Photos taken during the last Blade Show in Belgium

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RogerP said:
Norbert - I knew you had camera skills, but holy smokes :eek: :eek: - well done my friend! I have enjoyed them all, but Sam's knives in particular make me salivate. That small micarta-handled utility is EXACTLY the kind of knife I have been looking for as a wingshooting companion. I will have to ask Sam to make one for me.

Roger
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Merci Roger, It was a command of a French Knife Maker rather "Tactical & Frame-lock"

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NEXT year, you need get an offciial space and sell your services at the show like Coop and others do at the shows over here. I think that you would get a fair amount of work. I ended up leaving Gembloux without a single picture of the long clip stag fighter that I sold at like 9:50 on Saturday morning before it was supposed to be open. I forgot to take one myself and by the time a lot of guys got to the table with their cameras and phones, it was gone.
 
Merci Joe, It is a good idea indeed, I you would be lying if I told you that I had not thought.

Still to work and improve myself over and over again... I hope that your Blade show past well...
 
Very nice knives and photography!

Thanks for sharing!

best

mqqn
 
Berno said:
Merci Joe, It is a good idea indeed, I you would be lying if I told you that I had not thought.

Still to work and improve myself over and over again... I hope that your Blade show past well...
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Norbert, I know that the BKS may appear to some people, perhaps many of the members included, to still be a friendly little group of hobbyistes who get together once a year to drink some good beer, but Gembloux has become on of the largest knife shows in Europe and you would never see a serious show like that over here without at least one photographer set up to take pictures for the knifemakers. You had a piece by Roger Bergh sell for over 20,000 Euros at that show back in 2009, so there can be some large sums of money changing hands. I think this would be a very good opportunity for you.
 
Norbert: Approach the show promoter. Having a professional photographer there, is a SERVICE to the makers, and his show, not simply a profit opportunity for you.

How else will we know about the finest makers in Europe? Submissions to Euro magazines, too. Offer a return of some images for his pending show/catalog or something to that end.

And as Joe's example has shown, maker's arrive with knives barely finished and have no time to chronicle their finest work before it leaves their eyes forever.

At the rate you are learning, your skills will be incredible next year, too.

You will need a helper or two. I'm happy to suggest a working method.

Good thread.

Coop
 
Merci Joe, Jim thanks for all your advice, your generosity is matched only by your photographer talent.....:thumbup:
 
peterinct said:
Looks like it was a great show!
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Peter, you ain't seen nothing yet!

Berno's pictures, as nice as they are, are only the top of the iceberg! There were much more very beautiful knives to be seen.

Coops idea of setting up a photo studio at the show is great! And I hope Berno will do it, next year!

Kind regards,

Jos
 
Jos, the only issue may be space. This year, we used up pretty much all of the space in the hall. We might have to put Norbert back where Gudy and those guys sleep. Lol
 
Thanks for the comments guys, this year I had found a little place in the small room behind the bar... In the reserve to beer....
 
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