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It was a dark and stormy day…

Brugge, Belgium — April 22, 2012

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7 Responses to Brugge, Belgium — April 22, 2012

  1. sha says:
    April 22, 2012 at 6:42 pm

    Lovely.Thanks Sam

  2. Noreene Rossos says:
    April 23, 2012 at 12:21 pm

    This is a beautiful image. It looks like a painting!

  3. Jerry Braunstein says:
    April 23, 2012 at 2:27 pm

    Why didn’t you take me with you?

  4. Samantha Wallace says:
    April 23, 2012 at 8:42 pm

    Brugge, Brugge, Brugge! Doncha LOVE Brugge!

    Your great photo brings happy memories, thanks!

    How did you get that interesting quality of light at a dark point of the day?

    • Sam says:
      April 23, 2012 at 9:31 pm

      Hi Samantha,
      Thanks for the comment! Brugge is so lovely and charming. I used HDR processing which allows me to process the sky separately from the foreground… effectively controlling its contrast (I manipulated it in terms of color, sharpness, and contrast – not any detail of clouds or outlines or shapes or areas of light and dark – just making it stand out more)

Belgium was very charming, almost fairytale in some places like Brugge, Ghent, Orval, and Boullion. However, it also rains according to one source 200 days out of the year in much of the low countries (Netherlands and Northern Belgium). We had a mixture of sun and rain but in between moody clouds created wonderful imagery. This shows a plaza at the end of a canal in Brugge and was taken while on a Canal boat tour.


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