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Going Lomo in Brussels


Brussels is full of interesting things to take pictures of, and as well as some B&W film shots, I decided to do a little "lomography". The above sculpture is known as "La Cycliste". No idea what it is supposed to signify, if anything!

I picked up this Halina 160 camera in a charity shop for a couple of pounds - it's a black plastic thing but it has a built-in flash, which works, and is still light-tight.


You may have heard of the Mannekin Pis, which for some reason they dress up in clothes on certain days, but fewer people know about the Zinneke Pis, below...



This Ferrania film came in a box of 50(!) I picked up cheap, branded as "London Camera Exchange". It was already a little expired when I bought it, and two years on it's showing some serious colour shifts.

I had a couple of shots left on my first roll of Lomochrome Purple - in a more serious camera, the Canon EOS 300 with 40mm pancake lens. This is a new film produced just in the last few months by the Lomography folks - it's.. well.. "purple"...


This lovely old cash register was in a fantastic art deco bar called The Greenwich. The shot is untreated, this is how the film comes out, naturally.

And finally, no visit to Brussels is complete without a smurf...