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1・4・2023
Mount Fuji in Spring, Japan
Kristina Makeeva, @hobopeeba, Abril de 2019
12・4・2023
Ilha da Madeira, Levadas
Paula Moura Pinheiro, Raimundo Quintal
“Visita Guiada”, 11ª temporada, 9º episódio
RTP 2, Maio de 2021
Quando os povoadores portugueses começaram a chegar à Ilha da Madeira, a partir de 1425, a frondosa ilha revelou-se inesperadamente difícil. A densa floresta e as altas montanhas não ofereciam condições naturais para a agricultura e houve que criar socalcos para arar. O esforço foi grande, e continuou durante séculos, mas não ficaria por aí: havia também que trazer a água das nascentes e das ribeiras para esses tabuleiros cultiváveis.
A história da paisagem humanizada da Madeira é uma história épica com mais de 500 anos, mas que não teria sido o sucesso que foi sem a integridade da Floresta Laurissilva, em grande parte preservada ainda no Norte da ilha. A Floresta Laurissilva, como diz o geógrafo Raimundo Quintal, o guia desta espantosa visita, é a mãe de todos os madeirenses.
12・4・2023
Quotes
“Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.”
Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)
source: https://quotefancy.com/quote/832775/Isaac-Asimov-Any-book-worth-banning-is-a-book-worth-reading
13・4・2023
Dramatic beauty of Patagonia
Parque Nacional Torres del Paine, Chile
photo by Daniel Kordan, January 2020
source: https://www.facebook.com/dk.scape/posts/3080639601980853
14・4・2023
Surfing delight
Wim van den Heever, 2013
Wim began to regret setting out in such a small boat that day.
His tough-plastic camera bags were leaking salt water onto his precious camera, the heavy swell made it a challenge to balance, and he had painful cramp in his arm from holding the heavy lens to his eye. 'I had to concentrate hard', Wim says, 'on keeping the dolphins in the viewfinder while not falling out of the boat.' But the moment the mass of bottlenose dolphins exploded in unison, he knew it was all worth it. The perfect backdrop for such a serendipitous moment was the backlit curtain of sparkling spray. Some scientists argue that dolphins don't play for the sheer fun of it in the way we humans do. What Wim observed that day off Port St Johns, South Africa, suggests otherwise.
source: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/wpy/gallery/2013-surfing-delight
14・4・2023
Magnolia x soulangeana
Magdalena Ginalska, 2023
source: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1227373431400732&set=a.660069401464474
18・4・2023
All the flowers are for me
Discover the meaning behind Anila Quayyum Agha's stunning art pieces.
Our new exhibition at the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art is a stunning, thought-provoking installation by Pakistani-American artist Anila Quayyum Agha.
Agha's pieces All the Flowers Are for Me and Stolen Moments I and II use botanical motifs and Islamic art and architecture to invite viewers in and explore the idea of binaries: light and heavy, dark and light.
All the Flowers Are for Me is a spectacular turquoise 1.5m square steel cube, laser-cut with elaborate South and Central Asian patterns of flowers and plants, all suspended from the gallery ceiling. Bright lights inside the cube throw intricate shadows onto the deep orange walls. The shadows fall on visitors, making them part of the artwork.
Ellie Wilson, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, 3 de Abril de 2023
source: https://www.kew.org/read-and-watch/all-the-flowers-are-for-me
20・4・2023
Wisteria flowers rooted firmly in the ground
25・4・2023
Lisboa, Baixa, Rua da Conceição
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