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Desert Art
The painters mentioned in last week’s post, as the painters of the works you see here, are all part of the Papunya Tula group of artists that live in the Western Desert region of Australia. Their collectively owned company, with a studio in the Western Desert and a gallery in Alice Springs, dates back to…
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Modern art
It is interesting to see Aboriginal art exhibited in a context of old and contemporary art from other parts of the world, as is the case in the Art Gallery of New South Wales. When I visited this museum in Sydney I was impressed to see how well the Aboriginal art collection holds between the rest.…
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Sand sand sand
For once it’s me in the picture, and the credit for this photo has to go to my wife. Maybe she took it because I’m about to disappear and she’s afraid of seeing the last of me! We are not crossing a desert but a desolate sand beach on a day with very strong cold…
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Rain forests
When I hear the word ‘rain forest’ I usually think of a ‘luxuriant tropical forest with heavy rainfall’, in accordance with the definition given by my Oxford dictionary. But there are also rain forests in temperate climates. These forests are luxuriant too, be it not hot and damp as the tropical ones, but cool and moist. The…
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Fern trees
For millions of years New Zealand has been isolated from the rest of the world. That’s why nature could develop on these islands without much interference from outside. The result is that about 80% of the plants and trees in New Zealand are only found there and nowhere else on Earth. Interestingly, certain species can also…
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Sleeping beauty
The bacchante sleeps off her glow of last night’s pleasure under the attentive eyes of a row of men. Only they can see from their point of view that this Maenad is actually a hermaphrodite. The generous curves of her soft, feminine body are beyond their reach. The kouros stands tall in the characteristic posture…
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Natural beauty
Tanned by the burning rays of the sun weather-beaten according to age breathing pure mountain air marked by culture and tradition slightly amused, somewhat concerned ………….. Two living feminine faces of Kumaon. Photo of the week: Almora, Uttarakhand, India 2013
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The three graces
Three raven-haired mountain graces looking intently at life in the valley below. Even from behind and fully dressed they’re beautiful. Quite different from Canova’s three graces whose charming postures I can admire daily on a picture postcard in my room. Women together in a world of their own: wherever, ever a treat for the eye. Photo of…
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Charming Creek
From 1928 onward, the Charming Creek Valley on the west coast of New Zealand’s South Island became the scene of industrious coal-mining activity. A small railway track was built through the valley along the creek to transport the coal from the mine, which was about 10 kilometer inland, to the coast. After 30 years the…
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Battlefield after the battle
Judging from the stumps that are left of them, the trees that once inhabited this little valley must have formed a nice and green copse. Something like the one nearby in the picture below. But alas, they were no match for the army of humans that came and felled each one of them with their chainsaws…
καιρός remembered
… the right moment, position chosen, shoot …
καιρός remembered 