Author: John

  • Fantastic Realism Art Work of Russian Artist Boris Indrikov

    Fantastic Realism Art Work of Russian Artist Boris Indrikov

    Boris Indrikov is a talented and original artist born in Leningrad in 1967 and now lives and works in Moscow . From 1991 to 1997 he was a book designer and worked as an illustrator for the popular science magazine “Chemistry and Life.” He has been a member of the Creative Union of Artists of…

  • Wild Horses at Sunset on the Bot River Estuary

    Wild Horses at Sunset on the Bot River Estuary

    Today at sunset I strolled down to the “lagoon” otherwise known as the Bot River Estuary. Lo and behold, the wild horses were grazing on the grassy banks in the distance about 200 meters (650 feet) away. The Bot River Estuary lies at the edge of the Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve near Hermanus in the Western…

  • Terry Kobus Hermanus Based South African Artist

    Terry Kobus Hermanus Based South African Artist

    Local artist Terry Kobus is known for exquisite paintings of South Africa’s indigenous Nguni Cattle. Armed with a camera and his artists sketchbook he rides a mountain bike into remote rural areas where these unique indigenous cattle can be found. Terry works in oil and on wood and canvas to capture the magic of the…

  • Rhino Massacre in South Africa Continues

    Rhino Massacre in South Africa Continues

    In South Africa, home to 90% of the world’s population of rhinos, a war against internationally funded rhino poachers is losing ground. Last year 333 were killed, nearly half of them in the Kruger National Park. The year before that it was 209. The year before that, in 2008, the total jumped to a staggering…

  • South African Sunset Painted By The Master Scientist

    South African Sunset Painted By The Master Scientist

    This photo was taken just after sunset with a Canon Powershot A460. If you painted this incredibly beautiful sky just this way . . well, it would look as if you changed your mind somewhere, wouldn’t it? The Bot River Estuary lies against the foothills of the Kogelberg mountains in the Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve and…

  • Dame Elizabeth Taylor (1932 — 2011)

    Dame Elizabeth Taylor (1932 — 2011)

    “I never planned to acquire a lot of jewels or a lot of husbands. For me, life happened, just as it does for anyone else.” Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, DBE (27 February 1932 – 23 March 2011) died yesterday morning at the age of 79. Related posts: No related posts.

  • Marilyn Monroe American Icon

    Marilyn Monroe American Icon

    Without any acting experience, Marilyn became a Hollywood media star and a legend in a career that spanned 16 years and 29 movies. Born Norma Jean Baker (1926 – 1962), Marilyn Monroe began her career as a model and landed her first film contract in 1946. She made her first appearance on the cover of…

  • Smoke and Fire in the Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve – Day 2

    Smoke and Fire in the Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve – Day 2

    The Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve is in the heart of the Overberg about 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Hermanus in the Western Cape, South Africa By late yesterday afternoon the wind was a factor, blowing strongly from the south-east. The fire was moving rapidly into the mountainous area north of the N2 national road, threatening farms…

  • Smoke and Fire in the Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve

    Smoke and Fire in the Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve

    After sunset the fire continued to burn as it marched over the peaks of the mountains in the distance at left casting a bright yellow glare in the night sky. Within minutes, yesterday afternoon, this fire had blossomed from a wisp to a towering column of smoke. The vegetation of Fynbos contains plant matter with…

  • Japanese Tsunami and the Amazing Resilience of Japanese People

    Japanese Tsunami and the Amazing Resilience of Japanese People

    Day five and utter devastation and mounting problems face the deeply shocked survivors of the worst Japanese seismic event in history. The Japanese people, in the first moments realised that something was different from the intensity and duration of the movement of the ground. The one-meter drop in sea level which occurred immediately after the…