off season

“It’s big and it’s bland, full of tension and fear.
They do it over there but we don’t do it here.”
lyrics from “fashion” by david bowie

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off season

low season

unseason(able)

off season / in need

(for wordpress weekly photo challenge – off season)

*shot with nikon d700 and nikkor 70-200mm f/4 lens at 135mm, ISO200, 1/200s at f/7.1, second hand dreams*

poetry 101 rehab: away

away

(for mara’s poetry 101 rehab – away)

*written on macbook air using iawriter pro, screen shot using skitch, image processed in analog efex pro 2, no camera involved, so fly me away*

vivid

                                     "all the robots descend from the bus" - daft punk is playing in my house, lcd soundsystem
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(city of london, window dressing)

(for wordpress weekly photo challenge – vivid)
*shot with nikon d700, nikkor 70-200mm f/4 lens at 200mm, ISO450, 1/125s and f/4, edited in lightroom cc and color efex pro 4, who’s playing in your house?*

vivid on belgianstreets

perspective

“windows are the eyes of the soulless”
 ― thomas ligotti, the nightmare factory

how big was your bonus?

could you afford this week’s groceries?

on whom is the onus?

to ease,

their miseries?

(for justine’s eclectic corner)

*shot with nikon d700 and nikkor 70-200mm f/4 lens, irony lost*

poetry 101 rehab: rubbish

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in rubbish bins

we hide our sins

press down the lid

keep it well hid

oh, what would they say

those silent bins

if they could speak

of

our

sins

(for mara’s poetry 101 rehab – rubbish)

*shot with nikon d700 and nikkor 70-200mm f/4 lens at ISO200, 70mm, 1/125s and f/5.6, no edits, three silent bins*

on the way

                                    "we are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side” ― kahlil gibran
 
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(street art, covered passage off denisova, olomouc)

twists and turns

false paths and blind alleys

fate turns

so, when on the way

there really is just one

way

and it is right in front of

you

(for wordpress weekly photo challenge – on the way)

*shot with nikon d700, nikkor 50mm f/1.4 lens at ISO200, 1/60s and f/2.2, edited in lightroom cc, the way is clear”

on the way on belgianstreets

on the way on belgradestreets

poetry 101 rehab: skin

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skin

skin of mine

skin of mine, and his

skin of mine and his, and so now, yours

skin of mine

skin of yours

skin tight

hold tight

to what is, yours

(for mara’s poetry 101 rehab – skin)

broken

broken promises
broken promises

(for wordpress weekly photo challenge – broken)

*shot with nikon d700 and 85mm f/1.8 lens at ISO200, 1/200s and f/7.1 edited in lightroom cc and photoshop cc with words written in iA Writer Pro, promises promises*

broken on belgianstreets

broken on belgradestreets

poetry 101 rehab: dark

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dark
                                 long night
                        night crawling dark thoughts
                     thoughts spawned dark endless night
                  night terror cracked dark gnarled fingers
                fingers slithering scraping grasping fingers
                  fingers gnarled dark cracked terror night
                     night endless dark spawned thoughts
                        thoughts dark crawling night
                                 night long
                                                                   dark


(for mara’s poetry 101 rehab – dark)

*shot with nikon d700 and nikkor 70-200mm f/4 lens at 70mm, ISO200, 1/250s and f/8.0, edited in lightroom cc and analog efex pro 2, wet plate filter applied, fingers over eyes*