Wilhelmina
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Gia Carangi was a shooting star...quite literally! This photo was from my very first photo shoot with Gia, for Vogue, July 1978 (the shoot date). The image is somewhat soft and grainy (due to it’s being a large blowup of a small image and because I worked to emphasize the grain Gia quickly rose to super star status as a model. But, just a few years later she became addicted to drugs and her life began a downward spiral. I worked with Gia only in 1978 and 1979. She was always lovely…full of life. full of fun and unpredictably spontaneous. Gia was one of, perhaps, two or three of the most inventive models I worked with in some fifty years of photograhing women. By inventive I mean that she would adapt to a situation and cast herself in a role that fit the shoot. If you look at photos of Gia by different fashion photographers you can see how she would take on a persona to fit the situation. Gia was a delight to work with. She died at the age of 26 from complications caused by AIDS. The writer, Stephen Fried, wrote a book about Gia, Thing of Beauty—The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia. To this day there is a huge following of Gia fans. This has been one of my most popular images of Gia.
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A slightly more serious shot of the Falls. Went to Wilhelmina Falls today after work and walked all over these huge slabs. I have done a lot of rockclimbing in my past so am fairly sure of my technique in scrambling over this sort of terrain. It’s about keeping your weight over your feet and about keeping up some momentum. High it’s very counter instinctive to move fast but it seems to be the safest way. Upon getting to the overlap where the water freefalls there was a bit of moss and dirt in some cracks that I was obliged to use and before I knew it my boots were wet and dirty with a fraction of their former friction. In my precarious stance I attempted to clean them and after ten minutes or so was happy to move on now very aware of my precarious location since I’d just stared it in the face for a while. Maybe I should of paid attention to that sign ;-) Lovely spot, went there in the summer with kids, mum, sister and her kids lovely walk but the advertised perennial nature of the falls didn’t live up to expectations with it being bone dry. Great to see it today with heaps of water. 11/9/2008 To check out other shots from this area see my Yarra Ranges gallery. For more waterfall shots check out my Waterfalls gallery. 10% of all profits go to the Wilderness Society
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From my collection: / The Tropical Zone / Flowering Trees of Hawai’i Wilhelmina Tenney Rainbow Shower Tree * / Makawao Maui Blossoms from the pink and white Shower Tree were pollinated by a blossom from the Golden Shower in 1918 by David Haughes, head nurseryman for the Board of Agriculture of the Territory of Hawaii. They are now propagated by air layering or grafting on tap rooted seedlings. In 1965, Honolulu adopted the proposal of then-Mayor Neal S. Blaisdell and made the Wilhelmina Tenney Rainbow Shower Tree and its dusty pink blossoms the city’s official tree. Shower trees are some of Honolulu’s most visible harbingers of summer. The original Rainbow Shower Tree was planted in the yard of Wilhelmina Tenney on Lunalilo Street in 1920. Offspring of the original were planted all over the city and have found their way to neighboring islands. This one is growing on Baldwin Avenue between Upper Pa`ia and Makawao on Maui. Herald of the summer season of beautiful flowering trees on Maui, this is a lovely soft dusty pink and yellow variety growing near Makawao, with a subtle beauty in early morning light. The flowers are red, yellow and white, but sunlight blends the colours to soft pink and yellow. This beautiful flowering tree may attain a height of 50 feet. The Rainbow Shower became the official tree of Honolulu in 1965 as part of a campaign to promote Honolulu as “The City of Flowering Trees.” The original Rainbow shower tree was planted in the yard of Wilhelmina Tenney on Lunalilo Street in 1920. Offspring of the original were planted all over the city and have found their way to neighboring islands. Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi / 06 June 2008 09:16:32 / Tv 250 / Av 8.0 / ISO 100 / No Post Processing Cassia fistula is a flowering tree in the family Fabaceae, native to southern Asia, from southern Pakistan east through India to Myanmar and south to Sri Lanka. It is a medium-sized tree growing to 10-20 m tall with fast growth. The leaves are deciduous or semi-evergreen, 15-60 cm long, pinnate with 3-8 pairs of leaflets, each leaflet 7-21 cm long and 4-9 cm broad. The flowers are produced in pendulous racemes 20-40 cm long, each flower 4-7 cm diameter with five yellow petals of equal size and shape. The fruit is a legume is 30-60 cm long and 1.5-2.5 cm broad, with a pungent odour and containing several seeds. The seeds are poisonous. This one is growing on Baldwin Avenue between Upper Pa`ia and Makawao on Maui. Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009*
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Wilhelmina Tower stands on top of the Cauberg overlooking Valkenburg
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From my collection: / The Tropical Zone / Flowering Trees of Hawai’i *Wilhelmina Tenney Rainbow Shower Tree * / Makawao Maui Blossoms from the pink and white Shower Tree were pollinated by a blossom from the Golden Shower in 1918 by David Haughes, head nurseryman for the Board of Agriculture of the Territory of Hawaii. They are now propagated by air layering or grafting on tap rooted seedlings. In 1965, Honolulu adopted the proposal of then-Mayor Neal S. Blaisdell and made the Wilhelmina Tenney Rainbow Shower Tree and its dusty pink blossoms the city’s official tree. Shower trees are some of Honolulu’s most visible harbingers of summer. The original Rainbow Shower Tree was planted in the yard of Wilhelmina Tenney on Lunalilo Street in 1920. Offspring of the original were planted all over the city and have found their way to neighboring islands. This one is growing on Baldwin Avenue between Upper Pa`ia and Makawao on Maui. Herald of the summer season of beautiful flowering trees on Maui, this is a lovely soft dusty pink and yellow variety growing near Makawao, with a subtle beauty in early morning light. The flowers are red, yellow and white, but sunlight blends the colours to soft pink and yellow. This beautiful flowering tree may attain a height of 50 feet. The Rainbow Shower became the official tree of Honolulu in 1965 as part of a campaign to promote Honolulu as “The City of Flowering Trees.” The original Rainbow shower tree was planted in the yard of Wilhelmina Tenney on Lunalilo Street in 1920. Offspring of the original were planted all over the city and have found their way to neighboring islands. Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi / Shooting Date/Time 06 June 2008 09:12:55 / Tv 250 Av 8.0 ISO 100 / No Post Processing Cassia fistula is a flowering tree in the family Fabaceae, native to southern Asia, from southern Pakistan east through India to Myanmar and south to Sri Lanka. It is a medium-sized tree growing to 10-20 m tall with fast growth. The leaves are deciduous or semi-evergreen, 15-60 cm long, pinnate with 3-8 pairs of leaflets, each leaflet 7-21 cm long and 4-9 cm broad. The flowers are produced in pendulous racemes 20-40 cm long, each flower 4-7 cm diameter with five yellow petals of equal size and shape. The fruit is a legume is 30-60 cm long and 1.5-2.5 cm broad, with a pungent odour and containing several seeds. The seeds are poisonous. This one is growing on Baldwin Avenue between Upper Pa`ia and Makawao on Maui. 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. All rights reserved universewide. © 2009 Fine Art Photography by Sharon Mau
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Beautiful Wilhelmina may be a witch. But, she’s certainly not of the wicked variety. Here she is with her faithful friend Pax the cat.
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Nikon D80 1/1250@f/5.6 ISO-800 58mm / / ART / ARCHITECTURE & INTERIOR / SYDNEY / PANORAMAS / CLOUDS / COUNTRYSIDE / STILL LIFE / TENNIS / DOGS / MISCELLANEOUS
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