“You can’t have a light without a dark to stick it in.”
~ Arlo Guthrie ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2020.
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Posts Tagged With: Perspective
she
“O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend
the brightest heaven of invention.”
~ William Shakespeare ~
Digitally enhanced and colourized image created from a photo taken by a friend in 1972.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Audacity, Consciousness, Creativity, Cusp, Digital Imagery, Distance, Ebony, Expressions, Honed, Imagination, Inspires, Intense, Language, Life, Perspective, Photography, Plunge, Poetry, Razor-Edged, Rivets, Sable, Salacious, Sensuous, Sentences, She, Silence, Starstuff, Tattoos, Tenaciousness, Vulvar, Whetted, Words
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fleeting heart
“What is life but fleeting moments of happiness
strung together on necklace of despair?”
~ Marian Keyes ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2019.
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death and cobwebs
“When you bring the light into your dark house,
that is when you see the cobwebs and spiders.”
~ Rajneesh ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Afterlife, Assholes, Bigotry, Charlatans, Cobwebs, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dust, Farce, Flag, Irrationality, Life, Memories, Mouths, Mystery, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Prophet, Relevance, Religion, Resurrection, Shadows, Throats, Time
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i dream
“There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistence.”
~ Gertrude Stein ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Abyss, Bottom, Cobbles, Digital Imagery, Dream, Eyes, Girl, Goo, Life, Loudly, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Ravishes, Red Hair, Screaming, Smile, Splatter, Wanderings, Wonder, Young
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laughs in your face
“Five to one, baby, one in five, no one here gets out alive…”
~ Jim Morrison
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2019.
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danseuse
“Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.”
~ Charles Baudelaire ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Applause, Choreography, Curtain, Dance, Digital Imagery, Encore, Heart, Life, Lines, Paris, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rope, Soliloquy, Sorrow, Stage, Theatrics
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waiting for the end
“Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.”
~ Maurice Chevalier ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2023.
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face in the wall
“The countenance is the portrait of the soul,
and the eyes mark its intentions.”
~ Cicero ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Blind, Centuries, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Face, Haze, Oblivion, Obsidian, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sandstone, Time, Wall
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catshadow
“At night all cats are grey.”
~ French proverb ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2022.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Back, Bristled, Cat, Clawed, Comfort, Corners, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Familiarity, Life, Night, Padded, Paws, Perception, Perfection, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadow, Silence, Street, Twisted, Whisker
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barke
“In order to understand the world,
one has to turn away from it on occasion.”
~ Albert Camus ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a sketch done in 1970 and scanned in July 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Ass, Bird, Digital Imagery, Insane, Leaves, Life, Perch, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Soft, Thorny, Tree
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’twas time
“Open your mind and let the pictures out.”
~ William S. Burroughs ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2021.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Acid, Algorithm, Cages, California, Crazy, Decadence, Digital Imagery, Life, Pale, Patterns, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Satisfaction, Tepidness, Time, Wantings, Warble, Whimper, Windows, Winter
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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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l’ombre de la mort
“Life itself is but the shadow of death,
and souls departed but the shadows of the living.”
~ Thomas Browne ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Birth, Companion, Conception, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Fate, Future, Hourglass, Life, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadow, Time
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like the moon
“The eye is always caught by light,
but shadows have more to say.”
~ Gregory Maguire ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Dark Side, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Labyrinth, Life, Moon, Night, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Street Art
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be we
“There is no darkness but ignorance.”
~ William Shakespeare ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the early 1980’s.
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full blood wolf moon
“For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow.
The very sun and moon seem taken from us.”
~ Oscar Wilde ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Air, Alternative Facts, Beauty, Blood Moon, Blood Wolf Moon, Cellphone, Cheeks, Crimson, Digital Imagery, Fingers, Frozen, Imagination, Life, Magic, Moon, Night, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reality, Serfdom, Shadows, Slavery, Stars, Unreality, Vermilion, Wonder
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creation chimera
“Being a poet is not a job or a profession but a way of life.”
~ Kathleen Raine ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in July 2013.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Babble, Breathe, Brine, Digital Imagery, Inspiration, Life, Lips, Memories, Moments, Muse, New, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poet, Poetry
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empires
“We’re doomed to repeat the past no matter what.
That’s what it is to be alive.”
~ Kurt Vonnegut ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Pompeii in June 1996.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Breath, Crumble, Curse, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Empires, Foundations, Future, History, Ignorance, Lessons, Life, Mankind, Memories, Past, Perspective, Photography, Plundering, Poetry, Proud, Rot, Rubble, Ruins, Strong, Stupidity, Survivors, Tall, Tides, Time, Walls, Wreckage
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can’t see the forest for the irony
“It’s an artist’s right to rebel against the world’s stupidity.”
~ E. A. Bucchianeri
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Absurdity, Air, Annihilation, Carbon Dioxide, Consequences, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Forest, Green, Irony, Life, Money, Oxygen, Path, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poor, Profit, Progress, Rich, Trees, Wood
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