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photography101: landmark

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I must admit I did not go out and take this photo this morning in direct response to today’s landmark theme.

However, in my defence 😉 I took it just over a week ago at a famous local landmark and in taking the shot I wanted to capture a different angle. So, I think that probably both excuses me and fits the brief?

I was struck by how the line of people clambering up the monument looked like ants climbing along the ridge.

Taken at La butte du Lion, Waterloo 1815.

NaBloPoMo 11 of 30 – photography101:7

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My contribution to this week’s Weekly Photo Challenge from The Daily Post at WordPress.

NaBloPoMo 8 of 30

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photography101: solitude

Alone

Thoughts, once I cared.

“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
― Aldous Huxley

NaBloPoMo 7 of 30 – photography101:5

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photography101: bliss

Beseeching

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

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photography101: water

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“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

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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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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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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.