“he who has a garden and a library wants for nothing”
― marcus tullius cicero
caught short
urban grime
grit and crime
boy in the
corner
taking his
time
(garden in rue hector denis, ixelles, brüssel)
(for lucile’s photo101 rehab clinic #2)
*shot with nikon d700, 50mm f/1.4 lens, edited in aperture 3, analog efex pro 2 with wet plate filter, fake mannekin pis(sing) in corner*
“do your work, then step back
the only path to serenity”
― lao tzu
puff the magic dragon…
no one believes
no where to park
light me
be me
serenity
(wordpress weekly photo challenge, serenity)
“when everything seem to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it”
― henry ford
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*
“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
through the
iron
bars
he saw
another reality
in his stars
“can a man of perception respect himself at all?”
― fyodor dostoyevsky, notes from underground
walking away
cross the line
walking away (again)
lost shoes
dark and grimy
ticket, buy me?
lost directions
walk away
and find me
(kunst-wet, metro station, brüssel)
“i thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow”
― sylvia plath, the bell jar
over shadowed
overshadowed
by events
people
in the shadow
alone
but not low
(kerstmarkt, beurs, brüssel)
(for wordpress weekly photo challenge, shadowed)
“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
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*
“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
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*
“your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry”
― friedrich nietzsche
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*
“we never live
we are always in the expectation of living”
― voltaire
why?
do they need
it
do they know
that queueing
is not
living?
(queue outside primark, rue neuve, brüssel)
*shot with nikon d700, edited with aperture 3 and silver efex pro 2, sense of humour required*
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