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Hélène Cook 📷 🦋
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🇫🇷 Artist photographer, Brussels 🇧🇪🇪🇺 - ❤️ Urban, architecture & street photography, colors, positive vibes & humour
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On the edge - Tokyo, October 2025
#photography #BlueSkyMonday #EastCoastKin #urbanphotography #architecturephotography #cityscape #urbanlandscape #streetphotography #womeninstreet #streetscenes #photoderue #nightphotography #cyberpunk
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Reflection shot of a man with umbrella walking on a lit glass esplanade in Tokyo at night. The chosen angle leaves the impression that the man could fall of a flying structure. The scene is bathed in dark turquoise tones and surrounded by the night, leaving a cyberpunk atmosphere.
November 24, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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Neon bright nights - Dotonburi, Osaka, Japan
Wishing you a colourful weekend!
#photography #BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #urbanphotography #cityscape #urbanlandscape #streetphotography #womeninstreet #photoderue #nightphotography #nightlife #Colortherapy #dotonbori #osaka #japan
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Buildings covered in bright and colourful neon commercials and reflected in the Dotonbori River in Osaka, in Japan at night.
November 15, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Night stroll, Kabukicho, Tokyo
#photography #UrbanGaze #humansofbluesky #EastCoastKin #streetphotography, #art #urbanphotography #urbanlandscape, #womeninstreet #streetscenes #photoderue #nightphotography #nightlife
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A man is walking by an illuminated door in a dark little street in Tokyo at night, his little black silhouette is illuminated in a yellow glow. Hanging above him, a big flashy neon advertisement sign with a manga character, making him look even smaller, is reflected on a black car passing by in the foreground. On the top left corner, an art deco street lamp and street sign of the Kabukicho neighbourhoud of Tokyo adds another touch of light and color in this dark scene.
November 13, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Sumida river in the evening, Tokyo
#BlueSkyArtShow #Evening #Photography #EastCoastKin #UrbanGaze #urbanphotography #cityscape #urbanlandscape #sunset #Asakusa #Tokyo #Japan
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Tokyo Asakusa cityscape at sunset, with high buildings and a train crossing a bridge over a golden Sumida river, under a beautiful orange sky ornated with horizontal strips of clouds beautifully brushed by a light wind. A few neon commercials typical to Japanese big cities are visible on the tops on some building.
November 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain - Frank Gehry architect
#architecture #photography #StunDay #BlueSkyMonday #EastCoastKin #urbanphotography #architecturephotography #cityscape #urbanlandscape #bluehourphotography #FrankGehry #bilbao #GuggenheimBilbao #art
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Reflected view of Bilbao's Guggenheim Museum on the Nervion river on a cloudy evening at blue hour. Designed by Frank Gehry, the museum’s structure is a complex interplay of abstractly curved forms, evoking a sense of ordered chaos. Although the metallic form of the exterior looks almost floral from above‭, ‬from the ground the building more closely resembles a boat‭, ‬evoking the past industrial life of the port of Bilbao‭. ‬Constructed of titanium‭, ‬limestone‭, ‬and glass‭, ‬the seemingly random curves of the exterior are designed to catch the light and react to the sun and the weather‭.
October 5, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Blue tunnel, metro Bilbao (Norman Foster, architect)
#photography #architecture #BlueSkyMonday #EastCoastKin #urbanphotography #PhotoMonday #MinimalMonday #sharemondays2025 #metrophotography #metrostation #subway #undergroundstation #ubahn #bilbao #NormanFoster #brutalism
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Symmetrical wide angle view of the entrance to a long tunnel with a semi-circle shape, made with minimalistic blocs of white concrete and bathed under electric blue light at the Uribarri metro station in Bilbao. A person is walking away towards the end of the tunnel on one of the two conveyor belts installed under the tunnel. The architect of this brutalist metroc architecture is Norman Foster.
September 28, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Spinning world  - Bundestag dome, Berlin 
#art #photography #architecture #scape #ClassicMono #EastCoastKin #urbanphotography #architecturephotography #urbanlandscape #streetphotography #womeninstreet #streetscenes #photoderue #Berlin #Bundestag
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Wide angle view of Bundestag's glass dome interior in a black and wide rendering. Litlle silhouttes of people are reflected in the mirror elements on the central pillar or can be seen on the circular path walking and down the glass cuppola, creating a very graphic effect.
September 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Putting on my happy face for #urbangaze
#photography #EastCoastKin #urbanphotography #AdoorableThursday #brussels #bruxelles #bruxellesmabelle #AutoWorld #oldtimer #pareidolia #thingswithfaces #Colortherapy
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A yellow oldtimer Porche 356 with a pink roof, standing in front of Brussels' Autoworld car museum. The hood shapes a big smile while the headlight form two googly eyes. Brussels' Cinquantenaire Arch is reflected on the yellow hood. The license plate reads B-2015.
September 17, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Always look on the bright side
Union Station, Washington DC
#art #photography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLines #EastCoastKin #Urbangaze #WindowsOnWednesday #WallsOnWednesday #urbanphotography #streetphotography #womeninstreet #streetscenes #photoderue #washingtonDC #unionstation
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A woman in a white flounce dress and black hills is crossing Union Station in Washington DC only the bottom part of her body with the moving dress and feet and her shadow reflection on the marble floor are visible. The stainglass window and the archs of the ceiling reflected on the floor shape a frame around her body.
September 16, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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The Kennedy Center, Washington DC
#art #photography #architecture #BlueSkyMonday #EastCoastKin #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLines #urbanphotography #architecturephotography #cityscape #urbanlandscape #bluehourphotography #WashingtonDC #KennedyCenter
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The Kennedy Center and Washington DC skyline seen from the Watergate Hotel's rooftop at the evening's blue hour. The square modern building is lit with warm colors. Light trails are visible on the road and on the bridges due to the use of a slow shutter speed by the photographer.
September 14, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Eagle eye - Dome ceiling of Tokyo Station
#photography #architecture #StunDay #EastCoastKin #SundayShadows #SilentSunday #ArtYear #urbanphotography #architecturephotography #tokyo #tokyostation #japan
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Octagonal coved ceiling of Tokyo Station's Marunouchi building with 8 eagle carvings and a keystone inspired by a 15th century military commander.
September 13, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Yellow breeze, Berlin
#photography #urbangaze #EastCoastKin #ArtYear #streetphotography #womeninstreet #streetscenes #photoderue  #urbanphotography #colortherapy #metrophotography #metro #subway #underground #ubahn #ubahnberlin #berlin #bvg #art
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A woman dressed in a black coat is holding her hat tight as a yellow metro train is rushing in front of her on the platform, creating a drought. The black silhouette contrasts nicely with a colourful mosaïc tiles wall with red orange, black white and yellow of the same tone of the train. The hat of the lady also has a yellow stripe matching the other yellow stripes on the picture.
September 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Galerie Bortier, Brussels - before its transformation
#photography #architecture #WindowsOnWednesday #WallsOnWednesday #whimsywednesday #brussels #bruxelles #bruxellesmabelle #urbanphotography #architecturephotography #EastCoastKin
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Symmetrical vertical view of the 19th century neo-Renaissance style covered passage Galerie Bortier in Brussels showcasing wrought iron, wood and marble works topped by an arched glass ceiling. On each side, old book stores. In the foreground a stylistic curved bronze hand rail leading down visitors to the book stores. In 2024 this Galerie was transformed into a food hall and most of its book stores have now become little restaurants and cafes.
September 9, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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'In the blue of evening' - KaraokeKan studios, Tokyo
#photography #BlueSkyMonday #EastCoastKin #AlphabetChallenge #WeekKforKaraoke #architecture #urbanphotography #architecturephotography #cityscape #streetphotography #bluehourphotography 
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KaraokeKan karaoke studios tower in Shinjuku in Tokyo on a quiet evening at blue hour. Red neons signs on the fassade read the words 'karaoke' in japanese. Two narrow streets border the tall and thin building;, there are very few people on the streets. In the foreground, a boulevard with four lanes completely empty of cars. There are several KaraokeKan studios in Tokyo, the Shibuya ones became famous with the film 'Lost in translation'. 'In the blue of evening' is a song by Frank Sinatra.
September 7, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Tokyopolis - Japan
'Leuchtreklame' #FotoVorschlag
#photography #Alphabetchallenge #WeekJForJetBlack #EastCoastKin #artyear #urbanphotography #unjourunephoto #streetphotography #womeninstreet #photographiederue #streetphoto #nightphotography #tokyo #shinjuku #japan
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Silhouettes of a couple with their child standing in front of a long row of capsule toys vending machines in Shinjuku in Tokyo at night. The vending machines are standing in front of an illuminated department store topped with a giant black sign with name of the Yodobashi camera department store in big red neon letters.
September 7, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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'Step back in time' - Horta museum, Brussels
#photography #STUNDAY #EastCoastKin #StairsOnSunday  #SundayShadows #SilentSunday #architecture #urbanphotography #architecturephotography #Brussels #Bruxelles #Bruxellesmabelle #artnouveau #VictorHorta
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Low angle shot of the spectacular Art Nouveau style stairwell flooded with light filtered through a skylight at the Horta Museum Mansion by architect Victor Horta in Brussels (1901) This mansion became the private house and studio of Victor Horta and is now a Unesco Word Heritage.
September 6, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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'One more before the end of summer', St Malo (France)
#photography #BlueSkyArtShow #Summer #humansofbluesky #EastCoastKin #scape #streetphotography #womeninstreet #streetphotographers #sunset #StMalo #SaintMalo #Bretagne #seascape
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A young man is jumping elegantly in the sea from a diving board at sunset, with the setting sun behind him perfeclty aligned with the diving board. The sky and sea have beautiful pink/red tones. Other young people are climbing the stairs of the diving board from each side. Because of the back lighting, the people and diving board appear as black silhouettes.
September 5, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Rotterdam skyline
#photography #scape #EastCoastKin #Alphabetchallenge #WeekJForJetBlack #urbanphotography #cityscape #architecturephotography #urbanlandscape #bluehourphotography #nightphotography #architecture
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Rotterdam skyline at late evening blue hour with black modern skyscrapers on the left,some of them illuminated, and the Erasmus bridge on the right. All constructions and artificial light sources are reflected on the dark water smoothen by a long exposure shot.
September 4, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Catching the lights - Venice
#photography #UrbanGaze #humansofbluesky #EastCoastKin  #ArtYear  #urbanphotography #streetphotography #womeninstreet #streetscenes #photoderue #bluehourphotography #venice #venezia
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A little boy with golden hair and a red sweater is attempting at climbing on a tall wrought iron three-light street lamp on a gondola dock in Venice Italy in the evening at blue hour. The golden lights of the streetlamp contrast nicely with the dark blue color of the sky and the red top of the kid.
September 4, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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A night in Venice
#photography #WindowsOnWednesday #WallsOnWednesday #whimsywednesday #UrbanGaze #EastCoastKin #AdoorableThursday #Thursgate #urbanphotography #venice #venezia #nightphotography #architecture
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An old brick house by a canal in Venice (Italy) illuminated at night from inside. A golden light comes out the iron work top of a beautiful door and from a slightly open window revealing a beautiful bookshelve. On the right a stone bridge illuminated from above by the street lights. The canal is of a dark green color. The whole atmosphere is peaceful and mysterious.
September 3, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Bye bye summer time - St Malo, France, August 2025
#photography #BlueSkyMonday #EastCoastKin #PhotoMonday #bluehourphotography #nightphotography #humansofbluesky #StMalo #SaintMalo #Bretagne #seascape #streetphotography.
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Silhouettes of 4 people sitting on the city walls of St Malo at late sunset and the start of the blue hour on a sweet summer night. Behind them, a calm sea, a two little islands on the horizon, a bare one on the left and one with an illuminate fortificated castle on the right. The sky has nice shades of purple, red, pink and orange above the sea and turns to dark blue at the top of the picture. A few brushed clouds add a bit of texture.
August 31, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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'Winged Angel' - La Monnaie/De Munt theater, Brussels
#photography #BlueSkyArtShow #shiny #EastCoastKin #architecture #brussels #bruxelles #urbanphotography #architecturephotography #cityscape #urbanlandscape #nightphotography #Bruxellesmabelle #LaMonnaie
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Brussels' La Monnaie/De Munt theater shining with Christmas illuminations and reflected on La Monnaie's square on a wet winter evening. The perspective chosen by the photographer with two long, golden illuminated buildings on each side of the theater, adds two wings to that "angel".
August 30, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Summer memories, St Malo (France)
#photography #humansofbluesky #EastCoastKin #scape #streetphotography #womeninstreet #streetphotographers #sunset #StMalo #SaintMalo #Bretagne #seascape
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Silhouettes of people on the beach and in the sea and boats on the horizon at sunset in St Malo, France, at low tide. In the foreground, a little girl is running in front of the camera, hiding the sun with her head , which resulted in interesting light effects around her hair and on the wet sand around her legs.
August 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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A big smile to you all from Brussels for today's #urbangaze 😀
#photography #EastCoastKin #brussels #bruxelles #urbanphotography #architecturephotography #artnouveau #VictorHorta #architecture
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Back of Art Nouveau bench in Victor Horta museum in Brussels. Curved mahogany wood in a typical whiplash form shape a big smile with two eyes. A stylish radiator in the front adds some teeths to pareidolia effect.
August 28, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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Island house - Procida, Bay of Naples, Italy
#photography #architecture #architecturephotography #streetphotography #WindowsOnWednesday #WallsOnWednesday #EastCoastKin #island  #Colortherapy
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A colorful house of Procida island in a typical Mediterranean style rendered in plaster and painted in pastel blue. An external plain white staircase crosses the facade in diagonal. Painted frames around simple windows add an other touch of white on the facade.
August 27, 2025 at 5:45 AM