Friday 10 February 2017

Sweep of the region

Just noticed that I had a number of panoramic photos of the Grampians (which lend themselves to panoramic landscapes) and the general area, thought I'd share them.
So here is a quick tour of the region. 

From Mount Zero in the early morning -
to the late evening -  
onto to Lake Bellfield -
 and over the range to the Wartook Valley -
 and down the Southern Grampians -
 then back up to Green Lake for the sunset -
and further west to Mount Arapiles -
continuing west of Nhill for the dawn -
passing by Cockatoo Swamp -
then time at Lake Hindmarsh -
and finally a wattle close-up -

Monday 6 February 2017

Buying a book

Twisted Sifter has a number of photographs of the beautiful Buenos Aires ‘El Ateno Grand Splendid’ bookshop inside a 100-year-old theatre. 

Situated at 1860 Santa Fe Avenue in Barrio Norte, Buenos Aires, you will find one of the most stunning bookstores in the world. El Ateneo Grand Splendid is one of the best known bookshops in Argentina. 

Designed by the architects PerĂ³ and Torres Armengol, with ceiling frescoes painted by Nazareno Orlandi and support columns sculpted by Troiano Troiani, the grand theatre first opened in May 1919 with a seating capacity of 1,050. In the late 1920s it was converted into a movie theatre, and then retrofitted into a flagship bookshop during 2000.

According to a recent study by the World Cities Culture Forum, Buenos Aires has more bookshops per inhabitant than any other city in the world – roughly 1 bookshop per 3,937 inhabitants (Melbourne is well back at 1 per 12,945. It does fare better with the number of public libraries – Buenos Aires has one library for 35,680 inhabitants, while Melbourne has one for every 29,213 – so maybe Melbournians just prefer to borrow rather than buy!).