SARVA MANGALAM !!

 

Hello to you all , photography lovers and possible photography addicts !

 

My name is Wim van der Groef , born , raised and living in that small , windy , froggy and dense populated country along the North Sea and behind the dunes and the dikes , and a very enthusiastic amateur-photographer for many years now .

I am certainly not a technically skilled photographer ( one might even call me the Fred Flintstone of modern photography .... ) , and I dare to state even that , from a technical point of view at least , none of my pictures are that difficult to make ; the final results of my photographic efforts are just there thanks to a fairly good camera and a somewhat skilled photographer's eye , if I may add...

The pictures I take ( or am trýing to take ...) , are mainly abstract and notably minimal pictures , most of the times derived from nature , aiming at trying to get to the core , to the very essence even , of what is all to be seen in the outside world , waiting to be snapped and thus waiting to be discovered by me or by you .

I truly hope you will all enjoy consuming those final , hopefully rather tastful , photographic fruits of mine .....

 

 

 

But now for something completely different ......

I happen to be the founder and administrator of e i g h t unique groups , if I may say so , all meant for Dutch pictures from days long gone bye :

 

1) Goeree-Overflakkee , van oude mensen de dingen die voorbijgaan

 

www.flickr.com/groups/goeree-overflakkee/

  

2) Dutch life stories / Nederlandse levensverhalen

 

www.flickr.com/groups/life_stories_from_holland__nederlan...

  

3) Holland before the year 1920 / Nederland van vóór 1920

 

www.flickr.com/groups/nederland_voor_1920_holland_before_...

 

4) ziekenhuis Zuidwal

 

www.flickr.com/groups/994423@N25/

  

5) Nederland in de jaren 60

 

www.flickr.com/groups/nederland_in_de_jaren_60/

  

6) Nederland in de jaren 70

 

www.flickr.com/groups/nederland_in_de_jaren_70/

  

7) Amsterdam en Amsterdammers uit reeds lang vervlogen tijden

 

www.flickr.com/groups/amsterdam_en_amsterdammers_uit_reed...

  

8) Rotterdam en Rotterdammers uit lang vervlogen tijden

 

www.flickr.com/groups/rotterdam_en_rotterdammers_uit_lang...

  

But to finally end this summary I would like to go back once again to the present , to the early years of the new millennium , to refer you all to possibly / apparently / clearly / surely the very most interesting photo group here on Flickr ........ and that can't be anything else but ......:

 

www.flickr.com/groups/ecmrecordcoverphotographs/