“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.”
~ Carl Sagan ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 1991.
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Posts Tagged With: Destruction
the myth
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Destruction, Digital Imagery, Earth, Environment, Extinction, Humans, Myth, Nature, Perspective, Photography, Planet, Poetry, Species
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now
“Quantum est in rebus inane!”
“How much folly there is in human affairs.”
~ Aulus Persius Flaccus ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Animals, Bees, Birds, Broken Promises, Children, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Fish, Folly, Future, History, Human Folly, Life, Nightmare, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poison, Pollution, Street Art, Symmetry, Time, Trees
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ruines
“Smooth and smiling faces everywhere,
but ruin in their eyes.”
~ Jean-Paul Sartre ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo (detail of the sculptured walls by Louis Leygue in Studio 104 Radio France) taken in Paris in December 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Darkness, Desolation, Destruction, Detritus, Devastation, Digital Imagery, Fragments, Heart, Hypocrisy, Life, Love, Memories, Obstruction, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reason, Rhyme, Ruins, Shadows, Soul
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love your world
“Reality is merely an illusion,
albeit a very persistent one.”
~ Albert Einstein ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art by Kefran taken in Paris in June 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Absurdity, Arrogance, Bigotry, Copulation, Corruption, Darkness, Death, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Distrust, Extinction, Fear, Future, Greed, Hate, History, Humanity, Ignorance, Inequality, Intolerance, Irrationality, Laceration, Lies, Life, Love, Manipulation, Paris, Perversion, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Religion, Slaughter, Street Art, Time, Violence, War
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SO MUCH BETTER WITHOUT US
“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”
~ Edward Abbey ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Air, Animals, Beauty, Birds, Consequences, Death, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Environment, Future, Greed, Ignorance, Isolation, Life, Love, Memories, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pollution, Songs, Spring, Streets, Stupidity, Time, World
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BOVINE SIGHS
“Cows are gentle, interesting animals.”
~ Ingrid Newkirk ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in September 1991.
© 2019 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Animals, Beast, Bovine, Brow, Brown, Cognizant, Communicate, Cow, Creatures, Death, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Dream, Emote, Emotions, Eyes, Face, Genteel, Humankind, Ignorance, Life, Peaceful, Photography, Plate, Poetry, Rational, Reason, Sighs, Steak, Thoughts
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PAS D’AVENIR
“Hope always comes after evil has done its work.
We cannot keep living on hope, though.”
~ Erik Pevernagie ~
Digitally enhanced image created in December 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Cancer, Children, Darkness, Death, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Famine, Future, Generations, Horror, Humanity, Life, Nightmare, No Future, Obliteration, Oblivion, Pandora's Box, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rape, Regeneration, Ride, Shadows, Time, War
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RUINES
“Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.”
~ Jean-Paul Sartre ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo, detail of the sculptured walls by Louis Leygue in Studio 104 Radio France, taken in Paris in December 2019.
© 2019 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Darkness, Desolation, Destruction, Detritus, Devastation, Digital Imagery, Fragments, Heart, Hypocrisy, Life, Love, Memories, Obstruction, Paris, Photography, Poetry, Reason, Rhyme, Ruins, Shadows, Soul
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LOVE YOUR WORLD
“Reality is merely an illusion,
albeit a very persistent one.”
~ Albert Einstein ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art by Kefran taken in Paris in June 2018.
© 2019 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Absurdity, Arrogance, Bigotry, Copulation, Corruption, Darkness, Death, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Distrust, Extinction, Fear, Future, Greed, Hate, History, Humanity, Ignorance, Inequality, Intolerance, Irrationality, Laceration, Lies, Life, Love, Manipulation, Paris, Perversion, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Religion, Slaughter, Street Art, Time, Violence, War
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THE GHOSTS OF THINGS UNREMEMBERED
“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”
~ William Shakespeare ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in June 2018.
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LONG GONE TO DUST
“Earth does not belong to us; we belong to earth.
Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.”
~ Chief Seattle ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in October 2018.
© 2018 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Barefoot, Change, Chaos, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Dust, Foot, Footprint, Future, History, Kiln, Life, Message, Past, Photography, Poetry, Roofing Tiles, Time, War
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NOW
“Quantum est in rebus inane!”
“How much folly there is in human affairs.”
~ Aulus Persius Flaccus ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2018.
© 2018 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Animals, Bees, Birds, Broken Promises, Children, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Fish, Folly, Future, History, Human Folly, Life, Nightmare, Paris, Past, Photography, Poetry, Poison, Pollution, Street Art, Symmetry, Time, Trees
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SPARK OF LIFE
“All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.“
~ T. S. Eliot ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in January 2018.
© 2018 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry
Tags: Artistry, Beauty, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Endeavour, Genetics, History, Humanity, Ignorance, Innocence, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Progress, Spark, Time, Violence, War
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SURVIVAL
“You can’t run away from trouble.
There ain’t no place that far.”
~ Uncle Remus ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2016.
© 2017 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry
Tags: Consequences, Death, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Earth, Fate, History, Life, Nature, Niches, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Profit, Spaces, Survive, Time, Universal Consciousness, Universe, Void
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