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Water Play

The Netherlands, Leiden – July 2025

The iPhone 15 Pro Max is a wonderful clever piece of photographic technology. It is the ideal snap instrument, that is always in my pocket. The quality of the images is improved immensely over the years. And to be honest, I shoot most of my photos with it nowadays. Just because I always have my phone with me. What I still do not like is the quality of images when you use the zoom. This shot is on full zoom and the details disappear. Unfortunately I was not able to move closer at that moment. At these moments I wish I had my Nikon Zf at hand, with a nice long lens.

Shot with iPhone 15 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta Click the picture for a larger version.

Exploring Dutch Gladioli: Culture and Significance

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – July 2025

In The Netherlands, we do grow lots of cut flowers. A lot of them are exported but there is plenty of supply for the domestic market. In our household we have fresh cut flowers every week. Last week we had these big fellows. Gladioli are famous for the saying ‘death or the gladioli’. A Dutch proverb that translates to ‘all or nothing’ or ‘do or die’. Success or failure.

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Garden Joy: Agapanthus

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – July 2025

The garden is a joy now, flowers popping up everywhere. The Agapanthus are doing very well this year. They are the diva’s this time of year. This is a white agapanthus, tweaking it a bit with Snapseed turned it into yellow all of a sudden.

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Allium Afterglow

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – June 2025

This is the last stage of the yearly cycle of a giant Allium. It comes in three photo versions after showing that amazing flower, that we enjoyed this year.

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Cross Town Wedding

The Netherlands, Delft – June 2025

In the charming streets of Delft, a couple dressed as bride and groom had us questioning whether we’d stumbled upon a wedding or a spontaneous costume party. Either way, love was in the air, or at least some excellent snap photo ops!

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Exploring Delft: A Glimpse of City Hall and New Church

The Netherlands, Delft – June 2025

The city hall of of Delft with the steeple of the New Church in the background.

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Capturing Katwijk: Church and Rooftops

The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – June 2025

This part of Katwijk is not much photographed, I guess. The roofs and the tower of the church made a nice composition.

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Frigate

The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – June 2025

During the NATO summit navy vessels patrolled the coast. This is a impressionistic long shot of a frigate finding its way through the windmills.

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Studying Hard

The Netherlands, Delft – June 2025

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #356 is ‘Quiet Hours’. 

Delft has a technical university with a long history in engineering and water management. The plan for Dutch coast defense implemented in the Delta Works originated here. Deltares is a major technological institute for research focusing on water management.

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Modern Times: Don Quixote needs swimming lessons

A serene view of offshore wind turbines on a blue sea under a clear sky.
The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – June 2025

In our times Don Quixote would be busy fighting a plenty of windmills. Most of them you find at sea, would he take swimming lessons?

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On Policy

The Netherlands, Den Haag – May 2025

The LAPC challenge for this week (#354) is ‘reflections’. Reflecting can be visual but also in a way of contemplating. On the photo three Dutch government policy departments.

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Leiden Marathon seen from Joop Zoetemelk Path

The Netherlands, Rijpwetering – May 2025

The Leiden Marathon as seen from the bicycle path, dedicated to one of the most successful Dutch professional cyclists, Joop Zoetemelk near Rijpwetering.

Shot with iPhone 15 Pro Max edited using  Snapseed, GrainLab  and Marksta.  Click the picture for a larger version.

From A Train Spotting

The Netherlands, Voorschoten – May 2025

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Nobody Can Wait Forever

The Netherlands, Den Haag – May 2025

Den Haag Central Station.

Shot with iPhone 15 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.

Arrival

The Netherlands, Den Haag – May 2025

Den Haag Central Station.

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Den Haag Central Station

The Netherlands, Den Haag – May 2025

Den Haag Central Station.

Shot with iPhone 15 Pro Max edited using Snapseed,  GrainLab and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version. 

Den Haag Tower

The Netherlands, Den Haag – May 2025

Den Haag Central Station.

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Morton Main Street

England, Morton – April 2025

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Wisteria 3

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2025

This is the Wisteria on its best! It is absolutely gorgeous, for us and the wild bees!

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Wisteria 2

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2025

This is the Wisteria on its best! It is absolutely gorgeous, for us and the wild bees!

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Wisteria

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2025

This is the Wisteria on its best! It is absolutely gorgeous, for us and the wild bees!

Shot with iPhone 15 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.

Tulips by the bundle

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2025

We are fortunate to have a supply of reasonably cheap fresh cut flowers throughout the year in The Netherlands.

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Last Field

The Netherlands, Voorhout – April 2025

All the bulb flowers of Spring are now gone. We have to wait for next year to see tulips, daffodils and hyacinths ruling the fields of our flat lands. Until then we enjoy nature exploding in its full force, and after that its decline into Winter. But for now it’s amazing how fast everything springs out.

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Tulips

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest and Voorhout – April 2025

Tulips in the garden and on the field. It might be that the bulbs for our red tulips next year in the garden come from this production field in Voorhout.

Shot with iPhone 15 Pro Max edited using Snapseed, GrainLab and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.

Haagse Poort (Gateway to Den Haag)

The Netherlands, Den Haag – March 2025

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Magnolia Revisited

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2025

This year I followed the flowering of the magnolia tree in our front garden. The mono photos are taken with Nikon Zf, the colors come from the iPhone.

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First Spring Day Sunset

The Netherlands, Noordwijk – March 2025

The first Sunset of Spring.

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