“watch the world spinning gently out of time”
– lyrics from “out of time” by blur
empty table, street in gent
(for wordpress weekly photo challenge – blur)
Challenges
(good) friday
“christmas and easter can be subjects for poetry, but good friday, like auschwitz, cannot. the reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith”
begraafplaats van laken, brüssel
(for lucile’s photo 101 rehab)
*shot with nikon d700, nikkor 16-35mm f/4 lens set at 35mm, 1/125s and f/5.6, edited in lightroom 5, silver efex pro2 with full contrast and structure filter applied and with double exposure filter overlaid in analog efex pro 2, stumbling blocks a plenty*
end
“one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead”
― graham greene
tick tock, don’t look back
tick tock, can’t look back
tick tock, time to close
tick tock, where’s my rose
tick tock, is this it
tick tock, this is
the
end
(for mara’s poetry 101 rehab – end)
(more) ephemeral
“though not dead
I know how the flowers felt”
― robert frost
when time stands still
and the drops hang still
time to take a pill?
(for wordpress weekly photo challenge – ephemeral)
(and for lucile’s photo rehab)
*shot with nikon d700, nikkor 50mm f/1.4 lens, 1/125 sec, f/5.0, edited in lightroom 5 and analog efex pro 2, multilens filter applied*
ephemeral on belgradestreets
ephemeral on andytownend
ephemeral on belgianstreets
(more) ephemeral on belgianstreets
ephemeral
“we only pass everything by
like a transposition of air”
― rainer maria rilke, duino elegies
childish screams of joy
oh for that long lost toy
the look in her eyes
as she rocked her thighs
remember the sighs?
(childrens’ playground, marie-josépark, molenbeek)
(for wordpress weekly photo challenge – ephemeral)
ephemeral on belgradestreets
ephemeral on andytownend
ephemeral on belgianstreets
(more) ephemeral on belgianstreets
gandhi
“happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony”
― mahatma gandhi
Statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Parc Marie-José, Joseph Baecklaan, 1080 Molenbeek-Saint-Jean.
I will not attempt to add words to those of this inspirational man.
How could I?
(for lucile’s photo rehab)
*shot with nikon d700, nikkor 50mm f/1.4 lens, iso 200, 1/200 sec at f/7.1, an experiment in posting a photo with no edits*
splashed red
“every person has their own colour”
― haruki murakami, colorless tsukuru tazaki and his years of pilgrimage
splashed red in the park
no more the childlike cries of joy
still red, in the dark?
(marie-josépark, molenbeek)
(for justine’s eclectic corner #8, and as instructed, no filters applied)
(not) fresh
“the mountain of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use”
― john steinbeck
(for wordpress weekly photo challenge – fresh)
post (apoc)eclipse clouds*
critical clouds
seagulls swirl, screech in the sky
sun shall shine
(for lucile’s photo rehab)
(shot with nikon d700, nikkor 50mm f/1.4 lens, edited in lightroom 5 and analog efex pro 2, toy camera filter applied, need to laugh)
*please forgive my violent spelling
fresh
“it is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view”
― george eliot
forever looking
rarely seeing
ever was it so, and
shall we ever know
how we can always be looking, without seeing
(for wordpress weekly photo challenge – fresh)
belgianstreets 