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House at the tracks

The Netherlands, Voorschoten – October 2023

The trip from Den Haag to Leiden by train, offers a diverse view on fields and trees.

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Christmas Trends 3

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – October 2023

Christmas is days away, but the garden centers are filled to the brim with items. Apart from the usual, my eye landed on some new objects. Miffy or in Dutch Nijntje. Lens Artists Photo Challenge #271 is ‘contrasts’.

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Christmans Trends 2

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – October 2023

Christmas is days away, but the garden centers are filled to the brim with items. Apart from the usual, my eye landed on some new objects. Lens Artists Photo Challenge #271 is ‘contrasts’.

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Christmas Trends 1

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – October 2023

Christmas is days away, but the garden centers are filled to the brim with items. Apart from the usual, my eye landed on some new objects. Lens Artists Photo Challenge #271 is ‘contrasts’.

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Contrast

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – October 2023

Lens Artists Photo Challenge #271 is ‘contrasts’.

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Tears in sunlight

The Netherlands, Leiden – September 2023

The iPhone improved amazingly for taking photos over the years, but long shots are still a way off what I would like.

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Boat Ride at Dusk

The Netherlands, Leiden – September 2023

A sunset over the Galgewater in Leiden.

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Klinkenberg Triple

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Retro Front

The Netherlands, Leiden – September 2023

Lens Artists Photo Challenge #266 is ‘Time’. The last time I will post about ‘time’.

At the Breestraat in Leiden, one can see an example of a shop front that has been brought back to its old look from years ago. They call it retro. Beautiful.

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GnT o’clock

The Netherlands, Leiden – September 2023

Lens Artists Photo Challenge #266 is ‘Time’. It takes a lot of time to tell everything about the concept of time. 

One of the most heard excuses for having a drink is connected to time. ‘I never drink before 10 pm, but somewhere in the world it is 10 pm’. Cheers.

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On Wings

The Netherlands, Hoofddorp – August 2023
The Netherlands, Hoofddorp – August 2023

Lens Artists Photo Challenge #266 is ‘Time’. It takes a lot of time to tell everything about the concept of time. One aspect of time is how fast or how slow it is.

One common misunderstanding about time is that it can fly. It does not. It is us being mesmerized how a certain amount of time goes faster in specific situations. Eg when you are on holiday, or having a great 😊 time. Each second, minute, hour, day is exactly the same as it ever was. Sometimes time seems to go slower too! Again, a misconception. But what is the figurative opposite of flying? In most of those moments I do wish time could fly.

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Canal Parade Pride Leiden

The Netherlands, Leiden – September 2023

Lens Artists Photo Challenge #266 is ‘Time’. It takes a lot of time to tell everything about the concept of time. One aspect of time is change. In time society changes in most cases. These changes can be political (eg equal voting rights), economical (eg equal pay for men and women) or social (eg inclusion). But of course there are more emancipatory changes possible and needed.

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Rembrandt’s View

The Netherlands, Leiden – September 2023

Lens Artists Photo Challenge #266 is ‘Time’. It takes a lot of time to tell everything about the concept of time.

One of the best musical stories about time is by Pink Floyd: Time of the brilliant timeless album The Dark Side of the Moon, that was released 50 years ago.

This week I try to show aspects that come to my mind. The first is history at present. Places where important moments in time happened. Which you observe from the present.

This is a recent sunset over the Galgewater in Leiden. ‘Where? Why? Of what importance?’ I hear you say. At the bridge on the left side of the frame Rembrandt van Rijn was born. A copy of the mill his father used for his business is on the right. The only thing Rembrandt would have seen is the sunset, and the mills. All the buildings and boats etc are ‘after Rembrandt’.

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Lane 5 Schiphol Amsterdam

The Netherlands, Schiphol Amsterdam – August 2023

This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #265 is ‘Black and White or Monochrome’. The fifth strip of Schiphol is nicknamed the Polderbaan.

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Orchids

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – August 2023

This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #265 is ‘Black and White or Monochrome’. I love working in non color. I am not interested if it is black and white and grey tones or a one color/tone photo.

So here a photo that might be black and white and monochrome.

I developed my skill to identify a good monochrome or black and white photo when I still used film. Translating colors into grey tones is important. If you do not ‘see’ it immediately then see if your camera or phone has a black and white setting. Contrary to an old analogue camera your tests are free and you can see the result immediately. I prefer to shoot in black and white , not in color. Either by using the ‘mono’ setting of my iPhone, or an app like Blackie or Lenka.

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Dirty Windows

The Netherlands, Rijnsburg – August 2023

When you sand clean your outside walls, windows get dirty.

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Incoming

The Netherlands, Amsterdam Schiphol – August 2023

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Drawers

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – July 2023

Lens Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #262 is ‘framing’.

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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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Sugar Cake: estate Sandenburg

The Netherlands, Langbroek – July 2023

Kasteel Sandenburg in Langbroek. An old estate in the center of The Netherlands. Lovingly nicknamed the sugar cake. I wonder why.

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McD

The Netherlands, Sassenheim – July 2023

Lens Artists Photography Challenge #258 us ‘Fences’.

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Donna Donna

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – June 2023

Swallows in the sky, reminding of an old song made very popular by Joan Baez but in its origin it is a yiddish folk song.

This week’s Lens Artists Challenge is ‘Simplicity Photography’.

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In Flow

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Out of the Light

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Boat Trip

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – June 2023

Lens Artists Photograph Challenge #253 is ‘Fragments’. Fragment of a journey.

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Zijl

The Netherlands, Leiden – May 2023

How much more Dutch can a landscape be? Flat, low horizon, water, boat and windmill. and Water Lillies as a substitute for tulips 😂. De Zijl near Leiden.

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In the light of grey

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2023

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Peter Gabriel Amsterdam

Some iPhone shots of the Amsterdam show of the i/o tour, a fabulous show of Peter Gabriel and his wonderful band. The artwork was amazing to watch, each song got a different artful backdrop. When you are 73 years old and still able to touch people this way, creating new work.

Visiting concerts like this makes me dream of being able to bring a proper camera and shoot it from the front of the stage and backstage as a concert photographer. That would be wonderful and challenging. Now it is a look from the distance meeting the limitations of the iPhone; which is by itself a really remarkable camera.

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Bridges

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest- May 2023

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Hospital

The Netherlands, Leiden – May 2023

The Lens Artists Photo Challenge #251 is ‘buildings and other structures’. This the Alrijne Hospital in Leiden. The wings form a beautiful shape with some organic trees and green under a contrasting sky.

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