{"id":1606,"date":"2010-05-23T19:50:48","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T19:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/?p=1606"},"modified":"2014-08-07T19:46:34","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T19:46:34","slug":"photo-of-the-week-105-106-107-april-in-belgium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/2010\/05\/23\/photo-of-the-week-105-106-107-april-in-belgium\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo of the Week 116, 117 &#038; 118 &#8211; April in Belgium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With being sick for the last two weeks I&#8217;ve ended up with a triple post this week. I&#8217;ve chosen my three favourite shots from my recent trip to Belgium for this instalment&#8217;s theme.<\/p>\n<p>The first shot I&#8217;ve chosen is of a lovely medeival castle in my home town of Duffel that is locally known as &#8220;Kasteel Ter Elst&#8221;. It remained intact right up until the first world war when it was unfortunately destroyed. You can read more about the castle <a href=\"http:\/\/www.castles.nl\/eur\/be\/els\/els.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/DSC_4637.jpg\" alt=\"Kasteel Ter Elst\" style=\"border-width:0px;\" width=\"450\" height=\"354\" \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bbusschots\/4632574207\/\" target=\"_blank\">on Flickr<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bbusschots\/4632574207\/sizes\/o\/\" target=\"_blank\">Full-Size<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Camera:<\/strong> Nikon D40<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lens:<\/strong> Nikon DX AFS 18-55mm (D40 kit lens)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Exposure:<\/strong> 1\/400 sec<\/li>\n<li><strong>Focal Length:<\/strong> 18mm<\/li>\n<li><strong>Focal Ratio:<\/strong> <em>f<\/em>\/7.1<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISO:<\/strong> 200<\/li>\n<li><strong>Camera Mode:<\/strong> Aperture Priority<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Perhaps unsurprisingly, the second shot I&#8217;ve chosen is a train shot. In this case showing the work-horse combination of the NMBS\/SNCB&#8217;s intercity services. Here we see a rake of M6 double-decker coaches (with an M6 DVT in front) being pushed by NMBS\/SNCB Class 27 electric locomotive number 2725.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/4612847403_9bc6960051_o.jpg\" alt=\"M6 with NMBS\/SNCB Class 27\" style=\"border-width:0px;\" width=\"450\" height=\"316\" \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bbusschots\/4612847403\/\" target=\"_blank\">on Flickr<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bbusschots\/4612847403\/sizes\/o\/\" target=\"_blank\">Full-Size<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Camera:<\/strong> Nikon D40<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lens:<\/strong> Nikon DX AFS 55-200mm<\/li>\n<li><strong>Exposure:<\/strong> 1\/640 sec<\/li>\n<li><strong>Focal Length:<\/strong> 200mm<\/li>\n<li><strong>Focal Ratio:<\/strong> <em>f<\/em>\/5.6<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISO:<\/strong> 400<\/li>\n<li><strong>Camera Mode:<\/strong> Aperture Priority<\/li>\n<li><strong>Processing<\/strong> Used Topaz Adjust 4 plugin to give the shot a little more &#8216;pop&#8217;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The final image I&#8217;ve chosen is a butterfly shot, specifically a Green-veined White (Pieris napi) feeding on a Dandelion flower (Taraxacum officinale agg.).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/DSC_4829_TopazAdjust_Merged.jpg\" alt=\" Green-veined White (Pieris napi)\" style=\"border-width:0px;\" width=\"450\" height=\"319\" \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bbusschots\/4622797788\/\" target=\"_blank\">on Flickr<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bbusschots\/4622797788\/sizes\/o\/\" target=\"_blank\">Full-Size<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Camera:<\/strong> Nikon D40<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lens:<\/strong> Nikon DX AFS 55-200mm<\/li>\n<li><strong>Exposure:<\/strong> 1\/1600 sec<\/li>\n<li><strong>Focal Length:<\/strong> 200mm<\/li>\n<li><strong>Focal Ratio:<\/strong> <em>f<\/em>\/8<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISO:<\/strong> 400<\/li>\n<li><strong>Camera Mode:<\/strong> Aperture Priority<\/li>\n<li><strong>Processing:<\/strong> Selectively applied the Topaz Adjust 4 plugin to the butterfly and the flower.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With being sick for the last two weeks I&#8217;ve ended up with a triple post this week. I&#8217;ve chosen my three favourite shots from my recent trip to Belgium for this instalment&#8217;s theme. The first shot I&#8217;ve chosen is of a lovely medeival castle in my home town of Duffel that is locally known as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[50,51,104,57,207,28,65,54,98],"series":[],"class_list":["post-1606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-belgium","tag-duffel","tag-flanders","tag-flower","tag-historic-building","tag-photo-of-the-week","tag-ruin","tag-train","tag-wild-flower"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t9xK-pU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1606"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8072,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions\/8072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1606"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}