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Red and Gold

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – October 2024

The iPhone had developed into a nice camera. It is not the same quality als a DSLR or system camera, but it is a lovely point and shooter with more and more options added. The zoom is quite nice, but the human side – holding it still – is a challenge.

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Blue Canal in Autumn

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – October 2024

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Silence in Nature: Exploring Autumn’s Beauty

This week lens artists challenge #323 is ‘silence’. Autumn is a time where we move towards the end of the cycle, preparing for Winter. A time of letting go with the awareness that nature is preparing for Spring. The cycle of life at work, complexity in simplicity.

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Lens Artists Photo Challenge #323: Embracing Silence

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – October 2024

This week lens artists challenge #323 is ‘silence’. How to depict silence?

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About The Road

The Netherlands, Schiphol Amsterdam – October 2024

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Embracing Imperfection: Life’s Beautiful Cycle (Look what the cat left behind)

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – October 2024

Maybe the best example of perfect imperfection is the cycle of life we see every day around us. When the leaves fall in Autumn in fact nature is preparing for its next Spring. This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #322 is ‘there is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in’. The quote is from a verse by Leonard Cohen about imperfection and beauty, redemption, healing and growth.

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, in everything
That’s how the light gets in

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There is a Crack in Everything: A Photographic Journey

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – October 2024

This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #322 is ‘there is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in’. The quote is from a verse by Leonard Cohen about imperfection and beauty, redemption, healing and growth to overcome pain and hurt. The origin is more ‘cosmic’ and is much older (e.g. Rumi): the only perfect ‘being’ (the light) is the source of all. As humans we are not perfect but we can let the light in to heal our wounds and pain. And essentially learn from it.

Yesterday I showed a photo from the bright side, this one is from the sunrise, and I must say I love the light and the atmosphere.

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The Sunny Side

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – October 2024

This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #322 is ‘there is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in’. It is from a verse by Leonard Cohen about imperfection and beauty. This photo is just a blunt statement: the light comes from the right. But considering my more frequent photo moments in the early morning on this spot, it is after noon. A total different view on the same view. The way the light hits a scene gives it meaning. And shows different details. It softens, warms an strikes with a tender touch, showing the deeper beauty. Not perfect, but priceless.

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The Last of the 2024 Roses

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – October 2024

Summer is gone, the garden turns to Winter. The warm weather pulled out some more flowers.

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Exploring the Amsterdam-Sloterdijk Power Plant

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

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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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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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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Terrace Life

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

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

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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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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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 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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Noordzee Beach: A Stunning Sunset View | Lens Artists Challenge 314

The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – August 2024

The theme for this week LAPC 314 is ‘shorelines‘. My main shoreline is the beach of the Noordzee. And the views it offers, particularly at special moments of the day like a sunset. The sky looks like it offers an extra layer of reflection for the sun, a second horizon.

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Is It A Romantic Sunset Shot Or Just The Two Of Us?

The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – August 2024

When you are on a spot where you see such a wonderful sunset, it is normal to shoot multiple photos. This couple appeared in a few of the photos already, but each time they are in a shot, it is the framing of a different story as I see it. Maybe you do too. The theme for this week LAPC 314 is ‘shorelines‘.

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All Ready For Tomorrow


The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – August 2024

The sun sets, everything is cleaned up and ready for tomorrow for new clients. It is the Summer rhythm of the beach on the shoreline of the Noordzee. The theme for this week LAPC 314 is ‘shorelines‘.

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On The Shoreline


The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – August 2024

Sunsets can be shared! The theme for this week LAPC 314 is ‘shorelines‘.

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Sunset On The Shoreline

The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – August 2024

The sun sets in Katwijk, exposing the sea to a layer of gold. The theme for this week LAPC 314 is ‘shorelines‘.

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Fly Over

The Netherlands, Schiphol Amsterdam – August 2024

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