New Year's Day in the tourist district of Monastiraki, Athens. It is 18 degrees and a pigeon family is sitting on a power line above the metro. I immediately notice how photogenic they are: each bird is looking somewhere else. And they sit on such a nice diagonal line.
To give the image extra dimension, I framed it within the trellis that separates the street and the metro. This gives the image an extra touch. It looks like looking at freedom from a confined situation. Especially since one of the pigeons flies away! Sometimes it is a challenge to create an original image in a tourist area. Look at the situation a little differently and you can see that the images are there for the taking. Perhaps no other tourist in Montastiraki has made this sculpture!
Welcome to my webshop! Here you will find images I have taken on the road. Travel and street photography often with a specific light, sometimes with a "moment décisif" or decisive moment.
In 2021 I graduated as a photographer from CVO Brussels, since then I have been working as..
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