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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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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*

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door

“…and he has never given up his conviction that if you just try all the doors one of them is bound to be the door into summer” 

― robert a heinlein

(caravelle, brussels air museum)

(for wordpress dp photo challenge – door)

*shot with nikon d700 and nikkor 70-200mm f/4 lens at ISO250, f/4 and 1/125s, no edits, father and son face the future through a flight into the past*

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roy g. biv

“where does the rainbow end, in your soul or on the horizon?” ― pablo neruda, the book of questions

didgeridoo

didgeridoo

an unexpected slice of indigenous australia on the canal side in brugge, belgië

(for wordpress weekly photo challenge – roy g. biv) *shot with nikon d700 with nikkor 85mm f/1.8 lens at ISO200, f/10 and 1/400s, slightly cropped in lightroom cc, no additional edits, tie me kangaroo down, mate?*

(also for lucile’s photo 101 rehab )

roygbiv from andytownend

roygbiv on belgradestreets

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vivid

“into this world we’re thrown”
– riders on the storm, the doors
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right now

riders on the storm

right over brussel

“the world on you depends…”

(for wordpress weekly photo challenge – vivid)

*shot with nikon d700, nikkor 70-200m f/4 lens at 1/320s, f/9 and ISO200, edited in lightroom cc and analog efex pro 2, nature involved, and the doors…*

vivid from andytownend

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broken

“part broken – part whole, you begin again”
― jeanette winterson

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(derelict factory, birminghamstraat, molenbeek)

broken
broke
bro
br
b

(for wordpress weekly photo challenge – broken)

*shot with  nikon d700 and nikkor 50mm f/1.4 lens using ISO200, f/5.6 and 1/125s, edited in lightroom cc and analog efex pro 2 with wet plate filer applied, no ball games allowed*

broken by andytownend

broken on belgradestreets

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grazing

“i felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery air, mountains, trees, people
i thought, “this is what it is to be happy”
― sylvia plath, the bell jar

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(la ferme du parc maximilien, brüssel)

a happy sheep

and not a peep

from the traffic

that never sleeps

(for wordpress weekly photo challenge – forces of nature)

*shot with nikon d700, nikkor 70-300mm f/4.0-5.6 lens at 250mm, 1/250s and f/8, imported into lightroom cc and not edited at all, green in tooth and claw*

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intricate

“whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting”
― haruki murakami

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(park, ninoofsesteenweg, molenbeek)

(for wordpress weekly photo challenge – intricate)

*shot with nikon d700,  nikkor  50mm f/1.4 lens, exposed at 1/200s and f/7.1, edited in lightroom cc and  silver efex pro 2 with ilford delta 3200 pro filter, should have used the real thing*

an intricate (eye) from andytownend
intricate on belgradestreets

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motion

“a sudden blow: the great wings beating still”

leda and the swan, w b yeats

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canal trip, brugge

(for wordpress weekly photo challenge – motion)

*shot with nikon d700, nikkor 70-300mm f/4.0-5.6 lens at 190mm, 1/400s at f/10, edited in lightroom cc and analog efex pro 2, wet filter applied, wet wings also featured*