Johan's Blog

This is a first for me; starting a kind of photo diary of the past month. Some of you who follow my blogs will know that I have Myalgic Encephalomyelitis aka Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS). If you want to know more about this disabilitating disease, visit my blog ‘Life with ME/CFS‘. This disease can affect people in different ways; some people can still have a more or less normal life and go to work, while others are bedridden. Some ME/CFS patients are bedbound, some are homebound and I am more or less citybound. On an average day I can go anywhere in my hometown Ostend using my bicycle.

With this photo diary I will document some of the things I saw in my hometown during the past month. I hope that during 2010 I will be able to expand my roaming range and offer you something more than the same photos over and over again. As you will probably notice I am a nature lover, and more specifically a birdwatcher. I am also curious where this series will lead to. Will I stick to just plain photos of my surroundings or will I start experimenting with photography? Like many things right now I have no idea where they will lead to. Will exercising improve or worsen my condition? Will the appointment I have with a professor for my disease prove to be beneficial or not? Is there a future for me in writing, most likely technical writing, or not? Will I be able to go back to a job in ICT? Sitting in a coach wont provide me with any answers. So I have plotted several journeys and I will see where they will take me. I sure hope one of the destinations is a sunny beach with hula girls and drinks with umbrellas.

All photos are taken with my Canon Powershot S3 IS. For the long distance shots I used the Canon Teleconverter TC-DC58B 1.5x with the Conversion Lens Adapter LA-DC58E.

I start this photo-diary using the PictoBrowser plugin for Wordpress to access my photos on Flickr. Let me know if you experience any problems viewing the photos.

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