The Natural Art of Nature !
July 24th 2007 07:05
Signature Tune
Nebraska, 1974
Photograph by James L. Amos
A narrow trail hugs the sides of a mesa and descends into a valley etched by deep ravines and bordered by other large mesas.
This scene in Bayard, Nebraska, would have been a common one for pioneers heading west on the Oregon Trail in the mid-1800s in search of land and fortunes in gold.
One such pioneer wrote of the prairie: "Imagine the ocean, when the waves are rolling mountain high, becoming solid and covered with beautiful green grass, and you have some faint idea of it."
(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Itch to Move West: Life and Death on the Oregon Trail," August 1986, National Geographic magazine)
Art of Nature
It almost looks like the great divide. What do you think of how our ancestors did it for us?
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Comment by Jessicca
Learning Something Everyday
But your signature tune made my stomach growl! hahaha... I should have eaten a full meal today, but your art work is really cute and delicious, reminds me of those lovely chocolates my friend brought back from UK.
(Yummy!)
Have a blessed day
Comment by katyzzz
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MS Paint Art
katyzzz
Comment by Mountain Fog
Infognito
Screen Trek
QUOTE ME NO QUOTES!
BUT, maybe interested in you creating more 3D effects?
I have a special passion for them myself, being the first person in the world to write (libretto), direct and design an opera using 3D projection as the main set element....I staged it in melbourne years ago...maybe I should write about it...but feels a bit egotistical...anyhoo....
some 3D pitcharrrs pleeeese Katyzzzzzz!!!!!
fog
P.S. and maybe some fluro clashing ones, like those used to space everyone out in the sixties because of the warping/distortion effect they seemed to create??? You know, blue and red together, black and white swirled lines...a post on this era...with pitchars...would be interesting and fun to read toooooooooo!!!!!!!! byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Comment by katyzzz
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MS Paint Art
The point of this post was the photograph and I chose colours and contours in my art [pre-designed] to match.
I stretch myself to the limit. Sometimes all I try to do with the signature tune is to introduce myself other times I try to come up with a related match.
Arts is not my forte, using my brain is. I do have some creative gifts but not of the sort usually acknowledged but more in the scientific research lines.
I just love the ballet and music, Opera has not been high in my agenda but you sound like a man of many and varied artistic talents.
Feel free with me, I don't even mind boasting, provided it's real. I like to hear of people's achievements, not moaning and groaning.
Now I'm in trouble again, guess my second name.
katyzzz