a fondness for black and white aka monochrome. That grew on me. Mono was cheaper 50 years ago and more ‘easy’ to handle in a dark room. Monochrome gives something extra at times. The sphere, the grain. And over all these years I learned to see objects in monochrome, visualizing what something looks like in grays.
When I bought my first Nikon digital camera (the D70), I naively asked ‘where is the monochrome setting?’. It was not there. Shooting was color only. If I wanted mono I had to create it myself afterwards in Lightroom, Photoshop or an app like Snapseed. But lucky for me, on the iPhone and on the recent Nikon Zf, there are monochrome settings. To be honest, that was one of the reasons to buy a Zf. So now I have a choice: choose a mono or color setting, or turn color afterward turn it into mono.
I know the taste of my ‘audience’ is different than mine. In three days I like to find out more about your taste. What do you fancy more: a photo in mono or in color?
This third and last one is about flowers, waiting for the recycle bin. The photo was shot in color.
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Choices And Preferences 2 (Sky)
I have a fondness for black and white aka monochrome. That grew on me. Mono was cheaper 50 years ago and more ‘easy’ to handle in a dark room. Monochrome gives something extra at times. The sphere, the grain. And over all these years I learned to see objects in monochrome, visualizing what something looks like in grays.
When I bought my first Nikon digital camera (the D70), I naively asked ‘where is the monochrome setting?’. It was not there. Shooting was color only. If I wanted mono I had to create it myself afterwards in Lightroom, Photoshop or an app like Snapseed. But lucky for me, on the iPhone and on the recent Nikon Zf, there are monochrome settings. To be honest, that was one of the reasons to buy a Zf. So now I have a choice: choose a mono or color setting, or turn color afterward turn it into mono.
I know the taste of my ‘audience’ is different than mine. In three days I like to find out more about your taste. What do you fancy more: a photo in mono or in color?
This second one is about sky. Always there, lots of it. In color it can be blue, white, gray, dark. In mono it delivers whites, grays and dark zones. In mono the image changes it seems. An abstract sky can turn into something mysterious. The photo was shot in color.
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Triple
And another update from the garden: the Magnolia is doing superb this year. Let’s hope the abundance of green in leaves will lead to an abundance of flowers next Spring.
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Growing Tomatoes and Cucumbers in Oegstgeest
This year we try to grow tomatoes and cucumbers in the garden.
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Stunning Sunset Over Oegstgeester Kanaal
And yes, another sunset. Well, they come around every day. This one is a golden gem.
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Dessert
The delicious ending of a wonderful dinner.
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Blue
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And Another Sunset Nudge
One can not take enough photos of sunsets.
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What's (in) the Picture? 