Mechelen City Hall, Mechelen, Belgium: Mechelen town hall on the Grote Markt consists of two parts: the cloth hall with unfinished belfry and the Palace of the Great Council. The cloth trade went into decline in the 14th century and there wasn't the money to complete the building. For two hundred years the belfry was no more than a shell, until it was eventually provided with a temporary roof in the 16th century. Wikipedia
Margaret of Austria's Table at the Court of Savoy, Mechelen
Laid Table by Nicholaes Gillis, 1611 (Photo credit: https://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/g/gillis/laidtabl.html)
When Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, designated his daughter Margaret of Austria as his procurator of the Netherlands, she bought a complex of buildings in Mechelen located across the street from the home of his grandchildren, the son and daughters of Margaret’s brother, Philip…
Can you believe these pictures were taken in my backyard?
Because of my good grades in the first semester, my father had given me his old canon camera with a removable tele lens.
During a study break, I decided to test the tele lens out with these results. In the beginning I was struggling with the distance, but after figuring out to leave a respectable distance from your subject to have clear images, I had immense fun.