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Print: $28.99 NEW! 2009 Premium Large Calendar
Linen Paper 43 color images - 14 month calendar
starts January 2009 to February 2010
by Minerva Bloom
This Premium calendar explores several regions throughout France: from Paris, the Louvre Museum, Notre Dame, Versailles, Chartres, the region of Provence, Du Pape, Avignon, Bourges, the castles of Chenanceau, Chambord and Loire Valley and the cosmopolitan cities of Lyon, Nice, Cannes. Also including the small country of Monaco.
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Print: $27.99 NEW! 2009 PREMIUM LARGE CALENDAR by Minerva Bloom
25 color photographs, 14 Months
December 2008 to January 2010
Bath is a city in Somerset in the south west of England. The city was founded, among surrounding hills, in the valley of the River Avon around naturally occurring hot springs where the Romans built baths and a temple, giving it the name Aquae Sulis. Edgar was crowned king of England at the Bath Abbey in 973. Much later, it became popular as a spa resort during the Georgian era, which led to a major expansion that left a heritage of exemplary Georgian architecture crafted from Bath Stone. The city is a World Heritage Site.
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Print: $28.99 NEW! 2009 PREMIUM LARGE CALENDAR by Minerva Bloom.
39 color photographs, 14 months
From December 2008 to January 2010.
US Holidays and Celestial Events.
Venice, has been known as the "City of Water" among other names. In my view, one of the most beautiful cities in the world. This is a small homage from a weary traveler who found herself captivated by its beauty, walking around during the course of 3 rainy days. Venice resonates with me: across the ocean, for I live in a city called "The Venice of America."
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Print: $28.99 NEW! 2009 PREMIUM LARGE CALENDAR by Minerva Bloom
Linen Paper 37 color images, 14 months.
From Dec 2008 to Jan 2010.
Toledo, Spain was renowned throughout the Middle Ages. This Castile-La Mancha center was declared a World Heritage Site. Toledo was famed for religious tolerance and coexistence of Christian, Jewish and Moorish cultures. It was known as: La Convivencia. Today's city contains the religious monuments from these 3 faiths. Toledo reached its zenith in the Islamic Caliphate era, as many Muslim scientists of this age were not rivaled in the world.
The old city is located on a mountaintop surrounded on three sides by the Tagus River. Many famous people were born or lived in Toledo such as El Greco. It was also the place of important historic events for the Visigothic Councils. Toledo is famed as a world center for the manufacture of swords and steel artifacts. Toledo's Alcázar, at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 became a besieged garrison.
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Print: $27.99 NEW! 2009 PREMIUM LARGE CALENDAR by Minerva Bloom.
25 color images, 12 month calendar.
These Roman baths are located in the city of Bath, England. A shrine at the site of these hot springs was built by Celts and was dedicated to the goddess Sulis, whom the Romans identified with Minerva; however, the name Sulis continued to be used after the Roman invasion, leading to the town's Roman name of Aquae Sulis (literally, "the waters of Sulis"). Messages to the Goddess Sulis-Minerva were scratched onto metal, known as curse tablets and have been recovered from the Sacred Spring. These curse tablets were written in Latin, and usually laid curses on people by whom the writer felt they had been wronged. The temple was constructed in 60-70 AD and the bathing complex was gradually built up over the next 300 years.
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Print: $15.99 NEW! STANDARD CALENDAR by Minerva Bloom
12 months, 27 color images.
Montserrat is a mountain near Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain. It's the site of a Benedictine abbey: Santa Maria de Montserrat, a place of pilgrimage which hosts the Virgin of Montserrat sanctuary and which is identified by some with the location of the Holy Grail in Arthurian myth. The Publicacions de l'Abadia de Montserrat is the oldest press in the world with the first book published in 1499. It's still running.
Montserrat means serrated mountain in Catalan. It describes the peculiar aspect of the rock formation, which is visible from a great distance.
During Franco's rule Santa Maria de Montserrat was a place of refuge for scholars, artists, politicians and students. The Basilica houses a museum with works of art by prominent painters and sculptors including works by El Greco, Dalí, Picasso and many more. The abbey can be reached by road, cable car or railway.
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Print: $15.99 NEW! 2009 STANDARD CALENDAR by Minerva Bloom.
15 color images, 14 months.
From November 2008 to December 2009. US Holidays and Celestial Events.
Venice or Venezia, has been known as the Queen of the Adriatic, among other names. In my view, one of the most beautiful cities in the world. This is a small homage from a weary traveler who found herself captivated by its beauty, walking around during the course of 3 rainy days.
Venice resonates with me: across the ocean, for I live in a city called "The Venice of America."
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Print: $57.00 Download: $7.99 SEASONS & SONNETS
ART AND POETRY
8x11 Softcover Edition
112 pages, full color photographs
A stunning collection of Shakespearean Sonnets by poet MICHAEL D. PETTI and nature photography by MINERVA BLOOM; a collaboration that reflects on love and life in its moods and seasons. A stirring verse introduces each season, hinting at the visual and poetic feast that follows, be it a landmark or a subtle, intimate detail:
"Winter's tomb becomes spring's womb and thus the cycle of life is renewed and recreated."
The script of each year is one of change, but that change composed of each season's chapter, is reliable and knowable. What we believe we may lose in summer, we also believe we will find once more. In each autumn leaf that turns, in each winter snowflake's crystal, in each spring's thaw: Upon each of our hearts, each season writes its magic...
Cover art and book design by Minerva Bloom.
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BlossomsBlossoms (calendar)
Print: $15.99 COLLECTIBLE, 2008 STANDARD CALENDAR
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With an eye for the unexpected and the beautiful Minerva Bloom's Photography captures wildflowers with natural light, offbeat composition, and the subtleties of color.
Month by month, BLOSSOMS evokes not only the natural beauty of the blooms themselves, but a feeling of the orchestrated harmony of elements that come into play in the blossoming of flowers.
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BlossomsBlossoms (calendar)
Print: $27.99 Collectible, 2008 PREMIUM LARGE CALENDAR
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With an eye for the unexpected and the beautiful Minerva Bloom's Photography captures wildflowers with natural light, offbeat composition, and the subtleties of color. Each month's image is accompanied with an inspirational verse that affirms creativity and growth; reflecting on the challenges we must meet in our lifetime throughout our own 'blossoming'.
Month by month, BLOSSOMS evokes not only the natural beauty of the blooms themselves, but a feeling of the orchestrated harmony of elements that come into play in the blossoming of flowers.
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Print: $27.99 COLLECTIBLE, PREMIUM LARGE CALENDAR
13 color nature photographs with captions, by Minerva Bloom.
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Introduction: 10 miles of meadow and forest environments traverse this Sea Ranch coastal community of ecologically inspired planning and architecture. It is home to an abundance of wild life. Even off shore, gray whales parade on their 6000-mile annual migration, in fall south to Baja, California breeding grounds and in spring north to arctic waters.
In the rocky zone between low and high tides a rich variety of marine life flourishes on the ocean's edge. Harbor seals sun themselves on offshore rocks and ledges protected by tidal waters. Wildflowers bloom with abandon. Meadows, hillside and wooded areas have its own unique vegetation and combination of wildflowers. Sea Ranch is located 17 miles north or Fort Ross on State Hwy 1.
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Print: $27.99 COLLECTIBLE, 2008 PREMIUM LARGE CALENDAR by Minerva Bloom
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ORGANIC ABSTRACTS is an original project by Minerva Bloom, exploring change, regeneration, patterns, textures and colors in nature. Each month is represented by an Organic Abstract Photograph: an artistic composition focusing on elements such as colors, lines, textures and shapes that may be found while observing nature at close range. Such as the unique patterns of tree bark, lichen on rock, organic debris or flotsam, shells and sand, fallen tree trunks and more. Each photograph has a brief description of the scene. Minerva Bloom is currently working on a book of Organic Abstract Photography.
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Print: $27.99 PREMIUM BILINGUAL CALENDAR ENGLISH-SPANISH
2007 COLLECTIBLE
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Introduction: Many moments we often pass by and take for granted. They vanish while our busy minds ruminate endlessly. All the while we miss what is right in front of us which is the present moment. Our duty should be to inhabit this precise second of existence. To this end the ancient art of haiku is ‘Zen’ for it takes these tangible concrete moments of time and crystallizes their essence in as few words as possible. The haijin (haiku poet) is thus constrained to relay a significant event in few syllables. Haiga is still a young art in the West but the principles established in Japan offer a good background for experimentation and development. When haiku are embedded in an art piece it is called haiga. In modern haiga the image and the haiku poem are coupled with a 'haiku-moment'. This haiku moment is described as a moment of transcendence. Original bilingual haiga by Minerva Bloom.
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Print: $15.99 2007 COLLECTIBLE STANDARD CALENDAR
Bilingual Haiga English/Spanish
DE TODOS COLORES EL JARDIN
Foto Haiku- Edición de Colleción English/Español 2007
Cut the photos and frame them. 12 original bilingual haiga by Minerva Bloom.
Introduction: Like the haiku poem the focus of HAIGA is in the simplicity of expression. Modern haiga consists of photo-haiku or art. Haiku accompanying a photographic/art image coupled with a 'haiku-moment.'
The ancient japanese haiku form often contains a juxtaposition between two of its lines and a third line, modern haiga can also contain a juxtaposition between the haiku itself and the visual/art work. This nature calendar presents
13 nature photographs with a haiku poem, of various textures, colours, landscapes and macroscapes found in nature, by Minerva Bloom.
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