“Pulvis et umbra sumus.”
“We are dust and shadows.”
~ Horace ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2021.
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Posts Tagged With: Perspective
MY MOTHER’S ASHES
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Ashes, Azaleas, Cinders, Death, Digital Imagery, Dust, Father, Life, Mother, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Powder, Voice, Waves
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THE MOON STARES DOWN
“Before the winter fire,
I will still be dreaming,
I have no thought of time.”
~ Sandy Denny ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2021.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Clouds, Death, Digital Imagery, Dream, Fingers, Goddess, Life, Moon, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sleep, Time, Tomorrow, Window
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IN THE FLICKERING LIGHT
“If you look at Paleolithic cave paintings, you see how
people were depicted inside nature, not outside it.
It was a kind of dream time…”
~ Gregory Colbert ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Archaeology, Art, Artist, Belief, Cave Art, Cave Paintings, Caves, Dreams, Emotions, History, Mushrooms, Painting, Perception, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Spirits, Superstition
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BUMBLE
“Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive
the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.”
~ Robert Frost ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2021.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Caliphs, Cauliflower, Digital Imagery, Gnome, Hags, Kumquat, Perspective, Photography, Pigs, Pills, Poetry, Sheep, Stilts, Thimbles, Tome
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SING
“Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody,
it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.”
~ Janis Joplin ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2014. Courtesy of DePiero and Associates.
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KARMA
“Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.”
~ William Shakespeare ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2017.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Bitch, Digital Imagery, Dream, Full Moon, Karma, Perspective, Photography, Poetry
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MELANCHOLY
“But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve…”
~ William Shakespeare ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2012.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Bittersweet, Digital Imagery, Melancholy, Memories, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Street, Time
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SLICES
“I am not interested in a slice of life,
what I want is a slice of the imagination.”
~ Carlos Fuentes ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2015.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Dust, Elixir, Feel, Future, Learn, Life, Listen, Love, Memories, Music, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Slices, Song, Time, Touch
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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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AN UNLISTED NUMBER
“Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves.”
~ George Sand ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2021.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Life, Oblivion, Parents, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Telephone, Unlisted Number, Voices
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WITHERS
“It will not always be summer; build barns.”
~ Hesiod ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in September 2017.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Heart, Illusions, Life, Love, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Seasons, Summer, Wither
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FOSSILIZED INSTANCES
“Though we are made of memories,
we live only in the here and now.”
~ Sue Halpern ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2021.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Eye, Flame, Incomprehension, Instances, Life, Memory, Moths, Past, Perspective, Petrified, Photography, Poetry, Present, Real, Spiral
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LA NUIT NOIRE
“Tomorrow night is nothing
but one long sleepless wrestle
with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.”
~ William Faulkner ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2017.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Alleys, Cobbled, Digital Imagery, Gutters, Lanes, Night, Nightmares, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows
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NEXT
“If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen.”
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in September 2017.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Digital Imagery, Next, Nonsense, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Street Art
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HER BRIGHT EMBRACE
“Landlords, like all other men,
love to reap where they never sowed.”
~ Karl Marx ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on September 21, 2021.
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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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TRICKLE DOWN
“A nation will not survive morally or economically
when so few have so much and so many have so little.”
~ Bernie Sanders ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2021.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Asshole, Capitalism, Chicken, Civilization, Digital Imagery, Eat The Rich, Empathy, Horse Manure, Impiety, Injustice, Life, Opportunistic, Oppression, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poor, Powerful, Raven, Revolution, Rich, Shit, Trickle Down, Understanding, Working Classes
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THE PROMISE OF A BLOSSOM
“A pneumatic toy frog hops onto a lily pad, trembling.
Beneath the surface, lies terror.”
~ Thomas Pynchon ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2021.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Blossom, Digital Imagery, Life, Lily Pad, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Reality, Roots, Water Lily
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ETERNAL NIGHT
“We live along the shores of night, at the edge of the eternal sea.”
~ Jack McDevitt ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Eternal, Fight, Life, Night, Perspective, Photography, Poetry
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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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