Wim Harwig

Auteur: wim harwig

  • Normandy, France.

    Normandy, France.

    We went travelling for a few days with our old camper. After months of unemployment in our small family bubble in a world with COVID-19 and many sterile job applications, the need to see a different environment was great. The general advice is to avoid crowds and therefore Normandy seemed a suitable target. The first…

  • as it should

    as it should

    For the first time, I see how it should be done. I have been annoyed for years by the way people deal with the removal of obsolete buildings. But now something is being broken down the way it should. This building has been used by Pouwelse Tuinen for years. Now it has to make way for the construction of new houses. Because years ago it was decided to build…

  • turtledoves

    turtledoves

    They are well cared for by their parents, these young turtledoves in our backyard. It’s fun to take pictures of them.

  • classic fallacy

    classic fallacy

    Last night I suddenly woke up to realize that I was making a classic fallacy in my so-called selfie through the bathroom mirror. It is not a selfie, but a registration of the image as I am used to seeing myself. For the rest of the world, it is a mirror image … To make a selfie of that mirror image, I have to mirror the…

  • Blue Funnel nostalgia (blauwpijpers)

    Blue Funnel nostalgia (blauwpijpers)

    In my thoughts, I was briefly back in the 1970s when I sailed as an engineer at NSM “Oceaan”. Just a few videos I found on the worldwideweb to get an idea …

  • torn apart skeletons of Thermphos.

    torn apart skeletons of Thermphos.

    I took these photos in January 2020. Torn apart “skeletons” of Thermphos. They were located on the square, which was temporarily used as a kind of cemetery. All the RA-contaminated “meat” was taken off and sprayed off. Not long after, the entire building was toppled with explosives … I’ve taken tons of photos and because…

  • Cycling in Vlissingen-Oost

    Cycling in Vlissingen-Oost

    Today I cycled a bit through the industrial area of Vlissingen. A lot has changed. And before new installations can be built, the old one must first be safely demolished. EPZ’s coal-fired power plant has been out of operation for years and its chimney is now being demolished. Of all Thermphos buildings, only the skeleton…

  • Dragonfly

    Dragonfly

    Dragonfly was once the name of a band in Vlissingen. I thought of Rudy de Queljoe when I photographed this dragonfly in our garden. Canon 100-400 mm handheld funny, that seeing a small insect takes you so far back in your thoughts.

  • hot and hazy on the Oosterschelde

    hot and hazy on the Oosterschelde

  • New Normal ?

    New Normal ?

    I am clearly unable to cope with the new normal that the rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is bringing about. A few days 35 degrees Celsius in Vlissingen … and now I suffer from migraines. Almost all I did was sit in the shade and take pictures from there … and reading books ……

  • walking the dog

    walking the dog

    always beautiful, just walking the dog on the island of Neeltje Jans with this kind of music in your head …

  • in our garden …

    in our garden …

    Yesterday the temperature reached 36 degrees Celsius in our garden. I have done almost nothing but observe what happened around me …

  • There is no chaos in the natural world …

    There is no chaos in the natural world …

    … but you’re only able to see the order after many years. Only then you can notice what you considered chaos, repeats itself every year with exactly the same colors and the same pattern. Unfortunately, it also takes many years for people to see and feel the slow change to a different climate.

  • Reading

    Reading

    “Educate yourself !” has been yelled a lot lately in the many demonstrations of the peace movement, black lives matter movement, climate change movement, etc, etc. So I started doing what I had planned for much longer … I started to read Marx’s “das Kapital” and now I’m busy with Piketty’s “Capital and Ideology”. I…

  • A sunny Sunday with Quest 552

    A sunny Sunday with Quest 552

    It was busy on the bike path, but not too busy … and I was in no rush 😉Too bad that the electrically assisted bicycles hit the majority …