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Captivating Views and Exciting Rides: Drievliet, The Hague’s Charming Amusement Park

Drievliet is a small and very old amusement park. Over fifty years ago I first went there on a school trip. Then most of the attractions had to be moved by muscle power. Last week I had my second visit to Drievliet with our grand children. The park is dramatically changed but still has the same appeal to kids: lots of fun to be had on rides, slides, rollercoasters, ferris wheels, merrygorounds etc. And of course the fries and icecream in between. The weather was not that good, but the clouds added to the view from the ferris wheel looking at downtown Den Haag.

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They Call Me The Breeze

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Between The Lines

Dramatic morning over the Haarlemmermeerpolder near Abbenes.

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Fly Over

The Netherlands, Schiphol Amsterdam – August 2024

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Sky View

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – August 2024

The sky is amazing. And everyone with a creative open mind can instantly play with it in lots of ways. Racing clouds home or seeing objects in it. And sometimes it shows an old map leading you into the unknown. The longer you look the more you find. Drawing you in more and more. Connecting with something new but familiair.

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Old Map

The sky is amazing. And everyone with a creative open mind can instantly play with it in lots of ways. Racing clouds home or seeing objects in it. And sometimes it shows an old map leading you into the unknown.

Archive Oegstgeest

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Over Looking

The weekly LAPC #312 is sense of scale’.

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Downside Up Upside Down

The weekly LAPC #312 is sense of scale’. When you look up to the sky for a while, it seems you are looking down from the sky to earth.

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The Enormous Scale of the Sky

The weekly LAPC #312 is sense of scale’. When you look up to the sky and see a plane coming over, one is never that much aware of the enormous scale of the space over our heads.

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Atmosphere in Mono

The sky and clouds are a magnificent and continuous source of inspiration.

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Balance

Sunset over a rooftop.

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Windmill De Valk in Leiden, Netherlands – A Living Museum Since 2000

Windmill De Valk is one of few left in the city. It is a museum, but since 2000 is it being used for milling again.

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A Lake at Sunset

Wetlands Vlietlanden near Voorschoten on a sunny evening.

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Experience Inspiration at Oegstgeest Cut Flowers Field, July 2024

Just around the corner is a field where cut flowers are grown for sale. It is a small beautiful plot with different stages of different flower types. And a good spot for inspiration.

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Warmond Regatta: Sailing Under Grey Skies in the Netherlands

A small regatta on its way under a grey rainy sky.

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Asteroid B 612: Capturing the Power of the Moon

The Moon just stands there it seems, and mostly I do not pay too much attention to it. The power of the moon is enormous though, as it influences the level of the seas on Earth. At odd moments in the evening or morning I grab my camera when I spot the moon, I just can’t resist. This is one of those times, the haziness reminds me of the sand in the Sahara, the setting of Le Petit Prince, a beautiful book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Could this moon be asteroid B 612? The power of imagination, see what your eyes can not see.

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Grey Rainy Sky Regatta in Warmond, Netherlands

A small regatta on its way under a grey rainy sky.

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Horses

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Vlaggetjesdag aka Flag Day

The Netherlands, Scheveningen – June 2024

The Kurhaus is an old style hotel in Scheveningen. It is the only left over of the historical sea facade. The rest was demolished, and replaced with high rising concrete cubes.

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Spectacular Scheveningen Beach at Sunset – 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.

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Golden Sunset in Scheveningen Beach: A Gull’s Domain

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

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Scheveningen Boulevard Work: Fence and Gulls Composition

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.

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Haring / Herring Rock

The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – June 2024

Every self respecting town and village needs a ferris wheel.

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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.

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Side Of Motorway

The same basin of the old watertower that I posted yesterday, but now on top of the barrier of the motorway.

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Sassenheim Watertower Basin in Mono – June 2024

The basin of an old watertower against the sky. It is not the nicest of buildings, but somehow it draws my attention when I see it. Last year I published its head in color, this time I choose for mono.

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Government Departments Soaring Over Den Haag

Government departments rise up in the sky. For some the only way is up.

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Capturing Views from a Train Window

Lines in the sky seen from one of the most beautiful frames for pictures in The Netherlands: a train window offering a beautiful frame with always changing content in it.

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Castle ‘Oud Poelgeest’

Castle Oud Poelgeest.

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Over The Water

Over grown canal and reflections, the division between the park of Oud Poelgeest and the local ice ring.

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Scenic A12 Motorway Lights Fade in June 2024 – Den Haag

The lights seem to fade slowly along the A12 motorway leading into Den Haag.

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Scenic Skies

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Carpet Crawlers: A12 Motorway in Den Haag | June 2024

The A12 motorway leading into Den Haag downtown. You have to get into town to get out of the car, a free wording of a slogan used in the sixties and later in a beautiful Genesis song ‘Carpet Crawlers’ (the link to the Ray Wilson/Steve Hackette live version of 2014 in the Royal Albert Hall)

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On The Beach

A view showing the curve of the Dutch seafront looking at Scheveningen in the South from Katwijk aan Zee.

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Pole King

Sea and Beach king.

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Exploring Rotterdam’s Kop van Zuid | Twins (5)

Architecture can be beautiful in full color as well in monochrome. In ‘twins’ I show the monochrome twin of the color shot at the Kop van Zuid in Rotterdam. The fift and last set is again New Orleans.

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Exploring Rotterdam’s Kop van Zuid | Twins (4)

Architecture can be beautiful in full color as well in monochrome. In ‘twins’ I show the monochrome twin of the color shot at the Kop van Zuid in Rotterdam. The fourth set is New Orleans.

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Exploring Rotterdam’s Kop van Zuid | Twins (3)

Architecture can be beautiful in full color as well in monochrome. In ‘twins’ I show the monochrome twin of the color shot at the Kop van Zuid in Rotterdam. The third set is the Montevideo.

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Exploring Rotterdam’s Kop van Zuid | Twins

Architecture can be beautiful in full color as well in monochrome. In ‘twins’ I show the monochrome twin of the color shot of the high risings in Rotterdam on the Kop van Zuid in Rotterdam. The first set is De Rotterdam by Rem Koolhaas.

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Exploring Rotterdam’s Kop van Zuid | Bench

A bench at the Rijnhaven in Rotterdam on the Kop van Zuid in Rotterdam.

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Exploring Rotterdam’s Kop van Zuid | Old and New

The De Rotterdam towers over the old warehouses on the Kop van Zuid in Rotterdam. The use of housing changed from industrial to living.

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Exploring Rotterdam’s Kop van Zuid | Blocked

LAPC challenge #305 is about composition: two rectangles as a play tool to frame a photo. Sometimes you get lots more than two, which adds to another aspect of composition: repetition. Not sure if this qualifies as a valid entry, but I do like the building. This is De Rotterdam by Rem Koolhaas.