Dutch Windmills

The Netherlands is so closely associated with windmills, that it's often the first fact people recall about the country. The Dutch built windmills for many centuries.To some extent, the windmills built the country itself, since without them much of the land drainage (like 40%) could not have occured. It's about 1150 remaining windmills in the Netherlands.Here below some pics depicting this amazing home-construction:

The Belgian Comic Strip Center

During my last visit in Brussels I went to the Belgian Comic Strip Center in order to get back to one of best known belgian comic strip character - Tintin. But this kingdom of  the imagination is well know also for other Belgium's comic stripe heros:  Spirou, Bob and Bobette, the Smurfs, Lucky Luke, Asterix and many more. Here below some photographs from this trip:

 Tintin and Milou

Belgian Comic stripe Center - main entrance

The Belgian Comic stripe Center

Grand Press Photo 2010 for Tomasz Tomaszewski

 

Finbarr O’Reilly, chairman of this year edition, says that this photo depicts hope in the world full of  despair nowadays.

Spring time at countryside

Going at countryside made me thinking about presenting spring time through my camera. I'm not very keen in taking photos of nature but this time I found another life in the grass. Please have a look at this "jungle's life".

make spring love

first rays of Sun

spring time

une fois au cafe...

Helen & Kris

time of mourning in Poland

Pics from early morning of 11.04.2010.

lonely and peaceful Warsaw at 5 a.m.

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You don't need to support your president to be shocked with his death. Besides, there were so many important officials on the plane that crashes this morning in Russia, that you feel like you would lost someone from your neighbours. Photographes below reflect Krakowskie Przedmieście street, just in front of the presidential palace the day before the plane crush and today 10.04.2010. Two pics  that show so little and so much at the same time. 

 Krakowskie Przedmieście street in front of presidential palace

09.04.2010

 

Krakowskie Przedmieście street after plane crash
10.04.2010

Bednarska street

This morning I was visiting my friend Ola who is french teacher in one warsaw high school. It's located at Bednarska street which I find one of the most interesting streets in Warsaw. Covered with cobblestones, this street preserves the vibe of old Warsaw. Here below some pics taken this morning.

italian menu

Visiting one italian restaurant with my friends, I was positively surprised with PERONI Beer "Nastro Azzurro" in the Menu. Its falvour is ideal for such a "beer fan" as I am.

So, cheers!

Happy Easter to all viewers of this blog!

going back to Porto

This set of photos depicts Porto where I was in 2007 with my analogue camera. It was high time to convert them on digital version.

St. Patrick's day.

It's good occasion to post this pic taken with my new lens 35mm 1.8. 

Have a nice St. Patrick's day then!

Enjoy your pint!

View from my window

Today's Warsaw landscape looked like from a fairy tale. Trees' branches were covered with snow which made a unique aura everywhere. Going to work, like never before, was a real pleasure for me. Here below, only part of this what could have been seen early morning in Warsaw.

Coffe in Lwów

Going through some archive photos, I found this treasure. 

 

taken in a coffe shop in Lwów

Backyard composition

Another surrealistic composition found at one of Warsaw's backyard, at Praga district.