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a day of terror?

‘everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism
well, there’s really an easy way: stop participating in it’
― noam chomsky

Waiting
Running away?
Backs
Out of service
Empty
The West is closed
7/7 – Not today
Closed and wet
Grid
Armoured
Sprayed
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Ghost bus
Hit to the core
M&S not today
Taped
En guerre
Reflection
More armour
Even more armour
Central
Table by the window?
Any chance of a table for ten?
Truckin’
Making news
Selfie terror
Check in
Blue light zone
Bussed off
Yet more closure

today

in

brussel

(see also http://andytownend.com/2015/11/21/twentyfour/ )

(submitted to lucile’s photo101rehab)
*shot with nikon d700 and nikkor 50mm f/1.4 lens and edited in lightroom cc*

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trio

‘what i tell you three times is true’
― lewis carroll, the hunting of the snark

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ever met a snark?

even, in belgium?

didn’t think so

(for wordpress weekly photo challenge – trio and lucile’s photo101rehab)

(a trio from me

andytownend.com

belgianstreets.com

belgradestreets.com)

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boundaries

‘A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached. In other words, it is questions with no answers that set the limit of human possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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(for breendonk, concentration camp, willebroek, belgië)

(for DP weekly photo challenge – boundaries and for lucile’s photo 101 rehab)

*shot with nikon d700 and nikkor 70-200mm f/4 lens at ISO5600, 1/125s at f/4, edited in lightroom cc and analog efex pro 2, reflection on boundaries that should never have been crossed*

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a walk in the woods

“I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

(woods near tervuren, walking and thinking)

*shot with nikon d700 and nikkor 50mm f/1.4 lens, will you remember?*

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change

“stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing…”
― maya angelou

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(tram 44, montgomery)

(for daily post weekly photo challenge – change)

*shot with nikon d700 and nikkor 50mm f/1.4 lens at ISO200, 1/125s and f/2.0, edited in lightroom cc with wet plate filter applied with analogue efex pro 2*

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shooting people (cycling)

“Oh, to just grip your handlebars and lay down to it, and go ripping and tearing through streets and road…”
– Jack London

(elsene and molenbeek, brussel, belgië)

Once a year, the streets of Brussel close to motorised traffic, well except for buses, taxis and people who think they know better.

And then, well then, the people take to the streets by cycle, scooter and board.

(for lucile’s photo 101 rehab)

*shot with nikon d700 and nikkor af-s 50mm f/1.4 lens all at f/1.4 time flies*

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from every (well three) angle(s)

“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

(scaffolding, city 2 shopping centre, nieuwstraat, brussel)

(for wordpress dp weekly photo challenge – from every angle)

(and for lucile’s photo 101 rehab)

*shot with nikon d700 and nikkor af-s 70-200mm f/4 lens at f/4 and ISO200, scaffolding supplied separately*

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exposed

“we’re reaching for death
on the end of a candle
we’re trying for something
that’s already found us”
― jim morrison

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My second response to “Tech of the month: Long Exposure” hosted by the peerless perelincolors and lucile de godoy.

I set out with high hopes for this shoot.

However, I never was a Boy Scout, and so, sadly, I was not as well prepared as I should have been.

I took the metro from Weststation to Centraal. Lugging my camera bag and my tripod, full of expectation.

I fought through the crowds of tourists, flower fanciers and all those musical hipsters, to reach the Grote Markt, set up my tripod, hoping not to be moved on by the Politie fearing I was assembling a weapon of presumed mass destruction.

I found a suitable spot, fiddled with my settings, and found a rhythm.

And then, my battery expired.

So, I share these photos as a humble experiment, in anticipation of another opportunity.

*shot with nikon d700, nikkor 16-35mm f/4 lens, lightcraft workshop nd500 filter, manual setting, exposed at ‘bulb’ with Nikon MC-36 remote, should have ordered a new battery charger…*

(also submitted to lucile’s photo 101 rehab)

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shooting people (less fortunate)

“I was too used to being fortunate, and didn’t try to understand those less fortunate. Too used to being healthy, and didn’t try to understand the pain of those who weren’t.” ― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

(people, on the street of brüssel)

(for lucile’s photo 101 rehab)

*all shot with nikon d700 and nikkor 70-200mm f/4 lens, edited in aperture 3 and silver efex pro 2, makes me think*

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half / half

“jump and let’s build our wings on the way down”
― ray bradbury

(parachutist, brussels air museum)

(for dp weekly photo challenge, half and half)

(and for lucile’s photo 101 rehab)

*shot with nikon d700 and nikkor 70-200mm f/4 lens at at 200mm, ISO2500, f/4 and 1/125s, edited in lightroom cc, square crop to show half face, original image flipped horizontally, in two minds*