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 – day 5 and 6

Geplaatst op door Henk Groenewoud

Around Melbourne, Erna Nixon Park, Ritch Grissom Memorial Wetlands and more. Lots and lots of bird… and some alligators and turtoises and trees. In Erna Nixon Park I saw a glimpse of an armadillo – just briefly and I was so excited that I forgot to take a picture…