Sentences with phrase «rocky landscape on»

This will initially lead you up through a slightly scrubby, rocky landscape on a road with some great graffiti - plastered hairpins.

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AAAS On Maine's rocky, forested coast, Acadia National Park's iconic landscape includes historic stone bridges, carriage...

Filmed on the rocky coasts and in the emerald forests of Ireland, Boorman turns this landscape into a primal world hewn out of stone and wood and mud by blood and iron.

To achieve maximum traction whether you're crawling up the rockiest landscapes or riding the curviest of trails, it's all about keeping your wheels on the ground all the time.

Land Rover invited us to experience the newly refined Discovery on Utah's diverse landscape, covering 500 miles of snowy, rocky, sandy, muddy, and paved - ish terrain.

On this two - hour ride, get full view of the rocky landscape of Maine's Midcoast region and the charming towns that populate it.

While traveling in Croatia you can discover a wide range of different landscapes including the Dinaric Mountains, eight national parks (e.g. the world - famous Plitvice Lakes National Park), the long and rocky Dalmatian Coast or almost eighty islands on the Mediterranean Sea.

The islands» dramatic rocky landscapes, pristine beaches and lagoons make for some of Fiji's most spectacular locations, which you'll see on this 4 - night small - ship cruise.

But the majestic West MacDonnell Ranges, west of Alice Springs, is an extraordinary landscape of weathered peaks, behind which are rocky gorges and waterholes that are great for cooling off on a hot day.

You won't be short of things to do on St Paul's Bay either, the rocky landscape and crystal clear waters allow for great snorkelling sessions and rock - pool raids for the kids to enjoy — a good place for a splashing time on holidays to Lindos.

Under the shadow of Gunung Agung, amid a scorched landscape of rocky grassland, the tiny fishing village of Tulamben is an isolated speck on the north - east coast of Bali.

Tour Stirling Castle, which perches on a rocky outcrop and has panoramic views of the surrounding landscapes.

Best known for: Its rocky landscape — because unlike most of the other islands on this list, which are blanketed in tropical rainforest, Magnetic Island is filled with large granite boulders and eucalyptus woodlands.

Gaya Island Resort is located on Pulau Gaya, the largest of a cluster of five islands that form the Tunku Abdul Rahman Marine Park, a natural conservation area off the coast of Borneo, close to Kota Kinabalu.Gaya Island Resort has a unique setting: the land is fringed with a golden sandy beach, rocky coastal outcrops, and surrounded by coral reefs.The hilly island landscape is covered with lush tropical rainforest and an abundance of flora and fauna.And to complete this perfect setting, visible in the distance, is the stunning outline of Mount Kinabalu.The guest villa exterior respects Sabahan architecture, uses local materials and blends harmoniously with the natural environment.

Upon exiting Harran through a cave you come out on top of a rocky mountain overlooking a luscious landscape of open fields and land.

Another of Walker's students was Arthur Watson, now president of the Royal Scottish Academy; in the introduction to Downie's exhibition catalogue for her 2013 show Walk Through Resonant Landscape, the consequence of her Chinese residency and travels, Watson observes the contribution made by Walker to her students» ability to perceive and explore the unique landscape of Scotland and for the primacy of drawing: «With a base on the island of Tiree, [Frances Walker] ranged across the West Coast and Western Isles interrogating the coastal margins — the rhythm of pebbles across a storm beach or the fractured architecture of a rocky foreshore, meticulously recorded through a vocabulary of precise but unforgiving ink lines.»

Soon French artists began focusing on their native landscape, from inland forests to rocky coasts.

For his first solo exhibition at Denmark's Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, currently on show, the artist has filled an entire wing with stones and water that emulate a river meandering through a rocky landscape.

Cezanne, Hiroshige, and Hokusai's preoccupation with mountains in the landscape, Homer's fixation on Maine's rocky coast, and Ryder's evocative depictions of clouds as objects are all manifest in Hartley's Maine paintings.

Early in 1940 we managed to find a small house and for the next three years... I was not able to carve at all... the only sculptures I carried out were some small plaster maquettes for the second «sculpture with colour», and it was not until 1943, when we moved to another house, that I was able to carve this idea... In St Ives I was fortunate enough to have constant contact with artists and writers and craftsmen who lived there, Ben Nicholson my husband, Naum Gabo, Bernard Leach, Adrian Stokes, and there was a steady stream of visitors from London who came for a few days rest, and who contributed in a great measure to the important exchange of ideas and stimulus to creative activity... It was during this time that I gradually discovered the remarkable pagan landscape which lies between St Ives, Penzance and Land's End; a landscape which still has a very deep effect on me, developing all my ideas about the relationship of the human figure in landscape - sculpture in landscape and the essential quality of light in relation to sculpture which induced a new way of piercing the forms to contain colour... The sea, a flat diminishing plane, held within itself the capacity to radiate an infinitude of blues, greys, greens and even pinks of strange hues; the lighthouse and its strange rocky island was an eye; the Island of St Ives an arm, a hand, a face... I used colour and strings in many of the carvings of this time.

His early works, particularly the landscapes, are bright and rich in picturesque motifs — crumbling towers, boats on the sea shore, colourful travellers crossing perilous bridges, bandits lying in wait in rocky ravines.

Nestled into the landscape on a rocky shoreline, this modern cabin is located within the San Juan Islands National Monument on Orcas Island, Washington.