Forester north
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A foggy morning ,up in the mountain .I love weathercock. I realy don’t know in wich group that pic belongs ,if somebody has an idea please ,tell me.
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Unfortunately this is one of the areas that was affected by “Black Saturday”, I am so hoping that this little pocket of Myrlte beech forest wasnt touched by the fires. There were fires in the Blue Range, Marysville National park. The Myrtle beech trees have been around since the Jurassic period. I stood in the river with my jeans rolled up to my knees, the water had slowed nearly to a stillness as it gathered around the rocks in the water that were covered with moss, as I hit the timer button on my camera in that 10 seconds I had time to reflect on the raw beauty of this ancient forest. The forest that stood before me was thousands of years old. It was summer out beyond these beautiful old trees it was a stinking hot day, the flies stuck to my body, I found relief in the river and under the ancient old tree. Under the ancient trees it was freezing, for some strange reason it was like the middle of winter under the trees and my feet and legs were numb from the icy water that I stood in. This artwork has been featured in Yarra Valley and ranges Group and also in Crossing Streams Group. Featured in the group “Stream Crossings” Featured in the group “Yarra Valley and ranges “feelitcomp” Stillness speaks 1 Mat print sold of this artwork so far. 3 Cards sold of this artwork so far. Any sales from this artwork will be going to the Phoenix Appeal for the “Black Saturday Fires”.
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From my collection: / Alaska North Star ~ Arctic Fantasy 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 “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. / It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. / We ask ourselves who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? / You are a child of God. / Your playing small does not serve the world. / There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. / We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. / It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. / And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. / As we are liberated from our own fear, / our presence automatically liberates others.” by Marrianne Williamson ~ excerpts from Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles. I use only my own images to create composites, matrix panoramic images and digital art, therefore I own full copyrights on all my work. This is one of my favourites. It is a composite of three of my images, one of the Chena Slough near North Pole Alaska and two of Interior Alaska brilliant skies Featured in Mountains and Light 29 December 2008 Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi / Currently with 4405 Views Mahalo :) Świetna melodia Currently with 4442 Views ~ Mahalo :)))
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A beautiful female Grey Wolf calls to the pack before a golden full Moon. An original poem by Skye Ryan-Evans features: “CELESTIAL WOLF” He walks the way of the stars / and haloed Moon, / And stalks the forested places / between Hills and Plain ~ He understands / the soulful song of the Wind; / And I long to save the Wilderness / in His name ~ Skye Ryan-Evans © 25% of all proceeds benefit the great folks and wolves at Northern Lights Wildlife Wolf Centre in Golden, B.C., Canada. Thanks for helping them!
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He doesn’t look so clear here but we found this little guy on a rain forest walk in the Misty Mountains National Park near Innisfail in far north Queensland.
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Kootenay River, (National Park) B. C., Canada.
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Seven Bridges Natural Area – Kalkaska County, Michigan
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Slick Rock Falls in Pisgah National Forest, North Carolina, is always beautiful, but on this day it became something magical.
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Slick Rock Falls in Pisgah National Forest, North Carolina. This photo was taken by Homer as he stood perched on slippery rocks next to the waterfall! Featured in the Contrasting Perceptions Group – May 17, 2009!
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Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved Featured in Mountains and Mountain Light group 08 January 2009 / / Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi / 19 August 2007 22:06:27 / Tv 1/60 Av 5.6 ISO 400 The wild beauty and brilliant skies of Interior Alaska “Can you hear the gentle rippling of the shallows? / You can see by the convergence of diminutive waves and crests? This is the where the current reflects off objects in the stream, and creates the dance of light and sound. / And there, / just below the surface, / a fallen leaf waits patiently, / taking a little respite from its journey down stream. Soon enough, the water will shift again, and an upward current will likely bring it back to the surface. / Soon enough – but until then – it is art. / We call it art, / nay, / together, / we make it art. / But of course, first we must notice … “The moment one gives close attention to any thing, / even a blade of grass / it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.”—Henry Miller And what of it? / Well, listen closely. / Can you hear the notes … / the melody? / I can. / So soothing, / so moving. / As you lean back and soak up the afternoon sun, / smell the pine bows, / feel the damp soil with your hands, and smile. / Something connects. / Nothing else to do. / Nowhere else to be. / This is where you belong, right here, right now. / What of it, indeed … It’s waiting for you, / just below the surface of our work-a-day world. / There, / just below the surface, / where you are protected from the current that is trying to sweep you along, / to jostle for your attention, / to whisk your day away, / in the never ending lists, and the stuff that must be done. Listen again, more closely. / Isn’t that your song? / Don’t you recognize it? / It is in us all, somewhere deep within … / “To live content with small means; / to seek elegance rather than luxury, / and refinement rather than fashion; / to be worthy, not respectable, / and wealthy, not, rich; / to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, / with open heart; / to study hard; / to think quietly, / act frankly, / talk gently, / await occasions, / hurry never; / in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common ~ This is my symphony.” ~ by William Henry Channing
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This dreamy glade in Pisgah National Forest, Western North Carolina, gave me the feeling of being in two worlds at once – the “normal” world we live in and also a world filled with faeries, gnomes and is that a troll hiding in the forest?? I added the Orton effect with PhotoShop to give it an even more dream-like quality and enhanced the colors. This was taken in the early morning hours just after the sun rose. Featured in the Your Magic Place Group – 2009! Featured in The Woman Photographer – June, 2009! Featured in All Countries~Wetlands, Ponds, Lakes and Rivers, June 26, 2009! Featured in DIMENSIONS – September 27, 2009! Featured in SEASONAL SCAPES – October 18, 2009! Featured in the Southern United States Artists Group – November 10, 2009! Featured in HUSBANDS AND WIVES – November 13, 2009!
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A groomed walking trail in the woods at Oka Park, during the winter, and an beach/park access road in the summer, Quebec CANADA. There was not a soul in sight today when we walked there. The silence was incredible, all we could hear was the crunch of the snow beneath our feet, the occasional rustle of our winter coats as we moved our arms, and our breath as we inhaled and exhaled. The trees shielded us from the wind. It was a very peaceful experience. At the very end of this path is the beach, now of course completely hidden by a layer of snow, but an inviting open space when we arrived, and we happily made our way to the lodge for a fireside sip of hot chocolate. / Taken mid-afternoon on December 31st/08, New Year’s Eve. Nikon D40, 18-55mm Nikkor lens
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Jacob Fork River runs through South Mountain State Park in North Carolina. It is a popular park for outdoor enthusiasts including trout fishermen, hikers, birdwatchers, horse riders, and photographers. Nikon D50 DP filter
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Nikon D40, 18-55mm Nikkor lens Thankfully we had dressed warm enough for a short excursion, even though we were headed for the theatre later in the day, but I forgot and put on an old pair of leather gloves that are really not winter appropriate. At one point, my fingers were freezing, mainly due to my taking my hands out of the gloves in order to work the camera, and Wanda, my friend, made me swap with her so that I could wear her warm woolen mittens in between shots. / Friendship is sharing mittens, that’s for sure! / The beauty of this walk left a big impression on me. We barely covered any distance because of the cold and our husbands waiting back at her home, but she wanted me to see what a wonderful area was here in her neighborhood for exploring, and we vowed to come back, dressed appropriately and armed with snowshoes to make the passage easier. Taken Friday January 2nd 2009 in St-Lazare, Quebec CANADA. Featured in the Snow Glorious Snow group February 2009 / Featured in the ImageWriting group January 2009
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When Annie and I visited a place in Pisgah Forest, NC called Sycamore Flats during the week of January 11, 2009, we found so many wonderful sights to photograph. Here’s just one of a lonely, fallen leaf on the frozen water. Taken with a Panasonic Lumix digital camera. Featured in DIMENSIONS – May 19, 2009! Featured in THE COMPACT GROUP – October 16, 2009!
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On January 17, 2009, after very cold temps the night before, I joined the many photographers huddle together taking pictures of Looking Glass Falls in Pisgah Forest, North Carolina. I’ve never seen these falls so icy!! To make the picture more dramatic, I layered another close-up image of ice and blended onto the rock face using PhotoShop. ICE WORLD WAS FEATURED IN THE WATERFALL PHOTOGRAPHY, SEASONAL SCAPES AND ALL OF NORTH CAROLINA GROUPS IN FEBRUARY, 2009!!! THANK YOU MODERATORS AND FRIENDS!!!
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From my collection: / Emerquinox / Spirit of Alaska ~ Alaska North Star Winter Scenics Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved Emerquinox is a word I coined when I combined the words Emerge and Equinox The Great White North I took this photo in deep winter 20 January 2008 midway between Fairbanks and North Pole Alaska. In summer this area is a peat bog. It is actually quite deep as in late Autumn I have watched a cow Moose submerge herself and swim in the pond at sunset. Near the Chena River, in winter it is used as a ‘highway’ for mushers and their dogsleds and also for snowmachines. I removed the natural blue hue with a white balance adjustment. Then I desaturated selective colours pulling down the yellow, magenta, and green. With a slight adjustment on contrast, I then used the lasso tool and selected only the sky to remove the digital noise as I had my ISO setting too high at 400 and, along with the cold, this created too much noise with the original photograph. The temperature on this day had actually warmed to about 10F. Within a week it plunged again to appx minus -47F. Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi / Shooting Date/Time 20 January 2008 16:41:50 / Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/125 / Av( Aperture Value ) 5.6 “Permafrost, perennially frozen ground that maintains a temperature at or below the freezing point for at least two years. Vast tracts of permafrost lie across Alaska, Canada, northern Europe and Asia, and Antarctica. About 80 percent of Alaska’s land area contains permafrost. In the Interior region, vegetation must adapt itself to short, warm summers and long, cold winters. Trees grow slowly, and their root systems must be shallow because they cannot penetrate the permafrost. In Alaska, permafrost occurs as a continuous sheet north of the Brooks Range, extending from a few inches below the surface down to as deep as 1,000 feet. As one goes south, however, it gets progressively thinner, the melted layer on top gets thicker, and holes or gaps begin to appear in it. Permafrost may extend to depths of more than 500 m (1,600 ft). Clues to the age of the permafrost of the Northern Hemisphere lie in the numerous discoveries of mammoth remains embedded in frozen ground. Mammoths became extinct about 10,000 to 15,000 years ago, coincident with the end of the most recent ice age. Some scientists, however, think that much of today’s permafrost may have formed as long as 120,000 years ago.” Source: Wikipedia “As with all great journeys, the vision is the beginning / Dreams of all the possibilities, / of the many paths widening to the future / Of all the great and extraordinary things our mind can imagine / The persistence of our own opportunistic souls reaching for what is yet unabridged / An unconscious decision to struggle forward yet again / And without even knowing of our focus / We start forward / All of our past, our teachings, our experience are brought into play / The trials of our past giving us the tools that we need to find our way / Our way to fulfilling this newest quest for our dream / No obstacle too great, / no argument rebuff / The journey begun, we will not allow defeat / We can only see the unfolding, as it will be / And as always, / the goal is reached / And there, / sated in the peace of our newly added thread in the web of our life / We rest / And the vision comes again” / ~ by Steve ‘Easy’ Whitacre 2005
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Mountain bog on the Blue RIdge Parkway near Linville, North Carolina. This photo was taken late in the afternoon. When I started photographing it was very dark and foggy. It began raining and the camera got wet. I was getting ready to drive away but then the fog began to lift and the sun almost came out. I hopped out of the car and took a few more pictures. About 10 minutes later the dark skies, fog, and rain reappeared. Nikon D50 / The photo shown below, “A Hint of Red” was taken of the same bog but in early Fall. / / !
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This is the entrance to a hiking path in Pisgah National Forst, North Carolina taken on a foggy morning in March, 2009. The beautiful trees seem to be guarding the way – who knows what we’ll see! The only change I made to the original photo was the Orton effect with PhotoShop.
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Sat by a mountain lake today, eating smoked salmon, drinking a small glass of wine and enjoying watching my dogs play in the cool mountain water. Big cities and civilization?- you can keep them.
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A developing Sun Dog over a Permafrost Forest on Bias Drive near Fairbanks Alaska / Alaska North Star Midday Sun Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved Featured Art 19 June 2009 DSLR Users Only “What happens when your soul / Begins to awaken / Your eyes / And your heart / And the cells of your body / To the great Journey of Love? First there is wonderful laughter / And probably precious tears / And a hundred sweet promises / And those heroic vows No one can ever keep. But still God is delighted and amused You once tried to be a saint. / What happens when your soul / Begins to awake in this world / To our deep need to love And serve the Friend? / O the Beloved Will send you One of His wonderful, wild companions …. Like Hafiz”. Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi / Shooting Date/Time 01 August 2007 19:55:44 / F stop: F/16.0 Exposure: 1/640 sec. Focal length: 28.0 mm / Metering mode: pattern (5) / Dimensions: 2400×1600 / Shutter speed (Tv): 9.3 1/640
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The Sound of the Sun / Embrace of the Everlasting “It makes one all right, / though you hadn’t thought of it, / A sound like the sound of the sky on fire, / like Armageddon, / Whistling and crackling, the explosions of sunlight booming / As the huge mass of gas rages into the emptiness around it. It isn’t a sound you are often aware of, / though the light speeds / To us in seconds, / each dawn leaping easily across a chasm / Of space that swallows the sound of that sphere, / but If you listen closely some morning, when the sun swells Over the horizon and the world is stil / and still asleep, / You might hear it, / a faint noise so far inside your mind / That it must come from somewhere, / from light rushing to darkness, / Energy burning towards entropy, / towards a peaceful solution, / Burning brilliantly, spontaneously, in the middle of nowhere, And you, too, must make a sound that is somewhat like it, Though that, of course, you have no way of hearing at all.” ~ The Sound of the Sun by George Bradley Sun Pillar / Sunset near Chena River Lakes Recreational Park / Wilderness of North Pole Alaska / From my collection: / Emerquinox Spirit of Alaska / Emerquinox is a word I coined when I combined the words Emerge and Equinox. Alaska North Star Winter Scenics Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / My images do not belong to the public domain. Reproduction is strictly prohibited. All rights reserved Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi / Shooting Date/Time 12 January 2008 15:37:59 / Tv Shutter Speed 1/4000 Av Aperture Value 5.6 ISO 1600 / Lens EF28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
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An Alaska Winter Sunset over Fairbanks North Star Borough From my collection: / Emerquinox Spirit of Alaska / Emerquinox is a word I coined when I combined the words Emerge and Equinox. Alaska North Star Winter Scenics Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / My images do not belong to the public domain. Reproduction is strictly prohibited. All rights reserved Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi / Shooting Date/Time 13 January 2008 16:03:36 / Tv Shutter Speed 1/1600 Av Aperture Value 5.0 ISO 1600 / Lens EF28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
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Clouds and Sky reflected in the pristine waters of Chena River Lakes. Reflections of Beauty / Chena River Lakes / Tanana River Valley / North Pole Alaska Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi / Shooting Date 10 August 2007
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