Penelope's new book photo and reflections on bugs. 
Even if you don't think you like bugs, I think you will love this book.

"Penelope is a great bug photographer."--Mary Best, photographer

 

 

Buy "Einstein in My Garden" photos and reflections on bugs.

I'm into ecology and have been for quite some time.  I have four albums with ecology songs, I have produced three puppet shows on ecology themes, and I have taken many photos with the intent of bringing attention to our world and our need to live in balance. Maybe it was the rain forest musical puppet show that first brought my attention to the essential role that insects play in our ecology.  Anyway I started taking bug photos, trying to make them look a wonderful as I possibly could.  This led to the  "Bug Me" photo show and eventually to this book containing photos and reflectins on bugs.

Sample page

Flies

Accept for spiders
 and praying mantids,
no one likes flies.
We pick up fly swatters
and cans of spray
and go to our work,
never noticing delicate wings
or the surprising neon yellow racing stripe.
We don’t look at flies,
we don’t look at things we don’t like.

 

We particularly don't want to look at the fact that
we are going to have to change if we
are to live in balance with
nature.

This is the true point of

"Bug Me

Each page has a photograph of.....a bug
and a thought poem about the photograph.

 

Einstein in my Garden
from "Bug Me"
Penelope Torribio

I’am abandoning the classical physics
of Newton and Maxwell and embracing
the new physic and Quantum Mechanic;
for it seems that the elements of my garden behave
only as probabilities, not certainties,
and that time and space
can be altered by different reference frames.

And , OK, I will make this bold statement;
I have come to the belief that, in deed,
the viewer co-creates reality.
This is the only explanation for
the varied responses individual have
when they look from my back window
to the garden; the little garden where
I so carefully placed stones, bulbs, seeds and plants,
from home depot, into pleasing patterns.

I though everyone
would see this garden as I do.

But my grandmother looks out and sees
her father bending tenderly over new plants.
It is 1910. He tells her that
 “Plants are our best friends and
we are theirs, so we must treat each plant
with regard, even those we must thin out. ”

My neighbor see weeds and suggests weed killer.

Gerry, my husband, sees divas, and tells me of Findhorn.

My mother see the white gardenias,
the main flowers in her wedding bouquet, 1946,
missing the wild colors of the zinnias all together.

Auntie Flo see my husband’s Grandmother
and her award-winning irises that  she grew around the little house they build for her
in El Monte, 1953.

Four year old Aidan, looks out the window,
he doesn’t see flowers at all, just a refuge for bugs.

2008 Editors Choice Award from the International Photographers Association

Some more of Penelope's photography

 

Some Photo's by Penelope

These were taken at the Grand Canyon

Penelope's photos of Gillie Moon were on the cover of the" Indie Bible" 2005
and "First Fish. " was selected as Editors Choice in the Photography Library Contest.

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