Brugge - Stepped gables Everywhere

A sunny day in Brugge - Belgium.

 

I hope you like the picture I've made from the particular houses and

the people which enjoyed the beautiful weather which we have here in

the last week of September.

 

I appreciate your constructive critiques, Ada.

How could anyone not like looking at photos from Brugge? This is another one of your out of the ordinary creations. You seem to have your own style of composition which is refreshing and interesting to view. Now I want to go back and explore every corner again.

This is a really beautiful place captured by a professional eye. Wonderful!

Thank you both very much for the great comments. Brugge is really beautiful indeed. I'm from Holland and I know the particular roofs. We have them in every old city but Brugge in Belgium takes the cake. I've made more pictures here which I've planned to upload so I invite you to come back if you like:)

 

Greetings, Ada.

Perfect light, composition, details & color tones, beauty street shot Ada!!! Best regards.

Very nice street environment with a great sky! Cheers, Alex

Ada, nice color and solid composition. I like the shadow casting into the shot. The step-gables are certainly unique to the region. ^_^

Thank you all so very much for your comments. I'm really very happy with your interest in this picture because I've noticed that a lot of people do not appreciate this kind of shots. I think they consider it more as an ordinary postcard instead as a serious attempt of the photographer to show the modern world of today against the background of the great architecture from the past. At any rate that is always my intention.

 

Thank you all again, Greetings, Ada:)

 

And Wilson, Brugge is wonderful indeed and the step-gables are alsmost as beautiful as they are in Amsterdam;~) lol

Well Ada first to say this is simply a good and pleasnt photo in my opinion. Clear subject, lovely colors, despite there is a lot to see it's not too crowded with too much to see, (you know this photo's where you really don't know where to look or what it was the photographer wanted to show)

Concerning the "postcard-issue", most people who think that "post card" photo's are worthless are rather silly in my opinion. Postcard are good enough to be sold by the millions...so not saying when somefink is sold by the millions it by definition is good but there must be somefink good in it.

I think there is this "steps-of-personal -photographic-evolution" : you start shooting crap, then you read some tips and you start shooting "better then ordinary vacation shots" (Still far from perfect but obviously can be seen you put an effort in it), then one day you hit the "postcard level": technical 99% good images, good exposure, composition in order, good subject, all together the perfect vacation photo's. However what is lacking is some personal input, it is doen all by the rules, almost copies from other images. Mnext step is "art" level, which not necesarrliy mean fine art photography, still good be vacation photo's, landscapes, portraits what ever. What I try to define with "art' is that besides it techniscl perfect the image has an own personal signature: a postcard like image is anonimous, could be done by any one. This next level you start recognising the personal style.

So long story point is: most people never even reach the postcard level because the dive in too fast skip the technical aspects of photography make awfull images and use the term "art" as an excuse...I'm still struggling to reach that postcard level, you however have reached it long time ago and are allready with one big step in the next and highest level.

 

Tjeee what a long way to say well done ! :)

What an extensive comment, but in spite it is all written in English I think I've understand you very well. (A question and it's only curiosity, don't you speak Dutch?)

 

All right, the post-card issue. You gave me a great compliment by telling me that I've done a good job here. Couple of days ago I've commented the picture you took in Venice, which was unmanipulated and a real 'art' shot in itself. But I noticed the ratings you received and I thought to myself, well yes, 'here we go again!' I have seen it happen so many times and it bothers me that you are almost forced to manipulate your 'architecture' or 'street' pictures to get some appreciation. Look at my other picture of Bruges. I think you have seen the original shot. People told me that the base for the manipulated version was all right because the original shot was a good one. But if I had posted the original unmanipulated picture (only brighten up a bit) I'm convinced that only the people who comment me regular would have come and take the time to give me a comment. And the ratings of the anonimous would have varied between 2 and 5.

 

I'm glad there are still people who have an other point of view. I'm not against manipulation. It's great that we can make use of programmes like PS to create our own fantasy world, but IMO it's a gotspe that the pure art of photography get overruled by it.

 

I hope you understand my explanation in my very poor and broken English. At any rate I'm very grateful to you for the time you spent to explain me things. Your words have stimulated me to show more of what I've shoot here in those wonderful city.

 

Many greetings, Ada:)

Ummm I'd be proud to put a stamp on this and mail it ;)

Ah Nova, that's very sweet of you:~) Thanks a lot and have a sunny day just like we have here. Greetings from Bruges and Holland and me;) Ada.

If that house on the end is a cafe I'm pretty sure I have had a coffee there. When we were there it was february, the ducks were walking on the ice and it was freezing. I have a shot a little like this but from a position a few metres to the right. There were no tables outside then though! Your shot has the life of the town going on and I like the way you have included the lamp post.

didn't you know that I'm a real sleuth? O yes, I have made pictures from all the spots you have been in Bruges Colin. LOL

 

I like your interest in my pictures very much and it's always funny if people told you that they have visited one and the same places. But I think that everybody who visites Bruges will went to de Markt with it's monumental buildings and beautiful houses. I show you two pictures I took at this spot because I'm not sure to which restaurant you pointed Colin; 'Le Panier 'd'Or' or the restaurant at the other side of the small aley (that is also a restaurant indeed). Both pictures aren't real good because it was actually too sunny at that moment and that in contrast to an hour before when I took the shot of the small bridge.

 

Did you also noticed the particular decorations on top of the roofs of the houses in the picture? I really love it. They represent the name of the house. In Holland we know that custom too, but most of the time the name of the house is carved in a facing brick and in England I have seen those wonderful painted signboards. Nice to see how each country or place has it's own style and charactaristics.

 

In spite of the bad light I hope you like the shots and I hope you recognize the restaurant you have your Irish coffees;~). Many greetings Ada:)

 

 

 

Greetings from Bruges, Ada:)

My dear Ada,

Here is Markt on a very cold day in 2003. No tables out - everyone was inside or walking along quite fast. I think we went in the restaurant by the alley. The sky was like that the whole week we were there. I still do not know what a Belgian cloud looks like :-).

 

regards - Colin

 

 

Thank you so much for showing this wonderful picture you made from this great spot. It was visible very cold, indeed. People have their knitted caps on;-)

 

In your picture it strucks me that the houses don't stand in a straight line. That was less visible when I was there with all those tables out. It's nice to see that the houses in your as well as in my picture have the same colour. When I came home from Bruges and I saw my pictures on my computerscreen I was a bit surprized and I was wondering if the houses really had those peculiar red colour;)

 

I think I'll go back a bit further on in the season to take more and perhaps better pictures when most part of the tourists are gone and the cafe's have cleared up their stuff and the sunlight is less sharp.

 

I was delighted to meet you here in Bruges, Colin.

 

Warm Regards, Ada:)

Very good composition with nice color !

Hi Alex, it's great you've found the spot. It's a nice place isn't it? Thank you very much for your kind words and visit. Groeten uit Brugge;-) Ada

Beautiful Brugge

You captured this typical corner very well

I like the lantern and how its shadow fills up the empty foreground and leads us directly into one of the little retaurants

Bravo en groet

Jan

Thanks Jan for your great comment. I'm glad you like this picture because a lot of people actually see this kind of shots as a simple postcard. So it's very nice to notice that you don't belong to that group. But how could I doubt about it after seeing your wonderful work which shows your respect for the nature and all what the world has to offer?!!

 

Groetjes Ada:~)

Nice sharp photo, cool sky.