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Hawai'i ~ Aloha Na'au

Here you will discover the Aloha Spirit and beauty of the islands offering the very best photography and art that Redbubble has to offer of the lovely tropical islands of Hawai'i

Featured Work

Ho'okipa Wai'ola ~ O ka lewa i luna, ua pa'aia he lani by Sharon Mau

Ho’okipa Wai’ola / Water is the Essence of Life / O ka lewa i luna, ua pa’aia he lani / In the space above, Heaven is held fast “Above the mountains / the Geese turn into the light again / Painting their black silhouettes on an open sky Sometimes everything has to be inscribed across the heavens / So you can find the one line already written inside you. Sometimes it takes a great sky to find that small bright and indescribable wedge of freedom in your own heart. Sometimes with the bones of the black sticks left when the fire has gone out / someone has written something new in the ashes of your life. You are not leaving, you are arriving”. ~ by David Whyte from The House of Belonging Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / My images do not belong to the public domain. Reproduction is strictly prohibited. All rights reserved Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi 19 August 2009 Featured Art 21 August 2009 / Nirvana / and / Silhouette / and / The Woman Photographer / and / Sensational Sun / The manifestation of moment of spiritual inspiration, this composite has been warmly received. Mahalo to everyone for your kindness, I am delighted you enjoy my art / Ho’okipa Wai’ola ~ O ka lewa i luna, ua pa’aia he lani / This is a composite of two images taken in the same location at the same time stitched together. One of the brilliant sky and the other of the coastal view from Ho’okipa Beach gazing toward West Maui and Kahakuloa. / I hope you enjoy it. I love doing this.
Waikoloa Dusk by ellcot

Along the side of Waikoloa Road on the Big Island; August 2008 Featured in Hawai’i – Aloha Na’au – Oct.2009
Tahitian Dancers by Dennis Begnoche Jr.

Panoramic shot of Tahitian Dancers performing in Kapaa Kauai. Camera used kodak pro 14n.
Blue Hawaii by Sean Jansen

Palm trees taken on a walk on the island of Qahu, Hawaii, USA / / /
Kalahuipua’a by Portia Soderberg

“All along the Kona-Kohala Coast, ancient anchialine ponds reflect those long-ago days when thatched hales (houses) and shady shelter caves furnished homes for fishermen and their families. Some of these ponds have been preserved at resorts but none have been so well restored and documented as Kalahuipua’a, a series of four main ponds and three smaller ones on the grounds of Mauna Lani. / Bottom samples from the ponds have been dated back to 250 B.C. but no one truly knows when the ancient aqua culture system was constructed. In this area of the Big Island, aqua culture ponds were of two types. Some were built of stones walling out the ocean from a naturally occurring protected bay. Others, like those along the Kona-Kohala Coast were inland ponds where water collected in pools at the shoreline, and because of the porous rock, rose and fell with the tide. Named after the Greek word anchialos, which means “near the sea,” such ponds are thought to be unique to Hawai’i. At Kalahuipua’a, as in many other locales, fish such as mullet and awa that were bred and fattened in the ponds, were reserved for the ali’i, the royal classes. Commoners who stole fish for their own consumption could be punished by death. / The loko, ponds, spread across 15 acres. The largest, Kalahuipua’a, covers five acres to a depth of about 18 feet, and is one of the best examples of a functioning fishpond in modern Hawai’i. Of six other ponds, Kahinawao, Waipuhi, Waipuhi Iki, Hope’ala, Milokukahi, and Manoku, only one other is connected to the ocean with a sluice gate, or makaha, as is Kalahuipua’a. The makaha is a wooden grate in either side of the fishpond wall that allows for water circulation and lets small fish swim in from the ocean. Once in the ponds they grow too large to swim back out. The flow of water through the makaha also controlled the algae growth and oxygenation.” Source: Coffee Times
Ke'oke'o Velvet by Kuulei2you

Night blooming
Indian Blue Peacock by Teresa Zieba

Featured in Hawai’i ~ Aloha Na’au – Oct 31st, 2009 This magnificent bird was roaming free in the superbly landscaped Gardens of Eden, Maui, Hawaii Canon XSi with 18-55mm lens, f/5.6, 1/200sec, ISO-200, 51mm.
Sand Expression by Paulo Rodrigues

At one of the 8(?) small beaches before Makena beach, Maui, Hawaii.
Maui Gallery by djphoto

The Cane House Gallery located in Lahaina on the island of Maui. / Canon EOS 630 / ISO 400 / Mauka /
Surfin' Hawaii by aura2000

Retro style poster of an oldtimer car with surfboard on top at the beach, surrounded by tropical vegetation and title “Surfin’ Hawaii”
Lava and fire. by Hannah Fenton-Williams

Surface flow. Kalapana Hawaii / Slow moving surface flow of lava, the heat from the lava started a small plant on fire. / Nikon coolpix p60 Featured in Hawai’i ~ Aloha Na’au group

Recent Work

Kilauea Lighthouse by pljvv

Pretty rainbow over Kilauea lighthouse at the North Shore of Kauai, Hawaii
End Of Day by Jack Grace

Tonights sunset from Kam I park near the life guard tower, Kihei, Maui, Hawaii. Spectacular sunsets two nights in a row, can hardly wait for tomorrows. Best viewed large.
Canoe Club Sunset by Jack Grace

Sunset at the old wharf where Kihei Canoe Club practices. Kihei, Maui, Hawaii.
Napali Coastline Kauai by Dennis Begnoche Jr.

Photo taken of napali coastline on kauai last week of Oct. 2009. Camera used kodak pro 14n
Banzai Pipeline by pljvv

Surfer riding the Banzai Pipeline, North Shore, Oahu, Hawaii.
The Absolute ~ Aloha Ke Akua Na Kahu ~ Ke Ahi La'a ~ Sacred Fire by Sharon Mau

From my collection: / Perception is Reality Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved Featured Art 23 September 2009 / ImageWriting This is by far the most popular image in my portfolio currently with 6304 views, 220 favouritings, 421 comments (including my replies) and 2 sales. Thank you so much for your kindness and continuous support. Aloha ‘oe Featured Art 30 May 2009 Inspired Art Featured Art May 2009 Art by Bubble Hosts Featured Art December 2008 Sea All of the Hawaiian Islands are mountains. The entire island of Maui is an enormous mountain rising up from depths of the ocean floor and surrounded by the vast and beautiful Pacific Ocean. The West Maui mountains are older than the East Maui mountains, specifically the majestic summit of Haleakala, which is one of the highest mountains on earth, a massive shield volcano that forms more than 75% of the Hawaiian Island of Maui, the summit of which is 10,023 feet in elevation from sea level. Mauna Kahalawai of West Maui is the mountain visible in many of my beach images from the south coast of the island and my sunset images from Ku’au and Ho’okipa on the North Shore. This is a composite of my photographs of a beautiful sunset on the golden sands of Po’olenalena Beach, Maui Hawai’i. Visible on the horizon is the sacred island of Kanaloa (Kaho’olawe Island) and Molokini. Text and research by Sharon Mau This image is dedicated with deepest spiritual love, respect and Aloha Na’au to my beloved husband Jacob Mau and kindest respect for his friend Kahu Daniel Kikawa~ Hawai’i ‘78 Revisited “No mind, no form, I only exist; / Now ceased all will and thought; / The final end of Nature’s dance, / I am it whom I have sought. A realm of Bliss bare, ultimate; / Beyond both knower and known; / A rest immense I enjoy at last; / I face the One alone. I have crossed the secret ways of life, / I have become the Goal. / The Truth immutable is revealed; I am the way, the God Soul. / My spirit aware of all the heights, / I am mute in the core of the Sun. / I barter nothing with time and deeds; / My cosmic play is done” ~ By: Sri Chinmoy 1931-2007 Aloha e Malama pono. Mahalo a nui loa for your many wonderful messages. Thank you so much! Featured in Natural Colour and Light group 09 January 2009 / This work is also featured in so many groups I lost count.... Mahalo to all the group hosts, thank you so much! © 2009 Sharon Anne Mau / Sales* 2 Greeting Cards / I use a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi “The more eroded, highest peak of the West Maui mountains is Pu’u Kukui at 5,788 feet. The sacred O ‘Iao Valley is the most famous valley of this mountain range. The West Maui Mountains or West Maui Volcano, known to Hawaiians as Mauna Kahalawai and Hale Mahina, form a much eroded shield volcano that constitutes the western one-quarter of the Hawaiian Island of Maui.” This archipelago represents the exposed peaks of a great undersea mountain range known as the Hawaiian-Emperor seamount chain, formed by volcanic activity over a hotspot in the earth’s mantle. At about 1,860 miles (3,000 km) from the nearest continent, the Hawaiian Island archipelago is the most isolated grouping of islands on Earth. The Hawaiian-Emperor seamount chain is composed of the Hawaiian Ridge, consisting of the islands of the Hawaiian chain northwest to Kure Atoll, and the Emperor Seamounts, a vast underwater mountain region of islands and intervening seamounts, atolls, shallows, banks and reefs along a line trending southeast to northwest beneath the northern Pacific Ocean. The seamount chain, containing over 80 identified undersea volcanoes, stretches over 5,800 kilometres (3,600 mi) from the Aleutian Trench in the far northwest Pacific to the Loʻihi seamount, the youngest volcano in the chain, which lies about 35 kilometres (22 mi) southeast of the Island of Hawaiʻi. The Hawaiian Islands are that portion of the Hawaiian-Emperor seamount chain that projects above sea level.” Information Source: Wikipedia. Ke Ahi La’a ~ Sacred Fire / World Christian Gathering on Indigenous People / Hilo, Hawai’i – 2002 “Na Kahu’s first release, Aloha Ke Akua, is a Na Hoku Hanohano Award finalist (Hawaii Music Award) and winner of the Indian Summer Music Award 2005. Produced by Daniel Kikawa as a musical version of his highly regarded book,”Perpetuated in Righteousness… Daniel Kikawa, PhD (Intercultural Studies) is the President of Aloha Ke Akua. You can find more information about him at: DanielKikawa.com Other items produced by Aloha Ke Akua: / CD: A Call to the Nations (Na Kahu) / A Call to the Nations: Na Kahu – Aloha Ke Akua II Lonoikamakahiki – Helu 1 My husband, Jacob Mau, and Daniel Kikawa are friends. Jacob is featured in one of Daniel’s books ~ God of Light, God of Darkness In preparation for the ‘Io Project, (‘Io is the Hawaiian name for God or the Supreme Creator) when Jacob was asked by Daniel to join the team, Daniel had received information about Jacob as he was working with DLNR in land conservation and drug enforcement, and considering that Jacob is Kanaka Kupuna and has a wealth of knowledge about his people and culture, the Heiau’s, the temples and other sacred, historic and archeological sites on Maui, Moloka’i and the other Hawaiian Islands. It was critically important that the spiritual cleansing of the heiau’s on all the islands take place at the same time. Date of the project 14 March 1998. Excerpt from God of Light ~ God of Darkness – Chapter 20 The Mountain Ridge / “Thursday morning, 12 March, dawned; and Daniel was still without a solution to their dilemma. The phone rang; it was Jacob Mau on Maui. Jacob was known as the best search and rescue man on Maui. He had hunted the mountains and back country of Maui since he was a boy and knew the land like his own back yard. He was a major factor in helping the Maui team find several heiau(s). Jacob told Daniel he was helping Pastor Alan Cravallo get permits to go into several remote valleys in Hamakua on the Big Island. So Daniel told him of their unsolvable problem on Moloka’i. Jacob said he would see what he could do and call him back. Daniel didn’t have high hopes. He had already checked out every possible option. But an hour later, Jacob called back. “I got you a helicopter that will land you at the very top of the mountain – FREE!!”. Daniel was stunned! It turned out Jacob had a pilot friend, Mike (last name withheld by request), who owed him a favour. He and Jacob had worked together many times doing search-and-rescue- missions. Getting permits was not a problem for these search-and-rescue pilots. Jacob said Mike was the best pilot in the islands and that he had landed in the Moloka’i high country many times. God only provides the very best!” Ke Akua o ke Ao, Ke Akua o ka Po / The Chronicles of the Spiritual Battle for Hawai’i This photograph cannot be modified for commercial or advertising use, nor can it be copied or reproduced in any form without the photographer’s permission. I own full and exclusive copyrights on all my photographs and they are protected under International Copyright laws. 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, including but not limited to resale of my images without a license for use. © 2009 Fine Art Photography, Research and Photojournalism by Sharon Mau
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Calendar Sale ~ Extremely Maui ~ Essence of the Island…Aloha ‘oe, mahalo nui loa, thank you so much to the anonymous buyer who purchased one of my calendars. It means so much to me that you en…

Aloha ‘oe, mahalo nui loa, thank you so much to the anonymous buyer who purchased one of my calendars. It means so much to me that you enjoy my work, thank you!! / / Aloha e Malama pono, / Sharon / / / /
The Music of Light ~ Infinite Wonders by Sharon Mau

This is a composite of two of my photographs taken on the beautiful and luxurious Black Sands of Hamoa Beach / Hana Maui Hawai’i Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved “I the human wander lone in wonder amid this grand universe of unbounded space and time You the great keeper of universe / Exist in its infinite wonders / Lone in silence / In the grand home of your own being! Through the limitless lands and times / Through the uncountable stars / You are gazing at me. I look up towards thee! / All noise ceased in silence / All worlds absorbed in deep peace / Alone / You are! / Alone / I am / within, fearless!” ~ Poetry and Songs by Rabindranath Tagore’ Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi
Lava on black sand. by Hannah Fenton-Williams

Lava flowing into the ocean and on black sand. / Kalapana Hawaii. / Taken from a boat / Nikon coolpix p60
There Are No Rules of Architecture for a Castle in the Clouds by Sharon Mau

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. Makawao Union Church in evening light ~ Makawao Hawai’i Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved The church of the open mind, the warm heart, the inspiring soul, and the social vision. G. K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man 1925 “Gilbert Keith Chesterton, better known by his initials as G. K. Chesterton, was an English essayist, novelist, poet, journalist, and author of literary and social criticism. Chesterton was a somewhat contentious man, writing on many subjects about which he had strong feelings, but always with charm, wit, and generosity. In 1925 he published The Everlasting Man, which incorporated many ideas suggested in his earlier works. It reflects his own spiritual journey” / “He then asks the next logical question. Is the Church a continuation of Jesus or a breaking away from him? The first might seem hard to accept, but the second involves even greater difficulties. As a help to making the correct choice, Chesterton asks us to reflect on the analogy of a key. Its truth depends on whether it fits the lock. You won’t get very far analyzing its seemingly odd shape. What you have to do is see if it opens the door. In reflecting on the key (the creed) Chesterton uses what he calls “the witness of the heretics.” (a.k.a. dissenters) Each one tried to reshape the key. The church has constantly resisted that. As Chesterton brilliantly illustrates, only if the key retains its shape will it unlock the door. In the final chapter Chesterton gives one of the most remarkable arguments for the truth of faith: the “five deaths” of the Church. We are not the first ones to live in an age which has concluded the church was moribund, passé. But it has experienced some remarkable resurrections like a phoenix rising from its own ashes. Chesterton analyzes five times when that happened and offers his reflection on what that means for us today.”
Na Pali coast, Kauai by pljvv

Panoramic view over Na Pali coast from the 11-mile Kalalau trail, Kauai, Hawaii.
Sunset Kapakuloa Ahapua'a Maui Hawai'i by Sharon Mau

Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / My images do not belong to the public domain. Reproduction is strictly prohibited. All rights reserved Beautiful Art and Greeting Cards For Sale ~ Shop securely and view my collection here “I see the physical world, but I look deeper. I hear words spoken, but I listen deeper. I feel the impact of actions, but I sense deeper. I know many things about life, but I discern deeper. I am an observer of life, noticing patterns, choices, and paths. I am a participant of life, living in the heart of the moment. I am a discerner of life, perceiving the underlying love empowering all moments. I look for love, allowing it to guide my way.” Journey With Spirit Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi / Shooting Date 24 July 2009

About This Group

Aloha mai no, aloha aku.
When love is given, love is returned.
Hawaiians understand the transforming power of Aloha.
Love begets Love.
Aloha e Malama pono
Group participation is encouraged

“Hawai’i Nei The crown jewel of an ocean that covers a third of our planet’s surface. Home of the Spirit of Aloha. Known the world over for its beauty, tranquility, and healing, the Hawaiian Islands comprise a total of 137 islands and atolls, with a total land area of 6,423.4 square miles (16,636.5 km).

The eight main Hawaiian islands (also known as the Hawaiian Windward Islands) are listed here from East to West. All except Kaho’olawe (also known as Kanaloa) are inhabited. The island of Hawai’i (also known as the Big Island), Maui, Kanaloa, also known as Kaho’olawe (uninhabited; temporary residential facilities and in the midst of restoration by the Kanaka Maoli of the islands), Lana’i, Moloka’i, O’ahu, Kaua’i and Ni’ihau.

Smaller islands, atolls, and reefs (beyond Ni’ihau and all uninhabited), called the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, or Hawaiian Leeward Islands include: Nihoa (Mokumana), Necker (Mokumanamana), French Frigate Shoals (Mokupapapa), Gardner Pinnacles (Puhahonu), Maro Reef (Nalukakala), Laysan (Kauo), Lisianski Island (Papa’apoho), Pearl and Hermes Atoll (Holoikauaua), Midway Atoll (Pihemanu), and Kure Atoll (Kanemiloha’i).

Some information sources state that there are 137 “islands” in the Hawaiian chain. This number includes all minor islands and islets offshore of the main islands (listed above) and individual islets in each atoll.

Islets and small offshore islands include Ford Island (Moku’umeume), Lehua, Kaula, Kaohikaipu, Manana, Mokolea Rock, Na Mokulua, Molokini, Mokoli’i, and Moku Manu.

Hawaiians possess a vast knowledge of the environment and know that our very existence depends upon its care. We are the Keiki O Ka ‘Aina, the Children of the Land

Ua Mau Ke Ea O Ka ‘Aina I Ka Pono
The Life of the Land is Perpetuated in Righteousness

Okinas and macrons are Christian-taught pronunciation markings and not indigenous to Hawaiian language.

Education was one of the most important functions of the early Hawaiians, and it remains so today. It is the means of survival for a sovereign nation and her people.

Aloha kakou, e komo mai, e pili mau na pomaikai ia oe,

This is Aloha

Preserve the language, preserve the culture, preserve the ‘aina (land), live in balance, live aloha.

E ho’omaika’i O la’a kea me ke aloha pau ole
(Blessings of sacred light and everlasting love.)