Category:Cityscapes
I hadn’t been shooting on location for a while. I desperately needed to break out of my studio. I need to break out of my studio a lot more often than I do. Shannety said she needed some new pictures for her fashion portfolio. That was the perfect opportunity for both of us to break out of my studio.
I had previously found a couple of spots in Antwerp where I wanted to shoot. We settled for a quiet location that gave us some background elements without be too distracting. We wanted Shannety to be the hero in the picture, not the city. Once we were done with the photos, we gave videos a try. It was my 1st real attempt at shooting video. I have a lot to learn still. But we got a few decent clips done that I could edit down to fun 15 second clips for Instagram stories. I have already shared some of them on my Instagram and they’re archived in my Models highlights.
Here’s a series of photos we shot that day. Enjoy! And oh, there will be a part 2 from this shoot soon.
The city of Antwerp lit up the beautiful MAS in rainbow colors in support of LGBT rights over the weekend. They also lit up a few other public buildings and painted several pedestrian crossings throughout the city in rainbow colors. But, oh boy, the museum at sunset, all lit up like a rainbow, was a stunning site to see. And it was absolutely worth getting my camera out and shoot some pics.
Doctor King was born in Atlanta, GA on January 15, 1929 in this house at 501 Auburn Avenue, about a block from the church where his father was a minister. The National Park Services are preserving the house and its surroundings as a National Historic Site. I had been there years ago and I remembered I was impressed. So it was way up high on my list of places to see in beautiful Atlanta.
Doctor King would be in the frontline of the American civil rights movement all his life. In 1963 he organized nonviolent protests in Birmingham, AL and a march on Washington where he delivered his famous I Have A Dream speech. In ’64 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Price. In 1965 he helped organize the Selma to Montgomery marches, beautifully depicted in the Oscar-winning movie Selma directed by Ava DuVernay.
He was so important to the civil rights movement in the US that is birthday is in fact a legal holiday in the US.
In April 1968 he traveled to Memphis, TN to support the city’s sanitation workers who had gone on strike in protest against poor pay and dangerous working conditions. On April 4th, 1968 he was assassinated by James Earl Ray on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel. An event that inspired U2 to write Pride (In The Name Of Love). So I obviously had to have the song in my travel soundtrack.
After his death he was laid to rest at the Martin Luther King National Historic Site in Atlanta, GA. Later, his wife, Coretta Scott King was buried right beside him.
The Port House are the new headquarters of the Antwerp Port Authority and is a very popular subject for photographers these days. The building is a fusion a modern design by Architect Zaha Hadid sitting on top of an old firehouse by architect Emiel Van Averbeke. So why not have a go at it myself?
