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changing (seasons) #11 or, ‘change is the only constant’

‘life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes*
don’t resist them
that only creates sorrow
let reality be reality
let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like’
― lao tzu

coked
contra’d
dropped
trampled
dumped
extended
numbered (77)
barred
locked
pressed
spotted
blowed
abandoned
clouded
pruned

(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 and also for Lucile’s photo101rehab)

shot with nikon d700 and nikkor 50mm f/1.4 lens slightly tweaked in lightroom cc, change is the only constant** 

*eminem – going through changes (official music video) via youtube

**heraclitus of ephesos

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changing (seasons) #10; or, ‘what do i care’

‘and the trees are stripped bare
of all they wear
what do I care’

lyrics from october by U2

still growing
leaves falling
green crossing
framed building
seventyseven surviving
wet railing
pole crossing
leaves cascading
paid parking
empty seating
brasserie lighting
wheel leaning
canon tipping
graffiti parking
wet crossing
balcony dripping

(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 and nikkor 50mm f/1.4 lens slightly cropped in lightroom cc with added “punch”, oh, and i do care really, a lot* 

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imagecraft bootcamp – keystoning

This post is a response to the tough new challenge from Mitch Zeissler, Imagecraft Bootcamp, which is hosted on his own site Exploratorius and on Lucile’s bridging lacunas.

My original image was shot with my Nikon D700 with Nikkor 16-35mm f/4 lens set at 16mm, ISO 3600, 1/125s and f/4. The image was a ‘throw away’ from a set of images I captured for a previous post (the) walking (with the) dead

My intention was to focus on the stone table and funerary urn at the back of the shot. The images below show how I progressed from the original untidy image to the image that I wanted.

Of course, had I attached my 70-200mm zoom in the first place then I might have captured the same thing in camera.

But it’s the taking part that counts, right?

original

original untouched in lightroom cc library

lightroom lens correction adjustments

lightroom cc lens correction adjustments with some cropping

photoshop perspective crop

photoshop cc perspective crop

wet filter applied in analog efex pro 2

wet filter applied in analog efex pro 2

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a walk in the woods

“I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

(woods near tervuren, walking and thinking)

*shot with nikon d700 and nikkor 50mm f/1.4 lens, will you remember?*

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change

“stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing…”
― maya angelou

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(tram 44, montgomery)

(for daily post weekly photo challenge – change)

*shot with nikon d700 and nikkor 50mm f/1.4 lens at ISO200, 1/125s and f/2.0, edited in lightroom cc with wet plate filter applied with analogue efex pro 2*

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shooting people (cycling)

“Oh, to just grip your handlebars and lay down to it, and go ripping and tearing through streets and road…”
– Jack London

(elsene and molenbeek, brussel, belgië)

Once a year, the streets of Brussel close to motorised traffic, well except for buses, taxis and people who think they know better.

And then, well then, the people take to the streets by cycle, scooter and board.

(for lucile’s photo 101 rehab)

*shot with nikon d700 and nikkor af-s 50mm f/1.4 lens all at f/1.4 time flies*

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changing (seasons) #09; or, ‘wake me up when september ends’

‘summer has come and passed
the innocent can never last
wake me up when september ends’
– lyrics from wake me up when september ends, by green day

reflected
contre(d)
demolished
greened
crossed
barred
converged
fenced
framed
gekleurd
finished
emptied
hidden (seventyseven)
browned
gated

(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 and nikkor 50mm f/1.4 lens slightly cropped in lightroom cc with added “punch”, oh, and wake me up when it’s over* 

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from every (well three) angle(s)

“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

(scaffolding, city 2 shopping centre, nieuwstraat, brussel)

(for wordpress dp weekly photo challenge – from every angle)

(and for lucile’s photo 101 rehab)

*shot with nikon d700 and nikkor af-s 70-200mm f/4 lens at f/4 and ISO200, scaffolding supplied separately*

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changing (seasons) #08

“a fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got”
― william faulkner, light in august

directions
windows
rages
leaves
barriers
seventy seven
berries
demolitions
grasses
footsteps

(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 and nikkor 16-35mm f/4 lens all at f/4, slightly cropped in lightroom cc, august already

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exposed

“we’re reaching for death
on the end of a candle
we’re trying for something
that’s already found us”
― jim morrison

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My second response to “Tech of the month: Long Exposure” hosted by the peerless perelincolors and lucile de godoy.

I set out with high hopes for this shoot.

However, I never was a Boy Scout, and so, sadly, I was not as well prepared as I should have been.

I took the metro from Weststation to Centraal. Lugging my camera bag and my tripod, full of expectation.

I fought through the crowds of tourists, flower fanciers and all those musical hipsters, to reach the Grote Markt, set up my tripod, hoping not to be moved on by the Politie fearing I was assembling a weapon of presumed mass destruction.

I found a suitable spot, fiddled with my settings, and found a rhythm.

And then, my battery expired.

So, I share these photos as a humble experiment, in anticipation of another opportunity.

*shot with nikon d700, nikkor 16-35mm f/4 lens, lightcraft workshop nd500 filter, manual setting, exposed at ‘bulb’ with Nikon MC-36 remote, should have ordered a new battery charger…*

(also submitted to lucile’s photo 101 rehab)