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A Day-trip to Bruges…
We spent the final day of our visit to Belgium in the town of Bruges, about 1 hours journey from Brussels on the impeccably clean and quiet Belgian trains. Bruges is apparently the most-visited place in Belgium, being particularly popular with the British, who like its antiquated, medieval feel - the centre of the city hasn’t changed very much during the last few centuries, at least according to the guidebooks anyway (I’m sure Bruges residents would probably disagree).
Anyway, we had a few short hours during the heat of the middle of the day to quickly walk around, and obviously take a few photos. The Brug and the Markt in the centre are the obvious places to visit, but the outskirts of the city centre have a much more peaceful feel, some interesting sights and far less tourists. Here is a small selection of my favourite photos from the day.
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Bruges #1
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Bruges #2
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Bruges #3
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Bruges #4
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Bruges #5
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Bruges #6
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Bruges #7
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Bruges #8
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Bruges #9
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Bruges #10
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Bruges #11
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Bruges #12
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#1 Fazal Majid
Bruges is a nice city that once was an economic
powerhouse (hence the fancy buildings) but fell asleep on the switch and let
its waterways to the sea silt up, which is why it was overtaken by Antwerp and Amsterdam.
I personally find Gent much more impressive. It was the capital of the
Netherlands and Belgium since Roman times, the Emperor Charles V was born
there, and you can see the opulence in the fact it has no fewer than 3
cathedrals in a 200 meter radius. I have some handheld panoramas I took
there 3 years ago with a Fuji MX-700.
12:11 am - Saturday, June 14, 2003
#2 chris
hi mark:
great photos!! i like the photos especially # 3, 4, 9, and 11. what camera and lens did u use? and are these photos the original photos uploaded directly from the camera without further manipulations from image processing softwares such as photoshop? thanks and have a nice day!
10:49 am - Monday, June 16, 2003
#3 Mark Goldstein
Hi Chris,
These photos were all taken using a Canon EOS 10D and Canon 20-35mm f/3.5-4.5 USM lens.
The Canon 10D saves both a RAW version and JPEG version for each picture that you take. These are the JPEG versions (set to JPEG Small in the camera), which I then resized to 600x400 for display on the Web.
The only post-processing that I've done is the resizing, then USM sharpening (settings of Amount 100-150, radius 0.3 and Threshold 1), then Levels and Contrast if necessary.
Thanks,
Mark
12:02 pm - Monday, June 16, 2003