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basiliek

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

shining through
reddened
she is
crossed out
crucified
draped
eliptical
confessed
pipe dream
clasped
screaming in hell
glowing
stilted

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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ephemeral

“we only pass everything by

like a transposition of air”

― rainer maria rilke, duino elegies

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childish screams of joy

oh for that long lost toy

the look in her eyes

as she rocked her thighs

remember the sighs?

(childrens’ playground, marie-josépark, molenbeek)

(for wordpress weekly photo challenge – ephemeral)

ephemeral on belgradestreets

ephemeral on andytownend

ephemeral on belgianstreets

(more) ephemeral on belgianstreets

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gandhi

“happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony”

― mahatma gandhi

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Statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Parc Marie-José, Joseph Baecklaan, 1080 Molenbeek-Saint-Jean.

I will not attempt to add words to those of this inspirational man.

How could I?

(for lucile’s photo rehab)

*shot with nikon d700, nikkor 50mm f/1.4 lens, iso 200, 1/200 sec at f/7.1, an experiment in posting a photo with no edits*

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(not) fresh

“the mountain of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use”

― john steinbeck

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(for wordpress weekly photo challenge – fresh)

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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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misty (ambiguity)

“all veils and misty…” – mystify, inxs

once, when

they worked

here

they thought

it would

always

be, but

it wasn’t, to be

(edmond bonehillstraat, molenbeek)

*shot with nikon d700, nikkor 16-35mm f/4 lens, edited in aperture 3, silver ex pro 2 and analog ex pro 2, mistily ambiguous*

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wall

“gray hair is god’s graffiti”

― bill cosby

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only a

stone’s throw away, from

this colour,

there lie

things to turn your

hair

white, not

gray

(rue du champ de l’eglise, laeken)

(for wordpress weekly photo challenge – wall)

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jupiler

“poets are shameless with their experiences
they exploit them”

― friedrich nietzsche

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oh jupiler

wherefore art thou jupiler?

on the shelf perhaps

one too many, then, collapse

another, jupiler?

(a quick one for justine’s tea party #7)