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Intentional Creative Movement – Light

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – September 2004

This week’s Lens Artitsts Photo Challenge (#321) is Intentional Camera Movement (ICM). Yesterday I published photos shot analogue on film: the result is only visible after developing the film. This one is from 2004 with my first digital Nikon D70. The fun of digital is that you can actually see on the back what the result is, and use this feedback to try again. Digital gives freedom and is cheap and gives instant feedback. 20 years of digital playing.

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Intentional Creative Movement – Bicycle

France, Saint-Hippolyte_du_Fort – August 1997

This week’s Lens Artitsts Photo Challenge (#321) is Intentional Camera Movement (ICM). These photos are from a workshop in 1997 in France, where we had to create movement with a low shutter speed while following the subject. Basically a fun excercise but done on film. So the result literally came to light after developing the film. The excitement and anxiety about the possible results were out of scale! Patience.

These film archives are the source of my B4 retouch series.

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 andMarksta. Click the picture for a bigger version

Exploring the Amsterdam-Sloterdijk Power Plant

The Netherlands, Amsterdam-Sloterdijk – October 2024

A fossil power plant on smoke, next to the A5 in Amsterdam-Sloterdijk.

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Autumn Sunrise

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – October 2024

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Stunning Autumn Gold

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – October 2024

Autumn has arrived. Some trees take a fast lane to color and shed, some take more time. Each year this tree is delight of gold.

This week’s Lens Artitsts Photo Challenga (#321) is Intentional Camera Movement (ICM). That is a creative technique, but in this case the movement was non-intentional, caused by the extreme zoom of the iPhone, my unsteady hand and the amount of light available. However, it gave an overall glow to the photos that I do like. I hope the hose of this week Anne is not offended by this entry.

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Capturing Moments: A Series of SUP Paddler Photos

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – September 2024

Maybe I am not the only one. When I see a wonderful subject, that has to be on a photo, I tend to try out different things fast, to avoid the moment goes. And in the end there is a series of photos that are hard to choose from. What is the solution? I just publish them all. So after SUP Paddler in focus and

the monochrome loneliness of the SUP Paddler here is the last of three. I hope you enjoyed all of them.

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Geese at Waterside: A Scenic View in Oegstgeest

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – October 2024

A slightly ‘bigger’ picture than the one of a week ago.

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Watering Wild Cows

The Netherlands, Valkenburg – September 2024

‘Wild cows’ enjoy the water in the dunes near Valkenburg. The image is taken by hand on the maximum zoom of the iPhone, so it is a bit unsharp.

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The monochrome loneliness of the SUP Paddler

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – September 2024

Another – monochrome – photo of the SUP Paddler. The full sunrise colorful one is here.

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Imagining the Blooming Flower Fields of Voorhout

The Netherlands, Voorhout – September 2024

In about six months these fields will be covered with blooming bulb flowers. Can you imagine the colors?

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Embracing Autumn: The Beauty of Rain

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – October 2024

Autumn brought is rain. After a beautiful Summer that was quite dry it is time to get used to grey clouds and their contents. And be grateful we do have rain.

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Rose


The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – October 2024

This week’s theme for LAPC #319 is ‘setting a mood’.

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How Far Can You Go Into A Tunnel?

The Netherlands, Voorschoten N434 – September 2024

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Sky High

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – September 2024

The roses did well this year.

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Geese at Waterside: Autumn Mood Setting in Oegstgeest

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – October 2024

Geese tidying up at the waterside, Autumn clean up before Winter is on its way? This week’s theme for LAPC #319 is ‘setting a mood’.

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Unique Sunrise Photo: SUP Paddler in Focus

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – September 2024

The canal is one of my long period objects for photos. I always look if there is something worth a photo when I cross it. Most of the time it is empty, sometimes there is a boat. But this time there was a first: a SUP paddler in a beautiful moody Autumnal sunrise. As if he knew this week’s theme for LAPC #319 is ‘setting a mood’.

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Rose

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – October 2024

This week’s theme for LAPC #319 is ‘setting a mood’.

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Arcadian View

The Netherlands, Wassenaar – September 2024

A view over the meadows in an old Dutch masters light.

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Tractor On A Gentle Line Of Orange

The Netherlands, Wassenaar – September 2024

The Netherlands is famous for its Spring bulbflower fields, but we produce flowers in Summer and Autumn as well.

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A Gentle Line Of Orange


The Netherlands, Wassenaar – September 2024

Yes, we produce flowers in Summer and Autumn as well.

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Bicycle Adventures: Wassenaar’s Picturesque Zijwatering Canal

The Netherlands, Wassenaar – September 2024

A bicycle tour brought us to the Zijwatering, a canal from Wassenaar to the Oude Rijn (in the time of the Roman Empire the present Old Rhine was part of the Rhine estuary and came into the Northsea at Katwijk). It was a surprise and also a delight to see the beauty of the landscape under a beatiful early Autumn sun. The bottom photo is a panorama, using this feature on the iPhone makes straight lines bend.

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Capturing Vibes of Summer: Butterflies, Bees, Flowers

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest- September 2024

To remind ourselves of the Summer, a few colorful photos.

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Finding Beauty in the Ordinary: Canal Reflections

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – September 2024

LAPC #316 is ‘Finding beauty in unexpected places’. One of the objects for photographs is the canal that runs through my village. It is quite ordinary, there is a vast amount of small and little canals to dispose of water in The Netherlands. To manage water in a country that is partly under sea level, one has to build infrastructure to keep dry feet. Two pictures taken at the same moment of the day, slightly different in monochrome style. The first is with the silvertone setting, the last with the dark setting on the iPhone. It changes the atmosphere completely. And one may be more beautiful than the other, it is all in the eye of the beholder.

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Terrace Life

The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – September 2024

LAPC #316 is ‘Finding beauty in unexpected places’.

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View On A Bridge From A Bridge

The Netherlands, Moerdijk – September 2024

The Moerdijkbrug over the Hollands Diep, seen from the Moerdijkbrug for the motorway. In the middle of the Dutch delta.

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Coming In – Going Out

The Netherlands, Schiphol Amsterdam – September 2024

Incoming and outgoing traffic at Schiphol Amsterdam. Just a drive by, and no worries, I was not driving the car.

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Citroën Traction Avant at Amsterdam Schiphol

The Netherlands, Schiphol Amsterdam – September 2024

Driving passed Schiphol we were overtaken by four Citroën Traction Avant. Three of them were into sticker collecting, the fourth was beautiful pristine.

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Apple Time: Autumn has arrived

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – September 2024

Autumn is here and the apple tree is filled with little apples. The view helps to get over to the new season.

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One Missing Letter: Willy Zuid

The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – August 2024

Willy Zuid, a beach pavillion.

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An evening at Katwijk aan Zee Around Sunset – August 2024

The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – August 2024

Sometimes it just happens. You are in a place and the light is fantastic, and there is so much to frame in a photo. The sunset is spectacular and for some odd 30 minutes you are in a photography candy shop. This is a selection of what ended up on my phone on that hot August evening.

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Who is afraid of Blue


The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – August 2024

And the last one of a brilliant hour at the beach on a Summer evening to enjoy the sunset while having dinner. That was a nice bubble to be in.

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Stunning Black and White Sunsets in Katwijk (Give a Little Bit)


The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – August 2024

Yesterday I told you about my passion and history in monochrome. And that I do shoot sunsets in black and white. Here is another one of the same sunset, but framed different. I will publish an overview of all those shots of same sunset that evening. Each of them show a bit of it, it’s in my humble opinion nice to see the big picture.

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Monochrome Magic: Capturing Black and White Sunsets

The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – August 2024

If you did not notice, I am a big fan of monochrome. In fact, monochrome film was way back the medium I started with. It was cheap and you print your own photos in a darkroom. That was adventurous and frustrating at the same time. Not to sound old, but nowadays with wonderful software, editing images is easier, faster and more fun. And you instantly see what you get! But sometimes I do miss the anxiety of the darkroom, seeing a photo come up in the developer. Back to now. I do shoot sunsets in black and white, and here is one. The atmosphere of the shot is different, more dark and eerie.

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Dreaming by the Sea: A Visual Escape Experience

The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – August 2024

When there are landscapes, what is the landscape of a sea called? To me watching the sea is like an escape of the real world, dreaming into the image that is presented. This is the layered story of an image, with each of the layers adding to it. The beach with the humans grounded on the sand under their feet, almost insignificant in size. The vast sea stretching into the far distance, rippled in the wind and current, offering a seemingly flat smooth surface. The boats and windmills that seem to float on the water that sparkles in the light of the lowering sun. And on top of all that the backdrop of the sky painted lightly by the softer light that lays a filter over the all of it. Put a frame around it and you have a nice photo.

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Sunset Views in Katwijk – Wind, Water and Cabins

The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – August 2024

The view at the beach from the boulevard of Katwijk aan Zee, a few hours before sunset.

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Boulevard View – Katwijk aan Zee August 2024

The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – August 2024

The view at the Northsea just before dinner 🙂 at the boulevard of Katwijk aan Zee.

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Spectacular Sunset in Katwijk aan Zee – A Visual Delight

The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – August 2024

The theme for this week LAPC 316 is ‘Destanation: Fun‘.  Going to the beach is fun, but witnessing a brilliant sunset on a warm Summer evening, while a display of boats and windmills complete the scene, is true fun. Here is the full view of the scenery of the sunset, I just picked out parts of it in other photos published earlier (and after).

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Beach Fun: Captivating Sunset in Katwijk aan Zee, Netherlands

The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – August 2024

The theme for this week LAPC 316 is ‘Destanation: Fun‘.  Going to the beach is fun, but witnessing a brilliant sunset on a warm Summer evening, while a dispaly of boats and windmills complete the scene, is true fun. I published a few of them already two weeks ago (see the archive Katwijk). I hope you still have fun watching them.

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Dramatic Monochrome Skies Over The Netherlands – August 2024

The Netherlands, Voorhout – August 2024

The sky over The Netherlands is a wonderful object for photos, we do have lot of sky over our flat land above the low horizon. And that sky can be quite dramatic, even more in monochrome.

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Dahlia in Bloom at Castle De Keukenhof, Lisse – August 2024

The Netherlands, Lisse – August 2024

In Summer the garden of castle De Keukenhof is filled with beautiful Dahlia’s. I just choose one for the photo.

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Vivid Summer Fields: A Colorful Display in Voorhout, Netherlands (August 2024)


The Netherlands, Voorhout – August 2024

In Summer the fields that grow the Spring’s bulb flowers (tulips, daffodils and hyacinths) may grow other flowers. Some years the fields are flooded or covered up to be gassed, to clean, other years they produce crops like these.

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Netherlands Landscape: Summer Scene with Cows, Windmill, and Farm

The Netherlands, Voorhout – August 2024

The Netherlands is as flat as a pancake. That is the way foreigners describe my precious habitat. It is not completely accurate, we do have some hills and dunes. The advantage of a flat surface is that we have lots of sky above the horizon. Here a typical Summer scene: rain filled sky and cows in the meadows, the odd windmill and farm.

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Netherlands Cut Flowers Field in Oegstgeest – The Last of Thistles

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – August 2024

Cut flowers are a common good in The Netherlands. This is the field of a grower, just around the corner. He harvested the thistles and moved them to the flower auction for sale. This is the ones left over on the field. For Lens Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #316 ‘Common Object’.

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Glasshouses in The Netherlands: A Common Object | Lens Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #316

The Netherlands, Rijsenhout – August 2024

The use of glasshouses is widespread in The Netherlands for all kinds of crops and flowers. Lens Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #316 is ‘Common Object’.

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Common Object

The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – August 2024

Lens Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #316 is ‘Common Object’.

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Magnificent Sunset at Katwijk Beach, Netherlands

The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – August 2024

Last week we had dinner on the beach and were treated to a beautiful sunset. And, as always when a subject grips me, I took loads of pictures. The iPhone makes it really easy just to snap, zoom, frame and play with light. So the last days I published some of them for the theme of this week for LAPC 314: ‘shorelines‘. It is probably serendipity, but it matched nicely on this set of photos. So to close the week a final one of this sunset. I hope you enjoyed them. And the left over of this shoot will probably appear in the near future.

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Exploring Delft Blue Pottery and Iconic Selfie at Drievliet in The Netherlands

The Netherlands, Den Haag – August 2024

The Netherlands is famous for Delft’s Blauw (Delft Blue) pottery. At Drievliet they organized a selfie picture stand with two iconic statues to be virtually kissed. I framed it in a different way.

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