The Art of Observation...

  (All Photos by Tavarua)

There is always something interesting...to observe...

Photography is a reflection of moments - thoughts? feelings? emotions?

Observe - A simple light fixture...

one must learn an inner solitude...to frame life and observe...and out of solitude comes strenght...to open the gates...to create

Observe - a laugh...

Awareness of simplicity...

Observe -  A simple reflection of a palm tree in a window...

Observe - A view.....A smile.....A tree

Observe - The beauty of the sea...

It is about seeing life in a different and new way(s)

and

in the end... it is still all reality...

Oasis...desert sand and a "watering hole"...

(All Photos by Tavarua)

Attitude - Make the best of the moment you are in - You might learn something...

"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true."

- Buddha

"Amor Fati"

"We are learning from our past journeys and observing the present, to create our future."

It's is your life, your decisions and your path - no matter what anyone says...

"I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go without end."

- Simone de Beauvoir

Destination...???

There are No Mango Fish where i am going...

Before I pack up again...

Well,...

(Photos by Tavarua)

Destination unknown...

Cheers... to Hendrick's Gin...

Cheers... to our Ancestors...

Cheers...to Nature...

Cheers... to the Game...

Cheers for the snowfall...

and Cheers to tonights...

Roasted Wild Hare Saddle...

I marinated the Hare saddle (500 - 600 gram) for approximately 20 hours in;

1/3 cup - Olive oil

1 tsp - Herbs de Provence

1tsp - Sea salt

1 tbsp  - Freshly ground pepper

1 tbsp -  Oregano

5 cloves of finely chopped garlic

Marinate for 12 to 24 hours

Thin slice potatoes 1/8 to 2/8 inch...roast with the hare...

Roast for 25 to 35 minutes in 220C/400F

Add - chestnuts (roasted or boiled), dates and sundried tomatoes in olive oil...

Ready to Serve...

hmmmmm...

"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

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In 1947 he settled in Tangier, Morocco for 52 years, until his death at the age of 88.