Yup, the Mack is Back. Kind of refers to the fact that my own internet connection will arrive shortly; in the meantime I’m virtually exploring the local community by illegally tapping into an unsecured wifi connection of some neighbour. The past months brought me to our new home in Brussels, a private air show by Saab in Sweden and the northern parts of Italy, amongst others. The 25 second exposure that you see above and which has been made a gazillion times before, is obviously taken in overcrowded, noisy, smelly, hot and humid, but oh so beautiful Venice. I’ll try and post an accompanying “been there, done that” image of Tuscany sometime next week…

Imagine sitting on a speedboat, racing across the waters of the port of Rotterdam at more than 80 km/h (for the American readers: more than 50 mph), camera in hand, not strapped in, boat jumping up, down, left and right when you hit the waves, terribly hung-over, taking images of another boat. Got the picture? That’s what I call fun. And a “quickie”.

What can I say except: we were on vacation and this is how that looks like in the south of France, in this case in the quaint old port of Cassis that I can heartily recommend. And nope, that ain’t me in the picture: such is the fate of the photographer.

I’ve applied with a stock agency and am happy to say my entry has been accepted. That means I’m busy dredging up images from my library that I think have potential for sales. This is one of them, taken a while back of a fishing boat entering the harbour of Scheveningen at the end of the day. Click on it and the title will explain itself. Dutch skies are without their equal.