Wim Harwig

Auteur: wim harwig

  • discover the world together with grandma …

    discover the world together with grandma …

    let’s start drawing! choose colors together Let’s draw a fish … but how does a mackerel look like? pay close attention to the colors … tomorrow we are going to eat this mackerel, today time to draw … and grandpa? …. grandpa enjoys the scene and takes pictures.

  • old sailing ships on the Oosterschelde

    old sailing ships on the Oosterschelde

    analogue photography has something mysterious in the current digital age … the realization that I took these photos some 40 years ago makes me feel like an old man … I think it’s fantastic that there are still photographers who make their photos analog, although I notice that the technique of the darkroom is often…

  • Woodstock 1969

    Woodstock 1969

    About 50 years ago I saw this film for the first time. The music and images are stuck in my brain. In times like the present with COVID-19, climate change, destruction of biodiversity, people fleeing all over the world ………. I occasionally take comfort from the images of what was the protest 50 years ago…

  • Westerschelde

    Westerschelde

  • old negatives with many fond memories

    old negatives with many fond memories

    The rising fascism and the putting of the human economy above the natural pandemic annoys me terribly. Modern digital social media has destroyed the human capacity for news gathering, consultation and collaboration. To put things into perspective, to find a bit more distraction and to get through the current long dark winter evenings I took…

  • Happy 2021

    Happy 2021

    December 31, 2020 made a last walk under the Zeeland sky … Let’s hope that we as humans will get more real attention for nature and each other and give each other the opportunity to act accordingly. The little pinprick that the natural environment has given us with COVID-19 is a good way to make…

  • one of the simplest photo stories of all times …

    one of the simplest photo stories of all times …

    The well-known story about grandchildren and their grandparents, but also vice versa … about grandparents and their grandchildren. The story seems the same, but seen from old to young is a very different storyline than from young to old. Physically only holding hands is the same … The story of living and passing on ……

  • Have a nice X-mas and a better New Year

    Have a nice X-mas and a better New Year

    These old friends of ours always cheer us up at this time of the year with their singing and conviviality, despite the cold, despite the darkness and despite the illnesses.

  • A lot of rainy days …

    A lot of rainy days …

    The advantage of a lot of rain is that there are many varied skies!

  • old family documents

    old family documents

    It’s December, … that time of year when the days are short and the evenings are long and dark … when there’s time to go through all kinds of old stuff to decide whether its fit to throw away or to keep … as being a member of the Harwig family I can’t throw away…

  • mice in the garden …

    mice in the garden …

    They are getting too many … and there is not enough room for them to spread naturally in our neighbourhood … in the middle of a residential area you can call this a natural pest … So unfortunately I have the help of a pest controller requested, via the municipality of Vlissingen. Before the pest…

  • 19 months on her way to the crossroads

    19 months on her way to the crossroads

  • Chistmas again …

    Chistmas again …

    It’s that time of year again … Christmas or as some say X-mas. Also for Atheists, it is a pleasant time that thanks to the long tradition, reminds me of all previous Christmases, especially those where my parents still lived and those where my children were still small children. Every year, exactly on the day…

  • old ashtray

    old ashtray

    This is an old ashtray that my grandparents Jan Frederik Harwig  and Neeltje van Waveren got from his brother. His brother emigrated to the promised land “the United States of America” at the beginning of the last century. As a parting gift he made a number of copper ashtrays, as a reminder. It is clearly handmade with…

  • One of the best things life can offer …

    One of the best things life can offer …

    … is walking with your granddaughter in an autumn forest. We also found the tree where I carved the name of Hera’s mother 33 years ago