BREATHTAKING WILD ANIMALS & PLANTS - 1 PER 24HRS, NO ZOO or FLOWER MACRO CAPTURES

About This Group

This Group is to bring all of your best work of WILD animals and INDIGENOUS PLANTS together as ONE, without one or the other, species will die out.
PHOTOGRAPHY, ART AS IN OIL & WATER COLOUR ETC. ONLY!
PLEASE SPECIFY PLACE OF CAPTURE IN YOUR DESCRIPTION

1.NO ZOO, OR ANY WILDLIFE SANCTUARY OR ENCLOSED ANIMALS
NO FARM OR DOMESTICATED/PETS ANIMALS
ALL WILD, FREE ROAMING Animals from bugs to elephants,
ALL INDIGENOUS Plants welcome.
2.NO FLOWER OR LEAF MACRO’S……….,
MAIN FOCUS MUST BE ON THE FLOWERING PLANT
NOT THE FLOWER, AS IN MACRO
UNLESS THE MAIN SUBJECT IS AN INSECT,ON THE FLOWER
3.NO HUMANS OR ANY HUMAN BODY PARTS
4.NO PETS OR DOMESTICATED ANIMALS
5.NO SUBMISSIONS WILL BE EXCEPTED WITHOUT CAPTURED LOCATION
6.ONLY QUALITY WORK EXCEPTED!
7. NO FARAWAY SHOTS PLEASE! THIS IS NOT FOR LANDSCAPES. WE WANT TO SEE THE BREATHTAKING WILD ANIMAL/PLANT!

If you are not sure what is acceptable for the group, then please visit the featured pages to give you a guideline.

ANY SUBMISSION NOT ABIDING TO THE GROUP RULES WILL BE REMOVED WITHOUT NOTICE OR DISCUSSION
*ONCE A WEEK THE LAST TWO PAGES IN THE GALLERY WILL BE DELETED, MEMBERS ARE WELCOME TO RE-SUBMIT THEIR WORK *

PLEASE ! 1 IMAGE PER 24HRS, LIMIT 20 !

PLEASE READ THE GROUP RULES

PLEASE FEEL FREE TO DELETE OUR GROUP WELCOME BANNER ONCE YOUR WORK IS EXCEPTED TO OUR GALLERY

NEW FEATURES

OUR NEW FEATURES FOR APRIL 2012!
CONGRATULATIONS, BRILLIANT WORK! Please visit and congratulate our members here
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Our new featured member for June 2012, selected from our TOP TEN June Challenge Winnners:

I am originally from Massachusetts and grew up in a beautiful town 30 miles north of Boston, now living in North Port, Florida. My interest in the arts started at a very young age, by the time I was 13 and a freshman at Billerica Memorial High School I decided that being an artist was to be my career of choice. I had some wonderful mentors in High School who have always encouraged my creative side and during my senior year I was voted most artistic in for my class yearbook and I have been Illustrating portraits of various subjects for well over 20 years.

I attended the Art Institute of Boston in 1984 through 1986. I studied Illustration with a minor in Graphic Design, hoping to become a successful Magazine Illustrator but with only attending school for fewer then two years as a young adult, a majority of my skills as an artist has been self taught whether it be working with color and graphite pencils, to using design programs such as Corel Draw and Adobe products. This in turn took me down the road of printing and mechanical drawing for a while. I worked at various printing companies from 1984 to 1997 and my path as an artist seemed to change to graphic design, that has never stopped my passion to draw and illustrate the subjects that I loves to concentrate on most which are people, wildlife and pets.

In 1997 with the help of AOL I met and married the most wonderful man in the world. I moved to Gosport England in 1997 and lived there for eight fantastic years. I loved the vast amount of culture, arts, nature, and the fabulous countryside of Great Britian. Gosport is a great town with a tremendous amount of Naval history which I found very fascinating. I exhibited my art work for an exhibition about the new millenium and the concerns we as people may have for the future. Then in 2005 we began our new journey and life here in the US and have been enjoying the beauty of Florida living, culture, wildlife and fabulous scenery that only the Gulf Coast of Florida can give to you each and every day.

Today my passion for animals and nature has taken me to create color and graphite pencil drawings of some of my most favorite subjects. I will draw from the largest of wildlife creatures to the smallest of domestic pets. This has become my passion and interest of choice but I also still love to draw Portraits of people as well.

Sheryl Unwin North Port, UNITED STATES

WITH HER ENTRY:

Siberian Tiger

And here are some more of her stunning work!

Flamingo 5
by Sheryl Unwin

Ocelot at Naples Zoo
by Sheryl Unwin

Congratulations Kathy!

CHALLENGES

Congratulations to our TOP TEN! WELL DONE!
Our Winner!
kathy s gillentine

with her winning entry

Mom and Dad
by kathy s gillentine
Cathy s winning entry will be the groups avatar for the month of June and she also wins the $20 Voucher!
CONGRATULATIONS and WELL DONE! Your voucher will be on it’s way soon Cathy!
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