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The Link

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Intentional Creative Movement – Light

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – September 2004

This week’s Lens Artitsts Photo Challenge (#321) is Intentional Camera Movement (ICM). Yesterday I published photos shot analogue on film: the result is only visible after developing the film. This one is from 2004 with my first digital Nikon D70. The fun of digital is that you can actually see on the back what the result is, and use this feedback to try again. Digital gives freedom and is cheap and gives instant feedback. 20 years of digital playing.

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Capturing Moments: A Series of SUP Paddler Photos

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – September 2024

Maybe I am not the only one. When I see a wonderful subject, that has to be on a photo, I tend to try out different things fast, to avoid the moment goes. And in the end there is a series of photos that are hard to choose from. What is the solution? I just publish them all. So after SUP Paddler in focus and

the monochrome loneliness of the SUP Paddler here is the last of three. I hope you enjoyed all of them.

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Watering Wild Cows

The Netherlands, Valkenburg – September 2024

‘Wild cows’ enjoy the water in the dunes near Valkenburg. The image is taken by hand on the maximum zoom of the iPhone, so it is a bit unsharp.

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The monochrome loneliness of the SUP Paddler

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – September 2024

Another – monochrome – photo of the SUP Paddler. The full sunrise colorful one is here.

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Unique Sunrise Photo: SUP Paddler in Focus

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – September 2024

The canal is one of my long period objects for photos. I always look if there is something worth a photo when I cross it. Most of the time it is empty, sometimes there is a boat. But this time there was a first: a SUP paddler in a beautiful moody Autumnal sunrise. As if he knew this week’s theme for LAPC #319 is ‘setting a mood’.

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Arcadian View

The Netherlands, Wassenaar – September 2024

A view over the meadows in an old Dutch masters light.

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Tractor On A Gentle Line Of Orange

The Netherlands, Wassenaar – September 2024

The Netherlands is famous for its Spring bulbflower fields, but we produce flowers in Summer and Autumn as well.

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A Gentle Line Of Orange


The Netherlands, Wassenaar – September 2024

Yes, we produce flowers in Summer and Autumn as well.

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Finding Beauty in the Ordinary: Canal Reflections

LAPC #316 is ‘Finding beauty in unexpected places’. One of the objects for photographs is the canal that runs through my village. It is quite ordinary, there is a vast amount of small and little canals to dispose of water in The Netherlands. To manage water in a country that is partly under sea level, one has to build infrastructure to keep dry feet. Two pictures taken at the same moment of the day, slightly different in monochrome style. The first is with the silvertone setting, the last with the dark setting on the iPhone. It changes the atmosphere completely. And one may be more beautiful than the other, it is all in the eye of the beholder.

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A Lake at Sunset

Wetlands Vlietlanden near Voorschoten on a sunny evening.

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Warmond Regatta: Sailing Under Grey Skies in the Netherlands

The Netherlands, Warmond- June 2024

A small regatta on its way under a grey rainy sky.

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Capturing the Charm of Paris: Balcony and French Windows in December 1993

France, Paris – December 2003

LAPC 309 is about balconies. I have to admit that I do not pay special attention to balconies, unless they trigger me as I look around and they catch my eye. I do however ‘collect’ French windows. So occasionally they pop up in a frame. This is one of those, in one of my favourite cities, Paris. From the analogue archive of December 1993.

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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Grey Rainy Sky Regatta in Warmond, Netherlands

The Netherlands, Warmind – June 2024

A small regatta on its way under a grey rainy sky.

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Rowing Backwards

At rowing you move forward by looking backwards all the time, and with a cox the course is set.

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Castle ‘Oud Poelgeest’

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – June 2024

Castle Oud Poelgeest

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Shepherd’s Delight

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2024

The reflection of the sunset in the sky and water, a beautiful display of colors towards the East.

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At The Start Of The Day

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest- March 2024

Sunrise on the J.H. Oortbrug.

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Magnolia

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – January 2024

After dropping its leaves the Magnolia immediately prepares to grow out again in Spring, I always wonder where they get their weather information.

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Rain/Reign o’er me

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – January 2024

The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #289 is ‘tools of photo composition’. Rain on a window distorts the sharpness outside, and adds something extra to the shape of the trees on this wet, Winter day.

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Blue Sky

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – February 2024

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Over The Lake and Far Away

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – February 2024

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See the sun

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – February 2024

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Pond Life

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – January 2024

A sunny afternoon in Winter for this week’s Lens Artists Challenge #286 ‘Weather’.

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Circles

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – January 2024

For LAPC #285 is ‘warm colors’. Temperature is not high right now but the warmth of color in the sun is something to enjoy.

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A colorful road to Christmas

Belgium, Aalter – December 2023

On the road to Christmas to Le Shuttle in Belgium.

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On the road to Christmas

Belgium, Veurne and Koksijde – December 2023

On the road to Calais and Le Shuttle, on a dark grey morning through le plat pays of Jacques Brel.

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Hill of Slane

Ierland, Slane – October 2008

Some photos do not fit the LAPC’s themes, so there is a rest category ‘last chance’ being #280. I never am guided by the themes in the photos I shoot. Some fit in, some don’t. But I never know the theme while shooting. Here is one from the archive I recently stumbled upon, never published.

Slane Hill in Ireland. Close to Slane Castle castle that is famous among other historical facts, for being the recording site for U2’s The unforgettable fire’ in 1984. And famous open air concerts.

Outside the village is The Hill of Slane with a small old ruined chapel, a ruined monastery and a graveyard, overlooking the landscape and the river Boyne.

The most interesting place is a small hill with undergrowth right behind the site, from which this photo was taken.

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Rain and Shine

A Magnolia tree. Autumn is a time of rapid changes. It can be light and sunny with wonderful colors on display, or grim and dim in rain. Both have its unique beauty in my humble opinion.

The lens artists photo challenge #278 is ‘unique’.

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Working from a Train

The Netherlands, Voorschtoten – November 2023

The commute from Den Haag to Leiden by train.

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