…In Vancouver Canada yesterday, November 11th, many thousands came to the Annual Remembrance Day Service in Victory Square, stood silently at the eleventh hour, and then lined the streets to applaud and thank the marching heroes…
…The video and images are from the Canadian National Vimy Memorial, which we visited last year. The memorial was designed by Walter Seymour Allward and unveiled on 26th July 1936.
Lest We Forget…
…at least 43,800 times! I wonder how much that amount of toothpaste weighs?…
…2009 was the year of Picasso and Cézanne in Provence, France. As part of the celebrations Cathedrale D’Image in Les Baux de Provence projected gigantic images of Picasso’s paintings on the walls of the Carrières du Val d’Enfer, a quarry that was created to extract white limestone to construct the Chateau and Les Baux. On our trip to Provence that summer I took these photos during a 30 minute presentation deep in the heart of the quarry. Whilst the images are not perfect because of the limited light I hope you will agree that they have a somewhat eerie quality about them. In 1959, Picasso took part in Jean Cocteau’s “Testament of Orpheus”, which was filmed inside the quarries.
…with a few more days of the Horizon challenge to go, and having enjoyed so many of your wonderful photos, a second posting seems to be in order. Here are a few more dramatic images from travels near and far, beginning with one of the Twelve Apostles seen from a beach just below Victoria’s Great Ocean Road in South Eastern Australia, one of the great drives of the world…
…and what horizon could be more iconic than one from my old home town showing The Houses of Parliament, The Thames, Westminster Bridge and the London Eye; pure magic…
…or a hill of stately cypresses leading up to an Umbrian villa outlined against a glorious Italian sky. I think we should open the Prosecco don’t you…
…or since we are now in Burgundy, and the harvest is over, perhaps we should be drinking a cool glass of Crémant de Bourgogne; mmmm delicious…
…one final stop before home to look in awe at Sedona’s majestic Cathedral Rock…
…and so, home again to Vancouver’s English Bay with a sky that seems to have followed us all the way from The Great Ocean Road. I hope you have enjoyed these few global horizons, and I shall now continue to enjoy following yours. Now where did I put that bottle of Crémant?…
…Sunrise on an October morning last year as we made our way to the Canadian War Memorial at Vimy in Northern France. I invite you to return to thechangingpalette on Remembrance Day, November 11th, when I will post more images from a very special and moving visit.
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