Draw nigh to God and He will draw nigh to thee. (James 4:8)
Rows and flows of angel hair, / And ice cream castles in the air, / And feather canyons everywhere, / I’ve looked at clouds that way. / But now they only block the Sun, / They rain and snow on everyone. / So many things I would have done, / But clouds got in my way. I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now, / From up and down, and still somehow, / It’s cloud illusions I recall, / I really don’t know clouds, at all Joni Mitchell
Early in the morning… /
Stachia and Jovan / Keiki o ka ‘Aina / Kamali’i Pa’ani ma Ho’okipa / Maui North Shore Hawai’i Copyright © Sharon Mau
Ka Huna Kai / Hawaiian Translation: The Sea Spray / A beautiful mele composed in London by Queen Lili’uokalani expressing a fond longing for Hawai’i ~ Powerful Wave Action and atmospheric Vog ~ / Ho’ikipa Beach Maui Hawai’i / As Is This photograph cannot be modified for commercial or advertising use, nor can it be copied or reproduced in any form without the photographer’s permission. I own full and exclusive copyrights on all my photographs and they are protected under International Copyright laws. My images do not belong to the public domain and may not be posted in another webpage on the internet or intranet, published in any book, magazine, newsletter or newspaper, duplicated, used in a dirivative work of art, used as illustration for musical, dramatic, and/or literary works, or used for commercial use of any kind whatsoever without my express written authorization, including but not limited to resale of my images without a license for use. © 2009 Fine Art Photography, Research and Photojournalism by Sharon Anne Mau
From my collection: / Na Ka Pueo Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi Evening light on Ho’okipa Beach, Maui Hawai’i Ima Au Ia Oe E Ke Aloha ~ I have Sought Thee, My Beloved / ~ A beautiful mele composed by Queen Lili’okalani
What is Essential From my collection: / Emerquinox ~ Spirit of Alaska ~ Alaska North Star Winter Scenics Emerquinox is a word I coined when I combined the words Emerge and Equinox. Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; / it is only with the heart that one can see rightly. / What is essential is invisible to the eye.” ~ Antoine de Saint – Exupery Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi
english sunrise in yorkshire small town early in a morning / nikon D60
English sunrise in yorkshire small town / Nikon D60 / 55mm
English sunrise in yorkshire small town
Rocky steep high cliffs at sea or ocean, + Orton Effect / England
THIRD PLACE in the challenge Sunset Extraveganza This shot I did 2 years ago, while being at work, so I grabed company camera “canon” and did a shot. While I was looking for camera the light in the sky start fading. Just imaging that the light actually was lighting up the whole sky and people where scrieaming: “Fire, fire”. Actually I did screamed fisrt. / North Yorkshire, Scarborough, England / /
Jacob and Sharon Mau Fine Art Photography by my identical twin sister using my camera ~ Karon Melillo d’Vega / 06 May 2009 Haleakala Skyline Trail / Elevation over 9000 feet above sea level. / The Pacific Ocean is far far down below. / South face of the Haleakala Volcano / Kula Forest Reserve / Mamane Trailhead / Haleakala Ridge Trail Junction / Maui Hawai’i Pihanakalani: Gathering place of high supernatural beings ~ place where heaven meets the earth ~ Haleakala is a shield volcano. Built up from the ocean floor by countless eruptions, it was once a mountain that rose several thousand feet higher than today. Haleakala Crater is a large erosional valley at the summit of Haleakala volcano, East Maui. It formed after the rimrock lava flows were erupted around the top of the volcano about 145,000 years ago, give or take about 10,000 years. Haleakala dominates the east side of the Valley Isle and is sacred to the Hawaiian people. The mountain’s face is a mighty wall looming over the valley. Haleakala’s width spans 20 miles, ocean-to-ocean, splitting Maui in two. The constant northwestward movement of the Pacific Plate over a local volcanic “hot spot,” or plume, has produced a series of islands, one after another in assembly line fashion. The result is a chain of volcanic islands stretching from the island of Hawai’i along a southeast – northwest line for 2,500 miles (4,050 kilometers) toward Japan. Maui, one of the younger islands in this chain, began as two separate volcanoes on the ocean floor; time and again, eon after eon, they erupted, and thin new sheets of lava spread upon the old, building and building, until the volcano heads emerge from the sea. Lava, wind-blown ash, and alluvium eventually joined the two by an isthmus or valley, forming Maui, “The Valley Isle.” Finally, Haleakala, the larger eastern volcano, reached its greatest height. Several hundred years have passed since the last volcanic activity occurred within the crater. This stillness on Maui is attributed by modern geology to the constant northwestward movement of the Pacific Plate. As the oldest islands on the northwest end of the chain have moved farther away from the plume-source of new lava, they have ceased to grow. Habitats in the Park vary from sea level to 10,023 feet: low elevation rainforest, high elevation coldforest, dryland forest, montage bogs, subalpine grassland, subalpine shrubland, alpine cinder desert… When you drive from sea level to 10,023 feet, you drive through as many different life zones as you would if you drove north from central Mexico to Alaska! The exact timing of crater formation probably never will be determined, because the crater likely grew in stages. To recognize that such a short duration, only 30,000 years, is sufficient for extensive erosion is an exciting discovery in our understanding of Hawaiian geology. Large landslides are probably the key to understanding rapid rates of erosion, because they redistribute large amounts of rock quickly. Erosion is an ongoing process, but its rate varies greatly across thousands of years. Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi
As we drove down from the summit of Haleakala on Skyline Drive, here we are entering the dense clouds and fog belt of the Kula Forest Reserve at 6200 feet elevation. This recreation area is 6,200 feet above sea level in the Kula Forest Reserve. Polipoli Springs is an upcountry park with towering trees and stunning views of the Maui lowlands and the neighboring islands of Lana’i and Kaho’olawe. Polipoli Springs is most notable for its mature forest of beautiful Redwood trees and other exotic indigenous Hawaiian trees such as Plum, Cypress, Sugi, towering Eucalyptus, O’hia and Ash. Extensive trail systems transverse the reserve. Thousands of feet above sea level, there are no mosquitoes in the area, but the temperatures can get quite cold. Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi
The edge of the woods is always a magical place.
A Spring afternoon looking across a field
This beautiful calendar is reduced in price offered to you with a midyear discount. / The 2010 Calendar has been automatically updated on RedBubble. 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 No portion of this site or my photography may be reproduced by printing, photocopying or any other means of mechanical or electronic reproduction without my express written permission. For reproduction permission and inquiries on licensing for use and/or publishing of my images, please contact me directly. Mahalo! Tropical Flowers of Hawai’i / Series One Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi
It is a beautiful golden sunset over a peatbog in a Boreal forest near Goldstream Alaska. / . / This is from my collection: / The Golden Threshold / Calendar coming soon….. Sunsets and scenics of Interior Alaska ~ Trumpeter Swans/Tundra Swans ~ Pond and Lake Reflections ~ Boreal and Permafrost Forests~ Poetry and Quotes Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved This image was dedicated to my beloved identical twin sister Karon ( stzar ) 11 September 2007 “What is Love ~ Love is the scent with the lotus born. It is the silent choirs of petals Singing the winter’s harmony of uniform beauty. Love is the song of the soul, singing to God. It is the balanced rhythmic dance of planets - sun and moon lit In the sky hall festooned with fleecy clouds Around the sovereign Silent Will. It is the thirst of the rose to drink the sunrays And blush red with life. ‘Tis the promptings of the mother earth To feed her milk to the tender, thirsty roots, And to nurse all life. It is the urge of the sun To keep all things alive. Love is the unseen craving of the Mother Divine That took the protecting father’form, And that feeds helpless mouths With milk of mother’s tenderness. It is the babies sweetness, Coaxing the rain of parental sympathy To shower upon them. It is the lover’s unenslaved surrender to the beloved To serve and solace. It is the elixir of friendship, Reviving broken and bruised souls. It is the martyr’s zeal to shed his blood For the well-beloved fatherland. It is the ineffable, silent call of the heart to another / heart. It is the God-drunk poet’s heartaches For every creature’s groans. Love is to enjoy the family rose of petal-beings, And thence to move to spacious fields - Passing by portals of social, national, international / sympathy, On to the limitless Cosmic Home To gaze with looks of wonderment, And to serve all that lives, still or moving. This is to know what love is. He knows who lives it. Love is evolution’s ameliorative call To the far-strayed sons To return to Perfection’s home. It is the call of the beauty – robed ones To worship the great Beauty. It is the call of God Through silent intelligences And starburst of feelings. Love is the Heaven Toward which the flowers, rivers, nations, atoms, / creatures’ you and I Are rushing by the straight path of action right, Or winding laboriously on error’s path, All to reach haven there at last.” ~ From: Songs of the Soul by Paramahansa Yogananda Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi / Shooting Date/Time 10 September 2007 19:56:43 / Tv Shutter Speed 1/500 Aperture Value 20.0 / Evaluative Metering ISO 200 / Lens EF28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
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