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 :)

Elsenborn @ night

Recently I spent a week in Camp Elsenborn, a Belgian military base. There I wanted to photograph the sky at night but the bad weather (rain and heavy wind every day) made it impossible to do so. Instead I went in search for the desolated and dark spots of this base.
Since I had to travel light the only gear I had was my Fuji X-E1, the XF14mm and a Sirui T-005KX tripod. The ISO range varies from 1250 to 2000 with shutterspeeds of maximum 30seconds. Due to the long exposure and high ISO some images may look if they were made early in the morning but don't be mistaken.

The hidden command post

Somewhere in Belgium are these 2 sheltered and underground airfield command posts that where manned in case of any sort of threat. Now totally derelicted and abandoned.

Pictures shot with a Nikon D600 and a Sigma 24-70 f/2.8 on a tripod.

Another lost Place

This time we explored some old Army barracks somewhere in Belgium, luckily not yet trashed and sprayed all over with graffiti! These barracks are not abandoned since there are still patrols checking this area out but it's in a great state of dereliction.
Here I approached this location in another way, using off camera flash to highlight some areas and simulate sunlight.
All images shot with an Fuji X-E1, the XF14 and an SB700...

Wesley @ The Preventorium D

Last weekend I ventured together with Wesley to an abandoned preventorium somewhere in Belgium. The plan was to do a modelshoot there but since my model didn't show Wesley posed in this gloomy place.
All shots with the Fuji X-E1 and the 18-55mm plus a Nikon SB700 strobe through an umbrella, triggered wirelessly...
On to the pictures now :)

Going underground : Liège...

Today I took a little trip in an old mine in the province of Liège. I will not bore you with text and I hope you will like the pictures :)