This abandoned prison is known in the urbex world as Prison H15. De complex exists out of 2 seperate buildings, one for each gender. The older building was a former monastery until it got converted to a prison in the 19th century. During the years the prison complex expanded to a capacity of 1500 inmates. In 2011 the prison closed and got abandoned. It’s surprising to see how decayed the building already is after such short time. Whilst we were […]
It’s been a while since my last urbex trip, so we started out with a revisit of a classic location in Belgium, an abandoned fortress / casern. We arrived late in the afternoon with only an hour daylight left. But who needs daylight when you’re used exploring underground quarries and taking pictures in the dark? The picture was illuminated using 2 external strobes. The strobe that illuminates the foreground was fired 2 times on half power from both sides of […]
Belgium has several large cities with abandoned metro tunnels that were never been used. This is one is 2.5 km long and is filled with numerous old buses and trams.
Leadenhall Market is one of those places I visit everytime I’m in London. The covered market dates back from the 14th century. The current architecture dates back from the 19th century when it was renovated. I really like the architecture since it’s perfect for high contrast Black & White photography. This shot was made during my last trip to London, already one and a half year ago.
Chateau Neercanne is a 17th century baroque styled castle on the border between Belgium and The Netherlands. The castle was build out of limestone, a popular building stone in the area hence the numerous undergrond limestone quarries. Next to the castle there is an entrance of a (small) underground limestone quarry.
Another pic from the archives. This one was taken a few years ago at the belgian coast in Ostend. Here in Belgium it’s difficult to find an interesting foreground at our coastline. Rocks like these are very scarce, almost unique. For this picture I used a Cokin Gradual Tobacco filter, which explains the spectacular sky. In reality it was a very disappointing, cloudy and colorless sunset.
As you might have noticed, my blog hasn’t been updated for a while. Last months I haven’t been able to photograph much due personal reasons. However, behind the screens I added several new images on the website. These 2 pictures were important enough for me to share and revive my blog. It were my fathers favorite pictures and hung in his office for a long time. Sadly he passed away recently after a long fight against cancer.
Fortress Sint Pieter was build in 1702. It’s located on the west side of Maastricht, The Netherlands. It was originally build to defend the city from numerous attacks from the french army. The fortress included an extended network of underground casemates and a connection to the ancient limestone quarries underneath the fortress. This wasn’t only a secret exit in case the fortress got invaded, it gave the defending soldiers also a possibility to surprise the attackers and appear behind them. […]
The Fortress Eben-Emael is a fortress on the border between Belgium and The Netherlands, that was used during the second world war. The retractable cupola’s were on my list for a long time, it was just a matter of waiting for the perfect timing. The image is composed out of +/- 100 images @ F4.5, 30sec, Iso 800.
Yet another fire-experiment. We created some sparkle poi by attaching burning steelwool onto a chain and spinning it fastly. There are many pictures like this on the internet, but I’ve never seen variations on spinning pattern. You always see a round circle in the middle. One of my other hobbies is “Poi Spinning” and this inspired me to experiment with different patterns. I invited Wijnand Buijs to do the spinning because he’s much better at it then I am. The […]
A few weeks ago, we had a great evening in the quarries with some people from Firetroops Maastricht. This picture is a collaboration with Wijnand Buijs who is a great fire performer and my friends Jor Neutelings and Mitch Frusch who assisted me with the illumination. It was very tricky to get a good exposure for this shot since the amount of light was very variable. We used 3 external strobes at full power. F13, 1/40 sec, Iso 200. Thanks […]
Chain of Dogs released their new CD ” Burning Bridges in a World of Death” with a great party @ Oefenbunker in Landgraaf. They invited Skadika, a melodic metal band from Cologne to party with them. [pp_gallery gallery_id=”1591″] However the cd release wasn’t the only reason to celebrate. Near the end,frontman Olaf proposed to Eveline, manager of the band. She said yes !! [pp_gallery gallery_id=”1566″]
