Winter Blossom
Even in Winter there is blossom.
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Posts tagged ‘picture’
Bridging 2025 to 2026
The year 2025 ends and we cross over to 2026. I hope the new year will be a good one. I wish it brings some of the desires I cherish in my heart. I am sure others cherish these desires as well.
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Across
The canal in the fog.
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Spring Ready
The last leaves of the Magnolia
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Going To Sea
A small milestone maid: yesterday I passed the 300.000 views on this blog. Thank you.
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Meerkoeten aka Moorhens
Moorhens in the canal.
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Autumn in Oegstgeest
Autumn colors color the village.
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Oegstgeest in Autumn
Autumn colors color the village.
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Heavy Horizon
An iPhone long lens shot of a heavy rain sky. This was the first of the three photos I published the last three days.
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Birds
An iPhone long lens shot of the horizon, catching geese by accident, against a heavy rain sky. I cropped the motorway A44 out on this one.
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Wisteria
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Close To The Mono Edge
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More Leaves Leaving
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Leaves Leaving
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Christmas 2025: How Big A Reindeer Are You?
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Christmas 2025: New Balls
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Night View
The garden at night. The Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #375 is ‘where to find the mysterious’.
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Incremental
Autumn skies at sunset.
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Bottom’s Up
A dinner in our favorite restaurant, exquisite food with an excellent wine arrangement.
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Heron Times 2
This Heron is a frequent visitor along the little canal in front of the house.
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Steamtrain Museum Katwijk Leiden
The Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #374 is ‘on the move’. Most of what is on these photos has not moved in a long time. However, the machines they got moving again are brilliant. It is a place where they try to keep history alive and accessible, touchable and usable.
The Steamtrain Museum Katwijk Leiden is run by volunteers. It offers the history of steam trains and their use on narrow gauge tracks. And the volunteers fix up and restore old locomotives, carriages and other cars. They have a big storage full of old parts and rusty machines.
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Rose
Having fresh flowers in the house is a blessing.
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Windowed Leafs
The sky and fallen leaves on windows.
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On The Road At Sunrise
On the road at sunrise, the A44 and A4 to Schiphol Amsterdam.
I am not sure this is filling the brief of LAPC #373 ‘looking back at landscapes’. It’s more looking forward on the road.
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Sky Views
The sky and clouds are a dynamic big display of forms, colors and light. Looking up at times can take your mind off the daily life at moments.
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Take it from the top
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Oegstgeest, The Netherlands
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Letting go
Autumn is the time of year were beauty is short and temporarily. Glimpses of moments that pass quickly and are gone fast. The end is the start of the new cycle of growth for the next year.
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Red Autumn
Autumn is there, colors of leaves are beautiful.
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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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Smoking at Work: Reichstag Berlin
From the roof of the Reichstag. A member of staff has a smoke break. A slightly less common street detail nowadays for LAPC #371.
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Looking East (and for the West)-Berlin
The last time, before this visit in September, I saw this part of Berlin was in November 1989. This side was West Berlin, the Spree and across was East Berlin. The Berlin Wall cut straight to the right. It was just 20 meters from the East wall of the Reichstag.
Now the Bundestag offices connect both sides of the river. The tension of the Berlin Wall is literally out of sight. But not forgotten. Seven crosses are just outside this frame on the right side. They remind us of the people who tried to flee East Germany and were killed.
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High Rise Head’s Up Berlin
This high rising can be found near the Kaiser Wilhelm Gedächtnis Kirche.
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Marketing
A street in Charlottenburg.
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Berlin Mall
Every big city has its own mall, a big shopping center. Most of the times the shops and brands are the same as in the mall next to where you live. And the food court can be slightly different. The Mall of Berlin is no exception to that rule. The location (Leipziger Platz) makes it interesting, as does the architecture.
As always I can not choose: color, or mono?
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Eating Out in Berlin
Food in Berlin is cheap (and in the right places) good!
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Fernseh Turm Alexanderplatz
A landmark you can not overlook. The TV Tower (Fernsehturm) at Alexanderplatz. Here seen from the Paul Löbe Allee, next to the offices of the prime minister of Germany.
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From the roof of the Reichstag
A view from the roof of the Reichstag, overlooking Tiergarten. On the left The Victory Column. On the right side is the Carillion, a 42 meter hight bell tower. And in the background the Teufelsberg.
I am not sure this photo is dreamy enough to enter Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #369 ‘dreamy’.
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Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz: From Wall to Skyscrapers
Human measure on Potsdamer Platz. During the time of the Berlin Wall people were a spic in a vast open space. Now they are a spic being over towered by high rising.
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Berlin Brandenburger Tor Photographers
Brandenburger Gate (Brandenburger Tor) is a much used backdrop for photos in Berlin.
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Both Sides Of History – Berlin Brandenburger Tor
Brandenburger Gate (Brandenburger Tor) in Berlin was an iconic point at the time of the Berlin Wall (Berliner Mauer). The gate then stood in no mans land, and showed the alienating effects of division through the city. Now the Brandenburger Gate is a symbol of unity of Berlin. It was a pleasure to walk through the gates, and enjoy the people and streets around it. And the see the gate back at its splendor.
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.
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Gedächtnis Kirche Berlin
One of the memorial landmarks of Berlin is the Kaiser Wilhelm Gedächtnis Kirche. In its simplicity it is a powerful landmark and memorial.
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Bundesrat Berlin
Walking through Berlin was sometimes causing some disorientation. Lots of places that were ‘void and empty’ in November 1989 are now (re)build. In 1989 I just saw a small part of former East Berlin. It was a challenge to figure out what I was looking at. An old building, a refurbished one or a new build? I have a slight preference for old buildings. Lots of them are beautifully restored. This is one of them: the Bundesrat in the former Prussian House of Lords. As seen from the Mall of Berlin.
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Berlin’s Blue and Pink Pipelines
September 2025 I visited Berlin for the second time. My first visit was in November 1989. That coincided with the fall of the Berlin Wall. After 46 years I wanted to see how Berlin had changed since ‘die Wende’.
In 1989 we just spent one day in East Berlin. This visit the first day we looked around in the former East Berlin area. The television tower still towers over the city at Alexanderplatz. There is still a lot of construction activity, and along the roads you see pipes in blue and pink. First I thought that it was a smart concrete transport system. In reality it is a way to pump out groundwater from construction sites into the Spree river.
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Berlin’s Transformation: German Humor?
September 2025 I visited Berlin for the second time. My first visit was in November 1989. That coincided with the fall of the Berlin Wall. After 46 years I wanted to see how Berlin had changed since ‘die Wende’. The coming days I will publish some photos of this trip.
Friends had ‘warned’ me about the changes I would see. What in 1989 was a vast open space (e.g. the Potzdamer Platz) is now completely filled with modern architecture. But what struck me the most was the vibrant vitality the city breathes now. It is cosmopolitan and a magnet.
One of the landmark squares of Berlin is Alexanderplatz. On a building just a few hunder meters away I saw this text ‘Allesandersplatz’. Everything is different square? German humor? Or the basic conclusion after the first day. A lot changed. At face value.
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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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After Rain
The Netherlands, Scheveningen – September 2025
After rain comes sun at Scheveningen beach.
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Agapanthus
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What's (in) the Picture? 