Wim Harwig

Category: photo

  • 500px

    500px

    For almost a year I didn’t add photos to my 500px-profile. I used the site only for inspiration by studying the high quality photos made by good photographers. Yesterday I uploaded a few photos just to let my followers know that I’m still alive … Now I’ll have to wait a few days because I…

  • melancholy

    melancholy

    At this time of the year where many “recharge their batteries” in Greece, I am day-dreaming and enjoying the autumn colours in my own backyard … Listening to music that evokes very different memories than what the lyrics are describing…But for me, Joan’s voice is a switch to go back in time … and become…

  • another old school tool …

    another old school tool …

    An old pair of scissors, originally from shipyard “de Schelde”. I can not find the name of a manufacturer anywhere, so I think these scissors were made on “de Schelde” a long time ago … 

  • Kosbie

    Kosbie

    The well-known photographer (and by accident my neighbour) Kosbie made some nice photo’s of me in action …          

  • the Power of Print Film

    the Power of Print Film

    This video inspired me to start making more prints of my photos …

  • before ….. after

    before ….. after

  • old selfportrait

    old selfportrait

    I made this self-portrait a long time ago. My mood was clear  …. Analog, tripod, self-timer, pose …. difficult time to make spontaneous pictures compared to the current digital possibilities.

  • coloring an old B&W photo

    coloring an old B&W photo

    Lochem , 1930.   I made a photo of this photo that I found in an old album from my sister ….   My mother 16 years old. She paid this official portrait photo of her first salary that she earned as a chambermaid. It was made at a local photography-shop in Lochem, the Netherlands.…

  • some 100 years ago

      And a hundred years later you can still see that the photographer did not work neatly in developing and printing this photo. The picture was taken at Zwolle train station, according to the letters ZL on the board. When I see this, I tend to print photos in my dark room in the old-fashioned…

  • Slippin’ and Slidin’ with sliders

    Slippin’ and Slidin’ with sliders  …. I tried these possibilities to see if it added something to my blog.   click on the photo if you want to see the result …. 😉  

  • two rings

    My mother died of liver cancer. When she had been bedridden in the last few months, she wanted this picture of my father next to her bed. This photo was made in the time they fell in love. My father then wore two rings. The second ring was from his deceased first wife. Half a…

  • a photo a day keeps the psychiatrist away …

         

  • Wooden ships …

    I walked around for about an hour at Hendrik Willem van Loon Hardzeildag 2017   maybe I should have spent more time because it’s a perfect place for photographers …..     maybe next year …       Black&White !       Don’t forget to hold one end of the rope 😉   …

  • it’s a matter of speed

    1/10 sec.  f/22  ISO100  24 mm polar-filter nice photos always germinate from a beautiful nature, a good sleep, a happy mood, a German Shepherd, a clean lens and a beautiful wife !

  • our “Sandwalk”