queenjuliana

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Food photography in Black & White, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

het is toch eigenlijk te genant voor woorden..

Nee, niet genant.. geweldig! Zo was Juliana..

Waar zijn de olie bollen ?

English translation:
Queen Juliana and Princess Beatrix serving hot chocolate at Soestdijk Palace.
Christmas reception (December 22, 1960)

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I was asked for permission to use my photo a few months ago and gave it immediately and thus this blog post from the Smithsonian... blog.photography.si.edu/2009/10/16/retouching-reality/ .... I just felt I had to reply to the blog post... I am including it here as well :

The debate about reality vs. aesthetics of photo has long been argued and will no doubt continue to be. Both versions of the photo continue to exist and have a purpose… but as an artist, I manipulate photos to bring out an inner beauty that is clarified by the removal of distractions. Another point is that the camera is a machine and only able to capture one moment in time, mechanically and without the higher processes of the human brain. The light, the shadow, the hard reality limited to 2 dimensions of what the machine records is not necessarily what our ever processing brains perceive, remember, or even register as seeing. I believe that photo retouching can simply create an image that is more close to what our brain perceives as it calculates the momentary changes in light and the three dimensional shape…and perhaps even their emotional connection or response to the subject.I do not claim that is anything more that what is to own eye and no one elses. This photo, aesthetically has beautiful composition and lines and to my eye, I could see that ethereal theme of mother and child enhanced even more with some photo retouching. I didn’t retouch this photo for any other reason but because it was interesting for me to work on it and see the results. I thought I would share it for whoever else found some value in it.

Wasn't Beatrix born in Ottawa? The room she was born in was designated a part of the Netherlands by an act of Parliament and remains so to this day, but I find it hard to believe they would go back to the birthing room to take this photo... not impossible just unlikely ...Lloyd
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I think they just meant newborn in the sense of a baby under one year old... Beatrix is much too large and alert to be a technical newborn...who knows where it was taken or if it makes a difference... this is a portrait of a mother and child...and a beautiful photo wherever it was taken.

shelteringskies My appologies, it was Princess Margriet who was born in Ottawa and it was the rooms at the Ottawa Civic Hospital that are Dutch territory. Juliana came to Canada, only in 1940 and Margriet was born in early 1943. I have checked my facts... Lloyd
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This is, I believe, a photograph of the Saint Paulinus (“Royal”) bell-foundry in Heiligerlee, displaying the 42-bell carillon commissioned for Saint Martin's Church in New York.

“Since 1871 Heiligerlee has been the home of the famous Saint Paulinus bell-foundry of the Van Bergen family of bell-founders. They have constructed carillons since 1930 both nationally and internationally. This is why, in 1942, a bell tower with a carillon was built in the foundry’s façade. The foundry ceased to exist in 1980 but since 1987 the restored complex houses a bell-foundry museum where the history of bell casting is demonstrated.”
– Carillon2008

The foundry was commissioned by Saint Martin's Episcopal Church in New York City to build a carillon to celebrate the restoration of the church after a fire in 1939. The bells were installed in 1949. [See NY Times story below]

Queen Juliana came to see and hear the bells in 1952, during her state visit to New York:

“Holland's Queen Juliana Visits Harlem” by Vieilles Annonces

Saint Paulinus Bell Foundry – Then and Now:

“Klokkengieterij Museum (c. 2005)”



“Saint Paulinus Foundry (1949)”  by Ben Merk




The Threatened Bells of St. Martin's
(excerpted New York Times, June 7, 1998)

“At St. Martin's Episcopal Church on 230 Malcolm X Boulevard [sic, 230 Lenox Ave], at West 122d Street, the tintinnabulation of the bells, bells, bells is unusual, joyful – and threatened.

“Unlike bells that are played by pulling on a long rope, St. Martin's are arranged in an elaborate series of wires and levers known as a carillon. Played on a special keyboard, a carillon is one of music's grandest, rarest and most challenging percussive instruments, producing harmonies that, of course, are impossible on a single large bell. ...

“That there is a carillon in Harlem at all is quite a feat. Unlike Riverside Church's carillon, which at 74 bells is the world's largest, St. Martin's 42-bell carillon was not a gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr. After the 1939 electrical fire left only the shell of the Romanesque Revival building, the 3,500-member congregation struggled to rebuild.

“A parishioner, Arnold Rosey, originally from the West Indies, where church bells are common, gave $100 to the pastor, Mr. Johnson [sic, Reverend John H. Johnson], specifically for a fund to buy a bell. Word spread and parishioners – working-class men and women like laborers, hospital attendants and maids, most of them also from the West Indies – contributed $2,000. Mr. Johnson and others decided on a carillon from the renowned Royal Bell Casting Foundry, in Heiligerlee in the Netherlands.

“In two years, the congregation raised the then extraordinary sum of $45,000, and the bells were installed in 1949. For many in the congregation, however, the real climax arrived when Queen Juliana of the Netherlands came to see the bells in 1952, thronged by more than 7,000 Harlem well-wishers. ...”

Dus dit is niet in de VS, maar in Groningen...