Nature mysticism / tradition & beauty

[ARKHE]

some cellphone photos of my rural heimat in southwest Sweden (Halland), a few kilometres off the coast (when the weather is clear, you can see Denmark), taken during a walk at dusk last summer. unfortunately, the landscape has been cultivated & controlled for centuries (if not since the bronze age), but still a very pleasant landscape. you rarely meet anyone out there; more cattle than people. in the trailer, they found a polish guest worker killed by another polish guy some year ago, just outside a long-since abandoned mill.

[THE RITA HN]

brings to mind a genre of landscape painting that i am a huge fan of; the SUBLIME. during my years in art history, it really struck home when i began to study the foremost attention to power via dense and overwhelming areas and blocks of detail - which eventually led to the shapes mimicked via impressionism - abstraction - minimalism.
the most obvious is 1800s german landscape painter Caspar David Friedrich:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_David_Friedrich

the US group: The Hudson River School featuring Albert Bierstadt:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Bierstadt

and my favourite; Canadian painter Cornelius Krieghoff:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius_Krieghoff

[moozz]

and my favourite; Canadian painter Cornelius Krieghoff:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius_Krieghoff

Ah, Burned Forest Blackened Landscape cover is his The Passing Storm painting. Strange to see this familiar picture in colour for the first time.

[ConcreteMascara]

So I didn't know where to put this...

A Soviet missile base in Germany that spy planes never saw
     which is now being overrun by the forest. The pictures are pretty cool, remind me a lot of STALKER.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20079147

[cr]

This one was taken by my girlfriend. I like the gloomy mood a lot!

[Bleak Existence]

Love Earth, Hate People.

[burdizzo]

cr, tell your bird that's an amazing photo!

[cr]

Thanks, I'll let her know.

[bub]

This one was taken by my girlfriend. I like the gloomy mood a lot!

This is a wonderful lmage, thank you for posting.

[Andrew McIntosh]

[SkeeMask]

Love Earth, Hate People.

Just the truth.

[Jaakko V.]

There's a film coming in 2015 about Finnish nature mysticism / mythology. Narrated by A.W. Yrjänä, who's a Finnish punk/rock/pop celebrity and writer. Just watched the trailer and was midly surprised to recognise one of the interviewees to be a guy who used to organise many industrial shows in Finland in 90s and 00s - Genocide Organ, Deutsch Nepal, Anenzephalia, Inade, etc.

Could be worth checking out, let's see...

Ukonvaaja (trailer)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQqlOYExL9k

[cr]

Don't know if this fits to topic, but I like it.



That's the view when I look outside my room in the basement.

[cr]

Some pictures I've taken two weeks ago, when I had some days off.

[F_c_O]

Some pictures I've taken two weeks ago, when I had some days off.

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beautiful material