Taking pictures since 11, darkroom teen years with stained fingers, loved my manual Minoltas. Now in my mid-40s, the kids are growing up and digital has woken up the bug again.. – George Parapadakis
My daughter Christina has just joined RedBubble too! She’s got some cool work!!!
The following pictures have all been featured in various groups. To see the complete list click here: Detailed Features List. My latest TopTens are here: Top Tens List
2009
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monocotylidono hosts The Thing and Visual Collaborations (No Writing) and is a member of Photographers of RedBubble [3/Day, No HDR, NO textures and No layers], Bubble Jeopardy, ! ♦♣♠♥Ȃll Things Black ♥♠♣♦ !, All Things Orange Artwork Gallery, Complex Simplicity of Art, EUROPA, I LOVE BIRDS !, Renewable Energy Awareness, The Fruit and Veg Shop(2 uploads a Day), Yellow Gallery, ! $$☻Valentimes Day Love (Get Art Promoted)☺ !, ! 100% !, ! Inspired Art !, !**CANDID PHOTOGRAPHS of friends and family~~ (PLEASE ADD A DESCRIPTION OF WHO IS IN THE PICTURE)**!, " Little Things To Make You Smile " , "" YOU BIG SOFTY"", "Exceptional Ekphrasis", "I Got The Music In Me" ♥New Challenge Is Up♥, "Mornings & Evenings -- Sunbeams & Storms" 3 works total, "Old Things - 3 per Day", "Streams & Stream Crossings" 2 posts a day!, "Tone It Down"! (3/day - No [EXPLETIVE] color allowed!), # 1 ARTISTS OF REDBUBBLE-5 per day, Please., ** Super Macro Photography (Two Per Day ), **FOCUS and LIGHTING**, **Gorgeous Flower Cards**, **MOUNTAINS ACROSS the GLOBE**, **NIGHT or LOW LIGHT Photo's** , **PEACE, LOVE & TRANQUILITY**, *A Beautiful Blur, *Amazing Orton Effect* - Limit 3/day , *Avant-Garde Art*, *Chocoholics Anonymous*, *ONE SINGLE FLOWER On Show*.. 2 Photo's per day, *Town Giants*, *“Changing Zoom Lenses”*, 1. The Mysterious Balkans , 12 Great Features - Challenge Themes ONLY, 1:1 Macro Photography (Limit: 2 posts per 24 hour period), 2D - Daffodils & Dahlias , 49er with Wheels - ground transportation prior to 1950, A Night somewhere....., A Photographer's Craft , A Place To Call Home, Abstract Art, Abstract Macro Urban Art (eg Grungy), Abstract Realism, Abstracts from Nature, Adjacent Flames, African-American Experience, After Dark, Album Art - The way it could've been..., All About Fire, All About Flowers, All About Your Best Work, All Abstract Art, All Around the Styles, All Castles Around The World, All Countries ~ Wetlands, Ponds, Lakes and Rivers, All Pets Great and Small, All Street Portraiture, All That is Nature (Photography Only / 4 per 24 hrs), All the Colors of the Rainbow, All the Fun of the Fair, All Things Brighton Beautiful, All things Maltese, All Things Poetic, Artistic, Philosophical, Alphabet Soup (Letter F) - 2 images only per letter, Alternative Christmas Images, Alternative Process and Experimental Photography, Amazing Graves, Anaglyph World, Angel Wings and Heaven, Anticonsumerism, Arachnids, Architectural Details, Architectural Photography, Architecture and cityscapes, Around The World >>>3 per day<<<, Art and Stories Made For Children, Art By Bubble Hosts , Art in Math, Art Inspired by Dreams, Art of Glass (photography only, 3/day), Artistic Libation ~ Spirits In Art, Artistic Motion Blur, Artrageous RB Artists - Self Portrait Gallery, As Is, At the edge, Atmospheric Optics, Avant-Garde, B&W - Character - Noir, Baby Animals (No Kittens or Puppies, 3/day), Bargain Shooters. 2 a day please., Beach Art, Beige is death!, Best from Around the Barnyard {2 A Day}, Birds and Creatures of Flight, Bits and Pieces, Black & White Night Photography, Black and White Photography, Black with a hint of colour, Blooming Trees - 2 per day, Body of Work, Bokeh, Boredom Competitions on the 24/7, Boston, Massachusetts, Both Sides Now - (CLOUDS ONLY), Bridges, Britain's Coastline, Budget Photography, Bug Hunt! (with Location please), Butterflies, Skippers, Moths, & Other Winged Insects (2 a Day), Cacti and other Succulents, Candid Photography ( 1/24 ) , Capital cities of the World , Capturing Emotion, Cards: Best of Your Best, Cars, Motorbikes and Motorsports, Castle Magic, Challenge Café, Childhood, Children-The Power of Raw Emotion , Christian Churches, Statues and Crosses, Cityscapes and City Skylines ~ ALL THINGS "CITY" , Classic Cars Worldwide, Collective Collage, Color Me a Rainbow (GREEN must include human or animal), Colors of Water, Colour and light, Colour Me Vibrant Red!, Communities (NO SUNSETS OR SUNRISES OR CLOSEUPS OF PERSONS, PLACES OR THINGS!!), Contemporary Architecture, contrasting perceptions, Country Bumpkin, Creative, Talented, and Unknown , Current Issues, Dandelions, Dawn and Dusk Light [No Sun], Days Gone By (Photographs must be twenty years or older and include people please), Descriptions, Digital Artists United, Digital Photography, Dilapidated Buildings, Dimensions, Domestic Art - [2/24, NO PEOPLE, PETS, or FLOWERS. INSIDE shots only.], DSLR Users Only - 1/24 - Camera & Lens In Description Please., Dutch Showcase, Dutch Touch, East Anglia (Art of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Essex), Ebony and Ivory, Elderly , EMI - The Group, England as Scene in Black & White. 1 a day., Environmental Awareness, Equine Art and Photography, Escher and Perspective Art 5/24, European Everyday Life (add the place!), Everyday Life, Everything Ends (3 per day), Everything Winter, Experimental , Extreme Close-Ups, Eye Contact (Animals Only), Fabulous Flowers, Face 2 Face UK, Faded Seaside Glamour, Falling Leaves, Farms and Countryside, Featured Features - For Featured Art, Photography, T-Shirts, Writing, Film Photography, First Things, Flotsam & Jetsam, Flower and Foliage DETAIL - 1 per day (24 hours), Flowers in macro, Food for Thought, Food group, Frame In Frame, Freedom to Shine, French Architecture , Fresh powder! , Friends of RedBubble, Full Frontal Facades, Fungilicious, Funny Kritters, Ghostly Images, Glorious Lilies, Going Coastal (2 art per day), Going Green, Greece and all things Hellenic, Greek and Roman Mythology, Green!, Greenwich Mean Time, HALLOWEEN, Happy Hour, Harbour Life, HDiR – The Marriage of Infrared and HDR, HDR Photography (3 Photos per 24hr-day), Heritage in Stone, High Key, High Quality Animal Images - 1 Submission a Week, High Quality Cards: Animals and pets (2/day - NO WRITING/PHOTOS ONLY), Historic Churches, Historic Landmarks of Europe, Historic Places *2 per day*, History, Holidays and Special Occasions, Horizons, How to Sell Art and T-shirts, Humour Captured, I Love Italy, Iberia , If it doesn't belong, Images & Ideas, ImageWriting (2/24), In the Pink 50% pink, Infrared , Infrared Photography, Insects, Bugs and Creepy Crawlies (2 A Day), Insomniacs and Other Night Crawlers, Italy and all Things Italian , Jazzed Up Art , Jolly Olde Saint Nicholas, JPG Cast-Offs, Just Brown, Just Butterflies, Just Lines, Just Pure Nature., Kairos, Ladybugs, Landscape and Abstract Photography, Landscape Photography, Leaves , Light and Reflection 1/24, Light In The Darkness, Light up My Life (all about lamps), Live and Let Live ( 3 per day), Live, Love, Dream: , Livestock in General, LMAO ART - Your funniest work, London Architecture, London Life, Lost in Space [75% Negative Space], Love & Romance , Love Affair With The Lens, Made In Digital, MAJOR EVENT , Masterpiece: Photography, Mermaids and mystic creatures, Metallic Junktion, Minimalism, Minimalist Landscapes (2 per day), MIRTH (Members Images Relating To Humour), Mood & Ambi(e)nce - Strictly Photos / ( No need to enter images in the group for the challenges), Moody and Evocative (no nudes), Music Inspired Art (M.I.A) music links/lyrics required, My Beautiful Old Camera, My Child's Art, Mysteries of the Common, Myths, Legends and Fairytales, Natural Textures, Naturalists Britain, 2 a day., Nature's Macro Canvas (No flowers or insects), Nature's Reclamation, Nature's Wonders, Nautical, New Orleans and all things Louisianian, New to Vintage. 2 a day., Night Photography, Nirvana (Only 1 photographic art and 1 written work will be accepted per day ), No More Color , Nostalgic Art and Photography, Numbers One to a Trillion, Object Studies & Concepts, Off Camera Flash or O.C.F., Old & Rusty, Old farts of redbubble, OLDER KIDS aged 8-16 2/24 *PLEASE ADD AGE*, Once In A Blue Moon, Out of the Blue (75%+ Blue), Out of the Past, Outsiders, Panoramas 3:1 Ratio Minimum, Parallel Dimensions, Paris, Passionate About Vintage, People and Portraiture Photography, Perspectives, Pets Are Us ~ 2 per day, Photo Manipulators, Photographers self portrait, Photographic France, Photography - Rule of Thirds, Photography 101:remember to put settings of camera in description, Photoshop Help, PixElations - The Art of Photoshop, Point and Shooters, Pop Art, Portraits in Natural Light, Portugal, PostCard Style (Describe your image please) Limit 2 per day), Powered by Steam, Prize Challenges!!, Public Art, Put Out! or Get Out!!!, Pylon Photos and Art, Railway Art and Photography, Rain Drops & Water Art - Fresh Water Only!, Reflections in Building Windows 2 per day, Religious Architecture, Requiem, Retro Conglomerate (2 Per Day), Rodent Fest, Room With A View, Rural Around The Globe, Rustic, Rusty, Crusty and Falling to Bits - 2 Per 24 Hours, Safe Haven, Scenery, Scotlands History, SEA, Seasonal Greeting Cards, Selective Coloring, Self Portrait, Sepia Only, Sets of Two, Shades of Grey, Shadows & Reflections, Shameless Self-Promotion, Shapes & Patterns - Limit of 2 images per day, Shoes, Shoot The Moon, SHOPFRONTS , Shots in the Fog, Signs, Silhouette, Simple by Design, Simply the Best, SIMPLY WHITE ARTWORK GALLERY - 95% White !, Skyscapes, Snow Days, Snow! Glorious Snow!! 2 a day, Solo Exhibition, Something To Say, Sony Shooters, South East UK, Squirrels & Chipmunks, Stairs and Staircases, Statues and Such, Still Life Fine Art and Food Photography, Still Life Photography, Stillness Speaks **Max 2 uploads per day** {{No NUDES, ABSTRACT, CANDIDS or ACTION IMAGES}}, Stop and Smell the Roses, Street Photography and Photojournalism, Streetscapes, Style! Class! Elegance! Excellence! (2 Images per day please), Sunrise, Sunset, Surrealism *MAX 4 PER DAY*, Sweet Tooth, TABLES AND CHAIRS, Take Me Higher (Dynamic Range), Technical Buffs, Technical Photography, Techné - the intersection of art and technology, Textures Unlimited, That One Great Shot, THE 500 TO 5000 VIEWINGS GROUP, The Addicted Photographer►2 Per Day◄, The Art of Intrigue 2/24, The Ashes - Australia vs England - 2 per day, The Beauty of the European Waters, The Birds, The Black and White Enthusiast (3 per day - no colour, sepia or split-tones), The Collector's Corner, The Compact Group *ONE* per day with *camera details please*, The Eyes Have It, The Fibonacci Sequence, ThE fInE aRt Of pEEliNg PaINt, The Fine Art of Photography, The Girl from Yesterday, The Graphic Room-Graphic and Digital Art, The Grunge Art Gallery, The Human Condition, the Love of Eerie and Enchanting Artwork, The Male Photographer, The Patchwork , THE PHOTOGRAPHERS VAULT, The power of simplicity (PLEASE READ RULES CAREFULLY), The Scots are Coming, The true beauty, The Urban Environment, The Voyage Of The Surrealists - MAX 3 per Day, THE WAIST UP - Portraiture Photography 2 per 24 hour limit, The World, This is England, This Is Relevant (2 per day), Time to watch clocks, Tools, Top Shelf Wildlife & Nature Art - 1Day, Toys and Puppets, Trains, Trams and Buses, Transport, Travel and Adventure, Treasured UK Structures (TUKS), Trees - 1 image per day with trees as the focal point, Tuesday Afternoon, Tulips, TUNNEL VISION (photography only), TUTORIALS (Help and Advice forums), Two Word Challenge, UK National Parks, UK Visions , UN!TY , Unconventional Artistry - 3 per day, Under/ In, Unique Buildings Of The World, United Kingdom, United States, Unlimited Quality, Urban Art , Urban Wildlife, Vanishing Points, Vibrant and Vivid Color, Vibrant Plants, Victorian Viewfinders, Vintage and Gorgeous, Visual Texture(no pornography,nudes or offensive works), Wall of the World , WATER SPORTS, Waves, Weekly Theme Challenges, Which Way - walkways, pathways, stairways, roadways, and railways, Who are YOU to Judge?, Who Needs Color For Beauty? - Black & White Art At Its Best, Wide Angle Photography, Windmills, Watermills and Ferris Wheels, Windows and Doors, You're Accepted, Your Country's Best (2 images per day), Your Magic Place (PLACES only!!), ~Globes, Spheres and Curves - 2 per day~, † The Picture of Scripture †, ≈• Monochrome •≈ (No B&W, Sepia or Gray!) and ≈♥≈The Weekend Photographer≈♥≈.
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