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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

barred
gated
cabinet
piped
scribbled
garaged
stacked
entrance
prisons
77

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)

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longing and loneliness

“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

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*

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transition

“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

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*

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screaming (on the metro)

“your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry”

― friedrich nietzsche

silent scream

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*

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shooting people (at the supermarket)

“soon, what was tedious was everything
beautiful things, they’re so tedious!”

― marcel proust, sodom and gomorrah

spotted in the supermarket

spotted in the supermarket

live to

eat

or

eat to

live?

(carrefour, auderghem)