Tulips
The Lens Artists Photo Challenge this week is #194: bokeh. Spring is the time for bulb flowers: daffodils, tulips, hyacinths. The garden is popping with tulips right now. And in two weeks the flower parade will take place after two years of absence. Looking forward to it, especially the smell of the flowers.
Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version
Standing Out
The Lens Artists Photo Challenge this week is #194: bokeh. Spring is the time for bulb flowers: daffodils, tulips, hyacinths. The garden is popping with tulips right now. And in two weeks the flower parade will take place after two years of absence. Looking forward to it, especially the smell of the flowers.
Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version
Back to the Office
Hybrid working is part of the new normal: so some days at home, some at the office. It is nice to see Den Haag again.
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Steady as it goes
A sunrise like this on a Spring morning over the water. A gift on any day but if it is your birthday? Lens Artists Photo Challlenge #193 is ‘they say it is your birthday’.
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Snow
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Snow Spring
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Tears of a Tulip
A good bunch of flowers is always a nice present, on any occasion. Lens Artists Photo Challlenge #193 is ‘they say it is your birthday’.
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Aspact
The Mall of the Netherlands, if you are looking for presents, you probably will find some here.
Lens Artists Photo Challlenge #193 is ‘they say it is your birthday’.
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Cyclamen
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Window Rose
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Out of the dark
This week Lens Artists Photography Challenge #192 is ‘Earth Story’.
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Purple
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Take Off
This week Lens Artists Photography Challenge #192 is ‘Earth Story’.
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First Tulip
This week Lens Artists Photography Challenge #192 is ‘Earth Story’.
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Sunset through a dirty car window
This week Lens Artists Photography Challenge #192 is ‘Earth Story’.
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When the final curtain falls
Some left overs from Tuesday 22nd of March. If Genesis would not have three postponed gigs in the O2 in London, this would probably have been their last concert. Again, thanks for the memories!
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Big Blue Bird
Ready for taking off into the blue skies.
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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
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The Last (?) Domino – Genesis
After fifty years Genesis is touring the world for what seems a final time in The last (?) Domino Tour. I admit I was a bit skeptic, having heard the you-tube video’s of the shows in 2021, given Phil Collins’ health issues. Seeing him enter the stage slowly, sitting down was emotional, and a bit scary. But when he sat he was there, eyes firing, witty (‘now we only have old songs’ (referring to his anger at a Dutch audience in 1981 in Leiden), playing the audience as he used to do. And singing his heart out. No longer able to play the drums. He is fragile, but what a persona on stage, his voice beautifully supported by two backing singers, and his son Nic Collins on drums. What a talent. The other oldies Mike Rutherford (hopping around as always) and Tony Banks (stoic and focused), with Daryl Stuermer blowing the roof of the Ziggo Dome. At times it was emotional, the music was a bright mix of their prog and pop period, with standards (I know what I like) and classics (Cinema Show, In that Quiet Earth/Afterglow, Firth of Fifth). Standing the age of time, showing an impressive body of work over the years. It was a beautiful and moving farewell, that ended with The Carpet Crawlers: you got to get in to get out. Chills and goose bombs, perfect sound and a band at work smoothly, after a break of 15 years. Thanks for the memories guys.
And it was a nice time to use my iPhone 13 Pro Max.
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Bleak Morning
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Swan
This week Lens Artists Photography Challenge #191 is ‘Curves’.
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Mad Man Moon
This week Lens Artists Photography Challenge #191 is ‘Curves’.
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Sun is up
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Daffodil
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Spring
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Close
Covid is still among us, but slowly we start up to the new normal. That means going back to the office some days a week, hence being in a train again. Here a view out of the window.
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Daffodils
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Far
Covid is still among us, but slowly we start up to the new normal. That means going back to the office some days a week, hence being in a train again. Here a view out of the window.
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Grass
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Orange
A picture that does not fit in a category has to fit in ‘odds and ends’, lens artists photo challenge #189.
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Grass
A picture that does not fit in a category has to fit in ‘odds and ends’, lens artists photo challenge #189.
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In the Window
A picture that does not fit in a category has to fit in ‘odds and ends’, lens artists photo challenge #189.
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Ripples
A picture that does not fit in a category has to fit in ‘odds and ends’, lens artists photo challenge #189.
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Push
A picture that does not fit in a category has to fit in ‘odds and ends’, lens artists photo challenge #189.
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Swans
A picture that does not fit in a category has to fit in ‘odds and ends’, lens artists photo challenge #189. Though this one could have been in ‘cleaning’, ‘swans in habitat’, ‘grooming for professionals’ etc.
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The Roof
A picture that does not fit in a category has to fit in ‘odds and ends’, lens artists photo challenge #189.
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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.
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Systematic
This week lens artists photo challenge is ‘that special place’. The beach is a place to relax, let go and create space and a fresh head. And you can see more than water and beach at times. This one is also an entry for Paula’s pick a word competition on ‘Lost in Translatation’. It looks like the surfers are in chaos, but actually they use the water and wind systematic.
shot with Nikon D70, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger 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.
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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.
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Wind Breaker
This week lens artists photo challenge is ‘that special place’. The beach is a place to relax, let go and create space and a fresh head. And you can see more than water and beach at times. This one is also an entry for Paula’s pick a word competition on ‘Lost in Translatation’. Not completely straight, but straight.
shot with Nikon D70, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger 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.
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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
Texel Windmill
This weeks challenge #187 is ‘water’. Texel one of the West Frisian Island in the Wadden Sea.
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Texel Landscape
This weeks challenge #187 is ‘water’. Texel one of the West Frisian Island in the Wadden Sea.
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Galgenwater Leiden
This weeks challenge #187 is ‘water’. The Galgenwater in Leiden. In the background a replica a of the mill that was used by the father of Rembrandt van Rijn, who was born to the left of the bridge in the distance in 1606, 410 years before this photo.
shot with iPhone 6s plus using Hueless, edited using Snapseed and Marksta, click the picture for a larger version
Reeuwijkse Plassen
This weeks challenge #187 is ‘water’. The Reeuwijkse Plassen is a lake area in the West of The Netherlands.
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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
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