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Weet je hoe groot een ransuil is? 😮 Als dit een ransuil was (die zijn veel ranker), dan ben ik drie meter twee en veertig!

Ik heb het een half jaar geprobeerd. 2/10, would not recommend. Ik kan me inderdaad niet voorstellen hoe vreselijk het is om dit jaren te hebben, zonder concreet uitzicht op verbetering. Je zit niet op een knuffel van mij te wachten, maar hier heb je een mooi fofeltje

African eagle owl sitting in the grass, looking straight at you.

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peterhaa @peterhuppertz.net · 09/10/2025

Same opulent stately house as yesterday, seen from a different angle ##AlphabetChallenge #WeekOforOpulent #photography #autumn

A stately home in a landscape park, partly visible behind autumnal trees on the right. In the foreground is a pond, in which the home and the trees are reflected. To the left is another couple of trees in full autumn dress.

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I love me a nice watch. This thing is hideous. A run-off-the-mill quartz watch, looks mediocrely executed, no originality whatsoever. You can get much better for much less.

A watch I got in 2005 to commemorate the birth of our first grandson.

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peterhaa @peterhuppertz.net · 09/10/2025

I'll be a bit less active than usual. Here, have a nice autumn picture! #photography #autumn #autumncolors

A mushroom between some autumn leaves. Some blades of grass in the rihjt hand foreground.

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peterhaa @peterhuppertz.net · 08/10/2025

I think this is a wagtail

An wagtail watching what a bluetit is doing

peterhaa @peterhuppertz.net · 07/10/2025

The entrance of the castle I worked in for seven years... the one I showed yesterday. Best office building ever! #AlphabetChallenge #WeekOforOpulent

Entrance to a castle with an 18th century interior, but a middle-ages foundation

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peterhaa @peterhuppertz.net · 06/10/2025

I discovered that I don't have many opulence photos. But there are a few. This may seem like a stately home, but it is in fact the building I worked in, from 2010 to 2017. I was a programmer. My friends called me Sir Codealot. 😁 #AlphabetChallenge #WeekOforOpulent

A symmetric castle, in 18th century style. The towers and the moat suggest that it dates back further than that, and indeed, it was already there in ca. 1310.
It's called Kasteel Nederhorst.

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peterhaa @peterhuppertz.net · 05/10/2025

Mumblemumble #SkySunday somethingsomething. 😎

A few cumulus clouds blocking the sun, creating an interesting ray pattern. Below the clouds, the sky gets a golden sheen, above a dark urban skyline.

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peterhaa @peterhuppertz.net · 05/10/2025

Everything will be ok in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end. This is the end of the eclipse I posted on Friday. The moon is still unharmed. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekNforNight

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It is officially Caturday where we are. It's also World Animal Day. Saartje wins so hard. 🥰

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Blood moon To the right is Mars, and bottom left must have been Venus. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekNforNight

A blood moon (full eclipse). To the right is Mars, and I thik the dot on bottom left is Venus.

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There were many glowing eulogies from the music world. But this is arguably the most beautiful one, from Steve Topping, an English master guitarist:

In memory of Allan Holdsworth
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He was alone at the summit of what is possible on a guitar.
At its best what he did on a guitar is as good as a guitar can be, or any music can be.

Long before he played guitar, he was drawn to the sound of violin and saxophophone.
But it was a technical miracle to render these other sounds through the guitar.

There was no one like him before... to this day nobody really sounds like Allan.
The more you try to play like him, the further he recedes from your grasp.

His lyricism was heart melting.
In full flight he soared, weaved, and dived like a swallow.

His sense of time was astonishing, a mystery: authority emanating from forensically vague phrasing.
He was a jeweller in the rarified area of harmonic rhythm.

So much is conveyed in his music, not least what it is to be human and true to yourself.
With this at the core, he set off and climbed a mountain of his own invention.

Everybody except him, but including guitar and music gods like Frank Zappa, Steve Vai, Carlos Santana, Joe Satriani, just to name a few, would sing his praise. His record company called him "The man who changed guitar forever". He hated that. This is his headstone:

The headstone on Allan Holdsworth's grave:
In loving memory
ALLAN HOLDSWORTH
The man who changed guitar forever
August 6, 1946 - April 15, 2017
"Jack Cheese on the banjo"

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peterhaa @peterhuppertz.net · 02/10/2025

Ursa Major. 'Tell the stars I'm coming, make them leave a space for me Whether bones, or dust, or ashes... Once among them I'll be free.' (Paddy McAloon) #AlphabetChallenge #WeekNforNight This one's for you, Joost.

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A true night photo to make up for my other one of today. High clouds creeping up the night sky from the south. The red&green blinking trails at left bottom, and the other one inside Orion, are the lights of planes. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekNforNight

the night sky, looking at Orion, while high clouds are creeping in from the south, casting an orangy glow.
Inside Orion, and at bottom-left, there are trails of planes passing while the shutter was open.

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peterhaa @peterhuppertz.net · 02/10/2025

Formally, this phpoto has nothing to do with night. But it was made during a concert which happened at night, and I'll use every opportunity to smuggle some Jack Cheese in. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekNforNight (now let's see if anyone gets the Jack Cheese reference)

Allan Holdsworth playing his Steinberger during a concert in Zoetermeer in 2009

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peterhaa @peterhuppertz.net · 01/10/2025

Skyline of Rotterdam on a hazy night. The diagonal lines to the right are the "wires" of the Erasmus bridge. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekNforNight

The skyline of Rotterdam, seen from the Kop van Zuid, on a hazy night. The diagonal lines to the right are from the Erasmus bridge.

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peterhaa @peterhuppertz.net · 29/09/2025

"Still, my eyes are fixed upon the place I last saw you Your signal urgent but breaking Before you became cotton in a blizzard A plane coming down behind enemy lines" (Paddy McAloon) #AlphabetChallenge #WeekNforNight

Intentionally out-of-focus shot of a female mannequin looking out a moonlit window

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peterhaa @peterhuppertz.net · 29/09/2025

Can you (or anyone) tell me what's up with the pile of stones sometimes found on summits? We found a huge pile atop Meall a' Bhuachaill in 2003...

peterhaa @peterhuppertz.net · 29/09/2025

... night enough for you? (Zoom in as far as your device allows for the full effect!) #AlphabetChallenge #WeekNforNight

A night sky full of stars (but only if you zoom in enough)

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peterhaa @peterhuppertz.net · 28/09/2025

At the risk of being torched... another wedding photo. This was my Best Man with his wife. Out of the few men I've ever trusted, Dave Monck was my best friend, and I miss him. I can't do #AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMemories without including him on closing day.

An elderly couple exiting a chapel where a wedding just took place. In the background: a pine tree and a piper

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peterhaa @peterhuppertz.net · 28/09/2025

You may have seen SennaPoes as a kitten on the loudspeaker yesterday. Here, he's 3 years old. On the same loudspeaker. If you're wondering "where are the tail and the right front leg?" These were in the vet's wastebin by then. Resilient and affectionate! 🥰 #AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMemories

A tux, three-legged and zero-tailed, on top of a loudspeaker cabinet.

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peterhaa @peterhuppertz.net · 28/09/2025

2008, Archid, Romania #AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMemories The road from Zalau to Archid... blocked by sheep

A gravel road is blocked by a herd of sheep, accompanied by a shehperd in a red coat. To the left and right are patchy meadows, some shrubbery, and a lone tree; in the background, trees against a hill.

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I'ma catspam you all into oblivion. Noortje wanted to have her picture taken as well. #caturday #aloafofcat

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I posit that this cat is certifiably insane. #feline-induced-paralysis

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It's getting a daily thing.

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(This should be safe now...😎) #AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMemories Last one from our Scotland vacation in 2003. We had some decidedly un-Scottish weather those weeks -- the week this photo was taken, temps went up to 29°C! Here's my beloved with her XD7, using her roll bag as a tripod substitute.

A woman leaning a camera with telelens on a roll bag, on a rock. In the background is a typical Scottish highlands landscape: rocks, heather, no trees. The weather is atypically un-Scottish.

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Let's see if feline memories are acceptable. 😎 Mother and son resting. 🥰 We picked these two up in 2006, two days before they were to be euthanised. 😡 #AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMemories

A calico mother and a tux kitten easily fit into one cat basket

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