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photography101: street

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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

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La butte du Lion

“Listen up – there’s no war that will end all wars.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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Man at La butte Du Lion oblivious to the battle raging behind him.

NaBloPoMo 2 of 30

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descent

“I am the way into eternal pain,
I am the way to go among the lost.”

– Dante Alighieri, Inferno

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This is my contribution to the latest Weekly Photo Challenge from The Daily Post at WordPress.

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doel

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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?

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cover art

just imagine if bono had been born in brussel

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This is my contribution to the latest Weekly Photo Challenge from The Daily Post at WordPress.

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cogs in the machine

“We were all of us cogs in a great machine which sometimes rolled forward, nobody knew where, sometimes backwards, nobody knew why.”

― Ernst Toller

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refraction

“Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted”

― Shelley

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This is my contribution to the latest Weekly Photo Challenge from The Daily Post at WordPress.

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signs

“One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

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This is my contribution to the latest Weekly Photo Challenge from The Daily Post at WordPress.

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caravane culturelle syrienne

A “pop up” street gallery, Syrian art in the heart of Brussel.

The caravan is touring various parts of Europe revealing, through art and engagement, the life of the people suffering behind the scenes.

Images blowing in the wind need little explanation.

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bells

“…and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee…”

—Donne, Meditation XVII[17]