“We live along the shores of night, at the edge of the eternal sea.”
~ Jack McDevitt ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2019.
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Photography
ETERNAL NIGHT
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Eternal, Fight, Life, Night, Perspective, Photography, Poetry
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THISTLES AND THORNS
“If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden;
and if it is a thistle, you are fuel for the fire.”
~ Rumi ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2017.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Life, Light, Love, Memory, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sadness, Silence, Song, Sublime, Thistles, Thorns
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WEATHERED
“Our lives are written in disappearing ink.”
~ Michelle Cliff ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in August 2017.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Chapter, Circumstance, Death, Digital Imagery, Impermanence, Life, Nothingness, Obscurity, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Time, Verse, Weathering
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PERSPECTIVE
“Beauty is a delightful prejudice.”
~ Theocritus ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in September 2017.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Art, Artist, Beauty, Combinations, Digital Imagery, Disguises, Form, Perfection, Perspective, Photography, Poetry
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PLEIN LES YEUX
“Shut your eyes and see.”
~ James Joyce ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in September 2017.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Curiousity, Digital Imagery, Energy, Eyeful, Eyes, Lies, Life, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Plein Les Yeux, Poetry, Street Art, Truth, Vision, Windows
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BEES KNEES
“Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.”
~ William Golding ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in September 2017.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Apes, Bees, Capes, Cats, Digital Imagery, Dr. Seuss, Flowers, Happiness, Hats, Honey, Knees, Life, Nature, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Slapp Happy, Street Art
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LAST LEAF
“No one but Night, with tears on her dark face,
watches beside me in this windy place.”
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2017.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Kite-Like, Labyrinths, Leaf, Leaves, Love, Mazes, Mouth, Netherland, Nothingness, Oblivion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Puzzles, Seasons, Voice, Wind, Winter, Words
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ONE CHANCE
“Life is a trick, and you get one chance to learn it.”
~ Terry Pratchett ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in August 2021.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Chance, Death, Digital Imagery, Heart, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry
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THE PAINTER
“Painting is silent poetry.”
~ Plutarch ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art by Gregos taken in Paris in September 2017.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Art, Black, Canvas, Colours, Creativity, Day, Digital Imagery, Gray, Hues, Life, Light, Night, Painting, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Spectrum, Street Art, White
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L’AMOUR EST MORT
“Now you’re just a stranger, with all my secrets.”
~ Charles Dickens ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2014.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Happiness, Heart, Illusion, Lies, Life, Love, Paris, Peace, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Soul, Street Art
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TWO SIDES
“If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.”
~ Baron de Montesquieu ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in the Rue Ortolan in Paris in August 2017.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Conflict, Digital Imagery, Life, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Street Art, Two Sides
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STILLLEBEN
“…life, by definition, is never still.”
~ Kurt Vonnegut ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in August 2021.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Ashes, Atoms, Belief, Conversations, Death, Decanter, Digital Imagery, Distance, Energy, Father, Glass, Life, Mother, Nothingness, Oblivion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Smoke, Space, Time, Vase, Wings
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THE MOVEMENT OF AIR
“A painter paints pictures on canvas.
But musicians paint their pictures on silence.”
~ Leopold Stokowski ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2017.
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TÊTE-À-TÊTES
“L’automne est le silence avant l’hiver.”
“Autumn is the hush before winter.”
~ French Proverb ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2010.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Dream, Earthquakes, Fires, Leaves, Life, Loneliness, Love, Memories, Nightmare, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sadness, Seasons, Slaughter, Storms, Tête-À-Têtes, Tombs, Wind
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LEGACY
“The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.”
~ Nelson Henderson ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2016.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Creativity, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Energy, Hope, Incentive, Kiss, Legacy, Life, Perspective, Photography, Plant, Poetry, Promise, Sun, Survival
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BEAUTIFUL BITCH
“Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.”
~ Dion Boucicault ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2007.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Aspirations, Bitch, Circus, Death, Desires, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Event Horizon, Hopes, Illusions, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Promises, Tent, Time, Visions
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THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
“The world is tired, the year is old,
the faded leaves are glad to die…”
~ Sara Teasdale ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2004.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Autumn, Beauty, Death, Digital Imagery, Illusion, Leaves, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Seasons, Trees
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FLOAT AND FLOW
“To create is divine, to reproduce is human.”
~ Man Ray ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of Man Ray’s “Cadeau” (Edition 1974 number 1214 / 5000) taken in October 2019.
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THE LAST LEAF
“Autumn is the hush before winter.”
~ French Proverb ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2010.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Autumn, Bees, Branches, Death, Digital Imagery, Gray, Leaves, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Seasons, Trees, Wind, Winter
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UNSOILED AND UNSINNED
“What though the rose have prickles, yet ’tis pluck’d.”
~ William Shakespeare ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in August 2021.
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