Trip to Dusseldorf: Lifestyle

For as long as my blog exists, the subtitle under the header has always been "Riding and Lifestyle". And there's a lot of riding shots on my blog, but not as many "lifestyle" shots. I recently bought a new (second hand) Nikkor 35-70mm f2.8, so I had to test it out last weekend, while on a trip to Abflughalle.

Wait, Abflughalle? I thought the title read "trip to Dusseldorf"? Indeed, we headed for Abflughalle, but when we got there the place was packed, and it had only been open for half an hour. The decision to head for Dusseldorf, a mere 20min drive, was quickly made.

The photo's here were shot on the road from Antwerp to Venlo, on a picknicktable next to the highway. I decided to make two separate posts, with todays e-youths short attention span and the abundance of photo's. Here are the "lifestyle" shot, the riding pics will appear in the next few days.




toine talking. I challenge you to take a picture of Toine NOT talking.




Still talking...




Wes has had enough of the talking, and decide to take matters into his own hands.




And succeeded! Silence there was, for a short period of time...




Paparazzi! (notice, Toine is talking...)




Wes, definately "De Lekkerste".




Fabio eating. Equally hard to find a picture of Fabio not riding or eating.




Mario, loving the camera...




Dries' hands. Hands gotta love BMX...




Ivo filming.




Told ya... The poor bag of chips never knew what hit it.




Ben, overcoming his camera-shy-ness (yes it's a word. look it up!).




Gesündheit.




Our chauffeur for the trip.




Groupshot.

Aaaah, Paris...

From the corner of my street to the very center of Paris is just 340km and 600 metres. That's 211,639 miles. And yet it takes me 22 years before I first set foot on Paris. Every holiday I go on with my parents has led us right past Paris. But then finally, we made it.

Paris.




It was all an idea of my parents, who gave me this trip as a birthdaypresent. I think it was one of the greatest weekends of my life, I recon. Apart from being a beautiful city, and one of Hollywoods favorite abroad locations, it's really and inspiring place for a photographer. With the likes of Henri Cartier-Bresson documenting the city, it only adds to the magic.