"Animals and Interiors" - Photographer Karen Knorr...

 

The Private Audience, Aam Khas, Junha Mahal, Dungarpur

(All Photos in This Post By Karen Knorr)
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Karen Knorr - A Professor of Photography - educated in Paris and London.
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We all know that I like taxidermy, "The Trophy Room" and architectural interiors... and of course we are close to nature...
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Explore the elegant, refined world of her photography...  

  

The Peacemaker, Jaipur Palace

Conqueror of the World, Podar Haveli, Nawalgarh

  

The Blue Salon Louis XVI

The Purple Room (Leda)

High Art Life After the Deluge

In search of the Marquess

 The Grand Monkey Room

The Music Room



The Stag and Wolf Room

The Kings Reception

He was a traveler and an artist with an aura of mystique - Paul Bowles...

"Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveler, belonging no more to one place than to the next, moves slowly, over periods of years, from one part of the earth to another."

- Paul Bowles

Greetings from the Arabian Peninsula.  Sitting here on 7500 feet with cold nights and sunny days... thinking about Morocco and... Perhaps my next destination will be Tangier, Morocco...and to quote Paul Bowles; "If people and their manner of living were alike everywhere, there would not be much point in moving from one place to another."

 Tangier - located on the north coast of Africa, once the playground for eccentrics, travelers and adventurers.

Paul Bowles (1910 –1999) was an American ex pat., traveler, artist, composer, and translator.

His first novel “The Sheltering Sky” was written in 1949 and made into a film in 1990 about an American couple travelling in French North Africa... 

... we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens, only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty, and yet it all seems limitless.
"The Sheltering Sky"
- Paul Bowles

(Photos in this post - unknown)
In 1947 he settled in Tangier, Morocco for 52 years, until his death at the age of 88.

The Hunters and The Hunted...

(All Photos by Tavarua)

Well, you have seen some of the photos before ...Just one of those days walking under the chestnut trees and trying to free my mind to be more productive...  a simple photo takes forever to grow into that right feeling of expression... Patience is waiting and to keep going in the direction you have choosen even if it is a slow process... 

time will tell...

Yes, I do pick the chestnuts and roast them...

A taste for life...France... somewhere on the coast and the countryside....

(All Photos by Tavarua)

My arrival...much has been written and much can be said about France...and anybody who stays more than 3 months...will understand that this country - with such an artistic and philosophical soul will perhaps change your perspective on ...

Arrival...at the country house...

Arrival ...an experience in life...even if familiar to your heart...it can be of unexpected...pleasure sometimes...

"Thinking"...

"The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even — if you will — eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned impostor couldn't be happy with.”- Joseph Brodsky

Unpacking....

and unpacking...

Escargots...

Would you care for a recipe???

 Ragoût d’escargots forestière

2 tablespoons butter
1 shallot, minced
1/2 clove garlic, minced
125 grams wild mushrooms, needs to be diced
1 small tomato, peeled, seeded, cored, diced
30 to 35 small snails
5 deciliter of heavy cream
Herbs the Provence, fine salt - freshly ground black pepper

Melt the butter in a small frying pan over medium-low heat.
Add the shallot - cook until soft.
Add the garlic and the mushrooms. Cook the mushrooms until soft. 
Add and mix the tomato and snails.
Add the cream and cook until the cream sauce is thick. Season with herb the Provence, salt and fresh pepper.
Ready ...
 

It is time for some crackling logs...and a glass of wine...do remember there is always a reason for drinking...today - for the excellence of the wine...and to good friends...

Night - Back at the house - Somewhere in France...after a nice evening at a simple Brasserie by the coast... dinner -  Moules et frites...

Destination.....France...

"Wine is bottled poetry." - Robert Louis Stevenson

"Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe."

- Anatole France

On my way to France - Have "Stuff" will Travel....Things You Might Need ???

Travel - Leather Jacket...

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? 

 - Albert Einstein

Well, a few steamer trunks, folding chairs.... and a lot of suitcases ...for your travels...

No need for complicated philosophies - Life is simple...

(let me think about this...)

More Travel Bags ...with the heraldic family colors...

Travel - Folding Chair

Travel -  Egg Cup ...

“While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.”

- Odilon Redon

Travel - Flask Set

Another... Travel Bag

Travel - Leather Coat

Travel - Kit/Set

Travel - Cigars


Another Travel Set...

Hunters and the Hunted...

(Photo by Tavarua)

Greetings from Ghana...

(Photos by Tavarua)