A museum photographer took this image whilst shooting on location in Narrromine, New South Wales. You can see from this image the great fleece that is produced by Australian sheep. The Australian rural landscape is perfectly suited to producing wool with approximately 70,000 properties dedicated to this major industry. The majority of sheep in Australia are pure merino which are known for producing fine wool and Australia has become the world’s leading producer of this type of wool. Australian Wool Innovation Limited has facts about Australian wool.
From chomping caterpillars to beautiful butterflies, the Natural History Museum comes alive this summer with a tropical butterfly house and giant outdoor maze.
Shrink down into the undergrowth, enter an interactive maze as a caterpillar and find your way through a secret wild world as grass and leaves tower above your head. Choose the right route and emerge as a beautiful butterfly. But beware. The maze includes dead-ends, and down these lurk poisonous plants and predators waiting to pounce.
With challenges around every twist and turn, collect stamps as you take on puzzles,
fun games and exciting activities:
• watch out for the Velcro passionflower plant that traps young caterpillars
• climb inside a chrysalis and emerge to flap the wings of a giant butterfly
• become the centre of attention by attempting a butterfly courtship dance
• soar down our zip slide and fly like a real butterfly
Along the way, you’ll discover fascinating facts about one of our planet’s most amazing life cycles. Find out why some caterpillars disguise themselves as snakes, and why the monarch butterfly flies 3,000 kilometres across America every year.
Once you’ve survived the maze, you’ll emerge into a stunning butterfly house. Experience the beauty and magic of walking among hundreds of live, free-flying tropical butterflies. Come face to face with a huge variety of these incredible creatures, marvelling at the diversity and behaviour of species from America, Africa and Asia.
Man Ray’s studio - “Unconcerned but not indifferent”
March 5 – June 1 2008
Starting on March 5th and until June 1st, 2008, the Pinacothèque de Paris will host a show of the most famous American photographer who lived in Paris: Man Ray’s Studio :« Unconcerned but not indifferent ». Like Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray was a genuine pioneer of modern art - in fact it was alongside him that he undertook the Surrealist and Dadaist adventures.
A multi-faceted artist, Man Ray (1890-1976) provided a polymorphous body of work that broached all the visual fields: drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, film, objects, assemblages… he constantly tried to enlarge visual arts? technical possibilities. The exhibition’s subtitle « Unconcerned but not indifferent » originated in Man Ray’s own work, it was also the epitaph chosen by his widow, Juliet, for their joint tombstone in the Montparnasse cemetery.
Today the Pinacothèque de Paris is putting on a hitherto unseen retrospective of Man Ray’s works. For the first time, all the facets of the artist’s creations will be displayed. An outstanding selection of nearly 250 works including: drawings, photographs, paintings, sculptures objects and personal images brought directly from the Man Ray Trust (Long Island, NY). Most of these will be shown in public for the very first time. In fact, only a few pieces were occasionally loaned out for large exhibitions, but never in its entirety, such as is presented here. It is the first multi faceted exhibition open to a broad public.
The Trust collection is unique in its diversity and globality as it combines the various periods of Man Ray’s body of work. We will find here some little known early works, documents on his private life, preliminary drawings, documentation on major works as well ass well as many masterpieces. Several of the works in the show are world famous, but some have never been seen since Man Ray’s death.
Based on this outstanding collection, more than 200 works were chosen by the curators Noriko Fuku and John Jacobs, as well as by the Man Ray Trust. Whether they are well known or unknown images, there are personal objects (his bowler hat, walking stick, various objects taken from the shelves in his Parisian studio in the rue Férou), as well as objects he used in the making of the photograms. Man Ray’s photographic oeuvre, regarded as one of the most innovative in his time, combines the result of surrealist painting techniques with an overweening and crazy imagination. As a true creator, he used every possible means, intermingled and combined paintings, photographs and objects.
Man Ray’s Studio: « Unconcerned but not indifferent » offers a unique opportunity to showcase for the first time the objects that were the wellsprings of his creation as well as the final result he attained.
Crumbling ice makes for a precarious journey for this mastiff sliding down a slope in North America.
As global warming pushes temperatures higher each year, scientists predict that permanent snow lines of mountains around the world will rise, closing skiing resorts, hurting tourism, swelling major rivers, potentially submerging low-lying areas, and significantly changing landscapes.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, “Science Finds New Clues to our Climate in Alaska’s Mighty Rivers of Ice,” February 1967, National Geographic magazine)
This image was taken by a stretch of road known as Thunderbolts way in regional NSW. This is a beautiful area off the New England Highway on route to Inverell. We were travelling to shoot for the exhibition Yinalung yenu: women’s journey and kept stopping on this stretch of road to photograph the area. These clouds looked amazing whilst travelling so we stopped to document them.
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Bronze prize, 4th World Ceramic Biennale Korea -
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