I had to return a clock to Wilrijk, Belgium, to a shop we don’t have in the Netherlands and wat seemed to be a dull back-and-forth drive turned out to be a nice urban exploring trip I took a wrong turn and noticed some leftover walls. Turned around to check out if there was anything behind it and guess what? Nothing… But a couple yards further I saw this small abandoned castle! Some online digging later on told me that it is the “orangerie” of Hof ter Beke. Either a very good prevision or just dumb luck that I had also brought my camera just in case I would find something to photograph on the way. The area contains two buildings, by better words I just called them the front building and the right building (as seen when entering). Some more info in Dutch here

On a cold november night (luckily no november rain) illogical and I went to Eindhoven Glow, an event which lasts a week and where art and lights are combined in ways you cannot imagine. And truth is… you cannot actually capture this on photo as well Didn’t stop us from trying, though…

I headed up to the railway museum (spoorwegmuseum) in Utrecht with our kid last Sunday. I had just read Going Candid on street photography by “85mm” in which one of the pointers was to shoot one topic per day. So when I came into the museum I decided to go and shoot typography today. Also in mind that Friday I am going to visit the “now we are talking” festival.

All images are shot with the lensbaby (2.0) and I didn’t try really hard on the focus and comp, just shot freely.

First of all a big thanks to all the people who have made Baroeg Open Air possible. Thanks to all the volunteers and bands Baroeg Open Air was great. Also thanks to the organization who supplied us with above pictured backstage- and photographer “passes”.

We’ve watched/listened/shot nearly the entire program but missed out on the last act but had a great time. Below are galleries per band and one gallery with people and other stuff from the surroundings.

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Kinkobra:

Riotgod:

New Era Dojo:

Hard Resistance:

Taze Bitti:

Highway Chile:

Thanatos:

Diary of Dreams:

the Wounded:

Entombed:

Umbra et Imago:

People and surroundings:

Any more information on these bands:
Entombed
Diary of Dreams
Highway Chile
Hard Resistance
Riotgod
Umbra et Image
The Wounded
Thanatos
Taze Bitti
New Era Dojo
Kinkobra

In summer The Hague turns into festival city. One of them is parkpop, which is a free festival in “het Zuiderpark”. When I found out Juliette Lewis was gonna play there I decide to go this year, I’ve been sort of a fan of her ever since I saw Cape Fear on video. That was actually quite some time ago. A couple of years ago I heard she was doing less acting and more music, decided to check it out and I really enjoy her energy. Also watched Danko Jones, which was also very good but less interesting to take pics of since he sings and plays the guitar so mainly has one pose for the most part of the show. Seen some other stuff as well but not that interesting.

I know, it’s been like forever. Truth is, not much urban exploring has been done lately. There were some small things but when I had the day off Illogical and I decided to head back to Beringen and see what was left of it. Seems they are turning a part into a museum with hiking/biking tracks all around the facility. It is not that closed off and easy to reach from these paths. These paths are not open yet I think so it might be that they’ll have some better fencing when they open. Might be an interesting trail to ride someday. The upper floors of the buildings can’t be reached anymore unless you bring a ladder. They cut down all the stairs. Probably safer anyway but not so much fun. We had a good time on the ground floors anyway.

In Bergambacht where I work, there’s this small photography business that quit a little while ago. The shop is still here and when you ring the bell you can get inside and still buy stuff at ridiculous rates So last time I was there I picked up this “for Canon” 25mm extender for 10 euro’s. Some other stuff picked up: canon 18-55 lens, 2 simple flashes, some 1/4″ bolts, a Manfrotto window clamp and head and a bunch of cables. I ended up paying 50 euro’s. Next to nothing, right? So here are some shots taken with the 25 mm macro extender and my 50mm 1.8.

Every now and then we have a familyweekend and this time we gathered at Hoek van Holland for a tour of Fort Hoek van Holland. Pretty nice but we had a bit of a strange guide. After that I wanted to visit the bunkers and tunnels that are there in that area. I got some details on how to get there and one of my cousins joined me for this small detour. It turned out to be a lot of bushwhacking to get there since there where bushes of over 2 meters high. And they weren’t of the friendly kind So when we finally got to the bunker… Well, let’s say we didn’t make new friends on this trip. We had to hand in our papers and got an official warning… Just wondering if we’d get a note of that in the mail someday or anything? Anyway, this guy was really the typical “couldn’t be a real cop but got this job to annoy people and I like the uniform”-type. And he was convinced that “we all” knew why we where there. I still haven’t got a clue as to what he was referring to, I really came there to take pictures and told him so but hey, it’s not one of those times to get smart There must be some sort of sensor or camera system there, he got to us pretty quickly and by the looks of it he just drove up to the site, left the gate open and all. We thought we had to bushwhack our way back to the road but it appeared that just two steps further the bushes stopped and there was just dunes and the exit…

I work for a client in Spijkenisse so when I got there a bit early one day I decided to take some pics. I’d already brought my camera a few times but I was either late or the weather was bad. Not this time. Drove around a bit to see what to shoot, it’s not like you can park your can anywhere there. I also shot some panorama’s but I’ll put these up in a next post. First shot at the Esso terrain I was shooed away, noted my license plate and everything… I was still on the right side of the fence and no sign that said I couldn’t take pictures though. Too bad I only got the chance to take three shots and not even have the time to dial in my flash. Well… it’s the way things go, better luck next time.