[Leica] IMG: Belgian markets

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

This is the way I remember markets in Provence were in 2005 when I was on a
photo tour there. Added a lot to the charm of the place.

Cheers
Jayanand

On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 10:06 PM 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
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