Photography

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(good) friday

“christmas and easter can be subjects for poetry, but good friday, like auschwitz, cannot. the reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith” 

― w h auden

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begraafplaats van laken, brüssel

(for lucile’s photo 101 rehab)

*shot with nikon d700, nikkor 16-35mm f/4 lens set at 35mm, 1/125s and f/5.6, edited in lightroom 5, silver efex pro2 with full contrast and structure filter applied and with double exposure filter overlaid in analog efex pro 2, stumbling blocks a plenty*

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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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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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splashed red

“every person has their own colour”

― haruki murakami, colorless tsukuru tazaki and his years of pilgrimage

splashed red in the park

no more the childlike cries of joy

still red, in the dark?

(marie-josépark, molenbeek)

(for justine’s eclectic corner #8, and as instructed, no filters applied)

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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)