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latest painting for exhibition. oil. slick!
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When my daughter came to me with our kitty sleeping / on the dust pan, I ran for the tripod! We were at another / site then, (in a contest), and I told her that if we won, / I’d give her the camera. They took longer than expected / to ship it and ended up giving us the top camera there / to make up for it. Needless to say, her camera is better / than mine now. :-/ (And I have to “get permission” to use it! Ha.)
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Amidst the green light of sunset and seaspray, they caught the scent of cherries on their tongue, scarlet gloss and juice, filled with the flavour they imagined dirty pretty words like incarnadine to taste of.
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A blue thistle.. I think it’s called sea holly. Had some fun with that : )
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Alalake’ike Channel Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi
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Original Artwork Information / Oil on Canvas / 244×122 cm / 2008 About The Artist / Lisa V Robinson is a professional UK contemporary artist, who specialises in abstract, figurative paintings that explore the physicality of paint and the possibilities of what can be achieved with space and colour. / To view more of her unique artwork please visit / her website: www.lisavrobinson.co.uk Print Example / Greeting Card /
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Nauweuwe Ka Honua / Hawaiian Translation: Now Comes the Heaven Born This is a composite of two images taken at the same location at the same time on Ho’okipa, Maui Hawai’i. Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved / My images do not belong to the public domain Featured in All That is Nature 30 December 2008 The Hula Kolani “For the purpose of this book the rating of any variety of hula must depend not so much on the grace and rhythm of its action on the stage as on the imaginative power and dignity of its poetry. Judged in this way, the kolani is one of the most interesting and important of the hulas. Its performance seems to have made no attempt at sensationalism, yet it was marked by a peculiar elegance. This must have been due in a measure to the fact that only adepts-olóhe-those of the most finished skill in the art. of hula, took part in its presentation. It was a hula of gentle, gracious action, acted and sung while the performers kept a sitting position, and was without instrumental accompaniment. The fact that this hula was among the number chosen for presentation before the king (Kamehameha III) while on a tour of Oahu in the year 1846 or 1847 is emphatic testimony as to the esteem in which it was held by the Hawaiians themselves. The mele that accompanied this hula when performed for the king’s entertainment at Waimanalo was the following: He ua la, he ua, / He ua pi’i mai; / Noe-noe halau, / Halau lea o Lono. / 5 O lono oe; / Pa-á-a na pali / I ka hana a Ikuwá- / Pohá ko-ele-ele. / A Welehu ka maláma, / 10 Noho i Makali’i; / Li’i-li’i ka hana. / Aia a e’é-u, / He eu ia no ka la hiki. / Hiki mai ka Lani, / 15 Nauweuwe ka honua, / Ka hana a ke ola’i nui: / Moe pono ole ko’u po- / Na niho ai kalakala, / Ka hana a ka Niuhi / 20 A mau i ke kai loa. / He loa o ka hiki’na. / A ua noa, a ua noa. p. 217 [Translation] Lo, the rain, the rain! / The rain is approaching; / The dance-hall is murky, / The great hall of Lono. / 5 Listen! its mountain walls / Are stunned with the clatter, / As when in October, / Heaven’s thunderbolts shatter. / Then follows Welehu, / 10 The month of the Pleiads. / Scanty the work then done, / Save as one’s driven. / Spur comes with the sun, / When day has arisen. / 15 Now comes the Heaven-born: / The whole land doth shake, / As with an earthquake; / Sleep quits then my bed: / How shall this maw be fed! / 20 Great maw of the shark— / Eyes that gleam in the dark / Of the boundless sea! / Rare the king’s visits to me. / All is free, all is free! If the author of this Hawaiian idyl sought to adapt its descriptive imagery to the features of any particular landscape, it would almost seem as if he had in view the very region in which Kauikeaouli found himself in the year 1847 as he listened to the mele of this unknown Hawaiian Theocritus. Under the spell of this poem, one is transported to the amphitheater of Mauna-wili, a valley separated from Waimanalo only by a rampart of hills. At one’s back are the abrupt walls of Konahuanni; at the right, and encroaching so as almost to shut in the front, stands the knife-edge of Olomana; to the left range the furzy hills of Ulamawao; while directly to the front, looking north, winds the green valley, whose waters, before reaching the ocean, spread out into the fish-ponds and duck swamps of Kailua. It would seem as if this must have been the very picture the idyllic poet had in mind. This smiling, yet rock-walled, amphitheater was the vast dance-hall of Lono-Halau loa o Lono (verse 4)-whose walls were deafened, stunned (pa-á-a, verse 6), by the tumult and uproar of the multitude that always followed in the wake of a king, a multitude whose night-long revels banished sleep: Moe pono ole ko’u po (verse 17). The poet seems to be thinking of this same hungry multitude in verse 18, niho ai kalakala, literally the teeth that tear the food; also when he speaks of the Niuhi (verse 19), a mythical shark, the glow of whose eyes was said to be visible for a great distance in the ocean, A mau i ke kai loa (verse 20). Ikuwá, Welehu, Makali’i (verses 7, 9, and 10). These were months in the Hawaiian year corresponding to a part of September, October and November, and a part of December. The Hawaiian year began when the Pleiades (Makali’i) rose at sunset (about November 20), and was divided into twelve lunar months of twenty-nine or thirty days each. The names of the months differed somewhat in the different parts of the group. The month Ikuwá is said to have been so named from its being the season of thunderstorms. This does not of itself settle the time of its occurrence, for the reason that in Hawaii the procession of the seasons and the phenomena of weather follow no definite order; that is, though electrical storms occur, there is no definite season of thunderstorms. Maka-li’i (verse 10) was not only the name of a month and the name applied to the Pleiades, but was also a name given the cool, the rainy, season. The name more commonly given this season was Hooilo. The Makahiki period, continuing four months, occurred at this time of the year. This was a season when the people rested from unnecessary labor and devoted themselves to festivals, games, and special religious observances. Allusion is made to this avoidance of toil in the words Li’ili’i ka hana (verse 11).” Excerpt from The Unwritten Literature of Hawai’i ~ Sacred Texts Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi
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Aerial image of the famous heart-shaped Coral Reef in the Whitsundays, Australia
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This is done based on a photograph by vishstudio. I can’t thank Andrei enough for this the use of his beautiful photo…………...
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a collage I made from my beloved mask… / Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924. MUCH madness is divinest sense / To a discerning eye; / Much sense the starkest madness. / ’T is the majority / In this, as all, prevails. 5 / Assent, and you are sane; / Demur,—you ’re straightway dangerous, / And handled with a chain.
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Reprieve from the beating sun, / if only for an afternoon.. / #3 in my “Going Home” series. / Somewhere in Indiana, USA / 4.11.09 / / The journey continues.. / / Others in this series: / Traveling Man / Crossroads / Laminated Print / / / / / / Framed Print / /
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MALDIVES – Simply Paradise Series Maldives “Colours of Paradise” was featured in the groups SEA and Colors of Water
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Ke’anae Peninsula / Maui Hawai’i Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / My images do not belong to the public domain. Reproduction is strictly prohibited. All rights reserved Beautiful Art and Greeting Cards For Sale ~ Shop securely and view my collection here “Be still, and you shall hear the distant thunder of yet a storm unknown. / Quietly watch, and you shall see the shadows fall from footprints across the sky. / And rejoice within your heart as the Gardener of the Earth, Planter of your soul returns, / for long were the days of rootless weeds starving the Life from His planted garden. And bitter was the darkness that befell the bloomless rose. Only after this earth has been bathed in its holy baptism / shall it become the glorious garden it was truly meant to be.” excerpts from The Prophet’s Candle by Daniel Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi / This is a composite of two images taken at the same coastal location on Ke’anae Peninsula at the same time stitched together with Smoky City Design – The Panorama Factory software. / Shooting Date/Time 16 April 2007 20:32:35 / Flash Off Shutter Speed 1/250 Aperture10.0 ISO 400 / Lens EF28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
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I just KNOW my cat has always wanted to do this….
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splash from drop, using reflected flash on a light blue background… Canon 50D, Canon 70-200 f/2.8L with closeup lens, tripod, flash featured in Out of the Blue / featured in Canon Vs. Nikon
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From the same shoot but different set up, lighting and background . Love them both as they are so different! Check out Gemstone Charms if you like this one! /
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Sometimes I wish I could bring paintings to life.
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~ Brush Painted and enhanced in Photoshop As a Card…
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