Beyond The Dunes

Beyond The Dunes, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic."
— Frank Herbert (Dune (Dune Chronicles, #1))

Beyond the dunes lies the endless ocean...

Three Dog Dusk

Three Dog Dusk, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

Music at night, and the moonlight on the sea,
The beat of waves upon the rocky shore
And wild white spray, flung high in ecstasy;
The faithful eyes of dogs, and treasured books,
The love of Kin and fellowship of friends
And all that makes life dear and beautiful.
From I Thank Thee God That I Have Lived by Elizabeth Craven (1750 - 1828)

Freedom! - Three dogs bounding along the beach at dusk...

Ebb & Flow : Come & Go

Ebb & Flow : Come & Go, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"Algebra applies to the clouds, the radiance of the star benefits the rose--no thinker would dare to say that the perfume of the hawthorn is useless to the constellations. Who could ever calculate the path of a molecule? How do we know that the creations of worlds are not determined by falling grains of sand? Who can understand the reciprocal ebb and flow of the infinitely great and the infinitely small, the echoing of causes in the abyss of being and the avalanches of creation?"
— Victor Hugo (Les Miserables)

Life's ebb and flow... good times and bad times come and go!

The Bonfire of Dusk

The Bonfire of Dusk, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life."
— Tom Wolfe (The Bonfire of the Vanities)

To my father... just a boy who died young!

The City of Brotherly Love

The City of Brotherly Love, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"I never use a big word when a diminutive word would suffice."
— Phillies coach Pete Mackanin

Thus ends this series of some of my favourite cities...

Cityscape Series #3 - Philadelphia, USA

Cast Up By The Storm

Cast Up By The Storm, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?"
— Hunter S. Thompson

I'm liking this Cinemascope letterbox format...

Cinemascope Series #3

Rich Evening Light

Rich Evening Light, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"Even after all this time
The sun never says to the earth,
"you owe me."
Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky."
— Hafiz of Shiraz

Cinemascope Series #2