Posted in Guest Contributor, Inspiration, Nature Notes, On the Road, tagged beauty, black, blue, colors, ice, Iceland, Inspiration, landscape, nature, Photography, travel, travel photography, water on July 24, 2020| 1 Comment »
Icebergs
Editorial note: Do you miss traveling? I do too! I thought my friend Andrea’s images of Iceland, taken before the pandemic, were beautiful but now … they are truly majestic, capturing a dynamic landscape rich in color and full of light. Thanks for sharing, Andrea!
Ice Cave
Diamond Beach
Glacier
Black Sand
Blue Lagoon
Photos courtesy of Andrea Ranger
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, On the Road, tagged Inspiration, landscape, Maine, nature, New England, Photography, rain, water on July 17, 2020| 4 Comments »
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, On the Road, tagged beauty, Inspiration, landscape, Mystic River, nature photography, Photography, trees on May 16, 2020| Leave a Comment »
I foresee a certain person fishing off this pier in the near future. We actually passed a man and his son who said they sometimes catch stripers.
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, On the Road, tagged Inspiration, landscape, nature, Photography, serenity, trees, urban landscape on January 27, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, On the Road, tagged cemeteries, Inspiration, landscape, Lynchburg, nature, Photography on January 7, 2020| 2 Comments »
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, On the Road, tagged beauty, butterflies, Inspiration, monarch, Mystic River, nature, Photography, urban landscape on October 14, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, On the Road, tagged beauty, Inspiration, landscape, nature, Photography on October 14, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Inspiration, On the Road, Uncategorized, tagged beauty, clouds, Heavens, Inspiration, light, Photography, sky on September 30, 2019| 2 Comments »
Posted in Inspiration, On the Road, tagged art, Athena, Inspiration, John La Farge, murals, painting, Photography on August 25, 2019| Leave a Comment »
The Bowdoin Murals are found in the rotunda of the Walker Art Building at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. The four murals in the building represent Athens, Florence, Rome and Venice, honoring cities that had profoundly affected western art. Each of the four artists chosen to paint the murals were considered masters of figure painting. One of those artists was John La Farge. Among his fellow artists, which included Elihu Vedder, John Thayer and Kenyon Cox, La Farge was considered the elder statesman or senior artist.
La Farge chose as his subject Athens and the goddess Athena. Each of the murals features a central female form. In La Farge’s case his mural’s central subject is not Athena, but a nymph being painted by the goddess herself in a sacred grove.
Due to be completed in spring 1894 just before the building’s dedication, La Farge’s mural was not actually installed until 1898.
In the following publication you can read a very detailed and fascinating account of the Walker Art Building, the creation of the murals and the behind the scenes of La Farge at work. https://digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu/art-museum-miscellaneous-publications/2/
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, On the Road, tagged brunswick, Inspiration, Maine, nature, Photography, rocks, water on August 25, 2019| Leave a Comment »
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