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photography101: home

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This is my first contribution to the WordPress Photography 101 challenge. Each day a different theme is presented to participants to help each of us learn and build.

The theme today, “Home”.

Where is it?

There are many definitions and opinions, physical, whimsical, sentimental, romantic, religious, philosophical.

Places, relationships, the people we love and care for.

Perhaps the real place we can call home is deep down inside ourselves, that part of us that makes us who we are. The place to which we return when we press our own virtual “home” button.

A part that is not shaped by the outside, by others.

A place where we can simply be.

Where we can close our eyes, shut out the noise and light and reflect.

Home.

NaBloPoMo 3 of 30 – photography101:1

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La butte du Lion

“Listen up – there’s no war that will end all wars.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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Man at La butte Du Lion oblivious to the battle raging behind him.

NaBloPoMo 2 of 30

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hallerbos

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In Spring these woods host an ethereal carpet of bluebells.

Today, on a warm Autumn afternoon, I chose to lose the colour.

Trees.

Forests.

Places to lose oneself for a moment.

Stop.

Look.

Listen.

Breathe.

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I have signed up for the Wordpress Photography 101 course which runs through November.

I will also post a photo a day as part of NaBloPoMo, November 2014.  This is a taster.

Gazing up through the trees in Hallerbos.

NaBloPoMo 1 of 30

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descent

“I am the way into eternal pain,
I am the way to go among the lost.”

– Dante Alighieri, Inferno

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This is my contribution to the latest Weekly Photo Challenge from The Daily Post at WordPress.

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doel

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Unexpected.

Probably one of the most photographed places, off the beaten tourist trail, in Belgium.

A tale of corporate morals, failed vision, spirited resistance, brutality.

People still live here.

The rest of us, with our cameras, watch and wonder, or worse.

Doel.

A nightmare in the middle of prosperity.

Progress?

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cover art

just imagine if bono had been born in brussel

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This is my contribution to the latest Weekly Photo Challenge from The Daily Post at WordPress.

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cogs in the machine

“We were all of us cogs in a great machine which sometimes rolled forward, nobody knew where, sometimes backwards, nobody knew why.”

― Ernst Toller

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refraction

“Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted”

― Shelley

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This is my contribution to the latest Weekly Photo Challenge from The Daily Post at WordPress.

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signs

“One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

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This is my contribution to the latest Weekly Photo Challenge from The Daily Post at WordPress.