Tag: Nature
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Grassphalt
Living is adapting. Nature is good at it. Humans can manage quite well too, but at what price! In their ambition to rule the world they often don’t know where to draw the line. Photo of the week: Lyon, France 2008
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Cobwebs
In Dutch one can have a head full of cobwebs, meaning you feel woolly-headed. When your head is a mess and you can’t think clearly, it may be interesting to have a good look at the cobwebs that have taken possession of your mind. They may not only be beautiful, delicate structures worthy of your…
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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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Crab art
While the termites in last week’s post impressed us with their grand architecture, here it is the drawing made on the beach by tiny crabs that pleases our aesthetic sensitivity. A sensitivity that’s probably alien to the dog that has walked right through it, although his or her footprints are a nice addition to the…
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Ant art
Ant hills can be impressive, but these termite structures in the north of Arnhem Land qualify as amazing works of art. Many a bird’s nest may leave us equally awe-struck because of its ingenuity, but it’s the sheer size of these termitariums that’s so amazing. More than man-sized, they evoke images of castles or cathedrals,…
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Green Goa
Judging from my posts of the last few weeks, you may think it is the presence of the catholic culture, brought to the region by the Portugese, that attracts me to this country in the first place. This may partially be true, but there is more. Like the whole stretch of land between the Arabian…
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Katoomba
or: nature sold as amusement park Come and discover the Scenic World of Katoomba in the Blue Mountains! With the Scenic Skyway (photo) one moves at 270 metres above the floor of the Jamison Valley in the highest cable car in Australia! If next you don’t go down into the valley with the Scenic Railway…
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Yak horns
The turning of prayer-wheels as in last week’s post, and prayer-flags in the wind in an earlier post, are efficient ways of multiplying and spreading the positive effects of the sacred texts they contain. Another very ancient custom is the use of engraved stone or animal skull and horn for spreading the mystic mantras over the face…
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White elephant
Sometimes you meet after many years an old acquaintance who greets you with the exclamation “You haven’t changed a single bit!” The same applies to the Indian Ambassador car. Since its birth in 1957 as a clone of Morris Oxford its looks have hardly changed during all those years that it has been in production. But the “sick…
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Under the Sony roof
Why this photo pleases me: The proportion and partition of light and dark parts within the frame of the picture create a strong, graphic image. The straight lines and their angles versus the curved shape of the roof create a pleasant tension. The fact that the dark part on the lower right seems to be a true multistory…
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