Posts Tagged With: La Palma

dusted with stars

Posted on 01/02/2023 by Nightpoet

“Are we human because we gaze at the stars

or do we gaze at the stars because we are human.”

~ Neil Gaiman ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the island of La Palma, the Canary Islands, in November 1994.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Banana Trees, Carpet, Curtain, Digital Imagery, Eyes, La Palma, Light, Moon, Palm Tree, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Stars, Valley | 1 Comment

a simple truth

Posted on 28/04/2022 by Nightpoet

“Concerning matter, we have been all wrong.

What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration

has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses.

There is no matter.”

~ Albert Einstein ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Canary Islands, Change, Digital Imagery, Energy, Immortality, La Palma, Light, Matter, Perspective, Photography, Physics, Poetry, Science, Stardust, Truth | 1 Comment

the event horizon

Posted on 04/04/2022 by Nightpoet

“The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.”

~ Charles Bukowski ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Being, Breath, Canary Islands, Deleted, Digital Imagery, Event Horizon, Farewell, La Palma, Nothingness, Oblivion, Perspective, Philosophy, Poetry, Portal | 1 Comment

shadow and light

Posted on 01/04/2022 by Nightpoet

“Wherever there is light, look for the shadow.

The shadow is me.”

~ Anaïs Nin ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Balance, Beauty, Beginning, Bright, Canary Islands, Colours, Dark, Digital Imagery, End, Hope, La Palma, Light, Mood, Palette, Perspective, Poetry, Rainbows, Shadows, Stardust, Understanding, Void | 1 Comment

SWANSONG

Posted on 05/08/2021 by Nightpoet

“Far away in the west the sun was setting and the last glow

of all too fleeting day lingered lovingly on sea and strand…”

~ James Joyce ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Au Revoir, Canary Islands, Couplets, Digital Imagery, Forever, Goblet, La Palma, Light, Night, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sunset, Swansong, Wine | 3 Comments

DUSTED WITH STARS

Posted on 20/01/2021 by Nightpoet

“Are we human because we gaze at the stars

or do we gaze at the stars because we are human?”

~ Neil Gaiman ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the island of La Palma, the Canary Islands, in November 1994.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Banana Trees, Carpet, Curtain, Digital Imagery, Eyes, La Palma, Light, Moon, Palm Tree, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Stars, Valley | 1 Comment

THE PATH FROM THERE TO HERE

Posted on 18/01/2017 by Nightpoet

“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous,

leading to the most amazing view.

May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.”

~ Edward Abbey ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken on La Palma, the Canary Islands in 1994.

Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Canary Islands, Clouds, Digital Imagery, Journey, La Palma, Life, Love, Mountains, Paths, Perspective, Photography, Poetry | 1 Comment

A SIMPLE TRUTH

Posted on 24/08/2016 by Nightpoet

“Concerning matter, we have been all wrong.

What we have called matter is energy,

whose vibration has been so lowered

as to be perceptible to the senses.

There is no matter.”

~ Albert Einstein ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a recycled flower bed taken on the Canary Island of La Palma in May 1994.

Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Astronomy, Canary Islands, Digital Imagery, Energy, Immortality, La Palma, Light, Matter, Perspective, Photography, Physics, Poetry, Science | 1 Comment

THE EVENT HORIZON

Posted on 23/08/2016 by Nightpoet

“The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.”

~ Charles Bukowski ~

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

Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Canary Islands, Digital Imagery, Event Horizon, La Palma, Perspective, Philosophy, Poetry | 1 Comment

SHADOW AND LIGHT

Posted on 04/08/2016 by Nightpoet

“There is strong shadow where there is much light.”

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~

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

Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Canary Islands, Digital Imagery, La Palma, Light, Perspective, Poetry, Shadows, Stardust, Void | 1 Comment

LITTLE LION

Posted on 20/07/2016 by Nightpoet

“If only cats grew into kittens.”

~ Robert A.M. Stern ~

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

Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Canary Islands, Cats, Digital Imagery, Kittens, La Palma, Perspective, Photography, Poetry | 3 Comments

NEON NIGHTBIRD

Posted on 19/07/2016 by Nightpoet

“A photographer is like a cod,

which produces a million eggs

in order that one may reach maturity.”

~ George Bernard Shaw ~

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

Categories: Haikus, Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Birds, Canary Islands, Digital Imagery, Filters, Haikus, La Palma, Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Leave a comment

PARADISE LOST

Posted on 18/07/2016 by Nightpoet

“Innocence plays in the backyard of ignorance.”

~ Anonymous ~

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

Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Canary Islands, Digital Imagery, Innocence, Kittens, La Palma, Paradise, Paradise Lost, Perspective, Photography, Poetry | 1 Comment

VULVAR GEOLOGY

Posted on 12/07/2016 by Nightpoet

“Soft as the earth is mankind and both need to be altered.”

~ W.H. Auden ~

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

Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Canary Islands, Digital Imagery, Geology, History, La Palma, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Science | 1 Comment

BLACK CLOUDS

Posted on 10/07/2016 by Nightpoet

“The reason the Christians have murdered on such a vast scale

and killed anyone and everyone in their way is purely and simply greed.”

~ Bartolome de las Casas ~

(1474 – 1566)

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

Categories: History, Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bartolome de las Casas, Canary Islands, Digital Imagery, History, La Palma, New World, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Religion, Spanish Conquest | 1 Comment

ALICE’S REVENGE

Posted on 26/06/2016 by Nightpoet

EDIBLE, adj.

“Good to eat, and wholesome to digest,

as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake,

a snake to a pig, a pig to a man,

and a man to a worm.”

~ Ambrose Bierce ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of the sea floor taken on the Canary Island of La Palma in May 1994.

Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Canary Islands, Digital Imagery, La Palma, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Revenge, Worms | 1 Comment

SWANSONG

Posted on 25/06/2016 by Nightpoet

“Far away in the west the sun was setting and the last glow of all
too fleeting day lingered lovingly on sea and strand…”

~ James Joyce ~

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

Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Au Revoir, Canary Islands, Digital Imagery, La Palma, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sunset, Swansong | Leave a comment

DRAGON TREE

Posted on 18/06/2016 by Nightpoet

“Only someone who is ready for everything,

who doesn’t exclude any experience,

even the most incomprehensible,

will live the relationship with another person

as something alive and will himself

sound the depths of his own being.”

~ Rainer Maria Rilke ~

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

Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Canary Islands, Digital Imagery, Dragon Tree, La Palma, Love, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Relationships | 1 Comment

THE SHELTER

Posted on 17/06/2016 by Nightpoet

“The evolution of the brain not only overshot

the needs of prehistoric man,

it is the only example of evolution providing

a species with an organ which

it does not know how to use.”

~ Arthur Koestler ~

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

Categories: Archaeology, Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Archaeology, Canary Islands, Digital Imagery, Evolution, La Palma, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Prehistoric Humans, Rock Shelters, Science | 2 Comments

PROMISE OF THE DAWN

Posted on 16/06/2016 by Nightpoet

“They that love beyond the world
cannot be separated by it.
Death cannot kill what never dies.”

William Penn

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

Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Canary Islands, Digital Imagery, La Palma, Love, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Suicide | Leave a comment

Posts Tagged With: La Palma

“Are we human because we gaze at the stars

or do we gaze at the stars because we are human.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Concerning matter, we have been all wrong.

What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration

has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses.

There is no matter.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Wherever there is light, look for the shadow.

The shadow is me.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Far away in the west the sun was setting and the last glow

of all too fleeting day lingered lovingly on sea and strand…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Are we human because we gaze at the stars

or do we gaze at the stars because we are human?”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous,

leading to the most amazing view.

May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Concerning matter, we have been all wrong.

What we have called matter is energy,

whose vibration has been so lowered

as to be perceptible to the senses.

There is no matter.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“There is strong shadow where there is much light.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“If only cats grew into kittens.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“A photographer is like a cod,

which produces a million eggs

in order that one may reach maturity.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Innocence plays in the backyard of ignorance.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Soft as the earth is mankind and both need to be altered.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The reason the Christians have murdered on such a vast scale

and killed anyone and everyone in their way is purely and simply greed.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

EDIBLE, adj.

“Good to eat, and wholesome to digest,

as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake,

a snake to a pig, a pig to a man,

and a man to a worm.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Far away in the west the sun was setting and the last glow of all too fleeting day lingered lovingly on sea and strand…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Only someone who is ready for everything,

who doesn’t exclude any experience,

even the most incomprehensible,

will live the relationship with another person

as something alive and will himself

sound the depths of his own being.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Far away in the west the sun was setting and the last glow of all
too fleeting day lingered lovingly on sea and strand…”

“They that love beyond the world
cannot be separated by it.
Death cannot kill what never dies.”