Nail salon (1)

Roasting chestnuts

Throwback Thursday: Window cleaning

Man cleaning the windows of a primary school nearby my home when I lived in Dordrecht, Netherlands

Concentration

Cleaning the river

River Onyar in the centre of Girona (Catalonia)

Take away coffee

Café at the Plaça Major, Banyoles (Catalonia)

Leaf blower

Olive vendor

Sunday market alongside the lake of Banyoles (Catalonia)

Waiting for the next client

High above the canal

Canals in an old city centre always are a challenge for any builder. These house painters are not deterred by the water and have built their scaffold right in the canal. But it was the repetition of the colour blue that has drawn my attention in the first place.

Wordless Wednesday: Laying the table

Restaurant Art & Dining, Dordrechts Museum

For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: People at Work

The jewels and the workman

During one of my photo sprees I was hunting for reflections. Just when I was thinking to abandon my search, a van stopped in front of a jewellery shop, some workmen got off and began to inspect the pavement.

The shop window reflected their activities perfectly and I liked the contrast between the luxury inside and the simplicity of the coarse working clothes and movements of the men outside. An additional bonus for me is that the spotlights of the shopwindow seem to illuminate the workman.

For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Glass.