summer solstice

 

“But thy eternal Summer shall not fade.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a cropped photo taken at Stonehenge in England as the sun rose over the Heel Stone on the morning of June 21st 1983.

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page three

 

“Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation.”

 

~ James Thurber ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2019.

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it’s all done with mirrors

 

“The world is the mirror of myself dying.”

 

~ Henry Miller ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2018.

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the worst of better times

 

“Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.”

 

~ James Joyce ~

 

Other than being only cropped, colour corrected and darkened, this picture frame reflection photo was not otherwise digitally enhanced. It was taken in Paris in May 2018.

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STILLLEBEN

 

“…life, by definition, is never still.”

 

~ Kurt Vonnegut ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in August 2021.

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SUSPICIOUSLY SPREAD-EAGLED

 

“Well! I’ve often seen a cat without a grin,” thought Alice,

“but a grin without a cat! It’s the most curious thing I ever saw in my life!”

 

~ Lewis Carroll ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in the Passage des Patriarchs in Paris in May 2016..

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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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THIS ONE SIDE OF SLUMBER

 

“O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?”

 

~ Friedrich Schiller ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created in March 2021.

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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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WOODEN HEARTS

 

“There are too many souls of wood not to love

those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul.”

 

~ Jean Cocteau ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in December 2012.

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MY BLANK PAGES

 

“The blank page gives us the right to dream.”

 

~ Gaston Bachelard ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in August 2020.

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NEVER LOOKED BACK

 

“I never waste time looking back.”

 

~ Eleanor Roosevelt ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in July 2014.

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IN AN INSTANT

 

“The universe is bringing our dreams to life, but unfortunately,

it is also bringing our nightmares that little bit closer as well.”

 

~ Anthony T. Hincks ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2018.

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THE IDES

 

“A great civilization is not conquered from without

until it has destroyed itself from within.”

 

~ Ariel Durant ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in June 2019.

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CANDLE BURNING DOWN

 

“Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in February 2020.

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ONE TOKE TOO MANY

 

“I don’t smoke weed to escape reality, 

I smoke weed to enjoy reality even more.”

 

~ Banana ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in July 2017.

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SMOKE FREE ZONE

 

“If smoking is not allowed in heaven, I shall not go.”

 

~ Mark Twain ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art by @Talmé_one taken in Paris in December 2019.

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SOMETHING’S BROKEN

 

“Sometimes, silence is the best way to win an argument.”

 

~ Jorge P. Guerrero ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2019.

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MOON IN JUNE

 

“I have had my hand on the moon;

what is the use of trying to rise a little way from the ground?”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in June 2019.

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FLOOZY

 

“In my era, we had individuality.

We did as we pleased.

We stayed up late.

We dressed the way we wanted.”

 

~ Clara Bow ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in June 2019.

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