Busy, fun weekend. We (rugby team) had an away game in Heusden-Zolder on Saturday - a small place in the middle of the Limbourg region. As we left Brussels, it was pouring with rain and absolutely freezing meaning none of us were feeling very pumped but the closer we got to Heusden the bluer the skies and it ended up being pretty perfect! I bought my camera along to snap a couple of team shots and then it struck me that it would be fun to shoot all the changing rooms and club houses of the places we play at… they are all fairly unique. I’ve missed half of them this season, so I suppose that means I’m condemned to playing at least another year if I want to catch all of them!
Band shoot with Ziggy today but I haven’t even loaded those yet so that’ll have to wait.
Away game
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Breast cancer awareness month rolls around in October each year. Sanoma media, with it’s numerous publications, reaches over 60% of the female readership in Belgium and the ‘Pink Ribbon magazine’ is distributed for free alongside all those publications in order to promote breast cancer awareness. This year, the Pink Ribbon team decided to build a 
Scouting is huge in Belgium – and apparently it’s not social suicide to be a scout either….even when you are way too old to be wearing tiny little khaki shorts.
Father’s birthday today but he doesn’t really to celebrate so I’ll leave it at that! I was hired to shoot an image of Brussels which contained belgian flags… slightly odd request but good fun and this ended up being my pick… the spire of the town hall is pretty recognisable and symbolic around these parts. Friday at last – the evening plan was cleaning, but that didn’t really happen – watched a crap film instead.
The skies finally gave way today – I don’t suppose it would be acceptable to complain after the Indian spring (I’ll copyright that!) we’ve had. Still not fully recovered from this stupid cold, so it doesn’t help. Henri over this evening for some video editing and pasta all’arrabbiata.
Weirdest concert I can remember attending this evening… Groundation Bob Marley tribute concert in Charleroi… which in itself is potentially the weirdest town I can remember setting foot in. I must go back to photograph it before it changes – it’s a standing memorial to the cheesiest, gaudiest 80sness… and the inhabitants are definitely a big part of that impression – sort of wonderful. But the concert – terrible! The opening act was a reggae band from charleroi, probably by default – the guitarist looked like he belonged in an 80s metal band, the bassist could’ve been cast in the Mamma Mia… and awful, awful tunes. We made it through about three tracks when Groundation finally made an appearance before running back to the car and home. I didn’t want to ruin my impression of Groundation any further… saw them two years ago at Couleur Café and they were incredible… I’m cheating again and posting a couple of shots from way back then, to lift my mood.
Galeries st Hubert in the center … middle of the day.
One of those days when you spend your time running against the clock… exhausting. Visiting a copuple of higher education institutions to try and grab a shot of students behind their laptops for an article on ‘connected schools’… I think I was basically commissioned to shoot stock but without the models and the time – a couple of teachers were nice enough to let me shoot their classrooms for a few minutes and I accosted others in the corridors 
. I have to say it is quite incredible to what extent it’s become completely normal to sit in class typing on a laptop – makes me feel old!