“horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people ”
― w.c. fields
(miles away from where you are)
(for Imagecraft Bootcamp — Low Key Images, by Mitch and Lucile)
(also for Lucile’s photo 101 rehab)
*shot with nikon d700 and nikkor 50mm f/1.4 lens at ISO200, 1/8000s and f/2.5, edited in lightroom cc and DXO Film Pack 4, no horses were harmed during the course of this edit*
“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*
"all the robots descend from the bus" - daft punk is playing in my house, lcd soundsystem
(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
Awakening from the unending nightmare.
Head pounding, eyes on fire.
Mouth dry.
Vision blurred. His memory worse.
The blow to the head.
The smell of damp earth.
The memory of a pair of sneakers that seemed so disturbingly familiar.
Reaching out. Cold wire, sharp and unyielding.
He was locked
in.
(my first of five posts in response to a very kind nomination for the “five photos / five stories black and white challenge” from desleyjane and for the “black and white challenge” from albert
(and inspired by a dreadful awakening)
(oh, and as my first nomination, I’d like to invite cardinal guzman to share more of this…)
*shot with nikon d700, edited in aperture 3, analog efex pro 2 double exposure filter and converted to mono with silver ex pro 2, disbelief suspended*
“if you ever see a symmetrical human face, you will have the impression that you ought to think it beautiful, but that in fact you find it cold
the human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry”
― louis de bernières, captain corelli’s mandolin
jagged lines
curved line
to
the
heart?
(for wordpress weekly photo challenge, symmetry)
(and lucile’s The Clinic – Photo Rehab)
*shot with nikon d700, edited in aperture 3, analog efex pro 2, double exposure filter and silver efex pro 2, warm heart, cold hands, standing in middle of road*
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”
― lao tzu
there is
only one road
the one you choose
to take
choose wisely and
don’t
look back
(and for a little extra local colour do read this from Mara Eastern)
(a new blog, a new beginning, a new life… posted for WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge “New”)
“Do you drink? Of course, I just said I was a writer”
― Stephen King
do all the empty
bottles
fill
all those
empty
pages?
(in response to Justine’s challenge to join her tea party)
*shot with nikon d700, edited with aperture 3 and color efex pro 4, bleach bypass filter, look at all those empty bottles*
andy townend 