Birgit Sippel photographed in Brussels by Sander de Wilde     It has been almost four months since I last touched my Blog. I know this is not smart whenever you want to collect 'followers' or just readers, but something changed... I was just too busy and/or had other priorities. Life is to good to spend much time behind a screen, and as a photographer I do this already too often.   Anyways, what I'm trying to say is that from my point of view the EU economy is on the rise. The last few months were the busiest of my six years in Brussels, and yes, I'm very happy with that. I have a great set of clients, coming back and bringing in others. And they have great and exciting assignments for me. Like IG metall, who asked me to portray mrs. Sippel ( European Parliament) for a feature. Only problem was there was not a lot of time, it had to be "EU - like" and that morning at 8 o'clock it was damn cold and windy.   Still, with a little help of my wireless flashes and a good dose of humor we made this sympathetic image of her in front of the EP. For her it was only 10 minutes in her busy schedule, for me it was another challenge. IG Metall used it in their Metall Zeitung over the entire page.   I'll show some other 'latest works' later on. Thanks for being patient with me, later, Sander  

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here's a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Fresher than ever.

Crunchy numbers

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 2,900 times in 2010. That's about 7 full 747s.   In 2010, there were 88 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 125 posts. There were 687 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 386mb. That's about 2 pictures per day. The busiest day of the year was September 22nd with 160 views. The most popular post that day was green girl.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were alphainventions.com, members.boardhost.com, sanderdewilde.com, twitter.com, and dirkbenedictcentral.com. Some visitors came searching, mostly for jelle van dael, kim geybels, lasgo jelle, freya van den bossche, and wouter beke.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010. green girlSeptember 2010 Helmut Lotti closes 'de gordel' September 2010 1 comment Dirk Benedict Dwight Schultz from the A-teamOctober 2010 6 comments Jelle van Dael at the poolJuly 2010 1 Like on WordPress.com, Kim Geybels breaks the silenceSeptember 2010