Ben Wilhelmi

Street photography, Belgium

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gay Pride 2018, Brussels

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brussels 2018, Gay Pride

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brussels Gay Pride, 2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gay pride, 2018 in Brussels

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brussels Gay Pride 2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As usual, the show was great and the mood incredible.

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…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brussels, street photography

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brussels, street pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Street portraits, Brussels

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Street photography, Brussels

 

OK purists, including myself, will say street photography should be done with a wide lens but I had just bought a new big lens for Africa and I had to try out. So the urban jungle near the Grand’Place was a good playground.

 

Stunning lady!

 

A Belgian beer museum…that location ranks quite high on some of my friends’ ‘things-to-do-before-I-die list’.

These 2 soldiers were part of a reenactment for Gabrielle Petit’s death by German fire squad during WWI.

 

 

 

 

 

The connoisseur…

 

 

 

Our queen Mathilde was attending that memorial for Gabrielle Petit. A coincidence, I had chosen that day for my photo test because it was one of the rare sunny days in March and April…

 

 

I guess this lens will make a good companion in the Tanzanian bush. This month is still part of the low season, I can’t wait for June…

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.

Street photography in Brussels

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Street photography in Brussels

 

Good idea to hop here M’am, let’s start with new shoes!!

 

 

 

 

I’ve never been a “fashionisto” but man do I get confused these years…

 

 

Belgian colors in daily life

 

Shot on Leica M8

Street photography, Belgium

 

In Brussels to be precise.

 

 

 

 

 

Everybody has heard of the famous Manneken Pis, right?

 

Shot on Leica M8.

Brussels, street photography

 

High heels on cobble stones…

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brussels, street photography

 

 

Bicycle cop on foot.

 

 

 

 

Belgium, street photography

 

In Brussels with my new second hand camera, a Leica M8

 

 

Some things don’t change. Japanese people still love their portraits.

 

 

 

Brussels and street photography

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brussels, street pictures

 

 

 

 

 

Photography in Brussels

 

Interesting match of colors between the theater wall and the people's clothes.

 

A model and an assistant on a photoshoot.

 

The Beer Temple, catchy name or what?

 

 

 

Street photography, Brussels

 

 

 

 

 

I like the sex part mixed with a vintage painting.

 

Street pictures, Brussels

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shot with a Leica M8. My latest acquisition by then last year. Love it. Now my latest is a Fujifilm X100s.

Photography in Brussels

 

Listen Lady, there a few things in life to enjoy fully and not to be disturbed by anything else. Having sex, listening to Pink Floyd, eating Belgian food…! So drop that bloody thing and eat.

 

ZZ Top fan!

 

 

In detail! Terrible fashion, no?

 

“Dentelles” that is lace.

 

Shot on Leica M8, usually a 28mm lens, sometimes a 50mm.

Brussels, photography

 

Indiana Jones was lost in Brussels. He looks like the tourists I used to see in Tanzania.

 

 

 

 

Street photography, Grand Place, Brussels

 

The Grand Place in Brussels. Some stunning buildings to say the least.

 

 

 

What a mix of patterns.

 

 

Shot with a Leica M8.

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?

Street photography, Brussels

 

 

 

 

 

 

Street shots, Brussels

 

A pretty red head girl recharges her smartphone the green way, South train station/gare du Midi.

 

 

 

 

 

Shot on Leica M8.

Photography in Brussels

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

Street photography, Brussels

 

 

 

 

Maison Dandoy, one of the best places in Belgium for cookies and various sweet food(I’m not on their payroll).

 

Belgian colors for this happy dude.

 

Shot on Leica M8 and 28mm lens.

Belgium, street photography

 

Very stylish girl, much more stylish to wear a veil like this than an ugly cap like the one on the right side.

 

Ah Belgian waffles! The real ones that is…

 

 

 

 

Brussels, street photography

 

 

 

 

 

 

Belgium, street photography

 

 

 

The beggar is being ignored. The pink ears didn’t change anything.

 

2 drunkards talking, as fruitful as 2 rival politicians talking…

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shot with Leica M8 and 28mm lens. Great tools for street photography.

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

Belgium, street photography

 

 

Now to my American friends, well even the others, this is a Belgian waffle. It doesn’t have to count 10 layers of various ingredients to be tasty.

 

But the American influences creep in and we start to see some extras…soon 10 inch high waffles will be available.

 

 

Tourists from all nationalities seem to waste sooo much time on selfies and so on. Scary.

 

Comic strips are big business in Belgium. Quite a few walls in Belgium are painted after some characters.

 

 

one gay pride in Brussels

 

around 2004.