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I got there a little late! Still had red-legged partridge, lapwing and barn owl. Photo taken whilst on last year's cycling tour of every RSPB and WWT nature reserve in the United Kingdom. My name is Gary Prescott and details of my travels may be found on my blog -- www.bikingbirder2010.blogspot.com
The Aim of the trip was to raise funds for te RSPB, the WWT and Asthma UK, being asthmatic myself. I also wanted [still do!] to raise climate change awareness issues.
Please google my name or biking birder 2010 for press and website reports on the journey.
If you want to make a donation to these charities then please visit the Just Giving links on my website.
Photo taken whilst on last year's cycling tour of every RSPB and WWT nature reserve in the United Kingdom. My name is Gary Prescott and details of my travels may be found on my blog -- www.bikingbirder2010.blogspot.com
The Aim of the trip was to raise funds for te RSPB, the WWT and Asthma UK, being asthmatic myself. I also wanted [still do!] to raise climate change awareness issues.
Please google my name or biking birder 2010 for press and website reports on the journey.
If you want to make a donation to these charities then please visit the Just Giving links on my website.
Copyright, please do not use without written consent. If you would like to have use of one of my images for a publication, gallery, or otherwise please email info@shutter16.com for information on obtaining use.
Photographer:
Josh Gooch
Photo taken whilst on last year's cycling tour of every RSPB and WWT nature reserve in the United Kingdom. My name is Gary Prescott and details of my travels may be found on my blog -- www.bikingbirder2010.blogspot.com
The Aim of the trip was to raise funds for te RSPB, the WWT and Asthma UK, being asthmatic myself. I also wanted [still do!] to raise climate change awareness issues.
Please google my name or biking birder 2010 for press and website reports on the journey.
If you want to make a donation to these charities then please visit the Just Giving links on my website.
Spring Night in the Garden - 1909
Nikolai Astrup (1880 - 1928)
Nikolai Astrup was an active painter and graphic artist. The motifs in his works largely depict the rural area of Jølster, as he sought to recreate the lush beauty of the natural surroundings there.
Astrup grew up in Jølster and lived there most of his life, apart from the period he spent studying art in Kristiania and one year in Paris.
The landscapes of his childhood
Astrup’s father was a parish priest in the community, and the parsonage where the family lived was a damp and draughty old building. Nikolai Astrup was severely asthmatic, and the poor living conditions exacerbated his condition. As a boy, he was often forced to seek the cool night air outside to be able to breathe. The landscapes he absorbed on his wanderings in those bright summer nights reverberated in his memory. Astrup’s artistic ambition was to reproduce the intense colours and moods of the nature he had experienced as a child.
After completing his training, Nikolai Astrup returned to his home village of Jølster in 1902 to work there as a smallholder, painter, and printmaker. His art is inextricably linked to the nature and people of Jølster. He was nonetheless not himself a member of the peasantry and was thus able to view the lives of his fellow villagers from an outsider’s perspective. His lush depictions of the scenic Western Norwegian nature and of local customs, such as the Midsummer Night’s bonfire, have made him a beloved artist.
Astrup was wont to reuse images that fascinated him, often reduplicating them several times as paintings and colour woodcuts. For example, he depicted the local Midsummer festivities in several painted versions and in both black-and-white and colour woodcuts. The custom of lighting bonfires and gathering for games and dancing on Midsummer Night was a living tradition with symbolic connotations. Astrup was personally interested in humanity’s interdependence with nature, and the Midsummer Night rituals alluded to the magic forces of nature. Blazing bonfires, dancing, and the picking of wild flowers served both protective and invocative purposes.
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Bergensian businessman Rasmus Meyer assembled an enormous art collection during his lifetime. Quite cleverly, he bought a number of principal works from Norwegian artists by the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century.
His dream was a public building where the works of art could be exhibited for a larger audience.
Across two floors, you wander through the golden age of Norwegian art history, from 1880 to 1905 and onwards to 1920. We show works by artists like J.C. Dahl, Hans Gude, Harriet Backer, Christian Krohg, Kitty Kielland, Nikolai Astrup and Erik Werenskiold, as well as Norwegian Matisse students Henrik Sørensen and Jean Heiberg.
We also show historic Bergen interiors in the elegant Blumentahl room with its wall and ceiling paintings from around 1760 covering the entire room.
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Rasmus Meyer ended his own life in 1916, and his heirs donated his collection to Bergen municipality. They stipulated one condition to the municipality: that a public museum should be constructed for the collection.
The building was designed by architect Ole Landmark and was completed in 1924.
Today, Kode and Bergen are home to the world’s third largest Edvard Munch collection. It consists of more than 100 works on paper and 50 paintings, of which most are from Rasmus Meyer’s collections. Rasmus Meyer was among the first distinguished collectors of Munch’s art.
In the collection you find major works from all periods of Munch’s artistic career. Among the highlights are “Jealousy”, “Melancholy”, “Woman in Three Stages” and “Evening on Karl Johan Street”.
At Permanenten we show temporary exhibitions across three floors of both contemporary art and works from our own collection.
You might know Permanenten as Vestlandske Kunstindustrimuseum. Traditionally, this is the building housing the collection of fine craft and design, Norwegian silver and the Chinese art collection.
At the top floor you find Festsalen, suitable for hosting various larger events and festive occasions, in addition to the library and meeting rooms.
The museum is currently being renovated and has a limited number of exhibitions on display in 2022-23. Large parts of the collection previously on display in Permanenten is not available at this time.
At Lysverket we show temporary exhibitions as well as permanent works from our collection.
The building is currently scheduled for refurbishment and will until then have selected temporary exhibitions at display.
Right now, you can experience the spectacular new installation by Børre Sæthre in Tårnsalen.
Lysverket is the only Kode building not originally built for museum purposes. The building from 1938 was previously the administration building for the municipal power company Bergen Lysverker, where we got the name from.
Previous box was stolen! Photo taken whilst on last year's cycling tour of every RSPB and WWT nature reserve in the United Kingdom. My name is Gary Prescott and details of my travels may be found on my blog -- www.bikingbirder2010.blogspot.com
The Aim of the trip was to raise funds for te RSPB, the WWT and Asthma UK, being asthmatic myself. I also wanted [still do!] to raise climate change awareness issues.
Please google my name or biking birder 2010 for press and website reports on the journey.
If you want to make a donation to these charities then please visit the Just Giving links on my website.
Photo taken whilst on last year's cycling tour of every RSPB and WWT nature reserve in the United Kingdom. My name is Gary Prescott and details of my travels may be found on my blog -- www.bikingbirder2010.blogspot.com
The Aim of the trip was to raise funds for te RSPB, the WWT and Asthma UK, being asthmatic myself. I also wanted [still do!] to raise climate change awareness issues.
Please google my name or biking birder 2010 for press and website reports on the journey.
If you want to make a donation to these charities then please visit the Just Giving links on my website.
Photo taken whilst on last year's cycling tour of every RSPB and WWT nature reserve in the United Kingdom. My name is Gary Prescott and details of my travels may be found on my blog -- www.bikingbirder2010.blogspot.com
The Aim of the trip was to raise funds for te RSPB, the WWT and Asthma UK, being asthmatic myself. I also wanted [still do!] to raise climate change awareness issues.
Please google my name or biking birder 2010 for press and website reports on the journey.
If you want to make a donation to these charities then please visit the Just Giving links on my website.
Photo taken whilst on last year's cycling tour of every RSPB and WWT nature reserve in the United Kingdom. My name is Gary Prescott and details of my travels may be found on my blog -- www.bikingbirder2010.blogspot.com
The Aim of the trip was to raise funds for te RSPB, the WWT and Asthma UK, being asthmatic myself. I also wanted [still do!] to raise climate change awareness issues.
Please google my name or biking birder 2010 for press and website reports on the journey.
If you want to make a donation to these charities then please visit the Just Giving links on my website.
Photo taken whilst on last year's cycling tour of every RSPB and WWT nature reserve in the United Kingdom. My name is Gary Prescott and details of my travels may be found on my blog -- www.bikingbirder2010.blogspot.com
The Aim of the trip was to raise funds for te RSPB, the WWT and Asthma UK, being asthmatic myself. I also wanted [still do!] to raise climate change awareness issues.
Please google my name or biking birder 2010 for press and website reports on the journey.
If you want to make a donation to these charities then please visit the Just Giving links on my website.
Super-stealthy nighttime shot of Peter overindulging in the one thing that's very, very bad for him: cats. But they were so cute. And they would all line up on the wall of the house next to our hotel, and purr and purr. Peter would wind up with a terrible asthmatic cat hangover, but a goofy smile on his face.
Photo taken whilst on last year's cycling tour of every RSPB and WWT nature reserve in the United Kingdom. My name is Gary Prescott and details of my travels may be found on my blog -- www.bikingbirder2010.blogspot.com
The Aim of the trip was to raise funds for te RSPB, the WWT and Asthma UK, being asthmatic myself. I also wanted [still do!] to raise climate change awareness issues.
Please google my name or biking birder 2010 for press and website reports on the journey.
If you want to make a donation to these charities then please visit the Just Giving links on my website.
Photo taken whilst on last year's cycling tour of every RSPB and WWT nature reserve in the United Kingdom. My name is Gary Prescott and details of my travels may be found on my blog -- www.bikingbirder2010.blogspot.com
The Aim of the trip was to raise funds for te RSPB, the WWT and Asthma UK, being asthmatic myself. I also wanted [still do!] to raise climate change awareness issues.
Please google my name or biking birder 2010 for press and website reports on the journey.
If you want to make a donation to these charities then please visit the Just Giving links on my website.
Photo taken whilst on last year's cycling tour of every RSPB and WWT nature reserve in the United Kingdom. My name is Gary Prescott and details of my travels may be found on my blog -- www.bikingbirder2010.blogspot.com
The Aim of the trip was to raise funds for te RSPB, the WWT and Asthma UK, being asthmatic myself. I also wanted [still do!] to raise climate change awareness issues.
Please google my name or biking birder 2010 for press and website reports on the journey.
If you want to make a donation to these charities then please visit the Just Giving links on my website.
Photo taken whilst on last year's cycling tour of every RSPB and WWT nature reserve in the United Kingdom. My name is Gary Prescott and details of my travels may be found on my blog -- www.bikingbirder2010.blogspot.com
The Aim of the trip was to raise funds for te RSPB, the WWT and Asthma UK, being asthmatic myself. I also wanted [still do!] to raise climate change awareness issues.
Please google my name or biking birder 2010 for press and website reports on the journey.
If you want to make a donation to these charities then please visit the Just Giving links on my website.
Photo taken whilst on last year's cycling tour of every RSPB and WWT nature reserve in the United Kingdom. My name is Gary Prescott and details of my travels may be found on my blog -- www.bikingbirder2010.blogspot.com
The Aim of the trip was to raise funds for te RSPB, the WWT and Asthma UK, being asthmatic myself. I also wanted [still do!] to raise climate change awareness issues.
Please google my name or biking birder 2010 for press and website reports on the journey.
If you want to make a donation to these charities then please visit the Just Giving links on my website.
Photo taken whilst on last year's cycling tour of every RSPB and WWT nature reserve in the United Kingdom. My name is Gary Prescott and details of my travels may be found on my blog -- www.bikingbirder2010.blogspot.com
The Aim of the trip was to raise funds for te RSPB, the WWT and Asthma UK, being asthmatic myself. I also wanted [still do!] to raise climate change awareness issues.
Please google my name or biking birder 2010 for press and website reports on the journey.
If you want to make a donation to these charities then please visit the Just Giving links on my website.
Photo taken whilst on last year's cycling tour of every RSPB and WWT nature reserve in the United Kingdom. My name is Gary Prescott and details of my travels may be found on my blog -- www.bikingbirder2010.blogspot.com
The Aim of the trip was to raise funds for te RSPB, the WWT and Asthma UK, being asthmatic myself. I also wanted [still do!] to raise climate change awareness issues.
Please google my name or biking birder 2010 for press and website reports on the journey.
If you want to make a donation to these charities then please visit the Just Giving links on my website.
Photo taken whilst on last year's cycling tour of every RSPB and WWT nature reserve in the United Kingdom. My name is Gary Prescott and details of my travels may be found on my blog -- www.bikingbirder2010.blogspot.com
The Aim of the trip was to raise funds for te RSPB, the WWT and Asthma UK, being asthmatic myself. I also wanted [still do!] to raise climate change awareness issues.
Please google my name or biking birder 2010 for press and website reports on the journey.
If you want to make a donation to these charities then please visit the Just Giving links on my website.
Photo taken whilst on last year's cycling tour of every RSPB and WWT nature reserve in the United Kingdom. My name is Gary Prescott and details of my travels may be found on my blog -- www.bikingbirder2010.blogspot.com
The Aim of the trip was to raise funds for te RSPB, the WWT and Asthma UK, being asthmatic myself. I also wanted [still do!] to raise climate change awareness issues.
Please google my name or biking birder 2010 for press and website reports on the journey.
If you want to make a donation to these charities then please visit the Just Giving links on my website.
The Stinging Nettle grows commonly in the wild, the generic name Urtica comes from the Latin urere, meaning 'to burn',. In fact, it has an ancient history as a useful herb. Medicinally, the stinging nettle was valued for its astringent,, tonic, anti-asthmatic and diuretic properties, in the treatment of rheumatism, kidnes stones, nosebleeds and mouth ulcers, Nettle-leaf tea was a traditional tonic treatment for dull hair and dandruff. High in vitamins A and C and minerals, particuarly iron,...
After crossing the creek, the torture began. The hiking guide said there would be "several" switch backs over the next mile climbing to the lake. I don't know what your definition of "several" is, but 17 is more than I would claim! The elevation gain was over 1000 feet at this point and by the top I was pretty well gasping for air! (Doesn't help that I'm a severe asthmatic...) Once at the top (10,840 feet) I was pretty proud of myself and the lake there was a beautiful reward.
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Photographer:
Josh Gooch
Visited the Tall Trees area near Dunster. Great to see the tallest English tree and in such a beautiful setting. Well worth the detour. Photo taken whilst on last year's cycling tour of every RSPB and WWT nature reserve in the United Kingdom. My name is Gary Prescott and details of my travels may be found on my blog -
www.bikingbirder2010.blogspot.com
The Aim of the trip was to raise funds for the RSPB, the WWT and Asthma UK, being asthmatic myself. I also wanted [still do!] to raise climate change awareness issues.
Please google my name or biking birder 2010 for press and website reports on the journey.
If you want to make a donation to these charities then please visit the Just Giving links on my blog site.