Hi Everyone,

I wanted to share something (actually two somethings but I'll get to the other in a minute) with all of you. Our lovely Pamela also has created greeting cards with her paintings and you can find them here:
Pamela's Card Store

I am always looking for beautiful cards to send to people and am really excited to be able to buy these. And there are times when being the recipeint of a beatiful card is very healing. (I was fortunate enough to find one on my porch this afternoon! Thank you Mary.)

This greeting card universe site is great for anyone who is creative (photography, paintings, illustration, poetry, etc.) You should all check it out for yourselves to purchase cards and possibly to develop your own line of cards for sale--Maggie? Zartgirl? Talkin' to you now...

The other thing I wanted to share is my son's music. My older son Gabriel is a singer/songwriter living in Boston. His music is truly magical and has its own healing properties. Please visit his youtube site at YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. or his MySpace site at MySpace.com - Gabriel Mireles - BOSTON, Massachusetts - Acoustic / Indie / Folk Rock - www.myspace.com/gabrielmireles and pass the word along to others. We are working on his first CD and a website and are very proud of him.

With love and gratitude,

Allen

Pamela!!!

This painting is just incredible!!! I totally love the way you work with the dots. And I can just imagine it BIG!! It radiates a lovely peaceful energy ... and the colors are incredible! I'm loving that I KNOW the person who created this wonderful artwork!!
Grace ......... I'm just loving it that you now own this little peace(typo - but I love it - so in it stays!) of Pamela! And the poem too - lovely syncronocity!
As Wayne Dwyer would say: "Inspiration" = "In Spirit" ... and it shows soooo much in your work!!

Pura Vida! Love, Vineyard NAncy

I love how the LOA brought me back to photography A couple of years ago, I had NO idea what I liked to do. Never mind passions!! I hired a coach, she tried to find me things, nadda zip. I just didn't have the juice to fire up about anything. So, we decided as a last resort I'd just get pretend juiced and I had "a go" at that. And a strange & magical thing happened, the Universe started delivering me offers in the letter box of cameras for sale. Those pamphlets with JUST cameras, on special offers. It got so ludicrous, I had 3 in one day! My bedroom was filled with them. If I opened a magazine, it would be on a page about photography. I attracted a professional photographer who demanded practically I take one his cameras and start shooting, then another at a horse show Wow, I loved it!! I had a passion at long last And the mists of time parted, and I remembered being young and borrowing someone's camera to take photographs and LOVING it. But they had left, and i remember feeling bereft without it and had forgotten. I took the hint and bought a decent camera. I've not looked back I specialise in Nature now. My camera brings me so much joy, it's almost making me cry typing this I'm so grateful! I've realised as I've cleared myself, I can get grounded and neutral and in that I can work move into the heart space and from there I can communicate with nature and ask them via thoughts to move in certain areas and ways and they do it, every time

I will put some of my fav's below

Eagle Owl

Peregrine Falcon (I ask for wings out please!)

After request!

Tawny Eagle

(after wings out please! request)

I have so many pics, literally hundreds, I don't know which ones to pick! Sorry they're a bit large

WOW, S.J.!!!!

These are FABULOUS!!!!!!

You ROCK, Girlfriend!!!!


Honey...It is crystal clear that you are an AMAZING Photographic Artist and that it is through this medium that you exhibit, with Exquisite Talent and Passion, a Most Blessed part of Who You Are!!!

Thank You SO Much for posting these GORGEOUS pics....You Honor each and every one of us by sharing your gift! And PLEASE...Keep them coming, Sweetie!!!

With MUCH Love and Gratitude,

Pamela

I took this around the time that Pamela did her tulip painting, I was attracting tulips all over the place

aww thank you SO much!! I am blushing and grinning in equal amounts. I never realised how hard it is to share so publically lol! I used to think come on share your paintings but now I know how you felt!

I'm glad you liked them. I rarely if ever sign my pics, unless I have to for a photography forum rules. I believe the Universe and source provided the shot and it belongs to us ALL

this one came out a bit grainy because the settings were not right ..lol. still learning.

I photograph Nature, because the times when I've been really "down" in life it has been going out in Nature that has lifted my spirits.

I've just worked out how to put more than 1 photo in a post! doh!


wildrose



flowers on a bush my grandmother gave us



Rose gift from my neighbour





wild robin





Bee sleeping on a rose



white spider



Dawn behind dahila

Grebe swimming on a golden lake (sunset)



Peace Lily I bought my mum



Baby calf



As he slept, an older calf came and licked him!

Sunset at the lakes


I like this because it has sun light circles & they are wild horses so I feel lucky they accept me



I really wanted this photograph, it made me about 2 mins later for a CEM meeting Lol. I asked the bull to turn his head to the light, from where he was eating. I love this pic the light was magic and this little guy was gorgeous.

I forgot the pic with the calf lick bonding



Just love them.

I will quit now

Hope you enjoy them, you attracted them

Amazing talented SJ joins the league of other so talented women here at the EF!

Blessing
Keoi

To the incredibly creative and talented S.J.!!

JUST AMAZING


I'm just blown away by the Beauty and CLARITY of these photos! ....you capture the essence - and that is an amazing talent!
I just love them!
Where to start...The Peace Lily, The Robin, The White Spider, The Owl ... oh... they are ALL my favorites!!

I can just picture the day when I say, "I knew S. J. when...." And that day isn't far away!! !!

Vineyard Nancy

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Hello Enerjette S.J, well...
Hmmm...
Umm...Crikey you are so full of surprises, turn my back for a minute and...well so that’s the tip of your iceberg then ?

You say that when you're feeling down, you take a walk into nature...wow what a infinitely inspiring resource you have on your doorstep. (well…within driving range then)

When life seems mundane it does make good sense to go out onto nature to get back in tune, but to enter that world you must first find the clues, the gateways, all around you in all shapes an hues, it comes as a feeling, that you sense from within, as you fix on a flower, and so it begins……

Gee you must have fun capturing those feelings, pictures read both ways, we see where you’re at. When nature complies an you’re in sync.. WoW what a feeling.

We get it with the sunset, time does stands still

On golden pond, how long did you stay there for?

The pony, the split second you’re both aware of each other, that moment you feel with your heart, your breath, as for the pony…stays calm, between curiosity and flight, he reads you well. Had this moment not happened the way it did…. there would have been a shot of blur and dust!

The raptors are stunning, as your all your attention is focussed on them though the lens, every minute detail, you see their eyes, 1 on 1 it’s as if you can see right through each other, amazing, exciting, almost frightening. I don’t now how close you were or the distractions around but in the moment…he he you had fun. We relate.

Thanx so much for bringing them back for us to enjoy. Your intenion when taking those shots is perfectly clear. we are inspired.

Take your imagination for a walk again sometime soon, and as you tune in make sure you have your camera with you. Beauty, through the lens of beholder.

Huh, what a trip and I didnt even leave my chair.

Much Gratitude So when do we see the rest of the iceburg?

Joel,
Love,Light & Photo Lenses

Hi there Allenm, Wow, I'm currently watching your son Gabriel performing 'Manic' so I just popped back here quickly to say wowee, nimble with that there guitar.
Thanx for the lift.
Joel

Thank you! I'm so pleased you enjoyed them. Nature is so wonderful and uplifting at just the right times. Somehow it "knows" and sends all kinds of things to cheer up. And I've always felt right at home in the middle of nowhere, with just the animals for company. This is why I loved the link DeAnn posted of animal totems and their meanings

Maggie - your encouragement and kindness has totally turned me around, thank you so much for helping me

Sharyn - Thank you! I'm glad the animals essence leapt out at you, that's what I'm aiming for. That's useful f/back

Thank you Keoi!

Vineyard Nancy - thank you! I'm glad you liked them all!! Your encouragement (and smilies!) are just awesomely uplifting!

Joel - wow! I spent all last night late contemplating your other writings lol (more to come ) and now this. You already know, but you too are an iceberg my friend! SO intuitive it's blown my socks off! thank you.

I can access remote lands after a 10- 15 min car trip. It started off as just getting away from other people. Turned into a wonderful experience. I operate on a sensitive subtle level, and I've discovered so does nature. I'm more in tune with the wilderness than in a group of others. That's really "my home" I'm sharing Animals are accepting and friendly of subtle loving energies at least I first knew this as a vet nurse, I felt a bond with each animal, and also felt the other side of their problems so it was a double edged sword working there. However! there's nothing like the wilderness to inspire & encourage to go back to basics & release tension. I literally feel it all drop away after seconds of getting out of the car.

The golden pond pic came after intending getting some great sunset shots. I drove to the lakes and there it was, I literally got out of the car, took the pics and moved on. It was over within 10 mins. Since getting the camera in the Spring, I've been on "sunset watch". I can see the sun starting to dip from the house & I know a good one from how it's looking an hour before now lol. This one was a doozy. Everything was floodlit gold. My favourite part of the sunset is that.

You're right about the pony! She's the lead mare, and that pic was taken when I first discovered that area she didn't know me. I've spent most of the Summer exploring this area which is completely deserted, and discovered two ancient oak trees with great dry mossy seats. (Maggie calls them grandma trees, I love that!) I've read the whole "Conversations with God" books up the trees with the ponies at my feet dozing or grazing! I can untangle their manes with my fingers and scritch their necks. We've even blackberry picked as a bunch lol.

The raptors were a special treat for me to be in such close proximity. Sad they're tethered, I'd prefered them to be free...
They are at a hawking centre, and I'd just got the camera so it's really my first time out. I was so blown away with the clarity at first I found it hard to believe they were mine Sometimes I look at them now & wonder who took them lol. Ok, so there were only about 5people at the centre, so had the place to myself almost (beauty of going in the day during working hours) the birds were all reacting to each other. The tawny eagle is wanting to catch the chickens. That's why he's laser focused. I spent a several minutes with each bird, very close. Just out of range of their tethered ropes so I knew I was safe, and I inched closer so they got used to me gradually. In all the pics they've got to the stage of forgetting I'm there, I've been so still and quiet. Then, they acted normally and I could send them picture messages. I also send all the animals love, which is why I am sure they let me get so close to them in the first place, I'm just genuinely over the moon to spend time with them. The raptors are beautiful, powerful birds. I came away enthralled with their energy.

Grace - you're right this is an amazing and powerful thread! Thank you for showing me it.


I was very lucky to get this camera. I intended for a year straight and there it was. But you don't need a decent camera to take nice shots. Some of my favourites I took with my mum's cheap 2 pixel camera she got for next to nothing. It has no focus, barely an strength, yet still if take your time and communicate with nature you'll get just as good shots. it's the essence that comes through then, rather than clarity.

I'll post some of those later if you like

Thank you everyone. I appreciate your comments, it means a lot that you enjoyed them that is why I take them.

eta: I just want to add that the only pictures I am not up close is the calf pics. I am many feet away, because I don't want to get close to baby animals. Although mum is placid nearby, I don't want to add any stress to them so that is zoomed in to the max!

I fell in love with one of Pamela's paintings of a hibiscus flower the second I laid eyes on it.

I now have a beautiful print of it in my living room and I just have to say the environment there is much improved. I just bask in its glow!!

Pamela, I wondered if you had any interesting words on the left brain right brain things for those of us without so much experience in creating art images.

I am thinking of a book I once studies about about using the right side of the brain in drawing.

It helped me sooooooo much understand how not to just draw a circle for a person's face but to really LOOK at the lines and recreate them.

For example, one of the exercises was to take a piece of paper and crumple it up and draw that.

You really are forced in that situation to follow the real lines and not use shapes you normally associate with object, like a square for a house.

Anyway it vastly vastly improved my drawing ability which was very rudimentary at the start.

I do not create images a lot now but at least I am better at it than I used to be


XO Jessica

Oh Sonora, your photos are breathtaking...thank you so much for sharing your gift.

Please consider using the greeting card universe website that Pamela has her cards on...you could create a line of cards using your photography...just a thought...

With love and gratitude,

Allen