“i thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow”
― sylvia plath, the bell jar
over shadowed
overshadowed
by events
people
in the shadow
alone
but not low
(kerstmarkt, beurs, brüssel)
(for wordpress weekly photo challenge, shadowed)
“to want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain
and then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!”
― virginia woolf, to the lighthouse
missed chance
hands in
pockets
face turned aside
he
tied his
shoelace
she
died inside
(bus stop, luxemburgplein, brüssel)
*shot with iphone5, edited with aperture 3, analog efex pro2, wet plate filter, inspired by Mara*
“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
passing by
can you
change
or
will it be
too
strange?
(troon > naamsepoort, metro, brüssel)
*shot with iPhone 5, edited with aperture 3, analog efex pro2, wet plate filter, changing fast*
“your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry”
― friedrich nietzsche
silent scream
time to end
the silent screaming
time to
cry
and live (and love)
(naamsepoort, metro, brüssel)
*shot with iPhone 5, edited with aperture 3, desaturated leaving red in place using photoshop cc, silently screaming*
“soon, what was tedious was everything
beautiful things, they’re so tedious!”
― marcel proust, sodom and gomorrah
spotted in the supermarket
live to
eat
or
eat to
live?
(carrefour, auderghem)
“we never live
we are always in the expectation of living”
― voltaire
why?
do they need
it
do they know
that queueing
is not
living?
(queue outside primark, rue neuve, brüssel)
*shot with nikon d700, edited with aperture 3 and silver efex pro 2, sense of humour required*
“what is your advice to young writers?
drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes”
― charles bukowski, hot water music
fire truck
is there
a better way
to wake
than to the smell of smoke
and see
firemen
through opaque
eyes?
(apartment building fire, elsene, brussel)
*shot with iphone 5, edited with photoshop cc, analog ex pro 2, smoke in my eyes*
“people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf”
― george orwell
politie
swaggering
leather
buttoned up
and bothering?
(politie, rue neuve, brussel)
*shot with nikon d700, edited with aperture 3, desaturated leaving blue in place using photoshop cc and inspiration from mara eastern*
“i’ll never wake up in a good mood again
i’m tired of these stinky boots”
― jim morrison,
sleep well?
presents under the tree
too much to drink
what is real
do you feel?
(homeless person’s bed, eu parliament, place luxembourg, brussel)
*shot with nikon d700, edited with aperture 3, silver efex pro 2 and analog efex pro 4, wet plate filer, absence of sentimentality*
“you want her, you can’t have her
you want to, but she won’t let you”
auf achse
wasted
lives
wanting
life
but dare
they?
(bus, centraal station, brussel)
*shot with iPhone 5, edited with aperture 3, analogue efex pro 2, wet plate filter, scrooge mode*
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