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This is the first painting derived from a drive out to a place near Ballarat, called Sister’s Rocks. I can’t remember how I heard about it but I’d really enjoyed painting “Thunderbolt’s Rock”, an earlier work with a similar theme. Sister’s Rocks is an amazing place and very spooky. I’m sure it must have been an important place for indigenous people. It was perfect for my purposes and I’m sure I will probably paint different aspects, of what is a much bigger site than the painting shows, later. Like most of my paintings, this is a pretty heavily edited version of the real place. All of the graffiti is invented and I’ve modified the forms of the rocks to make them a little more monolithic. It was also the middle of the day and about 40 degrees in the shade when we were there- so, as is often the case, I had to imagine more atmospheric conditions… I called the painting “The History Wars” after struggling to come up with a title. The debate currently going on in academe about history seemed to resonate with some of the things I was trying to get across- in the sense that, despite all the present bickering (and your own bias on the reading and recounting of Australian history), these rocks were here long before people and will no doubt be here long after we are gone. The graffiti is meant to indicate this transience, as well as being really interesting graphically- and fun to paint!
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I couldn’t really think of a title for this shot, I tend to really be bad at doing that and well, the title of this kinda just popped in my head….I was just getting ready to leave Washington Park in Denver, when I happened to glance over and noticed this, and it just sorta caught my eye, the color, the light, the symmetry of the whole scene…so I went ahead and swung my tripod around and shot a few of the scene. Processed in HDR, let me know what ya think! More of my work can be seen on my website at jdebordphoto.com
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Cill Chrisosd church ruins and graveyard on a stormy evening, road to Elgol, Isle of Skye, Scotland
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Brocken Spectre and Glory 1/6/2007 near Yarra Glen, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. © Copyright Ern Mainka Brocken Spectre and Glory ....The Brocken Spectre is the three dimensional shadow at the centre. It is dark air extending from the person/photographer all the way into the distance. Brocken shadows look triangular and large because of this. ....Glories (similar looking to a rainbow) form by diffraction, reflection and refraction of sunlight through water/mist droplets. Their formation involves surface waves as well as internal reflections. The number of rings and their angular extent is a function of the size distribution of the water droplets that compose clouds. With larger droplets the rings are more tightly packed. The clearer the colors appear in the fringes, the tighter the size distribution of the droplets (closer to one single size). Glories are polarized radially in the outer color fringes but tangentially in the center. / - / Brocken Spectre / A Brocken spectre (German Brockengespenst), also called Brocken bow or mountain spectre is the apparently enormously magnified shadow of an observer, when the Sun is low, cast upon the upper surfaces of clouds. If the observer is in an aeroplane, the shadow of the aeroplane is cast. The phenomenon can appear on any misty mountainside or cloud bank, but the frequent fogs and low-altitude accessibility of the Brocken, a peak in the Harz Mountains in Germany, have created a local legend. The spectre was observed and described by Johann Silberschlag in 1780, and has since been recorded often in literature about the region. The ‘Spectre’ appears when the sun shines from behind a climber who is looking down from a ridge or peak into mist. The light projects the climber’s shadow forward through the mist, often in an odd triangular shape due to perspective. The apparent magnification of size of the shadow is an optical illusion that occurs when the observer judges his shadow on relatively nearby clouds to be at the same distance as faraway land objects seen through gaps in the clouds. The shadow also falls on water droplets of varying distances from the eye, confusing depth perception. The ghost can appear to move (sometimes quite suddenly) because of the movement of the cloud layer. The head of the figure is often surrounded by the glowing halo-like rings of a glory (Heiligenschein), rings of coloured light that appear directly opposite the sun when sunlight is reflected by a cloud of uniformly-sized water droplets. ....More here .
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another dark and mysterious landscape shot with Infrared film early one morning while I was staying at a friends place in the Hunter Valley. I’d gotten up very early to shoot for the rising sun and on my way to a place I call the ‘big valley’ .... on account of the very big valley there…... I past this hill just as the morning light hit the peak of it which makes it look like its been topped with icecream somehow. The radience of the light on this hilly peak gives the shot a different sort of drama that really appeals to me in this warm and temperate land that really never gets snow except in a few tiny places. So this then is a pretend snow topped mountain in place that is almost perfectly perfect…....
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The old chapel at the bottom of the hill at Monsalvat in Eltham, Victoria, Australia. Montsalvat consists of a series of unique and distinctive buildings in the European style set in over 12 acres of parkland. A lot of materials came from the many beautiful buildings of Melbourne that were being demolished to make way for modernization. The addition of mud bricks, rammed earth, the local mud stone , bush timbers, and a great deal of hard labour, Justus Jörgensen’s vision took form. A stitch of 5 3 exposure HDR’s so 15 images in total, black and white conversion in Adobe Lightroom and added in some grass to make the foreground a bit more interesting. Stitched together in Adobe Photoshop CS3 My other photo of Monsalvat here Click here for my other images of Victoria
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Stronge light shafts bursting through forest foliage onto cascading Water. Wide angle long exposure capture using Gradient Filters.
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Sunset from the western slopes of Haleakala Maui Hawai`i “Well, I found you in the twilight garden, / Laid a lover’s hand upon your shoulder, / And we both were made aware of loving / Past the reach of reason to unravel, / Or the much desiring heart to follow. There we heard the breath among the grasses / And the gurgle of softly running water, / Well contented with the spacious starlight, / The cool wind’s touch and the deep blue distance, / Till the dawn came in with golden sandals.” Poetry by Sappho Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi / Shooting Date/Time 01 June 2008 20:13:57 / Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/200 / Av( Aperture Value ) 8.0 / ISO Speed 100 / Lens EF28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM / Focal Length 60.0 mm Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved
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Spring time moonrise through a vibrant atmosphere, the darkness gently enfolding the the landscape and softly quenching the last of the suns light….........the air glowing with transient beauty and lost in deep perspective.
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if you look closely at the gap in the clouds top centre, it looks like a roaring dragon, which matched the mood and feel of Coniston Water on this day. Shot in the Lake District in Cumbria
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The Castle of the Silver Otter Highlands Scotland. / /
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The Hidden
by KenartHidden Chapel. Highlands Scotland / / /
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This began with an extremely foggy morning….and I was in awe of the quiet and the beauty that surrounded me as I sat there listening to the Pheasant in a distance…listening as they got closer and soon they were here…..I listened as they sang that sweet song that I have in my memories, and their graceful bodies silhouetted against the cool damp fog…...they came in very close this day and it was as if I was invisible to them…..I could almost touch them as I sat there in the stillness, just me and them, nothing else mattered – life was good! shot in Anderson, Ca 2008 / /
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Loch Slapin Skye Scotland / /
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Scotland / /
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Towards Soay, Hebrides, Scotland. / /
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Black Cullins, Skye, Hebrides, Scotland! / / / Near the Northern island of the saint and the illuminated manuscript / I was told I like blondes but I’ve never been with one. But you were. Sitting, striking the arm of my armchair reading by the light of my very old lamplight and listening to the wind as it cried across the Viking Dun above the beach of the dead whales. Wondering about these islands that I’ve come to in latter times. The small one is Inch with my name. You were like the islands, blonde when I first knew you but not later. Perhaps you were elder races later, remember the red heron? The red hill fox Tod comes down from beyond the wrecks this time in the evening and the grey ghost lady watches through reflections in the screen of this machine. Now there are enough clues to find this imrich should you wish to. The rabbits scream their death scream and good riddance to the too healthy heathen invaders. After visiting who would have thought of living here, except the rabbits. Cull when it is dark and when it is light it is always light. The ancient still was still up in the rocks away from the revenue and the song of the isles. Not used now because the church car parks are much more full and skua sift amongst the town rubbish. The beach of Whiskey galore. A Basking shark took the skin from my legs as the old man drank his poteen kept under the box in the stern of that other country. The blood seeped in pin pricks turning blue in the Erin green cold over the deeps. Towels for blood that was monks monthly girlish, they said and I did not believe them. It has a collective strength to all but these but only if you do not take them too seriously. I’ve never been able to complete S because he is boring, or J’s Memory, Dreaming and Reflecting on it even though he is an archetypal hero. Although I have tried since I’ve been here and been there. I walked down a jetty on the west coast of another country a lot like this and found Wittgenstein’s house living there and of all the surprises that was one that lived a loved along the riverun from swerve of bend to curve of shore. Nearby the whales made sausages for the Congo. Blood on the water of the Minch. Distant times and relative pleasant times watching the seal life. Being able to identify most and record the drawings that I still have. Stinking in the Gannets. Screaming with the ghost shearwater that frightened others who did not know. It was like a murder. Standing on the cliff watching the breakers and smoking a young boy perched in the rock chimney hundreds above the waves. Life was light and thinking was straight. The spiral was a symbol of humour and joy and you put leaves on it to show it growing. There was a spiral carved in a cave and hidden. We watched it and followed the lines with our pencils. It is still hidden and we were still following.
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Scotland / /
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Black Cullins, Skye, Hebrides, Scotland / /
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Cullins, Skye, Hebrides, Scotland. / /
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Looking over the Sound of Sleat from Skye. / /
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Skye, Hebrides, Scotland / /
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Western Isles, Scotland / /
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Pentax Optio S30 / Location / Bieszczady – Poland / This is view from my place in Poland,this was taken during the visit my family in 2006 it was really beautiful long winter ;) /
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