Roka


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Roka
City: Eugene,
Country: United States
Joined: Apr 2009

I live in Oregon – Eugene/Springfield area. Photographic moments await everywhere… urban delights, forests, ocean beaches, rivers, mountains and desert all within a one to two hours drive.

I’m drawn to macro photography – I suppose because of the secrets revealed when I look through the lens. Long ago in school I experimented with close up photography and loved it, but film and darkroom work was a tad expensive so I moved away from it. Digital changed all of that and now I’m afraid I’ve become quite addicted to it. I take my camera with me wherever I go – on my neighborhood walks, the farmer’s market, friend’s homes. I have a disproportionate number of photos of flowers because I am so drawn to their beauty and tiny secrets – but am not limiting myself to just taking macro shots. Along with photography I also love manipulating photos with Photoshop.

I enjoy connecting with the Red Bubble community and am awed by the work here. I have learned and continue to learn so much from my fellow bubblers.

Visit my Blog – rokawalsh.wordpress.com

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Roka is a member of # 1 ARTISTS OF REDBUBBLE , Bubble Jeopardy, ! ♥♥All About Hearts♥♥ !, All Things Orange Artwork Gallery, Complex Simplicity of Art, Yellow Gallery, ! 100% !, ! ♥♥♥Love Is (Join us!)♥♥♥ !, " Little Things To Make You Smile " , " You Big SOFTY", "Real" Life Photography (2 per day), ** Super Macro Photography (Two Per Day ), *A Beautiful Blur, *Chocoholics Anonymous*, *Elegant Rose Card's*, *Focus and Lighting*, 1 In The Beginning - Ancient Practices, 1:1 Macro Photography (Limit: 2 posts per 24 hour period), 2D - Daffodils & Dahlias , 4 Winners Only, A Fascinating Purple (75% Purple), A Place To Call Home, A Vision Of Flight Photography (AS IS ONLY) 2 per 24 hour period, Abstracts from Nature, Accentuate The Eyes, All About Flowers, All About Water, All Animals Great And Small., All In, "Editing", All Oregon USA, All Pets Great and Small, All Soft and Cuddlies !!, All That is Nature (Photography Only), All the Colors of the Rainbow, All Things Poetic, Artistic, Philosophical, Alphabet Soup (Letter R), Altered by Design, Amazing Graves, Americas ~ Rural, Urban, Wild, Free, Animal Kingdom, aqua, lime or indigo, Arachnids, Artistic Feminine Photography, Backyard Macro and Closeups (3 a day), Backyard Photography (NO MACROS, DOGS, CATS, INSECTS, SKYSCAPES), Beach Art, Bee & Wasp Passions, Berries, Fruits & Seeds - 3/day, Best from Around the Barnyard {2 A Day}, Birds and Creatures of Flight, Bits and Pieces , Black and White Photography, Black with a hint of colour, Bokeh, Boredom Competitions on the 24/7, Bubblers' Weekly Challenge, Bug Hunt! (with Location please), Butterflies, Skippers, Moths, & Other Winged Insects (2 a Day), Candid photographs of friends and family~~ (PLEASE ADD A DESCRIPTION OF WHO IS IN THE PICTURE), Cards: Best of Your Best, Cars, Motorbikes and Motorsports, Cats and Dogs (1 artwork per day), Cee's Fun Artsy Friends, Challenge Café, Childhood, Children-The Power of Raw Emotion , Classic Cars Worldwide, Clematis, color altering, Color Me a Rainbow (Current Color: BLACK [No FLowers]), Colour Me Vibrant Red!, COUNTRY GARDENS! Come and grow with us! *NO SINGLE FLOWER SHOTS*, Creative, Talented, and Unknown, daisy & company--->ONLY daisies & its species, Dandelions, Depth Of Field (2 images per day) - Read Group Rules Please, Digital Artists United, Dirty pretty things., Domestic Art - [2/24, NO PEOPLE, PETS, or FLOWERS. INSIDE shots only.], Drive By Shooting, Enchanting Powerful Photo Manipulation (2 per day), ErNOTica?, Even-toed Ungulates (Mammals) Artiodactyla, Everyday Life, Extreme Close-Ups, Eye Contact (Animals Only), Eye Macros, Fabulous Flowers, Falling Leaves, Family Matters, Family Unlimited, Featured Features - For Featured Art, Photography, T-Shirts, Writing, Feminine Intent (LIMIT TWO IMAGES PER DAY), First Things, Flower and Foliage DETAIL - 1 per day (24 hours), Flowers in macro (very close macro please), Flowers Only-Selective Coloring, Food for Thought, Friends of RedBubble, Full Moon, Fungilicious, Globes, Spheres and Curves - 2 per day, Glorious Lilies, Good News Group - Sharing & Caring, Gorgeous Flower Cards, Green!, Human and Nature, I Love Birds, Images & Ideas, In the Pink 50% pink, Insects, Bugs and Creepy Crawlies (2 A Day), JPG Cast-Offs, Just Kidding (goats of the world), Just Lines, Just Pure Nature., Knick Knacks, Ladybugs, Layered with Texture, Leaves , LEFT WING VALUES AND POSITIVE GLOBAL AWARENESS, Light and Reflection 1/24, Light In The Darkness, Live and Let Live, Live Music Photography - 2 per day, Live, Love, Dream: , Macro Untouched. 2 per day only (must not be photoshoped) , Macro Water Photographic Gallery, Made By Nature - {2 a day} - {Nature images only!}, Mans Best Friend's (Dogs only), Miniatures and Mammoths, Mood & Ambience - Strictly Photos, Mysteries of the Common, Nature's Wonders, New Zealand Made, Nirvana (Only 1 photographic art and 1 written work will be accepted per day ), Not What It Seems, Nuts about MUTTS *2 PHOTOS per day*, Odd One Out, Old & Rusty, Once In A Blue Moon, One Single Flower On Show.. 2 Photo's per day, Only Orchids!, Our K9 Friend 1 image a day (Dogs only), Out of the Blue (75%+ Blue), Pacific Northwest , Paws n Claws <3 per day><Domestic cats & dogs only>, PEACE, LOVE & TRANQUILITY, Peony Perfection, Personal Meaning Photography, Photography - Rule of Thirds, Photography 101, Photography Challenge Group, Photography Fun, Playful Photogenic Animals, Plight of the Bumble Bee, Point and Shooters, PostCard Style (Describe your image please) Limit 2 per day), Purple Passion Gallery. 2 per day , Rain Drops & Water Art - Fresh Water Only!, Reflections in Building Windows 2 per day, Rhododendrons, Rusty, Crusty and Falling to Bits - 2 Per 24 Hours, Safe Haven, Selective Coloring, Shapes & Patterns - Limit of 2 images per day, Shoot The Moon, Simply White Artwork Gallery - 95% White !, Sleeping Creatures , SPECTACULAR SPIRALS (3/24) , Sports Photography, Spring Blooms - 2 per day, Squirrels & Chipmunks, Statues and Such, Still Life Photography, Stillness Speaks **Max 2 uploads per day** {{No NUDES, ABSTRACT, CANDIDS or ACTION IMAGES}}, Stop and Smell the Roses, Style! Class! Elegance! Excellence!, Sunflowers, Textures Unlimited, That One Great Shot, The Addicted Photographer►2 Per Day◄, The Beauty of Nature (Nothing Man-Made), The Birds, The Compact Group *ONE* per day with *camera details please*, The Grunge Art Gallery, The Scavenger Hunt, The true beauty, THE WAIST UP - Portraiture Photography 2 per 24 hour limit, The Woman Photographer **7 Submissions a week only please**, The World Is Us, Trees - 2 images per day with trees as the focal point, Tuesday Afternoon, Tulips, Unconventional Artistry - 3 per day, Vibrant and Vivid Color, Vibrant Plants, Vineyards & Wineries, Visual Texture(no pornography,nudes or offensive works), Waterfowl, Weekly Theme Challenges, Western United States Artists and Photographers, Which Way - walkways, pathways, stairways, and roadways, Who are YOU to Judge?, Wildflowers of North America - 3/day, Your Country's Best (2 images per day), Your Living spaces. and ☮Peace☮.

Journal Entries

100th Feature!

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Very exciting day!

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Sales!!!

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Happy Dance

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