Cedar Winds Press: Art & Poetry by Minerva Bloom

Venice of America: Fort Lauderdale, FloridaVenice of America: Fort Lauderdale, Florida (calendar)

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2010 VENICE OF AMERICA: Fort Lauderdale, Florida - Premium Large CALENDAR. With 18 pages, full color gloss paper. 17 months - From December 2009 to April 2010 and with a total of 50 images. Fort Lauderdale, Florida is known as the "Venice of America" because of its expansive and intricate canal system. The city is a world popular tourist destination and a major world yachting center, with 42,000 resident yachts and 100 marinas and boatyards. You will find in this calendar 44 images of the city, from historic buildings, mansions along the new river, aerial views, cruise ships at port everglades, yachts along the canals, breathtaking sunrises along the Atlantic Ocean, as well as local flora and fauna. A very comprehensive tour and reference of the area.

Sedona Nature TrailsSedona Nature Trails (calendar)

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NEW! PREMIUM LARGE 2010 CALENDAR - 15 pages from December 2009 to Januray 2011. Premium, Full Color Paper. 43 full color nature photographs from Sedona, Arizona the Red Rock Country in the American Southwest. From canyon floor landscapes with its lush vegetation, to dramatic coconino sandstone cliffs, desert flora, natural rock formations, caves, pinyon forests, autumn colors along the oak creek and many more spectacular nature trails await the viewer. Photography by Minerva Bloom.

Toledo, Spain: Ancient Center of CoexistenceToledo, Spain: Ancient Center of Coexistence (calendar)

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Photography by Minerva Bloom
Linen Paper 37 color images, 14 months
Jan 2009 - Feb 2010

Toledo, Spain was renowned throughout the Middle Ages. This Castile-La Mancha center is a World Heritage site. Toledo was famed for religious tolerance and coexistence of Christian, Jewish and Moorish cultures; 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.

FRANCE Land of Myth and MagicFRANCE Land of Myth and Magic (calendar)

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NEW! 2009 Premium Large Calendar
Linen Paper 43 color images - 14 month calendar
starts January 2009 to February 2010
Photography 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.

Seasons & SonnetsSeasons & Sonnets (book)

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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.

VENICE City of WondersVENICE City of Wonders (calendar)

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NEW! Premium Large Calendar
Photography by Minerva Bloom
Linen Paper, 39 color photographs
From December 2008 to January 2010

14 month premium Calendar with 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."

BATH, England: City by the River AvonBATH, England: City by the River Avon (calendar)

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NEW! 2009 Premium Large Calendar
Photography by Minerva Bloom
Linen Paper, 25 images with 14 Months
from 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.

The Baths of CaracallaThe Baths of Caracalla (calendar)

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NEW 2009 Premium Large Calendar
Linen Paper 12 Months 20 images
Photography by Minerva Bloom

The Baths of Caracalla were Roman public baths built in the city of Rome between AD 212 during the reign of the Emperor Caracalla. The bath complex covered approximately 33 acres. The bath building could hold an estimated 1,600 bathers. It was a leisure center and the 2nd to have a public library within the complex. Like other libraries in Rome there were two separate and equal sized buildings: one for Greek and one for Latin language texts. The baths consisted of a central frigidarium (cold room) under three high vaults, a double pool tepidarium (medium) and a caldarium (hot room) as well as two palaestras (gyms for wrestling and boxing). There was also a swimming pool, roofless with bronze mirrors mounted overhead to direct sunlight into the pool area. The reservoirs on the south wall of the complex were fed with water from the Marcian Aqueduct.

VENEZIA: Queen of the AdriaticVENEZIA: Queen of the Adriatic (calendar)

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NEW! Standard Calendar
Photography by Minerva Bloom
Glossy paper, 15 images
From November 2008 to December 2009

14 month Calendar with 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."

BlossomsBlossoms (calendar)

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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.

BlossomsBlossoms (calendar)

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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.

Sea Ranch: Mendocino Coast of CaliforniaSea Ranch: Mendocino Coast of California (calendar)

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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.

Organic AbstractsOrganic Abstracts (calendar)

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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.