Tag: photography

The Young Researcher • @1MEMO_20260804

The Young Researcher • @1MEMO_20260804 • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media
. TakeNode e15047da-3588-47a0-aa0d-34d030b41c8c • Spider’s mouth – photo via microscope in 1967 – I was very surprised that year to discover that this spider’s ‘jaws’ moved horizontally – not ‘up and down’ like in all the other larger animals that I was familiar with – when I first saw this through the microscope , fresh – immediately after taking this from the just killed spider – taking care to keep it in the same orientation. For the naked eye however this was to small to really see (a small dutch ‘house spider’) – so preparing this was done rather blind in a way.

I was 15 at the time , and had experimented with microscopy since I was 11 or 12 years old. I also had started photography around that age. That year of 1967 I started taking photos through the microscope.

With the simple (mirror-less) camera and microscope that I had – the camera was put on a tripod above the microscope , with a dark cloth around it all in a bedroom with the curtains closed , at night.
That Voigtländer Vito camera had no light meter , no rangefinder ,a fixed lens and a viewfinder.
So , for preparing each new image with the microscope the camera had to be removed. When ready under the microscope , the camera was repositioned above , and because the alignment of camera and microscope is very critical (any deviation results in images like a portion cut from a round cake) .. the filmroll was rolled back in the cassette , the camera opened and by holding a piece of a semi-transparant plastic (from a plastic bag) inside the camera to catch the image projected from the microscope ….. the camera was realigned , the image focussed … and next the camera closed again , and the film roll was advanced …counting the number of already used film frames.

At 15 I also had started film developing, printing, black & white darkroom work 😉

See also the short ‘action’ film :
Bio 1966 Photography | 20230706 | Michel van der Burg | Miracles•Media URL https://1-memo.com/2023/07/06/bio-1966-photography-20230706/

#researcher #child #biology #photography #microphotography #darkroom #science #jaw #spider

Close Call for a Clear Shot • @1MEMO_20260728

Close Call for a Clear Shot • @1MEMO_20260728 • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • Roadside gamble — traffic passing at my back — just to capture the Diabetes Research Institute, Miami, while working there on human islet isolation for transplantation. April/May 1998, commuting daily between my South Beach hotel and the DRI. . TakeNode a60cdfac-c3f4-46b6-8c8f-9d0cddbf2e27

#highway #gamble #traffic #DRI #Miami #street #photography #Florida #USA #islet

Sign • 1MEMO_20260520

Midnight, May 20, 2011 in Kuttekoven, Belgium. Behind the scenes. Making of documentary film “Transport XX to Auschwitz” . Reconstruction of the scene where Simon Gronowski escapes from the 20th Convoy in the early morning (around 2-3 a.m.) of April 20, 1943 . https://michelvanderburg.com/2013/04/19/transport-xx-to-auschwitz/

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#sign #escape #Simon #Gronowski #Kuttekoven #train #Belgium #deportation #convoy #TransportXX #holocaust #resistance #war #BTS #MiraclesMedia

Sinti Caravan Site • 20260518

Willy Steinbach plays the violin at the Sinti caravan site Heksenberg in 1935 • Photo Jan de Jong • 1MEMO_20260518_1

In 1935 the nomadic Sinti families Steinbach — musicians — were photographed by Dutch photographer Jan de Jong at their caravan pitch on the heath around the Heksenberg hill in Brunssum, Limburg, Netherlands (1).

The boy with the violin is Willy Steinbach, an older brother of Settela Steinbach. The other 3 prints from the glass negatives that Jan de Jong made at the Heksenberg site in 1935 also show the Steinbach family, among others, with toddler Settela in the arms of her older sister Elisabeth Steinbach.

The toddler Settela in the arms of her older sister Elisabeth Steinbach (circled in blue) at the Heksenberg Sinti caravan site in 1935 • Photo Jan de Jong • 1MEMO_20260518_2


The toddler Settela in the arms of her older sister Elisabeth Steinbach at the Heksenberg Sinti caravan site in 1935 • Photo Jan de Jong • 1MEMO_20260518_3


The toddler Settela in the arms of her older sister Elisabeth Steinbach at the Heksenberg Sinti caravan site in 1935 • Photo Jan de Jong • 1MEMO_20260518_4

Settela Steinbach became known as the girl with the headscarf, featured a few seconds in the Westerbork film by Werner Rudolf Breslauer showing the deportation of the Steinbachs’ and other nomad families — all together ca 245 Sinti and Roma, and ca 450 Jews — on May 19th 1944 from the dutch transit camp Westerbork to Auschwitz (1,2).

Notes

1 – Willy & Settela | Born Nomad | 20210519 | Michel van der Burg | Settela•Com | ISSN 2949-9313 (accessed 2026 May 18) URL: https://settela.com/2021/05/19/willy-settela-born-nomad/

2 – Settela Steinbach in Westerbork Film 🎦 2021 | 20220302 | Michel van der Burg | Settela•Com | ISSN 2949-9313 (accessed 2026 May 18) URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiLNDziwEtc&t=1012s

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Source : Sinti trailer camp 1935 by Jan de Jong (photographer De Spaarnestad) • Wikimedia Commons, Collection Limburgs Museum

Citation info : Sinti Caravan Site • 20260518 | Michel van der Burg | Settela•Com | ISSN 2949-9313 | CC BY 4.0 | URL https://settela.com/2026/05/18

Scene • 1MEMO_20260515

Scene • 1MEMO_20260515 • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • TakeNode 805a66ac-b428-4856-b551-aa2c89898fbb • Map data ©2026 Google, Airbus

Reconstruction of the scene when Transport XX, the 20th Convoy, stops for approximately 15 minutes in the early morning of April 20, 1943, around 1 a.m., at Korbeek-Lo station on Belgian railway line 36 near Leuven, between the villages of Korbeek-Lo and Bierbeek, with the St. Kamillus Institute on the Krijkelberg hill.

This transport, coming from Mechelen and bound for Auschwitz, carries Jewish prisoners in 35 cattle wagons.

This train DA.801 has an estimated length of 400 meters, so that when the locomotive is positioned before the bridge—the bridge over Bierbeek Street—the last wagon stands opposite the St. Kamillus Institute.

Notes

#L36 #Kamillus #railway #escape #Viviane #Isabella #Weinreb #Castegnier #Korbeek #Leuven #Kamillus #Krijkelberg #train #Belgium #deportation #TransportXX #holocaust #resistance #war #MiraclesMedia

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Documentary film “Transport XX to Auschwitz”
https://michelvanderburg.com/2013/04/19/transport-xx-to-auschwitz/

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NL – Reconstructie van de scène waarin Transport XX, het 20e konvooi, in de vroege ochtend van 20 april 1943, rond 1 uur ‘s nachts, ongeveer 15 minuten stopt op station Korbeek-Lo aan de Belgische spoorlijn 36 vlakbij Leuven, tussen de dorpen Korbeek-Lo en Bierbeek, met het St. Kamillus-instituut op de Krijkelberg.
Dit transport komende van Mechelen , met bestemming Auschwitz , vervoert Joodse gevangenen in 35 veewagons.
Deze trein DA.801 heeft een geschatte lengte van 400 meter , zodat wanneer de locomotief zich voor de brug bevindt , de brug over de Bierbeekstraat, de laatste wagon tegenover het St Kamillus instituut staat.


Station Corbeek-Loo • 1MEMO_20260504 • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • Route Transport XX, Korbeek-Lo, Belgium. TakeNode 50f42693-3f86-4573-ab7a-dc583d465e14

The location of ‘Station Corbeek-Loo’ was added as a‘historic landmark’ on Google Maps by me today – URL https://maps.app.goo.gl/e2FoDRFq1pnodLMN6

L36 • 1MEMO_20260511

L36 • 1MEMO_20260511 • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • Along Belgian railway line 36, Viviane is looking for the site her mother Isabella Weinreb-Castegnier escaped the 20th Convoy (Transport XX) 80 years earlier, and saved both their lives, en route together with photographer Jo Struyven , author Nathalie Strubbe, and documentary filmmaker Michel van der Burg, near St Kamillus on the Krijkelberg ridge, on the border of Korbeek-Lo (Bierbeek) Belgium, April 18th, 2023. TakeNode e92d1b1e-d513-4b12-afcf-364740530cfa

#L36 #Kamillus #railway #escape #Viviane #Isabella #Weinreb #Castegnier #Korbeek #Leuven #Kamillus #Krijkelberg #train #Belgium #deportation #TransportXX #holocaust #resistance #war #MiraclesMedia