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Fiona Almeleh (South Africa) - "Painting Light" page 3
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Fiona has been facilitating creative exploration and healing through color and art for the past sixteen years and works as an energy intuitive, healer, artist, author and teacher. Fiona's art has been exhibited both overseas and locally in South Africa, and some of these works may be viewed on the Galleries page of her website www.fionaalmeleh.com
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João Paglione (Germany) - "Moon Tree" page 7 and "Sundown" page 35
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João Paglione Germany: João "Maestro de nada, aprendiz de tudo." When I read that phrase in Spanish (it means "A Master of Nothing, Apprentice of All") I realized it described my life and what I had done and was searching for. Photography is for me a constant discovery and rediscovery of the realization of my environment, the beauty surrounding me, and how I envision it. It allows me to explore other people's world and portray those worlds to other people. It's my true passion and self-realization. Click.
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Katy L. Zahner (USA) - “Little Girls” page 9
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Katy Zahner has enjoyed her life as an artist for the last 60 years. Her medium has always been oil. Katy attended Fontbonne Art Institute in St. Louis and the Kansas City Art Institute. Katy took the photograph and then painted it because the expressions on the girls intrigued her. Katy's grandaughter Laura was expressing joy at receiving the rose and her friend Ashley had an opposite expression of jealousy.
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Roger Bloom (USA) - "Katie and Rev. David" page 17
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Roger Bloom, California: Roger Bloom is a former journalist and current marketing and PR consultant who lives in Huntington Beach. He can be reached via roger@rogerbloom.com. He would like to dedicate this work to the memory of Katie (in the picture), who's irrepressible spirit lives on in the hearts of everyone who loved her, and to Rev David Phears, senior minister of Sangha Spiritual Center.
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Richard Wanderman (USA) - "The Pitcher" page 21
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My wife Anne picked this pitcher up at a tag sale over thirty years ago. It's amazing that the handle has lived through kids growing up, countless visitors, cats, dogs, and everything else that goes on in busy households. The body of the pitcher is quite solid but a handle with the bottom unattached is beautiful and functional and vulnerable. We use it for milk and at times for maple syrup." Richard has a BFA and an MFA in fine and applied arts from the University of Oregon where he studied ceramics, design, and photography and taught ceramics, basic design, and computer applications for artists. www.rwanderman.com
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Alexander Gobell (USA) - "Dawn Passion" page 23
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Alexander Gobell, USA: Alex is a life long amateur photographer who has mainly taken the obligatory family photos. Now in retirement he has found Flickr which has given him the impetus to photograph whatever delights his eye. Not surprisingly this usually involves the magic of the light. http://www.flickr.com/photos/algo/
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James Chiou (Taiwan) - "Sunflowers at Sunset" page 25
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James' thought about sunflowers at sunset is: "Think bright, and believe the most powerful strength in the world lies within your heart." http://www.flickr.com/photos/chieftain-y/
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Aimee Rousseau (USA) - "Butterfly" page 29
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Aimee Rousseau's paintings carry a vibrational frequency or signature that can heal the viewer in different ways. Her watercolors are painted using Blue Solar Water and divine inspiration as the Ho'oponopono prayer runs steadily thru her mind. Ho'oponopono is the ancient Hawaiian art of making things right. This powerful prayer is a tool for neutralizing and purifying the things we see, feel and experience that we don't resonate with. It releases the ancient as well as the fresh energy of the thoughts and memories that cause life imbalances, pain and disease. www.healingpainting.com
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Michael Ringer (USA) - "Adirondack Silence" page 31
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Michael Ringer, New York: Michaels painting and sculptures are in collections worldwide, eight books have been published on his art. Michael's home is on the St. Lawrence River a short distance from the Adirondacks. The painting Adirondack Silence seen in this book is a scene of Bald Mountain Pond near Old forge, N.Y. in the heart of the Adirondack Mountains. More of his work can be seen at www.michaelringer.com
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Keith and Maura Leon (USA) - Song lyrics "I Am The Light" page 31
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The song "I Am The Light" was written by Keith and Maura Leon, co-owners of Successful Communications, Inc. and co-authors of, The Seven Steps to Successful Relationships. To learn more about this inspirational couple visit: www.relationship-masters.com
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Ruth Savitz (USA) - "Housecat Dreams: Forest Cat" page 37
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Ruth Savitz, Pennsylvania: Housecat Dreams: Forest Cat shows a lovely pet looking out the window of his home at Fitler Square Park in Philadelphia. The photo combines several of Ruth's favorite subjects: animals, nature, and the charming sites of Philadelphia. http://www.photosofphiladelphia.com/, http://flickr.com/photos/moocat/
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Flávio Cruvinel Brandão (Brazil) - "Swallow-tailed Hummingbird" page 39
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Economist, father and husband, Flávio is an avid nature photographer with a penchant for the feathered. This wonderful Hummingbird is called Swallowtailed Hummingbird (Eupetomena macroura), Beija-flor tesoura in Portuguese, because has a forked tail. It's green in the body and blue/purple in the head and upper breast, and, according to the light's direction, the colors become iridescent. It's common in the Brazilin cities, like Brasília, the capital of Brazil. This bird is territorial and aggressive if others birds that invades its area. http://www.flickr.com/photos/flaviocb/
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Denzil Fernandes (England) - "Playing with Fire" page 49
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"Denzil Fernandes is currently a teacher of Biology in a high school in Cambridge, England. His passion for photography has only blossomed in recent years and he thoroughly enjoys finding the occasional moment, when not at work or with his loving wife, to capture an interesting image or two! This photo was taken of his sister-in-law (Esther) playing with fire-poi during a late summer evening at a party in the South of France." http://www.flickr.com/photos/denzil/
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Dan Canavan (Australia) - "Me and My Shadow" page 51
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Dan Canavan was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1927. An accountant, Dan was married with four children. He was a foundation member of the Preston Photographic Club in a northern suburb of Melbourne from 1948 until his death in 2006. Dan won every club award, some of them several times. Dan was one of the photographic art's true gentlemen, always willing to advise and assist new photographers to improve their skills and enjoy photography. Dan's forte was Land/Seascape, but he was also proficient at the grab shot, as illustrated by the one he called "Me and MY Shadow".
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Malcolm Brown (Canada) - "NO" page 53
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Malcolm Brown is an international award winning GRAPHIC designer in addition to being a STRONG, OLD-SCHOOL, MULTI-MEDIA artist. "NO" was INCLUDED IN an exhibition (3 YEARS OF GOD & GOO) CONSISTING of 33 paintings, combining layered imagery, large overt texts and scratchy penciled slogans. Iconic, ironic, terribly true and all about 'the DAILY instants' that happen every instant. The painting 'NO' forces pause and reflection before clear-headed action TAKES PLACE. www.supercrasher.ca
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Helene Barbara (USA) "With Grace and Ease" page 55
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Helene Barbara, California: Helene's photographic artwork is an expression of Nature's beauty combined with the fascinating experience of our human lives. In the lotus flower image, titled "With Grace and Ease", one can see in the world of Nature, the loveliness of a life lived with Inner Peace and Natural Harmony.
www.printroom.com/pro/simplynatural
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Terri Graham (USA) - "Bee" page 57
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"My art is an extension and expression of who I am spiritually. I endeavor to show the profound impact that the love of Jesus the Christ has had in my life."
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