“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: Truth
halcyon
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Blemish, Certitude, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Future, Halcyon, Illusions, Images, Life, Light, Mask, Memories, Mummery, Now, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reality, Shadows, Silence, Silhouette, Taciturnity, Time, Truth
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dix mots
“Lying is the most fun a woman can have
without taking her clothes off.”
~ Natalie Portman ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a painting by an unknown artist taken in Paris in June 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Art, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Lies, Life, Love, Painting, Paris, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Stormy Skies, Truth, Words
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phantasmagoria
“Our five senses are faulty data-taking devices, and they need help.”
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beliefs, Digital Imagery, Distort, Enhance, Fantasies, Imagination, Intellect, Interpretation, Knowledge, Learning, Observation, Paris, Perceptions, Perspective, Phantasmagoria, Photography, Poetry, Senses, Truth
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bleach boned and hollow skulled
“Death is the greatest illusion of all.”
~ Osho Rajneesh ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken at the Church of St. Katharin in the Ossuary of the Chapel of St Michael in Oppenheim, Germany in January 2010.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Belief, Blind Belief, Blind Faith, Bones, Death, Delusion, Digital Imagery, Fables, Fact, Faith, Fantasy, Heart, History, Imagination, Love, Mask, Ossuary, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Religion, Reward, Science, Skulls, Truth
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only ever now
“Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now.”
~ James Clavell ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Consequences, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Distance, Dream, Existence, Fate, Future, Generations, History, Imagination, Life, Light, Memories, Night, Now, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sand, Stars, Time, Truth, Universe
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grow wings
“Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?”
~ Frida Kahlo ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Conviction, Darkness, Difficult, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Hatred, Imagination, Life, Light, Long, Love, Mistrust, Path, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Time, Treacherous, Truth, Wings
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the sanctuary of their blindness
“The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed,
but that he cannot believe anyone else.”
~ George Bernard Shaw ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in August 2017.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Animals, Belief, Blindness, Captives, Digital Imagery, Faces, Hungry, Ignorance, Lies, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sanctuary, Short-Sighted, Small Talk, Smiles, Spoken, Teeth, Truth, Word
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spice
“Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.”
~ Joan Aiken ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2022.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beauty, Creativity, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Heart, Imagination, Intuition, Life, Love, Memories, Night, Paris, Passion, Past, Peregrination, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rhetoric, Ribbons, Sarcasm, Savoury, Sepulcher, Shadows, Spice, Time, Truth, Web, Wit
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exit strategy
“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”
~ William Shakespeare ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Exit Strategy, Fools, Handbasket, Hell, Life, Maniacs, Oblivion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Psychopaths, Truth
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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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a simple truth
“Concerning matter, we have been all wrong.
What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration
has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses.
There is no matter.”
~ Albert Einstein ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a recycled flower bed taken on the Canary Island of La Palma in May 1994.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Canary Islands, Change, Digital Imagery, Energy, Immortality, La Palma, Light, Matter, Perspective, Photography, Physics, Poetry, Science, Stardust, Truth
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hopes and dreams
“The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable.
The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed.”
~ Ajahn Sumedho ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of the ruins of Battle Abbey, near Hastings, England taken in June 1982.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Awareness, Churches, Classrooms, Cognitive Thought, Digital Imagery, England, Knowledge, Libraries, Life, Logic, Myth, Perspective, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Religion, Ruins, Science, Shrines, Superstition, Truth
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through the looking glass
“Sometimes I’ve believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.”
~ Lewis Carroll ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Alice, Digital Imagery, Distortions, Inaccuracies, Looking Glass, Mirror, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reality, Truth
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in her i had everything
“A thought that sometimes makes me hazy:
Am I – or are the others crazy?”
~ Albert Einstein ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of the mineral Sepiolite taken in Paris in May 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Attempts, Backs, Balling, Bed, Blue, Brambles, Bread, Breasts, Butter, Clocks, Clutter, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Grumbles, Guests, Imagination, Lies, Life, Lifetimes, Lips, Love, Morning, Pandora's Box, Paris, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Preambles, Science, Semblance, Socks, Spikes, Tacks, Tests, Truth, Trysts, Tumbles
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the doubt remains
“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.”
~ Voltaire ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art called “Poussiere De Tess – Batiment” taken in Paris in May 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Certainty, Digital Imagery, Doubt, Dream, Future, Imagined, Lies, Memory, Muddle, Now, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Real, Truth, Uncertainty
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the new little corporal
“Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount.
And the tigers are getting hungry.”
~ Winston Churchill ~
Digitally enhanced image created from various unknown sources in October 2013.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Bastard, Death, Dictator, Digital Imagery, Ego, Lies, Perspective, Perversion, Photography, Poetry, Poison, Slaughter, Truth, Veremin, War
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tree of life
“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky.
We fell them down and turn them into paper,
that we may record our emptiness.”
~ Khalil Gibran ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2020 of a Batik, made by a Finnish artist named Riita in 1980.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Ancient, Beauty, Calm, Caress, Certainty, Child, Confidants, Conspirators, Creativity, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Fabric, Fantasy, Fires, Friends, Gnarled, Heart, Imagination, Life, Magic, Mentors, Mind, Muses, Passion, Past, Pataphysical, Patience, Perspective, Philosophers, Photography, Poetry, Rhythm, Thought, Tide, Time, Touch, Trees, Truth, Weaving, Wisdom, Wise, Woods
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les mensonges
“Full frontal nudity is reserved for Adam and Eve!”
~ Oscar Wilde ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Adam and Eve, Apple, Charlatans, Digital Imagery, History, Ignorance, Les Mensonges, Lies, Life, Old Testament, Paris, Peasants, Pewter, Photography, Poetry, Poison, Proletarian, Seduction, Snake, Spoons, Truth
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half the truth
“Truth is rarely writ in ink; it lives in nature.”
~ Martin H. Fischer ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in September 2017.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Crawling, Digital Imagery, Dimensions, Ebb Tide, Eye, Floor, Life, Paris, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Spiders, Street Art, Truth, Unconsciousness, Wall
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PHASES AND SHADOWS
“If I die in this city let my soul drown in the Seine,
don’t make the wheel start up again,
then is now and now is then, it’s the same thing…”
~ John Greaves ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2019.
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