“One fine day I’m gonna be the one
To make you understand”
– Spencer Davis Group
Keep on running
It’s not about me.
It’s about him.
The guy in the photo.
He’s doing.
What I should be doing.
So.
My contribution to this week’s Weekly Photo Challenge from The Daily Post at WordPress.
Eyes wide open, trying to see.
Water running overhead.
Faint electrical hum.
Whiff of decay.
Shiver runs down my spine as I extend my finger.
NaBloPoMo 14 of 30 – photography101:10
My response to today’s theme on #photo101 was a spider’s web captured in a window frame in the abandoned polder village of Doel.
The main target for my camera yesterday was the graffiti which covers almost every vertical surface in Doel.
So as an extra #photo101 contribution this evening, here is a short slide show featuring the (un) natural world of Doel…
And for those having trouble seeing the slideshow on mobile devices here are the images…
caught in a web
“Our task must be to free ourselves… by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it’s beauty.”
― Albert Einstein
I became entangled with this web yesterday as I made a second visit to the abandoned polder town of Doel, of which more later…
NaBloPoMo 12 of 30 – photography101:8
I must admit I did not go out and take this photo this morning in direct response to today’s landmark theme.
However, in my defence 😉 I took it just over a week ago at a famous local landmark and in taking the shot I wanted to capture a different angle. So, I think that probably both excuses me and fits the brief?
I was struck by how the line of people clambering up the monument looked like ants climbing along the ridge.
Taken at La butte du Lion, Waterloo 1815.
NaBloPoMo 11 of 30 – photography101:7
A bridge, a table, a meeting over coffee.
Connect.
Captured, edited and published on my phone.
Connected world.
NaBloPoMo 10 of 30 – photography101:6
“Nothing in the world is worth turning one’s back on what one loves.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague
An aside from the rigour of #photo101
An image captured on my iPhone and edited with Snapseed. Sometimes it is therapeutic to simply go with the flow…
NaBloPoMo 9 of 30
A second response to the photo101 “weekend homework”
I came across this sculpture in a hollow in the park in the centre of Brussel close to the Palace.
Faded and run down but alluring…
This time some colour in my photos.
Le me know what you think and have a great weekend!
Now time for a glass of wine 😉
…footnote
After a little digging around on the web I have discovered that the statue is “La Madeleine repentante (1779) de Jérôme Duquesnoy repose dans une grotte artificielle dans le fond du parc.”
The woody hollow itself is a throwback to an ancient valley that predates the construction of the park. In September 1830 Dutch soldiers were trapped and defeated here by revolutionaries. The place was closed to the public throughout the second half of the 19th Century and even today has an eerie and unsettling atmosphere…
After a week, of “playing safe” and submitting shots from my archive to meet the daily themes, I decided it was time I “got with the program” and took some shots in direct response to the theme, this time the weekend “homework”.
So, armed with my wide angle lens, I took these shots from the balcony of my apartment in the heart of Brussel.
My goal? To experiment with composition and framing, vertical and horizontal, and to try to break free from my usual reluctance to “go wide”.
I plan to experiment more this weekend…
Would love to hear what you think?
In response to some of the feedack I received, I thought I would share the original colour images…
My contribution to this week’s Weekly Photo Challenge from The Daily Post at WordPress.
NaBloPoMo 8 of 30
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