“I was too used to being fortunate, and didn’t try to understand those less fortunate. Too used to being healthy, and didn’t try to understand the pain of those who weren’t.” ― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
(people, on the street of brüssel)
(for lucile’s photo 101 rehab)
*all shot with nikon d700 and nikkor 70-200mm f/4 lens, edited in aperture 3 and silver efex pro 2, makes me think*
“jump and let’s build our wings on the way down”
― ray bradbury
(parachutist, brussels air museum)
(for dp weekly photo challenge, half and half)
(and for lucile’s photo 101 rehab)
*shot with nikon d700 and nikkor 70-200mm f/4 lens at at 200mm, ISO2500, f/4 and 1/125s, edited in lightroom cc, square crop to show half face, original image flipped horizontally, in two minds*
“summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance”
– yoko ono
(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 iphone 5, slightly cropped in lightroom cc, summer struggling
“…and he has never given up his conviction that if you just try all the doors one of them is bound to be the door into summer”
― robert a heinlein
(caravelle, brussels air museum)
(for wordpress dp photo challenge – door)
*shot with nikon d700 and nikkor 70-200mm f/4 lens at ISO250, f/4 and 1/125s, no edits, father and son face the future through a flight into the past*
“for the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them”
― aristotle, the nicomachean ethics
(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*
“…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*
“into this world we’re thrown”
– riders on the storm, the doors
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
“part broken – part whole, you begin again”
― jeanette winterson
(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
“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*
“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
(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*
belgianstreets 