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Routeburn Track, New Zealand

I pushed through a wall of trees and bushes and suddenly found myself in this natural amphitheatre. It was utterly silent and but for the clouds drifting slowly, completely still.

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Kepler Track, New Zealand

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So you think you’re a red-hot dancer?! Check this!

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What Sutherland’s power made a demand, Callas’ grace made a prayer – Casta...

Callas’ stage presence is magnificent.

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For Your Delight

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This is not a pipe…

…and this is neither an aurora nor an image of one. Images: top/bottom

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What artist could paint this?

‘Let art be content with its lofty, splendid mission of being a substitute for reality in case of its absence, and of being a textbook of life for man. Reality stands higher than dreams, and essential...

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Brancusi did his best…

…Nature didn’t even have to try. ‘Let art be content with its lofty, splendid mission of being a substitute for reality in case of its absence, and of being a textbook of life for man. Reality stands...

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Christmas cheer

I was looking forward to a cheese sandwich for tea but, no butter… So I went to the local supermarket, bought this, took it home and set out the ingredients ready for assembly, wolfing-down and...

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On the aesthetic relation of art to reality

NGC 1333: Stellar Nursery in Perseus ‘Let art be content with its lofty, splendid mission of being a substitute for reality in case of its absence, and of being a textbook of life for man. Reality...

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