"My art’s purpose is to expose the extraordinary beauty and energy of the Natural world. I love to explore what hides at the threshold of perception or passes unseen or overlooked. My tool is the camera, but the perspective I choose and my subject matter can render images which are abstract and highly contemplative. The tiniest fungi, lensing and reflection within raindrops and dews, the interplay of water with plants, all offer fascinating glimpses into worlds where boundaries of our ordinary reality no longer apply. In my method I try to capture not only Nature’s tangible raw physical beauty, but also to express her spirituality, which I hope to expose and share through the artistic interpretations I create." C Ribet C Ribet lives in Northern California in Silicon Valley but pursues subjects for photography wherever he may find them. Mushrooms Mushrooms are a favorite subject, of course. Many of the mushroom pictures you see on these pages are of mushrooms growing at Plum lake in the North woods of Wisconsin and in the surrounding countryside there. Other mushroom photographs are of mushrooms native to California. Mushrooms represented here are from Mendocino, Sonoma and from the Santa Cruz mountains among other areas of the state of California. California Oaks and Landscapes California landscapes and the characteristic oak trees and shadowed hills and valleys of California are other favorites of the artist. The brief time before the true end of winter and the start of spring in Northern California affords tremendous opportunity for any photographer native to the area. Then is the time to capture the striking contrast of the bare forms of wintering oaks surrounded by the lush greenery of early spring grasses lit by the raking side light of a lingering winter sun. Water and Extreme Macro Photography C Ribet's pursuit of tinier and tinier subjects in mushroom photography (many fruit bodies are extremely small with details not visible to the naked eye) has led to other subjects of the natural world of the miniature. Much of C Ribet's latest work involves extreme close-up photography of water droplets and water condensation on leaves, blades of grass, and on other foliage. This new series of prints intimately explores the interplay of aqueous lensing and reflection and illuminates the natural energies hidden within these tiniest of water droplets and water bubbles. Personal Note On an off topic, I find that dried dragon fruit pitaya fruit sold as Trader Joe's Dragon Fruit at Trader Joe's market helps my diabetic blood glucose control - but Trader Joe's is always running out of their dragon fruit. If you ever visit a Trader Joe's make sure you ask for it - and harrass them if they don't have it in stock! It makes a significant difference for me in my personal battle against diabetes without drugs and medications. |
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 Click here to complete order. Questions about framing? Custom matting? Call 650 592-8469 (10 - 5 PST). Tour the C Ribet Gallery California Wild Mushroom Art Slide Show or go to Gallery California main site. Artist note: Are you a diabetic as I am? I have up a website to help other diabetics deal with the disease so they don't have to go through the learning curve I did. You can visit the website at DiabeticLifeDiet.com dietary control of type 2 diabetes. You can now find updated dietary control of diabetes information at the dragon fruit health benefits pages at Foodlywise.com website as well as info on varieties of pitaya fruit and pitahaya fruit - known as the dragon fruit or strawberrypear. Dragon fruit pitaya pages and Dragon fruit pitahaya pages are going up with more info on growing pitaya. New Foodlywise Tibetan goji berries health benefits pages are now up and Diabetes Life Guide is now up to explain diabetes lifestyle intervention as the companion to dietary control of diabetes at DiabeticLifeDiet dietary control of diabetes website. Learn about how be be your own diabetic diet guide and even how a vegetarian diabetic diet can be the answer to the question of what is a diabetic diet in the first place. Visit the new Homeschool Online Program in Latin and the Free Homeschool Online Curriculum Program in Greek or visit the Free Homeschool Online Curriculum Program main website.For fun information on the Honda Insight 100mpg hybrid and making a Honda Insight a turbo Insight check out the Turbo Honda Insight pages at the Edwin the Insight website. You can also learn how to replace the Honda Insight Pollen filter at the Edwin the Turbo Insight website. Want to learn about Jumbo Prawn Taxonomy, find Jumbo Prawn recipes? Visit the jumboprawn.com information pages. Visit the wok.recipes.jumboprawn.com information pages or learn about healthy wok cooking using the best cooking device ever invented - the wok! |
