What's (in) the Picture?

Chris Breebaart Photography – finding stories

Posts tagged ‘The Netherlands’

Swans

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – March 2022

A picture that does not fit in a category has to fit in ‘odds and ends’, lens artists photo challenge #189. Though this one could have been in ‘cleaning’, ‘swans in habitat’, ‘grooming for professionals’ etc.

Shot with iPhone 11 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version

Green Leaves

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2021

This week lens artists photo challenge is ‘that special place’. The time when the trees start to grow out again, Spring is in full swing and it gets warmer.

Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version

Systematic

The Netherlands, Scheveningen – July 2004

This week lens artists photo challenge is ‘that special place’. The beach is a place to relax, let go and create space and a fresh head. And you can see more than water and beach at times. This one is also an entry for Paula’s pick a word competition on ‘Lost in Translatation’. It looks like the surfers are in chaos, but actually they use the water and wind systematic.

shot with Nikon D70, edited using Snapseed and Marksta.  Click the picture for a larger version

Winter Water

The Netherlands, January 2022

This week lens artists photo challenge is ‘that special place‘. The empty branches of a tree in Winter. During this pandemic I realized that the immediate outside of my house is an inspiration for photos. During the seasons and days it is always nice to look out and sometimes catch a nice view. Looking back over the years I realize that I have always been intrigued by little details near the places where I lived. Making these places special in a certain way.

Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version

Wind Breaker

The Netherlands, Scheveningen – July 2004

This week lens artists photo challenge is ‘that special place’. The beach is a place to relax, let go and create space and a fresh head. And you can see more than water and beach at times. This one is also an entry for Paula’s pick a word competition on ‘Lost in Translatation’. Not completely straight, but straight.

shot with Nikon D70, edited using Snapseed and Marksta.  Click the picture for a larger version

Winter Light

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – January 2022

The sun through bare trees on a Winter’s day with fog.

Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version

Den Bosch

The Netherlands, Den Bosch – May 2004

This weeks challenge #187 is ‘water’.

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

Texel Windmill

The Netherlands, Texel – November 2017

This weeks challenge #187 is ‘water’. Texel one of the West Frisian Island in the Wadden Sea.

Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version

Texel Landscape

The Netherlands, Texel – November 2017

This weeks challenge #187 is ‘water’. Texel one of the West Frisian Island in the Wadden Sea.

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Galgenwater Leiden

The Netherlands, Leiden – June 2016

This weeks challenge #187 is ‘water’. The Galgenwater in Leiden. In the background a replica a of the mill that was used by the father of Rembrandt van Rijn, who was born to the left of the bridge in the distance in 1606, 410 years before this photo.

shot with iPhone 6s plus using Hueless,  edited using Snapseed and Marksta, click the picture for a larger version

Reeuwijkse Plassen

The Netherlands, Reeuwijk – August 2014

This weeks challenge #187 is ‘water’. The Reeuwijkse Plassen is a lake area in the West of The Netherlands.

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Grey Day

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – December 2021

The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #179 is Serene. A grey morning in Autumn.

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Boat

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – December 2021

The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #179 is Serene. A grey morning in Autumn.

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Hazy

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – December 2021

The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #179 is Serene. A grey morning in Autumn.

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Serene Autumn

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – December 2021

The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #179 is Serene. A little canal on a grey morning in Autumn.

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Almost Winter Solstice Sunrise

The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #179 is Serene.

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Grey Morning

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – December 2021

The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #178 is You Choose. A grey morning in Autumn, on the edge of Winter.

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How Amsterdam Airport Schiphol was created

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – December 2021

The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #178 is You Choose. The only thing I chose for this blog was the subject and the photo. The choice to build this canal was made long ago, and one of the spin offs is Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.

Before the pandemic I used to cross this canal twice a day, and I took loads of photos of it, but just recently I found out about its history and historical purpose.

As most of you probably know the Dutch have a long relationship with water, and learned how water could be managed over the ages. About half of The Netherlands is below sea level; the question was and is how to keep it dry? Some say that God created the world but the Dutch created The Netherlands. In reality we manage water. In days of climate change that gets more complex. Not only the amount of water coming in by rivers and rain is growing, the soil of The Netherlands sinks as well.

In 1840 this canal was build. From 1848 the former lake the Haarlemmermeer was turned into the Haarlemmermeerpolder and this canal was used to dump the water of that lake into the North Sea. Schiphol (ship hell) was a spot in that former lake notorious for ship wrecks as the story goes.

Nowadays the canal takes out the water from the West of The Netherlands to the sea at Katwijk.

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Consider the Lillies

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – December 2021

The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #178 is You Choose. About choices in life. Some are easy if there is a lot to choose from.

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Row

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – February 2008

Theme #177 of Lens Artists Photo Challenge is celebrating.

Originally shot with Nikon D70, edited using Snapseed and Marksta.  Click the picture for a larger version

Cyclame

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – November 2021

Theme #177 of Lens Artists Photo Challenge is celebrating.

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Float

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – November 2021

Theme #177 of Lens Artists Photo Challenge is celebrating. Float on the wind.

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Fall Back

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – November 2021

Theme #177 of Lens Artists Photo Challenge is celebrating. Beauty.

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Plumes against a green backdrop

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – November 2021

Theme #177 of Lens Artists Photo Challenge is celebrating. Beauty.

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High Lights

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – November 2021

Theme #177 of Lens Artists Photo Challenge is celebrating. A moment during the day, seeing the light of the sun split. A moment of presence and focus, being quiet for a moment. Thinking of Nicolas Cramer.

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Light

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – November 2021

Theme #177 of Lens Artists Photo Challenge is celebrating. A moment during the day, seeing the light of the sun split on a shrubbery in the front garden. A moment of presence and focus, being quiet for a moment to celebrate life.

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Evidence of Autumn

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – November 2021

The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #176 is One image/one story. That theme matches the subject of my photo blog: What’s (in) the picture? Finding stories. Photo’s tell stories. My story (what made me click my shutter), and the story of the spectator.

Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version

Autumn

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – November 2021

The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #176 is One image/one story. That theme matches the subject of my photo blog: What’s (in) the picture? Finding stories. Photo’s tell stories. My story (what made me click my shutter), and the story of the spectator.

Shot with iPhone 11 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version

Life Cycle

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – November 2021

The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #176 is One image/one story. That theme matches the subject of my photo blog: What’s (in) the picture? Finding stories. Photo’s tell stories. My story (what made me click my shutter), and the story of the spectator.

Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version

Autumn Sunset

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – November 2021

The Autumn was short this year. High temperatures were pleasant, but the amazing colors on leaves that are normal for this time of year, were not present. And when the weather changed the leaves came off the trees very fast. Luckily the sunsets are always there.

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Blue

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – November 2021

Christmas is coming. Some people can’t wait to set up their gardens with light figures. Here is one I would consider, if I would decorate the garden. For this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #175 Follow your bliss.

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Autumn

The Netherlands, Zoetermeer – October 2021

Wild mushrooms. For this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #174 Shapes and Designs.

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Blowing in the Wind

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – October 2021

Grass in the garden, waving in the wind. For this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #174 Shapes and Designs.

Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version

Roof Abstract

The Netherlands, Zoeterwoude – May 2015

A roof of a shopping mall. The theme for this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #173 is interesting architecture.

shot with iPhone 6s plus using Hueless, edited using Snapseed and Marksta, click the picture for a larger version

Concrete

The Netherlands, Den Haag – July 2015

The concrete factory of Dyckerhoff Basal in Den Haag. The theme for this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #173 is interesting architecture.

shot with iPhone 6s plus using Hueless, edited using Snapseed and Marksta, click the picture for a larger version

Little Town

The Netherlands, Schiedam – May 20215

Schiedam, a small town under the smoke of Rotterdam, with its own iconic windmill. Just a little street in a little town, old and more modern mixed. The theme for this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #173 is interesting architecture.

shot with iPhone 6s plus using Hueless, edited using Snapseed and Marksta, click the picture for a larger version

Fly Over Bicycle

The Netherlands, Zoetermeer – July 2015

A fly over for bicycles (we do have lots of bicycle lanes in The Netherlands) in Zoetermeer, architecture as art. The theme for this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #173 is interesting architecture.

shot with iPhone 6s plus using Hueless, edited using Snapseed and Marksta, click the picture for a larger version

Train

The Netherlands, Voorschoten – October 2021


One for lens artists weekly photo challenge #171: weird and wonderful.

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Cinema

The Netherlands, Den Haag – October 2021


One for lens artists weekly photo challenge #171: weird and wonderful. Waiting for No Time To Die.

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View on Scheveningen

The Netherlands, Den Haag – October 2021

A view at Scheveningen from a rainy window, over looking the new covered bicycle park in front of the Central Station.
One for lens artists weekly photo challenge #171: weird and wonderful.

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Hybrid Working

The Netherlands, Voorschoten – October 2021

Since the pandemic started we worked from home. But now we start up to work at home and a few days at the office. Hybrid working. I enjoyed being on a train again, seeing the landscape, so familiar but so pleasingly fresh and new to my eyes, passing by. And yes, of course you meet a signpost on a photo.

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Art

The Netherlands, Lisse – September 2021

In the garden of castle De Keukenhof is also a museum and between the plants there is modern art on display.

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White

The Netherlands, Lisse – September 2021

This is the garden of castle De Keukenhof, which as the name gives away, provided the name for the famous bulb flower exposition the Keukenhof. There is an extremely beautiful set of Dahlia’s flowering in the beautiful garden. A pleasure to explore all different types of Dahlia’s.

Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version.

Red

The Netherlands, Lisse – September 2021

This is the garden of castle De Keukenhof, which as the name gives away, provided the name for the famous bulb flower exposition the Keukenhof. No idea what the name of this flower is, but it is a beauty.

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On Display

The Netherlands, Lisse – September 2021

Castle De Keukenhof is also a popular wedding venue.

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Into the Light

The Netherlands, Lisse – September 2021

This is the garden of castle De Keukenhof, which as the name gives away, provided the name for the famous bulb flower exposition the Keukenhof. There is an extremely beautiful set of Dahlia’s flowering in the beautiful garden. A pleasure to explore all different types of Dahlia’s.

Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version.

Orange

The Netherlands, Lisse – September 2021

This is the garden of castle De Keukenhof, which as the name gives away, provided the name for the famous bulb flower exposition the Keukenhof. There is an extremely beautiful set of Dahlia’s flowering in the beautiful garden. A pleasure to explore all different types of Dahlia’s.

Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger versio