“I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
(woods near tervuren, walking and thinking)
*shot with nikon d700 and nikkor 50mm f/1.4 lens, will you remember?*
“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*
“The Guide says there is an art to flying”, said Ford, “or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything
(above Birminghamstraat, Molenbeek)
sometimes when you’re feeling down
it pays to look up
i literally just took these shots
watching them circling up
and flying away
to who knows where
i hope, they find their
place
(for lucile’s photo 101 rehab)
*shot with nikon d700 and af-s nikkor 70-200mm f/4 lens at f/4, ISO200, and with hope*
“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*
“is man merely a mistake of god’s?
or god merely a mistake of man?”
― friedrich nietzsche
once more, I have no words
(nationale basiliek van het heilig hart te koekelberg, brüssel)
*shot with nikon d700, nikkor 16-35mm lens, all at f/4, some cropped in lightroom 5, otherwise no edits, faith no more*
critical clouds
seagulls swirl, screech in the sky
sun shall shine
(for lucile’s photo rehab)
(shot with nikon d700, nikkor 50mm f/1.4 lens, edited in lightroom 5 and analog efex pro 2, toy camera filter applied, need to laugh)
*please forgive my violent spelling
“it is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view”
― george eliot
forever looking
rarely seeing
ever was it so, and
shall we ever know
how we can always be looking, without seeing
(for wordpress weekly photo challenge – fresh)
“darkness cannot drive out darkness
only light can do that”
― martin luther king jr
partial eclipse over molenbeek
for lucile’s photo rehab
* with nikon d700, nikkor 50mm f/1.4 lens, edited in lightroom 5 and silver efex pro 2*
“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*
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