Colors Of The Night

"Colors Of The Night" 2017
Copyright Julie Nygaard
Digital Photography - Canon T5

"One of my greatest obsessions is the lights of a city. Through my eyes there is nothings so delicious and rich and lovely."
-K.B. Ezzell   Elysium

Distant Love

"Distant Love" 2017
Copyright Julie Nygaard
Digital Photography Manipulation - Canon T5

"Friendships - and indeed most relationships are measured in the closeness of hearts, minds, and soul ties...not in the distance of physical miles or even the passing of time" - Rasheed Ogunlaru

Then there was hope

"Then there was hope" 2017
Copyright Julie Nygaard
Digital Photography Manipulation - Canon T5

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all"
 - Emily Dickinson 

Natural Abstraction

"Natural Abstraction" 2017
Copyright Julie Nygaard
Digital Photography - Canon T5

“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.” -William Blake

Atramentous

"Atramentous" 2017
Copyright Julie Nygaard
Digital Photography Manipulation - Canon T5

"Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore" - Edgar Allan Poe 

Cranial IV

"Cranial IV" 2017
Copyright Julie Nygaard
Digital Photography Manipulation - Canon T5

"Now panic beats and flutters inside my skull like a flock of starlings locked in an attic" - Stephen King 

Night & The City

"Night & The City" 2017
Copyright Julie Nygaard
Digital Photography Manipulation - Canon T5

“There was a sky somewhere above the tops of the buildings, with stars and a moon and all the things there are in a sky, but they were content to think of the distant street lights as planets and stars. If the light prevented you from seeing the heavens then preform a little magic and change reality to fit the need. The street lights were now planets and stars and moon"
-Hubert Selby Jr.    Requiem for a dream

Connection

"Connection" 2017
Copyright Julie Nygaard
Digital Photography Manipulation - Canon T5

"The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, & who though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden"
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Strength

"Strength" 2017
Copyright Julie Nygaard
Digital Photography - Canon T5

"Better to be strong than pretty and useless" - Lilith Saintcrow  Strange Angels 

Beauty In Darkness

"Beauty in darkness" 2017
Copyright Julie Nygaard
Digital Photography Manipulation - Canon T5

"Deep into the darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before"
- Edgar Allan Poe

Helecho

"Helecho" 2017
Copyright Julie Nygaard
Digital Photography Manipulation - Canon T5


"One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else" - K.L Toth

Waiting for the warmth of the sun

"Waiting for the warmth of the sun" 2017
Copyright Julie Nygaard
Digital Photography Manipulation - Canon T5

"Not until I met you
Not until I felt your sunshine,
Did I realize that I had been in the shade.
Not until I saw your colors,
Did I realize that mine had faded.
Not until I heard your dreams,
Did I realize that I was still sleeping.
And not until I experienced my life with you,
Did I realize that I was barely
Breathing."
-Suzy Kassem  Rise up and Salute the Sun: The Writings Of Suzy Kassem

Bricks Of Kyle

"Bricks Of Kyle" 2017
Copyright Julie Nygaard
Digital Photography Manipulation - Canon T5

"No boundary or barrier surrounds the heart of a person that loves their self and others." - Shannon L. Alder 

Tuntre

"Tuntre" 2017
Copyright Julie Nygaard
Digital Photography Manipulation - Canon T5


"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself." - William Blake 

Tesla's Lights

"Tesla's Lights" 2017
Copyright Julie Nygaard
Digital Photography Manipulation - Canon T5

"There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights."
- Bram Stoker    Dracula 

Daisies

"Daisies" 2017
Copyright Julie Nygaard
Digital Photography - Canon T5

"The earth laughs in flowers." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wish

"Wish" 2017
Copyright Julie Nygaard
Digital Photography - Canon T5

"To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect." - Jane Austen   Sense and Sensibility 

Alluring

"Alluring" 2017
Copyright Julie Nygaard
Digital Photography Manipulation - Canon T5

"She was beautiful but not like those girls in magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad, No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul. She is beautiful."  - Scott Fitzgerald 

Skyscrapers meet the moon

"Skyscrapers meet the moon" 2017
Copyright Julie Nygaard
Digital Photography Manipulation - Canon T5

"Outside the window
Sky and Earth exchange silver
In the moonlight I forget I'm human"
-Wang Xiaoni 

Of Blue Creation

"Of Blue Creation" 2017
Copyright Julie Nygaard
Digital Photography Manipulation - Canon T5


"and everything burned in blue, everything a star"  - Pablo Neruda   100 Love Sonnets 

After Grace

"After Grace" 2017
Copyright Julie Nygaard
Digital Photography Manipulation - Canon T5

"Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking."  - Fredrick Buechner   The Alphabet of Grace 

Passion

"Passion" 2017
Copyright Julie Nygaard
Digital Photography Manipulation - Canon T5

"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close."
-Pablo Neruda   100 Love Sonnets 

Hint Of Blue

"Hint Of Blue" 2017
Copyright Julie Nygaard
Digital Photography Manipulation - Canon T5

"The skyscrapers of the city had finished scraping all the sky away, and the clouds overhead were exactly the color of concrete and I was safe and cold in a canyon of glass and steel."
- Michael Montoure   Slices