Creative Portrait Photography by Vilde Indrehus

For this weekend, I wanted to post about this very young but talented photographer: Vilde Indrehus.

Vilde is a 17 year old photographer from Norway, she has been serious about photography about a year now and by her own words is addicted. Her photos have a kind of “Instagram” look, and are very romantic. 

Inspired by the forest, the ocean and the nature, she took the emotional shots to express her extreme love of her homeland.

She said: "the things that no one else notices are the things that I love the most: a graveyard, rain, garbage and clouds are examples of things that inspire me. Especially clouds! Everything is so damn beautiful. I want to photograph everything I see. And when I say everything, I totally mean it. I love how photography makes me see this world just as beautiful as it is. And it somehow confuses me that I’m the only one I know that think of it that way."

Her photography style is wonderous and intimately exploratory of a young person connecting with her natural surroundings.

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Just love her stunning pictures about her natural surroundings!

You can also visit her facebook page here. What are your thoughts on these?

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The Eternal Jungle by Zim & Zou

My today post is about this very creative window installation for Hermes store in Hong Kong. 

The Hermès brand has worked hard to earn its world-renowned reputation for enchanting window displays. They reaffirmed their excellent record with this original vitrine at the Hong Kong International Airport, an amazing project made by a 3D creative studio in France, Zim & Zou.

The French artists/designers, Lucie Thomas and Thibault Zimmermann were given carte blanche to fill the space as they pleased, after the brand Hermès saw their masterful “Cabinet de Curiosités” project, a series of intricately detailed birds, insects, and animals made primarily from paper.

The result, the "Eternal Jungle", is an invitation into the wild. The window installation creates an intriguing contrast between the jungle, an unpredictable rainforest, a World that is dominated by wild animals; and the hyper-controlled environment of the store behind it, the World of Hermès. Very clever concept! The window is also influenced by the abundance of vegetation in Hong Kong.

The figures, which could be found in a real jungle, instead exist amid the fast paced urban jungle of Hong Kong.

Zim & Zou's work really shows that the level of craftsmanship involved mirrors that of Hermès products.

The installation displays the finest skills in paper-cut art and leatherwork! Remaining faithful to its original purity, the Studio created intricate objects with the paper, a material both beautiful and versatile.  

The 'Monkey', 'Toucan', and 'Chameleon' are all handcrafted and brought to life with leather offcuts carefully selected from the Hermès workshops. Their paper and leather cut installation has the cartoonish quality of a stop motion film while retaining the signature refinement of the brand. 

Thousands of tiny pebbled leather triangles compose a hairy swinging monkey, a parrot with wings outstretched, and a lurking chameleon. It took 200 hours to create one animal! 

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Outstanding pieces of Art! What do you think?

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Amazing Gulpiyuri Beach without the Sea, Spain

Let's go to the beach this weekend, shall we? Let's go get away to one of the most amazing beaches in the world: Playa de Gulpiyuri or the Gulpiyuri Beach.

If you travel, you have probably visited many beautiful and exotic beaches, but not one like Gulpiyuri Beach.

It is a shell shaped little beach located in the middle of a grassy meadow, near Llanes, a charming town on the northern coast of Spain. 

Gulpiyuri Beach is unlike anything you have ever seen, or even imagined existed outside of fantasy books or fictional planets. Imagine walking over 100 meters from the sea shoreline and stumbling over a small charming beach right in the middle of a green meadow. And while you may find other beaches completely hidden from the open sea, around the world, this one is actually fully tidal and even has waves bathing the small strip of golden sand.

The beach is very small, only 40 meters long, and it takes just a few minutes to fully swim across it. Some people have even reported being able to bodysurf on the small waves. 

Water from the nearby Bay of Biscay comes in through the underground tunnel network and washes up on Gulpiyuri in gentle waves, adding to the charm of this magical cove. 

The shallow crystal clear water of this place acts as a swimming invitation that cannot be refused, but you may find it a little cold, because the water tends to remain underground for a while, before washing into the Beach.

You may be wondering how such an Oasis could exist away from the coastline, and the answer is: nature is a wonderful artist! The oasis is actually a karstic sinkhole. The nearby Cantabria Sea ate through the limestone coast resulting in underground caves, allowing the seawater inland. Overtime the sea eroded the caves causing them to collapse, creating a sinkhole resulting in this beautiful beach.

This amazing cove is protected from wind and waves...so there is a "quietness" that is unreal, when comparing the beach to others in Asturias or Cantabria. It seemed more like a Mediterranean beach! 

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Playa de Gulpiyuri is not only rare, it's hard to find! Many people have admitted to only being able to get there with the help of the advice of the locals, or a GPS! But once we got there you will realize that it is worth the trip! 

The beach has been declared a national monument of the Austrias. If you are a fan of exotic beaches, this is one you shouldn't miss on a weekend trip! What do you think?

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