This is a very recognizable wall in downtown Minneapolis. Every so often the building’s tenant, a printer, has several artists make a new mural to adorn their building. It is a nice splash of color in an otherwise drab surrounding area.

Hey! Why not a black and white double exposure for this Wall Art theme?

Taken with a Yashica A in Geneva, Switzerland, in the old alternative site of Artamis, which is being destructed by big caterpillar bulldozers (cause you now, art doesn’t make money so it’s better to build desks and throw the artists away!).

Yesterday I had a photo shoot in an empty factory in Bad Homburg, which is owned by a friend of mine. I had planned to create a series of silhouettes against a white wall in one of the old cargo areas, using different light sources and objects. Luigi Mulé, the person in this shot, was one of the models that volunteered to help out this weekend. When I heard Maarten suggesting the theme today I thought I might as well post one of last weekend’s shots. In my interpretation it is Wall Art, however not permanent. Should you be interested, a few more shots of this series can be found here.

This is Fokke, the admin of this site. He is taking a close up shot of the structure of the wall.  Unnoticed by Fokke I took this shot. We were next to  an old cereal factory in Utrecht to shoot some nice photos of its its desolation.  First post in this theme, see it as a thanks for Fokke keeping this site up to date!

Photo Theme #5: This theme was chosen by Maarten van Ast, and is called ‘Wall Art’. So all new posts need to have something to do with decorated walls, be it with graffiti or something else! Ruud Vonk volunteered to post the opening photo.

Since I wasn’t able to take any new photographs for this section and to keep the site’s content original I decided to look through my albums to find, what I consider to be a true urban landscape, that I hadn’t uploaded on the internet before.

Although I admit it’s rather uninspiring I liked the way the eye is drawn first to the tops of the factories and then to the silhouettes of buildings in the distance. It’s a shame that weather was bad as I think the photo could of been improved by a little less cloud! Anyway here it is;

i shot this one hand-held , resting the camera on the rail-as the CTA doesnt allow tripods. standing on the crossover bridge looking north through the Chicago “Loop” towards Trump Towers which is finished now. Fuji MF rangefinder-Fujifilm Neopan Acros100

On a recent walk around the warehouse district of Minneapolis, I found this interesting puzzle of buildings. I just liked how all of the buildings were sort of stacked like the game tetris, creating a nice grid. This serves as a nice example of many areas of downtown Minneapolis that are inhabited by old buildings and serve as a vital part of the urban landscape.

London skycrapers. Don’t know if it’s a real “landscape” but whatever, when all i can see is towers and skycrapers, for me it’s an urban landscape, especially because in my country there’s nothing like that in the sky!

Sloten, or ‘Sleat’ as the Frisian people call it, is the smallest city of the famous eleven ice skating cities of Friesland, one of the most northern provinces in the Netherlands. Every winter the Dutch people hope for long lasting freezing temperatures so that the tour of all ice skating tours can be held, the tour of the eleven Frisian cities. Unfortunately the weather hasn’t allowed it since 1997. I took this shot last saturday when I was sailing the Frisian waters and needed groceries.

Unfortunately, this is an example of what downtown Minneapolis has turned into over the past few years due to the housing/loft/condo boom in many urban areas throughout the city. There are far too many units/buildings available and not a lot of demand, so these buildings remain barely filled. This new architecture is sprinkled throughout the city and either encroach on, as seen here or have taken over space once occupied by old, some times historic buildings. Block after block, our streets are lined with these new structures that have helped create an entirely new downtown skyline.

I passed through Le Treport on my way to Dieppe, a city in Normandy in northern France. Although laying underneath an enormous cliff the city appeared quite normal to me at the time, without any extraordinary features. However, it could have been the dreary weather that didn’t show the city in its full potential.