A typical flea-market picture

Sometimes you cannot catch your subject in the square format and sometimes you need colours… This is in front of the brandnew Markthal in the city center of Rotterdam. Reflected in the giant glass façade are the Blaaktoren (a.k.a. the Pencil) and the Rotterdam library in the late afternoon autumn sun.

This is in Ghent, Belgium. Eight years old, but still actual.

OK, hundreds of other titles possible…

Blaak, Rotterdam

It is obvious that he is getting more than a bit impatient…

On that same Saturday afternoon in October tourists having fun waterbiking over a Delft canal.

A walk in Delft on a gorgeous Saturday afternoon, the last day of the Indian summer. Gives a little bit of colour in your life. People are enjoying the warm autumn sun, surrounded by the brown, fallen leaves.

Boys from Rotterdam love their city and its port. Nothing so nice as watching the ships from the quay, sniffing the smell of the water and diesel oil and fantasizing over their future profession as a captain or a crane-driver. Except… when “something more interesting” passes by, like a cute girl. Then he is back in the real life…

It looks like spring, you would say watching this couple. It felt like spring indeed, but is is October, as the falling leaves show, a warm October day in Delft.

The bookseller is watching his customers very carefully. Doesn’t he trust them? Does he know them? Strange fellows – he seems to think – but if they buy that book they are definitely OK.

The last day of “summer”, this Saturday in October. Kids with icecream, people trying to catch as many sun beams as possible. Tomorrow is the start of fall… This picture is taken in Delft, with my new Canon 6D camera.

This is the Westplein square in the Rotterdam Port District (“Het Havenkwartier”) at the World Port Days 2014

The Day of Romantic Music in the Rotterdam Park, 2014

(I changed the license plate; the number is fake.)

She cannot find it, though. He is rolling a cigarette as if he does not notice it. Most probably he doesn’t…

Looking at this makes all people of Rotterdam very proud. The Erasmus Bridge, the brandnew mammoth building “De Rotterdam” and, of course, the Holland America Line cruise ship MS Rotterdam, all in one picture.

Picture taken on the Rotterdam High Street (Hoogstraat) in front of the Rotterdam municipal library

I did not call it “Dad and his girls”, because I think the girl at the right is his daughter and two others are her friends, but never mind and who cares (OK, dad would care), it looks like a nice family day out. At least as important, however, is the place where it is taken: it is where I worked around for about forty years: the Churchill Square (Churchillplein), most of the time in the building you see in the background: the Erasmus House (Erasmushuis), from 1939 to 2010 the home of the commercial bank HBU, which does not exist anymore.

No comment necessary, I think.

This is an oldie of a market stall in Lausanne, Switzerland, taken in 2006. Personally I like the reading man passing by most.

Another Day of the Romantic Music 2014 picture. Nobody will ever know if this man’s face shows that he has so much fun in his work, or if he burnt his hands…