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Nuit Blanche The White Night of Arts

Nuit Blanche The White Night of Arts

The yearly Nuit Blanche took place in early October and it offered a great opportunity to experiment with taking photos in the dark. The Parc de Bruxelles was gorgeously illuminated and provided good surroundings to socially critical performance as well as...

Lesbos, Greece The First Photoresk Photo Trip

Lesbos, Greece The First Photoresk Photo Trip

Six photographers, seven days - and lots of things to explore on the Greek island of Lesbos. There is hardly anything regarding photography that you cannot explore when you visit the Greek island of Lesbos in early summer. And we - a group of six photographers with...

Touring Aachen International Photoresk meetup

Touring Aachen International Photoresk meetup

It was great to be on the road with a group of photographers, like-minded people. Our Photoresk community is growing and we have now large groups in Brussels, Aachen and Cologne, and it was about time we organised another international meetup. Many thanks to Alexandra...

Royal Greenhouses of Laeken It's the flower time again!

Royal Greenhouses of Laeken It's the flower time again!

On a sunny Sunday morning Photoresk visited the Royal Greenhouses of Laeken. Open only for three weeks, once a year, one needs to be careful not to miss it. We lined up after 9 am to make sure to get in before the place gets too crowded. Surprisingly many people had...

Night light walk Bright light festival

Night light walk Bright light festival

Yes, the darkness is still here, but shouldn't we enjoy it?! Brussels put together a Bright Light Festival for a few days and, of course, Photoresk had to check it out. Light installations were surprisingly impressive for such a short event and the few of us who...

Mystical autumn garden Meise, Belgium

Mystical autumn garden Meise, Belgium

The autumn, the cold, but the colors! There is always some beauty in the gloominess of the arriving winter. You can sense the coming changes and feel inspired by them. We captured this feeling at the National Botanic Garden of Belgium in Meise. The 92 hectares and 18...

Halloween swing ball The creepy, crazy and bloody portraits

Halloween swing ball The creepy, crazy and bloody portraits

Photoresk was invited to come to the HALLOWEEN SWING BALL and do some event shooting. We were terribly scared and frightened by the creatures around, but we had to do our job! So we stayed and here are the results. [gallery columns="2" size="medium"...

Zot Day 2016 Slacklining and action in Brussels

Zot Day 2016 Slacklining and action in Brussels

Photoresk was invited to photograph the slacklining and action event, called Zot Day, in Brussels in mid-September. We were given VIP passes to the 13th floor at Boulevard Anspach, and what a great experience this was for us. Hanging out with the slackliners, we took...

Balloon’s day parade Brussels comic festival

Balloon’s day parade Brussels comic festival

The Brussels Comic Festival was here again last weekend and we had a meetup for the Balloon's Day Parade on Sunday. The weather forecast scared off most of the participants, but in the end we were lucky to avoid the rain and even sun was peaking behind the clouds at...

Pairi Daiza Where the baby panda lives

Pairi Daiza Where the baby panda lives

We had heard about the baby panda born at Pairi Daiza and for a few months we waited for it to grow a little bit bigger (the newborns are simply tiny). Finally, at the end of August we organized a Photoresk meetup to visit the park. We chose Wednesday as weekends are...

Book celebration Parc du Cinquantenaire

Book celebration Parc du Cinquantenaire

Photoresk members got together to celebrate the new book on Brussels - Brussels Through Our Lens. The book was a collaborative effort of the group including 69 photos from more than 30 different individuals. People were excited to pick up their books and to see old...

Brussels flower carpet Friendship between Japan and Belgium

Brussels flower carpet Friendship between Japan and Belgium

Every two years Brussels' Grand Place gets covered by a flower carpet consisting of nearly one million begonias. More than 100 volunteers assemble this famous tourist attraction in four hours. This year celebrating the 20th flower carpet, a beautiful Japanese design...

Photography expo in Gent Eyes Wide Open

Photography expo in Gent Eyes Wide Open

Brussels Photoresk group did a day trip to Gent on 7th August. The idea was to visit the photography expo called Eyes Wide Open. We hopped into a train and got off at Gent Sint-Pieters railway station. The exposition took place at St Peter's Abbey. Passing little...

Sunny day in Liège City for abstract photos

Sunny day in Liège City for abstract photos

The photo walk in Liège, Belgium, started at the famous Guillemins Railway Station, designed by Santiago Calatrava. Everyone took their cameras out and a good moment was spent capturing the inspiring shapes of the wide building. The tour then lead us to the Parc de la...

Belgian National Day 21st of July

Belgian National Day 21st of July

The Belgian National Day took place 21st of July, as it does every year. Once again, the Brussels Photoresk group attended the colorful festivities of the day. High security and smaller crowds kept the atmosphere calmer than during the previous years, yet many came to...

Fashion in Brussels Product of creativity

Fashion in Brussels Product of creativity

Brussels is one of the creative fashion centers in the world where the students from today will set the style for tomorrow. On Friday 17th of June 2016, Photoresk Brussels went to see a fashion show by the students of Haute École Francisco Ferrer. The autumn/winter...

Bluebells in Hallerbos Only once a year, during the weeks of April

Bluebells in Hallerbos Only once a year, during the weeks of April

Only once a year, during the weeks of April, it is possible to get amazed by the bluebell fields in Hallerbos. The blue flowers cover the forest floor like a carped and you need to watch out not to miss them since every spring is different. Our Photoresk Brussels...

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