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Dog walking is as routine as it gets, at least five times a day. Practically, it means I hardly ever leave the house without at least one camera. Last Sunday, ready for a change of scenery, it was with two: a Fujfilm X100S with the Wide Conversion Lens (true 28mm)
Desidirium = nostalgia. Nostalgia: a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition. The question I’d like to explore: can (the resurgence of) analog photography merely be explained as nostalgic? What is that nostalgia in this context exactly? I’ve thought about the
At Christmas 2022 my brother & sister-in-law-to-be asked me to shoot their wedding on June 23 2023. A big deal, of course, that responsibility to deliver the goods and it would mean forgoing on being ‘a guest’. I thought about it and a few weeks later I accepted. The location
After 11 years of faithful service and 577.000 clicks my X-Pro1 has turned into a brick. It had been acting up for the last two years (specially during wintertime), but last week I broke its back, in the middle of a series of panoramas. As someone commented in the Fujifilm
‘Bucket list’ is corny, but for lack of a better description, I’ll just place my journey to Burning Man in the Nevada desert in that category. Years prior I thought I had a good idea about what it really was, but you know; ‘You don’t know, man, you weren’t there!’
My mother was born in 1948 in Vlissingen, which is located on the former island, now peninsula (since 1871) of Walcheren in the province of Zeeland. One of the things that Walcheren is known for and has inspired painters (such as Mondriaan) and writers in the 19th and 20th century
My father passed away in August. This Christmas our family gathered in Stavoren, Friesland to enjoy the holidays. My mother chose that weekend to also bid a last goodbye to dad, scattering his ashes in the IJsselmeer lake. The morning started as one would wish for; a half-blocked sunrise churning
At the end of 2020 a group of friends (and Milo in tow) came together for a much needed reunion. A tiny house called The Blues Barn, a fire place, an outdoor tub, beers, a guitar, board games, lots of reminiscing and projecting the future.
Train trip to friends in Scheveningen, The Hague, on a sunny Sunday. Perfect to set the Sigma SD Quattro on Xpan mode and just let the world move by.
An impromptu man-at-work portrait series of Jan. Jan retired long ago, he is well into his 80’s, but he always wants to keep busy. Just at an easier pace. Which means he still contributes to the caretaking of our fort-office premises.