Posts Tagged With: Valley

dusted with stars

 

“Are we human because we gaze at the stars
or do we gaze at the stars because we are human.”

 

~ Neil Gaiman ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the island of La Palma, the Canary Islands, in November 1994.


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a drowning man

 

“The man in ecstasy and the man drowning: both raise their arms.”

 

~ Franz Kafka ~

 

000 a drowning man

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2022.


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taste alone

 

“I would rather die with the taste of you on my tongue
than live and never touch you again.”

 

~ Michelle Hodkin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an analog photo taken in May 1986.


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SUMMER IT WAS

 

“Life, now, was unfolding before me, constantly and visibly,
like the flowers of summer that drop fanlike petals on eternal soil.”

 

~ Roman Payne ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a painting taken in Paris in May 2015.


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FROM THE STARS STRUNG

 

Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”

 

~ Anaïs Nin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the summer of 1985.


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DUSTED WITH STARS

 

“Are we human because we gaze at the stars
or do we gaze at the stars because we are human?”

 

~ Neil Gaiman ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the island of La Palma, the Canary Islands, in November 1994.


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WHAT IT COST ME

 

“Passion pursues; love surrenders.”

 

~ Janet Todd ~

 

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


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VALLEY OF SHADOWS

 

“Love is, after all, a selfish thing;
and it throws a black shadow on anything
between which and the light it stands.”

 

~ Bram Stoker ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a sculpture (detail) by Antoine Bourdelle taken in Paris in June 2019.


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BAREFOOT GIRL

 

“Being naked approaches being revolutionary;
going barefoot is mere populism.” 

 

~ John Updike ~

 

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


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PROMISED LAND

 

“They say that the truth will set you free,
but then again, so will a lie.
It depends if you’re trying to get to the promised land
or if you’re just trying to get by.”

 

~ Ani DiFranco ~

 

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


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LUSH

 

“Savor with me the lushness of a lingering sleep…
and last night’s dream.”

 

~ Sanober Khan ~

 

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


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ALWAYS THERE

 

“It is one of the superstitions of the human mind
to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.”

 

~ Voltaire ~

 

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


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FRAISE

 

“Strawberry fields forever”

 

~ John Lennon ~

 

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


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TREE FEATHERED SLOPES

 

“Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets.
To plant a pine, one need only own a shovel.”

 

~ Aldo Leopold ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in March 2017.


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