here’s a special kind of chaos that comes alive in a city after dark. When Kevin and I went out for some street photography in Tilburg, I wasn’t planning on experimenting… but the road beside me was practically begging for it. Headlights glowing, engines humming, the rhythm of cars passing like pulses of light through the night — it felt like the perfect moment to attempt something notoriously tricky: handheld long-exposure car photography.

Armed with my Canon 5D Mark IV and the Sigma 24–70 Art, I opened the lens to f/2.8, dropped the shutter all the way to 1/2 second, and kept ISO at 500. In conditions like this, physics isn’t on your side. Every heartbeat, every breath, every tiny muscle tremor becomes part of the photo. And honestly? Most shots were complete misses — streaks, smears, abstract failures.

But that’s the beauty of experimentation: sometimes the chaos aligns.

In this frame, the passing car locked into motion just long enough to stay recognizable, while the world around it dissolved into soft trails. Technically improbable, creatively satisfying. Handheld long exposure is a conversation between control and surrender — you guide the moment, but the moment also guides you.

And in those rare situations where the two meet halfway, the result becomes something unexpectedly artistic.

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A Different Perspective

After picking up my photo buddy Kevin, we made our way to Spoorpark and climbed the observation tower to see Tilburg from above. From up there, even the gentle sway of the structure becomes quite noticeable — especially when you’re looking through a 400mm lens. At that focal length, every millimeter of motion is magnified into a dance across the frame.

Shot with the Canon 5D Mark IV and Sigma 100–400mm, this image captures the morning light just before noon. The sun, still low in the late autumn sky, painted the landscape with long, stretched shadows — the kind that reveal depth, rhythm, and texture you can’t see from the ground.

Photography, after all, is just another way of studying light and life.

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