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Mary Melville has helped produce some iconic wildlife documentaries in recent years, including Natural World and Dynasties. In other words, she does what many would consider a dream job. We spoke with her to learn more about life behind the scenes.
The wildlife cinematographers are therefore just one cog in the system, but we do choose them carefully. We need those who are good at getting the shots and reading the wildlife behaviour, but also working in whatever conditions that shoot is in, whether -5-degree snow or 40-degree tropical forest.
'The wildlife cinematographers are therefore just one cog in the system, but we do choose them carefully. We need those who are good at getting the shots and reading the wildlife behaviour, but also working in whatever conditions that shoot is in, whether -5-degree snow or 40-degree tropical forest.'
Shooting in the field is a big part of working on nature docs. In broad terms what does a typical shoot period look like? (E.g. How long is it? Are there particular stages or tasks? Are you working with certain people? Staying in certain places? Or does everything just depend on the shoot?)
There is normally a lull in the middle, when the sixteen-hour days get the better of me. This is also a good time to look at what footage you have and assess what you still need before a last big push through to the finish.
I love getting to collaborate with researchers or other conservationists who are protecting species. For example I filmed at a wildlife rehabilitation sanctuary in America called Wild Instincts. They take in every injured animal brought in and, whenever possible, strive to release them back into the wild in a suitable habitat, while also informing local residents about effects of things like lead poisoning on local populations. They have rehabilitated and released thousands of animals, and it was a privilege to film with them.
'Floating down a river in Florida next to some habituated otters, who were fishing and going about their business, was pretty amazing. Or walking on foot while filming a mother puma, who completely ignored our presence as she cared for her four young cubs.'
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If you are from South Louisiana, odds are that you practically spent time every Sunday in Church. That was the case as I was growing up in Abbeville, splitting my required pew time between St. Theresa's on Charity Street and "the big church", St. Mary Magdalen, near the old bridge.
Having attended both of these churches, and not having been an altar boy or a lay person, I had never been "behind the scenes" of either. Well, one of those churches can be scratched from my bucket list! Father Louis Richard was gracious enough to open St. Mary Magdalen church for me (and my videographer Millennial Sam), and he gave us a thorough tour, including the bell and clock tower.
Did you know that, back in the 1970s, the church had a psychedelic-painted coffee shop? Father Louis told us that he and some other friends from high school helped turn that part of the basement into a coffee shop for the high school kids to hang out after school. The "grown-ups" weren't too keen on it, but the clergy felt it was a good idea, as it kept the kids close to the church. That coffee shop has since been transformed into a chapel (1975), as you'll see in the video.
The history of the church is interesting, dating back to the mid-1800s: fires, lost records, and new construction. The church's website even talks about one young priest from St. Mary Magdalen who lost his life in service to our country during WWII.
This gallery includes artworks and representations of the Virgin Mary's life. Different scenes are shown in different ways with different art materials. This gallery was made to express Mary's challenges that she had to take on in order to raise Jesus when she said her ultimate "yes" to God.
One of our conservation experts will guide you through our Reserve Collection with a host of unique artefacts not normally on public display. Learn from our experts directly and see our collection close up.
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The Triptych in the Museo del Prado labeled as Scenes from the Life of Christ is a pivotal work in the story of Valencian painting in the fifteenth century and in the transmission of the style and technique of Jan van Eyck to the Iberian Peninsula. The panel entered the Prado collection in 1931 from the convent of the Encarnacin in Valencia, a Carmelite foundation established in 1502. It was then considered to be an anonymous work, de muy difcil clasificacin, and was displayed initially with the Flemish paintings, alongside works by Grard David, Jan Gossaert and Bernard Van Orley. In 1937 Schne postulated that it was a work made in Naples by a Flemish artist, but since 1943, following the suggestion of Post, it has universally been agreed to be a work by a Flemish artist active in Valencia, made in the 1440s. The obvious candidate for this was Louis Alincbrot, a painter recorded in Bruges in 1432-37, who had settled in Valencia by 1439, and who had died there by 1463. A close examination of the triptych, however, alongside a reassessment of what we know from archival sources about Alincbrot, indicates a different history for its making, and a surprising turn for its attribution. It would appear not to have been made in Valencia, and not to have been made by Alincbrot. Its artist, if not his name, can be identified, allowing us to expand our ideas of Flemish painting of the period, of the impact of Jan van Eyck`s works on artists in the 1440s, and of the acquisition of northern paintings at the court of Alfonso V of Aragon.
When closed the triptych shows a grisaille Annunciation, with fictive stone figures of the Virgin and Gabriel set in a room (its outlines now only clearly visible in the infrared reflectogram), framed by a darker brown fictive stone tracery. The Annunciation itself is iconographically minimal: there is neither dove nor lilies, only the scroll held by Gabriel with the angelic salutation written on it, inscribed upside down so that it reads away from him towards the Virgin. By contrast with the subdued and pared down imagery of the exterior, the triptych when open is rich in colour, visually dense and full of narrative and decorative detail: no less than ninety figures are depicted across the three panels, not including those who are only indicated by a hat or helmet. On the left-hand wing the Circumcision is seen through the carved archway of a northern Gothic church that is decorated with sculpted figures, presumably apostles since they hold books and staffs. The building has tall plate tracery windows, the floor laid with Valencian cobalt blue and gold lustre ceramic tiles, of a type exported in large numbers into Flanders. In the central panel, in a continuous landscape flanked by two turreted and fantastical townscapes, are three scenes that all take place in or outside Jerusalem: Christ disputing with the doctors in the Temple, the way to Calvary, and the Crucifixion. On the right wing the Virgin holds the body of her son on her lap, kissing his left hand; John wipes tears away and supports his head; the Magdalene sits at his feet, a reference to her role in their washing and anointing, though no pot is visible. Behind them is a purple-veined marble tomb and a single empty cross (its floating titulus a result of restoration that removed the wooden rod that would originally have connected it to the cross): the thieves` crosses were planned in the underdrawing, but not executed. Behind the cross is a view of Jerusalem, depicted in some detail: the Tower of David and the Holy Sepulchre are both identifiable, but the Dome of the Rock is absent. The Virgin`s sorrow is clearly a unifying theme in the triptych, but the events chosen are not a standard nor straightforward set of the Sorrows. The events selected in the Prado triptych, and the way they are composed, seem intentionally centred not simply on the Virgin`s compassion for Christ`s suffering but more precisely on the specific pain she suffered through her separation, physically, from her son: this is a recurrent theme in the prayers and texts that describe, and often dwell on, her anguish at losing her son in the Temple in Jerusalem, and her agony at the imminent removal of his body from her at the Pieta.
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