View of Scheveningen from Katwijk aan Zee
View on Scheveningen in the distance.
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Ripples
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Feeling Blue
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All Along The Watchtower
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Single Leave Window
A leave on a window.
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No Worries
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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 Zijlpoort in Leiden seen from a passing car while not driving.
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Offspring
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Going Up Going Down
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About The Road
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There is a Crack in Everything: A Photographic Journey
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
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
Summer is gone, the garden turns to Winter. The warm weather pulled out some more flowers.
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Intentional Creative Movement – Light
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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Exploring the Amsterdam-Sloterdijk Power Plant
A fossil power plant on smoke, next to the A5 in Amsterdam-Sloterdijk.
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Imagining the Blooming Flower Fields of Voorhout
In about six months these fields will be covered with blooming bulb flowers. Can you imagine the colors?
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Sky High
The roses did well this year.
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About The Horizon
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Arcadian View
A view over the meadows in an old Dutch masters light.
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Tractor On A Gentle Line Of Orange
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
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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Terrace Life
LAPC #316 is ‘Finding beauty in unexpected places’.
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View On A Bridge From A Bridge
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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One Missing Letter: Willy Zuid
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
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
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 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 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 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 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 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 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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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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Magnificent Sunset at Katwijk Beach, Netherlands
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 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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Noordzee Beach: A Stunning Sunset View | Lens Artists Challenge 314
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?
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 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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On Track
A balanced rollercoaster at Drievliet.
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Captivating View at Drievliet from the Ferris Wheel
The Netherlands, Den Haag – August 2024
Drievliet is a small and very old amusement park. A view from the ferris wheel looking at downtown Den Haag.
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What's (in) the Picture? 