streetscape – Page 3

Some Streets

We averaged about 7 miles a day walking around Belgian towns.

We spent last week in Belgium as tourists. We walked around Brussels for a few days, then took a train to Ghent for a day, a train to Ostend the next day and Bruges the day after that. Then we shifted to Antwerp for a few days. Lots of pictures coming up, many of them just touristy snapshots and postcard images. I will attempt to weed out too many you could just see in a guidebook and focus on those with a slightly more artistic or, at least, I hope, interesting perspective. As always, click on any image to see them all full sized (if you’re getting this in email you may need to click through to my site first by clicking on the post title, above).

Hammersmith from Richmond

St Ives

Saturday, the 27th, my wife and I walked around St Ives, a pretty seaside town, formerly focused on fishing it is now a popular seaside resort and thriving arts community.

The Bay

Our last view of Margate in the sunny afternoon.

Margate: Places, Spaces, Heterotopia IV

See earlier comments on places, spaces, and heterotopia here.

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Chimney Tree

Blood Orange

We left Paris on the EuroStar at a dusky late afternoon.

Hotel Room View

Hotel Room View

Cranes and Harp

Ubiquitous Hairy Styles

Leaving Galway

We spent the first two weeks of August, traveling around Ireland. We started in Galway and proceeded more or less counter-clockwise, including time in Ulster, then Donegal, before traversing the island to Dublin and our flight home. I shot over 1000 frames, so expect to see lots of verdant landscapes, castles and other postcard-genre, tourist shots over the coming days and weeks.

The tour was designed for photographers and their non-photographer partners and I was expecting to travel around in a small coach. In fact we were in one of those gigantic modern buses. The first couple of days in Galway town were quite rainy but then we got on the bus and left. Here are a few snaps through the window of the bus before we made our first stop.