Continuing my theme of the last couple of weeks, I ventured out this afternoon with the dual purpose of (1) bagging my 10,000 steps with my red (tangerine) Fitbit, and (2) capturing some optimistic images for this week’s WordPress photo challenge. A few things caught my eye.
As you can see.
And the route I took in search of optimism.
for wordpress weekly photo challenge – optimistic
see also my optimistic thought at andytownend
“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 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*
“If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.”
― Malcolm X
grinding gears and screaming shovels
angry faces
leave no traces
(graffiti, doel)
*shot with Nikon D700, processed with Aperture3, Silver Efex Pro 2, silhouette filter*
“when dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane”
― hermann hesse
fractured
eyes excoriated
by searing light
dissonant doel
dies
(Graffiti, Doel)
*Shot with Nikon D700, processed in Aperture 3 and Silver Efex Pro 2, silhouette filter*
My response to today’s theme on #photo101 was a spider’s web captured in a window frame in the abandoned polder village of Doel.
The main target for my camera yesterday was the graffiti which covers almost every vertical surface in Doel.
So as an extra #photo101 contribution this evening, here is a short slide show featuring the (un) natural world of Doel…
And for those having trouble seeing the slideshow on mobile devices here are the images…
“One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
This is my contribution to the latest Weekly Photo Challenge from The Daily Post at WordPress.
“The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
This is my response to the latest Weekly Photo Challenge from The Daily Post at WordPress.
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