Photo Diary March 2025: Lots of portrait sessions, events, and fun street photo moments

If I look back at the events of March, the month seems both long and short. Some events seem ages ago, while others feel like they only happened yesterday.

I started the month by attending a Nikon Z8 autofocus system workshop. I learned more about autofocussing and some tremendous extra tricks and hacks for my camera—Shoutout to Gregory van Toor for those brilliant insights.

Later, I met up with Tom Uyterspot for coffee and a chat about (our) street photography. It was a fun and casual conversation, something I should do more often.

Of course, there was also work to be done—plenty of it. I went to Paintfactory in Bruges and Premium Sound Solutions in Dendermonde to give them smartphone photography workshops.

For several companies needing portraits and group shots of their employees, I went all over Belgium: Leuven, Liege, Waterloo, and Knokke. In a funny twist of events, all events I did this month were in a radius of 500 meters in Brussels.

There was also a recording with Nina Welch-Kling for the podcast. Though the episode will only be published in May, it’s something to look forward to. Speaking of the podcast, I also reached over 1000 plays on Spotify this month. Hooray!

Apart from working and doing workshops, I also walked and took street photographs in Brussels, Antwerp, and Leuven, just casually or around the Rambiz Crane, for Scaldis’s 30th anniversary.

Some firsts, extraordinary events, and some exciting moments from March 2025

• Firsts
  • Meeting up with Tom Uytersprot
  • Recording with Nina Welch-Kling
  • Reaching 1000 plays on my podcast– hooray!
• Books
  • A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson – such a good book
  • The Bullet Journal Method by Ryder Carol
  • The Meaning in the Making by Sean Tucker – must read for every creative
• Films & series
  • Evolution – Actually funny
  • Good Morning, Vietnam – I always love Robin Williams
  • The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent – This was even better than my expectations
  • Saving Private Ryan – not my genre, but it’s a deserved classic
  • Robin Hood – rewatched it for the first time since I was a kid
  • Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children – scary for a kids’ movie!
  • The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim – Not great, but also not bad
  • The Electric State – Meh
• Museums, restaurants, coffee bars … visited:
  • Nobi Antwerpen
  • Wurst Leuven
  • Fomu Antwerpen
  • La Plaza Brussel
• Blog posts published:
  • Slices of Time Episode 011: Melik Alperen
  • How to find street photography spots
  • Slices of Time Episode 012: Archie Worth

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