This might be of interest to you photographers. Plus being in Belgium, you have the home ground advantage! It is open to all residents of the EU plus Croatia, Norway, Switzerland and Turkey. The best three pictures, will receive prizes worth €1750. The winner of the first prize will be invited to a prestigious gala dinner in Brussels in the winter to receive the award. Website www.facesofbrewing.org

I am a fanatic when it comes to backing up my hard drives. Should the inevitable happens (HD crash, burglary, loss or theft), I will always have an exact replica of my HD and back in business in no time! But how do I ensure the data on the HD cannot be accessed by unauthorised eyes? Lately I have been giving a bit more though to the subject of loss of the external HD. My HD contains all my work … read more

I thought it might be useful to share this bit of information. A question I get asked sometimes in the workshops is “How many shots has my camera taken?” By this I mean, how many times your camera shutter has opened (taken shots) in its lifetime NOT the image counter which stops at 9999 and goes back to 0001. You can upload an image to this site http://www.camerashuttercount.com and you find the answer. For it to work, the image uploaded … read more

I am very pleased to be able to team up again with freelance writer Kimberly Lovato. Kimberly used to live in Brussels and has now moved back to San Francisco.  Having lived here for more than 6 years, she knows the city very well.  With a great talent in writing, together with Sutro Media, there is now an iPhone application guide about Brussels. So if you are coming to Brussels or already living here and would like to know more, … read more

This updating applies to folks who have participated in one of my workshops.  If you have not updated your email address with me yet, it will be great if you do it as soon as possible. I am moving from a desktop managed mailing to a secure web based mailing.  This will help me better manage future mails that you will receive.  While virus attacks may hack into my desktop database, with a paid service that I am now using, … read more