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2013-05-18 09:05:06 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Banana Bar Amsterdam
Went in asking for a banana milkshake but they didn't have any...

#amsterdam   #streetphotography   #fujifilmxe1   #xe1  

2013-05-18 09:34:50 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Street Photography from AMSTERDAM
First  Fuji X-E1 shoot in the rain. It kept up quite well... Didn't get soaking wet like I would do with my Nikon D800 however.

#amsterdam   #Netherlands   #photog   #streetphotography   #fujixe1  

2013-05-18 07:54:54 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Off to Seoul, Korea on Monday. Can anybody share good places for Street / Travel Photography in Seoul? +Holopainen Natalia maybe ...? 😉

2013-05-17 12:34:16 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Off to the World Press Photo exhibit in Amsterdam now...

2013-05-15 11:14:14 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 20 +1s)

October 2012, I started my conversion as a Captain onto the Airbus A380. Having completed 6 months of flying the super-jumbo all over the world, it has become my preferred Airbus from a pilots perspective. More than a decade ago, I've flew the smaller A319, A320 and A321 for my national airline in Belgium, while the last ten years were spent on the twin engine A330 and the larger four-engine A340's.

The 569 ton A380 is powered by four Engine Alliance GP7270 engines delivering a mind boggling 140.000 lbs of total thrust. The Engine Alliance joint-venture between General Electric and Pratt & Witney was formed in 1996 to combine the best of the mighty GE90 and the PW4000 engines. Both of these can be found on B777 aircraft.

The GP7270 engine has a diameter of 3.16 m compared to 3.40 m for the GE90 which powers the Boeing B777-300ER. The latter however develops significant more... more »

2013-05-15 11:08:42 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Powering the mighty Airbus A380
October 2012, I started my conversion as a Captain onto the Airbus A380. Having completed 6 months of flying the super-jumbo all over the world, it has become my preferred Airbus from a pilots perspective. More than a decade ago, I've flew the smaller A319, A320 and A321 for my national airline in Belgium, while the last ten years were spent on the twin engine A330 and the larger four-engine A340's.

The 569 ton A380 is powered by four Engine Alliance GP7270 engines delivering a mind boggling 140.000 lbs of total thrust. The Engine Alliance joint-venture between General Electric and Pratt & Witney was formed in 1996 to combine the best of the mighty GE90 and the PW4000 engines. Both of these can be found on B777 aircraft.

The GP7270 engine has a diameter of 3.16 m compared to 3.40 m for the GE90 which powers the Boeing B777-300ER.... more »

2013-05-13 19:35:00 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Today has been a very sad day for me...

Lost a close long time friend back home in Belgium.
Being in your early forties it was much too early to see you go.

I don't even want to think how your husband, 2 year old daughter and 3 year son will miss you!

May this be an inspiration to all of us on this planet, to ENJOY life NOW and don't wait till tomorrow!

Our thoughts are with you my dear friend,
RIP

2013-05-12 11:17:42 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

Lazy Sunday afternoon at the pool...

2013-05-10 15:17:06 (1 comments, 7 reshares, 60 +1s)

SYDNEY ICONS AT NIGHT

Those of you following me for a while, probably know that I do a significant amount of travelling around the globe. A quick check shows me that over the years, I've now been to 84 of the Worlds 246 countries... Just over one third, but a long way to go!

During these travels there have some cities that clearly stick out. Sydney, the capital of the Australian city New South Wales, definitively meets this challenge! It surely deserves a place in my personal top 10, along places like New York, Singapore, San Francisco and Hong Kong.

When I got to spent a few days in Sydney earlier this week, it had previously been about 5 years since my last visit. A bit like meeting a friend which one hasn't seen in a long time...

More on my blog http://bjornmoerman.blogspot.ae/2013/05/pick-of-week-19-sydney-icons-at-night.html

#sydney... more »

2013-05-09 09:12:35 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

SYDNEY ICONS AT NIGH

Those of you following this blog for a while, probably know that I do a significant amount of travelling around the globe. A quick check shows me that over the years, I've now been to 84 of the Worlds 246 countries... Just over one third, but a long way to go!

During these travels there have some cities that clearly stick out. Sydney, the capital of the Australian city New South Wales, definitively meets this challenge! It surely deserves a place in my personal top 10, along places like New York, Singapore, San Francisco and Hong Kong.

When I got to spent a few days in Sydney earlier this week, it had previously been about 5 years since my last visit. A bit like meeting a friend which one hasn't seen in a long time...

More on my blog through the link below...

#sydney   #australia   #architecturephotography  #n... more »

2013-05-07 06:43:08 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 23 +1s)

Sydney Opera House

Black and White Architectural work from earlier today. 

#Sydney   #photog   #architecturephotography   #architecture   #blackandwhitephotography  

2013-05-07 01:34:23 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Airbus double decker

Shot this image of the A380 fuselage while doing my pilot walkaround in Auckland, New Zealand yesterday...

#airbus   #fujixe1   #aviation   #airliner   #A380  

2013-05-04 11:55:56 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 20 +1s)

SYDNEY HARBOUR BRIDGE - Color or black and white
Can't make up my mind what I like more...

Thanks for commenting!

#blackandwhitephotography   #architecturephotography   #architecture   #bridgesaroundtheworld   #bridge   #fujixe1   #xe1  

2013-05-04 10:58:05 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 18 +1s)

Fairground at Sydney

Shot around the Lunapark in Sydney tonight

#sydneyphotography   #xe1   #longexposure   #fujixe1  

2013-05-04 10:55:37 (8 comments, 13 reshares, 136 +1s)

Sydney Harbour bridge
Enjoyed the dusk and night shoot today in downtown Sydney! 

#sydney #sydneyphotography #xe1 #nightphotography #bridgephotography 

2013-05-02 12:42:49 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Those of you interested in Street Photography, don't miss the free download of the Radiate magazine! Or even better, order your printed version!

#streetphotography   #magazinedeals   #photog  

2013-05-02 09:17:04 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 15 +1s)

A380 waiting for take-off @ Dubai

#A380   #aviation   #airbus  

2013-05-02 09:14:54 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 25 +1s)

SHOOTING the POLICE in ROME

Last Sunday an Italian gunman shot and seriously injured two policemen near the Prime Minister office in Rome. 

Visiting Rome the day after the tragic events, I did expect the security to be heightened and was a bit cautious photographing these two Carabinieri. The little X-E1 Fuji camera showed again how valuable it is. Very unlikely I would be able to shoot (no pun intended) these two gentlemen with my full frame DSLR...

More at my blog...

#fujixe1   #xe1   #rome   #streetphotography  

2013-04-30 09:38:30 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Arrivederci Roma !

#Roma   #Rome   #xe1   #fujifilm   #italy   #fiat  

2013-04-30 09:29:20 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 43 +1s)

Playing the Sax in Rome

Bumped into this guy playing the saxophone along the Tigris river in Rome yesterday afternoon. 

2013-04-30 09:25:10 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

Afternoon stroll in Rome

#xe1   #fujifilm   #roma   #italy  

2013-04-28 17:47:08 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Off to Rome tomorrow morning... Another Street photography paradise!

#photog #rome

2013-04-28 13:53:32 (2 comments, 4 reshares, 21 +1s)

AVIATION HAS COME A LONG WAY!

Photographed these two cockpits in the same month. Top one is the first commercial jet airliner, the British Comet. The bottom one is the mighty Airbus A380 I fly for a living...

#A380   #airbus   #aviation   #airliner   #photog  

2013-04-28 13:46:38 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Falcon 2000 reflection

Shot this black Falcon 2000 at Kortrijk-Wevelgem, Belgium some time ago.

#aviation   #photog   #blackandwhitephotography  

2013-04-25 12:29:10 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 20 +1s)

Concrete jungle of Dubai Marina

#architecturephotography   #architecture   #dubai   #uae   #xe1   #fujixe1  

2013-04-25 09:19:45 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 29 +1s)

London calling...

#streetphotography   #blackandwhitephotography   #london   #xe1   #fujixe1  

2013-04-25 09:21:18 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

The Photographers' Gallery - London

As most of you know, I rarely leave the house and definitively not the country, without taking a camera with me. Since earlier this year, this has been mostly my FujiFilm Sexy-1, officially called the X-E1...

Last Sunday, I spend the afternoon, looking for photo opportunities around Soho in Central London. 
Even though the capital of the United Kingdom has developed a bad reputation for being "photography unfriendly", it still remains an interesting place for classic "Street Photography"! 

I briefly visited "The Photographers' Gallery", just of Oxford street which always gets the creativity juices flowing!

More on my blog through the link below...

#london   #streetphotography   #fujixe1   #xe1  

2013-04-22 09:31:00 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

Let's kick the 22 tires and fly her back to Dubai...

#aviation #A380

2013-04-21 19:23:06 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 13 +1s)

Street photography from the streets of downtown London...

#streetphotography   #streetpics   #london  

2013-04-21 19:21:54 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 19 +1s)

London calling

Some of todays Street photography in downtown London...

#streetphotography   #streetpics   #london  

2013-04-19 18:49:10 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Loading an A380 at Dubai. Image shot
during my pilots preflight...

2013-04-19 18:46:56 (7 comments, 2 reshares, 23 +1s)

A380 engine shot during my pilot preflight...
#aviation #photog #a380 #airbus

2013-04-18 08:26:15 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Alentejo, forgotten part of Portugal 
End of March, I spend a week in Portugal; 2 days of shooting in Lisbon followed by a 1000 km photography trek around Alentejo.

Probably one of the least known areas of Portugal, Alentejo is largely an agricultural area.

#travelphotography   #portugal   #alentejo   #photog  

More at my blog below...

2013-04-16 11:29:06 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Controlling the skies at Moorsele, Belgium

As some of the readers might know, I've been brought up amongst aircraft and spend a large time of my teenager years at the small grass airfield of Moorsele, Belgium. 

Whenever I'm visiting my home country Belgium, I always try to pay a quick visit to my aviation roots and that's exactly what I did earlier this month.

More at my blog through the link below...

2013-04-12 14:03:50 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Headless Stork taking off
First of all apologies for the somewhat late Pic(k) of the week... I normally try to do my weekly post on Wednesday but unfortunately have been too busy at work lately... 

As explained in my previous post, I did spend some time in Portugal end of last month. An overview of the touring around Alentejo, is scheduled for the end of next week.

It was in Alentjeo, that I photographed this Stork taking-off from its nest, on top of an old lighting pole. Because of the lack of wind, the 2 meter wingspan White Stork, had to dive to the ground in order to generate enough lift to stay airborne. In this process, its head was almost completely hidden behind the enormous wings.

More at my blog through the link below...

2013-04-04 21:00:50 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Leaving Paris CDG for Dubai on the A380...
#a380 #airbus

2013-04-04 09:11:30 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

Leaving a wintery Belgium behind for almost Summer Dubai...

#dubai   #belgium   #photog   #xe1  

2013-04-03 09:22:21 (9 comments, 9 reshares, 91 +1s)

End of March, I spend a week in Portugal on a mixed holiday/photography trip. The first few days, I revisited the capital, Lisboa (Lisbon) and was pleasantly surprised how the most Western European large city has changed since the World Expo in 1998.

One of the most remarkable architectural achievements, is the new "Vasco da Gama bridge" which opened March 28th 1998, just in time for the World Expo '98. With a total length of 17km, the bridge is Europe's largest one. It was built to relief its older brother; "the 25th April bridge".

I was particularly interested in photographing this architectural beauty in pre-sunrise light. Online research brought me to the "Parque Tejo"; a park at the western site of the bridge, ideal for a sunrise shoot. Because I planned to arrive at the site well before sunrise, the scouting the day before proved very... more »

2013-04-03 09:02:23 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

End of March, I spend a week in Portugal on a mixed holiday/photography trip. The first few days, I revisited the capital, Lisboa (Lisbon) and was pleasantly surprised how the most Western European large city has changed since the World Expo in 1998.

One of the most remarkable architectural achievements, is the new "Vasco da Gama bridge" which opened March 28th 1998, just in time for the World Expo '98. With a total length of 17km, the bridge is Europe's largest one. It was built to relief its older brother; "the 25th April bridge".

I was particularly interested in photographing this architectural beauty in pre-sunrise light. Online research brought me to the "Parque Tejo"; a park at the western site of the bridge, ideal for a sunrise shoot. Because I planned to arrive at the site well before sunrise, the scouting the day before proved very... more »

2013-03-30 10:53:41 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 22 +1s)

Winding roads of Alentejo, Portugal

#portugal   #alentejo   #landscape   #d800  

2013-03-28 22:21:50 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Silky waters of Dubai

#dubai #longexposure #uae #xe1

2013-03-24 10:03:14 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 13 +1s)

Tchau Lisboa! Leaving for Alentjeo today where we will discover some of their amazing "Pousadas"(castles/palaces used as hotels).

#portugal   #travelphotography   #lisbon  

2013-03-23 10:24:16 (4 comments, 9 reshares, 56 +1s)

Getting up at 5am can be rewarding... Quick edit of a early morning shoot at the Vasco da Gama bridge, Lisbon. More to come next week!

2013-03-21 10:14:24 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

Flying this 2 week old A380 back to Dubai... Last flight before my leave!

2013-03-21 10:10:15 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Flying a brand new Airbus A380 ( less than 2 weeks old) back to Dubai from Rome... Last flight before leave!

2013-03-20 13:56:19 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Pic(k) of the week: AVIATION has come a long way

For this weeks Pic(k) of the week, you get two images for the price of one!
Both images of the "for its time, state of the art" 4 engine airliners, were shot during the same week. The cockpit of the 1950's BOAC Comet 2 airliner, was photographed at the small but interesting, Al Mahatta Aviation museum in Sharjah, UAE. While the lower image, an A380 flight-deck, was shot during my return flight from Hong Kong to Dubai.

Even though over the last 60 years, the basics of airline flying haven't changed that much , the technology and the number of people behind it surely has. While the Comet carried 40 passengers with a cockpit crew of 4, the 550 passenger A380 normally operates only with a captain and first-officer. 

More on my blog below...

#aviation   #photog   #dubai   #UAE  #sha... more »

2013-03-19 10:28:32 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

iPad photography at Dubai Fountain

#streetphotography   #dubai   #UAE  

2013-03-18 13:26:25 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 16 +1s)

Let there be light

#streetphotography   #xe1   #dubai  

2013-03-18 13:24:54 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Mall photography, Dubai

#streetphotography   #streetpics   #xe1  

2013-03-18 13:23:21 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 17 +1s)

Crossing guys at Mirdiff Mall, Dubai

#streetphotography   #streetpics   #fujix-e1