Over The Lake
The pond in the park of palace Het Loo.
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Watered Wood
The theme of LAPC #398 is ‘choose your color’. The brief is to present a photo with a dominant color. Despite being a big fan of monochrome, I do love colors. The fun of colors is their subjectivity; any color has fans and haters. The sense making of colors is as diverse as people are unique. And that’s good. We need colors and images in our life to tell our stories.
An abstract of the texture of garden furniture with a little pool of water.
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Coast Crawler Trawler
The theme of LAPC #398 is ‘choose your color’. The brief is to present a photo with a dominant color. Despite being a big fan of monochrome, I do love colors. The fun of colors is their subjectivity; any color has fans and haters. The sense making of colors is as diverse as people are unique. And that’s good. We need colors and images in our life to tell our stories.
So here you can choose between silver and grey. Or both :-).
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Summer Approaching
Summer is coming nearer, but the present temperatures are not matching that. But behind the glass, out of the wind, being on the beach is a pleasant stay.
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Strand at the Beach
The theme of LAPC #398 is ‘choose your color’. The brief is to present a photo with a dominant color. Despite being a big fan of monochrome, I do love colors. The fun of colors is their subjectivity; any color has fans and haters. And sometimes the use or non use of colors stems from group think.
The sense making of colors is as diverse as people are unique. And that’s good. We need colors and images in our life to tell our stories. Today I stick with blue. Colors are context dependent, hence subjective. Blue is a lot of times associated with sorrow, pain, loss, or life experience. And it creates the most beautiful music.
I’m Mister Blue
I’m here to stay with you
and no matter what you do
when you’re lonely, I’ll be lonely too
René Klijn
While a deep blue sky might express power, focus and the absence of worries. Be any color you want.
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Fly By
The beach at Het Strand. A bit tongue in cheek: strand in Dutch means beach.
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Grey Clouds, Bright Sea
Grey clouds over the sunset lit up sea.
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Floral Abstract
This week’s LAPC (#397) is ‘Texture‘. The Keukenhof is a world famous botanical garden, yearly displaying the impressive beauty of bulb flowers. It is only open for eight weeks to the general public; this year from March 19 till May 10. About one and a half million visitors enjoy it in that short period.
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The Last Week Keukenhof 2026 (2)
This week’s LAPC (#397) is ‘Texture‘. The Keukenhof is a world famous botanical garden, yearly displaying the impressive beauty of bulb flowers. It is only open for eight weeks to the general public; this year from March 19 till May 10. About one and a half million visitors enjoy it in that short period. Last week was its last week.
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The Last Week of Keukenhof 2026
This week’s LAPC (#397) is ‘Texture‘. The Keukenhof is a world famous botanical garden, yearly displaying the impressive beauty of bulb flowers. It is only open for eight weeks to the general public; this year from March 19 till May 10. About one and a half million visitors enjoy it in that short period. Last week was its last week.
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The End Of King Day
The sunset of King’s Day in The Netherlands.
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After Flowers
Layers of colors with in the front the brown of out of time hyacinth flowers. Then the light of daffodils and the red of tulips. On top the skyline of the horizon with an iconic windmill.
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Who’s Afraid Of Pink
The last tulips on the field, some already beheaded, some still in bloom.
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Behind The Lines
The last tulips on the field, some already beheaded, some still in bloom.
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Magnolia
Magnolia, it is not only about bulbflowers this Spring.
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And The Winner Is …….
The Netherlands, Voorhout – April 2026
The Netherlands, Voorhout – April 2026
A major part of The Netherlands lies beneath sea level. Water, and the management of it in infrastructure as polders, dams and canals, is normal. We even not think of living under sea level. We feel safe.
The flat landscape makes it interesting to look for lines that guide the eyes through the space. In a polder there are always canals that do the trick.
The question here is: which appeals most to your taste buds?
LAPC #395 looks back to LAPC #155 ‘On the water’. Water is not on our minds, but it is mindful to keep defending dry land against rising sea, rivers and soon (thanks to climate change with a bigger financial effort) rain. Meanwhile water is seen in most of the landscapes of The Netherlands.
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Any Way The Wind Blows
A major part of The Netherlands lies beneath sea level. Water, and the management of it in infrastructure as polders, dams and canals, is normal. We even not think of living under sea level. We feel safe.
Most of The Netherlands is flat, with a low horizon, offering a wonderful quantity of sky over the horizon. Being near the coast there is always wind. Reflected in the sky and the water of the canals, serving to manage the water levels in the polder.
LAPC #395 looks back to LAPC #155 ‘On the water’. Water is not on our minds, but it is mindful to keep defending dry land against rising sea, rivers and soon (thanks to climate change with a bigger financial effort) rain. Meanwhile water is seen in most of the landscapes of The Netherlands.
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Windmill, Water and Tulips
A major part of The Netherlands lies beneath sea level. Water, and the management of it in infrastructure as polders, dams and canals, is normal. We even not think of living under sea level. We feel safe.
Here a polder with an old windmill (painted by Monet long ago) – originally used to pump water out of a polder- and a small canal in a polder with tulips. Only the clogs are missing!
LAPC #395 looks back to LAPC #155 ‘On the water’. Water is not on our minds, but it is mindful to keep defending dry land against rising sea, rivers and soon (thanks to climate change with a bigger financial effort) rain.
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At the back
It is not only flowers on fields around the villages, but every garden has its own share of bulbflowers popping out in the Spring.
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Capturing Spring Rain: Foreground, Middle, and Background
A shower of Spring rain with sun lighting up the drops. Setting the scene in the middle ground as the foreground and background form the stage setting. The theme of this week’s LAPC (#392) is ‘foreground, middle and background’.
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Sunrise Sparkles
The Magnolia against the upcoming sunlight for this week’s LAPC theme week (#391) ‘Phone photography’.
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So Close, So Far Away
Clouds for this week’s LAPC theme week (#391) ‘Phone photography’.
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When The Night Falls
Dusk for this week’s LAPC theme week (#391) ‘Phone photography’.
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A matter of taste and choice – Episode 4
If you visit my blog – like I hope you do or from now start to do – you must have recognized my ‘old’ love for monochrome. When I started this hobby, mono was fashionable and a standard for news photography. And it was cheaper. In this series I offer you two versions of a photo. And you can prefer one over the other, or not.
This week’s theme is ‘Time to relax’. On a bicycle ride through fields where soon bulb flowers will pop up, together with other cyclists. This is a piece of a polder showing the low horizon in the sun.
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A matter of choice and taste – Episode 3
If you visit my blog – like I hope you do or from now start to do – you must have recognized my ‘old’ love for monochrome. When I started this hobby, mono was fashionable and a standard for news photography. And it was cheaper. In this series I offer you two versions of a photo. And you can prefer one over the other, or not.
This week’s theme is ‘Time to relax’. On a bicycle ride through fields where soon bulb flowers will pop up, together with other cyclists. Thought I am not really sure about this piece of land, it is just been plowed it seems.
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A matter of choice and taste – Episode 2
If you visit my blog – like I hope you do or from now start to do – you must have recognized my ‘old’ love for monochrome. When I started this hobby, mono was fashionable and a standard for news photography. And it was cheaper. In this series I offer you two versions of a photo. And you can prefer one over the other, or not.
This week’s theme is ‘Time to relax’. On a bicycle ride through fields where soon bulb flowers will pop up, together with other cyclists. On the color version you can see the deep purple of early hyacinths. With Some yellow late Daffodils.
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A matter of choice and taste – Episode 1
If you visit my blog – like I hope you do or from now start to do – you must have recognized my ‘old’ love for monochrome. When I started this hobby, mono was fashionable and a standard for news photography. And it was cheaper. In this series I offer you two versions of a photo. And you can prefer one over the other, or not.
This week’s theme is ‘Time to relax’. On a bicycle ride through fields where soon bulb flowers will pop up, together with other cyclists. On the color version you can see the deep purple of early hyacinths. With Some yellow late Daffodils.
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On The Run
This week’s theme is ‘Time to relax’. On a bicycle ride through fields where soon bulb flowers will pop up, together with other cyclists and the occasional runner.
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A Sunday Walk
Spring is here and last weekend I made a little bicycle ride to check out the bulb flower fields. Daffodils where coming up, and at odd places hyacinths started to show. A nice way to relax and enjoy the lovely day outside. As did others by walking, running or cycling. Fitting this week’s theme ‘Time to relax’.
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All Seasons Lavender
Long ago each season had its own indicators: vegetables, flowers, products. But nowadays in a world economy you can eat vegetables all year round. And now you can have lavender all year round as well. Not the whole year but starting from Spring.
Lavender for me is a ride through the Provence, with the scent in the air as you oversee fields of purple. In Summer.
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When Spring Calls
Spring knocks on the door. Sunrises through young leaves, creating a fabric of soft gold in the tree against the sunlight.
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Golden Slumbers Vanishing
Spring knocks on the door. Sunrises through young leaves, creating golden slumbers in the early sunlight. Vanishing as the sun climbs higher in the sky.
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Garden Center
Spring is coming. even when we are still in Winter.
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Royal Library
The view towards the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Royal Library). This weeks Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #387 is Shadowed. How do you use shadows in photography.
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Dark and Light
A Winter sunrise. This weeks Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #387 is Shadowed. How do you use shadows in photography.
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Tree
A Winter sunrise. This weeks Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #387 is Shadowed. How do you use shadows in photography.
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Den Haag Haagse Poort
Den Haag Haagse Poort on a day with fog. Just a mono.
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Question: Mono or Color?
The Netherlands, Den Haag – January 2026
It is quite a simple question to ask. Do you prefer the monochrome version or the colored version of a photo?
I grew up with monochrome. Because it was cheaper. That applied to films as well as darkroom costs.
The mono version emphasizes the background and atmosphere. The colored version is high lighting the front of the frame.
But in the end, as the famous nr. 14 Johan Cruyff said: every advantage has its disadvantages. And the choice is as always subjective.
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Sunflower
LAPC #386 invites to use the power of juxtaposition. Basically put two objects in a frame to create a narrative or reaction about their relation. Here the story of two sunflowers.
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On Wings
The LAPC theme #385 is ‘unusual crop’. Geese in a pretty big V.
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On a Station Into the Distance
The LAPC theme #385 is ‘unusual crop’. Station Den Haag – Laan van Nieuw Oost-Indië (that is a throat breaker for most of you non-Dutch speakers). Tracking the tracks.
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Reaching for the Sky
The LAPC theme #385 is ‘unusual crop’. The skyline over Den Haag, building activities and old spires.
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It’s all in the details
The LAPC theme #385 is ‘unusual crop’. This one was cropped/framed by zoom on the iPhone while shooting.
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Steel Giants
France, Saint-Georges-sur- l’Aa – January 2026
Every time we travel to the UK via the Channel Tunnel, I try to take photos of these steel giants. The same goes for when we return from there. They carry power lines in the area of St. Georges-sur-l’Aa. No worries, I’m in the passenger seat.
They remind me of mythical knights, marching in line over the fields. In the archive you find a set of photos over the years.
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Marshes Panorama Blakeney
To end a long set of photos of the marshes near Blakeney, a panorama shot.
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Watery Dogs
Lens-Artist’s Photo Challenge #384 is ‘astonishment’. The brief is to show in a photo a feeling of surprise or wonder. These two dogs (Murphy left and Cooper right) keep me wondering for years already. It is about their addiction to water in general. If there is water anywhere (preferably muddy) they dive in. Here they have a bath hunting for the ball in at the quayside of Blakeney.
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Juno 2
The quayside and harbour of Blakeney just before sunrise.
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First Light of a Winter Sunrise on the Marshes
England, Blakeney – December 2025
Lens-Artist’s Photo Challenge #383 is ‘patterns and designs’. Sunrises are always amazing, but the marshes being touched by the first rays is amazing to see.
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On The Marshes
Lens-Artist’s Photo Challenge #383 is ‘patterns and designs’. The sunrise distorted in the lens.
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When The Morning Comes
Lens-Artist’s Photo Challenge #383 is ‘patterns and designs’. The sunrise over marshes near Blakeney.
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What's (in) the Picture? 