Keeping track

Black and white photography

One of the advantages of colour photography is that you can turn black and white thinking upside down with a simple click. To be honest though at the time I took the picture I wasn't doing so because the lady was having the laptop bag and filling in a crosswords puzzle while the guys in white were rolling a luggage carrier around, but just because I liked the mood. Now I enjoy the fact I can read more into this shot, but then again, world press photo material it ain't ;-)

Rainy streetside

Sometimes when I walk around in this city, this tiny city with it's big ego's in it, all I can see is the stuff that people try to look away from. Does it make me sad? Does it make me angry? Is it making me cold and hard and numb? None of the aforementioned, I just see...

20.10

A new year, "out of focus" wishes you a lot of crisp and clear wishes!

light in times of darkness

As the days have considerably shortened over the past months, one can't shake a gloomy feeling overtaking while walking from one shadow to another. Streets filled with people running from one crowded bus station to another packed giftshop. Holiday greetings passed from one stranger to another with the same enthusiasm as one would hand out coupons filled with the promise of free coffee to go along your double burger... Yet in times like this one can also find a peculiar kind of comfort, not just in the snow spread thin on the roofs and certainly not in the chimes and tunes comig from one too many a christmas-themed shop, but in the absence of loved ones that are not amongst us (anymore). For it seems that those we miss make us enjoy the ones who are around us all the more, and this, I find, is what makes christmas worth all the running around. But that's just me of course...

jungle city

A drive by shot that somehow makes me want to visit this hidden Metropolis, a city of the world hidden behind the scrubs and bushes of a cold sidecurb...