Meanwhile the Ricoh GX100 I bought recently turns out to perform like a little gem. The camera has hardly been out of my hands since I bougth it early July. My conclusion so far? I could do just about any human interest assignment with this camera alone. If you can't register people or animals intimitely with this camera, chances are you can't do it with anything else.
| 02 March 2007 - Last Tuesday, the 27th of February, at 17.36h, Lara Madelief van Gelderen | |
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was born. This explains the lack of updates of my Picture of the
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07 January 2007 - First of all, I want to wish you all the best
for 2007. And straight off, would also like to apologize for the lack
of new posts on this site. I have been really busy with a new job, moving
house to live with my girlfriend, aswell as preparing for the arrival
of a child. No doubt, you will see how this would distract from something
as trivial as a weblog. In all this, I'm happy to say, I did manage to
post my daily photographs; it turns out to be a strong routine indeed.
People who have been regular visitors over the past four years, may have
noticed the odd black-and-white picture, but all and all they you probably
will agree my photographs tend to make a rather heavy use of the color
dimension of the medium. I like taking pictures of colorfull people and
things. You only need to take a look at my pictures from Mexico and India to see what I mean. Recently though, I have switched to black
and white; I restricted myself to shapes, forms, structures and content.
So, no more eye-candy, I'm afraid.
Well, at least as long as the weather stays as damp en somber as it is
at the moment. Once the light returns, or if I get a chance to travel
to sunnier places, I will return to color photography. Besides, nothing
stops me from switching my trusted C8080 back to color mode the moment a great color moment presents itself - so
don't be surprised of I sin against my own restrictions.
I just made a, somewhat belated I admit, new years resolution to try and
post more. But posts or no posts, keep watching this space, visually it
will be worth your while.
By the way, the counter at the bottom of the page keeps track of the number of unique visitors instead of page loads - which it used to do. Basically, it's a mess. But hey, it's just numbers! And who's counting anyway.
| 26 April 2006 - Every now and then I Google myself, to see whether I made it yet. | |
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As of this afternoon the
query "wim van gelderen" in google.com results
in 500 hits. The first page and a bit of those concern my person! But further down there's loads more interesting pages. As you might have noticed, that photographer is, indeed, me. But I am not the designer of the table and chair on the left. Acitve in sports I am too. The climber that's me again, there is no dennying that. And I am pretty sure the footballer is my cousin and name sake. But I have no idea who the tennisser, the motor sports guy and the judoka are. Hard to resist having a peak at that judo tournament they have named after me. Although it is true I was a teacher at the University of |
| Amsterdam a while back, I
am not this
teacher in Arnhem, who appears to be just as popular with his
students as I was back then. Finally, I had already noticed I know
quite a bit about a lot of things - I wouldn't be keenping that science
blog if I didn't - but I had no idea I was a specialist
in medical logistics. Since I doubt this particular instance of
Wim van Gelderen is still alive, I have to conclude I appear to have
died at least once. You learn al lot about yourself through Google! |
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All this activity has somewhat distracted me from my tasks over here at wimdows.nl. At least as far as new text entries are concerned; the pictures kept coming, of course.
30 January 2006 - As of today, wimdows.nl is has entered
it's fourth season. Or put differently, today this site celebrates it's
third birthday! Three continuous years on the internet and over a thousand
Pictures of the Day published, is more of a result than I ever
expected of this project. The one thing it didn't bring me, is (steady)
work and income. It has been fun anyway. And who knows what the next two
years will bring...
To all of you visitors out there - especially the people who drop in on
something of a regular basis - I extend a hearty thank you! Because, in
the end, you make it worthwhile. Without an audience (however small) my
Picture of the Day would reside in that same twilight zone where we find
one hand clapping, a falling tree in a deserted forest, and Schrödinger's
poor cat.
Of course I will stop short of attributing to you the collapsing my wave
function. But you, the public, do have a voice - be it a simulated one
in my head - in that daily proces of picking my Picture of that Day. And
it wouldn't be the same without it!
So thank you, and keep watching this space!
First I have to sleep some more... Oh, and have a happy 2006.
So keep watching this space.
Hopefully these redocorations will be at a publishable state in less than a week's time. This Saturday night I wil be publishing the 1000th Picture of the Day. this seems a great occasion for presentating the new look.
So, keep watching this space!
Earlier this week the connections in my area were completely lost for nearly two days. Halfway thru the week they - without notice - assigned new dns-addresses across the board. In oher words they saw no other way out but to reset the bloomin' lot.
Anyways, over at the provider's everything seems to be hooked up again, and I did a site wide dns-number search-and-replace. I'm guessing everything is back within your grasp again. So, as always: Enjoy!
Early october follow up: the feed appears to be functioning properly; the exception being the auto detection part, which fails to work at all, it seems. Your advice would be most welcome!
In case you are wondering: most of this site I made myself. I designed and developed it, I wrote all the copy, and I made most of the photographs, I made the logo's too. The icons I stole and adapted. (The little climber, for instance, I took from a German site, the address of which I have long forgotten.) I wrote most of the html code. The java code was almost entirely developed by others or software generated; here and there I did some editing.
Wimdows.nl will never be finished, of course - although there will, no doubt, come a time I will no longer update it. In the mean time I hope it will get ample opportunity to evolve along with the times and me. Needless to say you are more than welcome to keep track of this work-in-progress.
I do appolgize for any inconvenience caused by my site not being online.
29 April 2005 - It's been over two weeks since my last post.
One major cause for this is a crashed hard drive. I'd lost about all my
pictures of the last four or so months! I've been having a heck of a time
recovering them, and I have managed rescue just about all of them.
Only thing is, I ahve ende up with 4.000 jpg's split in two; one file,
4kb in size, containing the header and another file containing the actual
picture. Not working on Unix, I haven't managed two glue them back together
so far. If anyone can lend a hand
at all, I would really appreciate it.
Beter nieuws, and another cause for the lack of new entries, was a new
photo assignment. I've been shooting some pictures for Staatsbosbeheer,
the Dutch forestry service. There will be a link to this in the future
no doubt.
Meanwhile the pictures I made for Terra,
the magazine published by the Netherlands
Society for Nature and Environment.
21 March 2005 - Frequent visitors will have noticed some changes
over the last weeks. Big changes they were not; some of them were hardly
even noticeable. But however slight their seperate effects, the cumulative
effect, I hope, is considerable. There is, as ever, more work ahead (how
about those secundary pages, mate?).
But I like the sleaker look for the coming season. Enjoy!
This first goes to Terra, the new magazine published by the Netherlands Society for Nature and Environment.
No doubt you will be hearing more about this.
Would be silly to stop now...
And for those who didn't get my my card: here it is (without the words)...
April 2004 - I've been retouching the interface, but it's mostly
done now; so glitches should be down to the usual level again. There is
some work still going in slide show departement - so expect some improvements
there!
I've been concentrating on getting my carreer as an editor, author and
photographer lately. Most of the stuff I added to this page in the last
couple of days therefore is work related. And since they happen to be
articles and the like, they are all in Dutch, I'm afraid.
Which isn't to say I would refuse commissions in the English language.
I happen to think I could do that too. (For contacting details, have a
look at my
cv.) I don't think I write like a native speaker; I'm too internationally
minded for that.
Of course there is always the daily installment of new pictures. And in the near future I will be installing a new batch of pictures from India I will be installing shortly... So, if you have to go already, make sure you come back soon!
Meanwhile, here is a shout for help to my friends in Bijapur!?
To the guys at the computer course who helped me put my photo's on cd. Thanks again, lads! Nearly all the pictures made it to Amsterdam perfectly - except for three of them. (The cd got scratched on the way home.)
Good thing is: you kept a copy of the pictures!
Please guys, mail me. I would really like to have the missing three pictures.
23 January 2004 - Shortly this site will go and hybernate. This will coincide with my departure for India. After my return I will dig up the whole site and start a-fresh.
By the time I return wimdows.nl will
be about a year old. One thing is for sure: it has become something of
a photosite. (Weird word that!)
I will try and give some signs of life among the way.
Meanwhile it happens to be my second trip - another birthday - with my Digilux 1. The coming trip should some how be an exam. If I pass it, I might go for a change of carreer.
See you soon...