Acrylic paint on Canvas Travelling from one hemisphere to another and back again each year I feel as if I migrate from Winter to Summer and from Autumn to Spring – the duality of mixed hemisphere living – a fine inspiration and a little disquieting
Long exposure of the starscape from New Zealand’s South Island.
Japanese Macaque or ‘Snow Monkey’ eenjoy an onsen at Hakodate Tropical Botanical Garden on the island of Hokkaido. / / ©2008 Shannon Plummer. All Rights Reserved. / www.shannonplummerphotography.com
Koi in a pond at Meiji Jingu Inner Garden, Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan. / / ©2008 Shannon Plummer. All Rights Reserved. / www.shannonplummerphotography.com
A Japanese young boy walks alone in Meiji Jingu Gyoen (Meiji Shrine Park), Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan. February 2008 / / ©2008 Shannon Plummer. All Rights Reserved. / www.shannonplummerphotography.com
Now the world is complete. / If we could only live in peace / Oh “what a Wonderful World It woud be. / / pallette paint on vinyl album / ORIGINAL AVAILABLE FOR SALE
On the first day of Spring – in the Southern Hemisphere – the sun shone brilliantly and the balmy breezes blew. What else to do but take a walk through the bushland around my caravan? These cheery little natives caught my eye…
A collection of images from the Seasonal ‘Scapes group… Cover Image: The Outpost by Kim Cinnamon / January: Long Tail by salsbells69 / February: Not My View From Work by Stuart Chapman / March: Autumn dreams by LynEvans / April: Fog and fire by micmac / May: Island by Yani / June: NATURES WINTER MIRROR by JOHAN (photowalker) NIJENHUIS / July: The Romantiche Snowscape by Lachlan Doig / August: Ice Breaker by Kevin Kroeker / September: Canola Fields by Neil Boucher / October: Eden by Rebecca Cruz / November: The Sun Has Set on This Old Barn by PFrogg / December: Onkaparinga River Mouth, South Port Noarlunga, South Australia by Glenn Alderson Note: This is a calendar to suit the Southern Hemisphere seasons… for a Northern Hemisphere calendar, click here
A collection of images from the Seasonal ‘Scapes group… Cover Image: The Outpost by Kim Cinnamon / January: The Romantiche Snowscape by Lachlan Doig / February: Ice Breaker by Kevin Kroeker / March: Canola Fields by Neil Boucher / April: Eden by Rebecca Cruz / May: The Sun Has Set on This Old Barn by PFrogg / June: Onkaparinga River Mouth, South Port Noarlunga, South Australia by Glenn Alderson / July: Long Tail by salsbells69 / August: Not My View From Work by Stuart Chapman / September: Autumn dreams by LynEvans / October: Fog and fire by micmac / November: Island by Yani / December: NATURES WINTER MIRROR by JOHAN (photowalker) NIJENHUIS Note: This is a calendar to suit the Northern Hemisphere seasons… for a Southern Hemisphere calendar, click here
In a solitude of the sea / Deep from human vanity, / And the Pride of Life that planned her, stilly couches she. Steel chambers, late the pyres / Of her salamandrine fires, / Cold currents thrid, and turn to rhythmic tidal lyres. Over the mirrors meant / To glass the opulent / The sea-worm crawls—grotesque, slimed, dumb, indifferent. Jewels in joy designed / To ravish the sensuous mind / Lie lightless, all their sparkles bleared and black and blind. Dim moon-eyed fishes near / Gaze at the gilded gear / And query: “What does this vaingloriousness down here?”. . . Well: while was fashioning / This creature of cleaving wing, / The Immanent Will that stirs and urges everything Prepared a sinister mate / For her - so gaily great - / A Shape of Ice, for the time fat and dissociate. And as the smart ship grew / In stature, grace, and hue / In shadowy silent distance grew the Iceberg too. Alien they seemed to be: / No mortal eye could see / The intimate welding of their later history. Or sign that they were bent / By paths coincident / On being anon twin halves of one August event, Till the Spinner of the Years / Said “Now!” And each one hears, / And consummation comes, and jars two hemispheres. Poem by Thomas Hardy In memory of them all Music – Titanic / James Horner – Hymn To The Sea Painting in acrylics 25th December 2008
Southern Ocean Storm © Vicki Ferrari Looking east from Emu Park, Queensland, Australia. The Southern Cross, and the two pointers, are visible on the right hand side. The two bright lights on the ocean are ship lights. And there is lightning (bonus!) breaking through the storm clouds on the left / Vicki Purchase Card / Purchase Laminated Print / / Purchase Framed Print / Purchase Mounted Print / Technical Data / Nikon D70 / 18mm focal / f3.5 / manual exposure (30 secs) / Taken 25/3/05 27th December 2009 / 1573 views / 37 Favourites
Among the wettest place on our Earth, where sandflies can’t get enough of you. / Amazing NZ.
Done at Art Garden art gallery in Okayama, Japan. This image was created specifically for the gallery. It was our way of saying ‘thank you’ as they were kind enough to let us use the space at night. We look forward to doing some joint art projects with them in the future. Camera: Canon EOS 40D / Exposure: 161 / Aperture: f/7.1 / Focal Length: 20 mm / ISO Speed: 100
Finally! / With the coming of autumn here in the southern hemisphere and the occasional day of rain – a few small mounds of REAL MOSS have grown between the rocks on the banks of Merri Creek, Darebin Parklands, in Melbourne!!! / This is a super macro image of an extremely small section of one of these little mounds which is no more than 10cm in diameter in total – it shows a micro ‘river’ of water caught between the tiny growths… Sony Alpha 350, Sony 100mm Macro Lens + 3x Extension Tubes, Focal Length 100mm, f8.0 @ 1/160 Sec Exp, ISO 800, Handheld. As Is from the camera. FEATURED IN ‘THE LOVE OF EERIE AND ENCHANTING ARTWORK’! FEATURED IN ‘GREEN’! FEATURED IN ‘PHOTOGRAPHY 101’! !
Being August 1st it is the official birthday of horses and ponies in the southern hemisphere…here is my dedication!!!! / share and share alike / roll in the mud when possible / be kind to other creatures even if they are made from wood / show off and be silly every oncein a while…especially if you’re a stallion! / look your absolute cutest at all times / take time to kick up your hooves / and smell the silverbeet / and kiss the dog no matter how much he annoys you / make time for idle chat / share nap time with friends / cuddle your human / get plenty of sleep / AND DON’T FORGET TO…Chew that funny box thing in your human’s hand!
pastel art. Many thanks beth for the inspiration / dawn’s website / zazzle / / /
One evening few years ago I was walking at the Kings Cross suburb of Sydney. It was already dark, but a high-rise building above me did not have a single light in any of its 350 rooms. It was a somewhat scary to stand by this huge abandoned giant in a centre of the city. The sign on the top read “Millennium Hotel”. My mind started to picture apocalyptic stories about what might have happened to it in few years past the new millennium. I didn’t know that time that it was closed for the complete renovation. And here we go, $98m and few years later building is transformed into modern 37-storey Zenith Apartments tower. What a stunning view over the city it must be from its roof top. P.S. The Coca Cola Billboard is a character itself being the heritage-listed and largest billboard in the Southern Hemisphere. This is a vertical panorama or a vertorama as it is called sometimes. I took 2 sets of 3 AEB shots from a tripod (one centering on the Coke sign and another one for the top of the building). Those were later combined into a single HDR (4129×4720) and then tonemapped. Location: Darlinghurst Road, Potts Point, New South Wales, Australia > featured in HDR Photography (13-Sep-09) From my photoblog at http://www.bouncedphoton.com This print is available with 0% markup. Please enjoy and thank you for your visit!
Excited kids playing under the night sky in the balmy air of Christmas Eve. 8×12 Oil on canvas. Top ten in the ‘Celebration’ challenge for Painters in Modern Times – Dec 2009 / Featured in Painted Nature – Dec 2009
Is the green grass growing all around? No snow? / Here’s a card for that…..
A Sterling2 Fractal
One of the Best Translations for me of Hafiz’s work is a book called ‘The Gift’ by Daniel Ladinsky / Here is a gift of a poem translated… / By Hafiz / . / All the Hemispheres / . Leave the familiar for a while. Let your senses and bodies stretch out Like a welcomed season Onto the meadow and shores and hills. Open up to the Roof. Make a new watermark on your excitement And love. Like a blooming night flower, Bestow your vital fragrance of happiness And giving Upon our intimate assembly. Change rooms in your mind for a day. All the hemispheres in existence Lie beside an equator In your heart. Greet Yourself In your thousand other forms As you mount the hidden tide and travel Back home. All the hemispheres in heaven Are sitting around a fire Chatting While stitching themselves together Into the Great Circle inside of You.
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