GALLERIA RUSTICANA

We were sitting as we do at The Oaks taking on a couple of preprandial cappuccini and settling our gastrology for Lunch. This is a fairly routine feature of our Rusticana management meetings and Robaire said between sips that our site hit list which had now climbed over three tons ( 309 thousand ) was quite remarkable for two tottering Elder Persons of no special talent.
We paused to wonder why this should be and had no answers.
It is however quite remarkable to reflect that the photograph in its relatively short lifetime still has such huge powers of both communication and appeal to so many of us. After full days on keyboards and lunches out, we are prepared after dinner to sit again and seek out images and friends using our Browsers, voIp and webcams to meet greet and share with friends all over the World..

And then it dawns that not all of us will get to go to out of the way places or to experience happenings in other remote places and that when we do , it is the matter of a tad of planning and some critical editing to place this material in haunts like Rusticana to be easily shared. An annotated Google Earth, a word or two of text and it is done.

We are well down this path and have extended the net to a few of our curious mates who in them selves are on different paths and in thrall to different drummers. This obviously has appeal and we have as ever to thank you all for your support.

Robaire in addition to his wonderful Panorama making has come up with Aeronauticus a Galleria on aircraft and we have had contributions and corrections from all over, so much so that we now have a data consultant on board to moderate the site. In case you are at a loss it is his Bentley on http://www.pbase.com/galleria_rusticana/image/84738473
Robaire also to his credit set Noctus Illuminatus in place to celebrate the fleeting Smart Light on The Opera House and Circular Quay. It is happily possible to sit in London, New Beaujolais at the elbow and take in the lights with out moving more than a finger.

Wazza earlier in the year went out to The Deep Libyan Desert and The Egyptian Western Oases. Not yer ordinary choice, however now we have the dreaded hand of the editor out of the food pot we will take you there in two new Egyptica Galleria, The Deep Desert gave us some remarkable ancient Rock Art paintings and engravings. These consummate artists looked out on a watered savannah and talk to us hauntingly through the millennia. The Western Oases in the midst of the Great Sand Sea are another thing again. We begin in Cairo and then to Alexandria at :
http://www.pbase.com/galleria_rusticana/aegyptica__the_western_oases
so please stay with us.

The Rusticanians July 2009