Red Cathedral

When you have the time.. or rather: when you make the time to admire a place at all moments of the day from ( almost ) the same place and you're not afraid of the rising tides, you might see some magic in a simple abbey on a rock in the water . #sarcasm Originally posted on Flickr like every picture of mine ( and on Facebook - I don't know if I should upload them to Instagram .. because their algorithm dislikes photos other than certain selfies) Hence I turned it into a silly-dance -video for Clapper . 3 3 more sily dance videos from Ile de Ré 1 - Abbaye des Chateliers 2 - More Abbaye des Chateliers 3 - Even more Abbaye des Chateliers

How to make adult get in back in touch with their inner 5 year old? Easy: you show them dinosaurs! Before leaving for France we made a stop in Middelkerke (Belgian coast) to visit the annual festival for sand sculptures. This edition is inspired by the last Jurassic World-movie and really unleashes the kid inside every dino-loving adult. First of all: it isn't the biggest edition ever, however it's worth every penny of the entrance fee. Artistry & emotion are in every detail of the lifelike and often pretty big dioramas. It's not just impressive fights, but also cute prehistoric family scenes cut out of mountains of sand.. because often we would simply forget that everything is made out of nothing else but sand. Just check out all those details. Impressive!   All the pictures are on Flickr . A video is on Clapper ( the complete video ) & on Instagram ( however: cut short by IG ) You've got till September 11th to visit it yourself. Because: how often can you e...

Let's start with a picture: . At first I simply wanted to create a placeholder for this fantasy fair in the Mondo Verde amusement park.. but I fear I might forget some things I wanted to say if I wait till all pictures have been processed. Follow the progress on Instagram , Facebook , or directely at the source on Flickr   And for a short video it is HERE on Clapper with the other fair videos ( Elfia, Trolls-et-Légendes, MOD, cosplay shoots, parades,.. ). Maybe I should put those on Tiktok too? First of all a mental note about the location of Mondo Verde in Landgraaf ( Dutch Limburg ). You should see this place as 3 amusement parks combined into 1. * There's a waterpark filled with water rides & splash slides for the kids. Fun-fun-fun on a hot Summer day. ( and a good spot for a quick shot of the Atlantian Mera ) This was opened during the fair. So at first I thought that +50% of the visitors only came to swim. But that was our mistake because we visited this part to ...

You are all noticing it: the prices for everything are going through the roof. The entry fees for events are too ( even up to 35€ for a one day entry pass to a fantasy fair excluding parking, food, drinks,.. over here in the Benelux ). So what kind of face would you make when you get an invite for an event with a 2€ entree fee and free parking? Baffled? Bedazzled? Happy smile? An I should check this out-grin?   So we checked out this MOD cosplay/geek event in the hamlet of Monceau-sur-Sambre.. which quickly seemed to be part of greater Charleroi and not some medieval town forgotten by time as was envisioned by it's exotic name. Edition 8 means we have missed a few editions and I can't say if this is a new location for them or not: but we liked the location.  Big walls around the compound. Some trees & plants inside. Space for tents ( yes, they included a small medieval camp with very good hydromel in the event ), an old hangar for a small geek-market, some RPG-testing ...

This morning's goal was to upload the 1st images from the MOD cosplay event I visited yesterday.. yet suddenly I realised that I had completely forgotten to share some pictures from the O-Parade earlier this month. Blame it on work ( tradefairs , Pairi Daiza photowalks , videoclips , webinars , shoots ,.. life is back to normal and I need to get used to it again )! Before I always thought the O-Parade in Genk and the Zinneke Parade in Brussels were about the same age. A big mistake from my side. Zinneke started in 2000, and the O-parade is apparantly already 67 years "Old".. Maybe that's what the "O" stands for? Luckily the acts, the costumes and the massive public interest make it feel everything except old. Going from steampunk & giant balloon art, over the mesmerizing Queens of May and inspiration to support our bees, butterflies and flowers, to scifi-imagery reminding me of Star Wars and Mad Max. . I think next year I won't be planning any...