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only women bleed
sung with the right feeling … I can’t get the song out of my head due to all the attacks of the past time.
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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
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second ride this year …
It is clear that my condition has deteriorated rapidly. I have to do a lot more mileage with my velomobile … So I started today again with good intentions 😉 But as always I bring my camera … the sun was shining, but it was a bit foggy and cold and you can clearly see
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my first velomobile-ride in 2021
… and making photos of what (I think) is typical Zeeland. 😉 https://ridewithgps.com/trips/63083109https://ridewithgps.com/trips/63083109
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Usually heavy work, but in between always time for a chat and a newspaper …
People who perform heavy work know it … you have to know exactly what is your weakest link and ensure that it does not break. So it is important to eat and drink on time and take a pause. Only in this way will you be able to “survive” until your retirement. What we did
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A typically tough and hard-working laborer
Jaap Bosman was always called “Lange Jaap” (tall Jaap) by colleagues at the Hoechst-site in Vlissingen, because in our shift there were 3 operators with the same Christian name … and Jaap was indeed as tall and strong as a bear, always wore the largest size overalls and shoes and his helmet always seemed too
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Night shift Hoechst Vlissingen, 1983.
Back then it was strictly forbidden to take pictures … (it was the time when it was not even allowed to use a transistor radio in the control room) … so I took pictures illegally, to capture the atmosphere in the control room where colleagues also came for a cup of coffee and a short
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Vlissingen, 1982.
It was 1982 and I lived in the center of Vlissingen. It was cozy, simple and always busy with tourists who came to the coastal town and port city for the many cultural events. Many pubs, restaurants and terraces and along the beach many beach bars … There was a lot of employment, fair earnings
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Snow
Our German Shepherd likes the snow to clean his coat. Every now and then it is good to take pictures in the snow again. It makes me aware of how easy digital technology has made it. In the old days, it used to require a lot more craftsmanship from the photographers … Stay safe &
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Cycle Vision in Lelystad, 2003
Cycle Vision, the annual recumbent bike event organized by the Dutch recumbent association, took place in 2003 in Lelystad. Because of the COVID-19 measures I now started to rummage through my old negatives albums, I came across the photo reports that I made back then. I immediately recognized a few well-known celebrities among Dutch recumbent
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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
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Vlissingen, 1984.
In 1984, the year in which George Orwell foresaw a totally different world, the Vereniging Nederlandse Loodsen Sociëteit existed for 100 years and that fact was celebrated exuberantly with all kinds of festivities. At the moment I am digitizing my old negatives from that year 1984, because our society has now come to resemble the
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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.
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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
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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
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Wim Harwig 