Category: Snapshots
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Snapshot: Bristol Museum & Art Gallery 20.09.2020
One of the first things I did after moving to Bristol was visiting the Extinction Voices exhibition at the Bristol Museum & Art Gallery. The exhibition’s title was inspired by a citation from environmentalist Paul Hawken: ‘Nature is noisy. It walks, it crawls, it swims, it swoops, it buzzes. But extinction is silent. It has…
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Snapshot: noctilucent clouds 21.06.19
Night shining clouds above my hometown. According to a trustworthy source (Wiki), these clouds are the highest in our planet’s atmosphere, as far up as 76/85 km. They were wrinkly as well.
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Snapshot: Naturhistorisches Museum Wien 17.06.19
The Natural History Museum in Vienna, Austria, had a special exhibition on glaciers named: DAHINSCHMELZEN. Gletscher als Zeugen des Klimawandels (or MELTDOWN), created by the climate change charity Project Pressure. My partner and I happened to be in Vienna when this exhibition just opened, and I just had to go. We both really enjoyed the…
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Snapshot: Solitary bee hotel at CampusGarten Uni Würzburg 28.09.18
Workshop/excursion to the CampusGarten during the EASLCE conference at the University of Würzburg. The CampusGarten was definitely one of the conference’s highlights for me, especially because of the great workshop on cyanotype printing.
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Snapshot: Field Museum 13.06.18
The Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. I adore the museum’s Plants of the World exhibition and will forever regret not having my camera with me. Enjoy this snapshot of Máximo instead. There was also an interesting quote from Loren Eissley’s The Immense Journey (1957): “Without the gift of flowers and the infinite diversity of their fruits, man…
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Snapshot: Nationalpark Berchtesgaden 24.11.17
This picture was taken during an excursion to the Nationalpark Berchtesgaden – only one of two national parks in the state of Bavaria, which makes up about 1/5th of Germany. We had a tour from one of the park rangers and visited the information centre “Haus der Berge”, where we also had a lecture by…
Eline D. Tabak 