Category: Australia
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Fairy queens
Fairy queens Well, they are real, those fairy queens which I imagined seeing in last week’s post. No need to touch them for making sure. I look at them, they look at me, and most of the enchantment is gone. A sad look, a faint smile … we’re back on earth. The fairy-tale costumes can’t…
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Tactile Arts
Tactile Arts A ceramics exhibition at the Tactile Arts gallery in Darwin. What holds attraction for me though is not inside but at the other side of the window. Do I see it right, this fairylike spectacle? Tactile Arts. To touch is to feel is to make sure. But no, let’s not spoil the illusion.…
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Pub in Perth
Pub in Perth Came here for a beer. Liked the atmosphere. The screens above the bar. The animated people. The girl in bikini with hat. Photo of the week: Cafe in Perth, Australia 2013
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Keep distance!
Keep distance! I don’t think there are many people who don’t recognize the Sydney Opera House in this picture. Its design and location on the waterfront have made it into an iconic image of modern architecture. In pictures you always see it from a distance. Then it shows up well. But beware of going closer!…
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Elegant roots
Elegant roots Can a root master the art of fencing? Can a root stretch its legs to the tip of its toes? Can a root gracefully lift one leg up in the air? The roots of mangroves can do all that and much more. Photos of the week: Mangrove roots on the beach of Goulburn…
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Skeleton at sunrise
In last week’s post I showed you this dilapidated house from the other side. A very different picture giving a very different impression. This is the same house – and tree – lit up by the early rays of the sun. And this is the sun as it had just risen above the sea. I…
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After the blaze
A house almost burnt down, the fire still flaring up. That’s what it looked like but in fact it was a dilapidated house of which only frame and roof were still standing, while behind it the sun had just come up above the horizon. Fire was there, but far away, … some 150 million km.…
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Nude scene
A modern living-room with a view. A sleepy man in his chair. A naked woman moves through the frame with her attractive voluptuous figure. The man doesn’t even bat an eyelid. What an inconceivable fool! This line of thought came to my mind when I took the picture. In actual fact this is what I…
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Black is beautiful
A black woman and a woman in black against a black background. When I walked into a bank in Alice Springs and saw this tableau I couldn’t resist taking a picture. It is at moments like this that I love the world, this wonderful world. The woman in black is clearly an Aboriginal girl, but…
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Death of an anthropologist
I haven’t found an explanation by the Aboriginal painter July Dowling about this work of hers. Whatever I say about it will be guesswork. But it is interesting, and probably not without significance, to note that apart from red ochre and synthetic paint, blood has been used in the painting. The three Aboriginal women’s faces in…
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