Between Earth and Sky

Kandze, Tibet

Short is the little time which remains to thee of life.
Live as on a mountain.
- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Tibet

Lamayuru, India

Mountains are for winds,
That shake not, though they blow perpetually.
- William Shakespeare

Pakistan

Yamdrok Tso Lake, Tibet

Come live with me, and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove,
That valleys, groves, hills, and fields,
Woods, or steepy mountains yields.
- Christopher Marlowe, 1564 - 1593

Tibet

A path is a prior interpretation of the
best way to traverse a landscape.
— Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking

Mt. Popa, Burma/Myanmar

 

Nepal

 

My father considered a walk among the mountains
as the equivalent of church going.
- Aldous Huxley

Slovenia

Road to Sarobi, Afghanistan

 

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.
-  Alice Walker

Band-e-Amir, Afghanistan

 

At Tawilah, Yemen

We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.
 - Lawrence Durrell 

Ladakh, India

Tibet

Peru

Kashmir

 

A fine landscape is like a piece of music;
it must be taken at the right tempo.
- Paul Scott Mowrer

Agra, India

 

… All landscapes ask the same question in the same whisper.
‘I am watching you — are you watching yourself in me?’
To tune in, without reverence, idly — but with real inward attention…
You can extract the essence of a place once you know how.
If you just get as still as a needle, you’ll be there.

- Lawrence Durrell, Spirit of Place: Letters and Essays on Travel

Thank you to Leica for the Hall of Fame Award

http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-blog/2011/09/steve-mccurry-wins-leica-award/

U P C O M I N G   E X H I B I T I O N S

CHRIS BEETLES FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHS
3-5 Swallow Street
London W1B 4DE
September 7 – 24, 2011

PETER FETTERMAN GALLERY
2525 Michigan Ave #A1
Santa Monica, CA 90404
September 10 – December 1, 2011

 

OPEN SHUTTER GALLERY
735 Main Avenue
Durango, CO
September 9 – October 21, 2011

  

MACRO
Museum of Contemporary Art
Rome, Italy
December 1, 2011 – May 1, 2012