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Featured Work

Waiting for Council by -Whisper-

‘The Sacred Circle awaits your presence’ / Gwenolye 3D created with Vue 6 Studio Pro Featured in: / Friends of RedBubble Feb 2010 / Thank you!
Colors by NelisArt

photography
Look into my eyes by Stephen Colquitt

This fish tried to hypnotise me on a recent dive.
Swish by James Birkbeck

just a cotton flower held up to the light.
Falling into the Unknown #2 by Minka Bleakley

Shot with a disposable underwater camera.
Goats Water by VoluntaryRanger

Nestled between the fells of Dow Crag and Coniston Old Man in the Lake District National Park, Cumbria, NW England, Goats Water can be reached from Coniston Village or Torver by a footpath from the Walna Scar road by Little Arrow Moor. The slopes to the right here are below Dow Crag, a place popular with rock climbers and scramblers.The path continues to Goats Hause , the lowest point of the route from Walna Scar to Coniston Old Man.. / Another shot that I was inspired to take as it reminded me of Lord Of The Rings,and the pool outside the entrance to the Mines Of Moria.. / Sony Alpha 350 DSLR SINGLE raw tonemapped in Photomatix Pro3 ISI:100 / Featured in Friends of Red Bubble Feb 2010 :ISO100 /
Firefly by littlearty

Dry pastel smudge on sketch book. What I love most about this technique is the multi coloured pastel dust left on me palms, hands, clothes, carpet… :)
Stocking Reflections by Songmistress

I have a thing for mirrors, and for fishnet…and for black and white photography. /
Have To Leave This Winter Blues by KariS

You just know, when you have hibernated enough.
Cedar Shavings by Dawne Olson

Late Autumn this year was the beginning of a new experience for me, learning to work with hand tools to create my own canoe made of cedar. Of course I have not abandoned my other favorite hobby entirely. My camera is always near at hand as I have documented various stages of the build. This image was taken just a few days into my experimentation with a new block plane. All I did was take a scrap piece of lumber and started fiddling with the plane until I had it figured out. When I sat it down and looked at the beautiful pile of shavings on the table I grabbed this picture. Now, several months into the winter, with my canoe nearly finished and those golden days of Autumn well behind me, I look at this picture of those cedar shavings and feel such warmth and affection for the beauty that cedar has added to my life! Uploading this image now in particular as a tribute to all of the wood workers out there - whatever your craft - who have discovered, as I have, a deeper appreciation for the smell, feel, and look of natural wood.
Morning Star by MoonSpiral

16×20 acrylic on canvas panel Venus, the morning star and the goddess of love and beauty.

Recent Work

Aloha Aloalo Aheahe Tropical Hibiscus Ha'iku by Sharon Mau

Aloha ‘oe / Aloalo Aheahe / Exotic Tropical Hibiscus soft billowing breeze Copyright © Sharon Mau 2010 / My images do not belong to the public domain. No form of reproduction, including copying or saving of digital image files, or the alteration or manipulation of said image is authorized unless accompanied by a written sales and/or licensing agreement issued by Sharon Mau Fine Art Photography / All rights reserved Location: Ha’iku Maui Hawai’i Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi Shooting Date: 25 November 2009 “On a road outreaching the white clouds, / By a spring outrunning the bluest river, / Petals come drifting on the wind / And the brook is sweet with them all the way. / My quiet gate is a mountain-trail, / And the willow-trees about my cottage / Sift on my sleeve, through the shadowy noon, / Distillations of the sun.” poetry by Liu Shen-hsu It is believed that there are only five species of Hibiscus that originated from Hawai’i. Other species found their origin in Asia and the Pacific islands. In the early twenties, the Hibiscus Brackenbridgei was adopted as the official Territorial flower of Hawai’i. It kept this status throughout the 20th century, but only in 1988 its yellow colour was defined as the official colour for the Hibiscus representing the State of Hawai’i. Before 1988, the official Hibiscus could have any colour. Additionally, it was not until 1988 that the flower could represent the State of Hawai’i, because before that time the territorial status of the group of islands was unclear. Hawai’i’s state flower (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis) originated in Asia and the Pacific islands. Interestingly, it is also the national flower of Malaysia. Research suggests there were originally only five species of the tropical Hibiscus that were native to Hawai’i. Growers began to hybridize these native species with other varieties imported to Hawai’i, which produced the huge kaleidoscope of colours and sizes available today. There are several ways to tell the difference between the tropical and hardy perennial varieties. Tropical hibiscuses have dark green glossy leaves, sporting 3-4 inch flowers that are either single or double in colors of yellow, orange, pink, or red. Also, tropical hibiscus can have blossoms of salmon, orange, yellow, or peach with double flowers. Hardy perennial Hibiscus have foliage of medium-green with leaves that are heart shaped. Their flowers of white, red, or pink are much larger than those of the tropical Hibiscus. Many hibiscus aficionados increase the number of plants they have by using cuttings, a practice known as cloning or asexual reproduction. Select the best tips; look for good leaf color and a robust upright growing stance. Water the plants in the morning before taking the cuttings. Use sterilized shears. Count down about 4 leaf nodes to where the stem starts turning from light green to brown. Make each cut at a 45 degree angle just below a leaf node. Remove the lower leaves from the cutting, as well as any large top leaves. Dip the point of the cutting into a rooting stimulant, and then insert them into the growing medium only as deep as necessary to keep them upright. The cuttings should be fully rooted by the end of 6 weeks, and can then be transplanted. If the cuttings have been rooted in a green house, they should be hardened off before transplanting, by switching them to regular irrigation, and moving them out into the sunlight during the day, and back indoors for the night, for a few days. This is a hardy perennial Hibiscus
By the sea by Fireisoblivion

Photo taken by Phleabytes / photoshopped and featuring fireisoblivion by the sea in Warrnambool
Winter's day #7 by fruitcake

Model; Hazel Dean
Another Sunny Day by Torfinn Johannessen

A shot taken today here in Strömsund, Sweden.
I AM by coppertrees

Done with watercolor and finished in Photoshop with watcom pen and pad. MUSIC / I am your Mother / Sister / Daughter / Grandmother / Wife / Aunt / Cousin / I Am
The dome of Puy Sallier by Rémi Bridot

Landscape of Alp / Olympus E3 + zoom Olympus 2.8 – 11/22 mm
Opera House mono duo two by Juilee Pryor

this is another of my ever so slightly not quite the run of the mill IR photo’s of the Sydney Opera House….. I shot it with Kodak Highspeed Infrared film and the roll got just slightly ‘cooked’ in the hand processing… and the resulting negative is just ever so slightly of another world…. it could be the back of a fantastic beast of the top of a helmet or something just as unlikely…. the flaws and faults in the processing of this notoriously tempermental film have given me something quite unique … and I rather like that…..
Arsine lake by Rémi Bridot

Landscape of Alp / Olympus E3 + zoom Olympus 2.8 – 11/22 mm
Bold As Brass by David McMahon

It was a hot afternoon, but the light indoors was muted at the Lebanese restaurant Dunyazad in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs. The scalloped edge of this brass plate formed a wonderful curved border between the reflective metal surface and the dark fabric of the feature wall. I do not crop, enhance or post-edit my images in any way. Shot with a Pentax K100D, using a Sigma 18-125mm lens. F6.7, 1/60 sec, ISO 800, focal length 108mm. 121-2544
Stumped by Terri Chandler

Capture taken 2/2/2010 of our rescued/adopted feline “Bella”. / It was a day when the outside temperature was just tolerable enough for her to decide she wanted a few minutes in the sun but it was just too cold to lay on the ground. This huge stump (or cutting) from a fallen tree that we use as a decorative touch on our patio, came to be her observation point until the sun shifted position in the sky she felt the chill and quickly came back inside again. / Taken with my KODAK Easyshare ZD710 camera. / ©2010TLC (DwCCreations)

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