You may or may not “know much about art”, and your “knowledge” may or may not have any bearing on whether you like this…
The sequel to this post will reveal the identity of the artist and the medium s/he deployed.
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Wednesday July 13 2022 was (yet another) glorious, bright winter’s day in the non-Scottish Perth.
A walk around the local lake was irresistible, even though mid-winter there usually proves unrewarding, bird-wise.
I almost decided to leave the camera at home…
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Where a particular intertidal zone’s “bottom” has a very gentle slope, even relatively modest tidal ranges will yield spectacular transformations, often twice-daily
One such place is immediately east of Dunedin, on the southeastern side of New Zealand’s South Island.
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Only a modest number of human feet have walked its actual sands, but every day of our so-called “21st” century many millions of human eyes see this singular beach, virtually.
An image of it is the “screensaver” viewed countless times by subscribers to Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system.
Doubtless, most of those subscribers have no idea of what and where is this “iconic” beach.
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So much of Australia is parched, low-lying, flat(-tish)
So much of New Zealand is well-watered, extravagantly green, and its horizons usually include substantial hills or mountains.
Understandably, many visitors to NZ – Australians, especially – are utterly beguiled, and swallow, whole, the assiduously marketed fiction that New Zealand is “green” and “pure”.
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#6 in this series looked out to sea, from a bay on the western side of the Coromandel Peninsula – a popular “weekend escape” destination for many residents of Auckland.
This post’s featured image was taken from almost exactly the same spot, but looking into a bay whose waters were very much deeper two centuries ago.
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