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The early morning frost was starting to melt as we arrived at Riffelsee lake after getting off at the Riffelberb stop. How clear and crisp the morning air was as I photographed the spectator gazing at the Matterhorn.
They were also trees before they became a roller coaster. It's as if the trees were admiring that artwork (or showing off) but at the same time feeling sorry.
Wooden roller coaster @ Hershey Park, Hershey, PA
I felt so overwhelmed by so many faces looking at me. 🌻🌻🌻🌻
Happy Monochrome Thursday! 😊
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"The progression of a painter's work as it travels in time from point to point, will be toward clarity...toward the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea.. and the idea and the observer...To achieve this clarity is inevitably to be understood." (Mark Rothko)
I love Rothko.....you can spend quite some time in front of one of his paintings and almost feel as if one is traveling inside the painting - there is also a sense of quietude and a certain serenity, but mostly quietude. Here I divided the spaces and used the bench as the spectator, who shares equal space in this marvelous dialogue.
Amateur football league Achaias.
Location:Patras city/West Peloponnese /Greece.
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Much farther down the trail, and under one of the many broken bridges, another opportunity was delivered. This time, the surging waters would serve as a flowing backdrop toward the branch, still hanging onto life. Protruding from a fallen tree, it rest as a spectator to the violent torrent below.
The rocks seemed ideally placed serving as guides to this raceway of water. They even sent the race track of water directly toward the main subject. Nice of nature to offer such a cooperative moment.
Watching boats pass through the lock ....
The Calder and Hebble navigation at Cromwell Bottom, Brighouse in West Yorkshire
HDR from 3 hand held shots at +-2 EV.
Just got a gift of Pro account from a wonderful friend Paul Robertson. Thank you Paul.
Nothing like a good roll and scratch after a long day swatting flies. Wild horses, Arizona.
And how about a caption by the spectator: "You look SO silly".
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
Oscar Wilde.
Last of the series but not the least. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did making them. Thank you all for your kind thoughts.
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was a prolific Irish writer who wrote plays, fiction, essays, and poetry. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death.
Wilde's parents were successful Anglo-Irish, Dublin intellectuals. Their son became fluent in French and German early in life. At university, Wilde read Greats; he proved himself to be an outstanding classicist, first at Dublin, then at Oxford. He became known for his involvement in the rising philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles.
As a spokesman for aestheticism, he tried his hand at various literary activities: he published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in Art", and then returned to London where he worked prolifically as a journalist. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversation, Wilde became one of the best-known personalities of his day. At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). The opportunity to construct aesthetic details precisely, and combine them with larger social themes, drew Wilde to write drama. He wrote Salome (1891) in French in Paris but it was refused a licence for England due to the absolute prohibition of Biblical subjects on the English stage. Unperturbed, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London. Source Wikipedia.
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We look at houses ... as houses look at us. SLURL: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Haraiki%20Bay/120/24/23
Early one mid-summer morning, a rim-lit mother Alaskan brown bear and her yearling cub sit in mirror poses between tall grass stalks on the top the beach at Silver Salmon Creek. They are gazing down at another bear walking along the clamming beach. Cook Inlet, coastal Alaska, Pacific Northwest.
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