Red Cathedral

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 .

Brandenburg (Germany) is a great place to urbex.. as long as you don't get caught!  Some Lost Places lie hidden in the woods, others are guarded and need bribes to enter. Most have been found by other urbexers and ransacked.. Once in a while one looks like only Nature has done the ransacking.  Some are putrid and poisonous. Others hide little birds and colourful art. There is beauty in decay.. and yet: most of the time you're glad to find a way out before the sun sets. More images are on Flickr

Urbexing at an abandonned & most definately haunted morgue in former Eastern Germany. More images on Flickr .

Every year movie & comic book characters parade through the streets of Brussels.. not as human-sized characters but as giant balloons. More images on Flickr .

The 1st Belgian fantasy event of 2020. Every 2020 February weekend had its own heavy storm scorching the land.. yet Rise of Trolls created a very short moment to forget the heavy rain and destructive winds. More images on Flickr .

How to shock people with 1 simple meme.

Have you checked my FB-page or Flickr recently? It has been a while since the last upload of images & more importantly: since the last event/shoot. Busy times at work & I started looking for a new place to call home. Today a few images of the huge 2019-backcatalogue have been added to Flickr , together with the very first 2020 pictures. More new pictures will surely be made during Rise of the Trolls & Fantasy Fest . Looking forward to doing loads of events, trips & shoots in 2020! Namaste 

Enjoy the festive days! PS. We'll continue to test the newest Sony cameras in 2020. Don't hesitate to drop a line if you have any questions.

If you were wondering how many Belgian steampunks roam the lands.. then behold this gathering on Flickr . Uchronicité, a gathering for the steamy souls & clockwork hearts. The Belgian Steampunk Nation ( larger version & more pictures are on Flickr ) Some sample images: . . And there's a lot more

A beautiful Autumn Sunday with warm-dressed fantasy cosplayers and heart-warming concerts of Drachenflug & Ye banished privateers . Images on Flickr .

De Quaeye Werelt, an annual medieval (1477) re-enactors' camp in Rivierenhof Deurne-Antwerpen. The images are finally on Flickr .

If you click here .. somewhere around here .. or maybe here .. you'll find the +1400 pictures made during Shankra festival 2019.  If you use them on your socials, please use either my Instagram , my FB , my Flickr , or this page as credit.  Namaste, Red Cathedral. Video from Shankra festival 2017 youtu.be/sGJAhJp605k

During Shankra festival i shot one of the best fire shows in a very long time by: Haury Thomas, Barbara Wildmann, the Purple Pixies & the Earth Dragons. The photos are on Flickr.

Yesterday I was testing these 2 mirrorless flagship cameras side by side with comparable lenses (A9II + 24-70mm f2.8 GM and A6600 + 16-55mm f2.8 G) and I wondered if people could spot which is which? And then it got out of hand.. a little weird even. Well.. very weird maybe.. but the question remains: which camera made which picture? Some answers: on Flickr .

The energy released during the Olive Tree Dance concert during Shankra festival was unbelievable.. so i made a few images.

Shankra festival has uploaded the images they selected to their website, so now i can start uploading the complete batch of images to my Flickr album " Switserland " . It will take a few days before everything is online so.. be patient. Meanwhile you can also watch a small video from the 2017-edition or enjoy the pictures from the 2017 Shankra festival. Namaste & click here .

The Berliner "Club der glamourösen Exzentriker" held their 2nd "Walk of Glam" on the KuDam. Time for some pictures. More about this group: Link .

A photowalk through the heart of Amsterdam with the theme " Evening photography ", resolving questions from Sony users and proving the CaNikon-users that the A7RIV can focus in the dark.

Everywhere in the world the Chilean people protest against the oppression & the hard repression of the manifestations. More images on Flickr .

Fantasy Halloween shopping in between the creatures of Fantasy & Horror.  The images are on Flickr .

The Pier of Scheveningen.. the colours of the sea . The complete - uncropped - images on Flickr. And the set as cropped for Instagram . View this post on Instagram Those who live in the mountains dream of the sea. Those who live at the sea stand in awe before the mountains. What do you prefer? Me, living in the flatlands in between, I dream of both. My ideal place would have both steep mountains, rocky beaches and never-ending forests and meadows. #sea #scheveningen #pier #beach #indiansummer #colors #wanderlust #travel #netherlands #choicesoflife #travellingphotographer #northsea #reflections #digitalnomad A post shared by Red Cathedral (@redcathedral) on Oct 22, 2019 at 10:31am PDT

Some images from Fridays for Future in Brussels & Utrecht are here . #climatemarch

Once all animals have been killed for sports, for food, by greed, by pollution, or through the destruction of their habitat.. what.. or who.. will we then hunt and keep as pets?  The censored version of Instagram The uncensored version of Flickr . Warning: contains graphic violence, nudity & dehumanisation.   #stopthehunt #animalprotection #animalrights

After spending some quality time with the new A7RIV & the new RX100VII , last week I was able to test pre-release models of the A6100 & A6600 .  Eventough the A6100 will be the replacement for Sony's mirrorless entry level APS-C A6000 and the A6600 will replace the current APS-C flagship camera (A6500)  both cameras were a pleasure to shoot with. They both have the super fast AF from the A6400 (with real time tracking & real time eye AF for human/animal like the A6400, A9, A7RIV, RX100VII), no video recording time limit (not even in 4K), the flip-up screen from the A6400, build in timelapse, slo-mo video and microphone-jacks. But the A6600 uses the Z-battery from the A7III/A7RIII/A7RIV/A9 (hence a bigger grip), has IBIS, has a headphone jack, has video picture profiles including S-log + HLG (like the A6400), better build quality, way more menu options and eye AF in video (like A7RIV & RX100VII). It actually combines the best of A6500 + A6400 + the new gen-IV f

The Middle-Ages came to the town of Merksem .

What would September be without Stripfeest Brussel / Fête de la BD de Bruxelles ?

The nurses of the Netherlands protested in Amsterdam .

Some street art discoveries: Street Art Museum

The pictures from Elftopia 2019 are on Flickr. I nearly always forget names, I might even forget where we met, but I do not forget kindness.

The images from 2019's reenactment " De slag om Aarschot 1489 " have been uploaded to Flickr .

  Who am I? I'm a geek, an activist, an eco-humanist, a digital nomad, a zombie-slayer, a graffiti-archeologist, an event reporter, a costume appreciator, a cosplayhunter, a Primal, a dark fantasy revealer, a lightpainter, a whisky aficionado, a fire spinner, an adventurer, an offroader, a carspotter, a Red pill, a dreamer and so much more. To make it worse i make photographs of all of the above and i can give workshops to teach you how to do it yourself. Passion isn't simply doing what you excel at, but doing what you want to improve in. Below are some options to find me, to see my work, to connect, to contact me and to join my world as a random visitor, an appreciator, a fan, a model, a new follower, a maecenas, a collaborator, a collector, a buddy, a student, a mate, a patron,.. Feel free to follow me. Want to read more nonsense about myself ?   Where can you find my work? Flickr    (An overview of ALL images - And most of the time I f