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Nature Photography Challenge

A regular photography contest for Nature lovers who love to learn and teach.

Featured Work

Tidal River Sunburst by Travis Easton

This photo is a good example of what not to do, that is to point the lens straight at the sun, it just happened to work on this occassion. Walking along the Loo Errn Trail at Tidal River I found the light catching these reed heads in a compelling way. I didn’t really think the shot would work but I tried it anyway using a fisheye lens and shutting the aperture down to f22. The sun then refracted around the tiny aperture creating the sunburst and there was just enough light in the read heads to balance the brightness of Sol despite the fact that the rest of the shot has almost gone black. The starburst reflection is the thing that really makes the shot for me though. Reminds me of the star on top of the Christmas tree. For more shots from this area check out my Wilsons Promontory gallery. 10% of all profits go to the Wilderness Society
Sky Ablaze by mnkreations

Incredible sunset in Illinois. It was changing so quickly I had to run .25mi.( I am definitely not a runner ) to get a clear shot without a tripod. This sky was very intense-almost foreboding but awesome at the same time. The shadow detail in the clouds was incredible. Taken with a Nikon CoolPix 5700 / Featured in the group “Both Sides Now”
Sci-Fi Robber Fly by jphall

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia / Jump to: navigation, search / Asilidae / / Robber fly, Zosteria sp., feeding on a hover fly / Scientific classification / Kingdom: Animalia / / Phylum: Arthropoda / / Class: Insecta / / Order: Diptera / / Suborder: Brachycera / / Infraorder: Asilomorpha / / Superfamily: Asiloidea / / Family: Asilidae / / Subfamilies / Apocleinae / Asilinae / Dasypogoninae / Laphriinae / Leptogastrinae / Ommatiinae / Stenopogoninae / Stichopogoninae / Trigonomiminae / / Insects in the Diptera family Asilidae are commonly called robber flies. The family Asilidae contains about 7,100 described species worldwide. All robber flies have stout, spiny legs, a dense moustache of bristles on the face (mystax), and 3 simple eyes (ocelli) in a characteristic depression between their two large compound eyes. The mystax helps protect the head and face when the fly encounters prey bent on defense. The antennae are short, 3-segmented, sometimes with a bristle-like structure called an arista. The short, strong proboscis is used to stab and inject victims with saliva containing neurotoxic and proteolytic enzymes which paralyze and digest the insides; the fly then sucks the liquefied meal through the proboscis. Many species have long, tapering abdomens, sometimes with a sword-like ovipositor. Others are fat-bodied bumblebee mimics. Adult robber flies attack other flies, beetles, butterflies and moths, various bees, ants, dragon and damselflies, Ichneumon wasps, grasshoppers, and some spiders.
Black Out Freak Out by Bezay

Well it’s like this, I was outside, ya know just kinda minding my own business, and felt something kinda graze my hair and then jiggle a bit, ok so i kinda swat it a bit and feel it’s a web, so no big deal of course. Well me being inquisitive decided I’d grab my little flashlight and see what was there for kicks. Well really wish I hadn’t had done that!!! this sucker was about 3 inches around and EGAAAAWWWWWW i am getting the willies just thinkiing about it, yeyayeyayaaaa eeeewwww!!!! Well here it is for your viewing entertainment – enjoy Arabesque Orbweaver (Neoscona arabesca) they make huge very strong webs some runners can be 10 feet long from point to point Benbrook Texas 1ST PLACE / in the / Spooky Specimens Of Nature Challenge / in the / Nature Photography Challenge Group TOP 10 WINNER /

Recent Work

Poppy Angel Christmas Card by Sarah-fiona Helme

Canon 40D, 100mm macro lens.
Merry Christmas Cardinal by mnkreations

Merry Christmas card of a brilliant male cardinal. Shot through a kitchen window I couldn’t open. / / Winner of the Cards for Everyday Traditional Christmas Card Challenge / Featured in Cards for Everyday Thank you! / / Print is available without text!
Sunset in the Swamp by JKKimball

South Florida Sunset. / Upper Everglades. Stormy night. / Grassy Waters Nature Preserve & Park, / Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. / Early fall 2009 / Nikon D300 / Nikkor VR 18-200 / PLEASE NOTE: All images copyrighted to © JKKimball (All Rights Reserved – Worldwide). No image (in whole or in part) is to be reproduced, downloaded, copied, duplicated, modified, sampled, redistributed or archived without the written authorization of JKKimball /
Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis) by Konstantinos Arvanitopoulos

Serengeti National Park, Tanzania, Africa / Also in the Focus on wildlife / Calendar 2010 Nikon D200, Nikkor 70-300 mm, 1/1000 sec at f/ 5, ISO 200 / © Konstantinos Arvanitopoulos Photography, 2009. / All Rights Reserved.
Krabi Beach Thailand by marcpayne

Krabi beach Thailand, canon 30D
On the lookout - Hluhluwe-Umfolozi, South Africa by Lynda Harris

A male oxpecker keeps a lookout for danger to his zebra host. / Featured in ‘Fauna, Flora, Landscape and Architecture of South Africa’ November 2009 / / Featured in ‘Top Shelf Wildlife and Nature Art’ November 2009
waz up? by pradeep gill

this fly sucks nectar quite different from others found in Himalayan region in India.
Leopard in Moremi by Neville Jones

Sometimes you don’t know how lucky you are. After returning from our Safari, we were told we would have been lucky to see a Leopard because they are extremely shy. Incredibly, we saw 5 Leopards in 3 days. This one regarded us smugly as we sat below him in our truck in the midday heat. Featured in World Wildlife Photography and Top Shelf Wildlife & Nature Art Sony Alpha A100 / Sony 75-300 f/4.5-5.6 / 300mm f/5.6 @ 1/500 / ISO 400 / Handheld

Featured Members

About This Group

This group is designed purely for nature lovers who love regular photography contests and love to teach and learn about your surroundings and non-human neighbours along the way.

We will have a new theme every 2 weeks or less and its up to you members to go out and get some great shots that meet with the theme, but thats not all, we want you to give us the Species name, Scientific name and a brief description or something interesting you have learnt about your subject.

We are a worldwide community so it would be nice to get to know about the indigenous species belonging to your country.

CURRENT THEMES:

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