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Charming Landscape by Graham Gercken

Here you will find paintings by Award winning Australian Landscape artist Graham Gercken. The online gallery includes landscape paintings for sale, created by Graham in both Plein air and larger in Studio. The themes of these paintings include the Rugged Cliffs of the Blue Mountains Canyons , dry deserts of Central Australia & American Southwest , the drama of Autumn Colours to magnificent Coastal Beaches and Dunes.

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10 Jul 2012 10:09:00,post received 0 comments

Wow Vessels and Blooms by Jack Long

At first glance, these incredible images look like still-life portraits of flowers. But far from being drawn in the traditional way, they are created by photographing fast-moving droplets of paint as they fall through the air. Artist Jack Long, 53, spends months painstakingly planning and testing each work before capturing them with a high-speed camera.

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13 Jul 2012 11:17:00,post received 0 comments

Educative Thor's Well in Cape Perpetua

For at least 6,000 years Native Americans hunted for mussels, crabs, sea urchins, and clams along the coast near Cape Perpetua. Evidence of their lives can still be found in the huge piles of discarded mussel shells that lie along the shore near the Cape Perpetua Visitor Center

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22 Jul 2012 20:13:00,post received 0 comments

Charming Amazing Photos by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. Part Two

Yann Arthus-Bertrand (born March 13, 1946 in Paris) is a French photographer, journalist, reporter and environmentalist.

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23 Aug 2012 14:31:00,post received 0 comments

Educative Mount Roraima

Mount Roraima (Spanish: Monte Roraima, also known as Tepuy Roraima and Cerro Roraima; Portuguese: Monte Roraima [ˈmõtʃi ʁoˈɾajmɐ]) is the highest of the Pakaraima chain of tepui plateau in South America. First described by the English explorer Sir Walter Raleigh in 1596, its 31 km2 summit area is defended by 400-metre-tall cliffs on all sides. The mountain includes the triple border point of Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana.

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11 Sep 2012 08:04:00,post received 0 comments

Wow Detonations by Ueli Alder

The explosive Ueli Alder Detonations series is deadly. Created by Swiss artist Ueli Alder, the series is luckily made up of images found on the Internet. However, the Photoshopped collages of explosions still manage to be incredibly badass and terrifying. Adler’s inspiration for the series were war-themed video games, as he attempts to romanticize the cataclysmic detonations that go off during game play.

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17 Sep 2012 12:48:00,post received 0 comments

Fact Ginny –The Dog who Rescues Cats

Ginny, a seventeen-year old schnauzer-husky mix from Long Beach, Long Island who was famous for rescuing cats, was killed off by her owner, Philip Gonzalez, on August 25th. At the time of her death she had stopped eating and was incontinent and arthritic.

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06 Oct 2012 12:16:00,post received 0 comments

Fact Emma Hack Takes Body Art

Adelaide-based artist, Emma Hack, has been exhibiting extensively throughout Australia since 1999. Through a combination of painting on canvas, body painting and studio-based photography, Emma's works evoke a rich array of visual narrative and magical realism.

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10 Oct 2012 08:19:00,post received 0 comments