Wim Harwig

Tag: photo talk

  • 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.…

  • #rednailsandmushrooms

    #rednailsandmushrooms

    Marjan started to make photos of mushrooms …. She uses my small camera now …   a Canon S120   So I’m without that little handy devil from now on … ;-(  Like all women, she is amazing creative with her makeup mirror …   It’s the only way to see the bottom.   She understood…

  • autumn in the Ardennes

    autumn in the Ardennes

    We have been to the Ardennes to realize that autumn has started.  In the forests, the change between seasons is much clearer than along the coastline where we live.   This area is a lovely pace to visit ; “Tombeau du Géant” near Bouillon.   Our dog stays back and forth between us, so that…

  • 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…

  • 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 …

         

  • the best selfie ……. is a panda !

    Selfie has become “word of the year 2013” . But long before the selfie became popular, there was this young woman riding on her bike who took photographs of herself. She uploaded her photos on Flickr, where she called herself  “faster panda kill kill“. A group for this kind of portraits started ….     In…