She asked that it be named for her… the river.
Georgia McDonald as Anna Liffey
Underwater photography by Anastasia Traina ~ 2016 ~
July 20, 2016 | Categories: afunnybunnypicture, ana traina, Anastasia Traina, art, enchanted beings, Uncategorized, underwaterphotography | Tags: afunnybunny, Ana Traina, Anastasia Traina, encanted being, enchanted botanticals, enchanted creature, enchanted forest, enchanted waters, fairies, fairiesdoexist, fantasy, mermaid, Midsummer's Night Dream, Nouveau Victorian, Underwater photography, waterchimera, waternymphs, watersprite, watersprites, willow-o-wisp | Leave a comment
While romping around the clover field Winston Waldon Williams happened upon a curious creature, and then a most enchanting conversation began!
Graphite drawing and the beginning of a very Tiny Story by Anastasia Traina ~ 2016~
July 16, 2016 | Categories: afunnybunnypicture, ana traina, Anastasia Traina, art, Uncategorized | Tags: afairytaleofoneown, afunnybunny, Ana Traina, Anastasia Traina, art, children's art, children's story, drawing, dreams, encanted being, graphite drawing, Nouveau Victorian, wonderland | Leave a comment
Fanny Brawne and the Bishop…
“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days – three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.”
― John Keats. Photography by Anastasia Traina – 2016 #johnkeats #afaerietaleofonesown
July 15, 2016 | Categories: afunnybunnypicture, ana traina, Anastasia Traina, art, enchanted beings, Uncategorized | Tags: afairytaleofoneown, afunnybunny, Ana Traina, Anastasia Traina, art, botanticals, encanted being, enchanted creature, enchanted waters, fairies, fantasy, Nouveau Victorian, photography, waterchimera, waterfay | Leave a comment
Neave, (Bright Light) is the daughter of the god of the sea, Manannan mac Lir and one of the princesses of Tir na nOg, the land of eternal youth. When she grew up she fell in love with poet-hero Oisin.
Ruby McDonald as Neave
Underwater photography by Anastasia Traina ~ 2016~
July 10, 2016 | Categories: afunnybunnypicture, ana traina, Anastasia Traina, art, enchanted beings, Uncategorized, underwaterphotography | Tags: afunnybunny, Ana Traina, Anastasia Traina, art, botanticals, encanted being, enchanted creature, enchanted waters, fairiesdoexist, fairy, fantasy, fay, magical being, magical creatures, mermaid, Neave, Nouveau Victorian, photography, Underwater photography, waterchimera | Leave a comment
With the streaming yellow hair… when she walks flowers bloom beneath her steps.
Ruby Mcdonald as Olwen
Photography by Anastasia Traina ~ 2016~
July 8, 2016 | Categories: afunnybunnypicture, ana traina, Anastasia Traina, art, botanticals, enchanted beings, Uncategorized, underwaterphotography | Tags: afairytaleofoneown, afunnybunny, Ana Traina, Anastasia Traina, art, botanticals, encanted being, enchanted beings, enchanted botanticals, enchanted creature, enchanted forest, enchanted waters, fairies, fairiesdoexist, fantasy, magical beings, mermaid, Nouveau Victorian, Olwen, photography, Underwater photography, waterchimera, waterfay, watersprite | Leave a comment
Or in other words, the “shadow” particles. Found and photographed by Anastasia Traina at the Widow Jane Mine in Rosendale, NY. ~2015~
August 18, 2015 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: afairytaleofoneown, Ana Traina, Anastasia Traina, encanted being, magical creatures, Nouveau Victorian, soul, Sparticle | Leave a comment
Foss Grim ~ means “river horse” in Old Norse. The Foss Grim is a water spirit, with the body of a man and not that of a merman. He is said to be strikingly handsome, seen near rivers and bodies or water, barely clothed, and playing haunting music from his violin. His music would lure Women and Children into his watery home and their final resting place. However, it is believed that if properly approached, the Foss Grim will teach a musician to play so adeptly “that the trees dance and waterfalls stop at his music”
Underwater photography by Anastasia Traina ~ 2015~
August 17, 2015 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: afairytaleofoneown, afunnybunny, Ana Traina, Anastasia Traina, art, black and white photography, Foss Grim, Merman, Nouveau Victorian, Old Norse Lore, Underwater photography, waterspirit | Leave a comment
Triton’s special attribute was a twisted conch shell, on which he blew like a trumpet to calm or raise the waves. Its sound was such a cacophony, that when loudly blown, it put the giants to flight, who imagined it to be the roar of a dark wild beast!
Photography by Anastasia Traina ~ 2015 ~
August 9, 2015 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: afairytaleofoneown, afunnybunny, Ana Traina, Anastasia Traina, animation, art, encanted being, Merman, Nouveau Victorian, photography, Scott Cohen, Triton | Leave a comment
The moon was a man, passionate, dark, and handsome. He hid in the shadows admiring the sun from a distance. It was a time when the moon had no light, but just watched and waited in dark shadows of sky and worshiped Eglantina’s light from afar.
Then one day as Eglantina was putting on a brilliant set of morning clothes, she felt she was being watched. She looked around and noticed the handsome moon starring at her from a deep corner of space.
“Why do you stare at me so, somber moon ?”, asked Eglantina.
“I’m overwhelmed by your beauty and you leave me speechless so I can only watch you from a distance, because if I touched you I would surely die.”
Eglantina went closer to the moon and said, “You will not die if you touched me, come closer and kiss me.”
The Moon went to her and kissed her fiery lips that morning and the fire was so strong it left him glowing all day and into the night. And every morning she would kiss him again and he would rise up glowing so brightly he lit up and the light filled his whole being and the night sky was full of light.
Then one day the moon came out and said he would not receive a kiss from her that morning because he was becoming too bright, and the people on earth would have two Suns instead of one. “But I will kiss you and love you as much as I can, just not every day.”
The Moon was sad to miss the morning kiss and in his sadness he began to grow cold and dark again. But he did not become black as the night as he once was. The hope and anticipation of being with the Eglantina once more kept a few embers glowing leaving the moon to look as if he had put on a blue cloak.
And so is the legend of the blue moon.
Photography by Anastasia Traina ~ 2015 ~
August 1, 2015 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: afairytaleofoneown, afunnybunny, Ana Traina, Anastasia Traina, art, Eglantina, fable, fairy, fairytales, fantasy, fay, Nouveau Victorian, onceinabluemoon, themoon | Leave a comment
The Prince of bedtime stories hangs his moon just so, while filling his pockets full of its dreamy dust.
Photography by Anastasia Traina ~2015~
July 30, 2015 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: afairytaleofoneown, afunnybunny, Ana Traina, Anastasia Traina, art, bedtimesstories, encanted being, enchanted creature, fairiesdoexist, fantasy, magical beings, moon, nightsky, Nouveau Victorian, Ole Lukøje, Sandman | Leave a comment
Sleeps on her bed of rushing crystals.
Photography by Anastasia Traina ~ 2015 ~
July 29, 2015 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: afairytaleofoneown, afunnybunny, Ana Traina, Anastasia Traina, art, encanted being, enchanted botanticals, enchanted creature, enchanted forest, Enchanted lady, enchantedwaters, fay, mermaid, Naiad, Nouveau Victorian, photography, siren, undine, waterchimera, waterfay, watersprite | Leave a comment
Photography by Anastasia Traina ~ 2015 ~
July 28, 2015 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: afairytaleofoneown, afunnybunny, Ana Traina, Anastasia Traina, art, botanticals, encanted being, enchanted forest, fable, Faery's child, fairiesdoexist, fairy, Finding yourPrince, flowersprite, magical being, magical creatures, modern fairytale, Naiad, Nouveau Victorian, Sea fairy, waterchimera, watersprite | Leave a comment
Reveal one from the order of the Odingfay … (they are half dragonfly and half fay!)
Underwaterphotography and tiny tale by Anastasia Traina ~2015~
July 27, 2015 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: afairytaleofoneown, afunnybunny, Ana Traina, Anastasia Traina, art, botanticals, butterflies, dragonfay, dragonfly, encanted being, enchantedwaters, enchantress, magical being, magical creatures, Nouveau Victorian, Odingfay, siren, underwaterphotography, waterchimera | 1 Comment
Country folk say that the folded sepals of the anemone are used by fairies for protection, like pulling the curtains around them. UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHY BY ANASTASIA TRAINA ~ 2015 ~
July 23, 2015 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: afairytaleofoneown, afunnybunny, Ana Traina, Anastasia Traina, art, botanticals, encanted being, enchanted creatures, enchantedwaters, folklore, magical creatures, mermaid, niaid, Nouveau Victorian, Sea fairy, sea flower, siren, waterchimera, waterfay | Leave a comment
Just sittin’ around on my Leccinum insigne waitin’ for my Bitsy and Raff Special Edition to arrive!! I hear it is ponderiffic!! Graphite drawing by Anastasia Traina ~ 2015~
Bitsy and Raff’s photo.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/194930783/bitsy-and-raffs-special-edition?ref=shop_home_active_1
July 22, 2015 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: afairytaleofoneown, afunnybunny, Ana Traina, Anastasia Traina, anti-bullying, art, children's art, children's literature, children's poem, David Caudle, enchanted beings, enchanted botanticals, graphite drawing, Nouveau Victorian | Leave a comment
Greetings to all…
First we like to say a very heartfelt thanks to all those who have already helped us to bring, BITSY the Heaviest Butterfly and RAFF the Tenderest Reed: A New Picture Book, a timeless story of the power of friendship into vivid life through the beautiful, wondrous illustrations of Anastasia Traina!
You have all made this such a magical experience for both David and I, and it is that very feeling of magic that we hope to share with others.
We have not yet offer BITSY AND RAFF to any mainstream publisher, and it is very likely we will work with such an entity to produce a trade edition with the aid of our wondrous agent Allison Cohen at the helm. But before we submit to the challenges and compromises of the marketplace, we had hope to create a truly special volume, befitting an heirloom.
So with that said, we are very proud that Bitsy and Raff’s Special Edition has fulfill our vision past even our own expectations. Bitsy and Raff is now all prim and proper, and ready to go to the presses, so that we may bring (very soonishly) to all those who supported our campaign their Special Limited Edition… However, before we do this we would like to extend to you our final offer of ordering your very own Special Edition of Bitsy and Raff!
Due to the overwhelming response we have created a very limited supply of signed copies available for purchase!! Also available are the Bitsy and Raff Tee-shirts for only ten dollars if purchased with a Bitsy and Raff book!!
Wishing you all buckets of bluebells,
David, Anastasia and Scott
https://www.etsy.com/listing/194930783/bitsy-and-raffs-special-edition?ref=shop_home_active_1
July 17, 2015 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: afairytaleofoneown, afunnybunny, Ana Traina, Anastasia Traina, anti-bullying, art, butterflies, children's art, children's book, children's literature, children's poem, enchanated garden, enchanted beings, enchanted creature, enchanted pond, enchanted waters, enchantedwaters, reeds | Leave a comment
puts the fading sun to its rest!
Photograph by ANastasia Traina ~ 2015~
July 15, 2015 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: afairytaleofoneown, afunnybunny, Ana Traina, Anastasia Traina, enchanted creature, enchated sky, fairies, fairiesdoexist, fairytales, fay, gloaming, photography, sunset | 2 Comments
Photography by Anastasia Traina
July 13, 2015 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: afairytaleofoneown, afunnybunny, Ana Traina, Anastasia Traina, art, enchanted creatures, enchantedwaters, Faery's child, fairiesdoexist, fairytale, fantasy, mermaid, Nouveau Victorian, The Lambert Light, waterchimera, waterfay, will-othe-wisp | Leave a comment
‘Open the door, my princess dear,
Open the door to thy true love here!
And mind the words that thou and I said
By the fountain cool, in the greenwood shade.’
And when the princess opened the door the frog came in, and slept upon her pillow as before, till the morning broke. And the third night he did the same. But when the princess awoke on the following morning she was astonished to see, instead of the frog, a handsome prince, gazing on her with the most beautiful eyes she had ever seen and standing at the head of her bed.
Photography by Anastasia Traina ~ 2015~
July 10, 2015 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: afairytaleofoneown, afunnybunny, Ana Traina, Anastasia Traina, art, botanticals, brothergrimm, enchanted beings, enchanted creatures, Enchanted lady, enchanted pond, enchantedforest, enchantedfrog, fable, fairiesdoexist, fairytale, fantasy, Nouveau Victorian, photography, princess | Leave a comment
A famous legend from Turkish lore tells of a handsome prince named Farhad who was stricken with love for the fair maid, Shirin. One day he heard that she had been killed, and in his grief, mounted his favorite horse and galloped over a cliff to his death. It is said that from each droplet of his blood, a scarlet tulip sprang up, a symbol of perfect love.
Photography by Anastasia Traina ~ 1015 ~
July 9, 2015 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: afairytaleofoneown, afunnybunny, Ana Traina, Anastasia Traina, art, botanticals, encanted being, enchanated garden, enchanted botanticals, enchanted creature, enchanted forest, enchanted garden, Enchanted lady, enchantedphotography, fable, fairiesdoexist, fairytale, gardenfay, magical being, Nouveau Victorian, photography, tuliplore, tulips | 2 Comments
We are only bits and pieces of star powder… Photography by Anastasia Traina ~2015~
July 8, 2015 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: afairytaleofoneown, afunnybunny, Ana Traina, Anastasia Traina, art, butterflies, encanted being, Enchanted lady, enchanted sky, faeries, fay, magical being, Nouveau Victorian, star, starpowder, thenightsky | Leave a comment
Wishing each and everyone a boundless dollop of dazzle, firelight and love on this wondrous day of Independence!
Photography by Anastasia Traina with Georgia MacDonald
July 4, 2015 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: afairytaleofoneown, afunnybunny, Ana Traina, Anastasia Traina, art, children's art, encanted being, enchanted beings, enchantress, Faery's child, fairy, fantasy, fay, magical being, Nouveau Victorian, photography, shadow thought, soul, spritessa | Leave a comment
fills his jar with dreams. Photography by Anastasia Traina ~ 2015 ~
July 3, 2015 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: afairytaleofoneown, afunnybunny, Ana Traina, Anastasia Traina, art, echanted sky, encanted being, enchanted creature, fantasy, heavens, magical being, Nouveau Victorian, photography, Scott Cohen, starcatcher, Starman, starrynight, stars | Leave a comment