I am still posting photos taken on our trip to Canberra, so apologise if you are getting bored with them.
I put together a photo book at the end of each year showing my photos and I wanted to record our trip for the book.
Here are some of the wonderful paintings at the Love and Desire exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia.
I am still on catch up I am afraid, so if I haven't checked out your photos yet I will try and catch up more this evening.
It is very hot here and I am still feeling rather drained since I was sick during December and get tired very easily. I have a medical appointment on Wednesday so should get my latest blood results then. Hopefully I am moving in the right direction.
I do tend to push myself to keep going though instead of relaxing more.
We went to the market this morning and then walked down into town to have a bacon and egg roll at a café on the marina. It was so hot and I have no idea how people manage to lie on the beach in this heat. David and I spent most of our walk walking in the shade. We were thankful to get back to the car and air con, but at least we got some exercise.
I like the middle one and the bottom right best. This style always reminds me of the Keats poem La Belle Dame Sans Merci.......or as the inimitable Flanders and Swann translated it, "the beautiful lady who never says thank you!" Hope your blood tests give you a clue to what's happening, all the best xx
A lovely collage Babs...I'm finding the humidity exhausting so not being well would take an extra toll...I doubt you are one to relax no matter how many told you to do so 😂 I am of the mind though that if you stop it will all cease up so keeping going isn't a bad thing
Superb collage Babs full of wonderful paintings beautifully captured its almost an impossible task to pick a favourite but if pushed I do like Arthur Hughes "April Love" bottom left:)
I love Pre-Raphaelite art, this is a great collage of some fabulous paintings, hard to choose just one but I think it would be the top middle, The Lady of Shallot.
@kjarn I put it together using layers in Photoshop
@jeneurell Feeling a lot better now, but still get tired easily.
@casablanca They are all such beautiful paintings. I too like the middle one and I would be hard pushed to pick an overall favourite, but my three favourites would have to be
top centre The Lady of Shalott
top right Circe Invidiosa
and
bottom right The Magic Circle
all by John William Waterhouse.
@annied You know me Annie, I find it difficult to stay still for too long. I am slowing down at the moment though. Well apart from going to Coffs Harbour for a few days and Canberra for a few days too. I agree the humidity is the killer. Thank God for air con.
@pcoulson I have a hard time picking favourites too but if you see above I have listed my absolute favourites so far, but that could change as I look at the other paintings again. They all have such interesting stories with them.
What a wonderful collage of these amazingly beautiful paintings - I would love to see them in person. So difficult to choose one I like best , I suppose from just looking at these images - I have strong attraction towards the top left and the top right ( love the colours in these ! ) Hope all goes well with your b.test results on Wednesday and the docs can improve things for you . I also have been invited to discuss the latest blood test results - so another app. to book ! All the best Babs xx
Great collage, I really like the one on the top right - perhaps the length of it. Hope it cools down a little for you and the tests are positive and productive!
Love those paintings, I believe i’ve seen them before as illustrations in books, if that is possible.
Hope your bloodtest result are going to be ok. I believe that keep going is a better way of life than sitting still and doing notting, but do take care!
Some elegant paintings. Thank you, Babs, for your good wishes and all your thoughtful comments. I hope you will feel less drained soon. We have temperatures hovering around freezing. Our life is very quiet. I am managing to get swimming some days but am also, like you, tired. Nil desperandum and all that! Take care.
Great collage of all those beautiful paintings. I don't know how people can bake in the sun either. I hope your health continues to improve and all goes well with the doctor.
Love this collage, though this kind of art is not really my cuppa tea. Great idea to make annual photo albums though. As for sun-baking I used to do that in my (silly) youth but with what we now know about skin cancer it's downright stupidity.
@quietpurplehaze Thanks Hazel, glad you are taking it easy. Sometimes there is nothing better than quiet times. As you know I keep pretty busy, but in this heat even we are slowing down.
@olivetreeann I really have no idea how people sit in the sun all day. We were drained just walking down to the marina from the market and back again and we walked in the shade as much as we could.
@golftragic Thanks Marnie. I put together a photo book of my 365 photos for the year and I have just received the book containing my 2018 photos. I ordered it on the Sunday just before we went to Canberra and it arrived on Thursday, not bad going eh. Luckily we had arrived home and they didn't have to leave it on the doorstep.
@kjarn I put it together using layers in Photoshop
@jeneurell Feeling a lot better now, but still get tired easily.
@casablanca They are all such beautiful paintings. I too like the middle one and I would be hard pushed to pick an overall favourite, but my three favourites would have to be
top centre The Lady of Shalott
top right Circe Invidiosa
and
bottom right The Magic Circle
all by John William Waterhouse.
Here is the write up on the centre photo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Dream_of_the_Past:_Sir_Isumbras_at_the_Ford
@annied You know me Annie, I find it difficult to stay still for too long. I am slowing down at the moment though. Well apart from going to Coffs Harbour for a few days and Canberra for a few days too. I agree the humidity is the killer. Thank God for air con.
@pcoulson I have a hard time picking favourites too but if you see above I have listed my absolute favourites so far, but that could change as I look at the other paintings again. They all have such interesting stories with them.
Hope your bloodtest result are going to be ok. I believe that keep going is a better way of life than sitting still and doing notting, but do take care!
Circe Invidiosa
@bella_ss Thanks, yes we had a fabulous trip. It was non stop.
@mandygravil Thanks, I love the top right one too, one my favourites. It is still very hot here.
@jacqbb Yes there is a pre-raphaelite art book and you may have seen that.
@mave @louannwarren @susie1205 @henrir @julienne1 @cocobella @mittens @seattlite @helenhall @joysabin @pyrrhula @loweygrace @kwind Thanks, we saw lots of things in Canberra and the two exhibitions were fabulous.
@quietpurplehaze Thanks Hazel, glad you are taking it easy. Sometimes there is nothing better than quiet times. As you know I keep pretty busy, but in this heat even we are slowing down.
@nicolecampbell Yes thanks Nicole we had a fabulous time.
@olivetreeann I really have no idea how people sit in the sun all day. We were drained just walking down to the marina from the market and back again and we walked in the shade as much as we could.
@golftragic Thanks Marnie. I put together a photo book of my 365 photos for the year and I have just received the book containing my 2018 photos. I ordered it on the Sunday just before we went to Canberra and it arrived on Thursday, not bad going eh. Luckily we had arrived home and they didn't have to leave it on the doorstep.