CHILDHOOD’S END

 

“Childhood is a promise that is never kept.”

 

~ Ken Hill ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Fouras, France in June 2006.

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SILENT MOVIES

 

“When you see a silent movie, you understand everything that’s going on

from the images because the images are so strong.”

 

~ Monica Bellucci ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2018.

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ALIVENESS

 

“There are no inanimate objects…”

 

~ Barbara Grizutti Harrison ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in September 2017.

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BAGAGES

 

“Never be a prisoner of your past,

it was just a lesson, not a life sentence…”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in the Cimetiere du Pere–Lachaise in Paris in May 2015.

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EPITAPH

 

“Confusion will be my epitaph, 

As I crawl a cracked and broken path…”

 

~ King Crimson ~

(Lake, Giles, Fripp, Sinfield, Mcdonald)

 

 

Original photo taken in Fouras, France in June 1981.

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THIRTEEN LIVES

 

“…the time…the time, all that time gone by,

all the memories faded, forever lost,

but wait, i have a photograph…”

 

 

Original photo taken in Rochefort, France in the Spring of 1961.

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ROCHEFORT

 

“There are two lasting bequests we can give our children:

one is roots, the other is wings.”

 

~ Hodding Carter ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Rochefort, France in June 2006.

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ONLY LOSERS

 

“And in today already walks tomorrow.”

 

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~

 

Original photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2016.

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THE GHOST OF CHILDHOOD’S END

 

“Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights,

before the dark hour of reason grows.”

 

~ John Betjeman ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2016.

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YOU AND ME AND RICE CAKES

 

“The child I was
is just one breath away from me.”

 

~ Sheniz Janmohamed ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken at Le Loiret à Olivet, France in January 2017.

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LE VISAGE

 

“Pleasure is the flower that passes;

remembrance, the lasting perfume.”

 

~ Jean de Boufflers ~

 

Digital image created in January 2017.

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A PLACE OF HIS OWN

 

“Home is not a place, it is a feeling.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Fouras, France in June 2006.

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MOON

 

“Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.”

 

~ Allen Ginsberg ~

 

 

Macro-photograph of a small fragment of a meteorite, composed of lunar material ejected into space billions of years ago when the moon was struck by an asteroid, taken in October 2016. From the author’s personal collection.

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THE TREES DANCE

 

“To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
An eternity in an hour.”

 

~ William Blake ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Fouras, France in May 1981 .

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TIME TRAIPSING

 

“I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life,

what had been my childhood dream.”

 

~ Andrew Wiles ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Les Eyzies, France in June 2006.

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JUVENESCENCE

 

“The childhood shows the man
As morning shows the day.”

 

~ John Milton ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in 1981.

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SAFELY SACRED

 

“…it begins with isolation –

demons always inhabit desolate places…”

 

~ John Geddes ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken at Matala, Crete in October 1992.

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CHILDHOOD’S SUNSET

 

 

“Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.”

Richard Paul Evans ~ The Gift

 

 

Photo taken in Fouras, France with a Pentax 110 format SLR camera in 1981.

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