July 21st is Belgium National Day. After continuous bad weather for the last few weeks, the weather was showing some improvement so I decided to go Brussels to see the military parade and enjoy the lively atmosphere of this special day. I would of course not go without a camera and I decided to give myself a mission: one body and one tele-lens to go on an urban safari. My initial idea was to shoot everything in black and white (but using RAW to make sure I could use the colour images if I preferred to). In the end, I did not (yet) convert any of them to black and white. Although some of them are certainly worth a conversion, the colours were everywhere on such a day, so it was better to show them.

Belgium colours in the sky of Brussels

Here is a selection of what I saw.

A few weeks ago, I spent a day in Paris to visit the retrospective of the work of Michael Kenna at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. The exhibition is now closed but you can still see it at this virtual exhibition. The weather was rainy the...

Just to test if this all works ! Here are a few pictures taken end of last year with the snow starting to melt. Walk in Nahtsief (belgian border with Germany) [gallery order="DESC" link="file" columns="1" ids="3739"] In the Domaine Solvay (La Hulpe) [gallery order="DESC" columns="2" link="file" ids="3737,3738"] And this is the...