Beauty in design and landscape



Whitehaven Beach
When I took this picture I wanted to capture the beautiful natural tones, and the extraordinary diversity of the colour palette, with greens, blues and purples amongst the pale cream of the sand. I love this photograph because of the colours, it captures the natural beauty of the place and I love the bush in the foreground that texturally contrasts against the softness of the the mid and background it is visually interesting and makes me want to be there!
A little History: The beach stretches for seven kilometres and has quartz rich sand which gives it the beautiful white colour and fine texture,the sand is 98% pure silica. The quartz rich sand, is surprisingly not from a local source and is believed to have been moved down North along the QLD coast millions of years ago. Here it was trapped by rocks and headland to eventually accumulate to form the dunes of Whitehaven Beach. The area is the traditional home of the Ngaro Aboriginal people also given the nickname "Canoe People"because of their use and knowledge of the canoe to navigate through the area. There is evidence that the Ngaro people have inhabited the area for 9000 years.  




The Guggenheim Museum



This building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Some interesting facts about this building (all information sourced from the Guggenheim website). The Architect did not approve of the location of the museum, he saw NYC as too busy and wanted to change it to somewhere else. The clients did not change the location however Wright was given the choice of the exact/site of the building.
According to the Museums site, nature was a major influence in the inspiration of the building. The galleries are designed to be reminiscent of natural forms, the galleries are divided into different spaces and are self-contained yet interdependent. Enclosed and Connected.
FACT: When I was there, the curators had actually changed the design of movement through the museum, it was originally designed for people to start at the top and work their way down and now it is the opposite and people have to revisit their steps before exiting.