We got back last Thursday from a week in Brussels. It was a dual-purpose visit – part holiday and part investigation – and we wrote about it on the Quillcards Blog under the title Brussels – Hiding in Plain Sight.
Please consider taking a look and commenting.
Meanwhile, the photo here is a shot of one of the buildings in the Grand Place in Brussels. I took it using the Camera+ app on my iPhone and then ran it through the PhotoStudio app which has some ‘effects’ including this one named Burnt Paper.
I took most of the photos during the week with my Olympus E-PM1 and a little kit zoom lens that worked out pretty well. It’s a 14-42mm lens that is equivalent to a 28-84mm in standard 35mm, so it covers that range from pretty wide to short tele.
The lens costs less than £70.00 (about $105.00) so it is not expensive as lenses go. And it closes up fairly small as well. All in all – not as sharp as the 45mm Olympus I have, but good enough.
11 replies on “A Week In Brussels”
That is a fabulous shot David. Great edge effect, lighting, comp – as always, I’m pleasantly surprised
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I like it because it was a case of the effect matching the subject.
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I really like that picture … as you say, the effect matches the subject! Will head over to the other blog now 🙂
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the theme changed, as I posted the previous comment! LOL
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🙂
The images look slightly bigger with this theme.
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…and they’ve removed that cool feature they had, when you wanted to have a static front page.
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I didn’t understand. Who has removed the feature of having a static front page?
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I wasn’t very clear there LOL. I was thinking about their theme Twenty Twelve — there is a quite nice way of setting up the static front page there.
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And can’t you do it with your theme?
Settings > Reading
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no, it was only in Twenty Twelve they had this.
I have a test page here: http://iflurries.wordpress.com where you’ll see what I mean..
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We are spending a week in Brussels in September. I’m hopping over to your other blog now to pick up some tips.
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