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Joy Serves G*d in Joy as a passionate performing percussionist, poet, publisher, photographer, publicist, sound healer, spiritual guide, artist, gardener and Gemini. "Ivdu Et Hashem B'Simcha" -Psalm 100:2 ....... Joy Krauthammer, active in the Jewish Renewal, Feminist, and neo-Chasidic worlds for over three decades, kabbalistically leads Jewish women's life-cycle rituals. ... Workshops, and Bands are available for all Shuls, Sisterhoods, Rosh Chodeshes, Retreats, Concerts, Conferences & Festivals. ... My kavanah/intention is that my creative expressive gifts are inspirational, uplifting and joyous. In gratitude, I love doing mitzvot/good deeds, and connecting people in joy. In the zechut/merit of Reb Shlomo Carlebach, zt'l, I mamash love to help make our universe a smaller world, one REVEALING more spiritual consciousness, connection, compassion, and chesed/lovingkindness; to make visible the Face of the Divine... VIEW MY COMPLETE PROFILE and enjoy all offerings.... For BOOKINGS write: joyofwisdom1 at gmail.com, leave a COMMENT below, or call me. ... "Don't Postpone Joy" bear photo montage by Joy. Click to enlarge. BlesSings, Joy

WHAT IS IT?

All photos/materials in sites by Joy Krauthammer are under copyright by © Joy Krauthammer.
Permission by Joy Krauthammer, needed to copy/use. 


"You G*d are the Compassion, the Strength, the Beauty, the Victory, the Splendor, and the Foundation of everything in Heaven and on Earth. " (1 Chronicles 1:29)
I see Your Face in All Nature that I photograph.

Thanks to "52 Frames" for this post idea from our 2013 Week 37 Theme:
"What Is It?"

http://joys-favorite-fotos.blogspot.com/2012/05/submissions-to-52-frames.html


All posts are dated in archives, but the dates ARE IRRELEVANT.   :)
NEW PHOTO POSTS are posted according to themes/categories, not dates. 


Squash
© Joy Krauthammer  10.16.2017

Cycas revoluta - Sago Cycad. Megasporophylls
© Joy Krauthammer  10.16.2017

Sago
© Joy Krauthammer  10.16.2017

Sago
© Joy Krauthammer  10.16.2017

Spears
© Joy Krauthammer  10.16.2017

Asparagus
© Joy Krauthammer  10.16.2017

Cantaloupe
© Joy Krauthammer  10.16.2017

Pine Cone
© Joy Krauthammer  10.16.2017

Pumpkin
© Joy Krauthammer  10.16.2017

Cycas revoluta - Sago Cycad. Megasporophylls
© Joy Krauthammer  10.16.2017

Cycas revoluta - Sago Cycad. Megasporophylls
© Joy Krauthammer  10.16.2017
On non-recognizable mysterious forms, I was looking for TEXTURES with surface irregularities, details, curves, patterns and drama. Although I shot (non-flowering) Sago Palm seed pods / Cycas revoluta - Sago Cycad in the morning, I then waited all day for Golden Hour to bring out the deeper warm golden color of Megasporophylls, the protective fertile female reproductive structure groupings of Cycas.

Joyously I explore nature, uncover and reveal the hidden beauty. I love the textures outside on the Megasporophylls, furry finger-like cycads, forms that conceal the inner round exposed ovules, orange/red hairy seed pods that may contain an inner embryo if pollinated.  The cabbage-shaped female cone will slowly open up when receptive to pollen. 

The ‘fruit' ovules are not enclosed in an ovary but lie naked on leaflike structures, a bed of thorns. The pod area surrounds upper trunk and under the new “flush” of unfurling leaves/spine/spears.

I positioned my camera INSIDE the ‘womb’ of the Sago Palm weirdness mystery to shoot the fascinating seed pods. It was like an ultrasound. It felt like opening a coat, carefully spreading its tight ‘leafy’ furry fingers and palm, and exploring the hidden inner space of golden globes, 'eggs in ovaries’. 

Cycas revoluta - Sago Cycad. Megasporophylls
© Joy Krauthammer  10.16.2017

Cycas revoluta - Sago Cycad. Megasporophylls
© Joy Krauthammer  10.16.2017

Squash
© Joy Krauthammer  10.16.2017



Red Fish
© Joy Krauthammer  1.8.2017



Ice Cubes B/W
© Joy Krauthammer 

Ice Cubes
© Joy Krauthammer 



Purple Joy
© Joy Krauthammer 

Purple Joy
© Joy Krauthammer 

Purple Joy
© Joy Krauthammer 

Purple Joy
bubbles in a bottle
© Joy Krauthammer 



Watermelon
© Joy Krauthammer  10.19.2016



Inside water bottle on a hot day.
© Joy Krauthammer  6.20.2016


Inside water bottle on a hot day.
© Joy Krauthammer  6.20.2016



Blue and Purple Rain
Garden of Joy
© Joy Krauthammer  5.12.2016


Blue and Purple Rain
Garden of Joy
© Joy Krauthammer  5.12.2016



Seder Plate Roasted Egg
© Joy Krauthammer  4.23.2016


Seder Matzoh Reflection
© Joy Krauthammer  4.23.2016


Seder Plate Charoset
© Joy Krauthammer  4.23.2016


Seder Ice in Goblet
© Joy Krauthammer  4.23.2016



Peaches 'n Cream
Ashley & Scott's home-made peach jam on cream cheese and everything bagel
© Joy Krauthammer


Fig Insides
© Joy Krauthammer


Passion Fruit detail
© Joy Krauthammer


Passion Fruit
© Joy Krauthammer


Passion Fruit with Yogurt Waffle
© Joy Krauthammer


Persimmon, cereal and yogurt
© Joy Krautammer


Persimmon home-grown by Edith
enjoying berries and yogurt
© Joy Krauthammer


Persimmon home-grown by Edith
dried slice enjoying the afternoon sky
© Joy Krauthammer

Persimmon home-grown by Edith
dried slices zeroxed
© Joy Krauthammer


Persimmon home-grown by Edith
dried slice enjoying hybiscus flower
© Joy Krauthammer


Persimmon home-grown by Edith
Fresh Shin slice
© Joy Krauthammer




Anthropomorphic Elevator buttons
LACMA
Arrived too late to submit to 52 Frames   :(
But arrived   :)
© Joy Krauthammer


Friend's Fancy Eye After Fall
© Joy Krauthammer


Bon Bon's Cat Feet
© Joy Krauthammer


Cat Fur in Berry Basket for Birds' Nests
52 Frames submission, "What Is It?"
© Joy Krauthammer


Cat Fur for Birds' Nests
52 Frames submission, "What Is It?"
© Joy Krauthammer 7.20.2015


Sago Palm Seed Pods 1
© Joy Krauthammer


Sago Palm Seed Pods 2
© Joy Krauthammer


Sago Palm Seed Pods 4
© Joy Krauthammer


June Bugs devouring fig
© Joy Krauthammer


Guess: What is it?
© Joy Krauthammer 


"MUST BE A COLLABORATION WITH OUTER SPACE 
OF SOME SORT  
OR A SHOWER CAP OVER A NEIGHBORHOOD."  - Edith


"The color and top texture appear to be coconut, but it seems more gelatinous than that.

I have to guess that it is a fruit…suet would be less white.
It looks pretty yummy and juicy, but still gelatinous. ?????
Maybe in the melon family?"
"Mangosteen?"
"Pineapple sorbet!"
"Whoops…lemon sorbet!" - Amy


"However, this is a broken piece of fat that rose to the top of a jar of hot chicken broth.
(2nd possibility= wax from top of a canning jar.)
(3rd possibility, broken piece alabaster)"  - Faye

ANSWER GIVEN:
Biten hard-boiled egg white from friend's son's backyard chicken. 

"OF COURSE!!!!! 
It looks like an egg white!" - Amy


Scary Mold
© Joy Krauthammer 

Scary Mold 2
© Joy Krauthammer 


Floating Leaf
© Joy Krauthammer  7.2016





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