Today, landscape paintings are versatile, enthralling, colorful and inspiring. They reflect the way we perceive peaks. This series represent my selection of the worlds most discussed and most beautiful mountains. I selected mountains by the story they are telling, not by height or steepness. Here are: After viewing the nature paintings you can read more about …
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Searching encouraging quotes or positive motivational quotes delivers endless collections, or complex guidelines. These stimulate thinking but have no fast effects. This post helps and shows both, quotes with quick impact and thought catalysts. Inhalt: Positive quotes can take fast effect Self-awareness leads to self-confidence Rational objectives and irrational believes Encouraging quotes for a dynamic …
Robert Edwin “Rob” Hall (1961 – 1996) has been a Mt Everest head guide in the 1990s. He was a New Zealand mountain guide and organized guided tours to Mount Everest with the guide agency Adventure Consultants yearly. By 1996, Rob Hall had completed four summits of Everest, more than any other non-Sherpa mountaineer and …
The most legendary persons who summited Mt Everest are often seen as the best climbers ever, the best mountaineers of the world. This is a set of twelve portraits of persons that I consider as Legends of Everest. The order in above overview was chosen for design reasons. Here is another one: Sherpa: Ang Rita, …
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Mt Everest is an attraction: every spring media report about Everest-climbers, sherpa and tourists. But is climbing Mt Everest still an adventure? There are two main routes onto the tallest mountain of the word: From South via Nepal North via Tibet Summit and Panorama from above There should be around 20 routes from all sides …
The Mt Everest catastrophe of 1996 is being discussed around the world since Jon Krakauer published the book „Into thin air“. It is presumed as one of the largest incidents at Mt. Everest, as ultimate proof that Mt Everest has its own will. Two films, three books and many interviews fall short that the highest …
In the past I needed to go to harbors or scrapyards to shoot photographs of rust and paint. I wanted to call out to people: Don’t remove rust, don’t derust! 25 years after my first series on this subject (see here) I took the camera and focused on scrap, worn, stressed and overloaded subjects. The …
South Korean actor Ahn Jae-hwan, 36, was found dead on the morning of September 8 2008 in his car in a potential suicide. He lit a bonfire in the car which probably led to asphyxiation. The interior of the car in which Ahn Jae-hwan died tells an elusive story. A story worthwhile being painted. A …
