Another picture from the Tyne Cot Cemetery in Passchendaele. This is the entry gate to the cemetery showing the walkway to the Cross of Sacrifice. You can read the previous blog entries about the Tyne Cot cemetery here: Tyne Cot Cemetery Pt. 1 Tyne Cot Cemetery Pt. 2
Read more...Doel is a small town in Belgium which is famous for its nuclear power plant. In recent years, the town became a ghost town after the government released plans to expand the harbor of Antwerp in the direction of Doel. Although the expansion was not yet certain, many inhabitants took the offer of selling their houses to the district. Currently the town is filled with squatters, so the term ghost town is not totally accurate, but the overall look of the town is really surreal. This is a picture of the nuclear power plant which is right next to the center of the town.
Read more...This is a picture I took at the "International fireworks festival" in Knokke-Heist. We went to the event together with a friend of mine, Koen Vereeken. This was my first time trying to shoot fireworks with a tripod and the hardest thing to do is to get the composition right. Experimenting with shutter speed/aperture was quite easy and all of the shots turned out quite good exposure-wise, but the hardest thing to get right, in my opinion, is the composition. You can never tell where the next firework rocket will explode... Later on we were joined by my colleague and fellow photographer Bert Peers...
Read more...Another picture of the Tyne Cot cemetery. The name "Tyne Cot" is said to come from the Northumberland Fusiliers seeing a resemblance between the German concrete pill boxes, which still stand in the middle of the cemetery, and typical Tyneside workers' cottages - Tyne Cots. The "Cross of Sacrifice" (Upper right) that marks most Commonwealth war cemeteries, was built on top of a German pill box in the center of the cemetery, purportedly at the suggestion of King George V of the United Kingdom, who visited the cemetery in 1922 as it neared completion. In this picture I added some grain and vignetting...
Read more...Last weekend, Kris and I visited the Tyne Cot Cemetery. It is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground for the dead of World War I located in the Ypres Salient on the Western Front. It is the largest cemetery for Commonwealth forces in the world, for any war. The cemetery and its surrounding memorial are located outside of Passchendaele, near Zonnebeke in Belgium. The memorial is not only known as the largest cemetery for Commonwealth forces in the world, but also as a memorial to the missing. Every grave has an emblem, which states from which country the soldier came from. If it is an unknown...
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