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Good Morning Maui from the slopes of Haleakala at 8000 feet Maui Hawai’i Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / My images do not belong to the public domain. Reproduction is strictly prohibited. All rights reserved A Chukar gazes over the island in the early morning light as the sun rises over the western slopes of Haleakala, Maui, Hawai’i. Elevation at this point is approximately 8000 feet above sea level. “The Chukar, Alectoris chukar is a Eurasian upland gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae of the order Galliformes, gallinaceous birds. Other common names of this bird include ‘Chukker’ (sometimes misspelled as ‘Chuker’), ‘Chukar Partridge’, ‘Red-legged Partridge’, ‘Rock Partridge’, ‘Indian Hill Partridge’, ‘Chukka’, ‘Chukkar’, ‘Chukor’, ‘Chukore’, ‘Chikone’, ‘Kabk’, ‘Kau-Kau’, and ‘Keklik’. This partridge has its native range in Asia from Pakistan, India and Afghanistan in the east to southeastern Europe in the west, and is closely related and similar to its western equivalent, the Red-legged Partridge, Alectoris rufa. It has been introduced widely, and became established in the United States, Canada, New Zealand and Hawai’i. In Great Britain, hybrids between this species and the also introduced Red-legged Partridge are common. The Chukar is a resident breeder in dry, open, and often hilly country. It nests in a scantily lined ground scrape laying 8 to 20 eggs. Chukars will take a wide variety of seeds and some insects as food; however, Drooping Brome (Cheatgrass) is this species’ strong food preference. When in captivity, they will lay 1 egg per day throughout the breeding season if the eggs are collected daily. The Chukar is a rotund 32-35 cm long bird, with a light brown back, grey breast, and buff belly. The face is white with a black gorget. It has rufous-streaked flanks and red legs. When disturbed, it prefers to run rather than fly, but if necessary it flies a short distance on rounded wings. It is very similar to Rock Partridge, Alectoris graeca, but is browner on the back and has a yellowish tinge to the foreneck. The sharply defined gorget distinguishes this species from Red-legged Partridge. The song is a noisy chuck-chuck-chukar-chukar. The Chukar is the National bird of Pakistan and the name is derived from Chakhoor in Urdu. In Indian mythology, the bird is said to be in love with the moon and to look at it constantly.” Informationa Source: BirdLife International Pihanakalani: Gathering place of high supernatural beings ~ a 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 at 10,023 feet. ~ “Haleakala National Park is an area of astounding diversity and beauty, covering over 30,000 acres of wilderness. It preserves the distinctive volcanic landscape of the summit area and protects the pristine Kipahulu Valley. Haleakala is home to many of the world’s 13 ecosystems including: alpine cinder desert, subalpine shrubland and grassland, montage bogs, dryland forest, high elevation cloudforest, low elevation rainforest and coastal. This special place resonates with magnetic energy and stories of ancient and modern Hawaiian culture and protects the bond between the land and its people. The Haleakala National Park also cares for endangered species, some of which exist nowhere else. Isolated in the mid Pacific, the Hawaiian Islands are the most remote major island group on earth. They were formed as the Pacific Plate moved across a volcanic ‘hot spot’ within the earth’s mantle. Lying 2,400 miles (3862km) from the nearest continent, they have never had connection to any other land mass. Natural crossings across this great expanse of ocean by animals and plants were extremely rare and very surprising occasions. After such accidental arrivals, and isolated from mainland populations, these pioneer organisms took strange courses of evolution and allowed a unique biota to develop. But utterly unaccustomed to mainland competition, the remote native island ecosystems are defenseless against mainland alien species and have been decimated by new grazers, predators and diseases. Haleakala National Park, and its East Maui Watershed Partner neighbors, still harbor an astonishing relic of these native island ecosystems. The major effort of Haleakala’s resource stewardship is to preserve intact this superb example of the Hawaiian Islands’ native ecosystems.” Information Source: Hawai’i National Park Service Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi / ISO 100
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Ocean of Oneness ~ Mahama Lauhala trees and Naupaka growing on the lava rocks on the beautiful coast of Ke’anae Peninsula Maui Hawai’i Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 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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The Land Where Souls Play / Pa’ia Beach Maui Hawai’i * Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009* / All Rights Reserved “An awakening to dawn mist on the water, / flowing Spirit’s streams to God’s alter, / purifying essence whistles through the trees, / images of the sacred blowing in the breeze. / Flights of fancy from birds up high, / feathers of many colours filtering through the sky, sun, moon and stars envelops Earth’s dome, / we’re all birds of a feather, finding our way home. Spectacle of mesmerizing movements flashing in the mind, / melting pots of humans, secrets hard to find, love all embracing whispers on the wind, no physical presence, ecstasy from a light dimmed. Gifts of joy enmeshed in music and dance, visualizing images filtering in a trance, warriors in a drumbeat at journeys end, back to the womb of creation enmeshed in a substance blend. Wondrous dreams in the stillness of the dark, journey on uplifting voyages in paradise park, thunder and lightening points the way, a prelude to the land where Soul’s play.” Poetry by Michael Levy Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi
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Hoo Doo at Red Rock Canyon, Utah. / Taken with a CanonPowershot SD 200. /
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There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. Makawao Union Church in evening light ~ Makawao Hawai’i Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved The church of the open mind, the warm heart, the inspiring soul, and the social vision. G. K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man 1925 “Gilbert Keith Chesterton, better known by his initials as G. K. Chesterton, was an English essayist, novelist, poet, journalist, and author of literary and social criticism. Chesterton was a somewhat contentious man, writing on many subjects about which he had strong feelings, but always with charm, wit, and generosity. In 1925 he published The Everlasting Man, which incorporated many ideas suggested in his earlier works. It reflects his own spiritual journey” / “He then asks the next logical question. Is the Church a continuation of Jesus or a breaking away from him? The first might seem hard to accept, but the second involves even greater difficulties. As a help to making the correct choice, Chesterton asks us to reflect on the analogy of a key. Its truth depends on whether it fits the lock. You won’t get very far analyzing its seemingly odd shape. What you have to do is see if it opens the door. In reflecting on the key (the creed) Chesterton uses what he calls “the witness of the heretics.” (a.k.a. dissenters) Each one tried to reshape the key. The church has constantly resisted that. As Chesterton brilliantly illustrates, only if the key retains its shape will it unlock the door. In the final chapter Chesterton gives one of the most remarkable arguments for the truth of faith: the “five deaths” of the Church. We are not the first ones to live in an age which has concluded the church was moribund, passé. But it has experienced some remarkable resurrections like a phoenix rising from its own ashes. Chesterton analyzes five times when that happened and offers his reflection on what that means for us today.”
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From my collection: / Song of a Dream ~ The Golden Threshold Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved Sunset near Goldstream / Interior Alaska North Star This is a composite of two images taken in the same location at the same time stitched one over the other so that you may better see what I see as I am standing here gazing at this sensational sunset as the swans are feeding in the peat bog nearby. “There is a quiet spirit in these woods, / That dwells where’er the gentle south-wind blows; / Where, underneath the white-thorn, in the glade, / The wild flowers bloom, or, kissing the soft air, / The leaves above their sunny palms outspread. / With what a tender and impassioned voice / It fills the nice and delicate ear of thought, / When the fast ushering star of morning comes / O’er-riding the gray hills with golden scarf; / Or when the cowled and dusky-sandaled Eve, / In mourning weeds, from out the western gate, / Departs with silent pace! That spirit moves In the green valley, where the silver brook, / From its full laver, pours the white cascade; / And, babbling low amid the tangled woods, / Slips down through moss-grown stones with endless laughter. / And frequent, on the everlasting hills, / Its feet go forth, when it doth wrap itself In all the dark embroidery of the storm, And shouts the stern, strong wind. And here, amid / The silent majesty of these deep woods, / lts presence shall uplift thy thoughts from earth, / As to the sunshine and the pure, bright air / Their tops the green trees lift. / Hence gifted bards / Have ever loved the calm and quiet shades. / For them there was an eloquent voice in all / The sylvan pomp of woods, the golden sun, / The flowers, the leaves, the river on its way, / Blue skies, and silver clouds, and gentle winds, / The swelling upland, where the sidelong sun / Aslant the wooded slope, at evening, goes, / Groves, through whose broken roof the sky looks in, / Mountain, and shattered cliff, and sunny vale, / The distant lake, fountains, and mighty trees, / In many a lazy syllable, repeating their old poetic legends to the wind. And this is the sweet spirit, that doth fill / The world; and, in these wayward days of youth, / My busy fancy oft embodies it, / As a bright image of the light and beauty / That dwell in nature; of the heavenly forms / We worship in our dreams, and the soft hues / That stain the wild bird’s wing, and flush the clouds / When the sun sets. Within her tender eye / The heaven of April, with its changing light, / And when it wears the blue of May, is hung, / And on her lip the rich, red rose. / Her hair is like the summer tresses of the trees, / When twilight makes them brown, and on her cheek / Blushes the richness of an autumn sky, / With ever-shifting beauty. Then her breath, / It is so like the gentle air of Spring, / As, front the morning’s dewy flowers, it comes / Full of their fragrance, that it is a joy / To have it round us, and her silver voice / Is the rich music of a summer bird, / Heard in the still night, with its passionate cadence.” ~ Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Buile Hill Park
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Buile Hill Park
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restructuring an old chinese building
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AS IS! A bee on a pink hibiscus with shadows from other branches.
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Traffic lights as seen from 7th St. bridge between Figueroa St. and Bixel St. lokking down on the 110 Harbor Freeway, downtown Los Angeles California, heart of L.A Financial district. Building in background is Union Bank of California at Union Bank Plaza 445 S. Figueroa St. Los Angeles, CA Nikon D90 / 18-200mm f3.5-5.6 @ 27mm / 6 sec. f10 / 100 ISO —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-- / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—--
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PLEASE HAVE A LOOK IN LARGE SIZE / I was walking through the holocaust memorial in Berlin and to my astonishment, one block of stone that makes part of the memorial, was weeping!
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An immense area full of block of concrete, 2711 stelae in memory of the massacre of 6 millions Jews. /
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Bryce Canyon National Park is located in Southern Utah of the United States. This canyon is shaped like an amphitheater and was created by erosion. The canyon’s distinctive look is due to its geological structures, called hoodoos, formed from wind, water, and ice erosion. This picture was taken May of 1994 with a Minolta Dynax-aka Maxxum-7000i film camera on 35 mm Fuji slide film and later converted into a Black and White image.
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Located in Southwestern Utah, Zion National Park is characterized by high plateaus, a maze of narrow, deep sandstone canyons and striking rock towers and mesas. It is also a showcase of geology. Geologic processes have played an important role in shaping Zion. The arid climate and sparse vegetation allow the exposure of large expanses of bare rock. This picture was taken in May of 1994 with a Minolta Dynax-aka Maxxum-7000i film camera on 35 mm Fuji slide film.
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Located in Southwestern Utah, Zion National Park is characterized by high plateaus, a maze of narrow, deep sandstone canyons and striking rock towers and mesas. It is also a showcase of geology. Geologic processes have played an important role in shaping Zion. The arid climate and sparse vegetation allow the exposure of large expanses of bare rock. This picture was taken in May of 1994 with a Minolta Dynax-aka Maxxum-7000i film camera on 35 mm Fuji slide film and later converted into a Black and White image. This is high quality scan and uploaded in resolution of 7200×4800 pixels at 300 dpi and will yield in a brilliant print up to poster size.
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Bryce Canyon National Park is located in Southern Utah of the United States. This canyon is shaped like an amphitheater and was created by erosion. The canyon’s distinctive look is due to its geological structures, called hoodoos, formed from wind, water, and ice erosion. This picture was taken in May of 1994 with a Minolta Dynax-aka Maxxum-7000i film camera on 35 mm Fuji slide film.
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Arches National Park in Southeast Utah preserves over 2,000 natural sandstone arches, like the world-famous Delicate Arch which can be seen here in a different view than usual from the Delicate Arch Viewpoint Trail. This picture was taken in May of 1994 with a Minolta Dynax-aka Maxxum-7000i film camera on 35 mm Fuji slide film.This is high quality scan and uploaded in resolution of 7200×4800 pixels at 300 dpi and will yield in a brilliant print up to poster size.
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