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©2007-2008 Aimee Stewart, Foxfires – please see my CC Terms of Use before considering using this image for any personal or commercial use http://foxfires.deviantart.com/journal/6266450/ / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—- “When the wind is blowing and the sleet or rain is driving against the dark windows, I love to sit by the fire, thinking of what I have read in books of voyage and travel.” – Charles Dickens “Let your bookcases and your shelves be your gardens and your pleasure-grounds. Pluck the fruit that grows therein, gather the roses, the spices, and the myrrh.” ~Judah Ibn Tibbon “A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.” / William Styron “A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way” / Caroline Gordon All stock credits can found HERE – click to view My other picture in this series, called Ex Libris, can be found here: /
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Ink on paper illustration from a book I have written and illustrated. This character is largely inspired by Edgar Allan Poe and an array of depressive songwriters I have encountered.
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The beautiful Mortlock Library – North Terrace Adelaide, early morning shot. Such amazing lighting in this building, especially following the wall lines on the ground floor.
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Classic cars calendar … / Vector dogs calendar … / Book of drawings … / Animals and birds / Cartoons / Cars, trucks & tractors / Drawings / Illustrations / Portraits / Rust / Vector art
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/ The Mortlock Library. / North Terrace, Adelaide – South Australia. / Pentax DS. 18mm. / HDR – Three exposures (-2, 0, +2) / Combined and tonemapped in Photomatix and finished to black and white in CS3. / Be sure to check out the new group TUNNEL VISION
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Placed in Top Ten in “Best of L Challenge” in Alphabet Soup March 7, 2009. / Featured in Alphabet Soup March 2, 2009. / Featured in Amazing Orton Effect November 18, 2008. The famous Celcus Library, at Ephesus, Turkey, was built in A.D. 135 by Julius Aquila in memory of his father, Celsus Polemaeanus of Sardis, Roman Senator and Proconsul of the province of Asia. As I just wrote to Bela, “I wish I could take artistic credit for the perspective on this shot, but truth to tell, I was in the midst of a mass of people so dense if one person sneezed, we’d have all gone over like dominoes!!!! I was desperate to “capture” the magnificence of this structure, so UP was the only way to shoot!!!” Photo taken July 31, 2005 with the Olympus C-5000 zoom.
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Mixed Media on Arches watercolor paper / (acrylic artist’s colors, oil pastel, Graphite) / 2006 SOLD
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Taken in a friends shed. Used a lot before the internet was available. / Taken with a Canon 350D / 1/8 sec / F4 / ISO 200
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Oskar was right, civic square comes into its own sometime around midnight.
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Watercolour illustration. This is my cat, Monkey. She’s a very good model because she only moves if someone does it for her. I wanted to paint the peace I find amongst shelves of books.
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Featured in Historic Churches Group May – 27 – 2009 / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—- Nikon D300 Sigma 15/30 / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-- Admont Benedictine Monastery Admont Benedictine Monastery lies in the market town of Admont in Austria at the entrance to the Gesäuse National Park. It was founded in the year 1074 by Archbishop Gebhard of Salzburg and is thus the oldest extant foundation in Styria. The Admont Benedictines attempt to live by the Rule of St. Benedict (“house rules” for a monastic community), which through its breadth and depth has achieved much of important over the centuries and indubitably offers orientation for the future. The rhythm of their life is stamped by prayer, the fulfilment of manifold tasks in pastoral care, education, culture and in social areas and through the personal deepening of their lives. In this God is always the central point. This is especially true of the life style of the Admont Benedictines whereby the church is seen as the centre of the foundation. In addition to serving 26 parishes, the Monastery runs a nursing home in Frauenberg, a secondary school and further businesses which have roughly 500 secular employees. The main cultural attraction of the Monastery is the Baroque library and the new large museum. Nearness to God and the faith that determines the life of the monks can be felt throughout the whole Monastery grounds. This is also true of the library and museum and equally for the gardens around our house. Thus Admont Monastery is a spiritual, cultural and economic centre of important far beyond the region.
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Forget reality / Relax / Chill / Get lost in books
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The famous public library promenade in Manchester City Centre becomes a witness everyday to myriads of pedestrians,thoughts and lost emotions.
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Having fun with old lipsticks and eye liners!! / It is fun and smells good!! / : ))) Come on!! / Join our new group Make up Your Mind I’m going to do a workshop!! / “Make up Your Mind” / Drawing with make-up products / Free Workshop for mums & daughters / Sat 2nd May 10-12noon / @Manly Library Comference Room / Organised by Angela van Boxel Booking essential / Register online www.creativemums.com.au Lipstick Girl in White Tshirt / Lipstick Girl Tshirt /
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FEATURED IN COLOR AND LIGHT Lily pads on the pond at Huntington Gardens. This was so pretty I had to get a capture. / Nikon D90
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Featured in Historic Churches Group June 20 – 2009 / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-— Featured in à Europa Group May – 29 – 2009 —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-——- Challenge Winner à Europa Group – EUROPEAN INTERIORS Challenge May – 28 – 2009 / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—- Featured in Unique Buildings Of The World Group May – 16 – 2009 / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—— Nikon D300 Sigma 15/30 / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—— Austria’s first neo-gothic sacred building After the devastating fire of 1865 William Bücher reconstructed the abbey and parish church St. Blasius on the Romanesque and Gothic foundations of the old church. It is Austria’s first neo-Gothic sacred building and was consecrated in 1869. The church fascinates with artful furnishing and design, its two dominant towers, both 70 meters high, make it an impressive landmark. Architect Bücher also proved his sense of humor: the gothic gargoyles on the outside of the building caricature the German emperor Willhelm I and Bismarck. / The church’s neo-Gothic interior invites the visitor to go on a treasure hunt for pieces of art that had been created for the church throughout the centuries. The white marbled neo-Gothic high altar is framed by four embroidered baroque tapestries. They were all artfully fabricated in the monastery’s own school for embroidery. The tapestries show the abbots’ coats of arms, depict saints and portray a colorful variety of flowers and animals.Above the chancel the visitor will see a larger than life gothic cross, made by Andreas Lackner in 1518. A replica of Admont’s famous Madonna is placed beside the side altar, the original statue (dating back to 1310) can be found in the province museum Joanneum in Graz. / The altar dedicated to the Virgin Mary is decorated with a baroque painting of Maria Immaculate, done by Martino Altomonte in 1726. The painting is framed with 15 rosary medallions by Joseph Stammel, the abbey’s sculptor in the Baroque. Around 1755 and 1756 Stammel also carved the variety of figures for Admont’s Christmas manger in the manger altar. The manger, which is traditionally only opened around Christmas (24.12. – 02.02.) and remains closed throughout the rest of the year, is one of the most beautiful and renowned ones in Austria. Since its foundation in 1074, i.e. since almost one thousand years, Admont Benedictine Monastery has collected and preserved cultural goods. In this respect the library has a special position. This library is one of the most important cultural properties of our country and is one of the largest late Baroque works of art in Europe. Perhaps a little overenthusiastically but at the same quite justifiably, since the early 19th century the Admont library has been called the “eighth wonder of the world”. It represents a repository of knowledge containing examples of the artistic and historical development of books over the centuries – from the manuscripts of the medieval Admont writing school over the collection of incunabula (early printed books) to the fully developed printing process. As a work of art, the library should be viewed as a whole in which the various genres (architecture, frescoes, sculptures, written and printed matter) blend into one work – in the final analysis, the central place of books in the history of the development of the Benedictine Order. The late Baroque library, completed in 1776, was commissioned by Abbot Matthäus Offner (reigned 1751-1779) and built by the Graz Master Builder Josef Hueber (1715-1787). Hueber was imbued with the ideas of the Enlightenment: “As with the mind, light should also fill the room”. With a length of 70 m, a width of 14 m and 11 m in height (12.7 m in the central cupola) and divided into three, this room is the largest monastery library room in the world. The Austrian National Library in Vienna served Hueber as a pattern. The seven ceiling frescoes created by the 80-year-old Bartolomeo Altomonte (1694-1783) in the summer months of the years 1775 and 1776 also breathe the spirit of the Enlightenment. They show the steps in man’s exploration of thinking and speaking from the sciences to Divine Revelation in the central cupola. The bookcases under this cupola alone contain editions of the Bible and the Church Fathers, those in the North side room theological literature and those in the South room all the other subjects. The monastery sculptor Josef Stammel (1695-1765), one of the most important Baroque sculptors, created the extensive carvings in the room. Particularly famous is “The Four Last Things”, a group of four over-lifesize presentations of Death, the Last Judgement, Heaven and Hell. The Admont library is a historical monument to book culture with an importance far beyond the region. At the same time it offers equally valuable and exhaustive source material of the surrounding country. The total collection of books comprises some 200,000 volumes. The most valuable treasures are the more than 1,400 manuscripts (the earliest from the 8th century) and the 530 incunabula (early printed books before 1500).
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Steps up to Reid Library entrance at the University of WA. / Nikon D700, ISO 200, 105mm macro lens, f/4.5, 1/400, +.3 step. / Taken in monochrome, tweaked using Silvert Efex pro.
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One of a series taken after a storm on Downhill Beach, near the village of Castlerock, Northern Ireland. This is one of the longest stretches of beach in Europe, stretching some 11km from Migilligan Point to Downhill. The Temple on top of the cliff was bulit in 1785 as a library by the then Earl Bishop of Derry, Fredrick Hervey and modelled on the Temple of Vesta at Tivoli, Italy; it is now a National Trust property.
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