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Posts tagged ‘Rain’

Heavy Horizon

A dramatic sky filled with dark rain clouds, featuring silhouettes of trees and a flock of birds flying across the scene.
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – December 2025

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

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – December 2025

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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Blues

A long shot of a dark sky with heavy rain, featuring birds flying over motorway A44, with a blue car passing and bare trees in the foreground.
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – November 2025

A long shot with an iPhone; a heavy rain sky with birds over motorway A44.

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Autumn Morning

View from a skylight showing trees and a colorful sunset in the background, with a cloudy sky.
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – October 2025

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Rainy Beach

Black and white photograph of raindrops cascading down a window, with faint outlines of objects behind the glass. The scene captures the mood of heavy rain at Scheveningen beach, blending indoor plants and blurred furniture.
The Netherlands, Scheveningen – September 2025

A spell of heavy rain, on the border of Summer and Autumn at Scheveningen beach.

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

Morning Rain

Close-up of leaves with raindrops, illuminated by morning sunlight.
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – August 2025

The morning sun reflecting the drops of rain that the night left behind.

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Leaves

Close-up of green leaves with water droplets, showcasing their texture in a blurred natural background.
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – August 2025

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Hosta After Rain

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – June 2025

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Tearful Sunset

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – March 2025

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Red Umbrella

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – March 2025

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Crying Winter

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – January 2025

A wet Winter.

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Raindrops

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No Worries

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – October 2024

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Leiden seen in passing by: Tree obscuring monument


The Netherlands, Leiden – October 2024

A tree obscures the Flowermill (Meelfabriek) is an old industrial monument as seen from a passing car while not driving. 

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Leiden seen passing by: Monumental New Life


The Netherlands, Leiden – October 2024

The Flowermill (Meelfabriek) is an old industrial monument being converted into hotels and apartments. As seen from a passing car while not driving. 

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Leiden seen passing by : Zijlpoort

The Netherlands, Leiden – October 2024

The Zijlpoort in Leiden seen from a passing car while not driving.

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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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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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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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Capturing the Essence of a Typical Dutch Summer in Oegstgeest

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – June 2024

June was wet, and July started wet but seems to end with more sun and less rain. It is a typical Dutch Summer.

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May 2024: Nocturnal Garden Scene in Oegstgeest, Netherlands

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2024

A wet garden at night. And by the way, I love that WordPress AI generating amazing titles that I can not come up with. I stick with them as long as they make me smile. Nocturnal, sounds like a great piece of music.

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Sky with Tears

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2024

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Thinking in the Rain

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – February 2024

Winter rain and a bronze statue.

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More Soft Rain

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest- February 2024

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Soft Rain

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – February 2024

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Rain/Reign o’er me

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – January 2024

The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #289 is ‘tools of photo composition’. Rain on a window distorts the sharpness outside, and adds something extra to the shape of the trees on this wet, Winter day.

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Glass

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – February 2024

The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #289 is ‘tools of photo composition’.  Light, form and shapes when they appear not to be there.

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Weather with you

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – February 2024

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Deal at Night 3

England, Deal – December 2023

Deal‘s pier.

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Deal at Night 2

England, Deal – December 2023

Deal‘s The Royal Hotel reflecting in the wet pavement.

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Deal at Night

England, Deal – December 2023

Deal at a rainy night after Xmas.

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Dusk

England, Walmer – December 2023

The Channel at dusk for LAPC # 283 ‘dramatic’.

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Gull

England, Walmer – December 2023

A dark rain sky as a backdrop for LAPC # 283 ‘dramatic’.

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The Last of Christmas

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – January 2024

Last weekend we stored the Christmas decorations for this season of light.

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Deal Pier

England, Deal – December 2023

The Pier of Deal on a wet evening at the end of December.

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Rain

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – December 2023

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Sunrise

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – December 2023

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Open View

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – December 2023

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Blue Light

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – December 2023

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Sun and Rain

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – December 2023


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Hold the Line

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – November 2023

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Rain and Shine

A Magnolia tree. Autumn is a time of rapid changes. It can be light and sunny with wonderful colors on display, or grim and dim in rain. Both have its unique beauty in my humble opinion.

The lens artists photo challenge #278 is ‘unique’.

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Rain

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – November 2023

The pattern of raindrops or the clouds through the window is unique each time you watch it. The wind being the big agency driving it all. The lens artists photo challenge #278 is ‘unique’.

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Lines of Trees

The Netherlands, Abbenes – November 2023

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Contrast

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – October 2023

Lens Artists Photo Challenge #271 is ‘contrasts’.

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A Cloudy Windy Day At The Beach

The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – August 2023

A windy day with some beautiful clouds on a Sunday at the beach in Katwijk. The clear views showed the curve of the coastline, with the silhouette of Scheveningen in the south, and beyond that, the harbor of Rotterdam.

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Wet

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest- June 2023

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Summer Storm Behind Glass

On July 5th a storm created havoc, lots of rain and fallen trees.

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Rain

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2023

April was wet, and that’s probably why the garden is bursting in flowers and growth.

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Pink Dog

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2023

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