Breathe in...Cherish the Day...An "Eyeful of Nature"...

(Photo by Tavarua)

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“Clouds came floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”

- Rabindranath Tagore

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The expression of Art from generation to generation - The Academic Art or Impressionism?

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Are we still here to analyze the broadly term Impressionist?

It does state an "Eyeful of Nature" a worldly vision - the facts of Life itself - Now is this just what is accessible for your eye - or is it for the intellectual mind.

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The Old Masters - who I dearly admire - But the progress from generation to generation institutes new ideas...even in the sense and expressions as Picassos old classical works of art to his paintings away from the classical expressions to the simplicity in figures, scenes and fragments of his world.

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The distractions of your mind when the color effect contradicts your senses of reality...although the use of the movements of positive colors could change your mindset from always be an admire of the perfect paintings of the Old Masters....

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Let the colors speak and take on a new Journey of thoughts and combine it with your old world thinking.... the creation of contradiction and beauty can add a new dimension to your life... and maybe to your way of interior design as well...

Sporting Guns - Bespoke works of art....

.......for a gun connoisseur.

Engraved Modern and Vintage Sporting Guns - Travel to Gleneagles resort and the Scottish Highlands for Sotheby’s annual sale in August just before the grouse-shooting season. It is here you can find wonderful pieces of engravers art for your collection and upcoming hunt...

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Engraved Game scenes

The gun engraver has a steady hand, perfect eyesight, he is experienced, artistic and extremely skilled to produce the finest works of art.......

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Purdey, Holland & Holland, Woodward & Sons, Boss Co, E.J. Churchill, Rigby, Beretta......a few names to be remembered from the past as well as in present time.

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

(All Photos in This Post by Tavarua)

"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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Danish Arctic Explorer, Adventurer, Writer and Traveler - Peter Freuchen (1886 - 1957).......

I have experienced the arctic tundra and the arctic during months of winter darkness as well as in the alps in Europe for survival in the cold during my traveling years, but far from living the life of;

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Peter Freuchen - An Arctic Adventurer and Explorer - He took part in the Danish Expedition to North East Greenland 1906 to 1908, and then several expeditions from 1910 to 1924, often with the famous Polar explorer Knud Rasmussen. Freuchen lived with the Inuits in Thule, Greenland. He established with Knud Rasmussen the exploring station in Thule (1910).

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Peter with his wife Dagmar Freuchen-Gale in 1947

Dagmar Freuchen-Gale, was an artist and illustrator for magazines as Vogue and Harper's Bazaar

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Fifteen years of maritime adventures - He hunted seal, walrus, and polar bear on the coast. He took part of hunting on whaling ships and took their culture to heart. For months he lived under winter darkness without seeing the sun. - a remarkable life - an Arctic legend. He served as a governor of the Danish colony at Thule in 1913-20. Further, he wrote 4 books about his arctic memories.

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He founded The Adventurer's Club in Denmark - 1938.

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His last written book - 1957.

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In 1957 Freuchen died of a heart attack in Elmendorf, Alaska - His ashes were spread over the Dundas Mountains in Greenland.

Henri de Monfried (1879-1974) - Adventurer at Large...

Henry de Monfried (1879-1974)
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De Monfreid’s boat Al-Tair

One who was fascinated by de Monfreid's life was

Sir Wilfred Thesiger who visited Al-Tair in Djibouti 1935.

Henri de Monfried - An extraordinary life - He new how to live - We are talking about pure passion for life - a risk taker who managed to live to the golden age of 95.

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A Philosopher, Sailor, Writer, Gun runner -he ran guns into Abyssinia through Tajura, Hashish Smuggler - of the coasts of East Africa and Southern Arabia, and Pearl Diver - He arrived in Djibouti (then a French colony) in 1910/11 and - it was there it all started from 1912 to 1940.

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"Mosquée de Mamoudi...Djibouti "- 1923"

Henri son of an artist was artistic as well and had grown up surrounded by art and artists - His father Daniel was a good friend of Toulouse-Lautrec and Paul Gauguin. Daniel - a painter,art dealer, and Gauguin’s agent in Europe during the years he resided in Tahiti and the Marquesas...

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Kikuyu Village 1942
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After he returned to his home country (France) from East Africa in 1947 he changed his life around to painting and writing

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His books are anthropological, colorful and poetical. He managed to write 60 to 70 books during 30 years.

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1918 - de Monfried in the center...

"Of all the creatures on the face of the earth, humans are those who adapt most easily, not only to the most extreme temperatures and climates but also to the most arduous conditions that life imposes on them." - Henri de Monfried

Before he passed away at 95 he stated: "I have lived a rich, restless, magnificent life"

Gerald Benney (1930-2008)- Silversmith of Contemporary Designs - a master of creating objets d’ arts...

presented at Oxford and Cambridge Colleges, the Victoria and Albert Museum.....Distinguished silversmith to the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Queen mother and the Prince of Wales. Not to forget that many pieces of his art were private commissions. Benney studied at Brighton College of Art and the Royal College of Art .
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Benney was influenced by the simple purity and minimalism of Scandinavian design which is reflected in his work.

Surface texture - His earliest textured surfaces are from 1956 - this come to signify as his trademark - it had all happened by accident when he one day used a hammer with a damaged head.

He made his own hammers and brought the surface texture to the world of silversmiths....

He worked with Burch-Korrodi, in Zurich, Switzerland in the 1960s - to learn enamelling techniques. These skills had been obtained from Fabergé's craftsmen. Enamel and silver is much harder to process than actually using gold and enamel....due to the different temperatures when they expand.....

...He was a master at work...

The Throphy Room - Carved Tusks.........

Warthog

Here are a few more tusks brought back to "Under Canvas" ...which is

rather filled with travel memorabilia and full of everything you do not need.

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Warthog

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Warthog
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Warthog

. Hippo front

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Hippo back

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Warthog Tusks
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Hippo front

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Hippo back

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

(All Photos in This Post by Tavarua)

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;

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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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