“champagne and benzedrine
never again”
― ian fleming, moonraker
bubbling over
over coming
not all over
over, to you
come
on
over
(for justine’s tea party #9)
Images
afloat
“yes,” said eeyore,
“one of those would be just the thing
thank you, pooh”
― a.a. milne, the house at pooh corner
afloat, i let my mind drift
the ground below me, afloat
afloat, i needed not a lift
but oh my, how could my chair be
afloat
(henegouwenkaai, molenbeek)
(for wordpress weekly photo challenge – afloat)
afloat on belgradestreets
afloat with andytownend
tram (point of view)
“there are no facts, only interpretations”
― friedrich nietzsche
(tram maintenance workshop, edingenstraat, molenbeek)
(for tech of the month – point of view via lucile’s photo 101 rehab and perelincolors)
*shot with nikon d700 and nikkor 16-35mm f/4 lens at 19mm, 1/800s at f/4, edited in lightroom 5 with full contrast and structure filter applied in silver efex pro2, the trams missed me*
blur
“watch the world spinning gently out of time”
– lyrics from “out of time” by blur
empty table, street in gent
(for wordpress weekly photo challenge – blur)
(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”
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*
end
“one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead”
― graham greene
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)
(more) ephemeral
“though not dead
I know how the flowers felt”
― robert frost
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
ephemeral
“we only pass everything by
like a transposition of air”
― rainer maria rilke, duino elegies
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
gandhi
“happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony”
― mahatma gandhi
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*
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)
belgianstreets 