Category: Oceania
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Images of virginal purity (2)
Images of virginal purity (2) The stunning Okains Bay on the stunning Banks Peninsula on New Zealand’s stunning South Island.Sit back, enjoy the view, close your eyes and let your mind wander. Photo of the week: Okains Bay, Banks Peninsula, South Island, New Zealand 2013
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Images of virginal purity (1)
Images of virginal purity (1) Sweeping views across a vast, deserted beach. But then, in the far distance, we make out three tiny dark specks – people smaller than sand fleas, blown away by the wind.Farewell at Farewell Spit. Photo of the week: Farewell Spit, North shore, Golden Bay, South Island, New Zealand 2013
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Waves, trapped …
Waves, trapped … in rock by a constant interplay of sun, rain and wind in sandby the wind, and soon gone again with the wind in cement by an artist who dreams of capturing a fleeting moment in emulsion by light falling on a film coated with silver gelatine Photo of the week: Rainbow…
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Ensemble of limbs
Ensemble of limbs Looking at the legs in unison in last week’s post I remembered this photo that I took once in a shopping mall in Sydney. Then too it had been the configuration of limbs that had incited me to take out my camera. The people spread out in the circle, on the chairs and…
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White magic
White magic The deserted flatland near Mount Conner – visible in the distance on the far right – that we already saw in last week’s post gets here and there magically lit up by dry salt lakes. White magic from the ancestral beings! Photos of the week: Salt lakes in Central Australia near Mount Conner,…
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3 persons / km²
3 persons / km² Australia, the 6th largest country in the world, measures about 7.7 million km². With its 24 million people it is one of the least densely populated countries on earth, only 3 inhabitants per km². Quite a difference with my tiny home country The Netherlands which has more than 400 people per…
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Desert Art
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…
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Modern art
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…
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Sand sand sand
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…
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Rain forests
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…
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