tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post2792942028712088666..comments2024-03-28T20:29:39.377+00:00Comments on Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park birds: Ralph Hancockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11686354797977020917noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-68028672460685330272017-09-11T21:34:24.921+01:002017-09-11T21:34:24.921+01:00There is also Dürer's owl, a bird of oddly unc...There is also <a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Little_Owl_-_WGA7367.jpg" rel="nofollow">Dürer's owl</a>, a bird of oddly uncertain species.Ralph Hancockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11686354797977020917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-65860410553469148492017-09-11T21:30:57.194+01:002017-09-11T21:30:57.194+01:00At all costs avoid reading about Audubon's met...At all costs avoid reading about Audubon's methods in making his huge illustrations.Ralph Hancockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11686354797977020917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-40401602442056370432017-09-11T14:17:41.791+01:002017-09-11T14:17:41.791+01:00An elegant quip about birds needing to be dead to ...An elegant quip about birds needing to be dead to make it in art of around 1600 - but not quite true. There's a decidedly live owl in Hals's "Malle Babbe", c. 1630, in Berlin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malle_Babbe#/media/File:Frans_Hals_021.jpg); and I'm sure there are more. That said, the dead doubtless outnumber the living (as used to be true with humans, when I was young)harryghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04184350321693687780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-58243733491238626922017-09-09T21:15:40.261+01:002017-09-09T21:15:40.261+01:00Let's stick to photography.Let's stick to photography.Ulrikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06022985141813875238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-26142356321562919382017-09-09T09:00:34.722+01:002017-09-09T09:00:34.722+01:00I laughed at the mental image of a expectant littl...I laughed at the mental image of a expectant little bird gauntlet. If only someone made a western film about that.<br /><br />A while ago I purchased a large lush book on birds in the Museo del Prado. I cannot bear to open it now after I learned that most birds had to be killed to get into the picture, so to speak. Speaking of paintings, I cannot even bear to look at The Goldfinch, chained with that cruel little chain in its leg.Tinúvielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04794275230697959519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-39359228413053912702017-09-09T00:59:21.170+01:002017-09-09T00:59:21.170+01:00Sadly, the only way that wild ducks get into a pai...Sadly, the only way that wild ducks get into a painting of that period is by being dead.Ralph Hancockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11686354797977020917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-39049495992855604312017-09-09T00:56:53.128+01:002017-09-09T00:56:53.128+01:00There may be more and worse over the next few days...There may be more and worse over the next few days, An enclosure is being out up for the 'Proms in the Park', and the sound engineers tend to leave banal recorded ditties churning out at thunderous volume, polluting several square miles.Ralph Hancockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11686354797977020917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-88772179957680029742017-09-08T23:56:00.782+01:002017-09-08T23:56:00.782+01:00Love the Caravaggio analogy, I suppose that's ...Love the Caravaggio analogy, I suppose that's as good as it gets as nobody would likely happen upon wild ducks huddling round a candle! JimAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-30773721068827066822017-09-08T23:15:10.777+01:002017-09-08T23:15:10.777+01:00P.S. the parakeet video is splendid- like a moving...P.S. the parakeet video is splendid- like a moving still life. And the duck still life very painterly indeed.Ulrikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06022985141813875238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-18359145102893362392017-09-08T22:07:06.674+01:002017-09-08T22:07:06.674+01:00I usually enjoy the incidental background soundtra...I usually enjoy the incidental background soundtrack of the videos; now we even get music. Pleasingly inappropriate.Ulrikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06022985141813875238noreply@blogger.com