Category: The Americas
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Flying birds
The world of advertising isn’t the real world. The flying birds on the photo above in front of the big advertisement board of Giorgio Armani aren’t real birds. In that sense the two go well together. The beautiful woman and – sometimes – the handsome man on an advertisement photo are not available, no matter…
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Mama, look!
A tree, a plant, so immense, how can that be! The amazement starts when coming near to the base of a giant sequoia and trying to imagine the size of its circumference. Next, looking up along its trunk and seeing no end to it: the top must be somewhere high up there, scraping the sky.…
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Living monuments
Americans are used to having things big: skyscraper buildings; paper mugs for coke or weak coffee in sizes big, bigger, biggest; and trees in dimensions that are unparalleled in the world. When we are walking in the midst of giant sequoia trees we suddenly feel tiny and humble. But it is not only the sheer…
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Yosemite
It had been snowing till early spring that year in the Californian Sierra Nevada. Even by July the snow had not yet disappeared from the higher altitudes and I remember us driving, and pitching our tent, between heaps of snow in full summer. This was probably the reason why, when we came to Yosemite, impressive…
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