sunset

Luxor Temple – 2002

This week LAPC #254 is ‘spiritual places’. View on the Luxor Temple, with in the back ground the Nile at sunset. On the left one of the obelisks can still be seen, the one that used to be on the right is now in Paris on the Place de la Concorde.

The B4 retouch series
I browsed my archive for pictures to publish. All of them are not completely retouched yet. Scratches, dust and stains are not removed. Shot with Nikon F90 on Kodak TriX, scanned from film and edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version

Skyscape

Lens Artist Photo Challenge #250 (hurray) is ‘Cloudscapes or Skyscapes’.

Archive Oegstgeest

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Lens Artist Photo Challenge #250 (hurray) is ‘Cloudscapes or Skyscapes’.

Living in a land flat as a pancake, makes one used to see a low horizon and lots of sky. Hence we do not pay too much attention to it probably, if it’s blue it’s fine, if it’s grey there is a lot of grey. The only exception are sunrises and sunsets. They can be majestic.

Archive Oegstgeest

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Sunset

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – February 2023

The Lens Artists Photo Challenge #246 is ‘still life’.

Archive Oegstgeest

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Holkham Estate at Dusk

The weekly theme for LAPC #238 is ‘alone time’. Dusk at Holkham Hall

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Dorking

Archive England

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Sunset

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – September 2022

Archive Oegstgeest

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Sunset Circles

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Sunset

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Impressions

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Scheveningen Sunset with Kite Surfers

The Netherlands, Scheveningen – August 2022

Archive Scheveningen

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Sunset Scheveningen

Archive Scheveningen

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Van Brienenoordbrug in Sunset

The Van Brienenoordbrug in Rotterdam.

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Blues

Sunset against dramatic clouds.

Archive Oegstgeest

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Over Rooftops

Sunset against dramatic clouds.

Archive Oegstgeest

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Orange Skies

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – June 2022

A sunset sky with airplane’s and birds flying, silhouetting the sky.

Archive Oegstgeest

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Pastel Light Out

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2022

Monochrome Rose

Lens-Artists weekly photo challenge #198 is ‘light and shadow’.

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Red Skies over Paradise

Lens-Artists weekly photo challenge #198 is ‘light and shadow’.

Archive Oegstgeest

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Solar Power

The Netherlands, Rijsenhout-Burgerveen A4 – April 2022

Lens-Artists weekly photo challenge #198 is ‘light and shadow’. Solar panels along the A4 motor way south of Schiphol Airport.

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Fire over Rooftops

Lens-Artists weekly photo challenge #198 is ‘light and shadow’.

Archive Oegstgeest

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Take Off

The Netherlands, Schiphol Amsterdam – March 2022

This week Lens Artists Photography Challenge #192 is ‘Earth Story’.

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Sunset through a dirty car window

This week Lens Artists Photography Challenge #192 is ‘Earth Story’.

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Golden Hour

The weekly LAPC (Lens Artists Photo Challenge) #182 is ‘interesting objects’. Golden hour on Lesbos.

Archive Greece

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Sunset

The weekly LAPC (Lens Artists Photo Challenge) #182 is ‘interesting objects’. One of the most shot objects must be the sunset.

Archive Greece

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Sunset

The weekly LAPC (Lens Artists Photo Challenge) #182 is ‘interesting objects’. One of the most shot objects must be the sunset.

Archive Greece

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Off Shore

The weekly LAPC (Lens Artists Photo Challenge) #182 is ‘interesting objects’. Off the west coast of Lesbos.

About the B4 retouch series:
I browsed my archive for pictures to publish. Some of them are partly retouched but most do have scratches, dust and stains.

Shot with Nikon F90 on Kodak TriX, scanned from film and edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version

Golden Sunset

Archive Greece

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No One is an Island

Off the west coast of Lesbos.

No man is an island,
Entire of itself,
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thy friend’s
Or of thine own were:
Any man’s death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind,
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee. John Donne

About the B4 retouch series:
I browsed my archive for pictures to publish. Some of them are partly retouched but most do have scratches, dust and stains.

Shot with Nikon F90 on Kodak TriX, scanned from film and edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version

Aquatic Silhouette

The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #178 is You Choose.

The shore before Saint Malo, in Brittany.

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From the archive: L’Opera Paris 1989

Opéra Bastille.

About the B4 retouch series:
I browsed my archive for pictures to publish. Some of them are partly retouched but most do have scratches, dust and stains.

For more information on how to join the Weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenges, click here for details.

Originally shot with Nikon F301 on Kodak TriX, scanned from negative and tweaked using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.

From the archive: Les Tuileries Paris

Les Tuileries.

About the B4 retouch series:
I browsed my archive for pictures to publish. Some of them are partly retouched but most do have scratches, dust and stains.

For more information on how to join the Weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenges, click here for details.

Originally shot with Nikon F301 on Kodak TriX, scanned from negative and tweaked using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.

Off the Rocks

T he theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #160 is ‘Your Inspiration’.

Bretagne has one of the most beautiful coastlines in the world. I love the rocks and the breaking water. A dangerous shore for sure, but a beautiful source of inspiration. Here a part of the marked entrance to the port of Saint-Malo,.

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Saint-Malo Rocks

T he theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #160 is ‘Your Inspiration’.

Bretagne has one of the most beautiful coastlines in the world. I love the rocks and the breaking water. A dangerous shore for sure, but a beautiful source of inspiration. Here the rocks near Saint-Malo,.

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Saint-Malo Sunset

T he theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #159 is ‘Postcards’.

The sunset at Saint-Malo,.

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La Défense

The theme for this week Lens-artists challenge #157 is ‘getting away’.

La Défense is a big, modern office area in Paris.

About the B4 retouch series:
I browsed my archive for pictures to publish. Some of them are partly retouched but most do have scratches, dust and stains.

Shot with Nikon F301 on Kodak TriX, scanned from film and edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version

La Défense (Assurance)

The theme for this week Lens-artists challenge #157 is ‘getting away’.

La Défense is a big, modern office area in Paris.

About the B4 retouch series:
I browsed my archive for pictures to publish. Some of them are partly retouched but most do have scratches, dust and stains.

Shot with Nikon F301 on Kodak TriX, scanned from film and edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version

La Défense (Blocs)

The theme for this week Lens-artists challenge #157 is ‘getting away’.

La Défense is a big, modern office area in Paris. I remember my teacher for French saying she did not like it at all, too modern, on the old axe of the Champs Elysées and Louvre. Years later I was curious about the area and went there on a long weekend trip, hoping for some nice images. Feeling small between the buildings of big companies, rising high up over the skyline of Paris. An alienating place, where human size did not seem to matter.

About the B4 retouch series:
I browsed my archive for pictures to publish. Some of them are partly retouched but most do have scratches, dust and stains.

Shot with Nikon F301 on Kodak TriX, scanned from film and edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version

Rendez-vous

The theme for this week Lens-artists challenge #156 is ‘black and white’.

Le Conquet is a small village in the Finistère in the West of Brittany (Bretagne) in France.

About the B4 retouch series:
I browsed my archive for pictures to publish. Some of them are partly retouched but most do have scratches, dust and stains.

Shot with Nikon F90 on Kodak TriX, scanned from film and edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version

Feathers

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #150 is ‘Let’s go wild’.
A sunset.

Archive Oegstgeest

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Sky 2

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #150 is ‘Let’s go wild’.
A sunset.

Archive Oegstgeest

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Couple

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #150 is ‘Let’s go wild’.
Near our house there is an artificial lake created by the need for sand for infrastructural building. The sand was used to build a railway and as a base for houses and roads. On the banks is big nest box for Sand Martins. They come all the way from Africa and normally hatch in steep river walls. After creating their offspring they move back to Africa. In the setting sun they play in the sky, chasing each other.