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| Photos by Ken Marshall Collage by Jim Swilley
"City sidewalks, busy sidewalks
Dressed in holiday style
In the air there's a feeling of Christmas
Children laughing, people passing
Meeting smile after smile
And on every street corner you hear
Silver bells, silver bells
It's Christmas time in the city
Ring-a-ling,
Hear them ring,
Soon it will be Christmas day
Strings of street lights, even stoplights
Blinkin' bright red and green
As the shoppers rush home with their treasures
Hear the snow crunch, see the kids bunch
This is Santa's big day
And above all this bustle you hear
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Tuesday, December 20, 2016
NOEL...
Tuesday, November 8, 2016
PRIDE...
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| Photos by Ken Marshall Collage by Jim Swilley |
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
- Abraham Lincoln
Sunday, November 6, 2016
YELLOW...
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| Photos by Ken Marshall Collage by Jim Swilley |
"We find from experience that yellow excites a warm and agreeable impression.... The eye is gladdened, the heart expanded and cheered, a glow seems at once to breathe toward us."
- JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Thursday, November 3, 2016
IVORY...
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| Photos by Ken Marshall Collage by Jim Swilley |
"White is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black. God paints in many colors; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white."
- G. K. Chesterton
EBONY...
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| Photos by Ken Marshall College by Jim Swilley |
“I’ve been 40 years discovering that the queen of all colors was black.”
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
MAJESTY...
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| Photos by Ken Marshall Collage by Jim Swilley |
“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.”
SERENITY...
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| Photos by Ken Marshall Collage by Jim Swilley |
"For the beauty of the earth,
For the beauty of the skies,
For the love which from our birth Over and around us lies,
(Chorus) Lord of all, to thee we raise
This our hymn of grateful praise."
- Folliott S. Pierpoint
Tuesday, November 1, 2016
MIDTOWN...
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| Photos by Ken Marshall Collage by Jim Swilley |
“A city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time”
― Patrick Geddes
ORANGE...
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| Photos by Ken Marshall Collage by Jim Swilley |
“If love were a color, it'd be orange. Not because that's a romantic color, but because it's the sweetest. If you want to know how I feel about you, I just made some juice out of it. Grab a glass— a tall one.”
― Jarod Kintz
GREEN...
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| Photos by Ken Marshall Collage by Jim Swilley |
"The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh."
- Rumi
SPECTACLE...
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| Photos by Ken Marshall Collage by Jim Swilley |
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”
— Albert Einstein
Monday, October 31, 2016
AUTUMN...
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| Photos by Ken Marshall Collage by Jim Swilley |
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
― Albert Camus
Sunday, October 30, 2016
RISE...
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| Photos by Ken Marshall Collage by Jim Swilley |
“If we learn nothing else from this tragedy, we learn that life is short and there is no time for hate.”
—Sandy Dahl, wife of Flight 93 pilot Jason Dahl, in Shanksville, Pa.
Saturday, October 29, 2016
VESSELS...
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| Photos by Ken Marshall Collage by Jim Swilley |
"Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not."
- James Taylor
PURPLE...
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| Photos by Ken Marshall Collage by Jim Swilley |
“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.”
― Alice Walker (Shug Avery to Celie in 'The Color Purple')
RIVERS...
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| Photos by Ken Marshall Collage by Jim Swilley |
Who hears the rippling of rivers will not utterly despair of anything.
- Henry David Thoreau
BOOKENDS...
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| SUNRISE AND SUNSET Ken took these two shots on the same day on the same road (L) Going East in the AM (R) Going West in the PM |
“There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them.”
- Jo Walton
FEEDBACK...
Thanks for the feedback on
http://kenmarshallpics.blogspot.com/2016/10/photo-by-howard-blount-it-takes-lot-of.html!
10/29/16
"Incredible.
This has to be the sweetest, most beautiful group of words that I've read in a very long time. I'm in awe of the way that you two bow (Namaste) to the divine spirit and gifting within each other. I love the honor and adoration you both so genuinely have for one another. It's a powerful thing to witness.
Ken's photos are completely captivating and soul stirring.,.and only Jim could frame his photography so eloquently.
...and with such heart.”
- DS
SCARLET...
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| Photos by Ken Marshall Collage by Jim Swilley |
“I hear the question upon your lips: What is it to be a colour? Colour is the touch of the eye, music to the deaf, a word out of the darkness. Because I’ve listened to souls whispering – like the susurrus of the wind – from book to book and object to object for tens or thousands of years, allow me to say that my touch resembles the touch of angels. Part of me, the serious half, calls out to your vision while the mirthful half soars through the air with your glances. I’m so fortunate to be red! I’m fiery. I’m strong. I know men take notice of me and that I cannot be resisted. I do not conceal myself: For me, delicacy manifests itself neither in weakness nor in subtlety, but through determination and will. So, I draw attention to myself. I’m not afraid of other colours, shadows, crowds or even of loneliness. How wonderful it is to cover a surface that awaits me with my own victorious being! Wherever I’m spread, I see eyes shine, passions increase, eyebrows rise and heartbeats quicken. Behold how wonderful it is to live! Behold how wonderful to see. I am everywhere. Life begins with and returns to me. Have faith in what I tell you.”
― Orhan Pamuk
FALLS...
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| Photos by Ken Marhshall Collage by Jim Swilley |
“There is a waterfall in every dream. Cool and crystal clear, it falls gently on the sleeper, cleansing the mind and soothing the soul.”
― Virginia Alison
Friday, October 28, 2016
NOCTURNE...
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| Photos by Ken Marshall Collage by Jim Swilley |
“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Sarah Williams
FAUNA...
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| Photos by Ken Marshall Collage by Jim Swilley |
“Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem.”
― A.A. Milne
CATHEDRALS...
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| Photos by Ken Marshall Collage by Jim Swilley |
"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
AZURE...
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| Photos by Ken Marshall Collage by Jim Swilley |
“Of the colors, blue and green have the greatest emotional range. Sad reds and melancholy yellows are difficult to turn up. Among the ancient elements, blue occurs everywhere: in ice and water, in the flame as purely as in the flower, overhead and inside caves, covering fruit and oozing out of clay. Although green enlivens the earth and mixes in the ocean, and we find it, copperish, in fire; green air, green skies, are rare. Gray and brown are widely distributed, but there are no joyful swatches of either, or any of exuberant black, sullen pink, or acquiescent orange. Blue is therefore most suitable as the color of interior life. Whether slick light sharp high bright thin quick sour new and cool or low deep sweet dark soft slow smooth heavy old and warm: blue moves easily among them all, and all profoundly qualify our states of feeling.”
― William H. Gass
COUNTRY...
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| Photos by Ken Marshall Collage by Jim Swilley |
"I guess my feet know where they want me to go...walking on a country road..."
- James Taylor
SEA II...
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| Photos by Ken Marshall Collage by Jim Swilley |
“My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Thursday, October 27, 2016
SEASONS...
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| Photos by Ken Marshall Collage by Jim Swilley |
"Each moment of the year has its own beauty."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
FLORA...
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| Photos by Ken Marshall Collage by Jim Swilley “The earth laughs in flowers.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson |
ATLANTA...
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| Photos by Ken Marshall Collage by Jim Swilley |
“A city isn’t so unlike a person. They both have the marks to show they have many stories to tell. They see many faces. They tear things down and make new again.”
― Rasmenia Massoud
SPECTRUM...
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| Photos by Ken Marshall Collage by Jim Swilley |
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
― Rabindranath Tagore
KEN'S PHOTOS...
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| Photo by Howard Blount |
Only a beautiful soul like Ken can capture beautiful images like this, and his eye for color really produces a cathartic and healing effect for his viewers, I think...he's not a professional photographer, and he takes all of these with his iPhone, but it's obvious to everyone who sees his photography that he definitely has a gift to arrest these speculator images in an artful way that speaks to the viewer on a very deep level...what he is able to do with what he has to work with is quite special, and I truly believe that it's not the technology of the camera that sets them apart...I know I'm biased, but I honestly think the beauty in the shots comes from the beauty of his kind heart...
I initially started putting his photos into collages because some of them are a little grainy when they're enlarged, and look more hi-def when they're small, but once I started doing it, I realized that the themes of the collages are what makes such a unique impression...I want to be a good steward of his amazing work, which is why I search for the right quote to go with each one...
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| Fort Mountain Park |
There may be chaos and negativity all around, but these scenes serve to remind us all that it still really is a beautiful world...
Enjoy!
Jim Swilley
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| Lookout Mountain, TN |
GRANDEUR...
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| Photos of the Grand Canyon by Ken Marshall Collage by Jim Swilley |
“Life wants you to touch, taste and see the grandeur of the world's unfathomable variety.”
― Bryant McGill
― Bryant McGill
FIRMAMENT...
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| Photos by Ken Marshall Collage by Jim Swilley "When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator." - Mahatma Gandhi |
FOUNTAINS...
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| Photos by Ken Marshall Collage by Jim Swilley |
“Build universal fountains for others; let people benefit from those fountains long after you are gone!”
― Mehmet Murat Ildan
DESIGN...
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| Photos by Ken Marshall Collage by Jim Swilley |
“Let design inspire your soul.”
― Samadara Ginige
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
BRIDGES...
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| Photos by Ken Marshall Collage by Jim Swilley |
"We build too many walls and not enough bridges."
- Isaac Newton
ROADS...
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| Photos by Ken Marshall Collage by Jim Swilley |
“Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn't mean to take.”
― Angela N. Blount
Monday, October 24, 2016
SUNSETS...
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| Photos by Ken Marshall Collage by Jim Swilley |
― Richard Paul Evans
SEA...
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| Key West, FLA Photo by Ken Marshall |
“I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it's because in addition to the fact that the sea changes, and the light changes, and ships change, it's because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea - whether it is to sail or to watch it - we are going back from whence we came.
[Remarks at the Dinner for the America's Cup Crews, September 14 1962]”
― John F. Kennedy
MORNING...
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| Sunrise on Hilton Head Island, SC Photos by Ken Marshall Collage by Jim Swilley “When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive—to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love—then make that day count!” ― Steve Maraboli |
REFLECTION...
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| Photographs by Ken Marshall Collage by Jim Swilley |
Similarly, if you are near a fireplace or even a candle, while the flames tend to have a calming effect, they also help you to reflect on what is really important and what you want to be doing more often. The brilliant, quiet stillness of a candle flame can have an anxiety-reducing effect on your entire being.
Believe it or not,you can actually choose to feel comfortable about how you spend your time. Philosophically speaking, up to this minute in your life, you did indeed have enough time to accomplish everything you accomplished. And that's been quite a lot. When you choose to feel comfortable about how you spend your time, it immediately helps to reduce anxiety.
You can also choose to feel good about your accomplishments. To bemoan the fact that you have only accomplished so much by such and such an age is to remain in a perpetual state of discontent. Feel good about what you have accomplished and look forward to what you will accomplish, and you will have a greater sense of control of the time in your life."
- Jeff Davidson
SUNRISE...
“There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.”
― Terry Pratchett
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