“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: Reality
EN VIN EST VÉRITÉ
“There is no truth. There is only perception.”
~Gustave Flaubert ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Change, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Fata Morgana, Glass, Heart, Illusion, Life, Mind, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reality, Secrets, Shadows, Tongue, Truth, Universal Truth, Unreality, Wine
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TWENTY FOUR SEVEN
“The average Smartphone user checks
his or her device every six and a half minutes.”
~ Anonymous ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2018 of street art by Kai.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Addiction, Brain Dead, Communication, Digital Imagery, Display, Instant Gratification, Mobile Phone, Nomophobia, Paris, Photography, Poetry, Reality, Selfie, Smartphone, Street Art, Stupidity
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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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PIGMENTS OF MY IMAGINATION
“Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.”
~ Marianne Moore ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2017.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Colours, Consciousness, Digital Imagery, Erotic, Existence, Exotic, Imagination, Normal, Palette, Perspective, Perverse, Photography, Pigments, Poetry, Reality, Unique, Weird
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FLESH AND BONE
“We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth;
and beneath these pavements are shells, bones and silence.”
~ Virginia Woolf ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a X-ray created by RZFW in February 2016.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Belief, Bone, Celestial, Colours, Consciousness, Death, Digital Imagery, Eternal, Fabric, Flesh, Hope, Life, Memories, Mortal Coil, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reality, Self-Awareness, Spiritual, Time
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WASTED OPPORTUNITY
“…people choose to live in darkness, praying for a candle,
when all they really have to do is open their eyes…”
~ nightpoet ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a skull from a burial dated to the Late Roman Empire (3rd century CE) taken in June 2014.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Archaeology, Astronomy, Awareness, Bone, Death, Digital Imagery, History, Life, Opportunity, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reality, Science, Skin, Skull, Stars, Universe, Wasted Time
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TITBIDS
“Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Digitally enhanced image created in February 2021.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Digital Imagery, Dish, Ether, Eyes, Flames, Grammar, Greasepaint, Hair, Knots, Novae, Perspective, Photography, Planets, Poetry, Reality, Salad, Spoon, Stammer, Tea, Weasels, Words
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TOKEN
“But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books…”
~ Mary Augusta Ward ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Awaken, Believed, Broken, Conceived, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Fantasy, Festivity, Grammar, Gypsy, Life, Perception, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reality, Seventeen, Sin, Smoke, Street Art, Token
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UP TO OUR ASHES
“Love. Of course, love.
Flames for a year, ashes for thirty.”
~ Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in 1983.
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READ THEM THEIR RIGHTS
“Passion often renders the most clever man a fool,
and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.”
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art by C+S taken in Paris in May 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beauty, Bedded, Books, Digital Imagery, Finality, Fools, Incoherent, Jewels, Life, Night, Old, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Read, Reality, Rights, Rules, Sauce, Smile, Sounds, Spools, Street Art, Style
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THE PRICE PAID
“Every luxury must be paid for,
and everything is a luxury,
starting with being in this world.”
~ Cesare Pavese ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Blue, Brown, Coffee Grounds, Digital Imagery, Freedom, Knees, Morning, Music, Paris, Past, Peace, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Price, Reality, Room, Sleep, Steam, Streets, Treaties, Warm
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A NEW ABNORMAL
“The abnormal always excites aversion, distrust, and fear.”
~ H.P. Lovecraft ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the Canary island of La Gomera in 1991.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Abnormal, Breath, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Future, Human Race, Life, Old World, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reality, Sanity, Shadows, Shroud, Sleep, Time
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HILDA AND HUBERT
“If you’re going to do something tonight that
you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.”
~ Henny Youngman ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in January 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Bedroom Eyes, Cigarettes, Coffee, Consciousness, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Focus, Life, Love, Memories, Morning After, Night, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reality, Ribs, Sex, Snore, Weight
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HALCYON
“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”
~ Oscar Wilde ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2019.
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SHARDS OF LIGHT
“A million candles burning for the love that never came,
you want it darker, we kill the flame…”
~ Leonard Cohen ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Apathy, Books, Candles, Creativity, Darkness, Desolation, Enlightenment, Harbinger, Human, Ignorance, Imagination, Ink, Life, Lifeblood, Light, Lines, Love, Luminosity, Memories, Mirror, Night, Parchment, Paris, Passion, Past, Patience, Photography, Poetry, Read, Reality, Seeds, Shards, Street Art, Time, Wilderness
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STARSLEEP
“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.”
~ Carl Sagan ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in September 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Consciousness, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Extinction, Future, Greed, Human Folly, Imagination, Inheritance, Life, Night, Nothing, Paradox, Past, Photography, Poetry, Reality, Science, Shadows, Sleep, Stars, Time, Universe, Wasteland
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QUE SAIS-JE?
“Je pense, donc je suis.”
~ René Descartes ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a statue of the essayist and philosopher Michel de Montaigne located at the Square Paul-Painlevé in Paris taken in June 2019.
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ABSINTHE
“Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.”
~ Ethel Mumford ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of “In A Café,” a painting by Edgar Degas, taken in Paris in June 2019.
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SHADOWMAN
“A circle is the reflection of eternity.
It has no beginning and it has no end.”
~ Maynard James Keenan ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2019.
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