Church Gate
Lens Artists Photo Challenge #204 for this week is ‘doors and doorways’. The partly open gate of the church in Montmorrilon, France.
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Lens Artists Photo Challenge #204 for this week is ‘doors and doorways’. The partly open gate of the church in Montmorrilon, France.
shot with Nikon D70, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.
Lens Artists Photo Challenge #204 for this week is ‘doors and doorways’. Old houses in Caylus, France.
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Lens Artists Photo Challenge #204 for this week is ‘doors and doorways’. An old photo of a gate in Cordes-sur-Ciel in France.
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Lens Artists Photo Challenge #204 for this week is ‘doors and doorways’. An old photo of doors in Montpellier France.
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
Lens Artists Photo Challenge #204 for this week is ‘doors and doorways’. An old photo of the opening of parliament in The Netherlands, the third Tuesday of September.
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
Lens Artists Photo Challenge #203 for this week is ‘local vistas’. The restaurant of De Bijenkorf in Den Haag.
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Lens Artists Photo Challenge #203 for this week is ‘local vistas’.
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Lens Artists Photo Challenge #203 for this week is ‘local vistas’.
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Lens Artists Photo Challenge #203 for this week is ‘local vistas’.
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Overtaking a farmer in a field next to the motorway. The Netherlands is as flat as a pancake here, and imagine a sea level about six meters higher than where we are. Well we are used to it. Lens Artists Photo Challenge #203 for this week is ‘local vistas’.
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Lens Artists Weekly Challenge #202 is ‘Minimalism/Maximilism‘.
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Lens Artists Weekly Challenge #202 is ‘Minimalism/Maximilism‘.
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Lens Artists Weekly Challenge #202 is ‘Minimalism/Maximilism‘.
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Lens Artists Weekly Challenge #202 is ‘Minimalism/Maximilism‘.
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Lens Artists Weekly Challenge #202 is ‘Minimalism/Maximilism‘.
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Lens Artists Weekly Challenge #202 is ‘Minimalism/Maximilism‘.
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Lens Artists Weekly Challenge #202 is ‘Minimalism/Maximilism‘. I think this would categorize in maximalism. But I might be wrong.
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The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2022
Lens Artists Weekly Challenge #200 is ‘Three of a kind’.
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The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2022
Lens Artists Weekly Challenge #200 is ‘Three of a kind’.
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The Netherlands, Warmond – May 2022
Lens Artists Weekly Challenge #200 is ‘Three of a kind’.
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Lens Artists Weekly Challenge #200 is ‘Every little thing’.
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Lens Artists Weekly Challenge #200 is ‘Every little thing’.
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Lens Artists Weekly Challenge #200 is ‘Every little thing’.
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Lens Artists Weekly Challenge #200 is ‘Every little thing’.
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Lens Artists Weekly Challenge #200 is ‘Every little thing’. The horizon is low, things look small in a distance.
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Lens Artists Weekly Challenge #200 is ‘Every little thing’.
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Lens Artists Weekly Challenge #200 is ‘Every little thing’. Lots of small things, but flowers, and how they open up meeting the sun, are all around. Here the first part of an Allium flower courageously opens up.
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Lens artists photo challenge #199 is ‘mechanical/industrial’. Last Saturday was national windmill day. Here a Dutch landscape on a water front. The mill was used in the past to get water out of the polder into this little lake.
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mLens artists photo challenge #199 is ‘mechanical/industrial’. I have a soft spot for planes coming over against the backdrop of the sky.
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Lens artists photo challenge #199 is ‘mechanical/industrial’. I have a soft spot for planes coming over against the backdrop of the sky.
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Lens artists photo challenge #199 is ‘mechanical/industrial’. Cows are fed at the stable. My first entry to cell pic Sunday.
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Lens-Artists weekly photo challenge #198 is ‘light and shadow’.
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Lens-Artists weekly photo challenge #198 is ‘light and shadow’.
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Lens-Artists weekly photo challenge #198 is ‘light and shadow’.
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Lens-Artists weekly photo challenge #198 is ‘light and shadow’. Solar panels along the A4 motor way south of Schiphol Airport.
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Lens-Artists weekly photo challenge #198 is ‘light and shadow’.
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The Netherlands, Lisse – April 2022
The growing era of daffodils, hyacinths and tulips for this year is gone. Here a few photos of a little piece of land, with a nice skyline and sun.
The Lens-artists challenge #197 is ‘rule of thirds’. The rule of thirds is a rule of thumb how to compose images. But a photo that creates a journey of the eye can also be made by using lines and colors. Even when the horizon is not on 1/3.
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The Lens-artists challenge #197 is ‘rule of thirds’. The rule of thirds is a rule of thumb how to compose images. But a photo that creates a journey of the eye can also be made by using lines and colors. Even when the horizon is not on 1/3.
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The Lens-artists challenge #197 is ‘rule of thirds’. The rule of thirds is a rule of thumb how to compose images. But a photo that creates a journey of the eye can also be made by using lines and colors. This is the view from Den Haag Central Station to Scheveningen.
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The Lens-artists challenge #197 is ‘rule of thirds’. The rule of thirds is a rule of thumb how to compose images. There are more ‘rules’; another is the ‘s’ like in the photo above. But there are other ‘rules’ to make a photo attractive, and one is the use of lines. The city hall of Leiden.
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The Lens-artists challenge #197 is ‘rule of thirds’. The rule of thirds is a rule of thumb how to compose images. There are more ‘rules’; another is the ‘s’ like in the photo above. Whatever rule you like to use: break them and tweak them till you are happy with the result of the photo you are putting together. In the end your gut tells a lot about what constitutes a decent picture to your liking.
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The Lens-artists challenge #196 is ‘humor‘. Some early youngsters walking the footpath, hitting some rain water, being out of their depth.
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The Lens-artists challenge #196 is ‘humor‘. A bit of a weird moment meting a Delta plane overhead.
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The Lens Artists Photo Challenge this week is #195: colorful expressions. The iPhone13 Pro has a great macro functionality. I just tried it out resulting in this detail of a rose.
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The Lens Artists Photo Challenge this week is #195: colorful expressions.
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The Lens Artists Photo Challenge this week is #195: colorful expressions.
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The Lens Artists Photo Challenge this week is #195: colorful expressions.
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The Lens Artists Photo Challenge this week is #195: colorful expressions.
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The Lens Artists Photo Challenge this week is #194: bokeh.
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