La Vallée de la Hoëgne

It has been a long winter this year and I spent many dark evenings looking at video's of landscape photographers like Thomas Heaton just to name one. I got very inspired by what he and his colleagues create in nature. But I must admit that woodland and green foliage are totaly not in my comfortzone.

Creating images like these require rising up early and last weekend I didn't manage to get out of my bed. But this Sunday I got up at 5 am, left home at 5.30 am and arrived at Jalhay around 6.30am. The river La Hoëgne flows here and this had to be a splendid place to photograph. It was indeed a splendid place and the advantage of rising early is that you have the world to yourself...

The gear used here : Fuji X-E2s, XF14, XF1855, a circular polariser and a Manfrotto tripod.

On to the pictures now :)

And I always try taking an "epic"selfie when spotting great light...

Thanks for the visit and feel free to comment :)

Visiting dark places with Miss Sien

Some time ago I came in contact with model Sien and we agreed to do an Urbexshoot in a place that I felt was ideal for her fragile figure.
So we hooked up last Sundaymorning rather early and drove up to the location. After being perhaps 150 meters in the first part of the premises we got "busted" by a very angry man who was fed up of being confronted with vandals and drug addicts who trash the place. We stayed calm and explained him we had no bad intentions and he relaxed and finaly even told us where the better spots were to take pictures.

Now on to the pictures, starting with the shot I had to have ...

Naturaly other images where taken ...

...and since I told her to bring her boyfriend along he could act as my assistant or HLS (Human Light Stand) as you can see in this BTS ...

As we moved along the buildings taking more shots ...

Images taken with a Nikon D600 and the Sigma 24-105mm, most of them in Strobist style. My other camera was a Fuji X-E2s with the XF50 2.0

Stefanie

Some of you may know by now that La Chartreuse is my favorite photographic playground. But this time I wanted to depict that place with a female model and so I got in touch with Stefanie.

Posing for me was ok but La Chartreuse was a bit too far to go to so we went to my other favorite place, The Attic...and I didn't regret it! Thank you Stefanie for your time and patience.

All pictures where shot with a Fuji X-E1, the 18-55mm lens and depending on the shot 1 or 2 Nikon SB700's triggered off camera.

Now on to the pictures ...

I had the picture with the chair in mind and all the rest came out as a bonus for me, lucky me :)