Just another photographer: Guido Van Damme

Portfolio – Images by Guido Van Damme

Sometimes everything falls in place when you take a picture… The light, the action, some luck…

Nothing Fancy, but here are some Scotish glens, bens, lochs, crochs and bogs… Hope you enjoy the pics as much as I enjoyed roaming the countryside….

Old Man Of Storr, Isle Of Skye

Loch Etive

Glen Etive from Loch Etive shore

Near Loch Lomond

In a few days I’m heading to fair Scotland with my best friend. Time for some hiking across the wonderful landscape during, what has become, our annual roadtrip to one of the Celtic lands… This year we’re roaming The Isle Of Skye. Or at least that’s the plan! Weather forcast doesn’t look very positive, but that won’t kill the spirit! It’s warm and dry in the pub…

Tory Island, Ireland – Images by Guido Van Damme

Ten years ago I spend a few days on Tory Island, a small island north of county Donegal, Ireland. Tory Island is a remote island with two villages, East town and West Town, and has about 250 inhabitants. Staying on this island was an experience that kept intriguing me, although I never had the chance to go back… After my divorce I couldn’t find the negatives from my trip anymore, I considered them lost forever. Until today! I found the negs on the bottom of a box full of stuff I wanted to throw out. Happy me! I started scanning immediately!
Here is a preview of the series, more to come!

I came across this beheaded Buddha statue on a shrine build in a huge tree during a trekking on the Shan Plateau. To me, this picture became very symbolic. Myanmar leaves a very dubious impression to many visitors. It is a very religious country, its people practice what should be the most peaceful religion on the planet, yet its government oppresses the people with an iron fist…
Buddha beheaded.

Looking through the window of my 5 dollar hotel, after waking up in a strange and busy city, after a hot night in a small room full of mosquitoes and a noisy gecko, with no electricity to power the air-conditioning, in a too small bed, on a mattress with a big hole in the middle, and thinking how wonderful life can be while travelling. It was a relatively cool, slightly foggy dawn and everyday life in Bago started to come alive in front of my eyes. People and pigeons… Motorcycles and trucks…