Ben Wilhelmi

Street photography, Belgium

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Street photography, Brussels

 

Tabora, a town in Tanzania. The vendor couldn’t explain the name…

 

The plague…they spend more time doing selfies than watching or even taking snaps of the stunning buildings…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Street portraits, Brussels

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brussels, close ups of elevated statues

 

In March I returned to Belgium for annual leave. I bought this massive new zoom to replace one that didn’t survive the African fungus…so I decided to go in Brussels and look up at the statues that we observe from far or on postcards

Here is St Michel killing the dragon on the city hall, Grand’Place.

Here without cropping seen from the central station.

 

 

 

Albert I, the 3rd king.

 

Le petit Sablon, a place which depicts dozens of similar statues, each representing long gone jobs like this kitchen utensil maker.

 

Place Poelart, a WW I memorial.

 

Gabrielle Petit, a nurse hero died by German fire squad.

 

High up around the Grand Place. I’m not a historian I confess.

Brussels, street shots

 

 

Beggar and daughter in the Grand Place.

 

 

 

Belgium where comic strips are extremely popular. Many walls have been painted after comic celebs.

 

After the after party?

Brussels, African influences

 

Leopard pattern never goes out of fashion it seems.

 

Too bad a brain dead tagger destroyed this piece of art.

 

 

 

Shot on Leica M8

Street photography in Belgium

 

 

 

 

 

 

Leica M8 and 28mm lens at work.

Brussels, street photography

 

 

 

 

 

 

August 2014, experimenting with my then newly acquired Leica M8.

Belgian attitude

 

A peeing kid as a symbol…Belgians invented surrealism. Too bad it is a common in our politics too.

Some tourists seem to enjoy themselves.

 

Here is the real thing….

With his more recent counterpart, Janneke Piss which has no historical value.

 

Not French fries and even less f…freedom fries (who is the jackass who coined that stupid term?) but Belgian fries. There was a chance to correct that wrong term, French, and it was sadly missed.

 

A handful of the Belgian beers available.

 

Still better example of evolution than creepy creationism.

 

The one and only, the real Belgian waffle. I always cringe when I visit America and spot so-called Belgian waffles there…

 

Lace, funny enough, is big business too apparently.

 

Chocolate, of course, here is one of our numerous brands