Tag: Nikon Z8
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Snippets of Bruges
I was bound to have a post that was largely isolated windows, doors, and drainpipes, wasn’t I? Well, this is the Bruges Edition of exactly that. These first two images, above and below, are obviously of the same building. For whatever reason I did not take an image of the door and the window together—it…
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Bruges at Night
Part of the fun of exploring Bruges in the run-up to Christmas is all the lights and light-shows scattered around the city center. Since recapping Christmas decorations isn’t something that is going to appeal to anyone in late March, I chose pictures for this post that, by and large, aren’t overtly Christmasy. In the image…
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A Bolder Bruges
Bruges has a lot of brick walls. Most are unpainted. Of the ones that are painted, most are in muted colors either due to intent or age. When there are bolder colors, they are usually on the doors and window shutters. All of this is admittedly a generalization, but the bolder colors usually caught my…
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Brugesycles
When I go through my catalog of images of a place like Bruges, I try to find a few unifying themes that would make good blog posts. While I don’t set out looking for specific things when set out with the camera, I can usually find coherent groupings of images after the fact. So, last…
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Reflections on Bruges
Since the Chunnel train was late and the sun sets very early in Belgium in December, our first big photographic outing in Bruges was the morning after our arrival: a boat ride through the city’s canals. Even though the boat was moving rather slowly by objective standards, from a photographic standpoint, the compositions were passing…
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Damme Town!
After a long walk along the canals, we reached the little town of Damme proper. There were quite a few nice doors decorated for Christmas, but since we are now in the back half of February, I decided to forgo showing any Belgian holiday decorations. The image above was a little bit of a surprise…
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Damme Canals!
We now turn to the last phase of our 2024 European adventure—Belgium—which was organized around a Light & Land trip to Bruges. (Here is a link to the 2025 installment of this same trip, in case you are interested.) I’ll show pictures of Bruges proper in a few weeks, but this week and next will…
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London Trees
Since our London hotel was in South Kensington, we walked the length of Hyde Park and St James’s Park (which run east-west and touch corner-to-corner) several times to reach Westminster Abbey and the surrounding area. There are a lot nice trees along this route, and four of this week’s images are from Hyde Park alone.…
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London Streets
We did a lot of walking in London, frequently over 8 miles a day. During these walks, I would grab lots of quick compositions along the way. Since I was working quickly, not everything turned out the way I wanted, but I ended up with plenty of images that I am happy with. (Some of…
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Cathedrals and Such—Part Two
This week’s post continues last week’s topic of ecclesiastical buildings, but using examples from London. The image above, from St. Paul’s Cathedral, takes the same zenithal approach as last week’s opening image of the York Minster Chapter House dome. Domes obviously lend themselves to this maximal-symmetry composition, so images like this have a lot more…