It’s been a while since I posted a coastal landscape photograph in black & white, so here is a new one. I shot it early July when I met up with Joel Tjintjelaar and a few other people near Domburg in Zeeland, The Netherlands. The weather that day was a complete disaster. It rained way too hard during most of the day, and when the rain finally went away, it was way too windy. The breakwater in this photograph lies on the beach of Domburg, a Dutch municipality in the province of Zeeland. The beach of Domburg is well-known for the many breakwaters that are there to keep the coast from eroding.
Ending silence
A minimalist coastal landscape in B&W with a dark sky above a breakwater in the North Sea near Domburg in Zeeland, The Netherlands.
I shot this photograph during a long-awaited short period of relatively quiet weather … which inspired the title “Ending Silence”. I like how the contrast between the brewing sky and the silky water came out. I hope you like it as well!
This coastal landscape photograph was captured using a Nikon D3x with a Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 lens. A stack of two ND filters pushed the exposure reduction to 12 stops. The exposure time increased to a couple of minutes as a result. The photograph was processed using Nik’s Silver Efex Pro 2.
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Cheers, Johan 🙂
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Beautiful!
Thanks again Anna !
OK ! I THINK I LOVE YOUR JOB .
Thanks Pushybs !
this is so impressive and amazing!!
Thanks again Ada !
Thanks again Baldur !
@lizett: thanks !!! 🙂
wonderful ….. pure perfection !!!!! :)))
Beautiful shot, Johan!! Lovely, calming composition.
Dramatic weather makes for some of the best images. Nice minimalist scene Johan.
Thank you very much Richard. Thanks for stopping by 🙂
Very beautiful:)
Thanks again Оксана 🙂
Ah, so much fun to outsmart Nature. Catch her at her weakest moment. Nice!
Thank you Larry !
Merry Christmas !…
=^.^=
Merry Christmas to you too Gatto 🙂
merry christmas johan….and thanks a lot….
Merry Christmas to you too Kamal!
Great shot Johan, and real nice to meet you in Domburg, and it would be really awesome to meet you guys again in the new year to come. Have a merry christmas with your family 🙂
thank you!!! The pleasure was mutual. Would indeed be cool to meet up in the new year again. Happy Christmas Heine!
Stunning comp and tones Johan
Many thanks Rohan! Glad you stopped by 🙂
congrats Johan, this capture really is very inspirational and ever so peaceful
Thank you Hope ! :D
Thank you all very much Margaret, Sandra and Stan !!!
Congratulations – an image well deserving.
You deserve it my friend!! You work is stellar!!
Congratulations Johan! A magnificent photo, well deserved to be picked out.
David, Ingo , Subra: thanks guys!!
Bravo Johan, well deserved. Je suis content pour toi :-)
Congrats mate , well deserving capture !
great LE – congrats Johan
Congratulations Johan.. Great photo, deserved to be selected Johan
Thanks Victor!
Congrats Johan ~! Well deserved too ;)
Thanks Paul :)
can’t believe I never commented on this one Johan. I remember seeing it (and smiling for seeing it again in the plusextract), but I never interacted. Sorry … it is really great and exactly the style I like!
Thanks for interacting now and thanks for the compliment!
@Bill: hey thanks Bill!
@Michael: thanks a bunch Michael!
Great long-exposure work my friend, stunning lines!
Beautifully minimal and stunning Johan!
Love the minimalism here!
thanks Gaurav !!
wonderful capture…thank you…
Thank you very much Kamal!
@Aline: thanks Aline!
@Carsten: glad you like it Carsten! Thanks.
Wonderful minimalistic photo – excellent work, Johan !
It’s a beautiful LE, great black and white processing Johan.
Awesome image!
Thanks a bunch Sumit :)
Awesome slice of minimalist LE goodness Johan!!
Thanks a bunch Grant !
really nice!
Hey thanks Toby !
great work Johan, very nice!
Hey thanks Paul! How is the snow coming along over there in Austria?
snow is great here Johan, you should come over the border and try it ;))
Definitely would more often if it were a bit closer Paul!
Beautiful Photo!
Thank you Rick. Glad you like it! :)
@Julia: thank you! You might know that peer indeed 🙂
@Dan: thanks Dan! Nice to see you drop by 🙂
@Javier: thank you. You to! Really loved your portrait!
@Steve: many thanks Steve 🙂
Very nice and clean. Nice job.
Wow, what a beautiful minimal Johan. Love the milky atmosphere and the dramatic sky and I think I know that pier 🙂
Wow… congratulations on the PhotoExtract selection Johan – well deserved!
Congrats, Johan.
@Patricia: thanks Patricia! 🙂
@Dedi: glad you like it Dedi!
@Lilia: sounds like you are having fun 😉 Glad all is wel over there!
@Grzegorz : you’re very welcome and I am looking forward to your LE images!
@Gemma: many thanks for the compliment !!
@Robby: great description and compliment Robby! Thanks 🙂
Awesomeness..
Stunning!
Love it. Simple, complex, and beautiful. All at once Johan!
wonderful shot, a perfect vision
Johan – the photographic filter industry thanks you for singlehandedly ensuring its continued profitability! :)
Lol Lorenzo 🙂 I will shut up about any other filters I might have then 😉
Nice to see this minimalist seascape in your stream! I really like the composition and the fact that you left some texture in the clouds, instead of going for an extreme long exposure look. I think this could actually work very well in colour as well…
thanks for the feedback Armand and glad you like it! By the way: think you were there as well when I shot this 🙂
Thought it looked famailiar 🙂 But I think you got one of the best shots of this location, because it’s the less obvious one.
Thanks again Armand :)
@David: thanks David! And no mountains this time 😉
@George: thank you George!
@Monte: glad you like it Monte!!
Nice minimal art photo Johan 🙂 Like it!
Is that a big difference between 10 stops and 10+2? Never tried…
thank you! For long exposures I tend to work with something in between 10 to 16 stops, depending on the light. On a bright day 16 stops ( 10 + 3 + 3 ) might be needed to achieve an exposure time of 4 minutes. And I sometimes want 4 minutes to give clouds enough time to move and to blur water enough 🙂
Thank you Johan for your advice, it seems I need to buy one more ND filter to get better results 🙂 Regards!
yes .. but after the next one you will buy another one 😀
So is not easier just buy next 10 stops? ;)
lol, maybe 🙂 Just talking from experience. I started with a 10 and a 3. After that I added a 2 to give me 12 and 15 and recently added another 3 because sometimes I need 16 😀
… ow and I also have 2 spare 10 stops ;)
Haha, I won’t make this mistake, better once and good 😉 Thanks for you alert Johan
you’re very welcome and I am looking forward to your LE images!
Beautiful image Johan! Perfect.
Beautiful image Johan!
I like how the old pier appears to be floating on air. Minimalistic excellence Johan !
beautyful horizonpicture
Thank you Mady :)
Johan, masterful minimalism!!
Thank you Sandra! Really appreciate that compliment!!
@Meg: Thanks for the kind words 🙂
@Paul: thank you! Glad you do. I kinda like it as well once in a while 🙂
wow Johan this is really great !! Love the minimalistic story telling approach :)
This is Gorgeous 🙂
@John: thank you very much John!
@Vitor: thanks for the compliment!!
Thank you Subra !!
@Francesco: many thanks Francesco!
Very nice image!
Wonderful LE Johan, I love the juxtaposition between the drama in the sky and the ‘silence’ of the water and peer.
marvelous work Johan !
Beautiful work Johan, like the composition!
Johan – A very accurate shot with well paid attention to every detail. A closer look is rewarding!
Thanks for the compliment Wilfried !!
@Lilia: hoi Lilia 🙂 Alles goed? Thank you for your kind words 🙂
@Mikko: nice to hear that from you Mikko!
Hoi hoi, too much work, too much rain, too few holidays… the usual… 😉 but ja alles goed :))
sounds like you are having fun 😉 Glad all is wel over there!
@Sandy: I love the word “cracking”. Thanks Sandy!
@Aditya: thank you!
@Nathan: thanks … yup! 🙂
@Shirren: thank you Shirren!
@David: thanks David 🙂 Hope all is well in Japan!
@Michelle: thanks Michelle!!
@Didier: merci Didier!
@E.E. Giorgi: thank you Elena! 🙂
@will s: many thanks Will!
@Brian: glad you do Brian! Thanks for stopping by 🙂
@Kurt: thank you Kurt!
Absolutly stunning atmosphere, so beautiful!
Beautiful…. it does look silky and very peaceful Johan :)
gorgeous!!
That’s really quite wonderful Johan!
This is awesome 🙂
Cracking photo Johan! Nicely done!
Floating on beauty and shadow!
Fabulous LE !!
love the minimalism!
great work!
Gorgeous capture Johan! I’m very glad you got some time to in between the weather changes to take some LE shots.
Love the contrast of the groynes against the silky smooth water Johan! :)
Great simplicity here !!!
Considering the weather, photo is wonderful 🙂
Thanks Dalibor!
Great work!
Tanks Nurcan!
Beautiful work, Johan! … glad you shared it with us!
thank you Robin! Glad you like it!
Better! You definitely improved the image since last week 😉 :D
really nice to hear that 😀
The image is fantastic, as usual Johan :))
thank you 🙂 See you Saturday!
Beautiful and very serene scene, Johan. I’m glad that you were able to find enough of a break in the awful weather to capture this one!
many thanks for the kind words Lorenzo!
Très beau élégant et mystérieux.
Great shot Johan
Merci beaucoup Michel !! Thanks :D
@Dominique: good point Dominique! Thanks. Glad you like it 🙂
@Michael: thanks for the kind words! Sometimes we don’t have another choice then just wait it out. Glad I did this time 🙂
Very pleasing LE image. Great to be able to make such a nice image on a day when maybe conditions were not so great. Best Regards.
Oh I so much more enjoy looking at such beauties as the one that you present here!
This looks like the edge of the world, Johan , very nice range of tones and light.
The Netherlands is a bit on the edge of the world Don 😉 Thanks for the kind words !
Nice pic, bold and honest .
Thank you David !
At some point we get input fatigue, where so much comes in that our ability to appreciate and thoughtfully interact becomes completely overwhelmed.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts Carolyn :)
Very nice shot Johan! Quite successful despite the weather!
Thanks very much Dominique! Persistance helps 😀
Beautiful work
thanks Peter and nice to see you around 🙂 Alles goed?
Great light and tones!!
Thank you very much Markus !!
Beautiful minimalist shot.
many thanks Javier!!!
Fantastic
thank you Leyla 🙂
Nice Johan
thanks Fabrizio! See you Saturday?
Great picture Johan! Being at the sea helps with these long exposure… Just an endless horizon.
but I do like a hint of mountains in the background of LE’s Philipp! Didn’t have a choice in this one though:)
This is adorable as most of your pics. Like I told you before it doesn’t matter weather, place, time you always create awesome things friend Johan.
Have a great week!!!
thank you Yasmin 😀 I do my best!
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This is nice Johan. Glad you got something out of the day even though the weather was bad. 🙂
thanks 🙂
This is a sweet shot and reminds me of getting a 10nd stopper. gives a great effect, something I see possibilities for around my own home.
Thanks for the compliment 🙂 You will love LE photography. Make sure to get a 10-stop plus a 2 or 3-stop … you often need more then 10 to get nice effects!
She is very beautiful you did a good job.
well thank you Jany! Glad you like it 😀
@Tom: it just proves that any day is good for photography 😀
@Steve: thanks for the compliment Steve!!
Wonderful shot, a real treat!
Lovely shot, Johan. I didn’t know there’s swimming involved in your photowalks. How fun is that. :)
Tom thanks! Yes swimming, building sand castles in photo bags and fogged up eye pieces 🙂
Bwahahaahah! That sounds perfect, Johan.
Great photo and work!
thanks Nikola !
Beautiful LE minimalistic work Johan! Love the composition!
thank you very much Emanuele! How are things with you?
@Gerard: thanks! Wow that has been a long time Gerard! Everything done and dusted with the new house?
@Vishal: many thanks Vishal!!
Almost a year Johan 🙂 it’s taken a hell of a lot of work and we still aren’t quite there but the majority is done. Just got the basement studio to do but that will have to wait till early next year now :D. How’s things been with you?
Good to hear and glad to see you back! All’s very fine here thanks. Getting ready for what hopefully will be a great winter season in the Alps :)
I always was envious of the winter scenes you get to experience and photograph. One year, I’ll come over and visit. Until then, I will enjoy your wonderful shots :)
They will be coming soon 🙂 And make sure to give me a buzz when you decide to come over!
Will do one day Johan :)
So minimalist, Lovely composition & Stunning shot 🙂
Super minimalist shot Johan
@Stefanie: thanks for the kind words Stefanie! Yes, it was one of those days 🙂
@Aileen: thank you very much Aileen!!!
This is beautiful work, Johan! Really love the minimalism!
Sorry for the many vexations Johan, but I am glad that you got at least one image out of that morning. Beautiful transitioning tones with the light centered right at the end of the wave breaker!! :)
I love it Johan! I remember that day: it was the day that Kees Smans went out swimming:)
Really glad you do Joel ! Yes it was that day. I am still trying to get the sand out of my bag 😀 Next time I want to organize something on the beach with better weather!
Count me in Johan, but let’s wait till winter’s over:)
Was counting on you already 🙂 It will probably be April or something like that. By the way: will come back on your email soon … been busy!
This amazing photo is built, in my opinion, around the lovely transition of the light and tones along the horizon which is perfectly placed in this scene and emphasised in just the right way, by the dock on the right! :-)
Thanks for the very kind words Jerry 🙂
Indeed. It’s been too long. ;)
🙂 yep!
It’s beautiful Johan !! I love the wonderful quiet mood! It’s gorgeous!!
Glad you like it Margaret!
Lovely lines and loneliness feel Johan.
Thanks Christophe! I can assure you I was one of the few people on that rainy beach 🙂