Red Cathedral

For us Europeans February 12 2021 was a palindrome date. (12022021.. Just look at the beauty of those numbers, so I just had to make a picture on that day.) And eventhough i´m living in it.. 2021 still sounds like pure scifi to me. But i can´t seem to choose between a #cyberpunk scifi like Shadowrun or a purely #dystopian world as projected in the Purge and something way more #postapocalyptic . I guess we´ll wait and see. Namaste. And there is an Instagram version More on Flickr

You wear seatbelts, motorhelmets, condoms, hardhats and sunscreen? You stop for red lights? You use smartphones, GPS, child car seats and debit/credit cards? So just put on that mouth cap and stop infecting others instead of organizing protests against it. Your Freedom has been long lost, no mouthcap or curfew is going to change that anymore. Look at Asian people who would wear mouth caps when feeling ill. They wear them to prevent the spread of any pathogens they might be carrying (with the protection of the respiratory tract from pollution and infection as a bonus) . Why is such little gesture of altruism to much for so many people? Don't be one of those egotistical rotten apples who screw everything up for everyone. Lead by example and live wisely. Besides: not so long ago we would get fined for wearing a mask in public so let's rejoice and all wear masks!   Published on Flickr and on Instagram

Have you ever seen the July terraces & streets of Antwerp this empty?  The 2nd wave of Covid-19 has hit the city hard and a lockdown light + the 1st curfew (in the entire province of Antwerp, not just the city) since World War II are active. I'm very glad I moved to beautiful Haspengouw where I can enjoy Nature & peace.. If only people were able to use their common sense in fighting this pandemic then maybe there would not have been a 2nd outbreak and maybe all the strict regulations would not have been necessary. That's many maybe's.. reality is: there IS a second outbreak, our behaviour ("going back to normal pretending nothing is wrong") has caused it. The way we behave in the face of this virus is exact the same way as we behave in the face of other problems caused by human ignorance and selfish behaviour: pollution, climate change, animal extinction, drought, deforestation, smog, .. We -as a species- cause a problem and once regulations are being put

The Covid-19 lockdown was a perfect time to move & wander through the meadows i now call home. Not all who wander are lost. It was forbidden to come close to people outside your intimate bubble, luckily there were plenty of flowers to photograph. Being a solitary person i truly enjoyed the lockdown walks. (Testing the Live composite mode on an old Olympus camera .) All images from the Corona walks & more are on Flickr .

Stores are slowly reopening (since May 11th in Belgium) and masked shopaholics are queuing up outside to get their fix.

In times of Covid-19 the dead are everywhere around you  #corona2020 #lockdown2020

This virus is teaching us very important lessons.. the same lessons dystopian scifi movies & disaster/zombie-movies have tought us.. Survivalists were right: instinct quickly takes over once society's foundations are lightly shaking, freedom & privacy are swiped off the table in the name of safety and the authoritarian states are doing better than democracies.. and spreading their wings on waves of propaganda. (Check this VRT NWS article ) Let us remember the fallen and see what the future brings.

Belgium is in a lock down due to the Covid-19 pandemic (the "Corona virus") and all my photo gear is far away.. so let's try to make something simple in a boudoirish style. Originally published on Flickr .