Ever wondered How Long It Takes To Paint a Feather....??

Ever wondered How Long It Takes To Paint a Feather….??

Paintings by Julia Thompson. A number of other feather painting photographs included in the original email have been omitted from this example.

Many wonderful feather paintings, including those in the email, are available for viewing on Julie Thompson's website. The artist explains:

I began painting feathers back in 1990, purely as a means of putting to use all the broad sturdy wing feathers that my mother's peacocks would shed. I had never seen this done before, but knowing the bonding properties of acrylic paint, I thought it was a feasible experiment. I began with simple subject matters like pictographs and still-life’s, but soon that grew to a very broad range of subject matter.

The feather paintings also feature in a video clip of folk singer Gordon Lightfoot's song "Cherokee Bend".

References:
Feather lady Studio: The wildlife art of Northwest artist Julie Thompson
About the Artist
Cherokee Bend - Gordon Lightfoot V54

Thanks

Sree…

 

 
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The most colorful river in the World

The most colorful river in the World

The river that ran away to paradise - During a brief span between wet and dry seasons, when the water level is just right, the many varieties of algae and moss bloom in a dazzling display of colors.  Without any roads leading to this river, it must be accessed by horse.

 

The information in the message is factual and the photographs are genuine. The river shown in the photographs is the Caño Cristales, which is located near the town of La Macarena in Colombia, South America. The river, world famous for its colourful display, has been called "the river that ran away to paradise", "the most beautiful river in the world" and "the river of five colours". Information about the river published on the Atlas Obscura website notes:

 

During Colombia's wet season, the water flows fast and deep, obscuring the bottom of the river and denying the mosses and algae that call the river home the sun that they need. And during the dry season there is not enough water to support the dazzling array of life in the river. But during a brief span between the wet and dry seasons, when the water level is just right, the many varieties of algae and moss bloom in a dazzling display of colors. Blotches of amarillo, blue, green, black, and red - and a thousand shades in between - coat the river.

As noted in the message, the part of the river where the colourful blooms occur is quite isolated and is not accessible by road. Adventurous tourists can now fly into La Macarena and then make their way to to the river site on foot as part of guided tours. The site was effectively closed to tourists for several years because of FARC guerrilla activity in the region along with concerns about the impact of unregulated tourist traffic. However, the site was reopened to visitors in 2009. The Colombia

 

Reports website notes:

The Caño Cristales site, located about two hours walk from the town of La Macarena, will be open to visitors until November 10, when the summer season dries out the algae and the river loses it magnificent colours.

So far, some 1,000 people have visited Caño Cristales, including around 100 foreign tourists.

According to new regulations visits to the site are made up of groups of up to 20 people, taken throughout the day by four guides. The tours will follow four clearly marked and authorized paths and one is no longer permitted to stay overnight or cook, as this was ruining the area previously.

 

Even so, reports indicate that some intrepid visitors still made it to the river during the years it was officially closed to tourists.

Many other photographs of the river in all its glory have been published on various travel blogs and photo sharing websites. There are also couple of Youtube posting depicting an excursion to La Macarena and Cano Cristales.

 

Thanks

Sree…

 

 
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Future of Internet Search: Mobile version

Future of Internet Search: Mobile version

 

Guess what you can do with a touch screen, camera, scanner, WiFi, and Google maps in future...
View a building through it, and it gives you all the information about that building....

 
Choose a building and touch a floor and it tells you more details of the building. You can use it when you want to know a car model, an insect name, what kind of food is served at a restaurant and how much, who built a bridge, etc. etc.


 
 
It’s got a scanner built in.


 
 
 
so you can use it this way when you want to check the meaning of a word in the newspaper, book, magazine, etc. It would be much easier to read a real book. You can use the dictionary, wikipedia, thesaurus and anything else available on the web. What do you think?



 
 
 
Indoor guide:Works in a building, airport, station, hospital, etc.


 
 
 
Automatic simultaneous translation: here Latin to English.


 
 
Search keyword: Helpful when you want to find out a word from a lot of text in newspaper/book.


 
 
 
Nutrition: This kind of function would be helpful for health freaks..
 
 

 

Also check out : http://www.hoax-slayer.com/google-amazing-device.shtml

 

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Sree…

 

 
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