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fly past

“The Guide says there is an art to flying”, said Ford, “or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

(above Birminghamstraat, Molenbeek)

sometimes when you’re feeling down

it pays to look up

i literally just took these shots

watching them circling up

and flying away

to who knows where

i hope, they find their

place

(for lucile’s photo 101 rehab)

*shot with nikon d700 and af-s nikkor 70-200mm f/4 lens at f/4, ISO200, and with hope*

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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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exposed

“we’re reaching for death
on the end of a candle
we’re trying for something
that’s already found us”
― jim morrison

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My second response to “Tech of the month: Long Exposure” hosted by the peerless perelincolors and lucile de godoy.

I set out with high hopes for this shoot.

However, I never was a Boy Scout, and so, sadly, I was not as well prepared as I should have been.

I took the metro from Weststation to Centraal. Lugging my camera bag and my tripod, full of expectation.

I fought through the crowds of tourists, flower fanciers and all those musical hipsters, to reach the Grote Markt, set up my tripod, hoping not to be moved on by the Politie fearing I was assembling a weapon of presumed mass destruction.

I found a suitable spot, fiddled with my settings, and found a rhythm.

And then, my battery expired.

So, I share these photos as a humble experiment, in anticipation of another opportunity.

*shot with nikon d700, nikkor 16-35mm f/4 lens, lightcraft workshop nd500 filter, manual setting, exposed at ‘bulb’ with Nikon MC-36 remote, should have ordered a new battery charger…*

(also submitted to lucile’s photo 101 rehab)

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shooting people (less fortunate)

“I was too used to being fortunate, and didn’t try to understand those less fortunate. Too used to being healthy, and didn’t try to understand the pain of those who weren’t.” ― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

(people, on the street of brüssel)

(for lucile’s photo 101 rehab)

*all shot with nikon d700 and nikkor 70-200mm f/4 lens, edited in aperture 3 and silver efex pro 2, makes me think*

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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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breendonk

To read about it is one thing. To see, is another.

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“Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.”
― Primo Levi

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(fort breendonk, willebroek, belgië)

*shot with nikon d700 and nikkor 70-200mm f/4 lens at various settings, edited through a veil of tears in lightroom cc and silver efex pro 2*

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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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off season

“for the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them”
― aristotle, the nicomachean ethics

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(ecole de cirque de bruxelles, rue Picard 11, bruxelles)

(for wordpress weekly photo challenge – off season)
(and for lucile’s photo 101 rehab)

*shot with nikon d700 and nikkor 70-300mm f/4.0-5.6 lens at 210mm, ISO320, 1/60s at f/4.8, edited in lightroom cc and silver efex pro 2, she didn’t fall, off season*

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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