MiguelATF's photos with the keyword: blackandwhite

“One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore.” ― J.K. Rowling Ira wearing his frog socks, sitting on his father's lap while camping in the great outdoors.

“It illuminated a vision Dante could not have imagined in his wildest nightmares, nor Poe in the grasp of an uncontrollable delirium.” ― Alan Dean Foster Alien-looking seedpods in an Oregon garden, seen through a spherical lensball.

"We will have rings and things and fine array." (William Shakespeare) My friend D.H. showing me his rings.

“Don't you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask? Do you think life always lets itself be trifled with? Do you think you can sneak off a little before midnight to escape this?” ― Søren Kierkegaard A visiting friend, wearing her "Wolverine" hoodie.

“Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.” ― Dave Barry Stuffed toy dog, in an emporium in Ashland, Oregon.

“I had a definite sense of somehow being a passenger in an evil vehicle crusing through Paradise.” ― Sam Shepard Chevrolet sedan parked on the street in a southern Oregon town that hasn't changed that much since the 1950's.

“That man, especially when he slept, when his features were motionless, showed me my own face, my mask...” ― Vladimir Nabokov “We are all born mad. Some remain so.” ― Samuel Beckett Taking a photo of a reflection of a photo of the photographer.

“A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin Rusted machines in the front yard of a rural home, outside of Gold Hill, Oregon.

“When I got the tattoo, I knew I was drawing a crooked line between myself and society.” ― Warren Ellis A tattooed mannequin in a shopwindow, in Ashland, Oregon.

“If frogs had side pockets, they'd carry hand guns.” ― Dan Rather Plastic toy frog for sale in the local supermarket in Talent, Oregon.

“You're not allowed to have legs and not use them. Dance.” ― Dianna Hardy Disembodied legs protruding from an automobile transmission - advertising an automotive repair shop, in Central Point, Oregon.

“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all.” ― Stephen King Giant larger-than-lifesize cardboard cutout of the school mascot at a southern Oregon university.

Yo que sentí el horror de los espejos no sólo ante el cristal impenetrable donde acaba y empieza, inhabitable, un imposible espacio de reflejos (Jorge Luis Borges) I have felt the horror of mirrors not only before the impenetrable glass where it finishes and it begins, uninhabitable, an impossible space of reflections Taken with my new (to me) GX8 camera.

“I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals; I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.” ― Roland Barthes An old rusted Plymouth sedan, parked alongside a rural highway in southern Oregon.