“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)
“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*
“and now we welcome the new year
full of things that have never been”
― rainer maria rilke
bridging east and west
once
i said
i will walk that bridge to
see
what is on the other
side
and then
i did
(for wordpress weekly photo challenge, new and Justine’s third eclectic corner, resolution)
“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*
“what is your advice to young writers?
drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes”
― charles bukowski, hot water music
fire truck
is there
a better way
to wake
than to the smell of smoke
and see
firemen
through opaque
eyes?
(apartment building fire, elsene, brussel)
*shot with iphone 5, edited with photoshop cc, analog ex pro 2, smoke in my eyes*
“it is not enough that we do our best
sometimes we must do what is required”
― winston s churchill
decide, act
and don’t stop
whatever lies in your path
seize the day
live and
love
(snowstorm, autobahn, germany)
justine’s eclectic corner #3 resolution
*shot with iPhone 5, edited with snapseed mobile app, snow and driving involved, do not try this at home, inspired by mara eastern*
“people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf”
― george orwell
politie
swaggering
leather
buttoned up
and bothering?
(politie, rue neuve, brussel)
*shot with nikon d700, edited with aperture 3, desaturated leaving blue in place using photoshop cc and inspiration from mara eastern*
“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*
belgianstreets 