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Posts tagged ‘seagull’

Jonathan Livingston I presume?

The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – June 2025

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

Capturing the Charm of Paris: Balcony and French Windows in December 1993

France, Paris – December 2003

LAPC 309 is about balconies. I have to admit that I do not pay special attention to balconies, unless they trigger me as I look around and they catch my eye. I do however ‘collect’ French windows. So occasionally they pop up in a frame. This is one of those, in one of my favourite cities, Paris. From the analogue archive of December 1993.

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.

Spectacular Scheveningen Beach at Sunset – June 2024

The Netherlands, Scheveningen – June 2024

The beach of Scheveningen, a few hours before sunset. The hour before sunset is always a kind of holy grail for photographers, but at about three hours before sunset the light over sea starts to change dramatically. The domain of gulls, flying around over the beach restaurants, scavaging for food, lit up against a backdrop of golden rays.

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

Golden Sunset in Scheveningen Beach: A Gull’s Domain

The Netherlands, Scheveningen – June 2024

The beach of Scheveningen, a few hours before sunset, domain of gulls soaring and an incidental kite surfer against a backdrop of golden rays.

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

Scheveningen Boulevard Work: Fence and Gulls Composition

The Netherlands, Scheveningen – June 2024

The Pier of Scheveningen, blocked out by a fence that is erected to work on the boulevard. A weird composition of lines, colours and objects, filled in with some gulls. And I do like the lamp post.

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

Scheveningen and Katwijk aan Zee Diptych

The Netherlands, Scheveningen – June 2024 (top)
The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – June 2024 (bottom)

LAPC 308 is about perfect pairs, by creating a diptych (two images placed in proximity to one another, forming a pair). Every self respecting town and village needs a ferris wheel.

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

Hoek van Holland / Hook of Holland

Hoek van Holland, looking at Maasvlakte, the harbor of Rotterdam.

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

On the edge of 2023

England, Walmer – December 2023

2023 is in its final day, tomorrow opens a brand new year. Not a complete blank canvas, but one with lots of room and opportunities for new initiatives, changes, life! I wish you a wonderful new year in freedom, as a gull on his wings soaring the sea and land. Carpe diem!

Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version.

Paris 2003: watching gulls go by

France, Paris – December 2003

This week LAPC #260 is ‘overlooked’. Taking the word literally, one from the film archives. One of the ponds in Les Tuileries in Paris, looking at the small arch and the Louvre.

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.

Caught in the middle

England, Wells-next-the-Sea, September 2021

Wells-next-the-Sea in Norfolk. One for lens artists weekly photo challenge #171: weird and wonderful.

Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version