W/E reblog from landscapelifescape:
The Bamboo Forest, Kyoto, Japan
Yemen 38 (window pane 4)
Yemen 39 (window pane 5) This group warmly invited us to join them for lunch.
If my son stays long enough in yemen I may well revisit Yemen and will be interested in finding better ways of connecting and making sense of what I see through the ‘windows’ of my visitors eyes.
Feel free to comment on this topic.
Yemen 37 (window pane 3)
Yemen 36 (window pane 2)
A rally near the Sydney Opera House yesterday saw 1000 photographers gather to protest the bureaucratic fees and obstacles that increasingly get in the way of photographers practicing their art. Signs read “Capture the Moment not the Photographer”,” Guilty of Promoting Australia” and their were lots of T Shirts with the message “I am a Photographer NOT a Terrorist”. Speakers reminded us of the link between photography and the environmental movement as well as in promoting Australia internationally. Great to see such a good turn out and hopefully sense will again prevail.
Yemen 35 window pane 1
A slight reprise on Yemen made up of street scenes. When visiting a country where one doesn’t speak or read the language, the men carry big knives and the women are covered it is hard to make much sense of what one sees. We were often greeted warmly possibly in part because there are almost no tourists at present. I have decided to add these slices of street life over the next 5 days to share something of the experience of looking through a window at others that was a part of this Yemen trip. Obviously one always does that to varying degrees but I liked on revisiting my Yemen images how these images say something about that aspect of traveling for me.
![WE reblogged from liquidnight:
Andrew Wyeth
Christina’s World
Tempera on gessoed panel, 1948
“The woman in the painting is Christina Olson (May 3, 1893 - January 27, 1968). She had an undiagnosed muscular deterioration [most likely Polio] that paralyzed her lower body. Wyeth was inspired to create the painting when through a window from within the house he saw her crawling across a field. Wyeth Bhad a summer home in the area and was on friendly terms with Olson, using her and her younger brother as the subject of paintings from 1940 to 1968. Although Olson was the inspiration and subject of the painting, she was not the primary model — Wyeth’s wife Betsy posed as the torso of the painting. Although the woman in the painting appears young, Olson was 55 at the time Wyeth created the work.”](http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l76j3kPiyN1qzhl9eo1_500.jpg)
WE reblogged from liquidnight:
Tempera on gessoed panel, 1948
“The woman in the painting is Christina Olson (May 3, 1893 - January 27, 1968). She had an undiagnosed muscular deterioration [most likely Polio] that paralyzed her lower body. Wyeth was inspired to create the painting when through a window from within the house he saw her crawling across a field. Wyeth Bhad a summer home in the area and was on friendly terms with Olson, using her and her younger brother as the subject of paintings from 1940 to 1968. Although Olson was the inspiration and subject of the painting, she was not the primary model — Wyeth’s wife Betsy posed as the torso of the painting. Although the woman in the painting appears young, Olson was 55 at the time Wyeth created the work.”
WE reblog via sealmaiden:
Vincent Van Gogh
Road with cypress under a starry sky 1890
oil on canvas
Karijini 20
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Karijini 19
Karijini 18 NOTE panoramas don’t really work on tumblr so go HERE to see it properly
Karijini 17
Karijini 16