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Beautiful Sydney and all its highlights painted in a colorful, creative, lively composition.
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Oil on canvas, 18” x 14” (457×356mm)
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Prints are available for all my artworks!
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“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
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Adonidia Merrillii / Veitchia merrillii / Manilla Palm / Tropical Gardens of Maui Hawai’i Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi
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Ice World Ice Art Championships 2007 ~ Ice Alaska / Fairbanks Alaska Ice Sculptures, an international event and annual competition. I photographed many of the entries in early morning light and these bits, shavings and blocks of ice were lying on the ground beneath an ice carving. / Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTI Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved Featured Art 06 June 2009 Canon vs Nikon
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Autumn colours reflected in Chena River / Tanana River Valley / North Star Borough / Interior Alaska 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
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Taken with a Canon EOS 400D and 100mm macro lens / /
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A lovely yellow and white variety of Plumeria, also known as Frangipani and Temple Tree / Makawao Maui Hawai`i Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi
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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 Świetna melodia
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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
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The luxurious black sand beach of Hamoa / Hana Maui Hawai’i Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved
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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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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!
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Nauweuwe Ka Honua / Hawaiian Translation: Now Comes the Heaven Born This is a composite of two images taken at the same location at the same time on Ho’okipa, Maui Hawai’i. Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved / My images do not belong to the public domain Featured in All That is Nature 30 December 2008 The Hula Kolani “For the purpose of this book the rating of any variety of hula must depend not so much on the grace and rhythm of its action on the stage as on the imaginative power and dignity of its poetry. Judged in this way, the kolani is one of the most interesting and important of the hulas. Its performance seems to have made no attempt at sensationalism, yet it was marked by a peculiar elegance. This must have been due in a measure to the fact that only adepts-olóhe-those of the most finished skill in the art. of hula, took part in its presentation. It was a hula of gentle, gracious action, acted and sung while the performers kept a sitting position, and was without instrumental accompaniment. The fact that this hula was among the number chosen for presentation before the king (Kamehameha III) while on a tour of Oahu in the year 1846 or 1847 is emphatic testimony as to the esteem in which it was held by the Hawaiians themselves. The mele that accompanied this hula when performed for the king’s entertainment at Waimanalo was the following: He ua la, he ua, / He ua pi’i mai; / Noe-noe halau, / Halau lea o Lono. / 5 O lono oe; / Pa-á-a na pali / I ka hana a Ikuwá- / Pohá ko-ele-ele. / A Welehu ka maláma, / 10 Noho i Makali’i; / Li’i-li’i ka hana. / Aia a e’é-u, / He eu ia no ka la hiki. / Hiki mai ka Lani, / 15 Nauweuwe ka honua, / Ka hana a ke ola’i nui: / Moe pono ole ko’u po- / Na niho ai kalakala, / Ka hana a ka Niuhi / 20 A mau i ke kai loa. / He loa o ka hiki’na. / A ua noa, a ua noa. p. 217 [Translation] Lo, the rain, the rain! / The rain is approaching; / The dance-hall is murky, / The great hall of Lono. / 5 Listen! its mountain walls / Are stunned with the clatter, / As when in October, / Heaven’s thunderbolts shatter. / Then follows Welehu, / 10 The month of the Pleiads. / Scanty the work then done, / Save as one’s driven. / Spur comes with the sun, / When day has arisen. / 15 Now comes the Heaven-born: / The whole land doth shake, / As with an earthquake; / Sleep quits then my bed: / How shall this maw be fed! / 20 Great maw of the shark— / Eyes that gleam in the dark / Of the boundless sea! / Rare the king’s visits to me. / All is free, all is free! If the author of this Hawaiian idyl sought to adapt its descriptive imagery to the features of any particular landscape, it would almost seem as if he had in view the very region in which Kauikeaouli found himself in the year 1847 as he listened to the mele of this unknown Hawaiian Theocritus. Under the spell of this poem, one is transported to the amphitheater of Mauna-wili, a valley separated from Waimanalo only by a rampart of hills. At one’s back are the abrupt walls of Konahuanni; at the right, and encroaching so as almost to shut in the front, stands the knife-edge of Olomana; to the left range the furzy hills of Ulamawao; while directly to the front, looking north, winds the green valley, whose waters, before reaching the ocean, spread out into the fish-ponds and duck swamps of Kailua. It would seem as if this must have been the very picture the idyllic poet had in mind. This smiling, yet rock-walled, amphitheater was the vast dance-hall of Lono-Halau loa o Lono (verse 4)-whose walls were deafened, stunned (pa-á-a, verse 6), by the tumult and uproar of the multitude that always followed in the wake of a king, a multitude whose night-long revels banished sleep: Moe pono ole ko’u po (verse 17). The poet seems to be thinking of this same hungry multitude in verse 18, niho ai kalakala, literally the teeth that tear the food; also when he speaks of the Niuhi (verse 19), a mythical shark, the glow of whose eyes was said to be visible for a great distance in the ocean, A mau i ke kai loa (verse 20). Ikuwá, Welehu, Makali’i (verses 7, 9, and 10). These were months in the Hawaiian year corresponding to a part of September, October and November, and a part of December. The Hawaiian year began when the Pleiades (Makali’i) rose at sunset (about November 20), and was divided into twelve lunar months of twenty-nine or thirty days each. The names of the months differed somewhat in the different parts of the group. The month Ikuwá is said to have been so named from its being the season of thunderstorms. This does not of itself settle the time of its occurrence, for the reason that in Hawaii the procession of the seasons and the phenomena of weather follow no definite order; that is, though electrical storms occur, there is no definite season of thunderstorms. Maka-li’i (verse 10) was not only the name of a month and the name applied to the Pleiades, but was also a name given the cool, the rainy, season. The name more commonly given this season was Hooilo. The Makahiki period, continuing four months, occurred at this time of the year. This was a season when the people rested from unnecessary labor and devoted themselves to festivals, games, and special religious observances. Allusion is made to this avoidance of toil in the words Li’ili’i ka hana (verse 11).” Excerpt from The Unwritten Literature of Hawai’i ~ Sacred Texts Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi
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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 /
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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
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Textured landscape, fresh air sensation…
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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
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Aloha 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 Vesna and Paulo at sunset on Pa’ako Beach / Maui Hawai’i 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 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
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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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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
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Flower petals with rain drops.
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