View over the Hallstatt glacier to the south and southeast. In the distance you can see the peaks of the Tauern mountains.
Climate researchers say, global warming will not spare this glacier. The Dachstein glaciers will be gone in 20 to 30 years. There are fears of bad consequences for the water balance of this area.
I do not want to imagine that there will be no pictures like these anymore.
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Mt. Dachstein, Upper Austria
Beautiful and sad - I don't know when GW became a political issue. We see it changing right in front of our eyes! Let's hope the collective "we" realizes this isn't political but it is critical and we need to take better care - soon.
Such a terrible thought. When we visited Philip Johnson's Glass House last year, there was an exhibition of photographs by Lynn Davis of icebergs off Greenland. Amazing photos -as are yours - and already, since they were taken, these scenes are no longer there. We are such poor custodians of our world. https://www.artsy.net/show/glass-house-lynn-davis-on-ice
This is another trememdous scene from your adventures. I love all the shades of blue, and how the different reliefs and textures are so clear.
I love the wonderful vastness and spectacle of these glaciers. But like you and others here I'm horrified to think that such natural beauties will be gone soon. But how the heck can we get the politicians (and others) to stop using climate change as a political football? Ours are hopeless.
@helenhall Thanks, Helen, for your understandig comment.
I am very worried about global problems - socially, politically and ecologically. They are all closely related and can only be solved globally. Unfortunately, I do not see enough approaches for that.
The photos of Lynn Davis are great. I would like to see it in the original. They are wonderfully composed and I admire them very much. She has an excellent view of form, for chiaroscuro and for organizing a picture area. Greenland - I would like to visit this area. But if I want to experience the Arctic, I have to be fast ... She was there for three months... I would like to have so much time for such things.
At Johnson's Glass House, this exhibition was... New Canaan, Connecticut. Noteworthy that you have made this long journey. It's not just around the corner from Bedford.
The Glass House has a lot of connections to the building concepts of Mies van der Rohe. There are also furniture from him in the Glass House. I really appreciate Mies van der Rohe. He was the last director at the Bauhaus in Germany before it was closed by the Nazis. The Bauhaus was a nucleus of the modernity - in visual art (also in photography!), in architecture, design and pedagogy. The Nazis did not like it all. The people were persecuted, banned from work, and some killed. Some very capable Bauhaus people emigrated - as did Mies van der Rohe to the United States. The irony: What the Nazis wanted to prevent became known in the world through the emigration of artists. The Bauhaus continues to provide significant impetus to this day. The Bauhaus was founded in 1919 - next year will be the 100th anniversary. I think that there will be a lot of events.
Global warming - some deny the influence of man, some deny it at all. The results of the climate researchers, however, are clear. The temperature of the atmosphere is rising steadily. Equally clear is the share of greenhouse gases caused by human intervention.
The consequences are already visible and noticeable. They are going to get much worse if there is not a lot of rethinking in many ways. I'm mainly worried about our children and grandchildren. We have responsibility for what world we leave to them.
@jerome Jerome, I studied architecture as an undergraduate. We took a trip to Berlin and beyond to visit some of the influential works from the Bauhaus and I remember so many lectures about Mies van der Rohe. This is why, when we visited New Canaan last year to take my father in law to visit his relatives, I knew that a trip to the Glass House was a must. we had very little time to enjoy the photographic work of Lynn Davis, but still, it left a big impression on me.
@helenhall Hm. You will have your valid reasons why you did not practice the profession as an architect. After my impressions it is not so easy to work in this branch. Building is something very complex. There can be many adversities for a construction project. But you have a solid idea of what building means.
This is image is beautiful!
This is another trememdous scene from your adventures. I love all the shades of blue, and how the different reliefs and textures are so clear.
I am very worried about global problems - socially, politically and ecologically. They are all closely related and can only be solved globally. Unfortunately, I do not see enough approaches for that.
The photos of Lynn Davis are great. I would like to see it in the original. They are wonderfully composed and I admire them very much. She has an excellent view of form, for chiaroscuro and for organizing a picture area. Greenland - I would like to visit this area. But if I want to experience the Arctic, I have to be fast ... She was there for three months... I would like to have so much time for such things.
At Johnson's Glass House, this exhibition was... New Canaan, Connecticut. Noteworthy that you have made this long journey. It's not just around the corner from Bedford.
The Glass House has a lot of connections to the building concepts of Mies van der Rohe. There are also furniture from him in the Glass House. I really appreciate Mies van der Rohe. He was the last director at the Bauhaus in Germany before it was closed by the Nazis. The Bauhaus was a nucleus of the modernity - in visual art (also in photography!), in architecture, design and pedagogy. The Nazis did not like it all. The people were persecuted, banned from work, and some killed. Some very capable Bauhaus people emigrated - as did Mies van der Rohe to the United States. The irony: What the Nazis wanted to prevent became known in the world through the emigration of artists. The Bauhaus continues to provide significant impetus to this day. The Bauhaus was founded in 1919 - next year will be the 100th anniversary. I think that there will be a lot of events.
Thank you all for your kind comments!
Global warming - some deny the influence of man, some deny it at all. The results of the climate researchers, however, are clear. The temperature of the atmosphere is rising steadily. Equally clear is the share of greenhouse gases caused by human intervention.
The consequences are already visible and noticeable. They are going to get much worse if there is not a lot of rethinking in many ways. I'm mainly worried about our children and grandchildren. We have responsibility for what world we leave to them.