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“Nothing in the world is worth turning one’s back on what one loves.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

An aside from the rigour of #photo101

An image captured on my iPhone and edited with Snapseed. Sometimes it is therapeutic to simply go with the flow…

NaBloPoMo 9 of 30

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My contribution to this week’s Weekly Photo Challenge from The Daily Post at WordPress.

NaBloPoMo 8 of 30

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photography101: solitude

Alone

Thoughts, once I cared.

“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
― Aldous Huxley

NaBloPoMo 7 of 30 – photography101:5

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photography101: bliss

Beseeching

I am listening…

“Of all the conceptions of pure bliss that people and poets have dreamed of, listening to the harmony of the spheres always seemed to me the highest and most intense.”
– Hesse

From martelaars plein.

NaBloPoMo 6 of 30 – photography101:4

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photography101: water

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“They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.”

― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

Fountain in the square.

La Roche en Ardenne, Belgium.

NaBloPoMo 5 of 30 – photography101:3

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photography101: street

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My second contribution to the WordPress Photography 101 course has been a challenge…

My photos here on belgianstreets and on belgradestreets tend to focus on details, the things we might miss as we go about our busy lives.

So, the challenge to capture an establishing shot put me out of my comfort zone. And that, I guess, is part of the appeal of Photography 101! 😉

Under time pressure today, I have chosen an existing photo which captures my neighborhood and the people who live here. Oh, and their obsession with cycling!

This wide city street in the heart of Brussel, jammed with cars during the week, was, on the day I took this shot, closed to all traffic except those on bicycles.

You can see the original post here car(e)free.

NaBloPoMo 4 of 30 – photography101:2

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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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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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30 days on belgianstreets

thank you to all who visited belgianstreets during November 2013

each day I posted an image as a contribution to NaBloPoMo

hope you continue to join me as I explore the streets of belgium….

you may also like to check out my blog featuring the streets of Belgrade

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a collage of each of the 30 posts for NaBloPoMo