“summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance”
– yoko ono
(birminghamstraat, molenbeek)
(for the monthly photo challenge named the changing seasons, which runs from the 7th to the 15th day of each month throughout the year, hosted by Cardinal Guzman)
*shot with iphone 5, slightly cropped in lightroom cc, summer struggling
“…and he has never given up his conviction that if you just try all the doors one of them is bound to be the door into summer”
― robert a heinlein
(caravelle, brussels air museum)
(for wordpress dp photo challenge – door)
*shot with nikon d700 and nikkor 70-200mm f/4 lens at ISO250, f/4 and 1/125s, no edits, father and son face the future through a flight into the past*
“…the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind”
― friedrich nietzsche
(birminghamstraat, molenbeek)
(for the monthly photo challenge named the changing seasons, which runs from the 7th to the 15th day of each month throughout the year, hosted by Cardinal Guzman)
*shot with nikon d700, nikkor 70-200mm f/4 lens, tweaked in lightroom 5, summer coming*
“part broken – part whole, you begin again”
― jeanette winterson
(derelict factory, birminghamstraat, molenbeek)
broken
broke
bro
br
b
(for wordpress weekly photo challenge – broken)
*shot with nikon d700 and nikkor 50mm f/1.4 lens using ISO200, f/5.6 and 1/125s, edited in lightroom cc and analog efex pro 2 with wet plate filer applied, no ball games allowed*
broken by andytownend
broken on belgradestreets
“love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy”
― paulo coelho
(birminghamstraat, molenbeek)
(for the monthly photo challenge named the changing seasons, which runs from the 7th to the 15th day of each month throughout the year, hosted by Cardinal Guzman)
*shot with nikon d700, nikkor 50mm f/1.4 lens, (not) edited in lightroom 5, and yes, it rains a bit in belgië*
“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)
“what a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms”
― kobayashi issa
(birminghamstraat, molenbeek)
(for the monthly photo challenge named the changing seasons, which runs from the 7th to the 15th day of each month throughout the year, hosted by Cardinal Guzman)
*shot with nikon d700, nikkor 16-35mm f/4 lens, edited in lightroom 5, added camera vivid v4 setting, spring appears to have commenced*
“yes,” said eeyore,
“one of those would be just the thing
thank you, pooh”
― a.a. milne, the house at pooh corner
afloat, i let my mind drift
the ground below me, afloat
afloat, i needed not a lift
but oh my, how could my chair be
afloat
(henegouwenkaai, molenbeek)
(for wordpress weekly photo challenge – afloat)
afloat on belgradestreets
afloat with andytownend
“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*
“christmas and easter can be subjects for poetry, but good friday, like auschwitz, cannot. the reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith”
begraafplaats van laken, brüssel
(for lucile’s photo 101 rehab)
*shot with nikon d700, nikkor 16-35mm f/4 lens set at 35mm, 1/125s and f/5.6, edited in lightroom 5, silver efex pro2 with full contrast and structure filter applied and with double exposure filter overlaid in analog efex pro 2, stumbling blocks a plenty*
belgianstreets 