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DAY 021 – 100 DAY JOURNAL – SPRING

SPRING

Magnolia

YES! I love spring! It means a lot to me. It’s the start of a new episode in life. As well as in nature and in my personal life too. I always liked to write on the first blanc page of a new exercise-book. It’s the feeling of a new start. And I think new starts are welcome in life. Maybe just the idea of a new start is sufficient, because nobody can deny the past. Anyway, it’s spring and new opportunities are here today. First I like to state that I love the fresh ands new colors of spring. They are born again and feed my poetic feelings. I hope to write about them in future als well as to photograph them.

(meer…)

By |24 maart, 2017|100 Day journal, Fotografie, Natuur|0 Comments

DAY 020 – 100 DAY JOURNAL – MEMORY

ROOS

Looking back to the past is not always a pleasure. But this time – with spring in mind – I aspecially remember the days of autumn with the low sunshine at the evening. The only remaining thing in my garden is this rose-hip, which I like because of the color in combination with the green background. I think it possible to find something out of the past to be interesting most of the time. Mainly it’s the way we look at it that it makes something of interest. As far as I know looking and seeing are different things. Most of the time seeing appears later on. So I consist in looking, hoping to see earlier nowadays.

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By |24 maart, 2017|100 Day journal, Fotografie, Natuur|0 Comments

DAY 017 – 100 DAY JOURNAL – CLOSE TO HOME

Close to home: There’s a lot of work to do in the garden. I do love it, because it is mindful. It is just doing things. No way of frequently thinking, although that’s how I feel it. Being mindful is always encouraging. Being silent too. It seems to me that gardening is always inviting to act like that. Besides a garden is a home for  birds to make their nest, it is a place I like to get rid of my worries.

Tuin

It is to compare to a picture in black and white. No distractions at all. Even a rake looks beautiful. Especially close to home. So it’s me, acting in the universe. Meanwhile……

ENJOY LIFE

(meer…)

By |24 maart, 2017|100 Day journal, Fotografie, Natuur|0 Comments

DAY 019 – 100 DAY JOURNAL – TOSTITIME

TOSTITIME

TOSTI

They won’t stay there for a long time. Today it’s tostitime. I like that word. To me it means slow down, take your free time. Weekend time. Do nothing. Do less. Anyway don’t hurry, be happy. Be silent. As Eckhart Tolle reminds me to: “The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.” I translate it into ‘there’s always a way to reset your situation’. Sometimes you have to think about is, sometimes you just listen to your own heart and follow the signal but never the noise. (meer…)

By |19 maart, 2017|100 Day journal, Fotografie|0 Comments

DAY 018 – 100 DAY JOURNAL – CITY

This city never ends. Designers still find something not discovered or find a new model for something existing. Anyway there’s a lot of fun building a new city with the items chosen after a long time of serious consideration. Even nowadays with lots of electric toys and computergames the magic continues. It’s amazing to see the joy after finishing the hours of hard work.

STAD

After innumerably pieces…

ENJOY LIFE

(meer…)

By |18 maart, 2017|100 Day journal, Fotografie|0 Comments

DAY 016 – 100 DAY JOURNAL – GARDENING

Slang

Two days of sunshine means gardening time. It is clear that everything in the garden is waiting for spring. I found my old garden-hose in a perfect condition and I liked the light and the shadows. I made my choice for black an white immediately. Sunshine or not…..

ENJOY LIFE

(meer…)

By |16 maart, 2017|100 Day journal, Fotografie|0 Comments

DAY 015 – 100 DAY JOURNAL – QUIET

This morning I used my red pencil to vote for a political party as my personal representative at the new government for The Netherlands.

And I have chosen for a red chair to enable the new president to reflect upon the measures to be made.

Stoel

It’s all because Nietzsche has told us: ‘Our greatest experiences are our quietest moments’

For the meantime as they will try to build that new government…..

ENJOY LIFE

(meer…)

By |15 maart, 2017|100 Day journal, Straatfotografie|0 Comments

DAY 014 – 100 DAY JOURNAL – EYE

SKY

I saw some lines in the sky this morning. Immediately I remembered Diana Vreeland’s statement: ‘The eye has to travel’.

So, where are they coming from or going to? I really don’t know. I just know traveling to be important according to Diana Vreeland (1903-1989). Se worked as a fashion designer and columnist at Harper’s Bazaar and encouraged Richard Avedon to make some extraordinary pictures abroad.  Since I saw the documentary “The eye has to travel” I be aware of the photographic possibilities at places you have never been before. But I consider, as a matter of art, to be even more important to a photographer:

daily to walk the same road and seeing something new every time

  (meer…)

By |14 maart, 2017|100 Day journal, Fotografie|0 Comments

DAY 013 – 100 DAY JOURNAL – TRABANT

Trabant

In the north of Rotterdam at Outdoor Valley they have oldtimers for use – called: the Trabietoer. Besides it seems to be fun and a family event, it is always  nostalgic to see them lined up. It is said that it took about 17 years to receive and drive such a car in the former DDR. It’s inconceivable nowadays. So for today….

ENJOY LIFE

(meer…)

By |13 maart, 2017|100 Day journal, Fotografie, Straatfotografie|0 Comments

DAY 012 – 100 DAY JOURNAL – IPHONE

For the first time in my digital photographic life (since the launch of Canon’s 5D) I forgot to insert my memory card into my camera. Stupid of course. Especially having some extra batteries on board for unexpected events. So I had to use my iPhone during my cycling-tour today. I saw the fence and the water-tower along the river Lek. Currently in Holland there are 170 water-towers left, of which about half is still in use.

IPHONE

I still think you should look at iPhone pictures on a iPhone, but for today this is what remains of my cycling-tour, apart from my tired legs. Meanwhile …..

ENJOY LIFE

By |12 maart, 2017|100 Day journal, Fotografie, Straatfotografie|0 Comments