The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #178 is You Choose. The palace of Westminster, long seen as the mother of parliaments and an example of a well functioning parliament, but in recent years showing a decline of parliamentary sovereignty to a more and more authoritarian executive. Shot from the London Eye as a view from an observer from a distance.
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The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #178 is You Choose. The only thing I chose for this blog was the subject and the photo. The choice to build this canal was made long ago, and one of the spin offs is Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.
Before the pandemic I used to cross this canal twice a day, and I took loads of photos of it, but just recently I found out about its history and historical purpose.
As most of you probably know the Dutch have a long relationship with water, and learned how water could be managed over the ages. About half of The Netherlands is below sea level; the question was and is how to keep it dry? Some say that God created the world but the Dutch created The Netherlands. In reality we manage water. In days of climate change that gets more complex. Not only the amount of water coming in by rivers and rain is growing, the soil of The Netherlands sinks as well.
In 1840 this canal was build. From 1848 the former lake the Haarlemmermeer was turned into the Haarlemmermeerpolder and this canal was used to dump the water of that lake into the North Sea. Schiphol (ship hell) was a spot in that former lake notorious for ship wrecks as the story goes.
Nowadays the canal takes out the water from the West of The Netherlands to the sea at Katwijk.
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The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #178 is You Choose. About choices in life. Some are easy if there is a lot to choose from.
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Theme #177 of Lens Artists Photo Challenge is celebrating.
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Theme #177 of Lens Artists Photo Challenge is celebrating.
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Theme #177 of Lens Artists Photo Challenge is celebrating. Float on the wind.
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Theme #177 of Lens Artists Photo Challenge is celebrating. Beauty.
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Theme #177 of Lens Artists Photo Challenge is celebrating. Beauty.
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Theme #177 of Lens Artists Photo Challenge is celebrating. A moment during the day, seeing the light of the sun split. A moment of presence and focus, being quiet for a moment. Thinking of Nicolas Cramer.
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The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #176 is One image/one story. That theme matches the subject of my photo blog: What’s (in) the picture? Finding stories. Photo’s tell stories. My story (what made me click my shutter), and the story of the spectator.
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The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #176 is One image/one story. That theme matches the subject of my photo blog: What’s (in) the picture? Finding stories. Photo’s tell stories. My story (what made me click my shutter), and the story of the spectator.
Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version
The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #176 is One image/one story. That theme matches the subject of my photo blog: What’s (in) the picture? Finding stories. Photo’s tell stories. My story (what made me click my shutter), and the story of the spectator.
Shot with iPhone 11 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version
The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #176 is One image/one story. That theme matches the subject of my photo blog: What’s (in) the picture? Finding stories. Photo’s tell stories. My story (what made me click my shutter), and the story of the spectator, as I wrote earlier.
shot with iPhone 6s plus using Hueless, edited using Snapseed and Marksta, click the picture for a larger version
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Dogs.
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Thinking back, and looking forward to Spring and Summer.
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A small short cut in Norfolk advised by TomTom delivers wonderful scenery.
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Christmas is coming. Some people can’t wait to set up their gardens with light figures. Here is one I would consider, if I would decorate the garden. For this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #175 Follow your bliss.
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Set your own course guided by your heart. For this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #175 Follow your bliss.
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For this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #174 Shapes and Designs.
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For this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #174 Shapes and Designs.
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The sky at sunrise in Harwich. For this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #174 Shapes and Designs.
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Pigs in a field, from a car. For this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #174 Shapes and Designs.
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Wild mushrooms. For this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #174 Shapes and Designs.
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Grass in the garden, waving in the wind. For this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #174 Shapes and Designs.
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A roof of a shopping mall. The theme for this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #173 is interesting architecture.
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The concrete factory of Dyckerhoff Basal in Den Haag. The theme for this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #173 is interesting architecture.
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Schiedam, a small town under the smoke of Rotterdam, with its own iconic windmill. Just a little street in a little town, old and more modern mixed. The theme for this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #173 is interesting architecture.
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A fly over for bicycles (we do have lots of bicycle lanes in The Netherlands) in Zoetermeer, architecture as art. The theme for this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #173 is interesting architecture.
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Windmills on the horizon at Sheringham, Norfolk. Modern shapes of an iconic object. The theme for this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #173 is interesting architecture.
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The theme for this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #172 is a day of my week. The photo above was one of a series I took during a morning when I visited 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. So this week I publish some of the photo’s from that morning in September.
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The theme for this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #172 is a day of my week. The photo above was one of a series I took during a morning when I visited 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. So this week I publish some of the photo’s from that morning in September.
Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version
The theme for this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #172 is a day of my week. The photo above was one of a series I took during a morning when I visited 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. So this week I publish some of the photo’s from that morning in September.
Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version
The theme for this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #172 is a day of my week. The photo above was one of a series I took during a morning when I visited 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. So this week I publish some of the photo’s from that morning in September.
Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version
The theme for this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #172 is a day of my week. The photo above was one of a series I took during a morning when I visited 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. So this week I publish some of the photo’s from that morning in September.
Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version
The theme for this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #172 is a day of my week. The photo above was one of a series I took during a morning when I visited 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. So this week I publish some of the photo’s from that morning in September.
Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version
The theme for this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #172 is a day of my week. The photo above was one of a series I took during a morning when I visited 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. So this week I publish some of the photo’s from that morning in September.
Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version
The theme for this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #172 is a day of my week. The photo above was one of a series I took during a morning when I visited 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. So this week I publish some of the photo’s from that morning in September.
Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version
Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version
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Wells-next-the-Sea in Norfolk. One for lens artists weekly photo challenge #171: weird and wonderful.
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One for lens artists weekly photo challenge #171: weird and wonderful.
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One for lens artists weekly photo challenge #171: weird and wonderful. Waiting for No Time To Die.
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A view at Scheveningen from a rainy window, over looking the new covered bicycle park in front of the Central Station.
One for lens artists weekly photo challenge #171: weird and wonderful.
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The Orange Tree Inn in Thornham.
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The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #176 is One image/one story. That theme matches the subject of my photo blog: What’s (in) the picture? Finding stories. Photo’s tell stories. My story (what made me click my shutter), and the story of the spectator.
At the start of my photo path I used to get comments ‘why do you shoot that? That is not a nice photo!’. In a time of film it was impossible to show a result quickly to make my idea visible. Wait, be patient, wait for the print! But a film needed to be developed, and sometimes I could not create the envisioned result in my darkroom. Nowadays you lust look at the back of your camera and share that with the critic. And sometimes even that does not make sense, but it shows a picture.
Photography is about seeing, observing the world. And be ready for the decisive moment as Henri Cartier-Bresson said. My photo’s are my story of the world, my way of giving ‘voice’ to something that made me press the shutter, that reflects inside me. That is extremely subjective. But I learned (via this blog and other feed back) that my story most of the times is different from the one of spectators. My story is not their story. So, what’s behind this photo?
Martin Parr is in my humble opinion a brilliant satirist of the wealthy world. I enjoy his pictures of people, showing how human they are in their environment and behavior. And sitting in a holiday trailer park I was wondering what would be a way of framing what that park meant to me. All the trailers look the same, so I pictured a small bit. With the sky. A holiday at the sea in a trailer park. Hopefully with blue skies.
So what is your story with this photo?
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What's (in) the Picture? 