Paradise tropical
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Meditation
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Acrylic, muslin & mixed media / Painted by Ciska 04/2008 These beautiful flowers are also known as Bird of Paradise ORIGINALFOR SALE / Ciska’s Original Works also available at Top Frames Castletown Shopping Centre Townsville Queensland
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Maui Hawai’i
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Aloha Kakou ~ Sprecklesville Beach Maui Hawai’i Fine Art Photography by Sharon Anne Mau As Is with no post processing 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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Plumeria Digital Art from my collection: / Negative Influence This is a photograph of Plumeria in brilliant midday sun shot in Wailuku on Maui and converted to a negative with a coloured foil effect. 2009 Fine Art Photography by Sharon Anne Mau “Reason informed by emotion. . . expressed in beauty. . .elevated by earnestness. . .lightened by humour. . .that is the ideal that should guide all artists.” Charles Rennie Mackintosh
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Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi
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Red volcanic sand of Koki Beach and Ka’uiki Hill, Hana Maui Hawai’i. One of my favourite beaches on Maui in Hana near Hamoa on the east shore. / © 2008 Sharon Anne Mau “Some historians claim that sometime around the fourth or fifth century A.D., the first planned migrations came from the Marquesas, in extreme eastern Polynesia. For five centuries the Marquesans settled and lived peacefully on the new land – Hawai’i. “Walk and touch peace every moment. / Walk and touch happiness every moment. / Each step brings a fresh breeze. / Each step makes a flower bloom. / Kiss the Earth with your feet. / Bring the Earth your love and happiness. / The Earth will be safe when we feel safe in ourselves.” by Thich Nhat Hanh
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Tropical Hibiscus / Makawao / Maui Hawai’i © 2009 Sharon Mau ‘Aloalo Ala ula / Hawaiian translation: Hibiscus ~ Flaming road or Glow of Sunrise or Sunset Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi /
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Oyster Bay, LI – Planting Fields Arboretum
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© 2009 Sharon Anne Mau Near Ke’anae and the beautiful Ko’olau Forest Reserve. The botanical Garden of Eden also offers a wonderful overview of the beautiful Puohokamoa Valley. Just past the 10 Mile Marker on the road to Hana is the beautiful botanical Garden of Eden. Located between Kailua and Ke’anae, the beautiful garden has 26 acres of wonderfully maintained nature trails and botanical labeling. Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi 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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Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved Kanaha / E Ho’omaika’i ke akua ‘ia Maui / Hawaiian Translation: God Bless Maui Near Baby Beach on a bright and shiny day with a lovely view of ‘Iao Valley, Mauna Kahalawai, West Maui. 18 December 2008 / Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi
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From my collection: / _Wave Pirates ~ Surfing Ho’okipa Maui Hawai’i Straight from the camera with no post processing / Canon OES Digital Rebel XTi 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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Sacred Ground / On the beautiful and remote Hāna coast, along the far eastern shores of the Hawaiian island of Maui is one of the largest, untamed native Mahama Lauhala (Pandanus) forests on the islands. This is the pa’ala, the shoreline, called Honomaele. This is a deeply sacred and very beautiful place. Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi “Another world is possible. / We may dream it in, with our eyes open to this Beauty, / to all that Earth gives each of us, each day / those miracles of dark and light ~ / rainlight, dawn, sun moon snow, stormgrey, and the wide fields of night always somewhere opening their flower-stars ~ this, this! Another world is possible. / With river and bird / sweet and free without fear, / without minds blind to harmony, / to how we can hold. / We have been too long spoiled greedy children of Earth, / life of rocks and creatures slipping out of our careless hands. We must stand now and learn to love as a Mother loves her child, / each cell of her, each grain of her, each precious heartbeat of her that is ourselves, our path and our journey / into our dream of future, / where another world is possible / cradling this one in its arms.” ~ © Rose Flint 2005
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“Live ye slow, live ye easy… So sayeth the sky, So echo the trees So too echoes the wind.” ~ from Hiro Nagata’s “Brevity and Riches of Life” From my collection: / Whispers of the Enchanted Forests “Lilinoe ~ a cool caressing mist, at times opaque and others rainbow-hued. Hu’ihu’i, frosty icicles exuding the spectrum of colour from leaves of red and green. Ka wailele ~ the trickle and rush of a stream cascading over waterfalls” ~ Eric Andersen Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi / My images do not belong to the public domain.
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This land is born of fire and ocean and wind / In my mind is the fire of knowledge / In my blood run the currents of the ocean / In the wind do I hear the song of my spirit. / _excerpt from A Book of daily sayings, born of and inspired by Hawai’i A Kanaka Maoli ~ Book of Days by Debra F. Sanders Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved / Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi / Shooting Date/Time 19 ‘Apelila 2009 16:24:52 / Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/2000 / Av( Aperture Value ) 11.0 / Exposure Compensation -1/3 / Lens EF28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
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Pa’ako Beach Maui Hawai’i / Shooting Date 09 May 2009 Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi
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Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi / 21 May 2009 This is to you, / heart of love’s soaring flight, / sky-colour of essence unfolding… Moments like these are timeless blessings of a silent union, / a union whose song is heard throughout the universe. / Oh Beloved! Dissolve any tendency to see another. / Only One in all this feeling and seeing, / hearing, breathing and being. / It is more precious than / any of us know, / this living / we have. I am / open / to be the love, / beauty and radiance / I have searched for in countless / eyes, sunsets, worlds. No sooner had I / given up, surrendered being here, than I heard / that song of Home resound through me, and your face / became the brightest light in the night sky. / This is just how it is. / Once unreachable peaks – now valleys, where we meet / the ones we already love. © 1997 poetry by Matisha ~ From The Beloved’s Gaze
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The ancestors of the beautiful Protea dates back to approximately 100 million years ago, and they are considered among the oldest families of plants on earth. Carl Linnaeus, the father of modern botany and plant taxonomy named this flower in 1735, after the Greek God, Proteus. In Greek mythology, Proteus had the ability to change shape and form at his will; hence the name given to these flowers with their diverse array of colours, shapes, textures and sizes. The average size of the flowering blossom is 6-8 inches, although I have seen some fully opened which are almost 12 inches. They are large and sensationally beautiful. © 2009 Fine Art Photography by Sharon Mau / Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi / Shooting Date/Time 27 May 2008 17:51:37 / Tv 1/250 Av 4.5 Exposure Compensation -2/3 / ISO 200 Lens EF28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM / Focal Length 56.0 mm Protea cynaroides / Common Name: King Sugar Bush “The King Protea was originally from the Cape Town area of South Africa. It is actually the national flower of South Africa. Today King Proteas may be found all over the world where the atmosphere is dry and the soil has good drainage. They thrive upcountry in cooler temperatures on the western slopes of Haleakala here on Maui. The flower of the King Protea may be as large as 12 inches across. On the outside it has many stiff, pointed, narrow bracts, or petals, that give it the appearance of a cup. The bottom half of the petals starts out cream coloured or yellow, which transforms into bright pink or velvet red on the top half. Inside the cup is a mass of white stamen about 1-2 inches long which all curve towards the centre. The leaves look like flat spoons, or paddles, which grow alternately along the several stems of the plant. They are thick and stiff and round in appearance. Their petioles (leaf stems) are quite long, about 1-2 inches. Protea take moisture in through its leaves. The lovely Protea are valued for their decorative qualities. They dry very well and are commonly used as focal pieces in flower arrangements. It is said that Protea leaves are also used to make tea. Proteas live in a fragile environment. Of the 370 protea species, about 120 of them are listed as endangered. There are very few wild proteas anymore, most of them are now cultivated in greenhouses or nurseries.” Text by by Ben S. 2000
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Here Jacob is having a conversation with a beautiful mare as we are shopping for fresh Kula strawberries. / Upcountry Maui Hawai’i Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved
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Here on a rural road on the southern slopes of Haleakala at an elevation of about 4000 feet above sea level if you look ahead through the trees the island of Kanaloa, (Kaho’olawe Island) and the Pacific Ocean are barely visible through the foliage. I find the optical illusion fascinating when we are at certain levels on the mountain how the ocean appears to be above us on the horizon. I love the older plantation style cottages. This lovely home belongs to a member of our Ohana. Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi / Shooting Date 18 June 2009
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Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, established 1862, is located on the remote east coast of Maui about 20 miles south of Hana on Highway 31. Here I am facing Haleakala near the Kaupo Gap and the Pacific Ocean is about 1/2 mile directly behind me. / St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, established 1862, is located on the remote east coast of Maui about 20 miles south of Hana on Highway 31. My husband attended this church small kid time, when he was a young boy with his Grandparents. Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi / Shooting Date/Time 15 September 2008 14:18:01 / Shutter Speed 1/160 Aperture 8.0 ISO 100 / Lens EF28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
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I created a video today with some of my favourite photographs. It includes a beautiful mele by Keali’i Reichel. / You may view it if you like on my YouTube site / Ourjrny YouTube E Ala ‘E Please let me know what you think of it. Self Portrait / Here I am on the western slopes of Ulupalakua / Maui Hawai’i / The elevation here is, I’m guessing, about 4000 feet above sea level. That reflection of light below is sunlight reflecting off the ocean. That is Wailea, Kihei and Ma’alaea Bay down below on the coast. My dearest friend Suzane and I parked her car about 2 miles away near Keokea and walked up along a narrow gravel and cinder road to the meadow at this point where we watched the sunset together on a beautiful peaceful evening as the rains and mists drifted across the valley below. I set up my camera on the tripod and after adjusting the settings for low light, walked over and rested on my knees in the tall damp grasses. The only sound I heard was the soft breeze in my hair. I do hope you enjoy this. / 03 June 2009 Aloha kakou, this is dedicated for my beloved children Cherilyn, Ashlee and David “Since the birth of time’s beginning, have you sought the reason of your existence in this world. And I would say unto you, that out of your deepest longing were you brought forth as the dewdrops upon the dawn. It was but yesterday that you were an echo within your Father’s ear, a twinkling smile within your Mother’s eye. And it was you that they heard calling upon the tender breath of Love’s holy thought; Yearning to come through the misty veil of Eternity with the voice of God upon your newborn lips.” ~ Echoes of the Soul by ‘Daniel’ I love you my darling children! Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi
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Bird of Paradise / Strelitzea regubae / Enchanting Gardens of Kula / Maui Hawai’i The Bird of Paradise thrives here in the Hawaiian Islands and has been introduced. It is a native of South Africa. Bird of Paradise (Stelitzia reginae), also known as Crane flowers, is one of the most beautiful of all exotic flowers. This native of South Africa derives its name from the unusual flowers, which resemble brightly coloured birds in flight. The leaves of a bird of paradise plant are bluish-green with a red midrib. This thick, evergreen foliage resembles small banana leaves, attached to a long stalk. In contrast to the banana, however, bird of paradise plants are trunkless. Emerging from the green and pink boat-shaped bracts in spring is the long-stemmed bird of paradise flower. The bird of paradise flower has petals of brilliant orange set off by its intense blue arrow-shaped tongue. The blooming will continue in a succession over some time. Here on Maui they bloom virtually year round. The Bird of Paradise is a beautiful plant as its height usually reaches anywhere from 4- to 5-feet tall with a 2- or 3-foot spread. The flowers unfold from a specialized leaf like structure which grows horizontally like a beak and contains pollen. The petals fold back and stick upward like the crown feathers on a birds head. The Bird of Paradise Plant grows best in damp, fertile soil with full to partial sun. Bird of Paradise are ornamental plants of the family Strelitziaceae. There are five species of the genus Strelitzia, all native to southern Africa. They grow from rhizomes (underground stems) to a height of 1 to 1.5 metres (about 3 to 5 feet) and have stiff, erect, leathery, concave, and oblong leaves. The leaves are bluish green and may have a red midrib. 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 Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi / Shooting Date/Time 21 July 2009 13:29:21 / Tv 1/160 / Av 8.0 / Evaluative Metering / ISO 100 / Lens EF28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
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