Monday, 12 May 2014

In the Countryside
Viennese Escapes: Salzburg


Wiesenblumen
I spotted this beautiful bouquet
of field flowers at the Culinary Heritage Fair -
Looking for the elusive "cuckoo flower"
I remembered a meadow I had once photographed,
in the Alpine mountains, 40 km south of Salzburg -
Sometimes the here and now takes you back to the past:
Here they are, old images,
captured with a pocket camera,
back in May 2008



























Photographed in May 2008
with my little Sony Cybershot
in the countryside south of the city of Salzburg
© Merisi
R e p o s t

16 comments:

  1. Merisi isn't the only one to have found herself in Andrew Wyeth meadows under dark silver skies. But she's one who's inspired to capture and share them! ;-)

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    1. Thank you, thank you for this immense honour! To even think of Andrew Wyeth, I feel deeply touched. My childhood was filled with just this kind of meadows, albeit in a flat landscape, followed by the Campagna Romana, which in later summer acquires that "burnt" quality of Wyeth's landscapes. My favourite Wyeth is probably "Breeze from the Sea", magical.

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  2. Lovely bouquet of flowers. Picturesque meadows.

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    1. I felt very touched by that flower arrangement, it reminded me of the ones my mother loved to pick. On late spring evenings, she would take me on a walk along fields and meadows around our house. She taught me to look at the small things.

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  3. lovely contrast to the city ... i especially love the bouquet .. and that old barn

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    1. Yes, that area of Austria is breathtakingly beautiful.

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  4. Oh my goodness! That place is breathtaking!

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    1. *smile* Could not agree more! :-)

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  5. Beautiful flower bouquet... and the older pics are wonderful, even that ramshackle old barn.

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    1. I lost the original files shortly after, on a trip to Rome. The hard drive simply gave out, teaching me to back up (and probably ingrained the desire, to learn more about photography, technical side included ;-) )

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  6. These are beautiful images! Over 40 years ago when I visited Salzbury as a child we went into the mountain meadows and picked wild flowers and then pressed them. They are still in a book somewhere but all the colour as disappeared from there so it was wonderful to see this lovely collection! Sarah x

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    1. What wonderful memories! I spent my childhood summer with my grandparents in Salzburg, hence my affection for the city and the countryside there.

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  7. Gorgeous. I want to jump into these.

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    1. I sort of did ;-)
      (The clouds were captured lying down in the meadow)

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  8. All of these take my breath away, Merisi! And I love that you made the bouquet really large, and the older photos small. Beautiful.

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