…Layers of snow blanket Whistler Mountain but come summer the slopes are bare and there is the joy of hiking the high alpine meadows…
weekly photo challenge
Weekly Photo Challenge: Layers or Birth of a Painting
…Every painting tells a story and no more so than in the layers that lie beneath the finished work. My painting entitled Cypress Alleyway was inspired by a visit to Castello di Reschio in Umbria and a photograph I took of that glorious Italian landscape…
…Back home in my studio a canvas was stretched and gessoed, a charcoal sketch developed, loose thin layers of acrylic paint applied until, finally…
…I could feel the warmth of that Umbrian sun and I knew that I had arrived…
Weekly Photo Challenge: Habit
…at least 43,800 times! I wonder how much that amount of toothpaste weighs?…
Weekly Photo Challenge: Eerie 2
…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.
Cathedrale D’Image no longer exists and the the management of the Carrières has been taken over by Culturespaces under the title “Carrières de Lumières”. I recommend visiting their web site, carrieres-lumieres.com/en/discover, to learn more about this amazing place and about their current and future spectacular events. Something to add to the bucket list. Perhaps we’ll see you there…
Weekly Photo Challenge: Horizon 2
…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.
“Lest We Forget”…
Weekly Photo Challenge: The Hue of You
Weekly Photo Challenge: Infinite
…a long way from Lake Louise, infinite in Umbria…
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