Self Portrait

Camera

My Sony camera and me!

What caught my fancy.  My photos 

Title "My Domain"  Glaring Neighborhood Cat

Turkey vulture on our front porch. Volunteer Rob waiting for wildlife rescue to pick up this injured bird.

PLATE ONE Rejoicing access to Organic Produce 2012 

PLATE TWO Rejoicing access to Organic Produce 2012

Title: "Thy Purpose In Life"  Land Snails

Title "LEO, "   This shell is emblematic of my birth sign, it is edible and makes beautiful pearls.
The Lion’s Paw (Nodipecten nodosus) is a scallop shell.  It is a large and colorful one with sculpted ridges and bumps in a fan pattern resembling a paw.  Coloring can be orange to red or purple. It can be 6 inches long.  It is endemic to eastern U.S. coast in water 30 – 160 feet deep from the Carolinas to the West Indies and Brazil.

WOW!  Land Snails!  Cuban Tree Snails

WOW! Worldly Land Snails 

A few of my favorite photographs

Florida Keys Native Box Turtle found in the Secret Garden

The face of wonder and awe.   Adrainne with a gently captured Secret Garden chameleon
The brown anole was the first introduced reptile species documented in Florida. They were accidentally introduced to Florida in Key West in the late 1800s likely as stowaways on cargo ships coming from Caribbean islands, where the species is native. The brown anole (pronounced uh-NOLE), also known as the Cuban brown anole, is a small lizard that grows to a total length (snout to tail tip) of 5 to 9 inches ​

Green chameleon on heliconia flower ​

Cuban Tree frog  Cattleya orchid

Cuban Tree Frog in parrot's water bowl

Cuban Tree Frog

My photographs of the parrots

"Ara" Blue and gold macaw and "Larrybird" Harlequin macaw at Jeannie's Bakery on Southard Street

​Digital Art

The traditional definition of art has expanded beyond paintings and drawings to include different forms of artistic production that include digital and computer generated designs.  I make pictures and movies on the computer.  This is digital art?   Digital art is an artistic creation produced using digital technology.  It is a modern way of exploring creativity, like video technology, television, and computers.   

SERIES:  Breaking with my families tradition of collecting things. 

Preponderance, Gravitas, Gravity, Seriousness, Solemnity, Dignity, Loftiness, Sobriety, Austerity, Decorum ​

 Title Falling Apart.  My Inheritance: a disintegrating collection of Grassy Key crabs, starfish. sea urchins, sand dollars and brittle stars.  These once live specimens were collected and dried by my mother in the 1950's

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TITLE:  "Specimens" Commonalities for ​scientific study, display or whatever.  13 x 19 inches
Species, human, parrot, plant, paramecium, plankton, mollusks and the art of parthenogenesis
 limited edition glycine print glossy photo paper,  Epson archival paper and inks 

EXPRESSION OF MY ANGUISH AND HORROR FOR THE DEGRADATION OF EARTH
AND THE MASS EXTINCTION OF SPECIES 

TITLE: My Primal Scream for the loss of the natural world.  limited edition glycine print

Sisters Watching The Mass Extinction of Species.
Photograph of Performance by Eco-Artists Nancy Forrester (right) & Sister Dede Desmond (left) 
limited edition glycine print

TITLE   "Ritual Mourning":  Photograph of Performance with Bouquet of Roses for the loss of the natural world.  Self-portrait by Nancy Forrester lamenting the extinction of plants and animals
​on her sixty-fifth birthday July 29, 2003  limited edition glycine print 

 ​"Eye to Eye": Caged and Flightless Recognition   the grim reaper 
Photo of Performance, "Lucy" Scarlet macaw and "Nancy" the Grim Reaper limited edition glycine print

Digital Art

"A Pledge for the Planet"  Do Not Eat Me   glycee print Epson archival paper and ink 13" x19"

I created many non permanent paper signs for The Secret Garden Gate because the subject of my Storytelling changed daily.

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 Take Stock in Organic Food   digital art