Friends of the Armchair Traveller

  Jacques Henri Lartigue Following the 20 images I posted in Higgledy Piggledy the other day, I've decided to add some more of Lartigue's lovely images of his "muses". I've tried to avoid all his wonderful action shots which are so well known, and just go for the portraits of his favourite women as subjects. I presented this shot of Florette as No. 2 Some people thought this portrait of Florette was a shot by our friend Vicky Mousoulis, and I perfectly understand why they thought so.  Vicky was astonished that to learn that some people had thought of her in the same breath as Lartigue, but I think Vicky richly deserves that accolade. Anyhow, these are for today: Florette Ormea Florette Ormea Renée Perle   Renée Perle Florette Ormea ?    I think it's her but I can't be sure.   I copied this  from a site which gave no background details.  I notice that there are  no "beauty spots" on either  side of her nose, which  you can  se...

"u might enjoy this"                      Received this morning from my friend Richard Leigh. Raimond Gaita talks with Phillip Adams I'm a big fan of Rai Gaita Lots of goodies in here i think you’d like rl https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/latenightlive/raimond-gaita-moral-philosophy/103140936 I enjoy toing and froing with Richard, covering so many topics as we've done for so many years now.  One of the recurring issues over those years has been  dealing with thoughts about "moral philosophy" although I don't think we ever called it that. Examples: in these times of great crises from Ukraine to Gaza, Sudan, Dafour and Chad, Myanmar, the recent expulsion of Afghanis from Pakistan, the nightmare of division in the US who can hardly fund their administration for 3 months at a time, the hatred expressed everywhere against refugees, whether they flee from Africa to Europe or from Latin America to the USA, the lurch ...

 Today    just a mix of images taken from various posts we've published since March 2021.  They are not in any particular order and I've decided for the moment not to "name" them or indicate whose they are or where they come from. I've numbered each image so people can ask questions about any of them by merely quoting the number attached to each. So here we go:  1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. There are so many more I could have chosen but I felt compelled to keep this selection to 20 pics. pt

I would like to say more,  but it can speak for itself... The Artificial World  from  Wheeler Winston Dixon  on  Vimeo . many thanks Wheeler, pt

Art, Shark, and Barracudas, too.     By David King The first thing we saw after our back-roll entry from the boat was a grey reef shark gliding by below us. Big enough to be called majestic, and regally uninterested in us.   By the time I’d pulled myself together, switched on the camera and was ready to shoot, His or Her Grey Majesty was disappearing into the blue distance.   We were just starting our freediving adventure at the Museum of Underwater Art on the John Brewer Reef, nearly 40 nautical miles from Townsville, North Queensland.  The reef was named after a troop ship sailing from Sydney to India in 1842. In 1988 it became home to the five-star, seven-storey Four Seasons Barrier Reef floating hotel which closed after only 12 months. The hotel was sold and ended up in North Korea where it’s now known as Hotel Haegumgang.  It had taken two hours to reach the reef on the Yongala Dive boat, crashing through swell at around 25 - 30 knots with...