Fly Blue
The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #149 is ‘cool colors, blue and green. Here the blue side of it.
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The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #149 is ‘cool colors, blue and green. Here the blue side of it.
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This Spring the tulips in the front garden were a pleasure to enjoy for weeks. A last impression of these gorgeous and fierce flowers.
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The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #149 is ‘cool colors, blue and green. And purple as third color 🙂
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The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #149 is ‘cool colors, blue and green.
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The tulips gave us weeks of colorful joy this year, but in May a storm started to end their blooming period. The petals gone, the stems left behind. Derelict.
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The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #148 is ‘spots and dots’.
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The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #148 is ‘spots and dots’.
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The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #148 is ‘spots and dots’.
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The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #148 is ‘spots and dots’. The tulips lasted weeks this year, but unfortunately heavy wind made them wither fast.
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The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #148 is ‘spots and dots’. This Spring is cold and wet, with grey skies and gusts of rain. So far.
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The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #147 is ‘garden’.
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The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #147 is ‘garden’.
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The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #147 is ‘garden’. This is a little park in the neighbourhood.
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The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #147 is ‘garden’. We have a small back garden. At the moment tulips provide color to the fresh green. And tulips come in lots of types and shapes.
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The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #146 is ‘focusing on the details’.
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The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #146 is ‘focusing on the details’. Tulip in the rain.
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The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #146 is ‘focusing on the details’. Tulips in the rain.
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The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #146 is ‘focusing on the details’. Tulips are there in lots of varieties. Do not ask me the name for this one, but I do love the colors and shapes of the petals.
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The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #146 is ‘focusing on the details’. Tulips give a lot of detail when the light is behind them. Enjoying the front garden.
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The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #145 is ‘getting to know you’. Nice to see more sunsets now the days are longer.
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The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #145 is ‘getting to know you’. Spring is there, always good to see an old friend return.
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The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #145 is ‘getting to know you’. In Spring work on the garden starts, to prepare for Summer and warmer weather, outside dining and cooking, relaxing in the sun, reading a book. Flowers through a rainy window after the sun comes out again.
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The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #145 is ‘getting to know you’. In Spring work on the garden starts, to prepare for Summer and warmer weather, outside dining and cooking, relaxing in the sun, reading a book. When the sun is low, the light is sometimes fantastic and reflects on the dry grass shoots of last year.
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The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #145 is ‘getting to know you’. In Spring work on the garden starts, to prepare for Summer and warmer weather, outside dining and cooking, relaxing in the sun, reading a book. When the sun is low, the light is sometimes fantastic and reflects on the silver linings of spiders.
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The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #145 is ‘getting to know you’. A phenomenon I know my entire life is the weather. However, it still has it surprises, ice rain on a Spring Day?
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Watching the tulips in the front garden grow, day by day. Rain and shine.
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Some time ago I published two photos of the entrance of this castle: one in monochrome and one in color. Here is the backside of Kasteel Oud Poelgeest.
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The Lens Artists Photo Challenge#144 for this week is ‘taking flight’.
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The Lens Artists Photo Challenge#144 for this week is ‘taking flight’. This duck can fly but choose to swim by.
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The Lens Artists Photo Challenge#143 for this week is ‘colorful April’.
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The Lens Artists Photo Challenge#143 for this week is ‘colorful April’. To start this week, not a typical Spring flower, a rose.
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The Lens Artists Photo Challenge#142 for this week is ‘you pick it’. This is the Willinklaan. In Spring it looks like this, in Autumn the trees are dark red.
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The Lens Artists Photo Challenge#142 for this week is ‘you pick it’. From the archive, a mono pylon photo.
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
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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The Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet.
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.
A view on the City with 20 Fenchurch Street (aka Walkie-Talkie) in August 2014,.
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 an unknown point and shoot pocket camera on Kodak TriX, scanned from film and edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version
The 141th Weekly Lens Artists Challenge is ‘geometry ’. This photo has some geometrical shapes in it 🙂
The Sphinx and pyramid of Cheops aka the Great Pyramid on the Giza plateau.
The B4 retouch series
I browsed my archive for pictures to publish. All of them are not completely retouched yet. Scratches, dust and stains are not removed. Shot with Nikon F90 on Kodak TriX, scanned from film and edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version
The 141th Weekly Lens Artists Challenge is ‘geometry ’.
The altar and backdrop of the Chester cathedral in England.
The B4 retouch series
I browsed my archive for pictures to publish. All of them are not completely retouched yet. Scratches, dust and stains are not removed. Shot with Nikon F90 on Kodak TriX, scanned from film and edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version.
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The 140th Weekly Lens Artists Challenge is ‘change of scenery’.
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