Category Archives: France.jpg) “Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized.” - Andre Simon, Commonsense of Wine Just before noon seemed like a good time to consider tasting a few samples of the local vine’ (is there ever a bad time really?). I had no idea what was about to great me…  Tweaked, textured, and tortured in the digital darkroom……and here we are. Capture, process, and refinement…..all part of the journey! It started put as a single image captured as I explored the many alleys and cobblestone streets that make up the town of Arles in the Provincial region of France. The result here has a little…  Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” – Scott Adams I began working on this image late last night. Of course, as you can see, it morphed into another version after a little creative time in my little world. I’ve eluded to this process a few times here…  “Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry There is something about this place at…  “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau Not too much to say other than sorry I haven’t posted here in a while. Seems life gets a bit busy around this time of year. Events to light, paperwork to purge through, memories to create with… .jpg) “If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.” – Ernest Hemingway The city of light…so its been called many times. After spending a little time there over the years,… .jpg) “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” –Martin Buber Every so often, that little call of the wanderlust birdy can be heard off in the back of my head. He’s been tweeting quite a bit lately. Actually, its been more of a loud squawk! Seems to happen to me about this… .jpg) “Religion is like language or dress. We gravitate toward the practices with which we were raised. In the end, though we are all proclaiming the same thing. That life has meaning. That we are grateful for that created us.” – Dan Brown / Angels and Demons I’ve always felt that the spiritual journey is a… .jpg) “Paris is the city in which one loves to live. Sometimes I think this is because it is the only city in the world where you can step out of a railway station—the Gare D’Orsay—and see, simultaneously, the chief enchantments: the Seine with its bridges and bookstalls, the Louvre, Notre Dame, the Tuileries Gardens, the… .jpg) “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson There’s a question I like to ask people. I’m sure you have been asked this before, or at the very least asked yourself. If you could do anything at all… 
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