caught in a web
“Our task must be to free ourselves… by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it’s beauty.”
― Albert Einstein
I became entangled with this web yesterday as I made a second visit to the abandoned polder town of Doel, of which more later…
NaBloPoMo 12 of 30 – photography101:8
I must admit I did not go out and take this photo this morning in direct response to today’s landmark theme.
However, in my defence 😉 I took it just over a week ago at a famous local landmark and in taking the shot I wanted to capture a different angle. So, I think that probably both excuses me and fits the brief?
I was struck by how the line of people clambering up the monument looked like ants climbing along the ridge.
Taken at La butte du Lion, Waterloo 1815.
NaBloPoMo 11 of 30 – photography101:7
A bridge, a table, a meeting over coffee.
Connect.
Captured, edited and published on my phone.
Connected world.
NaBloPoMo 10 of 30 – photography101:6
“Nothing in the world is worth turning one’s back on what one loves.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague
An aside from the rigour of #photo101
An image captured on my iPhone and edited with Snapseed. Sometimes it is therapeutic to simply go with the flow…
NaBloPoMo 9 of 30
My contribution to this week’s Weekly Photo Challenge from The Daily Post at WordPress.
NaBloPoMo 8 of 30
Thoughts, once I cared.
“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
― Aldous Huxley
NaBloPoMo 7 of 30 – photography101:5
I am listening…
“Of all the conceptions of pure bliss that people and poets have dreamed of, listening to the harmony of the spheres always seemed to me the highest and most intense.”
– Hesse
From martelaars plein.
NaBloPoMo 6 of 30 – photography101:4
“They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
Fountain in the square.
La Roche en Ardenne, Belgium.
NaBloPoMo 5 of 30 – photography101:3
My second contribution to the WordPress Photography 101 course has been a challenge…
My photos here on belgianstreets and on belgradestreets tend to focus on details, the things we might miss as we go about our busy lives.
So, the challenge to capture an establishing shot put me out of my comfort zone. And that, I guess, is part of the appeal of Photography 101! 😉
Under time pressure today, I have chosen an existing photo which captures my neighborhood and the people who live here. Oh, and their obsession with cycling!
This wide city street in the heart of Brussel, jammed with cars during the week, was, on the day I took this shot, closed to all traffic except those on bicycles.
You can see the original post here car(e)free.
NaBloPoMo 4 of 30 – photography101:2
This is my first contribution to the WordPress Photography 101 challenge. Each day a different theme is presented to participants to help each of us learn and build.
The theme today, “Home”.
Where is it?
There are many definitions and opinions, physical, whimsical, sentimental, romantic, religious, philosophical.
Places, relationships, the people we love and care for.
Perhaps the real place we can call home is deep down inside ourselves, that part of us that makes us who we are. The place to which we return when we press our own virtual “home” button.
A part that is not shaped by the outside, by others.
A place where we can simply be.
Where we can close our eyes, shut out the noise and light and reflect.
Home.
NaBloPoMo 3 of 30 – photography101:1
belgianstreets 