Dejeuner des Canotiers

This photograph (above) was taken on our fantastic school trip to Sde Boker in the Negev desert this last Friday. The light and composition of the scene strongly recalled Renoir’s famous painting Dejeuner des Canotiers which I talked about in a recent post! Sde Boker is where David Ben Gurion, Israel’s very first prime minister, had his famed desert home. Our school trip was to celebrate the recent, and upcoming Bat/Bar Mitzvot of the girls and boys in the year. The children took part in a very special sunset ceremony, in the middle of a sandstorm. In the morning, we walked along the desert wadi leading to the springs of Ein Ovdat, and then had our Renoir reenactment-style snack lunch in the most beautiful dappled light before the journey home. I didn’t intend it to come out like this but the photo was like those modern remakes of famous paintings!

Sunrise at Sde Boker

The artist walking in the desert — The artist walking in the desert, along a ridge at Sde Boker.

Ein Ovdat: Walking along the wadi .

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