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Photo essay

Photo essay

Collects all my posts where the photos illustrate a short essay. (Or sometimes the essay explains the photos.) These posts are photo-rich but tend to have more text than photos. A lot also turn up under Stops and Stories.

Open day at the EU Commission

23 February, 20191 June, 2016

An open day at the European Commission last Saturday 28th May How exciting! No? Oh come on, at least try to show a little enthusiasm!

Categories Photo essay, Stops and Stories
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Time travel at the Brussels Atomium

25 February, 201918 May, 2016

If you’ve ever fancied experiencing time travel, I recommend a visit to the Brussels Atomium – go back and see the future we once looked forward to.

Categories Photo essay, Stops and Stories
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London Green – a walk through London’s parks

23 February, 201911 May, 2016

London green: green is perhaps not the colour you first associate with London – red, perhaps, or black – but maybe you should think about green.

Categories Photo essay, Stops and Stories

Brussels airport – back at Zaventem

23 February, 20196 April, 2016

Zaventem, Brussels airport has re-opened exactly two weeks after the terrorist bomb attacks. Passing through the airport yesterday I took these photos.

Categories Photo essay, Stops and Stories

Scary Monsters and Museum Night Fever

18 September, 20199 March, 2016

An evening of scary monsters, strange objects, and a night out at several museums which have stepped “out of their usual context” for the evening.

Categories Exhibition, Photo essay, Stops and Stories
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Graffiti and frescoes in Florence

23 February, 201910 February, 2016

Florentine graffiti: some people like it, some hate it. Here are some examples that I liked and photographed during my visit at the beginning of November 2015.

Categories Photo essay, Stops and Stories

Drawing the Bottom Line in Ghent

18 September, 201927 January, 2016

It’s very dull, misty, grey and monochrome in Belgium at present so we choose to visit the Bottom Line – an exhibition of drawing – in Ghent.

Categories Exhibition, Photo essay, Stops and Stories
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Stories from the sleeping place

23 February, 201920 January, 2016

A photo visit to the cemetery at Ixelles (aka Elsene), the sleeping place for many Belgian dead and the resting place of many stories.

Categories Photo essay, Stops and Stories
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Paris, photos and terror – a meditation

22 February, 201918 November, 2015

Paris: A look back to a visit Mrs SC and I made in May, a photo essay and some thoughts about the recent terror attack there.

Categories Photo essay, Stops and Stories
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Belgium’s national holiday – 21st July

24 February, 201922 July, 2015

In which we contemplate a series of photos taken during Belgian’s national holiday to celebrate independence on Tuesday 21 July 2015.

Categories Photo essay, Stops and Stories
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