This winter was simply bleak. I was looking forward to taking breathtaking images of the snowed-in and muffled city, with long dark shadows over the monochrome landscape, much like slender fingers reaching towards the horizon. Well, that didn’t happen. Snow only made a very brief appearance last month, like a streak of flowy hair that brushes against your cheek … Continue reading
Bruges is the capital of the province West Flanders in Belgium and its historic city centre has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2000. Bruges’s beauty can be contributed to the fact that, although it’s been raided several times throughout history, most of the city’s medieval architecture remained intact, making it one of the most well-preserved and … Continue reading
This week the theme is transformation. So who can tell me how to create a piece of art out of bugs? The image shows a close-up of one of the chandeliers in the Royal Palace’s Mirror Room, which (like the ceiling in the background) is covered with wing cases of jewel beetles. Brussels managed to … Continue reading
An unlikely sight in the middle of the bustling city of Brugge: a young man mass-producing soap bubbles using but a long string with small loops on it, dipped in the soapy water. Some come out as perfect spheres, others look more like large shiny rainbow-blobs, and all the eyes in the square are glued to … Continue reading
Every other year Brussels rolls out a magic carpet made of flowers, celebrating the breathtaking beauty of begonias, the region’s horticultural highlights. The carpet is built overnight and requires over 300 blossoms per square meter (about 100 per square foot), showcasing the wide variety of hues the flowers come in. To see the biennial event … Continue reading
Postcards from the Country 