Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/06/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The ethnology of what is for sale in the market is of interest and well recorded. I liked the mirror shot almost as much as your later puddle reflection shots. On Fri, Jun 19, 2020, 11:36 AM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote: > Something from my film archives: > > Back when I lived in Brussels, from 1995 to 2000, part of our Sunday > ritual was to visit one of the many ?brocantes?. A brocante is an antiques > market, with the stuff on offer ranging from genuine antiques to pure flea > market junk, and everything in-between. They are held in many parts of > Brussels and in other towns. The best and biggest is in a town called > Tongeren/Tongres, about 85 km from Brussels near the Dutch border. Every > Sunday, the streets of a medieval town are closed to traffic and turn into > a huge market with buyers and sellers from the local area and from > neighbouring parts of the Netherlands and Germany. We still have pieces of > furniture that we bought there more than 20 years ago. > > But on most Sundays we did not feel like the long drive, so we just went > to one of the smaller neighbourhood markets, like the one in Waterloo, a > suburb south Brussels where Napoleon lost his final battle in 1815. The > market there was held in a large parking lot of a supermarket, so not > exactly grand surroundings, but it was fun to walk around and photograph > the buyers, the sellers and the merchandise on offer. > > I have collected about 20 pictures from February and March 1999 that I > readily found in my Lightroom film archive. I may add to the gallery if I > find more. I do not get to visit these markets these days since I am rarely > in Brussels on a Sunday?my trips there are business trips, so they take > place during the working week. > > All the images are genuine Leica stuff, shot mostly with an M6 and 35mm or > 50mm lenses (including at least some with a Noctilux which I had at the > time). I used mostly Ilford films at the time. > > So have a look at a slice of life in Belgium 21 years ago: > > https://www.greatpix.eu/Belgian-brocantes/ < > https://www.greatpix.eu/Belgian-brocantes/> > > Cheers, > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> > http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws < > http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ < > http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> > > Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator < > http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> > > YNWA > > "I?m not arguing, I?m just explaining why I?m right" > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information