“The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.”
~ William Butler Yeats ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 1996.
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Posts Tagged With: Future
as if they never were
“The earth doesn’t care about humanity,
but humanity had better start caring about the earth.”
~ Erik Barth ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2013.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Cliffs, Clouds, Clueless, Cold, Digital Imagery, Future, Horizon, Laughing, Lemmings, Madness, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rain, Rocks, Sadness, Splattering, Storm, Stupidity, Tide
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child
“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think…”
~ Margaret Mead ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the Rue Mouffetard in Paris in November 2007.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Catastrophe, Children, Creative Expression, Digital Imagery, Environment, Freedom Of Speech, Future, Hate, Innocence, Intolerance, Legacy, Nightmare, No Future, Oligarchic, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Plutocratic, Poetry, Racism, Servitude, Theocratic, Trust, Violence, Wonder
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denudation
“Autumn is the hush before winter.”
~ French proverb ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2013.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Autumn, Bones, Cold, Demons, Denudation, Digital Imagery, Fingers, Frigid, Future, Ladybug, Nights, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Seasons, Shadows, Streets, Trees, Warmth, Winds, Winter
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le cadeau
“We are always the same age inside.”
~ Gertrude Stein ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2016.
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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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the day after
“Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting.”
~ Dejan Stojanovic ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of mold on a wall, taken in Paris in May 2018.
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la mort est pour toujours
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
Learn as if you were to live forever.”
~ Mahatma Gandhi ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2020.
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a long uncertain ride
“A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke,
only man can prevent.”
~ Elie Wiesel ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Ancestors, Blessed, Children, Curse, Darkness, Death, Descendants, Destiny, Digital Imagery, Evil, Fate, Future, Genocide, Greed, Legacy, Life, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Selfishness, Solutions, Street Art, Suicide, Survival
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only ever now
“Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now.”
~ James Clavell ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Consequences, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Distance, Dream, Existence, Fate, Future, Generations, History, Imagination, Life, Light, Memories, Night, Now, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sand, Stars, Time, Truth, Universe
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circle game
“Humanity is the refuse of spirit.”
~ James Lendall Basford ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Circles, Cockroaches, Copulation, Cycles, Death, Digital Imagery, Earth, Extinction, Future, Game, History, Humanity, Life, Mantra, Overextending, Overflowing, Overindulgence, Overwhelming, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Resources, Rhythm, Street Art, Survival, Time
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never looked back
“I never waste time looking back.”
~ Eleanor Roosevelt ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in July 2014.
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no future for fools
“The past is always tense, the future perfect.”
~ Zadie Smith ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in August 2015.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Digital Imagery, Fools, Future, No Future, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Present, Time
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a new abnormal
“Living is abnormal.”
~ Eugene Ionesco ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the Canary island of La Gomera in 1991.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Abnormal, Breath, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Future, Human Race, Life, Old World, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reality, Sanity, Shadows, Shroud, Sleep, Time
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apocalypso
“This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.”
~ T. S. Eliot ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 1999.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Amusement, Apocalypse, Bastard, Brutish, Dance, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Evil, Future, God, Ignorant, Image, Merciless, Narrow Minded, Perspective, Photography, Plague, Poetry, Predator, Prey, Religion, Sadistic, Selfish, Shadows, Sins, Spiteful, Stupidity, Suffering, Vicious Circle
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look back in anger
“There is nothing so cruel in this world
as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.”
~ Haruki Murakami ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in the late 1980’s.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Anger, Apathy, Cluelessness, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Empathy, Faceless, Fallacy, Friendships, Frustration, Future, Hopelessness, Ignorance, Life, Love, Memories, Narcissism, Nescience, Opportunities, Oppressors, Past, Peers, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sadness, Sins, Street Art, Stupidity, Time, Weep
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la malédiction
“It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful.”
~ Anton Szandor LaVey ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of of a World War II bullet dredged out of the Rhine River taken in May 1981.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Barbarians, Civilised, Compassion, Creation, Cultured, Cursed, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Discarded, Environment, Experiment, Future, History, Humans, Kindness, Life, Mayhem, Murder, No Deposit No Return, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Stars, Time, Violence
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fantômes
“The ghosts you chase you never catch.”
~ John Malkovich ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Cheeks, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dustbin, Eyes, Faces, Friends, Future, Ghosts, Hissing, Letters, Life, Memories, Mirror, Oblivion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rots, Shadows, Shredder, Skin, Texts, Time, Whispering
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tomorrow never comes
“Learn from yesterday, live for today.”
~ Albert Einstein ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2018.
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a sea of humanity
“Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever
in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.”
~ Kenneth E. Boulding ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of art on a preserved section of the Berlin Wall taken in Berlin in January 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Berlin, Cesspool, Compassion, Copulation, Death, Digital Imagery, Environment, Future, Greed, History, Hubris, Humanity, Ignorance, Intelligence, Life, Obsession, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Science, Sex, Violence
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