I am currently finding my way back to photography, here a first image.
After a longer break, I now will resume posting new images on my website.
Lalibela - Ethiopia Lalibela - Ethiopia
Boadas - Barcelona Boadas - Barcelona Boadas - Barcelona Boadas - Barcelona
https://vincentdegroot.com/monochrome/boadas-coctail-bar-barcelona/
I wish all the visitors of the blog a healthy and happy 2020!
I have to omit, this is a bit complicated.
Arusha - Tanzania
Babati - Tanzania
It is not needed to have a technical perfect image to express emotions.
A picture sometimes tells more than 1000 words. I don’t have to tell a lot about this picture, it is all up to your imagination.
Babati - Tanzania
There are arriving just a few buses at the busstation in Babati (Tanzania). The state of the buses is far from what we are used to, they however almost always make it to the busstation where I me...
https://vincentdegroot.com/portrait/mechanics-at-the-babati-busstation/
In the original post I showed the portrait in color. There was some feedback that in Black&White the background probably is less distracting. Bellow both versions… I agree with the people that ...
When it comes to photography I’m a “Black and White man” but, sometimes I decide to leave out the B&W conversion step. The main rule for me in color is to have decent and only a few colors.
Set of pictures showing decisive moments of the Haredi street-life in Mea Shearim (Jerusalem)
https://vincentdegroot.com/street-photography/streetlife-in-mea-shearim/
Portrait of a smiling Ethiopian man during the celebration of Timkat in Gondar (Ethiopia).
Priest in Bahir Dar belonging to the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church.
https://vincentdegroot.com/portrait/orthodox-priest-in-bahir-dar-ethiopia/
Omo Valley - Ethiopia
Ethiopian woman from Omo Valley Kalashnikov (AK-47)
Portrait of an elderly man in Saint Louis (France).
Harar - Ethiopia Harar - Ethiopia
Cienfuegos - Cuba
Story about making and taking photographs when other people are trying to imitate and copy the work made.
https://vincentdegroot.com/street-photography/capturing-the-paparazzi-feeling/
Portrait of a proud grandmother with grandchild taken in Koremi (Ethiopia).
A curtain and the shadow of a cloth rack.
Decisive moment from the streets of Ujué in Spain, boys playing in the street.
https://vincentdegroot.com/street-photography/street-photography-from-spain/
Koremi - Ethiopia
A while ago I started to explore common things around me and seek for the beauty in those things. Today I have some shadows from curtains in a hospital in Barcelona.
https://vincentdegroot.com/monochrome/seeking-for-beauty-in-common-things/
Some photos showing a kitchen sink.
To follow-up my last post here, today I show some another banal images… Click image to enlarge
https://vincentdegroot.com/france/banalography-showing-the-unseen/
Harar - Ethiopia Harar - Ethiopia
https://vincentdegroot.com/street-photography/a-brief-encounter/
Last Saturday I arrived in a new Airbnb apartment in Switzerland, I had to move. Outside it was raining and I felt somehow sad and depressed. Things here are not very fancy, it is just ugly. At s...
Harar - Ethiopia
The power of the square image format explained.
https://vincentdegroot.com/portrait/the-power-of-the-square-format/
Berlin - Germany Berlin - Germany Berlin - Germany Berlin - Germany
https://vincentdegroot.com/street-photography/dance-the-tango-with-me/
Riehen - Switzerland
Saxophone player jamming in the streets of Saint Louis - France.
https://vincentdegroot.com/street-photography/late-night-jazz-session/
Diptych with two portraits with similar composition, the first one taken in Oman the other one in Cuba.
https://vincentdegroot.com/portrait/deja-vu-mali-vs-senegal/
Street photography diptych with similar composition and content, the first one taken in Oman the other one in Cuba.
A few days ago I posted a tip to motivate to use the manual mode. A comment in dutch, was that sometimes one want to play with DOF (Depth of Field). The video in the post post is staring with shu...
https://vincentdegroot.com/street-photography/manual-mode-and-dof/
In another post I explained why I started publishing color photos. Today I took one from the Ethiopia trip and let the colors play. The colors in the original RAW file where too poppy for my tast...
https://vincentdegroot.com/portrait/color-i-start-to-like-it/
As promised in the comments on the previous post today another photo taken in manual mode. After some practice I now remember the things I had to do 30 years ago, maybe it is like riding a bicycl...
Recently I saw a very inspiring YouTube video explaining about manual mode in photography. It is a bit long but, for me it was a source of inspiration and a way to take back control over the ligh...
Sometimes waiting is boring and sometimes it is exiting… These children where leaving from Kandi (Sri Lanka) for a two day excursion to the north of the country.
G.A.S. what the hell is that??? Well let me explain, it is the so-called Gear Acquisition Syndrome, a problem a lot of people who want to take (great) photos suffer from. Mostly it are men but, s...
https://vincentdegroot.com/portrait/what-comes-after-the-g-a-s/
At the moment at the home page of this site this picture is displayed. What is happening there? Back in 2007 we where traveling in Mali. As you might expect it is a country not easy to visit, it ...
https://vincentdegroot.com/monochrome/dancing-girls-the-story-behind/
In the galleries section of this website I show portraits of people that look directly to me. In some portraits this is not the case but they are still worth to share here. Here a portrait of my ...
https://vincentdegroot.com/portrait/not-all-portraits-will-end-up-in-the-galleries/
The Amhara people also known as Abyssinians, are an ethnic group from the northern and central Ethiopian highlands. The neck and facial tattoos called Nikisat are standing out against the tradi...