Winter’s Play of Light and Shadow

The Belgian coast in late autumn and winter feels stripped down to its essentials. The bustling crowds have disappeared, leaving only quiet promenades lined with drab apartment blocks, some of them urgently in need of a fresh coat of paint. Yet there is an unexpected benefit: under the low winter sun, these very buildings cast remarkable patterns of light and shadow. Facades, pavements, and even the beach itself become stages for shifting highlights and silhouettes—an evolving interplay that transforms a bleak setting into something unexpectedly intriguing - Ostend, Belgium