“how relieved, how eased, the whole world suddenly became!
how the great questions all simplified themselves at the same instant—did you feel it?”
― aleksandr solzhenitsyn, the gulag archipelago 1918-1956
pouring it all out
in brussel
amid the hustle and bustle
is this
relief
or
what
*restaurant, near grote markt, brussel*
*shot with nikon d700, edited with aperture 3 and analog efex pro 2, sense of humour required*
“if you’re not haunted by something
as by a dream, a vision, or a memory, which are involuntary
you’re not interested or even involved”
― jack kerouac, book of sketches
staring back
flayed
fragmented fears
flash
by
*kruidtuin, metro, brussel*
*shot with iPhone5, edited analog efex pro 2 to cover up horribly blurred shot through metro window, wet plate filter*
“maybe that’s why i’m partly yellow
it’s no excuse, though
it really isn’t
what you should be is not yellow at all”
– j d salinger, the catcher in the rye
frites with your cabbage?
(belgian frites, magdalenastwg, brussel)
*shot with iPhone 5, edited in Aperture 3, applied black and white filter then brushed colour back in to add a pop of yellow, cabbage smoke inspired*
‘as if you have a choice”
– run, snow patrol
through a veil of tears
the city wakes
day breaks
(rooftops through raindrops, elsene)
*shot with iPhone 5, mobile snapseed app*
“i’m waiting, for what, my kind of people, what kind is that, i can tell my kind of people by their faces, by something in their faces”
― ayn rand
(warandepark, brussel)
*shot with nikon d700, old and battered 70-300mm lens, processed with aperture 3, silver ex pro 2, full contrast and structure filter*
“maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other”
― john steinbeck, of mice and men
(troon metro, brussel)
*shot with iPhone 5, processed with Aperture 3 and Silver Efex Pro 2*
“nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road”
― jack kerouac, on the road
blurred vision
stop go stop go time to go
rearrangement required
(R0, Zaventem)
*shot with iPhone 5, processed with mobile Snapseed app*
“…you must change your life…”
― rainer maria rilke
photograph rain
constrain pain
remain sane
(rooftops, elsene, brussel)
*shot with nikon d700, processed in aperture 3 and silver efex pro 2, full contrast and structure filter, staining the art of poetry*
“…each drop of rain is my failed life weeping in nature”
– fernando pessoa, the book of disquiet
(rooftops, elsene, brussel)
*shot with nikon d700, processed in aperture 3 and silver efex pro 2, full contrast and structure filter, totally neglected to focus the shot*
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