Posts Tagged With: Gray

in the balance

 

“Humans are upsetting a fragile balance
that their own human ancestors established.”

 

~ Joan D. Vinge ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2021. Photo courtesy of Matschnbrei Photography GmbH.


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fleeting heart

 

“What is life but fleeting moments of happiness
strung together on necklace of despair?”

 

~ Marian Keyes ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2019.


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pièce de résistance

 

“Existence is a series of footnotes to a
     vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.”

 

~ Vladimir Nabokov ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2020.


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gray

 

“A gray day provides the best light.”

 

~ Leonardo da Vinci ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2010.


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holey heavens

 

“Behind every cloud is another cloud.”
 

~ Judy Garland ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2017.


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summer cedes

 

“…and all at once, summer collapsed into fall.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2010.


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prophecy

 

“We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.”

 

~ Charles Lamb ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of fifty years of hair growth (from 1970 and 2020) taken in June 2020.


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make art not war

 

“Art holds fast when all else is lost.”

 

~ German Proverb ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in September 2017.


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ombres sur mon mur

 

“Like a shadow, I am and I am not.”

 

~ Rumi ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2019.


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woman

 

“You had the power all along my dear.”

 

~ Glinda the Good Witch (The Wizard of Oz ~ L. Frank Baum) ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art by Gregos taken in Paris in May 2017.


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long hard cold dark lonely winter

 

“Blow, blow, thou Winter Wind,
Thou art not so unkind, as Man’s Ingratitude…”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in September 2016.


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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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THE LAST LEAF

 

“Autumn is the hush before winter.”

 

~ French Proverb ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2010.


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THE SUMMER THAT WASN’T

 

“It will not always be summer: build barns.”

 

~ Hesiod ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in August 2021.


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NO ONE LISTENING

 

“It is the disease of not listening that I am troubled with.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 1980.


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NO ROOM FOR RAINBOWS

 

“The color of truth is gray.”

 

~ Andre Gide ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2010.


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DESPITE IT ALL

 

“Every man dies. Not every man lives.”

 

~ William Wallace ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2005.


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IMAGES ON A EUROPEAN DAY – PART ONE

 

“Dreams are the eraser dust I blow off my page.
They fade into the emptiness, another dark gray day.”

 

~ Edgar Allan Poe ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the Canary Island of La Palma in 1994.


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IN THE BALANCE

 

“Humans are upsetting a fragile balance
that their own human ancestors established.”

 

~ Joan D. Vinge ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2021. Courtesy of Matschenbrei Photography GmbH.


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GOIN’ DOWN SLOW

 

“When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in December 2010.


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