23-MAR-2008
View on Deventer
There are several things I like here. The whole image is quite blurry, as if looking through one's eyelashes, but the image is still quite strong. I like the road, its curve and its sudden disappearance. You could compare it to life, but that's a bit cheap of course. I also like the texture of the heath, which is like a woolly mammoth. But most of all I like the way the long lens emphasises the height diffrences, which, being in the Netherlands is still very modest here: some 60 meters. On the horizon is home: Deventer, one hour of cycling to go. Well, that is if there are no intervening photo-opps.
January 1986
Farewell II
This is another scan from a colour slide converted to B&W. I like the long lines and mist. The man and child seem to wander along without a specific goal, something I also like to do when waiting for trains. But I imagine of course something more dramtic: mama has just left for two years or the child's best friend has moved to another city. It is clear that they won't be seeing each other for a long long time and daddy and his son will have to carry on without that beloved person.
19-MAY-2007
This is my favourite among the many photos I made of this piano. It is left outside by the canal and decomposes slowly but surely and changes with the seasons. I have been at the place numerous times, because it is on one of my regular cycling routes. But for this photo I went there on purpose carrying the music score of Verdi's requiem. I like the dark upper half with the out of focus hammers.
:: My old favourites ::
these were among my favourites, but as I list only 36 of them in my main favourites gallery I moved those that don't make it to the very top anymore here.