[Leica] IMG: Belgian markets

[imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry)]

Some good ones there Nathan, but I had to laugh at the third one as that 
is one very obvious syrup on the guy with the bag. I also like the last two!

Douglas


On 19/06/2020 17:36, Nathan Wajsman 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
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