I'm not dead...

It's been a few months since I last posted. Many things happened. I had exams, which didn't go too well, my pc crashed, I went to the masters in Cologne, worked some more, went to Benidorm with the girlfriend, had some more exams which went even worse than the first ones, then I worked some more, and yesterday was the first day of the new schoolyear.
So now you're up to speed, I'll let you in on some of my plans:
-first of all, buy a new pc. Trying to edit photo's on this 4year old laptop is horrible, and any attempt at colorcorrection is thwarted by the bland monitor.
-get more photo's online again. I've been riding more and photographing less, but I've still got some gems slumbering on my harddrives, waiting to get out.

I'm also going to stop the whole monthly desktopbackgroundcalendarthings. It's been real fun, but it didn't work out. I will however be putting out desktopbackgrounds, but without the calendar, and not always on a monthly basis.

I'm working on some photo's now, untill they arrive, here's something to keep you keen:



I had recently bought a Canon AE-1, and decided to shoot some film. Three rolls (one of which came out unexposed) and some 40euro's processing cost later, the results haven't been all that great. I do like this one however, and I hope you do too.

Trip to Dusseldorf: Riding

As promised, here are the ridingshots. It's a miracle I managed to get some, we drove right through Dusseldorf, misled by our gps systems, and the wrong adres. GPS's are great, as long as you feed it the right adress that is...

But we arrived there none the less. For me it was the second visit to the illustrous university, my first visit being 2 years ago, albeit with my mtb which limited me quite a bit. It's a great spot, as the photo's will undoubtly tell you. And what can be seen in the photographs here is only a fraction of the great streetspots on campus. Other spots will be up for viewing in Iron Productions' Video, due out in the next days. Keep an eye out on his blog.

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.




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