Every year, at the beginning of November, the city of Eindhoven is lit up by GLOW. GLOW is a platform for artists that use light in all its applications as a tool to let the local architecture come to life. Often this leads to very special photo opportunities and the city is crowded by people with tripods and camera’s.
This time, however, it was raining. In my opinion the rain is just excellent for taking pictures; the reflections of the light on the wet pavement are a great addition to the shots. But luckily not everybody thought so and the amount of photographers was substantially less when we went out to walk around the city.
I especially liked the light in the Catharina church in the city center. The changing lights and the choir music gave the place a very special atmosphere.
The GLOW festival runs until this Saturday night, if you have time, make sure you check it out.

I sold my Canon 85mm f/1.2 mark II lens. It was the most impressive lens I had, but I hardly ever used it. I much more often used the more versatile 70-200mm f/2.8 mark II. The sharpness is about the same, and I rarely used apertures smaller than f/2.8 on the lens. Most importantly I needed some money to pay for the new Leica stuff.
Anyway while in Amsterdam I of course also took some pictures.

Together with Hans van Assen, I went to take some pictures near the Amsterdam harbor. Initially we had the idea to photograph Sugar City, an old factory terrain, but it was closed. We ended up driving around looking for some subjects to photograph. It wasn’t the most productive day, but we had a good time, and I could play around with my Leica some more.

I have spent some time to update my portrait portfolio and my personal favorites. You can always find the links to these pages on the top of my blog.