Tag: Nature
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Glacial milk
Glacial milk It can be white, but also grey or turquoise, depending on the mineral composition of the rock that is ground by the glacier on its slow way down. The rock flour collected in the melt water of the glacier is so fine that it remains suspended, giving the water its cloudy (milky) look.…
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Dissected and compounded
Dissected and compounded A breast, a breast with arm, a head, a neck, black hairdo … the figure of a woman put together of its constituent parts. The artist has done a decent job, at least for the portion we see in the picture, which was the part of the sculpture most to my liking when I…
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Dryads
Dryads Are they wounded, these stately wood nymphs with their heavy breasts? The red-lined cuts over the full length of their bodies lead one to suspect this is the case. Maybe the god of thunder and lightning has violated them and left his marks. Many years ago, during a walk on the island of Corsica,…
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Encounter in the forest
Encounter in the forest Two weeks ago I showed you a photo of nature as art. Here we have a case of art in nature. Art and nature … they often go well together. Two ladies in the forest, facing each other. Their upright, elegant figures in wood with metal dress stand still like the trees.…
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Natura Artis Magistra
Natura Artis Magistra With this title I am not aiming at the Zoo in Amsterdam, but at the meaning of the words: nature is the teacher of art. Nature as source of inspiration for the arts. I took the photo just outside the wall of Chisaku-in, a temple in Kyoto. It looks like a nice…
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Ελαιώνας
Ελαιώνας Elaionas is the Greek word for olive grove. On the island of Aegina there is a genuine, centuries-old olive grove with trees that are 500 years old and one specimen that is even more than 1,500 years old. What astonishing creatures! The fact that they have reached such a venerable age, with all those…
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The umbrellas of Kinkaku-ji
The umbrellas of Kinkaku-ji Again three, and well placed, like in last weeks picture! The fact that these three colourful umbrellas have come together in Kinkaku-ji Park is pure coincidence.Whether it’s deliberate or by chance: for me, as a photographer, it’s only the result that counts. Photo of the week: Kinkaku-ji (Golden Temple) park, Kyoto,…
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Wanaka skyscape
Wanaka skyscape Apart from the colours, the aerial view I once saw above Lake Wanaka resembles the landscape I sometimes see from my window in the Himalayas: rolling mountain ranges rising out of the mist above a layer of low-hanging clouds.The aerial view in the photograph is nothing more than ‘a visible mass of condensed…
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Still waters …
Still waters … run deep. That is indeed the impression we get when we look at them from the right perspective, as we did in last week’s post when we looked down upon Diamond Lake. But here, standing on the overgrown bank of the lake, we see nothing but a reflection in the still water.…
