Poppies
The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #104 is ‘Summer’.
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Grass
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – June 2020
The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #104 is ‘Summer’.
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Agapanthus in the Rain
The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #104 is ‘Summer’.
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Bee
The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #104 is ‘Summer’.
Flowers and bee.
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Inbound
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Purple Blue
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Mind the gap
The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #103 is ‘Surprise’.
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White Swan
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Fly By
The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #103 is ‘Surprise’.
Framing a cloudy sunset I got a surpise of a gull flying by.
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G and T
The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #103 is ‘Surprise’.
A nice gin and tonic, a cold surprise on a warm day.
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Silver Linings
The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #102 is ‘A Quiet Moment’.
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Clouds
The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #102 is ‘A Quiet Moment’.
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The Minor Lake
The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #102 is ‘A Quiet Moment’.
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Sunset
The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #102 is ‘A Quiet Moment’.
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Petals
The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #102 is ‘A Quiet Moment’.
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Aachen Saints
The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #102 is ‘A Quiet Moment’.
Little Quiet Moment
The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #102 is ‘A Quiet Moment’.
A baby toad sitting in the sun, in our backyard.
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Poppies
The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #101 is ‘single flower’.
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Red 3
The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #101 is ‘single flower’.
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Rose
The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #101 is ‘single flower’.
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White Swan
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White Rose
The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #101 is ‘single flower’.
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Rose
The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #101 is ‘single flower’.
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Red 2
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The Long And Winding Road
The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #100 is ‘the long and winding road’.
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Lake
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Water Walk
The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #100 is ‘the long and winding road’.
Walking on water is difficult, but if you are afraid to fall (and get wet) you will never learn.
Dark
The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #100 is ‘the long and winding road’.
First congratulations and big thanks to Tina, Ann- Christine, Amy and Patti, for starting this weekly challenge after the WordPress WPC stopped.
The present state of the world and us living on it is far from ideal. By acknowledging this and embrace it, we can start to take steps. Racism, global warming, privilege, hunger, economic greed, poverty all have to do with our behaviour as people. So we can change it. That is a long and winding road. And it will never be perfect or ideal.
When all you can see is dark, the heart sinks. But there is always light, powerful light. One little shimmer can spark change and lighten up our lives. Embrace sparks, encourage them to glow and burn.
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Polder
The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #99 is ‘old and new’.
A polder is a piece of land below the surrounding water level. It is artificial because it is created by man. Dykes are build to make it dry and keep the water out, and canals are made to pump water out, dumping it in canals that eventually bring it back to sea. In the background you see a dyke: behind the dyke is water of a lake. If the dyke was not there you would look at the lake :-). So this is old and new land.
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Red
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – June 2020
The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #99 is ‘old and new’.
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Green
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2020
The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #99 is ‘old and new’.
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Interruption
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2020
The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #99 is ‘old and new’.
During the Corona crisis, most air traffic came to a stop. The skies are blue, and occasionally a plan (mostly cargo) comes over.
Normally every minute a plan approaches Schiphol Amsterdam Airport 25 kilometres to the North. The old is no longer, this new is for the time being.
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Bulbs
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2020
The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #98 is ‘delicate colours’.
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Hanging
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2020
The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #98 is ‘delicate colours’.
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Wisteria
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2020
The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #98 is ‘delicate colours’.
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Sunset
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2020
The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #98 is ‘delicate colours’.
An abstract sunset.
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Light
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2020
The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #98 is ‘delicate colours’.
Wild flowers against a dark backdrop.
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Into the Light
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2020
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Afterglow 2
The Netherlands, Voorhout – May 2020
The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #97 is ‘pastimes’.
A last afterglow on the bulb fields. If you want to see flowers in bloom just check out the archives of flowers and Voorhout.
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Young Swans
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2020
Each Spring we look forward to when young swans are born.
This one is for Dutch goes the Photo ‘return’ theme.
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Out In The Country
The Netherlands, Voorhout – May 2020
The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #97 is ‘pastimes’.
Meadows and scenery in a typical Dutch polder landscape.
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Afterglow
The Netherlands, Voorhout – May 2020
The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #97 is ‘pastimes’.
Normally the bulb fields attract tourists in the Spring. The colours are always fantastic to see. Let alone the smell. In The Netherlands we are in an intelligent lockdown since March 12th. To prevent people from flocking into the bulb fields the growers decided to chop the heads sooner than normal. After all the bulbs that are on the field are meant to be sold, you can order them online from August. The flowers are taking too much strength out of the bulbs, that is why they are chopped off after flowering. Last weekend we spotted two fields still in bloom, and decided to have a closer look on a bicycle ride. This is what we found.
If you want to see flowers in bloom just check out the archives of flowers and Voorhout.
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Sunset over the field
The Netherlands, Katwijk – May 2020
The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #97 is ‘pastimes’.
During the intelligent lockdown we can make short bicycle trips to have some excercise and see the beauty of nature bursting out in Spring. Yesterday I posted two motor powered parachutes against the sky. This is taken from the same viewpoint.
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Sky Trip
The Netherlands, Katwijk – May 2020
The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #97 is ‘pastimes’.
During the intelligent lockdown we can make short bicycle trips to have some excercise and see the beauty of nature bursting out in Spring. These two pilots take it to a higher level in their favourite pastime. Zooming in with the iPhone 11 Max gave this almost paint like rendering of the sky.
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White Rose
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2020
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Back to basics
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2020
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In abundance
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2020
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Grass
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2020
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Proud Parents
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2020
We have a family of great tits as guests in our backyard. The parents fly in and out to feed the unseen – but quite vocally present – brethren. The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #96 is ‘cropping the shot’. Show how and why you crop shots, that is the basic question.
Basically I am not an avid cropper. Certainly in the days of film, cropping let always to the loss of quality. In digital times that is somehow different, especially using RAW format and a much better image capture technology. But in general: when taking the photo I try to frame it the way I want the final result to look like. Sometimes (digital is cheap) I take different frames of the same subject. But sometimes that is not possible.
In this photo – to close the series – a lucky shot of the two proud and very busy parents. I was focussing on one of them in the Wisteria, when the other came into the shot as well. The quality is not that great but it closes this series nicely.
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Stepping Out
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2020
We have a family of great tits as guests in our backyard. The parents fly in and out to feed the unseen – but quite vocally present – brethren. The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #96 is ‘cropping the shot’. Show how and why you crop shots, that is the basic question.
Basically I am not an avid cropper. Certainly in the days of film, cropping let always to the loss of quality. In digital times that is somehow different, especially using RAW format and a much better image capture technology. But in general: when taking the photo I try to frame it the way I want the final result to look like. Sometimes (digital is cheap) I take different frames of the same subject. But sometimes that is not possible.
In this photo the nest is on the back of our shed, and I can sit about 10 meters away, more or less hidden. Even using a long lens (300 mm on a not full frame sensor so approximately 450 mm) I can not get ‘close enough’. Because they are quite tiny, a distant shot is not that interesting to look at. Then cropping is a logical step to come up with a presentable result.
Yesterday I published ‘In Coming‘ that shows how one of the parents approaches the nest. Today a take off from the nest. It is relatively easy to record the departure from the nest: when you see the head, start using the burst and all chances are that you have one nice shot in flight. To show you the amount of crop I added the original frame below.
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