Rainbow Over The City of Sails

Rainbow Over The City of Sails, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!"
— Dolly Parton

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Ghosts On The Edge

Ghosts On The Edge, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

For, what with my whole world-wide wandering,
What with my search drawn out through years, my hope
Dwindled into a ghost not fit to cope
With that obstreperous joy success would bring,
I hardly tried now to rebuke the spring
My heart made, finding failure in its scope.
- Robert Browning

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All Washed Up

All Washed Up, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe."
— Albert Camus (The Stranger)

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The Gathering

The Gathering, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have traveled, and if the future road looms ominous or unpromising, and the roads back uninviting, then we need to gather our resolve and, carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that as well."
— Maya Angelou (Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now)

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A Crisis In The Coloured Sky

A Crisis In The Coloured Sky, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"When the war of the beasts brings about the world’s end
The goddess descends from the sky
Wings of light and dark spread afar
She guides us to bliss, her gift everlasting"
— Final Fantasy Crisis Core

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Golden Eye

Golden Eye, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such"
— Henry Miller

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deGull Promenade

deGull Promenade, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"The promenade is a special subset of walking."
— Rebecca Solnit (Wanderlust: A History of Walking)

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Taking Flight

Taking Flight, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"To such beings, such fugitive beings, their own nature and our anxiety fasten wings. And even when they are with us the look in their eyes seems to warn us that they are about to take flight. The proof of this beauty itself, that wings add is that often, for us, the same person is alternately winged and wingless. "
— Marcel Proust

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Clouds In The Sand

Clouds In The Sand, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"Benedicto: May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. May your rivers flow without end, meandering through pastoral valleys tinkling with bells, past temples and castles and poets towers into a dark primeval forest where tigers belch and monkeys howl, through miasmal and mysterious swamps and down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs, where deer walk across the white sand beaches, where storms come and go as lightning clangs upon the high crags, where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you -- beyond that next turning of the canyon walls."
— Edward Abbey

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Wilderness Moon

Wilderness Moon, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness."
— John Muir

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North Island Vista

North Island Vista, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind one sees the path that never will be trod again. Wanderer, there is no road-- Only wakes upon the sea.

Caminante, son tus huellas el camino, y nada más; caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. Al andar se hace camino, y al volver la vista atrás se ve la senda que nunca se ha de volver a pisar. Caminante, no hay camino, sino estelas en la mar."
— Antonio Machado (Campos de Castilla)

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Obscured By The Dreaming Sky

Obscured By The Dreaming Sky, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"The truth was obscure,
Too profound and too pure,
To live it you had to explode"
— Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan- Where Are You Tonight? Blackbushe Camberley, England 7/15/78

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Transfixed By The Light

Transfixed By The Light, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"To the lost, transfixed among the self-inflicted ruins,
All that is non-air (if this indeed is not deception)
Is agony immobilized. While Time,
The endless idiot, runs screaming round the world."
— Carson McCullers

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Just Another Cloudage Daydream

Just Another Cloudage Daydream, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

A summer crisp with shining woods.
And I too dream'd, until at last
Across my fancy, brooding warm,
The reflex of a legend past,
And loosely settled into form.

From The Day Dream by Alfred Lord Tennyson ("Prologue" II, lines 1-5)

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Primeval

Primeval, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men, doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings)

New Zealand's Central Plateau and Mt Ngauruhoe - Mt Doom in the LOTR movies - is such a primeval landscape...

The Magic of Memory #4 - photomontage of elements from three shots

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Admiring The Dreaming Moon

Admiring The Dreaming Moon, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams.
World-losers and world-forsakers,
Upon whom the pale moon gleams;
Yet we are the movers and shakers,
Of the world forever, it seems."
— Arthur O'Shaughnessy

The Magic of Memory #3 - photomontage of elements from four shots

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