This website has been set up by the above pictured amateur photographers. The name 'joribo' is made up of the names of these three. They are: Jos van Gils, Richard van Kuyk and Bob Freese. The purpose of this site is to share photos mainly with family and friends although the site is freely accessible to all internet users.
The usual photo websites have in our opinion far too many photos on them, resulting in viewers getting bored very quickly and never coming back to it again. Besides, as a practical observation, people that are on dial-up are understandably reluctant to view big photo sites. Consequently, our idea is to allow four photos only for each photographer. This should make it easy and quick to download for everyone and yet, the photos are of a decent size and quality for viewing and forming an opinion. It should also encourage each participant to regularly change his photos and keep the site interesting and alive.
Each photographer has his own page which can be viewed by clicking on the relevant name in the menu on the left hand side.
This note, written by Jos van Gils, was inserted 30-08-2010
After an absence of app six weeks, our webmaster, (that’s me of course) and his wife Bep have come back from their overseas trip, so we are returning to a regular update of this, our ‘Joribo’ website.
As it does every time we visit the old country, we found the difference in age related cultural and daily aspect of life and living compared with NZ to be considerable. Of course, the countries we visited, Holland, Germany and Belgium are some of the most prosperous countries in the world. Sadly however, this prosperity has its drawbacks and the amount of dissatisfied people seemed just as large as everywhere in the world even though the reasons for it seem somewhat different from our NZ grievances.
As far as our photography hobby is concerned, the old country offers plenty of unusual subjects for us New Zealanders and inspired me to take countless photos.
We have met quite a few of our overseas viewers of this website in Holland and feel very encouraged and grateful for their comments.
As usual we look forward to your comments. To do so, please navigate to the 'Contact Us' page and use the 'Feedback' facility there. Enter your name, your e-mail address and write your brief message. This message, including your name, but not your e-mail address, will show up at the top of the page under 'Feedback Comments' for all viewers to see after it is accepted/processed by the administrator. When you see your comments published, please regard it as confirmation that the site has received your comments with our thanks.
Please note that all our images are copyright protected.