Wim Harwig

Auteur: wim harwig

  • after the rain

  • biofuel

    Decades ago, my brother Henk produced biofuel in his backyard, in Cimahi Indonesia. I still have a sample of his biodiesel, that my other brother Jan gave me after one of his visits. Last week, I started my new job as senior-operator at the biofuel plant in Sluiskil. Life is full of surprises  😉 

  • Rose Café

       

  • colouring

  • iris

  • upgrading

    upgrading old wood and old floor-tiles into a garden table.

  • improvised fence

    to keep the chickens out of the herb garden

  • memorial

    I made a sort of memorial for the 32 years that I worked at the Thermphos-site (former Hoechst) in Vlissingen-Oost. The cross of unemployed sample spoons symbolizes the end of the phosphorus-furnaces.  in this video (0.52 ) you can see how a spoon is used to take a sample of fluid iron

  • 5 years ago

    5 years ago, two of my colleagues died in an accident at the phosphorusplant where I used to work. Today I visited the plant to commemorate and honor them. The company went bankrupt and is now being sold piece by piece and demolished. Former colleagues monitor the site during this last stage and ensure that it remains…

  • Hitch playing with his friends.

  • scene in the garden

  • Does anyone know what photography is about ?

    “The camera makes you forget you’re there. It’s not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.” – Annie Leibovitz “A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.”  – Diane Arbus “It’s about reacting to what you see, hopefully without preconception. You…

  • Lily of the Valley

    Many years ago, if the Lily of the Valley flourished, my Mother had a habit to put a few in a vase on the table. Mother deceased years ago, but nowadays Marjan has the same habit. 

  • Symphytum

    in Dutch; Smeerwortel

  • a draw-well

    I’d like to have a draw-well in my garden, just for watering the flowers and to replenish the pond. Because I am interested in crafts, I started Googling and found almost nothing about digging a well. Only information about drilling them. So I started looking at our library and found all the info in WALD (ISBN 90-70845…