Over Looking
The weekly LAPC #312 is sense of scale’.
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Posts tagged ‘Oegstgeest’
Downside Up Upside Down
The weekly LAPC #312 is sense of scale’. When you look up to the sky for a while, it seems you are looking down from the sky to earth.
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The Enormous Scale of the Sky
The weekly LAPC #312 is sense of scale’. When you look up to the sky and see a plane coming over, one is never that much aware of the enormous scale of the space over our heads.
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Balance
Sunset over a rooftop.
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Agapanthus
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – July 2024
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Purple
We are lucky to have lots of cheap supply of plants for the garden in garden centers in The Netherlands.
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Experience Inspiration at Oegstgeest Cut Flowers Field, July 2024
Just around the corner is a field where cut flowers are grown for sale. It is a small beautiful plot with different stages of different flower types. And a good spot for inspiration.
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Asteroid B 612: Capturing the Power of the Moon
The Moon just stands there it seems, and mostly I do not pay too much attention to it. The power of the moon is enormous though, as it influences the level of the seas on Earth. At odd moments in the evening or morning I grab my camera when I spot the moon, I just can’t resist. This is one of those times, the haziness reminds me of the sand in the Sahara, the setting of Le Petit Prince, a beautiful book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Could this moon be asteroid B 612? The power of imagination, see what your eyes can not see.
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Moving Up
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Orchid
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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?
Castle ‘Oud Poelgeest’
Castle Oud Poelgeest.
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Over The Water
Over grown canal and reflections, the division between the park of Oud Poelgeest and the local ice ring.
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Stunning May and June 2024 Rose Garden in Oegstgeest, Netherlands
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May and June 2024
A rose is a rose is a rose, someone wrote that a long time ago. But it is still true, each rose is unique. So much symbolism and sweetness in a picture. The garden offers them in abundance this year.
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Lavender
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Tranquil Oegstgeest Canal Scene in June 2024
The grass on this side of the little canal is the same as on the other side of the canal, the light is just different.
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Co-existence in Habitat: A Heron’s View of Oegstgeest, Netherlands
LAPC #306 is ‘habitat’. As humans we share the earth with lots of natural life, we share habitats (the human home, the natural ecosystem), we co-exist. Our relation with earth is not balanced. It tilts favorably towards the human interest, disrupting the natural habitats of many. If we as humans do not change our relationship with earth, then humanity kills itself, leaving a planet to recover from being abused. Not survival of the fittest, but termination of the dumbest.
A Heron, sitting on a lamppost, overlooking the articificial canal, as a cyclist uses a cycling path in the background.
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Skuumkoppen
A popular beer from an original small independent brewery on the island of Texel is called ‘Skuumkoppen’. It refers to the white on breaking waves.
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Sea of Clouds
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Moon
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Sunset
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2024
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Wisteria
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2024
The Lens Artist Photo Challenge #301 is ‘floral’. A red rose against the drop of Wysteria.
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Rose
The Lens Artist Photo Challenge #301 is ‘floral’. A red rose against the drop of Wysteria.
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Red Rose
The Lens Artist Photo Challenge #301 is ‘floral’. A red rose against the drop of Wysteria.
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That’s why they called it the blues
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Delicate
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Wisteria 2
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Sky with Tears
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Wisteria
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Cat in Grass
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Spring Pops Up
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2024
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Mad Man Moon
The Lens Artists Photo Challenge #297 is ‘music to my eyes’. The moon through insulated glass. The story of Mad Man Moon by Genesis.
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Roof Top
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2024
Lens Artists Photo Challenge #296 is ‘abstracts’.
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Greenfield
Lens Artists Photo Challenge #296 is ‘abstracts’.
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Garden
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Birches
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Sun Peek
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Sky
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Shepherd’s Delight
The reflection of the sunset in the sky and water, a beautiful display of colors towards the East.
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White Duck
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Counting Rotors
Normally I occasionally see air ambulances or police helicopters, but I assume these are not civilian helicopters.
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Spring Sunset Skies
Skies can be amazingly dramatic these days, sometimes aided by a whiff of Sahara sand in the mix of light and clouds.
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See See the Sun
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Napkins
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Drops
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Out of the Blue
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Easter
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Good Morning
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Liberation 1945
This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #292 is ‘People here, there and everywhere’.
I do not know who took this photo, I do not know the date. We assume it is just after World War 2, May 1945. And we assume my father took it. The photo lacks focus unfortunately, but that adds to the thrill of figuring out what is on it. Luckily we could ask the youngest sister of my father (my last aunt still alive); she thinks it is taken just after the war.
There is a parade on the street, observed by people; among them the sisters and brother of my father from the top window of my grandfather’s house (called Weltevreden) where my father lived. The point of view is from a window of the house where my mother lived, and where I would be born 14 years later.
The negative is quite poorly and damaged, but a sweep through Lightroom and Snapseed provided this old memory.
More Soft Rain
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What's (in) the Picture? 