Wandjina by camera2

Photography • Abstract • posted on Jun 15, 2005

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Wandjina Colour ~ June 13, 2005 Comments The central and northern areas of the Kimberly region (Australia) are renowned for rock art which features the so-called Bradshaw figures, named for the European who first recorded them, and the more recent Wandjina images. Bradshaw figures bear some resemblance to the

Comments (26)

SirLovalot

2:11AM | Wed, 15 June 2005

I very much enjoyed this series; great findings and well presented!

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cbender

2:16AM | Wed, 15 June 2005

awesome... i love this one a lot...! and quite interesting to read about your thoughts behind - thanks for this little information - great pieces of photographic art here...

vlaaitje

2:18AM | Wed, 15 June 2005

wonderful work again...how longer you look at how more you see

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addiek

2:41AM | Wed, 15 June 2005

Dreamtime art... 19ft is a big one! I like how this goes from rust to cream into that circular ark. It reminds me of Gordon Bennett's famous bullethole work (Aboriginal Artist).

ifos

2:58AM | Wed, 15 June 2005

A great series. There are so many elements to this one, the semi circle, the bright rust spot and best of all for me are the tiny marks which look like hand prints. Top marks!!

camera2

3:11AM | Wed, 15 June 2005

Thank you Ian AKA:ifos, for noticing these tiny marks that also reminded me of hand prints on rock paintings and in a way lending scale to the figure. One should note that the hight of this wall for truckers with 18 wheelers to back into is 4 feet from top to bottom and we are shown all but 5 inches of the 4 feet as the light strip on top is the edge.

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Zacko

5:31AM | Wed, 15 June 2005

Ooooh ooooh, this one is gorgeous!!! Funny how something like that can look so incredibly beautiful when its captured and presented as perfect as this. Great job indeed!!! Enjoy your day #:O)

Misha883

7:43AM | Wed, 15 June 2005

very nice!

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marybelgium

7:47AM | Wed, 15 June 2005

unusual and very nice ! Great serie !

zahnfee

10:45AM | Wed, 15 June 2005

Looks pretty mysterious! Great texture, beautiful!

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TwoPynts

11:25AM | Wed, 15 June 2005

Great trivia there, I consider myself edified today. :) I see many different ways of interpereting the abstract shapes of this photo, but the one I keep coming back to is the scene of a dimember finger with bruised nail, pointing skyward and rising from the water like excaliber. Wonderful. And yes, the tiny marks do look like handprints, but also like the days marked on a wall by a prisoner...

Tedz

1:29PM | Wed, 15 June 2005

A fine Abstract Image.

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joshus_hund

5:31PM | Wed, 15 June 2005

Fantastic!!! As is your whole gallery! Very special - must be awesome as a large print. v

cynlee

11:11PM | Wed, 15 June 2005

very zen... could see these framed in a cool clean modern setting... :]

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GOLDILOCKSUK

10:33AM | Thu, 16 June 2005

So very interesting to view it is excellent work. The hands are awesome and also have an eery feel to it. Excellent and thank you V Cathy xoxoxo

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EricSBauer

1:04PM | Thu, 16 June 2005

now that's pretty cool!!! it's almost like a commet smashed throught a planet.. awesome shot!!!

logiloglu

7:49PM | Thu, 16 June 2005

eine ausdruckstarkes Foto. die Texturen und Farben haben Character.excellent photography art,Egmont. #:O)

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WandM

2:54AM | Fri, 17 June 2005

Impressive artistic picture.

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Enmos

4:24AM | Fri, 17 June 2005

Fantastic patterns and textures again, superb !! :o)

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sossy

5:06PM | Fri, 17 June 2005

first impressive meeting with a view pipe of a submarine! and a magnifying glass to examine the many little hands on the wall! and it could be a lot more! ;o)))

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Akinom

5:48PM | Fri, 17 June 2005

A pleasure to explore all the details! Could stare at it for hours! A very expressive artwork! v*****

tvernuccio

11:41AM | Sat, 18 June 2005

looked at this one yesterday...now again...needed time to absorb and process this one. haven't read other comments. haven't read your intro...just goin' with the image. then i'll read what you say. since i haven't read your intro, i have no idea what the title means yet. when i look at this, i see a sword in rippled water. i see children's hands reaching up....they're everywhere...desperate for someone to see them and pull them out of the depths of hell that they're drowning in. i see bugs floating on the top of the water, oblivious to the screams. the white light eminating from the sword...this is a positive force. God. there is a nail with blood. a puncture wound that represents the hand of Christ. hope that in pain, in dying, there is resurrection and eternal life. in the bottom right third of the image i see a reflection in the water that scares me. i see its eyes. the heat coming off the sword with evaporate the water. the children will be saved. you have a wonderful eye, Egmont, and i love this image of hope. though it's frightening and reminds me of myself, i do see the light and the hope that makes it bearable. extraordinary find and capture!

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firestorm

2:01PM | Sun, 19 June 2005

another wonerful image. i agree, this is very zen-like.

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bpmac

7:22PM | Mon, 20 June 2005

Elegant and almost metaphysical in nature. Highly refined work! V

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fap77

8:50AM | Thu, 30 June 2005

Perfect! Perfect abstract. Gorgeous colors and textures. Fav.!

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Digimon

5:27PM | Sun, 18 December 2005

You let this one "Speak" to you, and it shows! The cropping completes the narrative! We see the Wandjina, just as you do. You have communicated a story that transcends the mundane materials it actually consists of!! Transforming it into an ancestral spirit, glowing in our presence!! Brilliant!