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Tangerine Symphony or the gorgeous Life and Death of Daylillies : I planted 250 Day Lillies this year saved from a roadside ditch. I was so lucky that they were double or triple or more layers. The most beautiful tangerine with red accents. I also lost 95% or our roses this last winter. So when one of my few wild pink rose bushes. I knew that Day Lillis last only one day. So I tried to see IF I cut them before the end of the day and put them in a vase would they live longer. No chance, but seeing them fading away in front of my camera next to the strong roses I had the strong urge to document the sensations felt when these gorgeous flowers pass on and turn into statuesque beauties for a few hours before fading totally away. HL this pink and tangerine love story is for your love of pink the way I see it .
If  you enjoyed this gallery BY NIGHT maybe you care to visit this gallery of my Roses and Cannas by night at 
http://visualsenses.smugmug.com/gallery/7038065_Y9pKY#445965924_htaJ6 
Thank's for stopping by.

Tangerine Symphony or the gorgeous Life and Death of Daylillies

I planted 250 Day Lillies this year saved from a roadside ditch. I was ...

Updated: Aug 01, 2009 1:14am PST

The new Vancouver Convention Center :

The new Vancouver Convention Center

Updated: Sep 15, 2009 12:03am PST

PUBLIC Fashion Design Portfolio : Thank you for visiting the "digital online version" of my Fashion, Apparel, textile and print Portfolio. My international career brought it to the physical weight of 35kg/70 pounds. Lucky I had to carry it to only to a few interviews in my life. Head Hunters and constant networking kept job hunting to a minimum. The content is only a small amount of all the designs on paper that passed under my hand in my career before the saving digital content became easy to store. Starting with running the Atelier YSL Rive Gauche in Brussels where unfortunatly I was not allowed to photograph all the dresses and suits made to size spec with patterns from Paris. With my work then brands followed her is a short list in no particular order: Camp Italy, Designo, Rebook, Edelweiss, Walt Disney, OK pres du Corp,  Zip code Jeans,  Smith & York,  Oates,  Rebel,  Aca Joe USA,  Peter Golding,  Macy's, La Rinacente Italy, Safarika and many more. I added areas such as the architectural work for down products, tents, sleeping bags and bags in the mountaineering and outdoors sectors with the early years of Gortex and Torray fabrics. Beside overseeing all the pattern making, fitting, print and graphics, textile print, hang tags, labeling fabric sourcing etc to see other areas of my Design expertise mentioned here visit _. http://www.visualsenses.com the  "Visual Senses Design Group" website 
HOW TO BEST USE THIS DIGITAL PORTFOLIO?
May I suggest you chose the "Slideshow" in the full screen mode and default theme. The button on your right as the easiest way to view the content. You can change the speed on the top left corner. Simply click the forward arrow to continue the slideshow after changing the speed. Otherwise feel free to click on the first ( or any other) photo chose you preferred size of zoom and then simply click your "next/forward or backwards" key on your keyboard. When you are ready to view the next . The size will remain the same. You can change it at any time. Thank you for understanding that due to heat & humidity over the years, some content bonded to the plastic slip covers. Therefor it could not be removed for the taking of the photographs. None of these photos where digitally altered. You are still welcome to see this Portfolio in real life should we meet in an interview. 
Enjoy, comments questions proposals and opportunities are always welcome.

PUBLIC Fashion Design Portfolio

Thank you for visiting the "digital online version" of my Fashion, App ...

Updated: Jul 16, 2009 4:49pm PST

2009 Renfrew Ravin Moon Festival Vancouver BC : As a 1st time visitor it was truly worthwhile. The ambiance although started slowly at Slocan Park went into a full action swing around 5pm. Some really funny and price winning sized veggies were on display and community informative stalls were present and helpful for all sorts of random questions. Kids of all ages including me had fun. Outstanding sacred artwork "leather garmentry" made by by Copper Chris I was told http://people.tribe.net/copperchris (check out his site ABSOLUTELY amazing craftmanship) were worn by a sacred and very smiley Robin of the woods dispensing good forest omen from hist stilts with his witch like wife  both complementing each other very well. The love songs and dance for bicycles were most entertaining and all that movement made us hungry. So we went on for the ever delicious and light and tasty buckwheat crepes that always are made to nice African music by the French chef and his team in their caravan.  We then strolled along 29th to see a Heritage house and a few pretty gardens before wondering into the "Renfrew Ravine park". Surely a very natural site although I would say quite jungle like and maybe not so recommended for late night walks. We discovered the apotheosis of the event when an army of young boys and girls started lighting the path along the lovely flowing creek to discover a multitude of lanterns of all shapes and sizes. From the cute, whimsical to the scary all this at the sound of life Balinesian Gamelan music and later Chinese Erhu and violin.
Thanks to the community for a great time. This said, maybe next year would the organizers agree that few appropriate Asian food stalls would be welcome to feed more than the soul and attract more visitors eager for foreign customs and traditions.
I here copy a lists crediting all the participants taken from http://stillmoon.org/ the official site.

Inspiring vibrant and connected communities by creating artistic experiences and nurturing a passion for nature with great performers!
Harvest Fair artists include, Zeellia singing Slavic Soul Music, The Wheeling eights square dance club, A-Slam punjabi live hip hop music, BC Clettes, bicycles dancers, Lanterns, music and art by the stream in Renfrew Park,Live music by 
Twisted String – Random Acts of Violins, Aligator Joy Gamelan ensemble,Lisa Chase – singer songwriter,Jun Rong- erhu, Violin Chapeau – classical violin duo, Marimbamaphone interactive instrument, Performance Art by Mind of a Snail shadow puppet theater
True North – Upaya, with an Evelyn Roth inflatable, Lantern Installations by Nicole Dextra, Yoko Tomita, Carmen Rosen, Joey  Mallett, Naomi Singer, and many many more, finale spectacle on Renfrew Park field with a big band, original music, dance, fire spinning and fireworks Original Music by Brad Muirhead and the Renfrew Community Performance Project band, Original dance, stilt dance and  fire spinning  by Isaac Rosen-Purcell, Odette Slater, Ariel Anderson and 25 young performers from the community. Sorry for the latter part of the show I run out of battery. That's what happens when one gets over exicted and takes too many pics :-). 
For the nature lovers in you I also invite you to visit my River day gallery and retrace the events in case you missed it . Here is the link http://bit.ly/aRykC
Thank's for reading this far.

2009 Renfrew Ravin Moon Festival Vancouver BC

As a 1st time visitor it was truly worthwhile. The ambiance although s ...

Updated: Oct 04, 2009 10:12am PST

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Your Bio

I had the privilege to live and work in Europe, Asia, USA, Africa and now Canada. Places I have lived, studied, worked are: Lumumbashi DRC, St.Johann/Tirol Austria, Brussels Belgium, Paris France, Tunis Tunisia, Kushadasi Turkey, Marbella Spain, Ibiza & Marbella Spain, Aegios Konstantinos Greece, Milan Italy, Munich Germany, Hong Kong SAR China PRC, London UK, New York USA, Johannesburg South Africa, Vancouver Canada.
As a Laureate pattern maker, Fashion & Interior Designer I trained at YSL in Paris. Lately I have added Architectural Design to my passions. I also love landscaping, product & car Design...where do I stop? I design uniforms for 5 star Hotels and Airlines worldwide and have some of the best in the world on my resume from Beverly Hills, New York to Hong Kong. I work a lot in PS and 3DMax, always learning.


Since the birth of digital photography, my main (not so secret) passion is becoming more and more of importance to my main career. It has grown to be the cross platform between all medias.

http://www.visualsenses.com is the Design I do 24/7. Even when I sleep, my mind created and if/when I am lucky to wake up with the idea fresh in my mind I sketch it quick on my iPAQ. It keeps my mind on the go.
As an Ex Design Director for "Conran Design London" (Sir Terance Conran, Habitat, The Conran stores, Jacadi, BHS, Mothercare, do those ring a bell?) molded my brain into multifaceted, tasking,cross continental creative power house. At times people may think he is a Jack of all Designs, but I believe Design has no boundaries as long as the client believes in my creativity and are impressed by my Portfolio. Cross platform creativity is a like a drug, but photography is the media that always takes me back to sanity.

I love Architecture, Skyscrapers, reflections, flowers and many more subjects such as Macro, sunsets, yachts, classic Cars (especially chrome details), glass, flea markets, travel, beaches with or without clothes.
I am an "ANGLE" shooter. I think strong parallels, perpendiculars raise the focal interest of a picture.

Since my last paper film camera a big "Canon". I have owned and climbed the ladder of every digital "Olympus" since the 1.2mega pixel to my current 8080 and now wait for Santa to drop in with a 24 Megapixel lol. I wrote the letter...still waiting.Last but not least I adore my baby camera "Samsung NV10" 10megapixel (especially for quality Macros). Do not shun the brand for a camera. I recommend it to anyone in search for a super compact(cigarette pack sizes) digital camera that truly works wonders.

Languages I speak are English, French, German, Dutch, and rusty Italian, Spanish, Afrikaans and adore Mandarin especially in music. I love every cm2 the world offers to my eyes. OK I admit, and, anything and anyone that attracts my attention by being, stunning, extraordinary or plane ordinary, texture, cool, cute, smiling, sad, cats, dogs, landscapes.

I think Design should always be written with a capital "D" as not enough credit is given to the word describing our profession. I enjoy documenting as much as possible of my life. I respect people of older age as they teach me what I may still have to learn and can teach them what they may have missed. I hold 300.000 photos and scanned my whole family since the mid 1800 and I am NEVER without a camera! Parts of my heart are to be found in Africa, Asia and America and if you have seen my writers block contact "lost & found" I love to help, listen and communicate and the greatest of all I can say I have loved someone who loved me for 90% of my adult life.
Thank you for reading this far.
My motto is "Since there is Light there is Beauty".

Victor Stapelberg aka Sergio Di Vescovi

If your life is not fun, try to make it fun
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.........................................................................or if this is more easy for you
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