I took this photo of Harderwijk's Vischpoort just after sunset. I myself was standing on the Vischmarkt, the centre side of the city gate. You can see Harderwijk's distinctive gate with a few wall houses and a piece of the city wall. In the gate opening, you can still see some light from the evening sun. Behind the windows of 1 of the wall houses there is light from the lighting, something like an antique shop. The water pump that you see is not an old one but one that was built this century. To make this photo, I took 5 photos with different exposures and merged them into 1 HDR photo afterwards. Since the shutter speeds of the photos were already quite long, I put my camera on a tripod.
Welcome to my shop. My name is Gerard de Zwaan and I was born in 1983 in the Veluwe town of Harderwijk where I grew up and still live. I started photography in 2013. My first camera was a Nikon D3200 which I still own and is now as a.. Read more…