“we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning”
― charles bukowski, the pleasures of the damned
spotted?
empty streets
standing looking
have you
a
booking?
(smoking man, ketje, place luxembourg, brussel)
*shot with nikon d700, edited with aperture 3, silver efex pro 2*
“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*
“and one by one the nights between our separated cities
are joined to the night that unites us”
― pablo neruda
the boy
for all those who, today, are separated from those they love
and
for this boy, in particular
pain and anger do not last for ever
strength, hope, can be found in surprising places
the thing
is to do
the right
thing
and for the boy
in the photo
know you are loved and
always will be
(the boy, grote markt, brussel)
*shot with nikon d700, edited with aperture 3, blurred with photoshop cc to protect the innocent*
“you are what you do, not what you say you’ll do”
― c.g. jung
spotted?
when
i wanted
what i want
it was
not
this
(kerstmarkt, beurs, brussel)
*shot with nikon d700, edited with aperture 3, silver efex pro 2, full contrast and structure filter, didn’t touch a drop, ok a glass?*
“how relieved, how eased, the whole world suddenly became!
how the great questions all simplified themselves at the same instant—did you feel it?”
― aleksandr solzhenitsyn, the gulag archipelago 1918-1956
pouring it all out
in brussel
amid the hustle and bustle
is this
relief
or
what
*restaurant, near grote markt, brussel*
*shot with nikon d700, edited with aperture 3 and analog efex pro 2, sense of humour required*
“i’ll write to you
a super-long letter
like in an old-fashioned novel”
― haruki murakami, after dark
far away
fingers flying
willing words
to
exist
*my friend lucile from lucile de godoy | bridging lacunas has challenged me to join in the 5-day b&w photo challenge, where I must post a black and white photo each day for 5 days and nominate someone else to join the challenge, today i’d like to invite my friend mike from mikeosbornphoto, to join the challenge with us*
*grote markt, brussel, for b&w 4:5*
*shot with nikon d700, edited in aperture 3, silver efex pro 2 and analog efex pro 2, wet plate filter*
“for a while” is a phrase whose length can’t be measured
at least by the person who’s waiting”
― haruki murakami, south of the border, west of the sun
waiting
would you wait
for whom
how long
and why
*my friend lucile from lucile de godoy | bridging lacunas has challenged me to join in the 5-day b&w photo challenge, where I must post a black and white photo each day for 5 days and nominate someone else to join the challenge, today i’d like to invite my friend john from life photography and other mistakes, to join the challenge with us*
*frederik de merodestraat , mechelen, for b&w 3:5*
*shot with iPhone 5, edited in aperture 3 and silver efex pro 2*
“the human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments
what’s left of kisses?
wounds, however, leave scars”
― Bertolt Brecht
never before, and then
her skin soft, his fingers searching
her lips open, wanting
they kissed
and
became
*my friend lucile from lucile de godoy | bridging lacunas has challenged me to join in the 5-day b&w photo challenge, where I must post a black and white photo each day for 5 days and nominate someone else to join the challenge, today i’d like to invite Albert (aka nty6x) from passionately curious, to join the challenge with us*
*sculpture, la roche en ardenne, for b&w 2:5*
*shot with nikon d700, edited in aperture 3 and silver efex pro 2*
only if
only if
you need
only if
you want
only if
you know
*my friend lucile from lucile de godoy | bridging lacunas has challenged me to join in the 5-day b&w photo challenge, where I must post a black and white photo each day for 5 days and nominate someone else to join the challenge, today i’d like to invite mitch zeissler from Exploratorius, whom I compared to Ansel Adams during #photo101, to join the challenge with us*
*doel, graffiti for b&w 1:5*
*shot with nikon d700, edited in aperture 3 and silver efex pro 2, silouhette filter*
“the devil pulls the strings which make us dance
we find delight in the most loathsome things
some furtherance of hell each new day brings
and yet we feel no horror in that rank advance”
– charles baudelaire
the devil inside
painted on a wall
rampaging, pillaging, corrupting
external terror
the darkness
in our hearts?
(graffiti, doel)
*shot with nikon d700, edited in aperture 3 and analog efex pro 2, wet plate filter, dark heart*
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