Wim Harwig

Categorie: about photography

  • Headwindcycling, the Dutch Championships 2022

    Headwindcycling, the Dutch Championships 2022

    It was pouring rain when I arrived this morning. Within half an hour I was cold and wet to my skin, despite the (not waterproof) rain gear. I’ll show you the photos that I took anyway. Fortunately, my photo equipment withstood the rain well, thanks to the good protection that has been carried along in…

  • Dutch Championships Headwindcycling 2022

    Dutch Championships Headwindcycling 2022

    Tomorrow will be the 2022-edition of the Dutch Championships Headwindcycling! The last edition was in December 2018, which seems a long time ago … I’ll be there … with my camera! A couple of photos I made in 2018, as a reminder … The weather forecast is bad for photographers … lots of rain!

  • photogenic grandchild

    photogenic grandchild

    Grandma’s hand helps to squeeze half the orange on the juicer, while she explains how healthy orange juice is especially for little girls. Then you see through the reflection in the stainless steel coffee machine that your grandfather is busy recording the scene with a large camera in front of his eye. Then you make…

  • good factual photographers ?

    good factual photographers ?

    In the Netherlands are political elections next week. The photographers who made the portraits for these election posters made my day! The photos are taken like mugshots are made. With a frontal flash light, drop shadow on the white background and the harsh shadows not hidden … There is no compassion or empathy in the…

  • unmistakably Vlissingen

    unmistakably Vlissingen

    It was the fall of 1984. Our oldest daughter had just been born. If you live here and take a walk together, then the Vlissingen area is undeniably present in your photos … When I look back at the photos I took myself in the past, my thoughts wander back to the time of falling…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • https://drenthinspectieservices.nl/

    https://drenthinspectieservices.nl/

    Caspar asked me for some photos he can use for his new site : https://drenthinspectieservices.nl/ It had to have a few tubes, barrels and other inspectable stuff on it … So I dived into my archive. and found a few examples … . . old school tools much more can be found in my Thermphos…

  • 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…

  • scenes in our garden

    scenes in our garden

    During the DIY work around the house, I often see unexpectedly beautiful scenes that are suitable for taking a nice picture. Even though I have my camera nearby, I often choose to continue what I was doing … but every now and then I grab my camera and try to capture the scene.And then a…

  • a professional photographer

    a professional photographer

    Friends came to visit. Coincidentally, Ellen Brandwijk is a professional photographer.While we were chatting in the garden, she quickly took some pictures and before I could see what she was doing with her camera, she was ready. The conversation was not interrupted by the shooting.This is how professionals work, … imperceptibly!She used a simple 50…

  • What every photographer needs to understand …

    What every photographer needs to understand …

    Watch this discussion and gain insight into the topics you record and the effect on the audience. The most important thing for me was the explanation that starts at 1:42:00 seconds.

  • headshot

    headshot

    “Lex de Meester will take a portrait of you on a dyke close to the factory“, said Frank Balkenende.At first, I was not enthusiastic about the idea of seeing my old head on the front page of the newspaper, because I just got out of bed after the night shift.But when I heard that Lex…

  • Beveiligd: Stories …

    Beveiligd: Stories …

    Er is geen samenvatting, omdat dit een beveiligd bericht is.

  • Phone-photos

    Phone-photos

    I was just playing with the camera on my phone … to see what it is capable of … while walking the dog.