NICHE

 

“A fine line separates the weary recluse

from the fearful hermit.

Finer still is the line between

hermit and bitter misanthrope.”

 

~ Dean Koontz ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a windowless niche high on the wall of an apartment building in Paris in June 2017.

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MOON SHINE DOWN

 

“No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.”

 

~ Ashanti Proverb ~

 

Photo taken in Germany in May 2017.

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ONE LAST LONELY LAMP

 

“I said to my soul, be still, and wait…

So the darkness shall be the light,

and the stillness the dancing.”

 

~ T. S. Eliot ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Wells, England in June 2007.

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NOCTURNAL EMISSIONS

 

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on,

and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

Digital art “Heart” created in December 2016.

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THE SOURCE

 

“Stars, hide your fires;

Let not light see my black and deep desires.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

Digital art “Surge” created in December 2016.

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SKELETON TREES

 

“What a severe yet master artist old Winter is…

No longer the canvas and the pigments,

but the marble and the chisel.”

 

~ John Burroughs ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in November 2010.

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SHADOWCASTING

 

“In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.”

 

~ Aaron Rose ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in the Bavarian Alps in September 2016.

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DARK SHADOWS

 

“Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.”

 

~ Carl Sandburg ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken along the Rhine River in November 1980.

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SHADOW AND LIGHT

 

“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.

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LAST YEAR’S LEAVES HAIKUS

 

“One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance. All sorts of things.”

~ Jean Rhys ~

 

 

 

Photo taken in April 2016.

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