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Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version
Posts tagged ‘Nikon’
Wells next the Sea
This week Lens Artists Photography Challenge #191 is ‘Curves’. A little village in Norfolk, Wells next the Sea. From the dock the view on the low tide coastline was amazing: boats, gulls, water, sun and clouds. It felt like a photographer heaven where there is too much to shoot in a short time
Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version
Swan
This week Lens Artists Photography Challenge #191 is ‘Curves’.
Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version
Mad Man Moon
This week Lens Artists Photography Challenge #191 is ‘Curves’.
Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version
Daffodil
Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version
Spring
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Green Leaves
This week lens artists photo challenge is ‘that special place’. The time when the trees start to grow out again, Spring is in full swing and it gets warmer.
Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version
Winter Water
This week lens artists photo challenge is ‘that special place‘. The empty branches of a tree in Winter. During this pandemic I realized that the immediate outside of my house is an inspiration for photos. During the seasons and days it is always nice to look out and sometimes catch a nice view. Looking back over the years I realize that I have always been intrigued by little details near the places where I lived. Making these places special in a certain way.
Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version
Au clair de la lune
This week lens artists photo challenge is ‘that special place‘. The moon is a big inspiration for stories and songs. The Dark Side of the Moon is a brilliant album by Pink Floyd, Mad man Moon on Trick of the Tail by Genesis, R.E.M.’s Man on the moon, Moon over Bourbon Street by Sting are some of them. And of course a French folk song ‘Au clair de la lune’. And the moon has impact on our lives on this planet: the moon causes tides on seas, and apparently has impact on the menstrual cycle.
Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version
Musée Carré d’Art 1997
This week lens artists photo challenge is ‘that special place’. In this photo it refers to the moment of the photo. I was lying on the floor figuring out if the reflections of the Musée Carré d’Art could build up to some composition. Then, a young girls came into the frame, and I just snapped.
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.
Shot with Nikon F90 on Kodak TriX, scanned from film and edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version
Winter Light
The sun through bare trees on a Winter’s day with fog.
Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version
Arles 1997
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.
Shot with Nikon F90 on Kodak TriX, scanned from film and edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version
Den Bosch
This weeks challenge #187 is ‘water’.
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.
Shot with Nikon F90 on Kodak TriX, scanned from film and edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version
Texel Windmill
This weeks challenge #187 is ‘water’. Texel one of the West Frisian Island in the Wadden Sea.
Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version
Texel Landscape
This weeks challenge #187 is ‘water’. Texel one of the West Frisian Island in the Wadden Sea.
Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version
Reeuwijkse Plassen
This weeks challenge #187 is ‘water’. The Reeuwijkse Plassen is a lake area in the West of The Netherlands.
Shot with Nikon D7000, edited using Snapseed and Marksta.Click the picture for a bigger version
Kathmandu Street life 2004
This weeks challenge #186 is ‘Low Light’. Monochrome gives a soft grey tone from light to dark, aand nice details in the darker areas, which you can not see easily by eye.
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.
Shot with Nikon F90 on Kodak TriX, scanned from film and edited using Snapseed and Marksta
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Lhasa 2004 Bank of China
This weeks challenge #186 is ‘Low Light’. A guard of the Bank of China in Lhasa.
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 Fuji Film, scanned from negative and tweaked using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version
Murphy’s Law
This weeks challenge #186 is ‘Low Light’. Meet Murphy, the cutest dog ever. Even if the original is not that well, software helps us to make it look good and show his cheeky eyes.
Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version
Strandhill 2008 (available light)
This weeks challenge #186 is ‘Low Light’. Using the available light is primarily a question of creativity and secondarily the available technology. The advice when using a Kodak Instamatic (a very old point and shoot film camera in the 1970’s) was to keep the sun in the back. My advice is not to do that. When using film it was a calculated guess (the result came after developing of the film). Nowadays in digital times the result is immediately available on your camera, hence a source of more playing around and tweaking. Playing with light is playing with the source of light. This photo of Strandhill was taken on a ‘normal’ sunny day. The angle used makes it much more dramatic. This photo ‘See Sea’ gives an idea of the light as it was that day. The fog and dark sky added to the atmosphere (in the Archive Ireland you can find two more photo’s of this perspective taken at the same moment).
Strandhill in Sligo is a small town, looking out over the Atlantic Ocean to the West. Rising over it is Knocknarea with Queen Maeve.
shot with Nikon D70, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.
Saint Antonin-Noble-Val 2003
This weeks challenge #186 is ‘Low Light’. A little alley in a medieval village. The dark parts are as interesting as the light contrasts. St. Antonin-Noble-Val is a small village in France, with a scenic old town center.
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.
Shot with Nikon F90 on Kodak TriX, scanned from film and edited using Snapseed and Marksta
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Kathmandu 2004
This weeks challenge #186 is ‘Low Light’. In black and white light is key for tones in the picture. It needs body (black) but soft greys give it atmosphere. Here I used the darker tones for the main objects of the photo, the couple playing cards, while having a drink and a bite. But all these signs in the background about what to do in Kathmandu add to the atmosphere of the photo.
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.
Shot with Nikon F90 on Kodak TriX, scanned from film and edited using Snapseed and Marksta
Click the picture for a bigger version.
Gyantse 2004: Stupa of Universal Compassion
The Great Stupa of Universal Compassion in Gyantse.
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 Fuji Film, scanned from negative and tweaked using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.
Valley
Kathmandu Valley, Nepal.
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 Fuji Film, scanned from negative and tweaked using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.
Main Street
Panauti Nepal, Main Street.
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.
Shot with Nikon F90 on Kodak TriX, scanned from film and edited using Snapseed and Marksta
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Bridge
This weeks challenge #185 is ‘change’. Kodari on the border of Tibet and Nepal. Change means you have to cross bridges, but before you can do that, you have to create a bridge first.
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.
Shot with Nikon F90 on Kodak TriX, scanned from film and edited using Snapseed and Marksta
Click the picture for a bigger version.
Kathmandu Street 2004
This weeks challenge #185 is ‘change’. An old town with new technology. And most of all: signs.
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.
Shot with Nikon F90 on Kodak TriX, scanned from film and edited using Snapseed and Marksta
Click the picture for a bigger version.
High Altitude Family Portrait Tibet 2004
Travel has taught me to be bold and kind to try and make contact and produce the photos you really want. But sometimes you have to pay money as well. A family portrait on high altitude (5000 meters) in the Himalay on Karo La. Part of a family that lived on the pass, with a yak, a goat and dogs. This week’s theme for the Lens Artists Photo Challenge #184 is ‘Travel has taught me’.
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.
Shot with Nikon F90 on Kodak TriX, scanned from film and edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version
Street Portrait Gyantse 2004
Travel has taught me to be bold and kind to try and make contact and produce the photos you really want. A street scene in Gyantse Tibet. This week’s theme for the Lens Artists Photo Challenge #184 is ‘Travel has taught me’.
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.
Shot with Nikon F90 on Kodak TriX, scanned from film and edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version
Red Stone Window
The weekly LAPC (Lens Artists Photo Challenge) #183 is ‘memorable events’. One of the ‘themes’ I always look for is ‘windows’; all kinds of windows, showing different styles of houses, culture and local weather.
shot with Nikon D70, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version
Rusty Window
The weekly LAPC (Lens Artists Photo Challenge) #183 is ‘memorable events’. One of the ‘themes’ I always look for is ‘windows’; all kinds of windows, showing different styles of houses, culture and local weather. This is Cordes sur Ciel in the south of France. As all photos on travel, they keep memories alive.
shot with Nikon D70, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger versio
Wall
The weekly LAPC (Lens Artists Photo Challenge) #183 is ‘memorable events’. One of the ‘themes’ I always look for is ‘windows’; all kinds of windows, showing different styles of houses, culture and local weather.
shot with Nikon D70, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version
Open Window
The weekly LAPC (Lens Artists Photo Challenge) #183 is ‘memorable events’. One of the ‘themes’ I always look for is ‘windows’; all kinds of windows, showing different styles of houses, culture and local weather. This is Cordes sur Ciel in the south of France. As all photos on travel, they keep memories alive.
shot with Nikon D70, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version
Golden Hour
The weekly LAPC (Lens Artists Photo Challenge) #182 is ‘interesting objects’. Golden hour on Lesbos.
shot with Nikon D70, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version
Sunset
The weekly LAPC (Lens Artists Photo Challenge) #182 is ‘interesting objects’. One of the most shot objects must be the sunset.
shot with Nikon D70, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version
Achilles and the tortoise
The weekly LAPC (Lens Artists Photo Challenge) #182 is ‘interesting objects’. Zeno of Elea is famous for a set of paradoxes. One of them is the paradox of Achilles and the tortoise.
In the paradox of Achilles and the tortoise, Achilles is in a footrace with the tortoise. Achilles allows the tortoise a head start of 100 meters, for example. Suppose that each racer starts running at some constant speed, one faster than the other. After some finite time, Achilles will have run 100 meters, bringing him to the tortoise’s starting point. During this time, the tortoise has run a much shorter distance, say 2 meters. It will then take Achilles some further time to run that distance, by which time the tortoise will have advanced farther; and then more time still to reach this third point, while the tortoise moves ahead. Thus, whenever Achilles arrives somewhere the tortoise has been, he still has some distance to go before he can even reach the tortoise.
shot with Nikon D70, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version
Sunset
The weekly LAPC (Lens Artists Photo Challenge) #182 is ‘interesting objects’. One of the most shot objects must be the sunset.
shot with Nikon D70, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version
Roll Over
The weekly LAPC (Lens Artists Photo Challenge) #182 is ‘interesting objects’.
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12.10
The weekly LAPC (Lens Artists Photo Challenge) #182 is ‘interesting objects’. This is the front of the city hall of Caylus. The clock and the shutters caught my attention, together with the deep blue sky.
shot with Nikon D70, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version
Golden Sunset
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Mobile
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Le Marais
Having a drink.
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La Défense
La Défense seen from the Arc de Triomphe.
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Pont de Normandie
Pont de Normandie is a beautiful bridge over the river Seine between Le Havre and Honfleur. It towers over you as you approach it. The first time I passed it I was in admiration and also in awe.
This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #181 is double dipping: send in a photo that is related to another creative challenge on WordPress. This photo is a response to the monthly Thursday special of Lost in Translation. A beautiful blog with great creative photography. Each month one can enter photo’s portraying words: in December 2021 Introspective, Anticipating, Befriending, Choices, Wish.
This photo describes anticipation and choices. If you choose to cross a bridge like this, what will it be like?
shot with Nikon D70, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version
Street Musician
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Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa
Mona Lisa is one of the most famous and genius works of art in the world. I was lucky to view it for the first time when the Louvre was not modernized. On a Monday morning in February 1984 me and a friend were the only persons in the room to admire her mysterious smile. In 2008 I saw her again from a distance, in a sea of pressing people, holding up phones and camera’s to get a glimpse of her. I have not been there since, but I can imagine what it must look like on a normal day before the pandemic. A wave of smartphones will be raised towards her, in a never ending stream of people on visiting times of the Louvre. Apparently 80% of the visitors of the Louvre come to see her.
I read in an article that at present people seek personal attention in combination with important objects and/or moments. A selfie is the instrument to gain that attention on Instagram or Twitter or Facebook or Tiktok. Mona Lisa/Lisa Gherardini never wanted that attention, a brilliant artist painted her portrait. And the rest is history. She must feel lonely now, no one is coming to see her. Or is she finally getting her well deserved rest.
shot with Nikon D70, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version
My First WordPress Photo Publication
January 2008 I joined WordPress. This is the first photo I published on WordPress. A taverna in a hamlet in Greece. Quite obvious what struck me in this picture: all men, all apparently in thoughts. What is going on?
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Portal
Bayeux is an old village in Normandy France. Home of the Bayeux Tapestry. Here the entrance to the cathedral.
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Mont Saint Michel
Le Mont Saint Michel is an old village on a rock in a bay on the west of France in Brittany. It is positioned in between Normandy and Brittany, and is famous for its abbey.
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Bubbles for 2022: Happy New Year
Wishing you all a wonderful, happy, healthy and inspirational new year. I hope we are able to travel more, be near to loved ones and friends and enjoy the world and our communities in more harmony together.
Shot with Nikon D7000, edited using Snapseed and Marksta.Click the picture for a bigger version
What's (in) the Picture? 