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Jan Verhage
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- Dutchman, living in Germany
- Likes urban-, street-, nature- and b&w-photography
- happy member of #EastCoastKin

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Jan Verhage @janverhage.bsky.social · Nov 26
#beautifulviews #schöneAussichten

🇬🇧 It's a common thread throughout our vacations: the photo theme 'beautiful views'. We took this one near Ambelos.

🇩🇪 Es ist ein roter Faden durch unsere Urlaube: das Fotothema 'schöne Aussichten'. Dieses Bild entstand auf Samos.

#Photography #PhotoHour #Greece
A photo of a small plateau with a bench, surrounded by trees on the left and right that provide shade. From this bench, there is a beautiful view of the Aegean Sea and the coast of Turkey. The plateau is not far from the large parking lot at Ambelos on the north coast of the Greek island of Samos. We have included this place in our ongoing series "beautiful views".
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#MinimalMonday #ArtYear

🇬🇧 Feet that carry. Hands that rest. Symbols, for whatever they are to us.

Archeological Museum, Samos, GR

🇩🇪 Füße, die tragen. Hände, die ruhen. Symbole, für das, was sie auch für uns sind.

#EastCoastKin #Photography #PhotoHour #thewildimages
This is a reclining photo. It shows two feet carved in yellow/beige sandstone, just like the slab they stand on. This slab is in turn set in a larger, gray stone. These "life-like" feet were sculpted 2,500 years ago. They were once part of a standing statue in a temple on the Greek island of Samos. Now they can be seen in the new part of the Archaeological Museum. (Photo 2025-10-10) This is a horizontal photo. It shows a detail of a standing statue that was sculpted 2500 years ago for a temple on the Greek island of Samos. The detail shows the statue's right hand holding a slip of a shawl. The shawl can be recognized by the folds that make a half-circle. The statue is now on display in the new part of the Archaeological Museum. (Photo 2025-10-10)
February 16, 2026 at 11:15 AM
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Spring in South Moravia 💚

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February 16, 2026 at 9:36 AM
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#ColorADay #OrangeSun

🇬🇧 That's why I like to walk through the polders in the evening to see the sun go down. Right here, just behind a reed bed.

🇩🇪 Deshalb gehe ich abends gerne durch die Polder, um die untergehende Sonne zu sehen.

#EastCoastKin #Photography #thewildimages #PhotoHour
This is a horizontal photo taken in the polder near the small village of Kattendijke in the province of Zeeland (the Netherlands). It is located on the other side of the Oosterschelde, a nature reserve. The lower part of the photo is shrouded in shadow. Above that, a reed bed is visible, with the reeds slightly bent to the left. In the middle right, just behind the reeds, the sun is setting. It makes the veil of clouds in the air above the reeds glow orange. (Photo: 2023-05-29)
February 15, 2026 at 8:12 PM
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#Abstraction #repetition

🇬🇧 Facade of a former department store in Aachen, Germany. It is composed of hundreds of identical rectangular and repetitive elements.

🇩🇪 Fassade eines ehemaligen Kaufhauses.

#EastCoastKin #Photography #streetphotography #urbanphotography #PhotoHour #thewildimages
This is a square photo. It appears to be black and white, but is actually in full color. The photo shows the side of a former large department store in the center of Aachen, Germany. This facade consists of hundreds of identical, rectangular, and repetitive elements that are (partly) placed in front of the windows. The photo shows about 20 horizontal rows. From left to right, the number of windows increases from 6 (at the bottom) to about 15 (at the top). There is a street lamp in the middle. Photo: 2025-03-12.
February 15, 2026 at 7:35 PM
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Oak in mist

#BlueSkyArtShow #wood

#California #oak #WestCoastKin #UnJourUnePhoto #nikon #photography #cali #californiaphotos #NatureArt #landscapephotography #naturephotography #countryside #landscapes #naturescenery #outdoors #landscape #trees #woodland #fineartphotgraphy
A grand oak stands alone in a hill of green grass. Its bare branches are seen in a hazy silhouette of glowing morning fog
February 14, 2026 at 4:43 PM
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" Today, my heart goes out to everyone,
My arms reaching out to embrace you all...
My need, want and thoughts only for Peace, Hope, Compassion, Happiness, Unconditional Love and Laughter not just for Today but for every Tomorrow" ~PJ
✌️🙏✨️🫶
February 14, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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#ColorADay #GreenSat

🇬🇧 The game of green shades. The game of lines. The game of light. Everything arranged by Mother Nature...

🇩🇪 Das Spiel der Grüntöne. Das Spiel der Linien. Das Spiel des Lichts. Alles arrangiert von Mutter Natur...

#EastCoastKin #Photography #PhotoHour #thewildimages
This is a horizontal photograph of a solitary tree in a meadow. The low-hanging evening sun accentuates the slope with a subtle lighter line, from the middle of the photo on the right to almost the bottom on the left. The evening sun also shines on the right side of the crown of the tree. The pattern continues behind it. Including field roads that run from top to bottom and vice versa, along pastures. There are forest edges next to those roads. The photo was taken on 2023-07-09 in the southern part of the Black Forest, not far from Münstertal (Germany).
February 14, 2026 at 3:28 PM
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#sweetheart
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#challengephotoaday
#fmspad
2026/02/14
A heart

Un corazón dulce / A sweet heart (sweetheart?)
(¡vaya lio! 😜)

#Photography
#Macro
Primerísimo plano de un bombón en forma de corazón sobre fondo gris degradado.
February 14, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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#wood #BlueSkyArtShow

🇬🇧 Wood. Old wood. Once a tree. Now a boundary post. Holding the barbed wire that separates the path from the pasture.

🇩🇪 Holz. Altes Holz. Einst Baum. Jetzt Grenzpfosten. Haltet Stacheldraht, die Weg vom Weideland abgrenzt.

#EastCoastKin #Photography #PhotoHour #thewildimages
This is a macro photograph taken from a lying position. Approximately 2/3 of the image is taken up by the brown, weathered wood of a wooden pole. A staple has been driven into it, holding barbed wire in place. Due to the limited depth of field, the 1/3 of the image on the right is blurred and has various shades of green. The photo was taken on a path along the Gillesbach near Aachen. (Photo 2023-07-02)
February 14, 2026 at 11:14 AM
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Had to distract myself from the sorrow I feel at what is happening in my country, never thought we would follow the US into a deep hole ... I was wrong. I will disappear into my writing, hoping words will bring me solace.

#Poem #Poetry #Nature #EastCoastKin #Gerbera #Simplicity
February 11, 2026 at 4:07 AM
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Cartoon aus wenigen weißen Pinselstrichen Tuschestrichen. Zwei Motten fliegen auf einen hellen Punkt zu. Eine sagt: Licht ist immer so spannend. Man weiß nie, wie es ausgeht.
September 30, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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'Negative space' #FotoVorschlag
Das Foto zeigt ein gelbes Blatt, dass auf einer blauen, ruhigen Wasseroberfläche treibt. Man erkennt den Schatten des Blattstiels auf dem Wasser. Außerdem erkennt man die Oberflächenspannung des Wassers da das Blatt eine Delle in der Oberfläche des Wassers erzeugt.
February 8, 2026 at 9:46 AM
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'Öffentliche Kunst' #FotoVorschlag

🇩🇪 Wo ein Park in einen Polder übergeht, warten sie immer wieder auf mich. Sie haben mein ❤️ gestohlen...

🇬🇧 Where a park turns into a polder, they wait for me again and again. They stole my ❤️...

#EastCoastKin #MinimalMonday #Photography #PhotoHour #thewildimages
This is a horizontal photo. The upper 3/4 part shows a heavily cloudy sky above a polder landscape. At the bottom, a strip of grass is visible, with some pollard willows on the right. In the center of the photo, the silhouettes of three 'walking' small deer are shown. Only the contours are shown with steel. It's as if you're looking at a line drawing. Because the weather changes continuously, the background also changes continuously. This minimalist work of art can be found at the Mirakel park in Goes (Zeeland province, the Netherlands). Photo: 2023-03-19.
February 9, 2026 at 10:38 AM
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#FotoVorschlag
'Öffentliche Kunst'

www.stolpersteine.eu
Zwei blank polierte Stolpersteine mit Namen und Daten von deportierten Menschen in der NS Zeit, aus einem Haus. Rechts und linksbliegen weiße Rosen, unten und oben stehen Teelichter, zwei davon in Tüten windgeschützt. Der Boden besteht aus quadratischen grauen Platten, auf denen Sand und kleine Zweiglein liegen.
February 9, 2026 at 7:22 AM
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Goedemorgen, ik wens jullie een hele fijne maandag.
Ik heb een prachtige varen in de zon voor #KleurInDeNatuur
dag 9 met de kleur #Goudbruin
Gezien in het Leudalbos 💚
Een varen in herfsttooi in de zon, waardoor er een mooie goudbruine gloed overheen komt.
February 9, 2026 at 7:56 AM
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'Negative space'

🇩🇪 Ich habe abends dieses Gebäude, fotografisch gesehen, mal „auf die Seite gelegt“...

🇬🇧 On a winter evening I have "turned this building on its side," photographically speaking...

#FotoVorschlag
#EastCoastKin #Stunday
#Photography #PhotoHour #thewildimages
This is a photo of a 12-story office building in Aachen, Germany. I aimed the camera upwards, leaning it against a pole that was close to the wall. As a result, the building appears to be "lying down" in the photograph. Looking up to the left, the bottom windows in the building are the largest, and they get smaller from floor to floor. In this part, the lights are off. To the right is an extension, the stairwell?, where the light shines through the windows. The angle of the extension cuts the building - in the middle of the photo - off from the dark, even evening sky. (HDR, 2026-01-29)
February 8, 2026 at 12:03 PM
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'Negative Space' - Durchblick auf eine Landschaft / 'Negative Space' - View through a landscape
#FotoVorschlag #Foto #Fotografie #Photo #Photography #PhotoOfTheDay !B
Drei ovale Aussparungen in einer Wand mit Blick auf eine Landschaft aus Wiesen und Bäumen unter blauem Himmel / Three oval openings in a wall showing a landscape of fields and trees under a blue sky
February 8, 2026 at 9:26 AM
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#Sunlight #BlueSkyArtShow

🇬🇧 Sometimes you have to go the extra mile for a photo. For this photo, I lay in the middle of the forest at the same height as the ferns...

🇩🇪 Für dieses Foto lag ich mitten im Wald auf Augenhöhe mit den Farnen...

#EastCoastKin #Photography #PhotoHour #thewildimages
This is a horizontal photo. Roughly in the upper half, bare trees can be seen, where a low-hanging sun (it was early February) shines through them. In the foreground, the sun shines through the fine leaves of the ferns. (Aachener Wald, 2025-02-01, Germany)
February 7, 2026 at 5:49 PM
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#Sunlight #BlueSkyArtShow

🇬🇧 No matter how the sunlight tried, it couldn't get through this palm leafs. Okay, bottom right then. A bit...

(Hortus Botanicus, Utrecht, Netherlands)

🇩🇪 Ein Foto von Palmblättern bei Gegenlicht.

#EastCoastKin #Photography #thewildimages #PhotoHour #sunshine
This is a backlit image of palm fronds. They sprout from the center at the bottom and fan out like the rays of a setting sun. Dark green leaves dominate the left and top, while the right side shows the sun shining through, causing the colors to fade from light yellow-green to dark green. At the top, the blue of the sky is still visible between the leaves. (Hortus Botanicus, Utrecht, Netherlands, 2025-05-15)
February 7, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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Namibia's east winds often turn its coastal dunes into an unnavigable inferno. We went straight in! Blowing sand stung our feet, pelted our equipment, filled our eyes. But time stood still: We were immersed in a world of astonishing beauty, gone too soon.⁠

#photography #bluesky #nature #landscape
February 7, 2026 at 1:34 PM
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Photoception

Photographing a woman photographing a man photographing the view at Bodega Head

#HumansOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #photography
A woman taking a phone photo of a man taking a photo with a camera on top of a bluff with green and gold plants on top. The sky is pale blue with lots of clouds.
February 6, 2026 at 2:09 AM
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'Unperturbed Shallows' (2023) -- Southern Eagle Lake Shoreline, Acadia National Park, ME

'Water is the driving force of all nature' -- Leonardo da Vinci

#Scape ✨ #ForestFriday ✨ #ImageAndVerse ✨ #BWFri ✨

#Photography #Landscape
#Monochrome #ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin #JayceeCrawford
a view from the tranquil, shady shoreline strewn with several partially submerged stones across the lake to the forested rise of Connor's Nubble in the distance
February 6, 2026 at 1:52 PM
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Talking to the Moon
I’ve been talking to the moon, not because it answers. The moon listens.
Somewhere between my words and it’s light, something softens.
The ache doesn’t vanish, but eases a little.
I’m not put in the spotlight, but in the glow of the moon.
February 3, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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Humanities Relic
Snow gathers without opinion,softening the sharp claim of the walls of time.Winter accepts it as it is. Covers without erasing. A relic, not a belief,but of time when humans were kind. The church will stand there, asking nothing, remembering everything.
#landscape #winter #thoughts
February 5, 2026 at 12:26 PM
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'Lange Schatten' #FotoVorschlag / 'long shadows'

🇩🇪 Nicht mehr, nicht weniger: eine Treppe von links nach rechts. Oder von rechts nach links?

🇬🇧 No more, no less: a step from left to right. Or is it from right to left?

#Photography #EastCoastKin #ClassicMono #PhotoHour #thewildimages
This is a horizontal photo. It shows five steps of a staircase. The first three steps are illuminated from above by a soft, yellowish light. Only a narrow strip of light is visible on the last two steps. The front of the steps is in the shadow. (Photo 2026-01-29)
February 6, 2026 at 8:04 AM