The meadow with old olive trees and abundant poppies which inspired this painting is located in northern Spain. 

 

Taken in the MET courtyard, New York. 

This is the softly smiling Mikhail Khodorkovsky (Michail Borissowitsch Chodorkowski) finding himself in the abyss of a giant, angry grizzly bear. Providing that he will survive this ordeal, he may follow in the steps of renowned men such as Vaclav H... 

Most people love the big cats. Many people truly worship them, while we are killing them all. The killing happens more subtly nowadays, gun shoots are mostly obsolete. We simply do not leave them any natural habitats to live and even if there are som... 

Very handsome and extremely useful medicinal plant usually growing freely. This beautiful specimen was photographed in Austria, near to the Slovak border in July 2010.  

 

 

One man is standing at the window, his head a bit in the clouds. He is looking in the mirror at the wall, which however shows a different man. Between them are two details pertinent to both men, who became truly renowned by the end of the year 2010. ... 

Terry is a cute little girl about two years old. The painting shows her coming out of a door with the remnants of her last chocolate meal clearly visible on her face and hands. 

This wild living swan stayed in winter together with other two fellows at the river Isar in Munich, Germany. Photo taken end of January 2010. 

 

 

This interesting windows collection can be seen on the front wall of the freshly renovated castle in Bratislava, Slovakia. 

I stopped to take some fancy photographs of sunflowers. Coming back there was this grasshopper sitting on top of my car, eying me with great curiosity and offering great reflection in full portrait mode.