Trees, #13, Belgium, December 2025
“We are proud of our ridiculousness. That’s what made our Surrealism. Proud and ashamed of everything at the same time. I think that’s my definition of Belgium.”
– Stromae (b. 1985), Belgian rapper
“A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.”
― A Game of Thrones
Winter or Fall?
OK, I say winter, but it was actually just very, very late in the autumn season, two weeks short of the solstice… but it sure felt like winter and that was what I was trying to convey with these images: a wintery, cold, lonely, nostalgic mood.
All were done with the iPhone. Most were also processed with a standard iPhone B&W filter, but I also worked some through Adobe Photoshop Elements (mostly for cropping and sizing).
B&W was the obvious creative call with these overcast Belgian skies… but the light near sunset would occasionally ask that I leave in a bit of color–thus the images at the end.
Monochrome
Trees, #25 (Intruder), Belgium, December 2025
Trees, #24 (With Airliner), Belgium, December 2025
Trees, #22 (Evergreens and Solid Contrail), Belgium, December 2025
Trees, #27 (Curvy View), Belgium, December 2025
Trees, #23, Belgium, December 2025
Trees, #19 (With Waning Contrail), Belgium, December 2025
Trees, #18 (With Vigilant Birds and Nest), Belgium, December 2025
Trees, #28 (Last of the Valiant Leaves), Belgium, December 2025
Trees, #35, Belgium, December 2025
Trees, #37, Belgium, December 2025
Trees, #38 (Matriarch of the Forest), Belgium, December 2025
Trees, #41 (Vertical Sentries), Belgium, December 2025
Trees, #52 (Lone Sentry), Belgium, December 2025
Trees, #48 (Reflection Amid the Chaos), Belgium, December 2025
Trees, #53, Belgium, December 2025
Trees, #51 (Grassy Outlier), Belgium, December 2025
Trees, #55 (With a Curly Q), Belgium, December 2025
Trees, #59 (The Last Leaf of Autumn), Belgium, December 2025
Subtle Color
Trees, #1, Belgium, December 2025
Trees, #4, Belgium, December 2025
Trees, #3, Belgium, December 2025
Trees, #6, Belgium, December 2025
Trees, #7, Belgium, December 2025
Trees, #10, Belgium, December 2025
Trees, #8, Belgium, December 2025
Trees, #43 (Not a tree but an important part of one–and a good way to end!), Belgium, December 2025
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