“it began in the selfish and cruel wish to make your heart ache for me without letting mine ache for you”
― thomas hardy, jude the obscure
captivated?
cold streets
window treats
cruel
fool?
(for lucile’s The Clinic – Photo Rehab)
*shot with nikon d700, (over) edited with aperture 3, photoshop cc (layers and lots of button pressing), color efex pro 4, window shopping in elsene, cold heart*
“to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality”
– john ruskin
(a)symmetry
why
wired
in
when
you
could, be
free?
(hector denisstraat, elsene)
(for wordpress weekly photo challenge, symmetry)
(and lucile’s The Clinic – Photo Rehab)
*shot with nikon d700, edited in aperture 3, analog efex pro 2, double exposure filter and silver efex pro 2, life in transition, building site*
“winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance”
― yoko ono
persevere,
grow
don’t
feel
low
(tenboschpark, hector denisstraat, elsene)
*shot with nikon d700 with nikkor 50mm f/1.4 lens, edited in aperture 3 and color efex pro 4, bleach bypass filter, a walk on the wildside*
“dolls with no little girls around to mind them were sort of creepy under any conditions”
― stephen king, desperation
scaled down people
scale(d) down
versions of
us
what do they
think,
when they
blink?
(street market, leopoldplein, elsene)
(for wordpress weekly photo challenge, scale and lucile’s the clinic – photo rehab)
*shot with iphone5, edited in aperture 3 and analog efex pro 2, double exposure filter applied, distorted take on challenge*
“a lot of suffering over little things beyond what you think”
― gabriel garcía márquez, one hundred years of solitude
laugh
in the
face
of adversity
life is, for
the
living!
(for lucile’s the clinic – photo rehab)
*video shot on iphone5, edited in iMovie, heart in mouth*
“there are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer, then there’s never more than one”
― c. s. lewis, that hideous strength
(new) rooftops
gritty, urban
views
scudding clouds
not
suburban
dues
(rooftop, birminghamstraat, molenbeek)
(for lucile’s photo101rehab)
*shot with iphone5, edited with aperture 3, analog efex pro, wet plate filter, new horizons*
“besides, I seemed to hold two lives – the life of thought, and that of reality”
― charlotte brontë, villette
hold, that
thought
is it
what you
thought
or maybe
you, ought?
(for lucile’s photo101rehab)
*shot with iphone5, edited with aperture 3, analog efex pro, double exposure feature, blurred vision*
“i want something else now, something warm and sheltering, something I can turn to, regardless of what I do, regardless of who I become, something that will just be there, always, like tomorrow’s sky”
― kazuo ishiguro, when we were orphans
preservatif
protect and survive
justine recently challenged us to present a photo and invite you to guess what it is.
My entry, the photo is featured above, was protect (me)
My photo was a cropped image of a large mural, painted on a wall in a narrow street in the heart of Brüssel, near the Grote Markt, I am not sure of the exact story but it does speak about gay rights, solidarity, and preservatifs (condoms). So, I thought it fitted the theme set by Justine quite snugly?
It was fun to see you guessing what it might be:
Justine thought it might be a cardboard home, a shelter for people on the street. Not a bad guess in some ways.
Mara felt it implied a room of one’s own. If a room of one’s own offers protection then that would also be a good guess.
desleyjane was intrigued by an artifact in the corner and then figured it was a book cover, well the cover part came close I guess?
Albert amusingly thought it might be graffiti on an airplane, and also thought he saw a fingerprint. I’m wondering what he was drinking or smoking?
(for justine’s eclectic corner , guessing game #4)
“some things are hard to write about…
something happens to you…
at any rate, you never write it quite the way you want to”
― sylvia plath, the unabridged journals
fingered
do you
sometimes
have you
at times
wanted to
and
could, you?
(window shopping, brüssel)
*iphone5, edited in aperture 3 and analog efex pro 2, wetplate filter, finger raised in anger*
(for wordpress weekly photo challenge, express yourself, and lucile’s photo101rehab)
“the sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue”
― james joyce, ulysses
brewed bottled brüssel
bound
unbound
beer
what fear
you,
dear?
(for justine’s latest tea party and lucile’s photo101 rehab clinic #2)
*shot with nikon d700, 50mm f/1.4 lens, edited in aperture 3, analog efex pro 2 with wet plate filter, beers lined up*
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