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Violin
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Cello Suite # 1, Johann Sebastian Bach.
Koi Under Glass
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D300, 50mm, f/2.8
Virtuoso
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D300, 50mm, f/2.0.
View Large
Healing Hands
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Hands of an emergency worker. D300, 50mm, f/2.2.
A violin that sings out of tune...
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Luthier's studio. D300, 34mm, f/3.5.
The Minimalist's Garden
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D300, 50mm, f/3.5. Thank you, Explore # 12, April 17.
May I help you?
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D300, 50mm, f/1.8. Paphiopedilum Black Cherry.
May I have this dance?
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D300, 50mm, f/1.8. Encyclia Orchid Jungle "Tom's Heritage". AM/AOS.
My next project is to photograph my Neofinetia falcata, or "Wind Orchid" native to Japan. Samurai took their Neo. falcata orchid into battle to have a moment of serenity between skirmishes and is much loved in Japanese culture.
Was that cannon fire, or is it my heart pounding?
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--from Casablanca. D300, 50mm, f/2.2, Capture NX 2. Vanda coerulea hybrid, a much desired and personal favorite.
Magick
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Sprite sculpture, Lightner Museum, St. Augustine, Florida.
St. Augustine Lighthouse
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Two If By Night....
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Historic St. Augustine Lighthouse.
Captivity
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Incarceration.
The Colour of my Love
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Marvelous Mariposa
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Gorgeous fauna at the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, Boca Raton, Florida.
South Beach
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SOBE
Venice of the Americas
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Fort Lauderdale in the lovely evening hours.....saw this from the 17th Street Causeway and had to stop and admire.
In case you're wondering, in addition to orchids, my other great love is night photography.
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Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show. Hence the city's moniker "Venice of the Americas."
South Beach Baby
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It's as exotic and awesome as everyone says it is.
Blue Monday Bokeh....Wednesday...What??
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Sooooooooooo SOBE
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The Colony, Ocean Drive, South Beach, Miami.
Amazement
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...that I can actually grow these and am enjoying it...
This would make Georgia happy...
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...because it has the same effect on me.
Phaleanopsis orchid from my collection.
aos sí
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In the Irish language, aos sí means "people of the mounds". In Ireland they are also referred to as the daoine sídhe ("people of peace"), and in Scotland as the daoine sìth or daoine sìdh. They are variously believed to be the ancestors, the spirits of nature, or the goddesses and gods themselves.
In folk belief and practice, the aos sí are often propitiated with offerings, and care is taken to avoid angering or insulting them. Often they are not named directly, but rather spoken of with euphemisms such as "The Good Neighbors," "The Gentry," "The Fair Folk," or simply "The Folk".
Aos sí are sometimes seen as fierce guardians of their abodes - whether that be a fairy hill, a fairy ring, a special tree (often a hawthorn), or perhaps a particular loch or wood. The Gaelic Otherworld is seen as being closer at the times of dusk and dawn, and aos sí may be seen as stunningly beautiful or sometimes terrible and hideous.
Madame Pele
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In Hawaiian mythology, Pele is the goddess of fire, lightning, dance, volcanoes and violence. She is a daughter of Haumea and Kane Milohai, and her home is believed to be the fire pit, Halema'uma'u crater, at the summit caldera of Kīlauea, one of the Earth's most and continuously active volcanoes; but her domain encompasses all volcanic activity on the Big Island of Hawai'i.
Legends about Pele, her rivals and her lovers abound. Most of the lovers she took were not lucky enough to escape with their lives when she hurled molten lava at them, trapping them in odd misshapen pillars of rock that dot volcanic fields to this day.
I have to add on a humorous note, someone I know said my eye looked like the Terminator. And of course I was thinking if you take Pele's lava rock without asking she is like the Terminator until you bring them back :-)
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