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
“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
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
“Listen up – there’s no war that will end all wars.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
Man at La butte Du Lion oblivious to the battle raging behind him.
NaBloPoMo 2 of 30
In Spring these woods host an ethereal carpet of bluebells.
Today, on a warm Autumn afternoon, I chose to lose the colour.
Trees.
Forests.
Places to lose oneself for a moment.
Stop.
Look.
Listen.
Breathe.
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
“I am the way into eternal pain,
I am the way to go among the lost.”
– Dante Alighieri, Inferno
This is my contribution to the latest Weekly Photo Challenge from The Daily Post at WordPress.
Unexpected.
Probably one of the most photographed places, off the beaten tourist trail, in Belgium.
A tale of corporate morals, failed vision, spirited resistance, brutality.
People still live here.
The rest of us, with our cameras, watch and wonder, or worse.
Doel.
A nightmare in the middle of prosperity.
Progress?
just imagine if bono had been born in brussel
This is my contribution to the latest Weekly Photo Challenge from The Daily Post at WordPress.
“We were all of us cogs in a great machine which sometimes rolled forward, nobody knew where, sometimes backwards, nobody knew why.”
― Ernst Toller
belgianstreets 