Is there any better time for breaking your toe than the week of Photokina? Certainly not! Yep, that's exactly what happened to me yesterday morning. And although it's a photography blog, I'll spare you the view and I'll not post my foot's picture. Instead, here is a weird picture of dolls on a balcony taken in Barcelona (Spain) earlier this year. It's far from winning a top award but at least it corresponds to the title... a nightmare :)
Brussels Viewfinders Photo Club - Guest Speaker Announcement
Just a short announcement (which also helps me in keeping this blog alive *cough* *cough*). I was invited by Viewfinders (the English speaking photography club of Brussels) a couple of weeks ago to be their guest speaker at their first meeting of the new season. I feel really honored to give a speech for Viewfinders, especially that this is probably one of the biggest and most popular photo club in Brussels. The announcement about my appearance together with a short interview is in their September 2012 newsletter here. The meeting will be on 19 September 2012 (Wednesday) at the Swedish Church (Svenska kyrkan) near Merode Metro and Cinquantenaire Park, Brussels. It starts at 8pm and my speech will start at 08:30pm.
If you have some time that day, join us! You can come over even if you're not a Viewfinder's member to check out the photo club and decide if you would like to become a member.
Photo Shoot Video Recap - (Don't) Play with Food
I finally found a couple of hours to finish a video from the photo shoot for the Urban Ecology Center I did back in June (wow, time flies). I titled the video "(Don't) Play with Food" - yes, you guessed correctly - because we actually played with food a lot during the photo shoot! :)
Photo shoot for the Urban Ecology Center – Part 2: Fruit Compositions
If you follow my blog, you've probably seen the pictures I posted a couple of weeks ago from this shoot. I've recently done few compositions (I'm not sure how to call these) with fruits from that photo shoot.
Travel photos: Barcelona!
"I had this perfect dream" - that's how Freddie Mercury and Queen started off with lyrics to one of their hits "Barcelona", and yes - it was perfect but it wasn't a dream!
I love photography but being a photographer is not always easy. But you sometimes get nice assignments and projects in places like… Barcelona for example! Long story short, I got a chance to spend the rest of the weekend in Barcelona walking around and discovering this beautiful city.
It wasn't my first time in Spain but it was in Barcelona. I slowly start discovering Spanish culture and I think I'm in love with it. But there is one particular thing (besides great food) that draws my attention - the Spanish mentality. Spanish people are so nice and friendly that it's even hard for me to explain. Whenever and wherever I went, I felt safe (complete opposite can be said about Brussels).
Well, for those of you who don't know, summer has somehow been avoiding Brussels and Belgium this year. It's 9am at the moment, around 11-12 Celsius degrees outside and it rains. No other better opportunity to share with you few shots I took in Barcelona at the end of May!
Photo Shoot for the Urban Ecology Center - Part 1: High-Key Photography
I have recently shot an assignment project for the Urban Ecology Center in Brussels. The Center will soon launch a weekly organic/bio food market and they needed a series of photographs to promote the market. It was a very interesting project from the beginning and also quite challenging. We had a very short deadline to shoot and come up with ideas for the photographs. The latter was a real challenge due to mainly time constrains.
We shot a series of different photographs and concepts. I also took few high-key photographs and if you follow my blog or my work on Facebook, Twitter or Google+, you know that I don't often take high-key photographs.
Drop everything you're doing! Summer is here!
I see I'm starting to come up with crazy titles for my blog posts :) I'm quite busy these days preparing a couple of commercial shoots, few conceptual fashion shoots and also few personal projects. But before I dive myself into all these shoots, I thought I should publish few nature and landscape photos - after all it's summer (at least in Europe). We should celebrate summer, ok.. I should celebrate summer for at least two reasons:
- we don't get much sun in Belgium (weather in Belgium S.U.C.K.S.);
- I've been spending way too much time indoors lately.
Sylvia's Portrait
I figured out I'm way too lazy to regularly write (lengthy) blog articles, even though I have tons of pictures I would like to share on this blog. So, I've decided to turn the blog into an even more photo blog. I'll often publish here pictures but I'll spare you (and myself) text. Although, I might drop a line or two to give you some background information about the pictures.
Sylvia asked me to take few portrait pictures of her.
Let's have an abstract life
Ok, maybe not the whole life immediately but at least an abstract day or a moment... yes, an abstract moment captured on a photograph. I don't take many abstract photographs, in fact, I always get confused what abstract photography really is and what defines it. Before you send me an angry email saying that in fact there are definitions of what abstract photography is, think about it for a moment... it's 'abstract'. What is abstract for you can be and it's most likely not necessarily abstract for me. Abstract photography can be so abstract that it's abstractically impossible to define.
I really have no idea where my thoughts on that go and why I'm writing it - I guess it's just an abstract Sunday afternoon thought. Hold on, maybe my message after all is that abstract photography can be a very unique type of photography because it always will be defined differently by each photographer. Each one of us will see abstract in a different form - I think that's what defines abstract photography :)
Bluebells of Hallerbos
The Halle forest, or Hallerbos, in Belgium becomes a really magical place for few weeks each year thanks to bluebells. Each spring, the bluebells bloom creating a magnificent blue forest carpet.
During that time, which lasts only for few weeks each year, the forest is very busy. When I arrived there, I was really lucky to find a parking place. Not only families with kids come to walk in the forest but many photographers as well.
When I came there, I thought at first that it would be fairly easy to capture the magnificent atmosphere of this place. However, I quickly discovered that it was much harder than I thought. Although, the bluebells were everywhere and you could easily see them with your eyes, the camera saw completely something else and captured the pictures in a different way than I wanted them to appear.
