Sentences with phrase «arid landscapes»

Curated by Gcotyelwa Mashiqa, Off - the - Air presents a series of self - portraits of the artist obscured by a white sheet and posed in various arid landscapes in her home country's southwest, in addition to three studio portraits that follow the same setup.

In his Cristin Tierney show, recent digital projects that reconstruct arid landscapes will look at how the American Midwest gets mythologized.

The arid landscapes, the cowboys, the horses... it's perhaps one of the most atmospheric and authentic games around, and also enjoyable as hell.

Next time, we'll find ourselves in the arid landscapes of the Western area of the map.

Yes, in a game that features hot and arid landscapes, the world is occasionally met with these intense storms, many of you will be familiar with if you've seen Mad Max: Fury Road.

The moist highlands region of Santa Cruz offer visitors a welcome break from the arid landscapes that dominate most other islands in the archipelago.

In southern Africa the rains are drawing in which transforms the arid landscapes of Namibia while nearby at Victoria Falls visibility is at its best after the dry season.

This phenomenal drive winds through arid landscapes, crosses rivers and you'll see some of the most stunning mountain vistas in Peru.

The crisp animation — especially of the arid landscapes of Africa, the glitz of Monte Carlo and the ancient ruins of Rome (making this as exciting as any Bond or Bourne film), — snappy one liners and nice 3D effects will keep the adults» attention, as well.

In Iraq, war and ongoing political instability have magnified the problems besieging marshes worldwide, particularly in arid landscapes: pollution and too many demands on the water that sustains them.

Communities of tiny plants and organisms protect arid landscapes.

A pope, Urban II, did give impetus to the Crusades, and though the Crusader kingdom of Jerusalem came to an end eight hundred years ago, the evidence of a century of Crusader rule is visible in the commanding castles and European - style churches that still rise from the arid landscape, as well as the longstanding bonds between Middle Eastern and Western Christians, especially in Lebanon and the Holy Land.

With just eight suites, each boasting its own architectural flair and unique design elements, The Willows is a welcome departure from the many low - slung, mid-century hotels and non-descript resorts that dot the arid landscape.

The rugged, arid landscape of juniper forest proves a rich habitat for wildlife.

In Australia, a recently discovered cave site has shown that large - bodied mammals («megafauna») were able to persist even in the arid landscape of the Nullarbor in conditions similar to now.

I always take inspiration from the place I am going to when choosing the palette, and in this case was inspired by the water and the arid landscape.

Before the stop in Alba Adriatica for our project with Groupalia (discover Alba adriatica) we stopped for a week in Peschici in Puglia, to discover the Gargano and its caves, immersed in a beautiful but arid landscape, where the sky merges with the sea.

This scene is contrasted with the arid landscape of Somalia, where young men are stood over by armed thugs and ordered to steal a boat.

Robert L. Chapman, Jr.'s 13D poison pen letters are welcome relief in the generally flat, arid landscape of SEC filings, and so it's no small disappointment to us that he has been quiet of late.

Spend the day on an excursion in and around the canyons of Río Blanco — a wild, arid landscape of hot springs and age - old rock formations.

While the glitzy towns of Marbella and Puerto Banus offer outstanding dining, excellent shopping, and vibrant nightlife, it is easy to escape inland to the picturesque pueblos blancos, where traditional white houses are stacked like sugar cubes against the arid landscape.

On Day 17 we pause in the Gobi Desert, the vast arid landscape where several dinosaur remains have been found amongst the towering dunes.

For most visitors, Baltra Island's scrubby, arid landscape is their first look at the Galápagos.

From the arid landscape of the Kalahari Desert to the flood plains of the Okavango Delta, Botswana is home to some of the most unique big game viewing in Africa.

You can hike through the arid landscape of a volcanic crater or visit the wettest place on earth.

For a more leisurely journey across the sand, camels offer a steady - paced view of the arid landscape and some of Dahab's landmark sights.

Given the arid landscape, this could have been lack of water and the civilization growing beyond what the environment could support.

Enjoy a one kilometre guided interpretive walk through dunes and swales to a viewing platform where you will enjoy a spectacular desert sunset overlooking the arid landscape.

With arid landscape and traditional architecture, Folegandros offers a relaxing environment for summer holidays.

Past work has used paint tubes and shadows to conjure up model cities and foil - wrapped furniture to bring the discomforts of an arid landscape indoors, but here things stay plainer.

[1] In Bon's vision, water that would otherwise bypass the city via the river (which is the catch for the rain) en route to the ocean (which is the catch for the river) will be captured for the benefit of Los Angeles's arid landscape.

Sells plays with alchemic processing in the darkroom, helping her large - format photographs bring new life to the arid landscape.

In the 1960s, Martin moved to Taos, New Mexico and found inspiration in the arid landscape and Zen Buddhism and Taoism, that contributed to her interest in nature.

By 1926, the lake had been depleted, exposing vast mineral flats and transforming a fertile valley into an arid landscape.

They also recall Georgia O'Keeffe, another artist concerned for both abstraction and observation — only Kushner has headed in the opposite direction from the arid landscape of New Mexico, to Maine.

Mr. deBuys compares the landscape today with the conditions of 1903, when a government naturalist named Vernon O. Bailey surveyed the area and its high - altitude forests, or the drought years of the 1950s, when Tony Hillerman, the writer whose novels brought the arid landscape to life, recorded the effects of what was regarded then as a pretty severe dry spell.

Such glorious chortling in an arid landscape.

Over the past three decades, however, hundreds of thousands of farmers in Burkina Faso and Niger have transformed large swaths of the region's arid landscape into productive agricultural land, improving food security for about 3 million people.

«While it's true that Arizona's sunny climate is ideal for solar - energy production, its arid landscape poses significant challenges to the deployment of solar systems that rely more heavily on water than other forms of energy production.»

In Australia, a recently discovered cave site has shown that large - bodied mammals («megafauna») were able to persist even in the arid landscape of the Nullarbor in conditions similar to now.

As a people, we share common stories shaped by our reverence of water, by living with a dynamic hydrologic regime, and by the successes and failures of our forebearers to reshape an arid landscape to include water.

Using only hand tools, artist Ra Paulette sculpts magnificent complexes under New Mexico's arid landscape.

Not exact matches

Grasslands, trees, lakes and rivers once covered North Africa's now arid, unforgiving landscape.

This global trend radically transformed landscapes in Southwestern Europe, which became increasingly more arid.

How the people of the ancient kingdom of Petra managed to grow verdant gardens amid a landscape of arid sandstone canyons can be summed up in one word: plumbing.

Various salt compounds found deep in the soil of New Mexico's desert may be the key to understanding how crops were cultivated in ancient Chaco Canyon — despite the backdrop of what seems an otherwise arid and desolate landscape, according to a University of Cincinnati study.

This study is unique given the under - studied target population of Mongolian herders, and the diverse landscapes covered, ranging from the arid Gobi region to the south to the Central Steppe and Altai Mountains to the north.

Before the Spaniards arrived, inhabitants of the arid northern Peruvian coast clad massive sand dune — like ridges with an accidental form of «armor»: millions of discarded mollusk shells, which protected the ridges from erosion for nearly 4700 years and produced a vast corrugated landscape that «is visible from space,» says archaeologist Dan Sandweiss of the University of Maine, Orono, one of the paper's authors.

Ricard Solé suggests releasing genetically engineered bacteria into arid degraded landscapes, for example, to produce a water - retentive polymer to help...

Farther inland, he trekked through arid forests where giant jumping rats surfaced among baobabs — odd, upside - down trees with wide bases and pointed tops — as well as through a sandless desert landscape speckled with thorny armored bushes with thick, fleshy leaves that harbored hissing cockroaches.