Ramblin' Man

A random collection, primarily for my own personal benefit, of snippets, images, sounds, wisdom and foolishness plucked from across the ether of cyberspace. I don't lay claim to any of this, except where I do. 

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He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

Lao Tzu

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We can’t all, and some of us don’t. That’s all there is to it.

Eeyore, quoted in Wayward, by Vashti Bunyan

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From Gardens Where We Feel Secure, by Virginia Astley

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“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd”

Voltaire

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Maja Strgar Kurečić is a fine art photographer and an Associate Professor of photography at the Faculty of Graphic Arts, University of Zagreb, Croatia. She also has a PhD in Engineering Sciences.

Floating Garden"I started the Floating Garden series in the summer of 2019. It all began with a single rose. The rose my daughter received for her 18th birthday. This rose prompted me to think about youth, beauty, transience…

I wanted somehow to preserve it from decay, so without much planning and thinking, I put it in the water and iced it. After a while, it came to me how to shoot it in order to emphasize the delicate structure of the petals and maintain its natural color. In addition to rose petals, I began experimenting with other flowers, leaves, twigs, grasses, seeds - everything I would find in my garden. When I shoot, I pay a lot of attention to lighting and composition, frame, shapes, textures and colours.“

https://majastrgarkurecic.com/project/floating-garden/#

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Flying with Angels by Sarah Morgan

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Solace, by Held By Trees. Album cover art by James Marsh.

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The Salt Path, illustration by Angela Harding

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Moonwalk, by Angela Harding

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Hedgerow - Angela Harding

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Eugène Durieu (French, 1800 – 1874) Untitled [Seated Female Nude] 1853-54 Albumen silver print from glass negative Gilman Collection, Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Henry R. Kravis Gift, 2005

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Brassaï (French (born Romania), Brasov 1899 – 1984 Côte d’Azur) Nude 1931-34 Gelatin silver print Twentieth-Century Photography Fund, 2007 © The Estate of Brassai

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We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us

Bukowski, quoted in They sing: don’t look back, don’t be scared, don’t be scared. | 42 @ 42