“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”
~ Oscar Wilde ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2019.
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Posts Tagged With: Light
THE TENEBROSITY OF DREAM
“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
~ Edgar Allen Poe ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Body, Charlatans, Danger, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Eyes, Gloom, Hours, Life, Light, Minutes, Morning, Night, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Psychoanalysts, Shadows, Sleep, Soul, Surprise, Tenebrosity, Unconsciousness
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THE ANGEL OF DEATH
“Is it possible that existence is our exile
and nothingness our home?”
~ Emile M. Cioran ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris in May 2018.
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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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STEP INTO THE DARKNESS
“It is in the darkness that one finds the light.”
~ Meister Eckhart ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beauty, Black, Cave, Creativity, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Embrace, Emotions, Imagination, Life, Light, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Purity, Rituals, Shadows, Unknown, Verses
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LA COULEUR DE LA VIE
“Life is about using the whole box of crayons.”
~ RuPaul ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Art, Beauty, Black, Breathing, Colours, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Existing, Eyes, Heart, Humankind, Imagination, Innovation, Life, Light, Minds, Painting, Paris, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Prisms, Prisons, Rainbows, Seeing, Street Art, White
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SPEED OF DARKNESS
“No matter how fast light travels
it finds the darkness has always got there first,
and is waiting for it.”
~ Terry Pratchett ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Blackness, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Light, Perspective, Photography, Space, Speed of Darkness, Speed Of Light, Universe
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MEMORIES
“The days are short, the sun a spark
hung thin between the dark and dark.”
~ John Updike ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in December 2017.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Affection, Bones, Branches, Corpses, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Ghosts, Life, Light, Love, Memories, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Seasons, Warmth
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THISTLES AND THORNS
“If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden;
and if it is a thistle, you are fuel for the fire.”
~ Rumi ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2017.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Life, Light, Love, Memory, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sadness, Silence, Song, Sublime, Thistles, Thorns
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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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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Art, Black, Canvas, Colours, Creativity, Day, Digital Imagery, Gray, Hues, Life, Light, Night, Painting, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Spectrum, Street Art, White
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SWANSONG
“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.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Au Revoir, Canary Islands, Couplets, Digital Imagery, Forever, Goblet, La Palma, Light, Night, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sunset, Swansong, Wine
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AS ANOTHER DAY DAWNS
“Another day, a different dream perhaps.”
~ Alice Liddell ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in August 2004.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Balcony, Bees, Breeze, Chaos, Coda, Dawn, Day, Death, Digital Imagery, Eyelids, Flowers, Insects, Jungle, Life, Light, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Routine, Skin, Song, Storm Clouds, Symphony, Uncertainty
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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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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Clothes, Clouds, Coffee, Digital Imagery, Future, Gray, Life, Light, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rainbows, Room, Sky, Steam, Window
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TETHYS
“Every human endeavor, however singular it seems,
involves the whole human race.”
~ Jean-Paul Sartre ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the Aegean Sea between Thera (Santorini) and Crete in October 1992.
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THE ABSURDITY OF LIGHT
“give me back all those things i never gave,
so I shan’t be able to take them to my grave,
the burning flames and the booming voice,
all the decisions that were never really a choice…”
~ nightpoet ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in England in June 2007.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Absence, Absurdity, Breath, Death, Digital Imagery, Light, Nothingness, Photography, Poetry, Sharing, Strength, Substance, Vision
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TAPIS
“Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.”
~ Theodore Roethke ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2021.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Air, Blossoms, Carpet, Colour, Curtain, Dawn, Digital Imagery, Hazy, Hot, Leaves, Light, Mid-Afternoon, Morning, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Prisms, Song, Spring, Summer, Tapis, Time
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WIND DIRECTION DETERMINED
“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die
life is a broken-winged bird, that cannot fly.”
~ Langston Hughes ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in 2000.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Colour, Digital Imagery, Dirt, Doldrums, Fingers, Flight Of Fancy, Imagination, Inspiration, Light, Nose, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Smoke, Wall, Wind
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MOON WHISPERS
“I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver.
Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.”
~ Oscar Wilde ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken somewhere in west central France in 2006.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Breasts, Breath, Digital Imagery, Kiss, Light, Moon, Night, Nipples, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Spires, Touch, Veil, Whisper
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MOULDY MOON
“How slow this old moon wanes! She lingers my desires…”
~ William Shakespeare ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2021.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Branches, Desire, Digital Imagery, Dreaming, Light, Lost, Loves, Memory, Moon, Mould, Onion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sin, Skin, Window
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ONE MORNING’S MOON
“And he beholds the moon;
like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light.”
~ Gustave Flaubert ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken circa 1982.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Breath, Clef, Clouds, Dawn, Digital Imagery, Disc, Light, Moon, Morning, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Precision, Scaffolding, Sky, Stave, Wind
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