Tag: Nature
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Assembly
Assembly The men look down on the Piazza del Popolo in Rome. I thought of giving them some distraction with a girl in Paestum making her toilet. Photos of the week: (left) Piazza del Popolo, Rome 1998, and (right) Sculpture souvenir shop, Paestum 2000, Italy
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Marine sculptures
Marine sculptures Meeting with the installation Migrations by Marguerite Humeau at the Venice Biennale my first reaction is: this isn’t for me. Her strange sculptures don’t appeal to me, falling completely outside of my esthetic framework. The three sculptures have names of important oceanic currents and the accompanying text talks about ‘supernatural, biomorphic sculptures’ and…
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Maiktoli
Maiktoli And then, in the late sun at the end of the day, Maiktoli peak suddenly shows up between the dramatic bank of clouds hanging over the Nanda Devi chain of Himalayan mountain tops. Photo of the week: Maiktoli peak (6803 m), view from Kasardevi-Almora, India 2021
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Monsoon skies
Monsoon skies Towards the end of the monsoon, when the rainwater tanks are filled up again to the brim, the clouds suddenly disperse and the sky opens up. I love the monsoon in the mountains, and not just the end of it. Photo of the week: View at Binsar, Kasardevi-Almora, Uttarakhand, India 2019
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A shroud of secrecy
A shroud of secrecy The monsoon haze almost blocks the view of the undulating hills in front of us, laying a shroud of secrecy over the landscape. Our beautiful, precious Earth. Photo of the week: Monsoon haze, view from Kasardevi, Almora, India 2021
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Nympha
Nympha Paolo Fantin, in his installation Lympha at the Venice Biennale, shows us a ‘nympha’ enveloped in pure white and light, but with dirty mud at her feet. It’s the nymph Daphne who has tried hard to escape from the passionate, aggressive advances by Apollo. In the end she finds a way out by turning…
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La Conca – wet
When the lower-lying parts of the eroded rocky coastline at La Conca are submerged at high tide, this is what they look like. The water in the small pools forms interesting, murky patterns, giving the seascape a vibrant and beautiful appearance. Photo of the week: Coast at La Conca, Isola di San Pietro, Sardinia, Italy…
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La Conca – dry
La Conca – dry This is what the eroded rocky coastline looks like at La Conca, on the southernmost tip of Isola di San Pietro, just off the coast of south-western Sardinia. At normal high tide, no seawater appears to be flowing in, as the small hollows have completely dried up. If that were the…
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Stillness
Stillness The silence is audible. Not necessarily because there is no sound to be heard. A voice in the distance, beneath the vast sky, can actually heighten the sense of overwhelming silence.Silence can also be seen, as the photograph shows. The calm surface of the sea; the vast, empty sky; the faint, almost transparent colours…
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Chatting with Bonnie
Chatting with Bonnie Last night as I lay on my pillowLast night as I lay on my bedLast night as I lay on my pillowI dreamed that my Bonnie was dead Bring back, bring backOh, bring back my Bonnie to me, to me!….. Photo of the week: Chaloklum Bay, Koh Phangam, Thailand 2019
