Leuven meetup 4 September 2016

[Frank Fremerey]

Frank the Squad and Beginenhof are super 
Leuven

Thank you.

It ist your fault *ggg* that I am starting to see fishy subjects everywhere! And that I will probably buy a fishy lens soon...

The Beginenhof is a pano of 5 in cylindrical projection with a very harsh edit

[Frank Fremerey]

Thank you Werner and Frank for the title suggestions
Great pictures from all of you.
This will be my last one from the visit to Leuven. I'm not so prolific as you are but there is some progress. 
Some kind of Landscape :

Waste more "film" and try more, delete more. Our mistakes are the steps on our stairway to learning. More mistakes, more learning!

PS: I like the rusty window

[Jakov Minić]

Frank, the fish-eye is contagious and liberating, look at Werner's great photos

Between the library and the top of the tower there was an historic exhibition of the library.
Obvious evidence that history does repeat itself. The story is self-explanatory if I were to write that it involves the library, the Germans, two world wars, and the efforts to rebuild it.

[Frank Fremerey]

Certainly exploring new photographic territory here, Jakov!

[Frank Fremerey]

the monk digesting smoke & beer

[Nicole]

Jakov, inside the tower: fantastic.

[Martine Henry]

Hello everybody,

How are you ?
Lots of good pictures , difficult to choose what's the best.
I really appreciate the compositions and the originality of lots of them.
Yakov your blurr pictures in the bibliotheque and the #167 and the fisheye are just waow. The portraits shows the different character specially  the "Kiss" (Frank ) and Werner but also the Manager Bruno, Nicole was concentrate :-)
Werner I like your type of compositions.
Nicole the like the #164
Frank your two spies " Les hommes du président" #159 and the series of "Bouge de là" are top !

So see you later (maybe)

Martine

Oh if you are interesting I put you the information about the Fair where I'm showing some landscapes.
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[Jakov Minić]

Thank you ladies and gents for your kind words
Frank I love my self, thus the monk collage is fantastic!!!

Monk taking photos at the monastery where Joost got married.
(These surely belong in the minimalist thread.)

p.s. Joost, thank you so much for your thorough preparation of the maps and your knowledgeable guidance through Leuven once more! Potential thanks goes to Airy for volunteering for the following get together in Lille

[Frank Fremerey]

Joost, thank you so much for your thorough preparation of the maps and your knowledgeable guidance through Leuven once more!

[Frank Fremerey]

#172.2 incredible! Wonderful! You are really up to a new level of abstraction!

[Frank Fremerey]

Hello everybody,
How are you ?
Lots of good pictures , difficult to choose what's the best.
I really appreciate the compositions and the originality of lots of them.
Frank your two spies " Les hommes du président" #159 and the series of "Bouge de là" are top !
So see you later (maybe)
Martine

I miss the whole team.
Photography is lonely work most of the time.
Look at the results on how different we see.
Yet meeting you bunch gives a feling of combined magic power & exploration.
I miss you.
Frank

[Frank Fremerey]

here is one pic that clearly shows how I see and think currently.
The obvious choice would have been to align blurred nature and blurred human artwork into the inverse frame.
But I did choose differently: I wanted to show the possibility of alignement yet show that it is currently off.
disaligned. us. unaligned. world. misaligned. nature and culture.
alignment as a possibility.

[Frank Fremerey]

Come in here, dear boy, have a cigar
You're gonna go far, you're gonna fly
You're never gonna die
You're gonna make it if you try
They're gonna love you

[Frank Fremerey]

In the next case I totally utterly unequivocally distorted geometry just to show some features of these houses I really like. I took the city as an input scan. not more.

[Frank Fremerey]

the rest for today more or less rendered after natural appearence:

1) some architecture firm used river stones to decorate their fascade
2) one of the few buildings that are really old here
3) from the library tower one can see that many people use their courts to the last bit to squeeze in some business or living space. Often there is no room for green.