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Monarch Butterfly, front view
by Eyal Nahmias

A Monarch Butterfly, Danaus plexippus, is drinking nectat from a flower. Macro closeup. Butterfly reserve in Goleta California. —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-- / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-- 2009 BUTTERFLIES CALENDAR Consider these images as companions / / / / / Or a T-Shirt to go along with /
Arlington West 2007, Santa Barbara, California
by Eyal Nahmias

Arlington West is an ongoing display of the casualties in Iraq on East Beach in Santa Barbara, to protest against the war in Iraq, and increase the public awareness regarding the military and political fallout of staying there. Each Sunday morning thousands of crosses, as the number of the fallen, for that day, are placed in the sand and volunteers are providing the public with up to the moment information on casualties plus individual stories on the fallen. This image was taken at memorial day 2007 as a tribute and memorial and as a cry for peace… The combination of the loss and hope for peace left a profound impact on me. / Eyal Nahmias First place: Personal meaning challenge @ Photography Challenge Group Featured: Photography Challenge Group, October 2009 / Featured: Male Photography Group, September 2009 / Featured: Street Photography and Photojournalism Group, January 2009 Nikon D70
Flamingo twist
by Eyal Nahmias

Flamingo resting / sleeping at the Santa Barbara Zoo I will donate 50% of all proceeds from the sale of this image and the ones below to the American Bird Conservancy Consider these images as companions! / I will donate 50% of all proceeds from the sale of this image and the ones below to the American Bird Conservancy / Consider these images as companions! / And the T-Shirt below
Artist's Hat-An artist is working on a chalk painting at the Imadinari Street Painting Festival. Santa Barbara, California
by Eyal Nahmias

An artist is working on a chalk painting at the Santa Barbara Mission during the I Madonnari street painting Festival in Santa Barbara 2006 top ten Candids with Hats Challenge Candid Photography Group Featured: United States Group Nov. 2008 —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-- / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—--
Old Barn, Jallama, CA.
by Eyal Nahmias

A lush green meadow and an old barn near Jallama, CA. —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-- / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-- http://www.redbubble.com/products/configure/1102607
Madonna
by Eyal Nahmias

I Madonnari street chalk painting at the steps of Santa Barbara Mission , CA
Cowgirls Rule
by Barbara Sparhawk

A girl and her horse, nothing like it. The Hawks Perch
Portrait of Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 - 1986)
by Barbara Sparhawk

Portrait of Georgia O’Keeffe. Oil on Canvas / American Artist. Georgia O’Keeffe was raised in Wisconsin, educated in Chicago and Virginia, taught, painted, and lived on the east coast until her early sixties when she moved to Abiquiu, & Santa Fe, New Mexico. Close to one hundred when she died in 1986, living alone and painting in scenery that inspired her famous flowers in closeup with strong sexuality, voluptuous lilies and poppies, stark desert landscapes and animal skeletons. She worked in charcoal, water color, and finally oils, and worked large. I’m not sure her story is known well outside the states. She was photographed, courted, and married (1924) by famed 1920’s photographer Alfred Stieglitz who adored her, left his wife and family for her, and made her more famous than he was. She too, was madly in love with him. His black and white photographs of O’Keeffe filled Stieglitz’s famed “291” gallery in New York and caused a sensation with portraits focused on her beautiful bone structure and striking looks, and spectacular nudity. He took over 300 portraits of her from 1918 to 1937. Stieglitz may have been in love, but smart enough of a businessman to cause O’Keeffe’s work to skyrocket in price, averaging $100,000 a painting, monumental for a living artist and a woman in that time. What he did for her career lasted, interest waned some but revived and her work is priceless now. Every girl painter can use a Stieglitz, few get one. Stieglitz died in 1946 and she moved permanently to New Mexico three years later after cataloguing his work and papers. She was 59, began a new life in a landscape she claimed as her own. “God said I may have that mountain,” she’d written, “if I paint it enough.” So she did. / I painted this from one of Alfred Stieglitz’s famous photographs of Georgia O’Keeffe. / When you do portraits, you start to hear conversations from that time, get a sense of the thinking of the subject, smells and impressions wander through you or assault you inescapably. It’s a fascinating and somewhat dangerous occupation because when you put down the brush and turn away you wonder where the hell you’ve been and question your sanity. I’ve come to accept it as just what happens and there it is. One cannot help but see Stieglitz’s fascination with O’Keeffe’s profound physical symmetry. It bothered me. I thought it annoyed Georgia, too, that he was making more of it than in truth was there. Certainly a thoughtfully bright, introspective & solid woman. But he did not capture the O’Keeffe who stood in the desert in thunderstorms alone in the middle of the night to draw the electricity in the air into her being, which she was notorious for doing. Or the O’Keeffe who lived alone on her Ghost Ranch, and drove in her Model A Ford recklessly to plateaus and mountains of New Mexico to soak in the wilderness. DH Lawrence, Ansel Adams, the Lindberghs were visitors. / It’s not the last portrait I’ll do of her, but I wanted to see more in her than Stieglitz’s precision, no matter how beautiful that is to see. / I think he was incredibly kind and thoughtful about this woman’s life, and helped her reach a financial independence undreamt of for an artist of her time and sex. Stieglitz said of the first drawings of Georgia O’Keeffe that he saw: “Finally, a woman on paper!” He admired her, and he loved her. I can’t blame him for thinking her perfect. I’m just not so sure he saw the savage in Georgia. Other US photographers who did some earlier radical work in b/w, nature, and nudes you might want to visit: Ansel Adams. Brett, Edward, and Cole Weston. Edna St Vincent Millay wrote: “My candle burns at both ends; / It will not last the night; / But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends— / It gives a lovely light!” / Which, published in 1918 became an anthem to end constraints on overwatched Victorian girls. A wild, free life… edged with death. / The Hawks Perch
Shore Surfing, skim surfing on the shallow waves on the beach at "Avila Beach" California
by Eyal Nahmias

A surfer is gliding / skim surfing on the shallow waves on the beach at “Avila Beach” California, during sunset. Nikon D70 / 80-200 /2.8 2200 mm / 1/250 f8 / ISO 200 Featured: Minimalist Landscapes group, August 2009 —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-- / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—--
Skim Surfing
by Eyal Nahmias

A surfer is running on the beach before skim surfing. Avila beach California Top ten 7th of August – Black & White Photos challenge Featured: Unlimited Quality Group, September 2009 / Featured: Live, Love, Dream Group, September 2009 / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-- / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—--
Bacara Beach, Santa Barbara
by Eyal Nahmias

This image inspired a collaboration with / chord0 / / His poem God’s love in Nature suite this image perfectly. God’s love in Nature / When slight and silenced, / With rumors of corollas and wings, / Is love that fills everything! / Have agitated waves / And the deep vertigo / Of the abyss and the distance. / Life and Death, eternal Love / Of pain and exuberance, / Keep me chained / To the light of his Word / And that sleeps at dusk / In the footprints of the plants. Please check his writings and gallery Bacara Beach in Santa Barbara, California during magic hour at dusk. The pier in the background is the Venoco Ellwood pier and is used only by the oil company, to load and unload personnel and supplies for the oil rigs in the Channel Islands passage. / Image was taken using HDR technique. —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-- / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-- /
The Studio & Spirits Dream, First Detail
by Barbara Sparhawk

DETAIL: “The Studio & Spirits Dream” Oil on Canvas. / I spent the last decade uprooted and on the road. I landed in a barn for awhile on a millionaire’s horse ranch, eventually turning the tack room into a studio that was liveable, enabling me to move out of the ranch’s bunkhouse (12 X 12 foot room with sink) and take up barn residence. It was a wonderful place for 4 years with horse pasture – about 200 occupants – out the door. Goats, sheep, mule named Corizon and Rambo the Ram in stalls and paddock on the other side, the Santa Lucia range all misty , mooned, sunned, gusted, and Milky Wayed before me. And it was the first functional studio I’d had in years. I wrote. And I painted. / This dream, this studio I painted there, is crowded with things I loved and hadn’t seen in ages, stored on the other side of America. Over filled with people I’d loved who’d died. With animals alive and not, who still owned my heart. With a chair from my twenties that no longer existed and the dream of my own bed again where such dreams could populate my nights. The cats who survived the move from Brooklyn then to Virginia’s wilderness then across country are on my bed, and some who departed before we got there, here too. My wonderful chocolate Lab – Rodin – is on alert at the bed’s end. A woodstove I’d seen once that would restore life to this heatless barn (I eventually got a kerosene heater). Some of my many thousands of books I carry with me that prop up my life are here, and all the intimate angels swinging through the undone work, the ready easel, the heart’s workplace. The Hawks Perch
New Photograph, Watercolor Portrait of Steve McQueen
by Barbara Sparhawk

In honor of Oscars night, a favorite actor / Portrait of Steve McQueen / Water color and ink on paper / From an old photo in a local magazine. McQueen used to do a lot of racing at the nearby Laguna Seca racetrack. Someone got a shot of him just pulling off the goggles, mud and grease on his face, in his leathers, and wearing that / You Want a Piece of This? / look / he did so well and made him so interesting to watch as an actor. The Hawks Perch
My Love, My Life, My Wife
by Jim Phillips

9”x 12” watercolor on cold press watercolor paper. Meet Barbara, my best friend and life partner. She the conservative side of our partnership. She’s the money manager and the “see that it gets done” person in our household. She loves decorating, gardening, and is my personal art critic, holding nothing back. Redbubble doesn’t have to concern themselves about my placing just my best work online, she going to take care of that. So now you know, this is the driving force behind who I am.
Poppies and Blue-Eyed Grass
by Lynn Bauer

Beautiful flowers at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden – Spring 2008
Standing Wave
by David Orias

West Beach / Santa Barbara, California
Dawn Wave Breaking
by David Orias

Photographed last year during the fires of Southern California. The smokey air created unusual colors that reflected off the water. Taken from the Santa Barbara breakwater. Canon 1Ds Mark II / 600 mm focal length / 1/8 second exposure / f/16
Blue Curl
by David Orias

Wave approaching West Beach in Santa Barbara, California
Smoke Wave
by David Orias

Photographed in Santa Barbara, California during a smokey morning from a nearby wild fire which created the colors in the water. Canon 1Ds Mark II / f/16 / 1/8 second / ISO 50 / 600 mm focal length
Santa Barbara Courthouse
by Eyal Nahmias

A view of the inner corridors at the world famous Santa Barbara Courthouse. / The Santa Barbara County Courthouse is located at 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, California. Designed by William Mooser III. and completed in 1929, the Spanish Colonial Revival style building replaced the smaller Greek Revival courthouse of the same location. It is credited with the creation of the trend celebrating the Spanish architectural influences in the region. Occupying an entire city block in downtown Santa Barbara, the courthouse hosts many events, particularly at the Sunken Garden, site of the 1872 courthouse. / The courthouse is composed of four buildings, totaling 150,000 square feet (14,000 m2). The courthouse also contains a Jail Wing; however, the wing is no longer used to hold prisoners. Visitors may take elevators to reach the summit of the 85 ft (26 m) “El Mirador” clock tower. / Image is an HDR, compiled of 7 raw images / Nikon D700 / 28 mm 2.5 nikon • Top ten Hallways Challenge Mood & Ambience Group April 2009 / • Featured in the Addicted Photographer Group, March 2009 / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-- / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—--
Barbara
by Susan Kelly

Barbara is an endangered Cassowary and is reputed to be almost 50 years old, i found her strolling through the rainforest as surprised to see me as I was her.
Medusa
by MoonSpiral

9×12 pastel on Sennelier La Carte paper Barbara Glatzeder did a portrait of me last week, and when I threatened retaliation she requested I do her as Medusa. So here you go Babsi, hope it looks somewhat like you.
Antelope Canyon - Sand Fall
by Barbara Burkhardt

Feature Image – Landscape Photography Group / Feature Image – America’s National Parks & Wildlife Habitat Group ANTELOPE CANYON-LAKE POWELL NAVAJO TRIBAL PARK / “Antelope Canyon is the most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest. It is located on Navajo land near Page, Arizona.” – Wikipedia Nikon D40X / Nikkor 18-55mm lens / One of three images. When I run them together the action of the falling sand creates a virtual movie of the event. My Images Do Not Belong To The Public Domain. / All photographs in this portfolio are owned and copyright / © Barbara Burkhardt. / Any reproduction, modification, publication, transmission, transfer, or exploitation of any of the content, for personal or commercial use, whether in whole or in part, without written permission from ourselves is prohibited. All rights reserved. For license fees please contact me by email at pictureperfectaust@yahoo.com.au
e l e v e n (barbara g)
by mimi yoon

. portrait of beautiful barbara glatzeder hope you like it, barbara… ; ) . 11/100 for 1000 girls in 100 days . 11.o9.2oo9 / charcoal on newsprint / digital (minimal) / 18”x 24” (og) .