Mad Man Moon
The Lens Artists Photo Challenge #297 is ‘music to my eyes’. The moon through insulated glass. The story of Mad Man Moon by Genesis.
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Obscured by Trees
The Lens Artists Photo Challenge #297 is ‘music to my eyes’. Images and music are a strong way of bringing back memories, feelings, situations you once experienced. This photo clicked my memory for a Pink Floyd album ‘Obscured by clouds’. It is not so much the clouds that obscure in this image, the branches of the trees create a web of lines over the sky and sun.
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Greenfield
Lens Artists Photo Challenge #296 is ‘abstracts’.
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Bicycles Breestraat
Bycycles passing the townhall of Leiden at the Breestraat, for Lens Artists Photo Challenge #292 ‘People here, there and everywhere’.
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By train
This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #292 is ‘People here, there and everywhere’. One of the stations in Den Haag, Laan van Nieuw Oost-Indië.
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Liberation 1945
This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #292 is ‘People here, there and everywhere’.
I do not know who took this photo, I do not know the date. We assume it is just after World War 2, May 1945. And we assume my father took it. The photo lacks focus unfortunately, but that adds to the thrill of figuring out what is on it. Luckily we could ask the youngest sister of my father (my last aunt still alive); she thinks it is taken just after the war.
There is a parade on the street, observed by people; among them the sisters and brother of my father from the top window of my grandfather’s house (called Weltevreden) where my father lived. The point of view is from a window of the house where my mother lived, and where I would be born 14 years later.
The negative is quite poorly and damaged, but a sweep through Lightroom and Snapseed provided this old memory.
You have to color within the lines
The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #291 is ‘Cityscapes’, The view on the public transport hub and adjacent high risings.
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First Terrace Sun
The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #291 is ‘Cityscapes’. The first sun got people out to enjoy the rays while having a drink on the junction of the Oude Rijn and Nieuwe Rijn in Leiden. On the right De Waag, the weighing house.
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Carriage Wheels
An old photo of ‘ringsteken’ (if you follow the link you can see some photo’s in action). A traditional activity where horse pulled carriages try to pick off little metal rings from a rope held piece of wood hanging over the road. For lens artists challenge #290 Circular by Wonders.
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.
The picture was originally shot with Pentax K1000 on Kodak TriX, scanned from negative and tweaked using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.
Python
The Efteling is a famous theme park in Kaatsheuvel in Brabant. This is one from a dusty archive, with a negative that could have been a lot better in exposure, but at that time you could not look at the back of the camera to see information for improvement! It shows the rollercoaster Python, circling towards the end of the ride. For lens artists challenge #290 Circular Wonders.
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.
Originally shot with Nikon F301 on Kodak TriX, scanned from negative and tweaked using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.
Sunrise
Sunrise on the J.H. Oortbrug for lens artists challenge #290 Circular Wonders. What is most the biggest wonder? The wheels or the sun? It is the first photo of the iPhone 15 Pro Max.
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Rain/Reign o’er me
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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Glass
The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #289 is ‘tools of photo composition’. Light, form and shapes when they appear not to be there.
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Waiting
The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #289 is ‘tools of photo composition’. Waiting for a train, enjoying the sun.
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Magnolia Triple
The Magnolia is in front of the house, outside the kitchen window. Lens Artists Photo Challenge #288 is ‘window shopping’. It is a beautiful view to see it daily taking small steps into Spring.
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Going for Gold
Lens Artists Photo Challenge #288 is ‘window shopping’. Most of the time it is an activity associated with shop displays. I take a different angle, and use windows to shop for something new.
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Over The Lake and Far Away
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See the sun
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Tunnel
The A4 tunnel at Leiderdorp, there is light at then end of it. This week’s Lens Artists Challenge #287 is ‘Sound’
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Den Haag Central Station 10, 9, 8
Central Station Den Haag, a busy mobility hub. This week’s Lens Artists Challenge #287 is ‘Sound’
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Light
This week’s Lens Artists Challenge #287 is ‘Sound’. The road is busy, the sound of cars is in my ears as I try to frame this mill against the sunset, trying to avoid a car in the frame at first. Then zooming out and coming back to the road I ended up with this one, showing the lamplight and the cars coming and fading in the distance. This is the last in a series of four of Windmill ‘Hoop doet leven’ in Voorhout against the Winter sunset. The first three in a list in order of publication:
- Winter sunset
- Winter sunset with car
- Windmill in Winter sunset (monochrome version of the first one)
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Flying Blues
This week’s Lens Artists Challenge #287 is ‘Sound’. Seeing this incoming flight immediately gives the association of its sound. The memory provides that information instantaneously. The image pleases the eye, it is not necessarily the ears agree.
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Pond Life
A sunny afternoon in Winter for this week’s Lens Artists Challenge #286 ‘Weather’.
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En passent
Leiden on a rainy Winter day for this week’s Lens Artists Challenge #286 ‘Weather’.
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Seafront Silhouette
The theme for this week’s Lens Artists Challenge #286 is ‘Weather’.
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Just Passing
A ferry passes an anchored cargoship in the Channel. For LAPC #285 ‘warm colors’.
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Catching Up
The Channel from the England/Kent side, two ships catching up in the reflection of the sunlight. For LAPC #285 ‘warm colors’.
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Winter Sunset
For LAPC #285 is ‘warm colors’. A warm toned Winter sunset.
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Circles
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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Back Alley
The back entrance in the dark, lit by a streetlight and a garden light for LAPC #284 ‘day&night’.
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Kingsdown Beach and Cliffs
The cliffs at Kingsdown at noon for LAPC #284 ‘day&night’.
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Winter Sunset
An iconic view of The Netherlands for many tourists. Windmill ‘Hoop doet leven’ in Voorhout against the Winter sunset for LAPC #284 ‘day&night’.
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Shipping Lane
The Channel from the coast of Kent at Walmer for LAPC #284 ‘day&night’. Start of the morning.
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Sea Front
Dusk at Walmer for LAPC #284 ‘day&night’.
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Tubular Bells
The week towards Christmas there was a beautiful light event in the grounds of Walmer Castle, with a lighted installation that made sounds like tubular bells. A visit in the early evening for LAPC #284 ‘day&night’.
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On the corner
The light on the corner with the low lights of Deal in the background. Imagine the sound of the Channel in the background LAPC #284 ‘day&night’.
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Deal Alley
… For wanting things that can only be found
In the darkness on the edge of town
Bruce Springsteen – Darkness on the edge of town
An alley in Deal for LAPC #283 ‘quote or poem’.
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Waiting Blues
How I wish, how I wish you were here
(…)
Wish you were here
Wish you were here – Pink Floyd
The sea front of Deal for LAPC #283 ‘quote or poem’. It is easy to miss someone or something.
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The whole of the moon
I pictured a rainbow
You held it in your hands
I had flashes
But you saw the plan
I wandered out in the world for years
While you just stayed in your room
I saw the crescent
You saw the whole of the moon
The whole of the moon
The Waterboys – Whole of the moon
The moon over The Channel for LAPC #283 ‘quote or poem’.
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Moon Night
The Channel under a silver moon for LAPC # 283 ‘dramatic’.
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Deal
An old house on Queen Street in Deal, for LAPC #283 ‘dramatic’.
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Blue Moon
The moon over the Channel. ForLAPC # 283 ‘dramatic’.
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Moonlight
The moon over the Channel with two anchored ships on the horizon. ForLAPC # 283 ‘dramatic’.
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Dusk
The Channel at dusk for LAPC # 283 ‘dramatic’.
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Gull
A dark rain sky as a backdrop for LAPC # 283 ‘dramatic’.
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Nobody Can Wait Forever
Old garden furniture, showing the effects of wind and weather for LAPC # 283 ‘dramatic’.
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Amaryllis
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. I’m privileged to live in a country with lots of flowers, having fresh ones weekly in the house.
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Roses
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. I’m privileged to live in a country with lots of flowers, having fresh ones weekly in the house.
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Hill of Slane
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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Gypsophila
Flowers are colorful but sometimes more color is added artificially. The lens artists photo challenge #279 is ‘magical’.
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