To kick the year off, we went to see a fantastic exhibition of photographs by Laurent Ballesta. He is a marine biologist, explorer and underwater photographer, who has taken the art of photography on the whole new level.
Eat-or-be-eaten or just a wee dental hygiene session?
An iceberg. Suddenly humans seem very small.
Fishy fishy fish!!
Monday morning, I know how you feel!
Sea dragon from Australia.
And here he is with a fish that is also called a 'living fossil', the coelacanth.
'Still considered the greatest zoological discovery of the 20th century, the coelacanth, known as “Gombessa” in Mozambique, had supposedly been extinct for 65 million years until a specimen was found in the nets of a fisherman in 1938'.
The coelanth model.
An then for something completely different. Few weeks ago we made wee trinkets and jewellery out of a modeling mass, the name of which I can't remember now, but you know what I mean.
It was great fun and also slightly therapeutic; sitting in the sun and making wee bugs, donuts and whatever else we could think of. Afterwards they had to go in the oven for half an hour, to set hard. Easy peasy!
Here's some of the ready art work. My masterpieces are on the left bottom corner; green bug, blue fish, snail and few others.
A bit too small for me but never mind, it was fun to make. Why didn't they have this stuff around when I was little? What we had was very messy, white material that took ages to set hard and then it still had to be painted. None of the instant gratification like with our class today.
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