Photos

Back from gone. Here a redo from a sight I uploaded last year. Since then I learned a thing or 2 about photography and set about doing a better job on the same subject. I decided to show the historic place in its actual context (which also appeared in my daytime rendering) instead of trying to recreate some mock kinda pre-modern times setting with the high building barely visible through the trees. I tried different exposure times to get the street lamps the way they look in real life without losing detail in the buildings and their reflexion in the water. Some Photoshoping was needed. I allways use RAW-mode now, so I get much more crisp results than I used to when opening my jpg's in Photoshop. Don't know if I succeeded.

By the way, the canal, which used to lead to Bruges and the Northsea, is about a thousand years old. The Lieve (i.e. 'the sweet') is its name. Now it stops under the 'Rabot' towers but some remnants are still discernible in the flemish landscape. The story goes that the Vikings used it to extend their pillage campaigns to Ghent.