“You can’t have a light without a dark to stick it in.”
~ Arlo Guthrie ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2020.
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Posts Tagged With: Darkness
death and cobwebs
“When you bring the light into your dark house,
that is when you see the cobwebs and spiders.”
~ Rajneesh ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Afterlife, Assholes, Bigotry, Charlatans, Cobwebs, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dust, Farce, Flag, Irrationality, Life, Memories, Mouths, Mystery, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Prophet, Relevance, Religion, Resurrection, Shadows, Throats, Time
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laughs in your face
“Five to one, baby, one in five, no one here gets out alive…”
~ Jim Morrison
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2019.
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catshadow
“At night all cats are grey.”
~ French proverb ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2022.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Back, Bristled, Cat, Clawed, Comfort, Corners, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Familiarity, Life, Night, Padded, Paws, Perception, Perfection, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadow, Silence, Street, Twisted, Whisker
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larmes de bleu
“It is such a secret place, the land of tears.”
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2019.
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l’ombre de la mort
“Life itself is but the shadow of death,
and souls departed but the shadows of the living.”
~ Thomas Browne ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Birth, Companion, Conception, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Fate, Future, Hourglass, Life, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadow, Time
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like the moon
“The eye is always caught by light,
but shadows have more to say.”
~ Gregory Maguire ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Dark Side, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Labyrinth, Life, Moon, Night, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Street Art
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be we
“There is no darkness but ignorance.”
~ William Shakespeare ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the early 1980’s.
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empires
“We’re doomed to repeat the past no matter what.
That’s what it is to be alive.”
~ Kurt Vonnegut ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Pompeii in June 1996.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Breath, Crumble, Curse, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Empires, Foundations, Future, History, Ignorance, Lessons, Life, Mankind, Memories, Past, Perspective, Photography, Plundering, Poetry, Proud, Rot, Rubble, Ruins, Strong, Stupidity, Survivors, Tall, Tides, Time, Walls, Wreckage
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can’t see the forest for the irony
“It’s an artist’s right to rebel against the world’s stupidity.”
~ E. A. Bucchianeri
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Absurdity, Air, Annihilation, Carbon Dioxide, Consequences, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Forest, Green, Irony, Life, Money, Oxygen, Path, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poor, Profit, Progress, Rich, Trees, Wood
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serious moonlight
“Let’s sway under the moonlight, this serious moonlight…”
~ David Bowie ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2021.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Bone, Branches, Carpet, Corners, Darkness, Demons, Depression, Devils, Digital Imagery, Fool, Full Moon, Isolation, Killing Floor, Monsters, Moon, Moonlight, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Unholy, Window
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shiny black adjectives
“Life is a verb, not a noun.”
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2012.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Adjectives, Alley, Asphalt, Cobbles, Confidence, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Emptiness, Movement, Mystery, Night, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rhythm, Shadows, Sihlouettes, Street, Symphony, Syntax, Verbs
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gray
“A gray day provides the best light.”
~ Leonardo da Vinci ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2010.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Autumn, Breezes, Colour, Darkness, Days, Digital Imagery, Gradients, Gravestone, Gray, Landscapes, Life, Mountains, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rain, Shadows, Summer, Time, Vistas, Wind, Windows
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scripture
“The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles.
Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.”
~ Carl Sagan ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Avenues, Blood, Breezes, Cement, Cobbles, Cold, Corners, Cracks, Dancing, Darkness, Death, Demons, Digital Imagery, Document, Ice, Leaves, Life, Light, Night, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Preserve, Resurrection, Rooftop, Rumours, Scripture, Season, Semen, Shadows, Sisters, Slime, Snow, Spice, Stars, Streets, Tea, Towels, Trowels, Vowels, Wine
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a matter of attraction
“A living speck – the merest dab of life – capable of pleasure and pain,
is far more interesting to me than all the immensities of mere matter.”
~ Jean Henri Fabre ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Attraction, Beauty, Bed, Ceiling, Clouds, Coagulate, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Dust, Imagination, Interstellar Space, Law, Life, Matter, Perspective, Photography, Physiscs, Poetry, Solidify, Time, Wonder
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le penseur
“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”
~ Voltaire ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Absurdity, Art, Avarice, Awareness, Beauty, Compassion, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Enlightenment, Fools, Future, History, Idiots, Ignorance, Knowledge, Lemmings, Life, Literature, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Progress, Propaganda, Science, Shadows, Stupidity, Thinking, Time, Transition, Wisdom
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the girl with a candle
“Look at how a single candle can
both defy and define the darkness.”
~ Anne Frank ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in August 2017.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Autumn, Candle, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Flame, Girl, Heart, Life, Love, Memory, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows
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all this paradise
“Think of what a paradise this world would be
if men were kind and wise.”
~ Kurt Vonnegut ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Awareness, Compassion, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Ears, Emotions, Empathy, Eyes, Generosity, Heart, Kindness, Life, Love, Nightmare, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Trees, Understanding, Warmth
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golden fleece
“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.”
~ Anne Sexton ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2012.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Alleys, Blood, Creature, Darkness, Dawn, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Golden Fleece, Hours, Life, Memories, Night, Nightmares, No Quarter, Paralyzed, Paris, Past, Peace, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pools, Rain, Search, Shadows, Streets, Vomit
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overkill
“Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues.”
~ Albert Collins ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Blues, Bombs, Breasts, Breath, Chaos, Circles, Corner, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Distress, Extreme Unction, Finger, Glasses, Life, Madness, Mess, Milk, Neck, Neglect, Overkill, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Purple, Scene, Shadows, Spirals, Virgin Birth
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