Ioannis Mpellos

John Rector

Hyacinthoides is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, known as bluebells.

Some Florida Dreamscapes for your viewing pleasure!
Many more to come!

Born on 16th August 1928, Ara Güler is a Turkish photojournalist, also known as Istanbul’s Eye. He studied at Getronagan Armenian High School. His father owned a pharmacy, but had many friends that belonged to the world of art. Ara came into contact with these people and they inspired him to opt for a career in films/cinema. He worked in film studios and joined courses of drama under Muhsin Ertuğrul. Later, he leaned towards journalism and abandoned cinema. In 1950 he joined Yeni Istanbul, a Turkish newspaper, as a photojournalist. During the same time, he studied economics from University of Istanbul. Then he started working for Hürriyet.

In 1958 when Time-Life, an American publication opened its Turkey branch, Ara Güler became its initial correspondent. Soon enough he started to get commissioned by other international magazines, such as Stern, Paris Match, and Sunday Times, London. In 1961, he was hired by Hayat magazine as the chief photographer.

Ara traveled for photography assignments to countries, such as Kenya, Borneo, New Guinea, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Iran and other cities of Turkey. In 1970s, he also took photography interviews with noteworthy artists and politicians, like Salvador Dalí, Marc Chagall, Ansel Adams, Alfred Hitchcock, Imogen Cunningham, Pablo Picasso and many others.

Ara’s philosophy on photography is that he attaches great importance to the presence of humans in photography and considers himself as a visual historian. According to him, photography should provide people with memory of their suffering and their life. He feels that art can lie but photography only reflects the reality. He does not value art in photography so he prefers photojournalism.

In the dance of the breeze, clothes take flight,
A whimsical waltz, in the warm sunlight.
Woven threads of hope, in the air they sway,
Tales of simple joys, in every display.

Life's fabric unfolds in the sky so vast,
Each garment a memory, a shadow cast.
From cotton to silk, in the wind they cope,
Stitched together with threads of gentle hope.

In this tender ballet of life's embrace,
Each flutter whispers of time's soft grace.
So let's cherish the dance, pure and elate,
For in simple things, we find something great.

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Mother's Day!

Photo ©Peter Turnley -- Romania 1989

//...Ernst Haas...//
Greece 1952.

Carre Otis - Photo Andrea Blanch