Wedding day in Rietveldpaviljoen

Geplaatst op door Henk Groenewoud

The Rietveldpaviljoen (designed by the famous Dutch architect Gerrit Rietveld) in Amersfoort is a centre to see, celebrate and create art. Next Saturday a new exhibition will be opened on street photography, entitled Paradijsvogels (Birds of paradise). There is an extensive exhibition of the Dutch street photographer Willem Wernsen. Photographers have been invited to celebrate his 70th birthday, and create a personal piece of art inspired by him. For this exhibition I made the photo Wedding day, that I mentioned previously in this blog. I am honoured to have it shown to the public in the Rietveld Paviljoen.

Memories

Geplaatst op door Henk Groenewoud

“I’m just browsing through some old stuff,” he said. “Do you see this map? It’s from the airport. I stole it from the Germans.”
Not true. It’s a copy of a map made by a modern copyer, probably fifteen or twenty years ago. But who cares? I know that during the war, as a child, he did break into German offices in the village, and that he did steal maps from them. But now, at the age of 96, all these memories are fading into a thick fog. Sometimes elements from different memories come together into a new story that is almost true. Almost. And that’s more than enough now, for him as well as for me.

Wedding day

Geplaatst op door Henk Groenewoud

They were sitting on a bench in my father’s idyllic village. I asked if I could take a picture of them. Of course I first had to explain what my intention was.
“In honor of the birthday of a famous Dutch street photographer, we were invited to take a picture in his style as a tribute. So we try to take a picture the way he would take a picture.”
“You look like a serious photographer,” She said. “So go ahead. But first you have to take a picture of us with my cell phone.” It was their wedding day; they enjoyed the sun, the beautiful surroundings and especially each other.

What a wonderful day it was

Florida – last day

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Miami, Wynwood Walls Art District. Oh yes, there is an official museum where well-known official artists show their art – and sell it for astronomical prices. But the real art is in the streets. The complete industrial site has become one large piece of living art by graffiti and other artists. Forget Banksy. This is street art in its purest form

FKE Exhibition

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Really happy with the opening today of the exhibition in the St. Aegtenkapel in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, of our photoclub FKE. A bunch of great photographers with so much creativity! Former chairman Rob Renshoff has succeeded in realizing this exhibition – what a succes!

Erotic

Geplaatst op door Henk Groenewoud

So I went into the woods (which is less than five minutes from home) and took this picture of a beech. “Quite erotic,” my girlfriend said when she saw the print. Like bodies in a state of ecstasy.
A real life Rorschach test, this tree!

Xperimental: And there was light

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The reflections in the screen of my phone gave the inspiration for this one. Diffraction in layers of glass mirrored multiple images of the same item, distorted over one another. This is a kind of replica in color. Food for the experimental group. What do you think of it?

(and frankly, I don’t like these kind of images)