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From my collection: / Alaska North Star ~ Arctic Fantasy Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved “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
The luxurious black sand beach of Hamoa / Hana Maui Hawai’i Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved
Oil on canvas, 18” x 14” (457×356mm)
Taken with a Canon EOS 400D and 100mm macro lens / /
This is a composite of two of my photographs taken on the beautiful and luxurious Black Sands of Hamoa Beach Maui Hawai’i “I the human wander lone in wonder amid this grand universe of unbounded space and time You the great keeper of universe / Exist in its infinite wonders / Lone in silence / In the grand home of your own being! Through the limitless lands and times / Through the incountable stars / You are gazing at me I look up towards thee! / All noise ceased in silence / All worlds absorbed in deep peace / Alone / You are! / Alone / I am within, fearless!” ~ Poetry and Songs by Rabindranath Tagore’ Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved
Adonidia Merrillii / Veitchia merrillii / Manilla Palm / Tropical Gardens of Maui Hawai’i Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi
Textured landscape, fresh air sensation…
Autumn Gold Colours / Reflections of Beauty / Clouds and Sky Reflections on Chena River Lakes / Alaska North Star Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved Featured Art 15 June 2009 Descriptions On Silence and Talking / We Indians know about silence. We aren’t afraid of it. In fact, to us it is more powerful than words. Our elders were schooled in the ways of silence, and they passed that along to us. Watch, listen, and then act, they told us. This is the way to live. Watch the animals to see how they care for their young. Watch the elders to see how they behave. Watch the white man to see what he wants. Always watch first, with a still heart and mind, then you will learn. When you have watched enough, then you can act. With you it’s the opposite. You learn by talking. You reward the kids who talk the most in school. At your parties everyone is trying to talk. In your work you are always having meetings where everyone interrupts everyone else, and everyone talks five, ten, or a hundred times. You say it is ‘working out a problem’. When you are in a room and it is quiet you get nervous. You have to fill the space with sound. So you talk right away, before you even know what you are going to say. White people like to argue. They don’t even let each other finish sentences. They are always interrupting. To Indians this is very disrespectful and even very stupid. If you start talking, I’m not going to interrupt you. I will listen. Maybe I will stop listening if I don’t like what you are saying. But I won’t interrupt you. When you are done I will make my decision on what you said, but I won’t tell you if I disagree with you unless it is important. Otherwise I will just be quiet and go away. You have told me what I need to know. There is nothing more to say. But this isn’t enough for most white people. People should think of their words like seeds. They should plant them, then let them grow in silence. Our old people taught us that the earth is always speaking to us, but that we have to be silent to hear her. / There are lots of voices besides ours. Lots of voices. / Lakota Wisdom Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi
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
Ula Aloalo Hanohano Tropical Red Hibiscus Kahului Maui Hawai’i Fine Art Photography by Sharon Anne Mau SOLD 1x Laminated Print: Ula Aloalo Hanohano for a Tropical State of Mind / Large / Black Border with Artist’s Details / It is a beautiful greeting card! It would look lovely matted and framed displayed on a wall in your dining room! / ! It is believed that there are only five species of Hibiscus that originated from Hawai’i. Other species found their origin in Asia and the Pacific islands. In the early twenties, the Hibiscus Brackenbridgei was adopted as the official Territorial flower of Hawai’i. It kept this status throughout the 20th century, but only in 1988 its yellow colour was defined as the official colour for the Hibiscus representing the State of Hawai’i. Before 1988, the official Hibiscus could have any colour. Additionally, it was not until 1988 that the flower could represent the State of Hawai’i, because before that time the territorial status of the group of islands was unclear. Hawai’i’s state flower (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis) originated in Asia and the Pacific islands. Interestingly, it is also the national flower of Malaysia. Research suggests there were originally only five species of the tropical Hibiscus that were native to Hawai’i. Growers began to hybridize these native species with other varieties imported to Hawai’i, which produced the huge kaleidoscope of colours and sizes available today. There are several ways to tell the difference between the tropical and hardy perennial varieties. Tropical hibiscuses have dark green glossy leaves, sporting 3-4 inch flowers that are either single or double in colors of yellow, orange, pink, or red. Also, tropical hibiscus can have blossoms of salmon, orange, yellow, or peach with double flowers. Hardy perennial Hibiscus have foliage of medium-green with leaves that are heart shaped. Their flowers of white, red, or pink are much larger than those of the tropical Hibiscus. Many hibiscus aficionados increase the number of plants they have by using cuttings, a practice known as cloning or asexual reproduction. Select the best tips; look for good leaf color and a robust upright growing stance. Water the plants in the morning before taking the cuttings. Use sterilized shears. Count down about 4 leaf nodes to where the stem starts turning from light green to brown. Make each cut at a 45 degree angle just below a leaf node. Remove the lower leaves from the cutting, as well as any large top leaves. Dip the point of the cutting into a rooting stimulant, and then insert them into the growing medium only as deep as necessary to keep them upright. The cuttings should be fully rooted by the end of 6 weeks, and can then be transplanted. If the cuttings have been rooted in a green house, they should be hardened off before transplanting, by switching them to regular irrigation, and moving them out into the sunlight during the day, and back indoors for the night, for a few days. This is a hardy perennial Hibiscus Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi / Shooting Date/Time 21 Apelila 09:42:53 / Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/200 / Av( Aperture Value ) 7.1 / ISO Speed 100 / Lens EF28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM / Focal Length 135.0 mm
Alaska North Star Brilliant Skies Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved “Why would I wonder how you are about today and yesterday a wondering smile or frown because I cannot know and still I want to… But it is not you or your fault, nor is it mine, to accuse myself of anything but being me. And where, if ever, did you get that smile and laugh a little at the things so many people say… And how could I want to hear it (again and again)... Is it absurd for feelings to beg to be felt or do they, or is it just my mind reeling in the years trying not to forget, or yours (your mind is questioning the reason why you can’t touch my hand or feel the warm that is me and know the face again you see always – each night in your dreams when you are drifting in between – you wonder where has she gone) So I search myself to know the answer and often ask for no reason but the asking if I can even know what it was that made some far off voice a reason to ask yourself again can there really be love in this world (love outside of you) love that makes the birds sing. You ask: (what holds the sky up under the wind so that we know what blue is and how it feels to lose the sun when the rain washes it away and makes us blue with all its splatters)... no I can’t explain it, for it is something we have to feel (so far away)... How can I ever tell you I wonder sometimes how you are (what you are doing) if you feel loved … because I can’t see you doesn’t mean you’re not there or not here inside me in every little corpuscle that dances in my veins and keeps me alive to wonder some more… How do you feel (I remember)” by Peter Anthony Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi
“Love Rests on No Foundation ~ It is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end. Imagine, a suspended ocean, riding on a cushion of ancient secrets. All souls have drowned in it, and now dwell there. One drop of that ocean is hope, and the rest is fear.” ~ Quatrains of Rumi Plumeria Blossom on Lava Rocks / Hamoa Beach Maui Hawai`i Copyright © Sharon Mau / All Rights Reserved Featured in Natural Colour and Light group 25 December 2008 Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi This lovely Plumeria blossom floated from the tree which arches overhead as I was walking down the stone steps to the luxurious black sand beach of Hamoa, one of my favourite beaches on Maui. I was captivated with the beauty of it resting softly on the lichen blanketed lava rock and the contrasts of soft sensual beauty with the rough textures of the hardened magma. Of course I instantly stopped and photographed it. It is one of my favourites and I am happy you enjoy it
The beating heart, the centre of us all, how different are our hearts, some warm, some so cold that no light shows, what a sensational beating heart, created with apophysis and finised in ps element 6, thanks for looking xx
Oil Painting on Canvas with mixed media, such as bronze paint, leaves pressed and painted on, gold paint and outliners. Rich colours such as the ones i have used on this painting create deep deep emotions, wether there happy or sad, most often people refer colours such as bright orange, yellow, pink to be happy colours, and associate blues and greys to be sad colours, but in fact the richer and the more contrasy colours are, there the ones that create the deeper moods. I did a survey about this with 100 people, showing them normal happy colours and sad colours (as mentioned above) and then images with this colouring and 99% all agreed this sort of colourings to a image created much more intense emotions wether they were happy or sad.
The power of imagination rests with us all. This painting is dedicated to Mendelssohn in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the composer’s birth. Music – Mendelssohn Painting using acrylics, pigment, inks and graphite – 102×42cm on paper May 8th 2009
Beautiful Sydney and all its highlights painted in a colorful, creative, lively composition.
Taken this near Pantai Morib, Selangor, Malaysia. Considered & constructive critiques are most welcome. / Image copyright © Steven de Siow. All rights reserved. Camera Model Canon EOS 400D DIGITAL / Shooting Date/Time 12/11/2008 6:55:20 PM / Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/5 / Av( Aperture Value ) 6.3 / ISO Speed 100 / Thank you to the following group for featuring this photograph: / Canon DSLR on the 28-Mar-2009 / Southeast Asia on the 28-Mar-2009 /
Beauty is Eternally Free / Hamoa Beach Maui Hawai’i I picked some fresh Plumeria blossoms and a branch of blooming Bougainvillea and tossed them onto the luxurious black sand of Hamoa Beach and was only able to get a couple of shots when a wave came in and carried them out to sea. Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved “Hidden behind the veil of mystery, / Beauty is eternally free from the slightest stain of imperfection. From the atoms of the world, / He created a multitude of mirrors; / into each one of them / He cast the image of His Face; / To the awakened eye, / anything that appears beautiful is only a reflection of that Face. / Now that you have seen the reflection, hurry to its Source; / In that primordial Light the reflection vanishes completely. Do not linger far from that primal Source; / When the reflection fades, you will be lost in darkness. / The reflection is as transient as the smile of a rose; / If you want permanence, / turn towards the Source; / If you want fidelity, / look to the Mine of faithfulness. / Why tear your soul apart over something here one moment / and gone the next?” ~ by Jami ~ Translation by Andrew Harvey and Eryk Hanut Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi
Mai ka ‘aina Mai ke ‘kai / Hawaiian Translation: From the Land and the Sea Sunset Ka’anapali Maui Hawai’i / Ali’i Kahekili Nui ‘Ahumanu Beach Park Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi / Shooting Date/Time 20 June 2008 20:55:42 / Tv 1/250 Av 10 ISO 100 / This beautiful Hawaiian sunset image is also offered as a lovely beach tote bag and as a postage stamp. / If you would like to see it offered on any other products just let me know. Mahalo!
Vesna Prckovska / Lei i ka noe ~ wearing mist as a lei A beautiful young woman poses for her love who is taking her portrait just outside the frame as the waves crash along the lava rocks with an enchanting golden sunset on Pa’ako Beach Makena Maui Hawai’i. / Maui Gold Coast Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi / Shooting Date/Time 09 May 2009 18:36:46 / Tv 1/200 Av 7.1 / ISO 100 / Focal Length 135.0 mm / Lens EF28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
I thought you may enjoy seeing the beautiful sunset over the island of Lana’i on the horizon, which Jacob and I watched last night from an elevation of about 4000 feet above sea level from Ulupalakua, Upcountry on Maui, Hawai’i. This is Wailea and Kihei down below on the gold coast. Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi / Shooting Date 17 June 2009
The best way to describe this piece would be to quote the song lyrics to Paula Cole’s song ‘Feeling Love’. Love, love You make me feel like a sticky pistil… / leaning into a stamen / You make me feel like a mister sunshine… / Himself / You make me feel like splendor in the grass… / While we’re rollin’ / Damn skippy baby / You make me feel like the Amazon’s runnin’ between… / my thighs CHORUS: You make me feel love, love, love, love, love / love, love, love, love, love / You make me feel love, love, love, love, love / love, love, love, love You make me feel like a candy apple / All red and horny / You make me feel like I wanna be a dumb blonde / In a centerfold, the girl next door / And I would open the door and… / I’d be all wet / With my tits soaking through this tiny little t-shirt… / That I’m wearing / And you would open the door and tie… / Me up to the bed Chorus Lover, I don’t know who I am / Am I very wide? Am I hot inside? / Lover, I’m glazed with your hot compunctions / Oh baby babe babe baby / I will be your Desdemona ahhhhh… Take your time You make me feel Ahaa / You make me feel WooWoo baby / You make me feel Ahaa mmm / You make me feel loved If you haven’t heard this song you should have a listen. It has to be the HOTTEST song I’ve ever heard. I can GUARANTEE you won’t find a hotter one! (If you think you know of a hotter one, tell me, I’d love to know what it is!)
Autumn colours reflected in Chena River / Tanana River Valley / North Star Borough / Interior Alaska 2009 Fine Art Photography by Sharon Anne Mau
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