Category Archives: Photo Essay
Mediterranean Travels to Autumn Inner Sea
Travels to Autumn Inner Sea and the Mediterranean Breviary With Extracts from Predrag Matvejevic Mediterranean Breviary VCrown©2010 Et dès lors, je me suis baigné dans le Poème De la Mer, infusé d’astres, et lactescent, Dévorant les azurs verts; où, flottaison bleme Et ravie, un noyé pensif parfois descend… And from then on I bathed in [...]
Metropolis and the Environment
Metropolis and the Environment Aftermath of a mining disaster at Portman. Metropoly and the Environment: The Promise of Progress. A Photo Essay by VCrown “Not all the winds, and storms, and earthquakes, and seas, and seasons of the world, have done so much to revolutionize as Man, the power of an endless life, has done [...]
Also posted in Landscape Photography, Mining Landscapes
Tagged caring for the earth, desertification, ecological disasters, foundation sierra miner, green planet, la union, landscape photography, metropolis and the environment, Mining Landscapes, photo essay, postman, sustainability, vcrown
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History of Time
History of Time … if one sets aside for a moment the rotation of the earth and its orbit round the sun, one could say that the earth was at rest and that a train on it was travelling north at ninety miles per hour or that the train was at rest and the earth [...]
Also posted in Botanical Photography
Tagged big bang, black holes, cosmology, equation, E = mc2, history of time, light cones, nature photography, space and time, vcrown, wave function of the universe
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Wired to Sustainability
Wired to Sustainability The capacity to endure or how biological systems remain diverse over time. For humans it means maintaining the well being for the long term dealing with environmental, economic and social their impacts and dimensions. Sustinere: maintain, support, endure You can follow VCrown work at: Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, Vimeo
Also posted in Aesthetics, Biodiversity, Botanical Photography, Insects
Tagged botanical photography, earth summit, economy, environment, equitable, forests, san francisco, save the earth, social, social impact, sustainability, the earth chapter, vcrown, wetlands, Wired to Sustainability
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Lavadero Roberto: The Tower of the Ambitious (IV)
Photo Essay: La Unión, a Mining Sierra. Chapter 2. Part D: THE AGE OF STUPID The Age of Stupid. This is the title I attach to how education, politics, entrepreneurs and we, the Mass, are dealing with Our Environment: climate change, desertification, nuclear waste, rainforest, unnamed activists, toxic waste, steriles, save the planet, effects of [...]
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Tagged anatomy of greed, cultural heritage, desertification, ecological disasters, ecological genocide, environmental ghost, fundacion sierra minera, green planet, la union, landscape photography, lavadero roberto, metropolis, miguel zapata e hijos, Mining Landscapes, peñarroya sa, photo essay, Photo Essay and tagged caring for the earth, portman, Portman: The Hands of God. Destiny, sustainability, the age of stupid, the corporation, to Humans, vcrown
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Lavadero Roberto: The Tower of the Ambitious (III)
Photo Essay: La Unión, a Mining Sierra. Chapter 2. Part C: ANATOMY OF GREED Portman´s Successful Environmental Genocide can be defined, as well, as THE ANATOMY OF GREED. Using the words of a former Enron´s Executive: We’re the bad guy. We’re the criminals. And don’t think it’s just this company. There’s hundreds of Enrons out [...]
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Tagged anatomy of greed, cultural heritage, desertification, ecological disasters, ecological genocide, environmental ghost, fundacion sierra minera, green planet, la union, landscape photography, lavadero roberto, metropolis, miguel zapata e hijos, Mining Landscapes, peñarroya sa, photo essay, Photo Essay and tagged caring for the earth, portman, Portman: The Hands of God. Destiny, sustainability, the age of stupid, the corporation, to Humans, vcrown
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Lavadero Roberto: The Tower of the Ambitious (II)
Photo Essay: La Unión, a Mining Sierra. Chapter 2. Part B: THE CORPORATION Portman and the events occurred there show us which has been the processes and developments of the business corporations until now. Studying Portman we can identify how Corporation moved from a legal entity with a government chartered institution to effect specific public [...]
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Tagged anatomy of greed, cultural heritage, desertification, ecological disasters, ecological genocide, environmental ghost, fundacion sierra minera, green planet, la union, landscape photography, lavadero roberto, metropolis, miguel zapata e hijos, Mining Landscapes, peñarroya sa, photo essay, Photo Essay and tagged caring for the earth, portman, Portman: The Hands of God. Destiny, sustainability, the age of stupid, the corporation, to Humans, vcrown
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Lavadero Roberto: The Tower of the Ambitious (I)
Photo Essay: La Unión, a Mining Sierra. Chapter 2. Part A: METROPOLIS Portman is the Story of how two Companies, Miguel Zapata e Hijos and Peñarroya SA Spain, together with the complacency of the fascist and democratic spanish authorities, committed one of the biggest ecological genocides of the XX Century. Moreover and to make things [...]
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Tagged anatomy of greed, cultural heritage, desertification, ecological disasters, ecological genocide, environmental ghost, fundacion sierra minera, green planet, la union, landscape photography, lavadero roberto, metropolis, miguel zapata e hijos, Mining Landscapes, peñarroya sa, photo essay, Photo Essay and tagged caring for the earth, portman, Portman: The Hands of God. Destiny, sustainability, the age of stupid, the corporation, to Humans, vcrown
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Flower Portraits and the Divine Comedy
Flower Portraits and the Divine Comedy The Purgatorio Text extracts from The Divina Commedia, Purgatorio, Dante Alighieri. Flower Portraits and the Divine Comedy CANTO I Here, O ye hallow’d Nine! for in your train I follow, here the deadened strain revive; Nor let Calliope refuse to sound A somewhat higher song, of that loud tone, [...]
Also posted in Botanical Photography, Horticulture, Social Design Photography
Tagged connections, dante, divina comedia, divine comedy, floral literature, floral portraits, flower portraits, flowers and literature, garden of eden, garden photography, Photo Essays, purgatory, social design, vcrown
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Gothic Art and the Militant Church
Gothic Art and the Militant Church Arcipestral Church of Santa María La Mayor Morella, Spain, Gothic Art The Gothic Art can be defined as the Art of the Militant Church, as Gombrich mentions in his History of Art.: These powerful and challenging stone clusters erected by the Church in the lands of farmers and warriors [...]




