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off season

“for the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them”
― aristotle, the nicomachean ethics

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(ecole de cirque de bruxelles, rue Picard 11, bruxelles)

(for wordpress weekly photo challenge – off season)
(and for lucile’s photo 101 rehab)

*shot with nikon d700 and nikkor 70-300mm f/4.0-5.6 lens at 210mm, ISO320, 1/60s at f/4.8, edited in lightroom cc and silver efex pro 2, she didn’t fall, off season*

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changing (seasons) #06

“…the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind”
― friedrich nietzsche

(birminghamstraat, molenbeek)

(for the monthly photo challenge named the changing seasons, which runs from the 7th to the 15th day of each month throughout the year, hosted by Cardinal Guzman)

*shot with nikon d700, nikkor 70-200mm f/4 lens, tweaked in lightroom 5, summer coming*

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vivid

“into this world we’re thrown”
riders on the storm, the doors
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right now

riders on the storm

right over brussel

“the world on you depends…”

(for wordpress weekly photo challenge – vivid)

*shot with nikon d700, nikkor 70-200m f/4 lens at 1/320s, f/9 and ISO200, edited in lightroom cc and analog efex pro 2, nature involved, and the doors…*

vivid from andytownend

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on the way

“i’ve been everywhere, man”
lyrics from the australian cover by lucky starr

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(camper van in brugge)

“Tullamore, Seymour, Lismore, Mooloolaba,
Nambour, Maroochydore, Kilmore, Murwillumbah,
Birdsville, Emmaville, Wallaville, Cunnamulla,
Condamine, Strathpine, Proserpine, Ulladulla,
Darwin, Gin Gin, Deniliquin, Muckadilla,
Wallumbilla, Boggabilla, Kumbarilla…”

…and brugge

(for wordpress weekly photo challenge – on the way)
(and for lucile’s photo 101 rehab)

*shot with nikon d700 and nikkor 70-300mm f/4.0-5.6 lens at 70mm, ISO200, 1/200s, f/7.1, edited in lightroom cc and photoshop cc, colour range selected to highlight red, inverted and converted to black and white, i’m on my way, man*

on the way with andytownend

on the  way on belgradestreets

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broken

“part broken – part whole, you begin again”
― jeanette winterson

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(derelict factory, birminghamstraat, molenbeek)

broken
broke
bro
br
b

(for wordpress weekly photo challenge – broken)

*shot with  nikon d700 and nikkor 50mm f/1.4 lens using ISO200, f/5.6 and 1/125s, edited in lightroom cc and analog efex pro 2 with wet plate filer applied, no ball games allowed*

broken by andytownend

broken on belgradestreets

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writing (on the wall)

“if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners”
mahatma gandhi

(on and around birminghamstraat, molenbeek)

(for lucile’s photo 101 rehab)

*shot with olympus om10 in aperture priority mode with two year old roll of ilford delta 3200 film inside, black and white nostalgia*

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grazing

“i felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery air, mountains, trees, people
i thought, “this is what it is to be happy”
― sylvia plath, the bell jar

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(la ferme du parc maximilien, brüssel)

a happy sheep

and not a peep

from the traffic

that never sleeps

(for wordpress weekly photo challenge – forces of nature)

*shot with nikon d700, nikkor 70-300mm f/4.0-5.6 lens at 250mm, 1/250s and f/8, imported into lightroom cc and not edited at all, green in tooth and claw*

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changing (seasons) #05

“love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy”
― paulo coelho

(birminghamstraat, molenbeek)

(for the monthly photo challenge named the changing seasons, which runs from the 7th to the 15th day of each month throughout the year, hosted by Cardinal Guzman

*shot with nikon d700, nikkor 50mm f/1.4 lens, (not) edited in lightroom 5, and yes, it rains a bit in belgië*

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momentarily

“some moments are nice, some are
nicer, some are even worth writing about”
― charles bukowski, war all the time

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                 caught short
                        need to make a call
                        or answering a call
momentarily?

(stib / mvib line 2,  kunst-wet, brüssel)

(for justine’s electic corner #11 – momentarily)

*shot with nikon d700, nikkor  50mm f/1.4 lens at  1/100s and f /5.0, edited in lightroom cc, color efex pro 4 with  bleach bypass filter applied, look no hands*

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light (right?)

“and the sunset itself on such waves of ether
that I just can’t comprehend”

–  anna akhmatova

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(rooftops over elsene, brüssel)

(for tech of the month – get out when the light is right via lucile’s photo 101 rehab and perelincolors)

*shot with iPhone 5 and edited in snapseed, sunset provided by nature, for everything else there’s mastercard*