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Delft over Bridges

The Netherlands, Delft – June 2021

The theme for this week Lens-artists challenge #153 is ‘Wonderful World’.

Delft, like other cities in the West of The Netherlands, has an extended canal system, that was used in the past for transport. Lots of little bridges connect the city streets.

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Delft Dog

The Netherlands, Delft – June 2021

The theme for this week Lens-artists challenge #152 is ‘Shadows and Shades’.

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Delft

The Netherlands, Delft – June 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #152 is ‘Shadows and Shades’.

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Latin School

The Netherlands, Leiden – June 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #152 is ‘Shadows and Shades’. This is a school Rembrandt went to.

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Consider Waterlilies

The Netherlands, Delft – June 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #152 is ‘Shadows and Shades’.

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Delft

The Netherlands, Delft – June 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #152 is ‘Shadows and Shades’. Delft was the first city I visited since we went into the pandemic. It is a beautiful old town, famous for pottery (Delft’s Blauw/Delft Blue), the painter Johannes Vermeer and the fact that here William of Orange was murdered. The light was stunning on this warm and sunny day, it reminded me of the South of France.

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Sky 1

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #150 is ‘Let’s go wild’.
A sunset.

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Bridge Revisited

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest -May 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #149 is ‘cool colors, blue and green.

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Bike and Bridge: Green and Blue

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest -May 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #149 is ‘cool colors, blue and green.

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Decomposing Tulip

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #148 is ‘spots and dots’. The tulips lasted weeks this year, but unfortunately heavy wind made them wither fast.

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Rain

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #148 is ‘spots and dots’. This Spring is cold and wet, with grey skies and gusts of rain. So far.

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Cold Spring Rain

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #147 is ‘garden’.

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Garden

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #147 is ‘garden’.

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Blossom Bridge

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #147 is ‘garden’. This is a little park in the neighbourhood.

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Garden

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #147 is ‘garden’. We have a small back garden. At the moment tulips provide color to the fresh green. And tulips come in lots of types and shapes.

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Red

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #146 is ‘focusing on the details’.

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Details

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #146 is ‘focusing on the details’. Tulips in the rain.

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Sunset

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #145 is ‘getting to know you’. Nice to see more sunsets now the days are longer.

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Impressionist Garden View

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #145 is ‘getting to know you’. In Spring work on the garden starts, to prepare for Summer and warmer weather, outside dining and cooking, relaxing in the sun, reading a book. Flowers through a rainy window after the sun comes out again.

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Sun

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #145 is ‘getting to know you’. In Spring work on the garden starts, to prepare for Summer and warmer weather, outside dining and cooking, relaxing in the sun, reading a book. When the sun is low, the light is sometimes fantastic and reflects on the dry grass shoots of last year.

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Spider Lines

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #145 is ‘getting to know you’. In Spring work on the garden starts, to prepare for Summer and warmer weather, outside dining and cooking, relaxing in the sun, reading a book. When the sun is low, the light is sometimes fantastic and reflects on the silver linings of spiders.

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Melt

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2021

The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #145 is ‘getting to know you’. A phenomenon I know my entire life is the weather. However, it still has it surprises, ice rain on a Spring Day?

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Duck

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest- April 2021

The Lens Artists Photo Challenge#144 for this week is ‘taking flight’. This duck can fly but choose to swim by.

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Daffodil backwards

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – March 2021

The Lens Artists Photo Challenge#143 for this week is ‘colorful April’.

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Tulips

The Netherlands, Lisse – March 2008

The Lens Artists Photo Challenge#143 for this week is ‘colorful April’.
An old photo of De Keukenhof Lisse in 2008.

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

Yellow

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2021

The Lens Artists Photo Challenge#143 for this week is ‘colorful April’. To start this week, not a typical Spring flower, a rose.

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Magpie

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2021

The Lens Artists Photo Challenge#142 for this week is ‘you pick it’. It is Spring and birds are building nests. This magpie hits our hanging baskets for building material.

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Cyclamen

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – March 2021

The Lens Artists Photo Challenge#142 for this week is ‘you pick it’.

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Daffodils

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – March 2021

The Lens Artists Photo Challenge#142 for this week is ‘you pick it’.

Daffodils in the rain.

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Grass

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – March 2021

The Lens Artists Photo Challenge#142 for this week is ‘you pick it’.

So here is the first pick: an old grass in sunlight.

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Geometry

England, Chester – July 2010

The 141th Weekly Lens Artists Challenge is ‘geometry ’.

The altar and backdrop of the Chester cathedral in England.

The B4 retouch series
I browsed my archive for pictures to publish. All of them are not completely retouched yet. Scratches, dust and stains are not removed.
Shot with Nikon F90 on Kodak TriX, scanned from film and edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version.

Dusk

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – March 2021

The 140th Weekly Lens Artists Challenge is ‘change of scenery’.

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Spring Daffodil


The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – March 2021

The 140th Weekly Lens Artists Challenge is ‘change of scenery’. During the pandemic my window to the world shrunk. But this year I do what I always do in Spring: shooting the flowers growing right outside the kitchen window. The good old Nikon D500 with long lens being in use again, waiting on the kitchen table each morning when I open the shutters. A micro or macro change of scenery, but nature nurtures not only its plants. Indeed you do not have to go far for a change of scenery.

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Spring

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – March 2021

The 140th Weekly Lens Artists Challenge is ‘change of scenery’. During the pandemic my window to the world shrunk. But this year I do what I always do in Spring: shooting the flowers growing right outside the kitchen window. The good old Nikon D500 with long lens being in use again, waiting on the kitchen table each morning when I open the shutters. A micro or macro change of scenery, but nature nurtures not only its plants. Indeed you do not have to go far for a change of scenery.

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

Lhasa Tibet

Tibet, Lhasa – March 2004

The 139th Weekly Lens Artists Challenge is ‘special moments’. Pilgrims at the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa.

In March 2004 I visited Tibet. It would be an understatement if I said it was just overwhelming. The backdrop of the Himalayas. The fact that we were ‘high’: most of the time 3500 meters over sea level, my normal level of living.
The people and their close contact with religion, Buddhism. All parts of a puzzle that hopefully will bring me back there one day.

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.

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

Stonehenge

England, Stonehenge – June 2005

The 139th Weekly Lens Artists Challenge is ‘special moments’. (click the photo for a the bigger picture, this one needs it 🙂 )

The B4 retouch series
I browsed my archive for pictures to publish. All of them are not completely retouched yet. Scratches, dust and stains are not removed.
Shot with Nikon F90 on Kodak TriX, scanned from film and edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version

Rue Rivoli

France, Paris – April 2000

The 139th Weekly Lens Artists Challenge is about ‘natural light’. Rue Rivoli with its arches and light and darker spaces.

The B4 retouch series
I browsed my archive for pictures to publish. All of them are not completely retouched yet. Scratches, dust and stains are not removed.
Shot with Nikon F90 on Kodak TriX, scanned from film and edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version

Ardennes 1977

Belgium, Ardennes – April 1977

The 139th Weekly Lens Artists Challenge is about ‘natural light’. A view over the hills of the Ardennes in Belgium.

The B4 retouch series
I browsed my archive for pictures to publish. All of them are not completely retouched yet. Scratches, dust and stains are not removed.

Paris 2000

France, Paris – April 2000

The 139th Weekly Lens Artists Challenge is about ‘natural light’.
A peek in a hair dresser shop in Paris April 2000. Image in images.

The B4 retouch series
I browsed my archive for pictures to publish. All of them are not completely retouched yet. Scratches, dust and stains are not removed.
Shot with Nikon F90 on Kodak TriX, scanned from film and edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version

Soft

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – February 2021

The 137th Weekly Lens Artists Challenge is about ‘soft’.
Soft snow on a gentile Buddha.

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Spring

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – February 2021

The 136th Weekly Lens Artists Challenge is about ‘things that start with the letter S’.
One of the first crocuses in the garden.

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Street Paris 2000

France, Paris – April 2000

The 136th Weekly Lens Artists Challenge is about ‘things that start with the letter S’.
A street scene in Paris April 2000.

The B4 retouch series
I browsed my archive for pictures to publish. All of them are not completely retouched yet. Scratches, dust and stains are not removed.
Shot with Nikon F90 on Kodak TriX, scanned from film and edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version

Sweeper

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – February 2021

The 136th Weekly Lens Artists Challenge is about ‘things that start with the letter S’.
A week ago we had snow and ice, today it is Spring. S is a sweeper.

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Colleville sur Mer

France, Colleville sur Mer – July 2011

The theme for the lens-artists#131 is ‘emotions’.

The Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in Colleville sur Mer.

shot with Nikon D7000, edited using Snapseed and Marksta.  Click the picture for a larger version.

Margraten

The Netherlands, Margraten – October 1982

The theme for the lens-artists#131 is ‘emotions’.

This is the American cemetery in Margraten. A place for sadness, but also joy and many thanks.

The B4 retouch series
I browsed my archive for pictures to publish. All of them are not completely retouched yet. Scratches, dust and stains are not removed.

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.

Repost: The Full Moon Inn

England, Morton – December 2017

This year’s last Lens-Artists Challenge (#128) is ‘And here comes the holiday season………..’

The Full Moon Inn in Morton near Southwell. In normal times the pub to celebrate Christmas with friends. See you next year.

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COVID Christmas

The Netherlands, Den Haag – December 2020

The weekly theme for lens artists weekly photo challenge (in short LAPC) #127 is ‘precious moments’.

A memory can be triggered by here and now. Last weekend I visited Den Haag physically for the first time after the lock down started in March. It was exciting and at the same time sad to see the city and the familiar landmarks. ‘Normally’ at this time of year, the center is crowded with people doing Christmas shopping, but now it is (depending on the hour of the day) more or less quiet. At times it is however too busy. The apparent human need to cluster closely together (in shops, or at home) is probably a reason why we see a rise in cases again. Tonight a more strict lock down will be announced. To curb the second wave. Department stores like the 150 year old Bijenkorf and other ‘unnecessary’ shops will close again. That hurts them enormously. But luckily there is light at the end of this tunnel. I hope the light of Christmas will soon turn into a bright sun that opens up our now small worlds and gives us the space and opportunities to be more human again. Till then: courage.

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Rain Drops

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – February 1979

The theme for Weekly Lens Artists 126 is ‘A stands for … ’.

A is of course Aqua, water.
I just found out that I republished this photo. First time was March 2020.

The B4 retouch series
I browsed my archive for pictures to publish. All of them are not completely retouched yet. Scratches, dust and stains are not removed.

The  picture was scanned from negative and tweaked using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version