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express (yourself)

“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

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)

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unbound

“the sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue”

― james joyce, ulysses

brewed bottled brüssel

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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grime in the corner

“he who has a garden and a library wants for nothing”

― marcus tullius cicero

caught short

caught short

urban grime

grit and crime

boy in the

corner

taking his

time

(garden in rue hector denis, ixelles, brüssel)

(for 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, fake mannekin pis(sing) in corner*

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serenity

“do your work, then step back
the only path to serenity”

― lao tzu

puff the magic dragon...

puff the magic dragon…

no one believes

no where to park

light me

be me

serenity

(wordpress weekly photo challenge, serenity)

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changing (seasons) #01

“in the depth of winter
i finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer”

― albert camus

seasons

change

lives

change

if

we

dare

(birminghamstraat, anderlecht, brüssel)

(for the monthly photo challenge named the changing seasons, which will run from the 7th to the 15th day of the month throughout the year, hosted by Cardinal Guzman)

*shot with nikon d700 with nikkor 50mm f/1.4 lens, edited in aperture 3 and color efex pro 4, bleach bypass filter*

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against (the wall)

“when everything seem to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it”

― henry ford

fight back

fight back

and then

the most amazing thing

happens

you

fly

high

(birminghamstraat, anderlecht, brüssel)

*for lucile’s photo101 rehab, shot with nikon d700, edited in aperture 3 and silver efex pro 2, full contrast and structure filter, big open heart*

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protect (me)

“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

protect and survive

protect and survive

justine has challenged us again to present a photo and invite you to guess what

so, here is

my

thinly

veiled

take on

protection

(for justine’s eclectic corner , guessing game #4)

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barred

“only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these”

― t.s. eliot

that's a lot of iron

that’s a lot of iron

through the

iron

bars

he saw

another reality

in his stars

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metro (renovate and walk away)

“can a man of perception respect himself at all?”

― fyodor dostoyevsky, notes from underground

walking away

walking away

cross the line

cross the line

walking away (again)

walking away (again)

lost shoes

lost shoes

dark and grimy

ticket, buy me?

lost directions

walk away

and find me

(kunst-wet, metro station, brüssel)

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(over)shadowed

“i thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow”

― sylvia plath, the bell jar

over shadowed

over shadowed

overshadowed

by events

people

in the shadow

alone

but not low

(kerstmarkt, beurs, brüssel)

(for wordpress weekly photo challenge, shadowed)