Modernism in Brussels, Auderghem

A friend of mine whom I visited recently: "Did I really move to Brussels in order to live in a block of flats?"

In Search of Brueghel

The Crowne Plaza Hotel

A Modernist Sculpture

A modernist sculpture in the lobby of a hotel which is going to be demolished soon. I want to have it!!!

Olek

Olek in Brussels and Olek in London

Half Life in Brussels (A Sketch) vol. 1

Half Life in Brussels (A Sketch) vol. 2

Another Fire in Brussels 1

Another Fire in Brussels 2

The last days of 2010 saw another fire in my street. I was watching TV one December morning when I smelled smoke. It came from burning woods and I thought that I live in a district where people do their best so as to live close to nature. Only a few days earlier I hear a flock of hens cuckle, now I smelled smoke coming form a natural fire...and then all of a sudden the whole street was dark with smoke, I saw the lights of a fire brigade and I realised that the source of the smoke was not natural at all: down the street, only twenty metres away, a house was burning. I woke up my family and a friend of mine who was visiting us, we both grabbed our cameras and run out of the house - to check whether we would have to evacuate and to take some photos. My New Year's wish? May it never happen to any of us!

Феликс Эдмундович Дзержинский in Brussels: FED5

A few months ago a friend of mine gave me his FED5 for a test. I am always happy to work with vintage cameras so I went for a walk down my street. All in all, it was nice to shoot with FED5 although the camera is too cumbersome and inconvenient in use due to a very small viewfinder and a lack of a rewind knob. FED3 is much more better in terms of speed but certainly it also has got its disadvantages...read below:-)

Феликс Эдмундович Дзержинский in Brussels: FED3

Last holidays I bought a FED3. I remember a friend of mine saying that in the 1980s many photographers and photography students would buy it because it was a direct copy of Leica and if you were lucky you could get a copy of very good quality. My father-in-law added: if you were lucky and they had not produced it during a night shift...apparently, I wasn't that lucky this time:-)

Clouds over St. Josse

Belgian Scouts Play in the Snow. A winter scene from Pieter Breughel.

Modernism in Brussels vol.1

Bauhaus in Brussels vol.2

Atomium in the Snow, vol.1

Atomium in the Snow vol.2

Bauhaus in Brussels

Two badly scanned images

With an otherwise excellent Nikon scanner...

Sky over Brussels continued

The sky over Madou


The sky over Porte de Namur


The sky over Gare Central