Tag: Travel
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The things we do to trees
This is the most bizarre, extreme power line tree trim I have ever seen. Photographed on the Great Alpine Road in the Ovens Valley in North East Victoria, the tree forms part of the avenue leading into the pretty village of Harrietville. The image unsettles me in the same way a surrealist painting does. For…
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Seats on the sand
There is something irresistible about unexpected, improvised creature comforts on a deserted beach. These chairs invite you to stop and take in the view. Perhaps some thoughtful locals placed them on Queens Head North Shore Beach. Or was it surfers, who use the spot to survey the waves? From the stone breakwater at Port Macquarie…
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Tea garden
Tea and Treasure is the the name of a quaint cafe in an old weatherboard house with pretty verandas in Port Macquirie, New South Wales. The tiny ‘tea garden’ along the fence delighted me almost as much as the pet galah that the owner produced from the ‘birds nest’ under the counter.
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Wake me up…
Cats are part of the urban landscape in Morocco and so, they will figure strongly in this series. Though I admire the capacity of cats to fend for themselves and survive without human assistance, it is this very characteristic that can cause ecological upset. They are, as I have already noted, killers. Of the…
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Wake me up to create
The Medina in Fez is the place to see artisans at work. Mosaics, ceramics, leatherwork, ironwork and rug making all take place in workshops clustered together as they have for hundreds of years. There are alleys of tailors embroidering colourful Jalabas, and a noisy section where workers bash iron pots into shape.
ART by Jude Tulloch 