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by James Temple
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Waves Of Green #1 Galaxy case by James Temple. Protect your Galaxy S8 with an impact-resistant, slim-profile, hard-shell case. The image is printed directly onto the case and wrapped around the edges for a beautiful presentation. Simply snap the case onto your Galaxy S8 for instant protection and direct access to all of the phone's features!
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Two hundred million years ago, cycads were everywhere. Cycad forests reached from Greenland to Antarctica (though the continents were not where they... more
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Protect your Galaxy S8 with an impact-resistant, slim-profile, hard-shell case. The image is printed directly onto the case and wrapped around the edges for a beautiful presentation. Simply snap the case onto your Galaxy S8 for instant protection and direct access to all of the phone's features!
Two hundred million years ago, cycads were everywhere. Cycad forests reached from Greenland to Antarctica (though the continents were not where they are now). Pterodactyls flew through them. Big dinosaurs munched on them during the Jurassic period. They were small, stumpy palm-looking trees, known today as Sago Palms. They are now the most commercially grown palm in the world.
I have a number of these beautiful trees in my yard here on the Hawaiian island of Moloka'i. When a cycad is ready to reproduce, it grows a large colorful cone about a foot wide, rich with pollen or seed. It signals its readiness by radiating heat or sending out attractive odors to pollinators, who travel back and forth. Once fertilized, the seed-rich cone is ripped apart by hungry seed carriers (who've included over the years, not just birds and insects, but dinosaurs, pterosaurs, bats; these trees have been eaten by just about everybody). The plant then sends up a fountain of new fronds out of its cen...
I've lived in Hawaii since 2002, 1200 feet above sea level, on the small rural island of Moloka'i. It is very quiet here, with only about 7,400 residents. I appreciate the quiet life after spending 35 years as a commercial illustrator, senior art director and design director for major advertising agencies and design studios in Chicago, San Francisco and Palo Alto California. I've always loved cooking. In 2002 that love led me to a degree in the Culinary Arts just before moving to Hawaii. Since then I designed and built a house, worked in local restaurants, self-published three cookbooks, and took up photography as a hobby. Now retired, I spend most of my time developing recipes and photographing them, plus researching and writing...
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Heidi Fickinger
Exquisite light and color James! Magnificent image. Aloha
James Temple replied:
Mahalo Heidi! James
Toni Abdnour
What a happy, freeing image, James! Beautiful photography! l/f/tw
James Temple replied:
Aloha Toni, it's important to be happy right now. Glad my image made you happy. Stay well! James
Marcia Colelli
Very beautiful composition with wonderful light. L
larisa Fedotova
Very nice work, l/f/tw
James Temple replied:
Thanks Iarisa! James
Sharon McConnell
Love this ... beautiful light and motion! l/f
James Temple replied:
Thanks Sharon! James
Geraldine Scull
Beautiful abstract work Jame ! L
James Temple replied:
Thank you Geraldine.
Sharon Williams Eng
Beautiful image.
James Temple replied:
Thanks Sharon!
A Hillman
Fsacinating history and so gorgeous! Love it! l/f
James Temple replied:
Thanks for all of your comments Sunny!
Luther Fine Art
Congratulations! Your fantastic photographic art has been chosen as a Camera Art Group feature! You are invited to archive your work in the Features Archive discussion as well as any other discussion in which it would fit.
James Temple replied:
Thank you!
Don Columbus
Congratulations James, your work is Featured in "Photographic Camera Art" I invite you to place it in the group's "2019 Featured Image Archive" Discussion!! L/Tweet
James Temple replied:
Thanks Don!
Jane M Dahl
Wow -- now that's green! Beautiful image, James! Featured in Hawaiiana. Aloha nui!
James Temple replied:
Thanks for the feature Jane!
Heidi Fickinger
This is truly fantastic James! Epitome of minimalism and design. Aloha
James Temple replied:
Aloha Heidi, thanks for your comment. James