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Hawaiian translation: Intense affection, longing / From my collection: He pua laha ‘ole Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi He pua laha ‘ole translates to ‘rare, prized blossom’ ~ A collection of beautiful flowers, blooms and blossoms with Hawaiian titles and translations. Sunflower “The sunflower (Helianthus annuus) is an annual plant native to the Americas in the family Asteraceae, with a large flowering head (inflorescence). The stem of the flower can grow as high as 3 metres tall, with the flower head reaching up to 30 cm in diameter with the “large” seeds. The term “sunflower” is also used to refer to all plants of the genus Helianthus, many of which are perennial plants. What is usually called the flower is actually a head (formally composite flower) of numerous flowers (florets) crowded together. The outer flowers are the pubic florets and may be yellow, maroon, orange, or other colors, and are sterile. The florets inside the circular head are called disc florets. The disc florets mature into what are traditionally called “sunflower seeds”, but are actually the fruit (an achene) of the plant. The true seeds are encased in an inedible husk. The florets within this cluster are arranged spirally. Typically each floret is oriented toward the next by approximately the golden angle, producing a pattern of interconnecting spirals where the number of left spirals and the number of right spirals are successive Fibonacci numbers. Typically, there are 34 spirals in 1 direction and 55 in the other; on a very large sunflower you may see 89 in one direction and 144 in the other. Sunflowers in the bud stage exhibit heliotropism. At sunrise, the faces of most sunflowers are turned towards the east. Over the course of the day, they move to track the sun from east to west, while at night they return to an eastward orientation. This motion is performed by motor cells in the pulvinus, a flexible segment of the stem just below the bud. As the bud stage ends, the stem stiffens and the blooming stage is reached. Sunflowers in the blooming stage are not heliotropic anymore. The stem has frozen, typically in an eastward orientation. The stem and leaves lose their green color. The wild sunflower typically does not turn toward the sun; its flowering heads may face many directions when mature. However, the leaves typically exhibit some heliotropism. The sunflower is native to the Americas. Current research shows that it may have been domesticated twice, first in Mexico and later in the middle Mississippi Valley. Alternatively, it may have been introduced northward from Mexico at an early date as corn (maize) had been. The evidence thus far is that the sunflower was first domesticated in Mexico by at least 2600 BC.[1] The earliest known examples of a fully domesticated sunflower north of Mexico have been found in Tennessee and date back to around 2300 B.C. Many indigenous American peoples used the sunflower as the symbol of the sun deity, including the Aztecs and the Otomi of Mexico and the Incas in South America. Gold images of the flower, as well as seeds, were taken back to Spain early in the 16th century. To grow well, sunflowers need full sun. They grow best in fertile, moist, well-drained soil with a lot of mulch. In commercial planting, seeds are planted 45 cm (1.5’) apart and 2.5 cm (1”) deep.” Information source: Wikipedia
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View of Mauna Kahalawai, West Maui from Kula / Protea Blossoms in Evening Light / A spectacular view from Upcountry near Kula / Haleakala Maui Hawai’i Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved “O Great Spirit, whose voice I hear in the winds and whose breath gives life to all the world, hear me. I am small and weak. I need your strength and wisdom. Let me walk in beauty and let my eyes ever behold the red and purple sunset. Make my hands respect the things you have made and my ears grow sharp to hear your voice. Make me wise so that I may understand the things you have taught my people. Let me learn the lessons you have hidden in every leaf and rock. I seek strength not to be greater than my brother or sister, but to fight my greatest enemy, myself. Make me always ready to come to you with clean hands and straight eyes So when life fades as the fading sunset my spirit may come to you without shame. Great Spirit of love, come to me with the power of the North. Make me courageous when the cold winds of life fall upon me. Give me strength and endurance for everything that is harsh, everything that hurts, everything that makes me squint. Make me move through life ready to take what comes from the North. Spirit who comes out of the East, come to me with the power of the rising sun. Let there be light in my word. Let there be light on the path that I walk. Let me remember always that you give the gift of a new day. Never let me be burdened with sorrow by not starting over. Great Spirit of creation, send me the warm and soothing winds from the South. Comfort me and caress me when I am tired and cold. Enfold me as your gentle breezes enfold your leaves on the trees. And as you give to all the earth your warm, moving wind, Give to me so that I may grow close to you in warmth. Great life-giving Spirit, I face the West, the direction of the sundown. Let me remember every day that the moment will come when my sun will go down. Never let me forget that I must fade into you. Give me beautiful colour. Give me a great sky for setting, and when it is time to meet you, I come with glory. And Giver of all life, I pray to you from the earth, help me to remember as I touch the earth that I am small and need your pity. Help me to be thankful for the gift of the earth and never to walk hurtfully on the world. Bless to love what comes from mother earth and teach me how to love your gifts. Great Spirit of the heavens, lift me up to you that my heart may worship you and come to you in glory. Hold in my memory that you are my Creator, greater than I, eager for my good life. Let everything that is in the world lift my mind, and my heart, and my life to you so that we may come always to you in truth and in heart.” ~ This prayer is thought to be First Nations Tribes in origin and is sometimes attributed to the Sioux Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi
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From my collection: / Windows in the Skies / Sky Runes Alaska brilliant skies ~ Midday Sun Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi
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This shot was taken in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. October 2008 The shot was taken @ F4.5 1/250 ISO 100
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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
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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
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Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved Featured Art 03 July 2009 Colour Me a Rainbow The Vanishers ~ / “Sweetest of all childlike dreams In the simple Indian lore / Still to me the legend seems / Of the shapes who flit before. / Flitting, passing, seen and gone, / Never reached nor found at rest, / Baffling search, but beckoning on / To the Sunset of the Blest. From the clefts of mountain rocks, / Through the dark of lowland firs, / Flash the eyes and flow the locks / Of the mystic Vanishers! And the fisher in his skiff, / And the hunter on the moss, / Hear their call from cape and cliff, / See their hands the birch-leaves toss. / Wistful, longing, through the green Twilight of the clustered pines, / In their faces rarely seen / Beauty more than mortal shines. / Fringed with gold their mantles flow / On the slopes of westering knolls; In the wind they whisper low Of the Sunset Land of Souls. / Doubt who may, O friend of mine! / Thou and I have seen them too; / On before with beck and sign Still they glide, / and we pursue. / More than clouds of purple trail In the gold of setting day; / More than gleams of wing or sail Beckon from the sea-mist gray. / Glimpses of immortal youth, / Gleams and glories seen and flown, / Far-heard voices sweet with truth, Airs from viewless Eden blown; / Beauty that eludes our grasp, / Sweetness that transcends our taste, / Loving hands we may not clasp, / Shining feet that mock our haste; / Gentle eyes we closed below, / Tender voices heard once more, / Smile and call us, as they go On and onward, / still before. / Guided thus, O friend of mine Let us walk our little way, / Knowing by each beckoning sign / That we are not quite astray. / Chase we still, / with baffled feet, Smiling eye and waving hand, / Sought and seeker soon shall meet, / Lost and found, in Sunset Land” ~ Poetry by John Greenleaf Whittier Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi /
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I couldn’t help but sketch this angel. It’s now a welcome addition to my ACEO collection :P And as Always the Original is available.
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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
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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
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