Cabbage Flower
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With a bit of imagination you can spot some ghosts in these night clouds. Happy Halloween!
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Christmas is days away, but the garden centers are filled to the brim with items. Apart from the usual, my eye landed on some new objects. Lens Artists Photo Challenge #271 is ‘contrasts’.
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Lens Artists Photo Challenge #270 is ‘on display’. A window display and street display of a shop in Naarden, The Netherlands.
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Lens Artists Photo Challenge #269 ‘over the edge’.
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The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – September 2023
Lens Artists Photo Challenge #269 ‘over the edge’.
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The iPhone improved amazingly for taking photos over the years, but long shots are still a way off what I would like.
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This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #265 is ‘Black and White or Monochrome’. The fifth strip of Schiphol is nicknamed the Polderbaan.
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The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – August 2023
This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #265 is ‘Black and White or Monochrome’.
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This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #265 is ‘Black and White or Monochrome’.
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The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – August 2023
A windy day with some beautiful clouds on a Sunday at the beach in Katwijk. The clear views showed the curve of the coastline, with the silhouette of Scheveningen in the south, and beyond that, the harbor of Rotterdam.
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Lens Artists Photo Challenge #264 is ‘primary colours’.
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Lens Artists Photo Challenge #264 is ‘primary colours’.
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June was a beautiful month full of sun and warmth. July was less, let’s hope August has some more blue skies for us. This week LAPC #259 is ‘unbound’.
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The Netherlands, Leiden – June 2023
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This week’s Lens Artists Challenge is ‘Simplicity Photography’.
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Swallows in the sky, reminding of an old song made very popular by Joan Baez but in its origin it is a yiddish folk song.
This week’s Lens Artists Challenge is ‘Simplicity Photography’.
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A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
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Lens Artists Photograph Challenge #253 is ‘Fragments’. Fragmented thoughts under a canape of flowers.
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This year the wisteria was flowering like never before, and the smell and view was so enjoyable. Now it is over its peak, lucklily we still have the photos and memories.
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Lens Artist Photo Challenge #250 (hurray) is ‘Cloudscapes or Skyscapes’.
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The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2023
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The Netherlands, Lisse Keukenhof – May 2023
The Keukenhof is one of the most fantastic flower gardens in the world, displaying the beauty of millions of bulb flowers on display in a fantastic park. To close the bulb season the last photos of bulb flowers this year.
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The bulb flower season is behind us. A view on the fields as a reminder.
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At the flower parade in Voorhout.
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The LAPC theme #248 is ‘mood’.
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The LAPC theme #248 is ‘mood’.
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The LAPC theme #248 is ‘mood’.
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The LAPC theme #248 is ‘mood’.
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The yearly flower parade of the Bollenstreek showing bulb flower creativity and offering mesmerizing smells. Just snaps of the iPhone of the floats and other stuff that caught my attention.
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The yearly flower parade of the Bollenstreek showing bulb flower creativity and offering mesmerizing smells. Just snaps of the iPhone of the floats and other stuff that caught my attention.
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The yearly flower parade of the Bollenstreek showing bulb flower creativity and offering mesmerizing smells. Just snaps of the iPhone of the floats and other stuff that caught my attention.
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Tulips are the last Spring bulb flowers to appear. The reds are in house, the others are in the garden. Lens Artists Photography Challenge #245 is ‘Environment’.
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Lens Artists Photography Challenge #245 is ‘Environment’. I am happy to live near to the sea and beach. Even on a grey day.
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The Netherlands, Voorhout/Rijnsburg – April 2023
Lens Artists Photography Challenge #245 is ‘Environment’.
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The Netherlands, Voorhout – April 2023
At this time of Spring the bulbfields deliver their richness and beauty in rows of flowers, stretching over the land like post stamps. Living in this area of The Netherlands for a long time, this is quite a ‘normal’ event. I try to remember the first time I saw it as a child, being amazed by the perfume and splendour of the fields, just to keep me appreciating it as it should.
Lens Artists Photography Challenge #245 is ‘Environment’.
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The weekly theme for LAPC #244 is ‘glowing moments’.
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The Netherlands, Noordwijk – February 2023
The weekly theme for LAPC #244 is ‘glowing moments’.
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The Netherlands, Voorhout and Lisse – April 2023
The beginning of April, and a first view of the bulbs starting to flower slowly.
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