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afloat

“yes,” said eeyore,

one of those would be just the thing

thank you, pooh”

― a.a. milne, the house at pooh corner

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                         afloat, i let my mind drift
    the ground below me, afloat
                         afloat, i needed not a lift
                                but oh my, how could my chair be
afloat

(henegouwenkaai, molenbeek)

(for wordpress weekly photo challenge – afloat)

afloat on belgradestreets

afloat with andytownend

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tram (point of view)

“there are no facts, only interpretations”
― friedrich nietzsche

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(tram maintenance workshop, edingenstraat, molenbeek)

(for tech of the month – point of view via lucile’s photo 101 rehab and perelincolors)

*shot with nikon d700 and nikkor 16-35mm f/4 lens at 19mm, 1/800s at f/4, edited in lightroom 5 with full contrast and structure filter applied in silver efex pro2, the trams missed me*

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walking with the dead (again)

“there is a place in the heart that
will never be filled
and

we will wait
and
wait

in that space”

– charles bukowski

shouldn’t we care more

about those

who go

before?

(derelict columbarium, begraafplaats van molenbeek)

(for lucile’s photo 101 rehab)

*shot with nikon d700, nikkor 16-35mm f/4 lens, all images shot at f/4, edited in lightroom 5, wet plate filter 9 applied in analog efex pro 2, wondering why they have been left like this*

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basiliek

“is man merely a mistake of god’s?
or god merely a mistake of man?”
― friedrich nietzsche

once more, I have no words

(nationale basiliek van het heilig hart te koekelberg, brüssel)


*shot with nikon d700, nikkor 16-35mm lens, all at f/4, some cropped in lightroom 5, otherwise no edits, faith no more*

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blur

“watch the world spinning gently out of time”

– lyrics from “out of time” by blur

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empty table, street in gent

(for wordpress weekly photo challenge – blur)

blur on andytownend

blur on belgradestreets

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end

“one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead”

― graham greene

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tick tock, don’t look back

tick tock, can’t look back

tick tock, time to close

tick tock, where’s my rose

tick tock, is this it

tick tock, this is

the

end

(for mara’s poetry 101 rehab  – end)

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(more) ephemeral

“though not dead
I know how the flowers felt”

― robert frost

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           when time stands still
and the drops hang still
                       time to take a pill?

(for wordpress weekly photo challenge – ephemeral)

(and for lucile’s photo rehab)

*shot with nikon d700, nikkor 50mm f/1.4 lens, 1/125 sec, f/5.0, edited in lightroom 5 and analog efex pro 2, multilens filter applied*

ephemeral on belgradestreets

ephemeral on andytownend

ephemeral on belgianstreets

(more) ephemeral on belgianstreets

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post (apoc)eclipse clouds*

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critical clouds

seagulls swirl, screech in the sky

sun shall shine

(for lucile’s photo rehab)

(shot with nikon d700, nikkor 50mm f/1.4 lens, edited in lightroom 5 and analog efex pro 2, toy camera filter applied, need to laugh) 

*please forgive my violent spelling

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fresh

“it is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view”

― george eliot

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forever looking

rarely seeing

ever was it so, and

shall we ever know

how we can always be looking, without seeing

(for wordpress weekly photo challenge – fresh)

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shooting (the moon)

“darkness cannot drive out darkness
only light can do that”

― martin luther king jr

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partial eclipse over molenbeek

for lucile’s photo rehab

* with nikon d700, nikkor 50mm f/1.4 lens, edited in lightroom 5 and silver efex pro 2*