“stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing…”
― maya angelou
(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*
“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*
“we’re reaching for death
on the end of a candle
we’re trying for something
that’s already found us”
― jim morrison
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)
“a sudden blow: the great wings beating still”
leda and the swan, w b yeats
canal trip, brugge
(for wordpress weekly photo challenge – motion)
*shot with nikon d700, nikkor 70-300mm f/4.0-5.6 lens at 190mm, 1/400s at f/10, edited in lightroom cc and analog efex pro 2, wet filter applied, wet wings also featured*
“if they think at all–that these things are too obvious to think about, just as I used to do (or not do)”
― haruki murakami, the wind-up bird chronicle
park metro station, brüssel
(inspired by mara eastern’s just thursday blog hop)
“there is a place in the heart that
will never be filled
and
we will wait
and
wait
in that space”
– charles bukowski
shouldn’t we care more
about those
who go
before?
(derelict columbarium, begraafplaats van molenbeek)
(for lucile’s photo 101 rehab)
*shot with nikon d700, nikkor 16-35mm f/4 lens, all images shot at f/4, edited in lightroom 5, wet plate filter 9 applied in analog efex pro 2, wondering why they have been left like this*
“all veils and misty…” – mystify, inxs
once, when
they worked
here
they thought
it would
always
be, but
it wasn’t, to be
(edmond bonehillstraat, molenbeek)
*shot with nikon d700, nikkor 16-35mm f/4 lens, edited in aperture 3, silver ex pro 2 and analog ex pro 2, mistily ambiguous*
“i’ve had my fun and now it’s time to serve your conscience overseas”
follow me, don’t follow me
oh
rage
and for what,
never again?
go
elucidate
(for wordpress weekly photo challenge – orange)
“dolls with no little girls around to mind them were sort of creepy under any conditions”
― stephen king, desperation
scaled down people
scale(d) down
versions of
us
what do they
think,
when they
blink?
(street market, leopoldplein, elsene)
(for wordpress weekly photo challenge, scale and lucile’s the clinic – photo rehab)
*shot with iphone5, edited in aperture 3 and analog efex pro 2, double exposure filter applied, distorted take on challenge*
“a lot of suffering over little things beyond what you think”
― gabriel garcía márquez, one hundred years of solitude
laugh
in the
face
of adversity
life is, for
the
living!
(for lucile’s the clinic – photo rehab)
*video shot on iphone5, edited in iMovie, heart in mouth*
belgianstreets 