Dranouter aan Zee
Dranouter is a folkfestival with internation allure, it features some great names from domestic as well as foreign artists. It is the little brother of the original Dranouter festival in... Dranouter.
This year Marianne Faithful chose Dranouter to be the first show of her new European Tour. She was scheduled as the final artist on the last day. But you’ll recognize many others as well: Milo, Flip Kowlier, Gabriel Rios, Luc de Vos,...
Although the festival took place a few months ago I finaly found the time to put the images on my own website.
The gallery features a smaller selection of images and can be found in the varia section, or go directly to Dranouter aan Zee.
Forges de Clabecq
Another urbex update: visited Steel plant Forges de Clabecq. Half of this factory is now ready for demolition, part of it is already gone as you will notice from some images. This plant was not abandoned that long ago. There is still electricity and running water at some locations!
Update added to the section Urban Exploration Belgium.
Some train spotting shots
I returned that week to do some night scenes as well.
I updated the pics in the existing Railway Gallery
Below are some examples:

Sinteranlage Duisburg
Good old analog film
Shorpy. On this site they continuously make hi-res scans of very, very old photographs. Most of them taken at the turn of the last century. So we are talking about images almost 100 years in age!
Here is what I found astonishing:
- apparently these old shoeboxes with coatless glass lenses in front made damn good and sharp pictures.
- some of these images have an immens feel of depth in them... and remember that these ppl did not have photoshop to play with!
- look at the following image for instance... sharp, good contrast etc. AND it dates back to 1921. Think someone will be able to read our DVD within a 100 years? I consider myself lucky if it’s even readable in 5!
Night pictures of Antwerp Harbor
Apropo's 2008 concert online!
I’ve put a selection up which you can find here in the varia section.
If you like to see all images then go to the apropo section of my website and check out the 2008 gallery!
The “not abandoned” castle...
It was definitely not empty and there was a dog barking behind the doors of one of the adjacent buildings, a point at which I decided probably not to attempt to go in. Well urbex is all good and well, but breaking and entering is another thing... so just some impressions of the outside of the place which I added to the Heers gallery. [didn’t feel it was enough to warrant it’s own gallery]
Blankenberge
Here you see an image of the Pier, it’s
renovated some years ago. The original construction
dates back from 1894 and the idea of came over the
canal from GB. In Brittain the art of building piers
for fun and leasure had become a real expertise.
Before that piers were mainly build to aid in
unloading ships that were too big to approach the
docks.
The Germans burned it down during the WWOI. In 1933
it was rebuild and all was well until
“rot” was discovered in the concrete and
the needed renovation started in 1999. The hit from
the purple rain prince, hence my choice of colour
layering... No not really
Go to the gallery [in the varia
section]
Added Chateau Heers Urban gallery
Some months ago I was looking for a castle in decay, it was also aired on TV for the program Jambers a while back. The owners still live there. Sad story actually: about a wealthy family gone bankrupt. Problems started for them back during one [or both] of the WWO’s and the Germans confiscated most of their properties back in Poland.
Found the castle and also met the inhabitants! They were friendly enough to let us in and take some pictures but only in the courtyard. I did take some pictures from inside a hallway but actually they were pretty crappy so I didn’t put them online. Not many pictures then and mostly from the outside. Besides the front port, you can’t get in... Piss ‘em off and they’ll sure call the cops!
Some impressions though [go to the gallery]
Added Holland Urban gallery
Unfortunately I was not able to take any pictures from the inside, although that probably would be worthwile... The outside however also provided a nice view. Completely located in the middle of nowhere. Not many pictures, but nice ones from the main tower IMO.
Ellis Island Ghosts
Urbex photography with a professional touch to it... nice.
[it certainly does help when the place you're visiting has this rich and "loaded" history as this one.
Nature galleries reorganised & new pictures
You can find some new additions of a winter scenery shoot here: Nature > Forests and Trees > Winter Mornings
Made during the last winter period in the neighborhood. Everything was covered with thin ice and the lighting was beautiful.

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New gallery theme!
I'm upgrading all galleries for using the new theme.
Numerous updates to the site
- New design on several pages: removed some text here and there and created something more visually simple.
- Added a simple guestbook page.
- Some new links were added.
- Experimenting with a new gallery layout which is more dynamic and features scroll wheel and keyboard navigation [you can always give me some feedback on these]
- ...
Cemetery Collection is online!
Happy New Year and my new resolutions...
At the moment I have many pictures still lying around on my hdd platters. Time to get them dusted of and put online wouldn't you say?
In the meantime, my best wishes to all who's reading this.











