Couleurs d'Afrique...................

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"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." - Oscar Wilde

. "The Hand and the Eye"

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Well, just another page in those Journals...Reflections from Senegal....

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"It was once Present in time ..Now - already belonging to the Past...."

."Baobab Tree & Spears"

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Nature & Man - Experience - Fascination - Beauty & Danger - Sounds of the African Safari...

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an era long gone........

We still find a fascination with the "African Adventure" until this day....

Here - I am...where I belong ...on a voyage in the wilderness

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a few pictures through my camera lens...B&W/Color/B&W/Color...the result;

.Springbok

Savannah Buffalo

“Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.” - Vincent van Gogh

Greater Kudu

the wonder of nature - a spiritual experience....

“Man masters nature not by force but by understanding.”

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"Hunger"

the game...moving in gently -15 yards from these two....rhinos....
...you have to fall in with the wind ...
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"Anger"

. “In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.”- Robert Green Ingersoll

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Another Day.........

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Stepping into this day......barefoot wearing a kikoy....

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20 years of Travel for this fish Sculpture....and for me...Let us say instead.... of years......approximately 70 Countries later....

The Lost Art of Writing Letters - I still Use Travel Boxes/Cases, Writing Slopes, Fountain Pens and Seal Wax to Seal the letters with my Signet - Tradition, tradition, tradition........and the above - from Abercrombie & Fitch when A&F was still....A&F...this was the store where the White Hunters and Explorers like Amelia Earhart, Ernest Hemingway,Teddy Roosevelt, Ernest Shackleton, patronized the company with its excursion goods in the early-20th century.....

Use Porcupine Quills in a vase for decoration......

The Crab and the Journal.....................

“The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.” - Eugene Delacroix

and then.....more...

Water world - The Crab like the Turtle....Carries his home with him...Hmmmm and how many steamer trunks...?

Rest your eyes on the blue sky........

" The Green Zone"

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“Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.” - Rumi

98 Degrees in the Sun - Journals - Finally ???? - Two Pages...

Journals/Collage by Tavarua

Well, I think I am finally satisfied with these two pages...............