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Willem Pretorius is een van ons voorste skilders wat die Suid-Afrikaanse platteland vasvat met soortgelyke patos as Walter Meyer, aan wie alle skilders in hierdie genre hulde bring. Sy skilderye is amper foto-realisties maar inspireer tog ʼn sekere gevoel van nostalgie na ʼn verlore onskuld, na die sogenaamde goeie ou dae wat nie vir almal goed was nie. Daar is ook ʼn afstandelikheid, ʼn gebrek aan kommentaar: Die landskap spreek vir homself.
Die boek bevat kleurafdrukke, professioneel gefotografeer, van sy 50 jongste werke, ʼn goeie mengsel van sy gebruiklike onderwerpe: huise, treine, versaakte swembaddens, landskappe, ou karre en gekrokte bakkies, plattelandse winkels, huise en dorpstonele, ensovoorts.
Elke skildery is begelei deur ʼn skryfsel van ʼn bekende skrywer, musikant, digter of skilder. Dis nie ʼn beskrywing of tegniese ontleding van die skildery nie, eerder vry assosiasie, ʼn kort kortverhaal, ʼn herinneringskets. Elk is ongeveer 500 woorde en beslaan dus nie meer as een bladsy nie; die bladsy langs die skildery wat dit geïnspireer het.
"Around South Africa in Eighteen Days" documents the author's journey to the country s most scenic and photogenic areas.
The book is divided into eighteen sections, each one representing a day in a different area. The beautiful photographs and witty captions make for pleasant reading and for contemplating your own trip to far-flung regions.
The book may also inspire readers to move away from their coffee tables and couches and make the eighteen-day trip themselves, as it gives practical advice on the route and the photographic equipment that is needed to make this journey a successful photographic expedition
London a Pictorial Journey is a new collection of 500
stunning, full colour photographs of London by world-renowned
travel photographer, Steve Vidler, previous creator of many popular
titles, including Portrait of London. As you turn the pages, follow
Steve Vidler on a pictorial journey from Greenwich in the East
through the heart of London to Windsor in the West. This
beautifully presented hardback book offers a visual journey that
captures the essence of the capital city.
Norfolk's Fragile Coast is a photographic journey from the unstable
and spectacular cliffs of Sidestrand to the fossil rich beaches of
East and West Runton, to bird reserves, marshes, expanses of sand,
through the sailing and vacation areas of the Burnhams to the
bleakness of Snettisham on the Wash. Claire Davies has captured
this diversity, zooming in on the tiniest bird and out to the wild
and spectacular expanses of coastline. This photographic project -
mostly carried out through the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 - not only
captures a constantly changing landscape with beautiful imagery -
spectacular cliffs, fossil rich beaches, marshes, seascapes, birds,
flora and fauna, parkland and countryside - but along with the
accompanying narrative and diary notes, establishes an important
record of a coast in all its variety at a moment of exceptional and
unique timing.
Faces of Mallorca features fifty-nine locals from the island and
authentically captures people's hopes, dreams and aspirations. It
showcases the diverse culture and the rich heritage of the past and
shows how its people adapt to a bright new future. Whether you love
beautiful photography, moving stories or just love Mallorca, Faces
of Mallorca transports you into the lives of people in this sunny,
warm climate. * Big book format * Full color photography * Foreword
by Toni Nadal * Texts by Mark Julian Edwards and Stephanie Schulz *
Photography by Mark Julian Edwards
Louis, a self trained photorapher , grew up on a smallholding
north east of Pretoria in South Africa. Louis qualified in the
field of commerce and followed a corporate career in a large
financial services organisation . At the age of 40, Louis started
to take photography, his hobby for many years, more seriously.
He enrolled for varies courses and did a lot of self studying on
the subject. Louis discovered the value of photography as a
medium to communicate without words and how to paint
stories with light. He became passionate about photographing
remote landscapes, places and ordinary people. Over the last
20 years, Louis has participated in several solo and group
exhibitions. He exhibits permanently in Price Albert, his
hometown, and shares his passion for photography with others
during workshops .
The Forth Rail Bridge is one of the world's great engineering
feats, and one of its most well-known. When it opened in 1890, the
cantilevered bridge had one of the world's longest spans, at 541
metres. Its distinctive and innovative design marks it as an
important milestone in bridge construction during the period when
railways came to dominate long-distance land travel. Spanning the
estuary of one of the country's great rivers, the Forth Bridge
revolutionised travel within Scotland, and it continues to carry
and freight more than 130 years after its official opening. This
view of the Forth Rail Bridge features the Gresley A4 Class Pacific
Plover locomotive and was painted by Terence Cuneo (1907-1996) for
British Railways in 1952. Cuneo withstood gales of over 50 mph as
he sketched the scene from a girder above the track.
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Metaphors
(Paperback)
Ken Garland; Volume editing by Hans-Dieter Reichert
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R435
Discovery Miles 4 350
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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A bright white temple as if carved from ice. Statues in candlelit
caves. Massive red monastery walls in the midst of majestic
mountains. In this beautiful book of travel photography, Christoph
Mohr presents the most sacred places of Buddhism. Across Myanmar,
Thailand, Vietnam, China, Tibet, Ladakh, Zanskar, and other Asian
regions, Mohr shows Buddhist temples, monasteries, sacred
mountains, and illuminates the life of the historical Buddha. The
images are accompanied by texts from Oliver Fulling, sharing the
basics of Buddhism and everyday Buddhist practice and rituals.
This beautifully presented coffee table book includes a 50,000 word
narrative by Mike Scott telling the full story of the Waterboys
seven-piece band and the making of their album Room To Roam.
Covering an 18-month period between Spring 1989 to Summer 1990, The
Magnificent Seven includes a vast collection of previously unseen
photos of the band on the road, recording at Spiddal House in the
West of Ireland, as well as maps, lyrics, manuscripts, and other
archival memorabilia.
In this beautifully photographed book, the author has captured
abandoned places in emotive form: places as dark as time; history
forgotten in the folds of the subconscious mind; beauty in decay, a
presentation of life open to our personal interpretations.
Atmospheric scenes unfold before the light of torches, with glass
crunching underfoot, complementing the unremitting sound of
dripping water. Creative wall art decorations attract attention,
bordering the natural and unnatural worlds with a broad range of
colours and exuding micro-organisms with compelling effects. The
author describes urbexing - the pursuit of images of the abandoned
and ruined - as a drug, a way of life as powerful as a state of
mind. This is her world - this is Perth.
John R Hume is Scotland's foremost expert on industrial heritage.
John's greatest passion was - and is - industry. Over the course of
the 1960s, 70s and 80s, he took over 25,000 photographs of
late-industrial and post-industrial Scotland. His collection is a
remarkable portrait of a way of life that has now all but vanished.
His drive to act as a witness to Scotland's industrial empire, and
its steady disintegration, took him to every corner of the country.
John's photography produces an exhaustive and objective record. Yet
it also reveals remarkable and poignant glimpses of domestic life -
children playing in factory ruins, high-rises emerging on the city
skylines, working men and women dwarfed by the incredible scale of
an already crumbling industrial infrastructure. In A Life of
Industry, author Daniel Gray tells John's story, and the story of
what has been lost - and preserved.
Retreat to the countryside with shepherdess Amanda Owens as she
recounts stories from her life on the farm, of raising nine
children and cooking beautiful, seasonal meals - complete with the
recipes for you to enjoy at home. This edition of Celebrating the
Seasons is updated with more heartwarming stories from the farm at
Ravenseat. In the Sunday Times bestseller Celebrating the Seasons,
the Yorkshire Shepherdess shares funny and charming stories about
life with her family and their many four-legged charges and
describes their activities at Ravenseat, from lambing and shearing
in spring to haymaking in summer and feeding the flock in
midwinter. She vividly evokes the famous Swaledale landscape, from
the sweeping moors to rare wildflowers and elusive hares glimpsed
in the field. Amanda lives in tune with nature, and her attitude to
food is the same. She believes in using good, seasonal ingredients
when it comes to feeding her family, and includes some of her
favourite recipes here, from wild garlic lamb with hasselback
potatoes to rhubarb and custard crumble cake and Yorkshire curd
tart. The book also includes her Dalesman columns, published in
book form for the first time and giving new insights into her life.
As charming as Amanda herself, this book will delight everyone who
has followed her adventures so far.
The Marina Bay Sand, the Changi Jewel and the fast-paced, high-rise
city are what immediately comes to one's mind about Singapore. This
is 'The Weekender's' first flight into the Asia Pacific region and
this issue will present Singapore in a different and more laid-back
perspective than you might be used to. However, it will still
showcase the iconic architecture and landmarks that juxtapose with
a melting pot of diverse heritages/cultures and remnants of the
city-state's colonial past. And at the same, this issue explores
the blurred boundaries between the old and the new, the hardscapes
and the softscapes. From starting the weekend with breakfast at a
local enclave, rich in history and culture, to wandering the
grounds of the UNESCO Heritage listed Botanical Gardens and then
ending the day sipping a cocktail along Keong Siak Road, a trendy
neighbourhood littered with eateries and bars, Matthew aspires for
the book to bring about a more local and intimate experience of
what the city-state has to offer for a weekend getaway or a
pit-stop to explore the rest of region. Whilst the flow of the book
will incorporate the weekend trajectory, the mixture of content
will mean that a reader is both influenced by Matthew's imagery of
the city, without explicitly having to follow a specific route but
allow them to adventure at will.
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