“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.”
― Ernest Hemingway
(birminghamstraat, molenbeek)
(for Imagecraft Bootcamp — Intro and First Challenge, by Mitch and Lucile)
(also for Lucile’s photo 101 rehab)
*shot with nikon d700 and nikkor 16-35mm f/4 lens at IS)200, 35mm, 1/250s and f/4.5, edited in lightroom cc*
andy townend 
Niiiice, I like how the background just fades away in the distance.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thanks Mitch…it’s strange how emotions end up unintentionally in a photo…
LikeLike
Beautiful shot Andy – the high key element coveys such nostalgia to me. Love this.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you Desley, must be my frame of mind…
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yes maybe 😊
LikeLiked by 1 person
I dare say you’re the best photographer I’ve seen on the blogs–Brilliant.
LikeLiked by 1 person
It’s really hard to know what to say, other than thank you, which seems utterly inadequate…
LikeLike
Just enjoy the glow, Andy–my words are sincere.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you…
LikeLike
Most welcome.
LikeLiked by 1 person
This has a lovely turn to it Andy. I’m just reading a book about Ernest Hemingway at the moment so your quote jumped out at me too.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you Debbie, which book?
LikeLiked by 1 person
It’s called the Paris Wife (fiction) and was our book cub book for this month. It’s all about his early life with his first wife when they moved to Paris so he could write and although I probably wouldn’t have read it otherwise, it’s quite interesting, although being fiction you have to wonder how much is true.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Must check it out sometime, well they say truth is stranger than fiction?
LikeLiked by 1 person
It is done with perfection, as everything else you do here.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Not all I do, is done with perfection, sadly.
LikeLike
Fortunately not, otherwise how would you ever learn and evolve to better phases?
LikeLiked by 1 person
Lucile, you leave me speechless, in a good way. And a tear in my eye…
LikeLike
If it’s in a good way, I won’t feel miserable for the tear! 😉
LikeLiked by 1 person
On this occasion, in a good way…
LikeLike
Better!
LikeLiked by 1 person