Tag: Mountains
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Enchanting Alexandrina
I visited Alexandrina early in the morning. A slanting slope of yellow grass beneath; a field of little white clouds fanning out in the sky above; and in between, Alexandrina stretched out in all her serene beauty. From afar, through a dip in the mountain range, Cook craned his neck and cast a covetous eye upon…
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Himalayan reflection
After last week’s eclipse, here’s another strange and wonderful image of and for reflection. How did this one come about? The snow mountain in the sun is the reflected image of the same in the windowpane through which I took this picture. In reality the snow mountain is behind me. If I would turn around…
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Taking distance
It is advisable to climb now and then to higher altitudes and rise above the daily cackling of one’s 7 billion fellow human beings. Not to put oneself above the group out of a misplaced sense of superiority, but rather to take some distance for a while and so have a broader view of the…
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A portrait, at last
A person’s face – the mirror of the soul …. For sure, concentration on a face can be enough for an intriguing photo. But somehow I often seem to want to include more elements. Show more of the body, of the environment. When taking pictures, I’m looking at the world, at nature, at man-made environments,…
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Showing of the flag
I was born after the Second World War in a liberated Netherlands. It had just suffered five years of occupation by Nazi Germany. I remember very well the yearly festivities during my childhood of the 5th of May, the day in 1945 that the country was liberated from its occupiers. When I visited Tibet in 1996,…
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Taking a break
We are here in the Swiss Alps at an altitude of 2000 meters on a trek around the Muverans and I am standing at the exact spot from where I took last week’s picture of landscape with horseman. While that photo clearly was a landscape, I wouldn’t call this one a landscape with goats, the…
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Landscape with horseman
As we noted in last week’s post, a picture of a beautiful landscape normally doesn’t create the emotion that the viewer experienced when he looked at it in reality and which caused him decide to take the picture. What is it then that makes a photo of a landscape potentially interesting? I don’t know if…
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Pure landscapes
Pure landscapes Standing in the middle of a beautiful landscape can be a profound experience. The wide vistas allow us to feel the immensity of space, and the sense of the earth upon which we live. This sensation is intensified also by the quality of the sounds we hear; sounds of animals or human beings…
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Redemption of man
or the cross in the mountains If God is in the detail (“Der liebe Gott steckt im Detail”, Aby Warburg), then he is more present in the fly on the cross than in the man who’s nailed to it. I, at least, have always marvelled at the fly that is taking a rest on the…
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White on white
The bathtub in the snow reveals that we are here on a mountain pasture in winter. The cows are in their shed down in the valley. The marmots are hibernating in their holes underground. And the people have closed their summer chalets and have moved to their homes lower down. The virgin blanket of snow…
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