“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche ~
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Bright colors, elegant look, many varieties of birds from Colibri to Parrot, to Amazonian Royal Flycatcher : the beauty of nature.
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Photo credit: Jeffrey Muñoz, Costa Rica – Nuray – et al.
Colored birds
The Bregenzer Festspiele (Bregenz Festival) in Austria is famous and acclaimed for staging some of the most amazing stages where shows are performed. This Festival is held in five different locations throughout the city, but Seebühne (the floating stage) on Lake Constance definitely offers the most unique atmosphere and it is very popular.
One of the most extraordinary stages of this festival was the one featuring a giant book stage being opened by a skeleton, in 1999, where Verdi’s opera “A Masked Ball” was being performed.
The opera plays of the Bregenz Festival usually takes place during the months of July and August. The tickets has a price ranging from 40 to 120 Euros and they can be purchased here.
Photo 1 credit: AP
Photo 2 credit: Benno Hagleitner
Skeleton opening a book: an incredible Opera Stage in Austria
In Chaudfontaine Park, in in the outskirts of Liege, Belgium, a huge wooden clothespin is holding a piece of land with a surprising and very admired surreal effect.
This sculpture was designed by Turkish artist Mehmet Ali Uysal, a professor of art at the Middle East Technical University, and built for the Festival of the Five Seasons in 2010.
For another amazing surreal sculpture, see also Horizon, created in 1994 by Neil Dawson and located in New Zealand and Sho, created in 2007 by Jaume Plensa and exhibited at the Meadows Museum, SMU, Dallas.
Giant Clothespin Sculpture in Belgium
Ildiko Neer, a photographer from Budapest, started taking photos in 2009 and after a few years she already has many astonishing pictures of beautiful natural environments gathered all together in the series called “Dreamland”.
Amazing colors, impressive landscapes and enigmatic paths are the main signature of her photography: “My pictures express the feelings and moods that I felt during my trips in the last few years. If I try to imagine myself, I see someone walking on the road straight to the light…In the dreamland that I create, I feel myself at home. I belong to the forest. I am under big trees, waiting for the miracle to begin.”
Dreamland: Ildiko Neer photography
“Fairies are invisible and inaudible like angels. But their magic sparkles in nature.”
~ Lynn Holland ~
Enchanted Forest
Acrobats, muscles, concentration, nude, these are the elements that characterize this series of photos by American photographer Acey Harper. His photography is an homage to the body and its numerous possibilities, pushed up to the limit: powerful positions in perfect balance, unusual and sometimes surprising surroundings, everything combined with black and white texture in an harmonious mix of light and shadow.
Acey is son of a rodeo cowboy, and he spent his early age in the Bahama Islands with his grandfather, a deep-sea fisherman and treasure hunter. He spent many years traveling the world as a photojournalist and working as a director of photography in New York, San Francisco, and Washington D.C.. Acey now lives in Sausalito, California and spend his time between his photography and the beach.
Acey Harper says about his photos: ” They evoked a mood, an energy, a magical feeling. It was the idea of seeing the unexpected. She (the acrobat, ndr.) became part of the landscape and it became an extension of her. I realized I wanted to make photographs in the world, outside of the performance space and in the forests, deserts, beaches and cities. I realized I was seeking a rhythm of juxtaposition. There are three important elements to creating these images – person, light and location. But, they each needed to compliment the other, to become a layer within the image, each perfectly juxtaposed over the other. So, it was not enough to have a person doing some incredible feat with their body, it had to be in a place, a location that echoes the movement or shape or energy of their body and finally, it had to have the emotion of that movement or shape embodied by the light. I wanted to have a sense of the unreal or ethereal and that often meant perfect light, even if it meant returning on another day to have that light. Each element had to emulate the rhythm of the other.”
You may also like: “Land-Escape: the pursue of Freedom in rarefied surroundings”, by Indonesian photographer Apung.
and Retroperspektiva: Female Nude into Natural Environment by Rostislav Kostal
Body without Limits: Acey Harper’s Photography
“Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.”
– John Lennon –
Flower Explosion
More astonishing photos from French photographer Patrick Demarchelier, mostly taken from his book “Dior Couture by Demarchelier”.
Dior Demarchelier Black and White
Dior Demarchelier Black and White
Dior Demarchelier Black and White
Dior Demarchelier Black and White
Dior Demarchelier Black and White
Dior Demarchelier Black and White
Dior Demarchelier Black and White
Dior Demarchelier Black and White
Dior Couture by Demarchelier – Black and White
“Beauty is in the character of a person. It’s about having an interesting face and about what’s inside. Anyone can take a good picture.” – P. Demarchelier –
Read more about the photographer and see other photos here: https://encircletheworld.wordpress.com/2013/07/09/dior-couture-by-demarchelier-the-dream/
Dior Couture by Demarchelier: Black and White Dream
Joel Sullivan, a canadian artist now living in Nova Scotia, was inspired in an early age from his mother’s drawings and spent most of his free time sketching animals, Super Heroes and anatomy which especially fascinated him.
As an adult, after taking a decorative welding course, Joel abandoned the pencil and started to use metal as the base of his work. Combining fine art and metal craftsmanship, Joel creates works that are raw and unusual. He founded Iron Designs and created anatomical sculptures, robots, abstract works and wall art.
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