photo101

poetry 101 rehab: found

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she found that, as though broken

about everything beautiful, nothing mattered

as she looked, over the bridge

her young body, quivered

as she thought about attempting the leap

or showing him the door

wanting freedom, or imaginary rights

it was sad beyond belief

good, not ever had she imagined

regions of death, would

be found to break her

(for mara’s poetry 101 rehab – found)

*the words in italics are the last three words of the first ten of the longer stories included in the random house / vintage collection of the complete short stories by kafka*

project 365 mobile | mono | square | week 1

| andy townend
empty table
both ends
#omlegging
podium
anti mosquito
bright idea
B+W haze

On Sunday, 14 June 2015, I launched my Project 365.

You can see all the images as they are posted to the mobile | mono | square album on my flickr account.

My plan, let’s see if I can stick to this, is to post a weekly update here each Sunday.

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roygbiv

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(the cook’s companion – the complete book of ingredients and recipes for the australian kitchen – stephanie alexander)

red cooked pig’s tripe with ginger (page 977)

orange sorbet with tokay (page 653)

yellow beans (page 140)

green papaya and peanut salad (page 986-7)

blue eye cutlets with cumin (page 459)

indian inspired spice paste for small birds (page 814)

violet oon’s chilli lobster (page 873)

(for wordpress weekly photo challenge – roy g biv)

(and for  lucile’s photo 101 rehab)

*shot right now with nikon d700 and nikkor 70-200mm f/4 lens at 145mm, ISO6400, f/4 and 1/125s, no edits, no indigo food in index* 

roygbiv on belgianstreets

roygbiv on belgradestreets

project 365 mobile | mono | square

| andy townend

mobile | mono | square

starting today, project 365

mobile | mono | square

on flickr

with updates here from time to time

(inspired by project(s) 365 from amy and mara)

 

 

off season

Image | | andy townend

“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*

enveloped

Image | | andy townend 
“i was enveloped in numbness, and absence of feeling so deep the bottom was lost from view”
― haruki murakami, the wind-up bird chronicle
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            enveloped in pain
                             by something that knows
                      no name
                             don't give it house room
            turn up the
                                               volume
            and just
                                                                                          dance

(for wordpress weekly photo challenge – enveloped)

*shot with nikon d700, nikkor 70-200m f/4 lens at 1/250s and f/8, no edits*

poetry 101 rehab: recycle

Image | | andy townend

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real world in trouble
everyone lives in a bubble
does any one care about the trouble
under so much rubble
can it really be so much trouble
eventually -
real world in trouble
everyone lives in a bubble
under so much rubble
so, are we really in trouble
eventually -
real world in trouble
everyone lives in a bubble
can it really be so much trouble
yes, they will burst our bubble
can it really be so much trouble
look out, I told you, they’re really gonna burst our bubble
eventually -

 

(for mara’s poetry 101 rehab – recycle)

*shot with iphone 5, edited in snapseed mobile,  adverbs reduced, reused and recycled*

poetry 101 rehab: couple

Image | | andy townend

couple_poem

(nijverheidskaai, molenbeek)

(for mara eastern’s poetry 101 rehab – couple)

*shot with nikon d700, nikkor 70-300 mm f/4.0-5.6 lens at 300mm, 1/320s and f/9, edited in lightroom cc, aperture efex pro 2 with multi lens filter applied, poem added in photoshop cc, no couples were harmed in the making of this post*

intricate (eye)

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                        “the soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye” 
                                                                                                           ― charlotte brontë, jane eyre

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(eye -bar restaurant, ijpromenade 1, amsterdam)

(for wordpress weekly photo challenge – intricate)

(also for lucile’s photo101 rehab, with thanks…)

*shot with nikon d700, nikkor 50mm f/1.4 lens at 1/250s and f/8, edited in lightroom cc and silver efex pro 2, eye’s left*

intricate on belgianstreets

intricate on belgianstreets