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Tag Archives: Monochrome

“To The Artist There is Never Anything Ugly…”

03 Thursday Dec 2015

Posted by smilingtoad in Photography, Quotations

≈ 28 Comments

Tags

Abstract, Black and White, Death, Florida, Monochrome, Nature, Photography, Quotations, Thoughts, Woods

SkinnedElbow-BW“If reality fails to fill us with wonder, it is because we have fallen into the habit of seeing it as ordinary.”
– Brassaï

AnOldStare-BW-1179“Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected.”
– Federico Fellini

Drowning-BW-5628“To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.”
– Auguste Rodin

SilkenContemplation-BW-0674“If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.”
– Albert Einstein

Thoughts Tumbling

25 Saturday Jan 2014

Posted by smilingtoad in Photography, Poetry, Quotations, Sea

≈ 17 Comments

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Beach, Birds, Florida, Monochrome, Nature, Ocean, Palm Tree, Photography, Poetry, Sand, Satellite Beach, Sea, Sea Birds, Seagulls, Surf, Terns, Thoughts, Wave, Wave Photography, Winter Sea

On the Way to the Beach

Squinting sour

Shards of shell

In cherry light-

Sober morning

GoodMorningMaties

Tumbling like

Wintry waves

Of coy jade-

Disfigured thoughts

Energy“The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.”

―Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

The Taste of Dying December

29 Sunday Dec 2013

Posted by smilingtoad in Photography, Poetry, Sea

≈ 33 Comments

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Abstract Photography, Black and White, Brevard County, Cocoa Beach, Decay, Droplets, Florida, Monochrome, Nature, Ocean, Photography, Poetry, Prose, Sea, Surf, Surfer, Thoughts, Wandering, Water, Writing

traipsing along the sea

Ashy taste of mildewed Wind, heady and warm, off brush-metal waves- sticking to thoughts– it cursitates, Neurons itching, tickled by the bleary chiming of a Rain-Pattered Sea.

Taste of Wet Metal

The chink-metal ocean tastes of sodden rust, spume sputtering about the shoulders- these eyes– a lunging Black, as dark as wetsuit skin.

Dying December

Lambent gaze scrapes the clouds; dark spindly form punctures the sky- fiberglass toes- white and sharp, like bone- and the sound of water drips like snow.

Let's Puncture the Sky

Comes the deluge, the swimming grey swarm of oblivion, drowning in a surge of metal- the colour of December’s somber death- the scent of it tingles in curled and gnarly fingers, burrowing in sand.

Thoughts in the Gathering Clouds

The balmy breath of it dissolves and settles upon these meandering splinters of thought that scuttle into the fizzy-green brine and are stolen by the evening tide, stifled by the sweeping sounds of the Seagull’s Drawl and the strumming song of a Rain-Pattered Sea.

Castaway

In the Ivory Light of Winter

21 Saturday Dec 2013

Posted by smilingtoad in Experimental, Photography, Quotations

≈ 3 Comments

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Abstract, Black and White, Drear, Droplets, Florida, Light, Lonely, Loss, Monochrome, Nature, Pensive, Photography, Quotes, Rain, Sky, Stark, Sunset, Urban, Water

Shadows Pawing at the Light“But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope”
-From “Middlemarch” by George Eliot

Guttoral Sunset“When I left my home and my family
I was no more than a boy
In the company of strangers
In the quiet of the railway station running scared
Laying low, seeking out the poorer quarters
Where the ragged people go
Looking for the places only they would know”
-From the song, “The Boxer” by Simon and Garfunkel

The Pluvial Taste of Moss and the Cold Kiss of Stone“Even death has a heart.”
-Markus Zusak, “The Book Thief”

Pressing Against the Gloom“We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.”
-Carl Sagan
Ivory Light“The old ones called it ‘the hour of the wolf’. It is the hour when the most people die, and the most are born. At this time, nightmares come to us. And when we awake, we are afraid.”
-Ingmar Bergman, film “The Hour of the Wolf” (“Vargtimmen”)

Dog-Day Desiderium

01 Monday Jul 2013

Posted by smilingtoad in Photography, Poetry, Sea

≈ 14 Comments

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Abstract, Birds, Black and White, Desperation, Dog-days, Florida, Longing, Monochrome, Nature, Nikon, Ocean, Pelican, Photography, Poetry, Sandpiper, Sea, Surf

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Saliferous lips

Morning allatrates

Scalp-scraping desperation

Waiting...

Dog-days of this ocean lake-

A sheet of perspiration–

As June dissipates

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Calling Hurricanes

Littoral Loafing

30 Thursday May 2013

Posted by smilingtoad in Photography, Poetry, Sea

≈ 6 Comments

Tags

Beach, Black and White, Black and White Photography, Brine, Florida, Monochrome, Nature, Ocean, Poem, Poetry, Sea, Surf, Surfers, Waves

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Guttural beach-break

Sharks breaching the minty waves

Skimmers sweeping swash

Littoral loafing

Cormorant airing her wings

Sodden charcoal-black

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Dune scarp tunnel-pocked

Ghost crab rushes to the brine

Sudsy spume hissing

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Sanderlings hurry

As a rogue wave swamps the cusp

Children disappear

Fish tale washes in

Air redolent of sunscreen

Wax melting in sun

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