Ronny Gabriels Photography

As you might have deduced from my previous post, last weekend we went on a little trip to Paris.  We spent three days there and besides visiting the Grand Palais (Warhol exhibition) and Musée d’Orsay, we walked around and generally just relaxed. 

The photos of the trip are on the website under the personal section.  The gallery is password protected mainly to prevent the photos from being tagged in search engines.  The readers of this blog get the password completely free of charge ;-)

Try this: andywarhol

I hope you enjoy the photos and please feel free to comment on any of the photos.

Paris March 2009

A brief bit of culture unrelated to photography.  Actually not entirely unrelated but more on that later.  I just wanted to make you aware of a brilliant exhibition that is going on in Paris.  In the Grand Palais in Paris, you can visit “Le grand monde d’Andy Warhol” which features a truly amazing collection of Warhols “portraits”.  You know the colorprinted or colored-in prints of famous people. 

Amazing about this particular show is not only the fact that so many of these works are brought together (from musea and personal collections) in groups of four or more, but also that it includes the polaroids they were based on and some of Warhol’s other photographic and cinematic works.  It’s just an unique collection on display in a setting that makes you feel just one thing: “This is how these works should be on display”. 

Now I know that Paris is not on most people’s doorstep.  But if you are going to Paris between now and the 13th of July, make sure you have seen it.  Also, if you are a big Warhol fan, drive to Paris for one day, visit the Grand Palais and come back, it will be worth it!  

A word to the wise concerning photography.  It’s not allowed inside! Although no clear signs are posted that you can’t shoot photos inside, I got to talk to a very angry guard demanding that I put away my camera or leave.  (I still got of one shot, that I will post later on the website).

Information:
Exhibition “Le Grand Monde d’Andy Warhol” by Andy warhol 
March 18th, 2009 until July 13th, 2009 
Price: 11€
Grand Palais, Champs Elysées, Paris, France 
more information here.

March started very well on the photography front for me.  As mentioned in my previous post, after two months of virtually shooting nothing, I found some nice shots on a Sunday afternoon on the first day of the month.  Last friday night, I actually revisited the same area to shoot some night shots. 

As you might have learned from earlier work, see project “Antwerp by Night”, I really like shooting night shots.  Not only is it much quieter in the streets at night, most of the time the results just come out a little nicer than in daylight.

The results were quite satisfactory and you can see them in the same gallery as the earlier photos, namely the Antwerp in March gallery.  So check them out and let me know what you think.  One or more of them might just end up in the Antwerp by Night project.  I’ll keep you informed of this when I have made the final decission.  Comments might of course guide my decission ;-)  Enjoy!

 
Antwerp in March ... Revisited

As I promised, mainly myself, in my last post, this weekend I picked up my camera and went for a walk in Antwerp.  My focus was on the north-side of the city.  A place that not that many people visit, since it’s not the most touristy part of town.  The walk ended up taking 2 and a half hours and I came back home with more than 130 photos. 

Of course, I didn’t post all of them, but a nice selection of the photos can be found on the here.  I must admit that I post-processed a lot more than I normally do, but I hope it only improved the shots. But since I didn’t post the originals, you’ll have to take my word for it ;-)

So March started of very well, and I hope that from now on, the inspiration is back.  I’m going to continue to go out for walks, not only in Antwerp, but in the greater Antwerp area.  So I hope I will be posting a lot more photos from now on. See you soon.

 
Antwerp in March