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Posts tagged ‘The Netherlands’
The Last (?) Domino – Genesis
After fifty years Genesis is touring the world for what seems a final time in The last (?) Domino Tour. I admit I was a bit skeptic, having heard the you-tube video’s of the shows in 2021, given Phil Collins’ health issues. Seeing him enter the stage slowly, sitting down was emotional, and a bit scary. But when he sat he was there, eyes firing, witty (‘now we only have old songs’ (referring to his anger at a Dutch audience in 1981 in Leiden), playing the audience as he used to do. And singing his heart out. No longer able to play the drums. He is fragile, but what a persona on stage, his voice beautifully supported by two backing singers, and his son Nic Collins on drums. What a talent. The other oldies Mike Rutherford (hopping around as always) and Tony Banks (stoic and focused), with Daryl Stuermer blowing the roof of the Ziggo Dome. At times it was emotional, the music was a bright mix of their prog and pop period, with standards (I know what I like) and classics (Cinema Show, In that Quiet Earth/Afterglow, Firth of Fifth). Standing the age of time, showing an impressive body of work over the years. It was a beautiful and moving farewell, that ended with The Carpet Crawlers: you got to get in to get out. Chills and goose bombs, perfect sound and a band at work smoothly, after a break of 15 years. Thanks for the memories guys.
And it was a nice time to use my iPhone 13 Pro Max.
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Bleak Morning
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Sun is up
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Spring
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Close
Covid is still among us, but slowly we start up to the new normal. That means going back to the office some days a week, hence being in a train again. Here a view out of the window.
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Daffodils
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Ripples
A picture that does not fit in a category has to fit in ‘odds and ends’, lens artists photo challenge #189.
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Push
A picture that does not fit in a category has to fit in ‘odds and ends’, lens artists photo challenge #189.
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Swans
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.
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Green Leaves
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.
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Systematic
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.
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Winter Water
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.
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Wind Breaker
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.
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Winter Light
The sun through bare trees on a Winter’s day with fog.
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Den Bosch
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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Texel Windmill
This weeks challenge #187 is ‘water’. Texel one of the West Frisian Island in the Wadden Sea.
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Texel Landscape
This weeks challenge #187 is ‘water’. Texel one of the West Frisian Island in the Wadden Sea.
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Galgenwater Leiden
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.
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Reeuwijkse Plassen
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 theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #179 is Serene. A grey morning in Autumn.
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Boat
The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #179 is Serene. A grey morning in Autumn.
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Hazy
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 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 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 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 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
Theme #177 of Lens Artists Photo Challenge is celebrating.
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Cyclame
Theme #177 of Lens Artists Photo Challenge is celebrating.
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Float
Theme #177 of Lens Artists Photo Challenge is celebrating. Float on the wind.
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Fall Back
Theme #177 of Lens Artists Photo Challenge is celebrating. Beauty.
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Plumes against a green backdrop
Theme #177 of Lens Artists Photo Challenge is celebrating. Beauty.
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High Lights
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
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 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.
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Autumn
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.
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Life Cycle
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.
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Autumn Sunset
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
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
Wild mushrooms. For this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #174 Shapes and Designs.
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Blowing in the Wind
Grass in the garden, waving in the wind. For this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #174 Shapes and Designs.
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Roof Abstract
A roof of a shopping mall. The theme for this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #173 is interesting architecture.
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Concrete
The concrete factory of Dyckerhoff Basal in Den Haag. The theme for this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #173 is interesting architecture.
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Little Town
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.
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Fly Over Bicycle
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.
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Train
One for lens artists weekly photo challenge #171: weird and wonderful.
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Cinema
One for lens artists weekly photo challenge #171: weird and wonderful. Waiting for No Time To Die.
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View on Scheveningen
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
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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