Beautiful wildlife in BNHS's Tanzania camp

After eleven successful camps to Kenya, BNHS now explores the wildlife of Northern Tanzania, also known as the 'prime game viewing country'.

Here's a chance to witness the largest spectacle of African wildlife in Tanzania including Masai Giraffe, Thomson's Gazelle, Cheetah, Striped Hyena, Spotted Hyena African Lion, African Elephant, Nile Crocodile, Eland and Kudu and birds such as Common Ostrich, Secretary Bird, African Fish-Eagle, Lilac-breasted Roller, Superb Starling, Vulturine Guineafowl, Crested Guineafowl, Southern Ground Hornbill, Kori Bustard and Red-billed

Serengeti, Tanzania ’s largest and most famous national park, is truly a wildlife paradise

You can experience the thrill of exploring ‘endless’ plains of Serengeti and witness the extensive migratory herds of Wildebeest and Zebra.

Ngorongoro Crater is one of the best places to see the Black Rhinoceros, Hippopotamus, Wildebeest, African Elephant, Cape Buffalo and African Lion at close range.

 

Lake Manyara National Park is an alkaline lake which offers a view of thousands of pink-hued flamingos, along with Saddle-billed Stork, Blue-capped Cordon Bleu, Purple Granadiar, Crested Guineafowl, Verreaux's Eagle Owl and Pangani Longclaw.  Blue Monkey and Kirk’s Dik-dik are often seen here.

Dates: 3rd -11th March 2012. Registration: Call at Hornbill House 22871202, 22821811 or e-mail at bnhs.programmes@gmail.com

Camp cost: Rs1, 45, 000 (includes economy class airfare, normal visa and processing charges, full board accommodation, all Game park entrance fees, two litre bottled water per person per day, professional English speaking driver/guide, game drives as per itinerary, insurance up to 70 yrs of age and BNHS expertise)

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Stuff for the professionals

These things don't come very often.

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Anamorphosis Art

Anamorphosis is a distorted projection or perspective requiring the viewer to use special devices or occupy a specific vantage point to reconstitute the image. "Ana - morphosis" comes from the Greek words meaning "formed again." More Images after the break...

Histroy Of  Anamorphosis Leonardo's Eye (Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1485) is the earliest known example of perspective anamorphosis. Hans Holbein the Younger is well known for incorporating this type of anamorphic trick. His painting The Ambassadors is the most famous example for anamorphosis, in which a distorted shape lies diagonally across the bottom of the frame. Viewing this from an acute angle transforms it into the plastic image of a skull. During the 17th century, Baroque trompe l'oeil murals often used this technique to combine actual architectural elements with an illusion. When standing in front of the art work in a specific spot, the architecture blends with the decorative painting. The dome and vault of the Church of St. Ignazio in Rome, painted by Andrea Pozzo, represented the pinnacle of illusion. Due to complaints of blocked light by neighbouring monks, Pozzo was commissioned to paint the ceiling to look like the inside of a dome, instead of actually constructing one. However, the ceiling is flat, and there is only one spot where the illusion is perfect and a dome looks real.

In 18th and in 19th century, anamorphic images had come to be used more as children's games than fine art. In the 20th century some artists wanted to renew the technique of anamorphosis. Important to mention Marcel Duchamp's interest in anamorphosis, some of his installations are paraphrases of anamorphoses (See The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even/The Large Glass). Salvador Dalí also utilized the effect in a number of his paintings. Jan Dibbets conceptual works, the so-called "perspective corrections" are examples of "linear" anamorphoses.

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