Ghost Town. Or how nature decorates...

One website I often found myself going back to is Fast Company. This time what got me clicking their link is a story of this Ghost Town in Nambia called Kolmanskop. German miners settled there in the early 1900's following a "diamond rush". But it only lasted about half a century... as the resources disappeared, the town was slowly abandoned. So from 1956, the desert, the sand, the dunes just moved back in.

The result of time playing on the architecture is amazing. Aside from this incredible story, it's the fabulous light, the colours, the texture of the walls that grabbed my eye. I just wonder what the interiors would have looked like in their glory days. At the same time, the glory days maybe now... Aging gracefully, letting Nature take its course. 

These stunning images from French photographer Romain Veillon are a wonderful record of the ephemeral nature of what humans build and a reminder that if we let it, Nature will know how to take over.  

Hope you enjoy.

Anne-Claire

Via: Fast Company & Romain Veillon

Ceramics and Photography

I have just found this amazing photographer Line T Klein... her images are just stunning, beautiful lighting... the Scandinavian way. The images of the ceramics hit a note for me as back when I was studying at the College of Arts in Edinburgh, one of my subject was ceramics and a day a week was dedicated to that (I might have mentioned this in a previous post). I loved spending the day in the quiet studios. I always thought it was like meditating whilst creating, getting so connected with the material you shape. What I love about those images depicting the tools, the shelves, the crumbled dry clay, the wheel... is that they feel so familiar and really brought back some fond memories. That's what photography should do, more than being visually beautiful, it tells a story. And now I'm feeling quite nostalgic. So there... I share.

See the rest of her images here.