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visiting the Butterfly Jungle exhibit at Safari Park in Escondido - sooc © All rights reserved. Per mmmavaco Leucospermum.
We were looking for a bird bath at a place which makes these lawn statues and these caught my eye. Bethune, SC.
1. [27/365] Who are you callin' a cat?, 2. Upwards, 3. 3000m, 4. Listen to Wisdom, 5. #2 Fairground Attraction, 6. DOUBLE Helix Bridge, 7. They miss the whisper that runs any day in your mind, "Who are you really, wanderer?" and the answer you have to give no matter how dark and cold the world around you is: "Maybe I'm a king., 8. Late Crest, 9. Flowers (Explored!), 10. Porsche GT3 997.2, 11. Traversée de l'ile aux boeufs, 12. Inde du nord: le jour se lève sur la campagne du Rajasthan., 13. Orange vs White, 14. Redshift, 15. Birds Eye View, 16. no future in sight
I had a bit of a drive ahead of me this morning. My childhood best friend, who had been my friend since the 2nd grade, was getting married that day, and I had promised him I'd be at his reception that evening. So we left Estes Park just before sunrise. On the way, we caught the sun slanting in over Longs Peak and this nice little stand of trees. Beautiful.
A standout amongst the greatest lines from Trump’s discourse, we should meet up and turn this ship around.
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More from the Annapolis Royal Historic Gardens.
I shot a few frames of these flowers last year — they're right next to the entrance, and sometimes overlooked but very photogenic.
I thought best not to ask his name. At the NASCAR Hall of Fame grand opening May 11 in Charlotte, NC.
This shot was taken at dusk and that particular leaf was iluminated by my trusty surefire flashlight.
Although all the rooms of the Rone - Empire installation exhibition are amazing for many different reasons, there are two major standouts. The Study is one of them. It features walls of books covered with a portrait of Lily Sullivan, and the entire room is partially submerged in a lake of black water with the occasional red oak leaf floating across its glassy surface.
Melbourne based street artist Rone (Tyrone Wright) used the decaying glory of the 1933 Harry Norris designed Streamline Moderne mansion, Burnham Beeches in the Dandenong Ranges' Sherbrooke, between March the 6th and April 22nd to create an immersive hybrid art space for his latest installation exhibition; "Empire".
"Empire" combined a mixture of many different elements including art, sound, light, scent, found objects, botanic designs, objects from nature and music especially composed for the project by Nick Batterham. The Burnham Beeches project re-imagines and re-interprets the spirit of one of Victoria’s landmark mansions, seldom seen by the public and not accessed since the mid 1980s. According to Rone - Empire website; "viewers are invited to consider what remains - the unseen cultural, social, artistic and spiritual heritage which produces intangible meaning."
Rone was invited by the current owner of Burnham Beeches, restaurateur Shannon Bennett, to exhibit "Empire" during a six week interim period before renovations commence to convert the heritage listed mansion into a select six star hotel.
Rone initially imagined the mansion to be in a state of dereliction, but found instead that it was a stripped back blank canvas for him to create his own version of how he thought it should look. Therefore, almost all the decay is in fact of Rone's creation from grasses in the Games Room which 'grow' next to a rotting billiards table, to the damp patches, water staining and smoke damage on the ceilings. Nests of leaves fill some spaces, whilst tree branches and in one case an entire avenue of boughs sprout from walls and ceilings. Especially designed Art Deco wallpaper created in Rone's studio has been installed on the walls before being distressed and damaged. The rooms have been adorned with furnishings and objects that might once have graced the twelve original rooms of Burnham Beeches: bulbulous club sofas, half round Art Deco tables, tarnished silverware and their canteen, mirrored smoke stands of chrome and Bakelite, glass lamps, English dinner services, a glass drinks trolley, photos of people long forgotten in time, walnut veneer dressing tables reflecting the installation sometimes in triplicate, old wire beadsteads, luggage, shelves of books, an Underwood typewriter, a John Broadwood and Sons of London grand piano and even a Kriesler radiogramme. All these objects were then covered in a thick sheet or light sprinkling of 'dust' made of many different things including coffee grinds and talcum powder, creating a sensation for the senses. Burnham Beeches resonated with a ghostly sense of its former grandeur, with a whiff of bittersweet romance.
Throughout the twelve rooms, magnificent and beautifully haunting floor-to-ceiling and wall-to-wall portraits of Australian actress Lily Sullivan, star of the Foxtel re-make of Picnic at Hanging Rock, appear. Larger than life, each portrait is created in different colours, helping to create seasonal shifts as you move from room to room.
Although all the rooms are amazing for many different reasons, there are two major standouts. The Study is one. The Dining Room features two long tables covered in a Miss Havisham like feast of a trove of dinner table objects from silverware and glassware to empty oyster shells and vases of grasses and feathers.
The Dining Room installation I found especially confronting. In 1982, I visited Burnham Beeches when it was a smart and select hotel and had Devonshire tea in the dining room at a table alongside the full length windows overlooking the terraces below. I was shocked to see a room I remember appointed with thick carpets and tables covered in gleaming silver and white napery, strewn with dust and leaves, and adorned with Miss Havisham's feast of found dining objects.
I feel very honoured and privileged to be amongst the far too few people fortunate enough to have seen Rone's "Empire", as like the seasons, it is ephemeral, and it will already have been dismantled. Rone's idea is that, like his street art, things he creates don't last forever, and that made the project exciting. I hope that my photographs do justice to, and adequately share as much as is possible of this amazing installation with you.
This Daylily was dealing with the heat and humidity in a far more beautiful fashion than I was. Not a drop of sweat on it, whereas I was drenched by this time.
The sun was in full bright beaming and this flower was showing its best colors. I noticed in post processing that it was the only bloom on a green stem which had previously contained at least four other blossoms. Someone, perhaps the arborist, had trimmed off blooms, leaving this single solitary masterpiece. There were other stems with other blossoms, but this one suited my composition sense best.
I wanted to highlight that single bloom, drenched in sunlight, with the surrounding green leaves and spots of color from other flowers in the background. You can tell that this is part of a cultivated flower bed, designed for color. Just beyond these is a full bed of yellow daisies, a splash of yellow with black dots.
No matter what is around us, we have the opportunity to shine, simply by being the best at who we are.
1. Starry Starry Night, 2. coming around, 3. SouthCoast at Leigh Park Gardens, 4. Hollywood Starz, 5. The Two Big Rocks, 6. scabious, 7. Che ne sai tu di un campo di grano.., 8. Lake Crescent Lodge Pier, 9. curro fractalius (Explored), 10. Of beautiful horses, light as the wind !!!, 11. The breath of the Waterfall, 12. BOURKEYH_ii, 13. (1), 14. Alki Point, 15. Stalking (50mm f1.8 OM III), 16. The crater