Tag: photography

Raging Fire | 20140915

Raging Fire | 20140915 | 1-memo•com | Heerenlogement building in Leiden, Sept 15, 1976.
In the early hours of Sept 15, 1976 the historic Heerenlogement buidling (1652 – Leiden , Holland) was on fire. I was living nearby then at the bottom of the ‘De Burcht’ (a 11th century shell keep). After midnight I was listening to music via headphones when I noticed the sound of the raging flames. I took my Asahi Pentax SLR camera and tripod and went up the hill of De Burcht to take pictures around 1.30 AM.
Image Michel van der Burg – scan of vintage print on silk-screened – grid – photo paper, making it difficult to scan and a lot of work to restore the image.

Citation : Raging Fire | 20140915 | 1-memo•com | Heerenlogement building in Leiden, Sept 15, 1976. | TakeNode ID 1fbb58a8-f0c5-4c26-b711-06a02867a110

Just before the fire it had been decided to start the restauration of this monument (once a ‘city inn’) as a future location for a new central public library. The attached scaffolding is showing in this picture.
Two weeks later a 17 year-old pyromaniac confessed having set fire to the buiding – he had actually helped that night extinguising the fire and getting coffee for the fire brigade. July 1980 the new public library moved in a the beautifully restaured Heerenlogement building. I – being a ‘poor’ student with a part time evening job – sold some negatives but not the copyright of my images 😉 for 400 dutch guilders (around $200) to the head of that library who planned to have a large print made for the boardroom … and, so I could have a short vacation in Normandie with my future wife and kids 😉 The official opening by queen Beatrix was in 1981.
The image below shows the front page and 1 page inside from the library pamphlet on the opening 11 june 1981.

Library pamphlet 1981 | 20140915_2 | 1-memo•com | TakeNode ID ec58e683-6b7c-48f5-8fda-6f0fca60ea86

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Cottton Candy Girl | 20140826

Cottton Candy Girl | 20140826 | 1-memo.com | The Amsterdam Nieuwendijk street now reflecting a large print of one of Ed van der Elsken’s early 60s photo’s showing ‘suikerspinmeisje’ girl. | TakeNode ID 331da0c7-fe29-42a0-b590-6832f4256ee4

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1955 Amsterdam Rebels Now | 20140824

1955 Amsterdam Rebels Now | 20140824 | 1-memo.com | The Amsterdam Nieuwendijk street now. In the background is a large print of one of Ed van der Elsken’s photo’s showing Nieuwendijk ‘nozems’ (greasers | halbstarken | blouson noirs | teddy boys) in 1955 – currently hanging (with graffiti) outside in the Nieuwendijk street as part of the wall around a renovation site. | TakeNode ID 07a8543d-4143-4c1d-9163-4ac9515e3df6

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Roman Vishniac Re-discovered | 20140823

Roman Vishniac Re-discovered | 20140823 | 1-memo.com | Image taken yesterday at the exhibition of Roman Vishniac’s photos at Amsterdam Jewish Historical Museum, 2014. Tomorrow (Aug 24th) is the last day of this exhibition “Roman Vishniac (re)discovered”
In that large picture his daughter Mara poses in front of an election poster in Berlin , 1933 . | TakeNode ID f3281589-fde9-4bd2-a15d-1156ece26eb2

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Fjord Cabin

Norway, Eidfjord. Nice shots made during my 1st month working with a Canon Powershot G3 digital camera (August 2003). Images during a trip in Norway of our cabin in Eidfjord Hyttegrend by the sea at the head of the Hardangerfjord, and mushrooms in Røisheim (see also memo 20140801 on the camera).
Fjord Cabin | 20140806 | 1-memo.com

Digital Canon Powershot G3 Camera

Friday August 1, 2003 – Today 11 years ago – took this first (test) picture late at night 1 AM with the great prosumer grade digital Canon Powershot G3 camera bought that same day … within 2 weeks after first starting digital photography with a very simple camera (see ① memo 20140722).
Image of the dutch newspaper NRC taken with available light , handheld 1/8 sec , iso 75.
With this Canon G3 camera also movie clips (320 x 240) up to 3 minutes with sound are possible – however for scenes with a lot of detail (like a forest) video quality was poor .. because of image compression due to memory / card limitations those days.

The original three megapixel PowerShot G1 was announced at Photokina 2000 (September 2000), just less than a year later (August 2001) they announced the four megapixel PowerShot G2 with a fairly significant range of improvements. A year after that at Photokina 2002 Canon announced the new four megapixel PowerShot G3, with a sleek new body design, new control layout and image processor and four times optical zoom lens.
Digital Canon Powershot G3 Camera | 20140801 | 1-memo.com