“I am not your regular photo blogger !! Older than all (or most) to start with.. I a career as a civil servant behind me. As an young retired person, I enrolled in the local Academy and studied photography, became interested first, and fascinated now. The hobby became a passion. I love to draw a picture of this unique country of ours, Belgium. Right now is the timing is perfect. Belgium finds itself in the middle of a deep and long political crisis. Some hope that Belgium is on its way of falling apart, that soon it will be torn into three pieces, Brussels, Wallonia, Flanders, other’s aspirations are to keep it all together. In the midst of this interminable crisis, I believe that there is room for (semi-) objective neutral photo documentary evidence showing the world but Belgians in the first place what their country really is like.
It is my hope that this blog will contribute in one way or other to show what every day life is really and truly like, how simple and beautiful, surreal, exceptional, basic and fascinating all at once..how wonderful it is to live in Belgium ! May people start to wonder…”
Website: http://belgiumswings.blogspot.com
) and based in Belgium. I had a normal childhood which got dominated by skateboarding. Later on, this challenging sport translated into travel and small scale expeditions. Each time abroad I got overwhelmed by nature and wanted to capture this on film (still or video). The spark was there, but it wasn’t for many years until it grew into a fire.