By Pascal Ollier | Travel Photography
With exhibitions again allowed in Belgium, Autoworld in Brussels has opened a temporary celebration of the Porsche 356, which blows its 70 candles this year. Stemming from the VW Beetle, i.e. with very humble origins, the 356 turned into a real fast car over the years, if not a genuine sports car. Low drag, good […]
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By Pascal Ollier | Opinion , Travel Photography
Photography, beyond the recreation, the pleasure, the excitement, may also at times serve a higher purpose, i.e. to report history. This article will humbly attempt to contribute to this mission. Enjoying a respite in the winter rain, I decided to go and visit Breendonk, a fortress surrounded with water built early in the 20 th […]
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By Pascal Ollier | Travel Photography
A relative of mine wanted to see contrast. He currently lives in the UK, thus wanted to see some good (or better) weather that what he usually faces (no offence to our British readers) over the Xmas period. Having started to look late, there was not much choice left until I came across availability both […]
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By Pascal Ollier | Travel Photography
Brussels is endowed with a permanent automobile exhibition hall around the monument celebrating its relatively recent independence, called “AutoWorld”. Built late in the 19th century for a national exhibition to celebrate the 50th anniversary of said independence, the building houses many cars from one of the largest car collections in the world based close to […]
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By Pascal Ollier | How-To
I had always wanted to “have it all” in one shot. Simultaneously, pano and stitching are too complicated, time consuming for me. When going digital seriously after leaving both my film years and a first dabble with pocket cameras, I screwed a Sigma 12-24 onto a Nikon D 200 first and 300 afterwards. To me, […]
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