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Monte Casale by Via ferrata Ernesto Che Guevara. Italia. Photos by S.N.

Saitama, Japan.

A few minutes before they embark for the invasion of Europe, US assault troops kneel on a British pier with their landing craft in the background, and receive benediction from Major Edward J. Waters, Catholic Army Chaplain from Oswego, New York - England, June 1944

There is a weight to the air just after the sun slips below the mountains. In this vertical documentary landscape, a sailboat sits motionless, a dark silhouette against a sky bruised with deep blues and lined with a thin, fiery orange neon. The vintage Soviet lens, stopped down to capture the full breadth of the scene, preserves the fine texture of the rippling water in the foreground while honoring the grand, silent drama of the horizon. It is an unmanipulated archive of evening stilling.

James Ratelet, dans les rues de Pékin, Beijing  Chine 116

-- Roberto Bolano

Monks and nature, what more could you want? :)

oil on canvas

Le Bain-de-pied, 1895. Camille Pissarro. Oil on canvas.

Photograph: Urs Flüeler

"The Wish" 03.09 (1998)

A female kingfisher puts on a colourful display. County Durham, UK. Photograph: Tony Raine

May 2013 and (2,9) October 2015.