Africa exotic
176 creative works found
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Ever slept in a cave? I have, and it was very comfortable indeed. So comfortable in fact that I felt the need to grab a shot just as a reminder.
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A young reticulated giraffe almost disappears when standing against it’s mother. Captive animals.
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Reticulated giraffe eating in the Masai Mara. / / (Masai Mara – Kenya) / / / African Art and Writings Group / / Best Photo/Artists of the Month Contest Winner for January 2008 / CLICK HERE TO HAVE A LOOK / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
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Here’s the original I did without the frame around it. I’m deleting the one with the frame around it.
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To spend an hour with Mountain Gorillas is one of the best wildlife experiences you can ever hope for. They captivate you and you become lost in the moment. Your time with them goes so fast you are left just wanting more… This shot of their feet illustrates how very similar they are to us! / / (Virunga volcanoes, Rwanda.) / >< / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
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We must have spent hours photographing these “Little Bee Eaters” next to a river. After a while I managed to get a shot of one with a bee in its beak. / / Samburu National Park – Kenya / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
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Leopard on the lookout for a good meal! / / (Masai Mara – Kenya) / / >< / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
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Honey and her three cheetah cubs survey the plains for the migration. / / (Masai Mara – Kenya) / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
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My work is featured in the group Painters In Modern Times / (Thanks Everyone at PIMT!) My painting is featured as the group icon for Painted Animals / (Thanks everyone!) Acrylic on Glass This is the print version of my painting This is the newest addition to my series “Journey Through Africa”, the other three included a Red Bishop bird, an African tree in a field and a giraffe in it’s habitat. This piece is of one of my favorite creatures, the blue poison dart frog. They are found in Africa and South America and were not discovered till around 1960’s. It’s stunning natural colors really attracted me to it in creating this work. This piece like the other two in the series was also painted on an antique mirror. I take something old and forgotten and create something new, yet try to keep the aged or classic feel throughout the piece. Usually just looking at a prospective mirror I see what I will paint next in it. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did in creating it! / I am currently working on another new piece in this series… Here are the other works in the series and framed: / / / Some Originals AVAILABLE, if interested please inquire You can contact Carrie at: carrie@carrieglennstudios.com and please visit Carrie Glenn Studios /
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Black and white version of Mramba, to me this has a whole different level of intensity. Which version do you like? Captive animal. / / / / The future of African predators is in peril. It is estimated that only 10,000-15,000 free-roaming African lions remain, down from 50,000 a decade ago. African lions are now listed as Endangered (West African subspecies) and Vulnerable (East and Southern African subspecies) by the World Conservation Union and are on Appendix II of the CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species) list. African lions are in danger of disappearing altogether due to disease (FIV, bovine tuberculosis, canine distemper) and habitat encroachment. Today’s modern world subjects lions and other wildlife to many dangers. Mankind constantly seizes more and more of the remaining wild areas of Africa, forcing lions onto smaller and smaller parcels of land. Large-scale developments destroy the lion’s natural habitat. In areas inhabited by livestock, lions are frequently shot, snared or poisoned. And sadly, the hunting of these amazing animals for “sport,” for man’s pleasure, is still encouraged as a revenue producing industry by many African governments. African predators simply will not survive unless they are protected. 100% of proceeds from any sales of this image will be donated to the Virginia Zoo
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- ACRYLIC ON STRETCHED PRIMED CANVAS / ORIGINAL SOLD / _________ SOME EXAMPLES OF PRINTS BELOW / / /
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The Golden Pheasant or “Chinese Pheasant”, (Chrysolophus pictus) is a gamebird of the order Galliformes (gallinaceous birds) and the family Phasianidae. It is native to forests in mountainous areas of western China but feral populations have been established in the United Kingdom and elsewhere. The adult male is 90-105 cm in length, its tail accounting for two-thirds of the total length. It is unmistakable with its golden crest and rump and bright red body. The deep orange “cape” can be spread in display, appearing as an alternating black and orange fan that covers all of the face except its bright yellow eye, with a pinpoint black pupil. Males have a golden-yellow crest with a hint of red at the tip. The face, throat, chin, and the sides of neck are rusty tan. The wattles and orbital skin are both yellow in colour, and the ruff or cape is light orange. The upper back is green and the rest of the back and rump are golden-yellow in colour. The tertiaries are blue whereas the scapulars are dark red. Another characteristic of the male plumage is the central tail feathers which are black spotted with cinnamon as well as the tip of the tail being a cinnamon buff. The upper tail coverts are the same colour as the central tail feathers. Males also have a scarlet breast, and scarlet and light chestnut flanks and underparts. Lower legs and feet are a dull yellow. The female (hen) is much less showy, with a duller mottled brown plumage similar to that of the female Common Pheasant. She is darker and more slender than the hen of that species, with a proportionately longer tail (half her 60-80 cm length). The female’s breast and sides are barred buff and blackish brown, and the abdomen is plain buff. She has a buff face and throat. Some abnormal females may later in their lifetime get some male plumage. Lower legs and feet are a dull yellow. Both males and females have yellow legs and yellow bills. Despite the male’s showy appearance, these hardy birds are very difficult to see in their natural habitat, which is dense, dark young conifer forests with sparse undergrowth. Consequently, little is known of their behavior in the wild. They feed on the ground on grain, leaves and invertebrates, but roost in trees at night. Whilst they can fly, they prefer to run: but if startled they can suddenly burst upwards at great speed, with a distinctive wing sound. Although they can fly in short bursts they are quite clumsy in flight and spend most of their time on the ground. Golden Pheasants lay 8-12 eggs at a time and will then incubate these for around 22-23 days. They tend to eat berries, grubs, seeds and other types of vegetation. The male has a metallic call in the breeding season. The Golden Pheasant is commonly found in zoos and aviaries, but often as impure specimens that have the similar Lady Amherst’s Pheasant in their lineage. The birds illustrated herein are typical. For example, one picture below shows subtle signs of a hybrid in the dark face, and in the yellow extending into what should be a pure dark red flank (where in the Amherst, the white flank would meet the green breast feathers in this area). There are also different mutations of the Golden Pheasant known from birds in captivity, including the Dark-throated, Yellow, Cinnamon, Salmon, and Snowflake.
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Pride exemplified via Mramba, the male African lion at the Virginia Zoo. The future of African predators is in peril. It is estimated that only 10,000-15,000 free-roaming African lions remain, down from 50,000 a decade ago. African lions are now listed as Endangered (West African subspecies) and Vulnerable (East and Southern African subspecies) by the World Conservation Union and are on Appendix II of the CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species) list. African lions are in danger of disappearing altogether due to disease (FIV, bovine tuberculosis, canine distemper) and habitat encroachment. Today’s modern world subjects lions and other wildlife to many dangers. Mankind constantly seizes more and more of the remaining wild areas of Africa, forcing lions onto smaller and smaller parcels of land. Large-scale developments destroy the lion’s natural habitat. In areas inhabited by livestock, lions are frequently shot, snared or poisoned. And sadly, the hunting of these amazing animals for “sport,” for man’s pleasure, is still encouraged as a revenue producing industry by many African governments. African predators simply will not survive unless they are protected. 100% of proceeds from any sales of this image will be donated to the Virginia Zoo
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Oil Pastels on canvas Board. Size: 12×16 inches (30,48×40,64 cms). Started & completed on 9 July 2008. Painted from an old photo of mine taken in Kruger National Park in 2001. Image copyright: Mariaan Krog 2008. For buying info, see top right of this page. / /
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Medium: Watercolours on AMEDEO 200GSM Artist’s Sheet. / Size: A4 My original leopard, recreated using only watercolours this time. Image copyright: Mariaan Krog 2008. / / /
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Soldiers of hope for a new generation of conservation. Volume 2
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Captured with Canon 5d and Canon 100-400mm lens / F/6.3 Exp 1/100 Iso 320 fl 400mm / From behind wired enclosure Featured in the First Things group / Featured in the For The Love Of Canon group / 2nd Place in The All In A Row Challenge in the First Things group / Featured in the Beauty Of Nature group Three 1 Year Old African Lion brothers in captivity UK / Highly Endangered
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/ CLICK THIS IMAGE TO READ MORE ABOUT IT! What you see here is the seventh of seven works of art to be posted over the next seven days – the results of a seven day smackdown between myself, and the fabulous Angi Sullins and Silas Toball – where Angi made a traditional collage, and then gave it to Silas and I, letting us loose on it with our photoshop skills. :) Click here to see Angi’s original handmade collage : / (to be posted shortly) Click here to see Silas’ Smackdown entry: / (to be posted shortly)
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Chimpanzee…... Chimpanzees rarely live past the age of 40 in the wild, but have been known to reach the age of more than 60 in captivity. Cheeta, star of Tarzan is still alive as of 2008 at the age of 76, making him the oldest known chimpanzee in the world. Chimpanzees make tools and use them to acquire foods and for social displays; they have sophisticated hunting strategies requiring cooperation, influence and rank; they are status conscious, manipulative and capable of deception; they can learn to use symbols and understand aspects of human language including some relational syntax, concepts of number and numerical sequence. Young chimpanzees have outperformed human college students in tasks requiring remembering numbers. “Take me home ….....” was featured in Primate Art “Take me home ….....” was featured in Friends of RedBubble “Take me home ….....” was featured in Exotic Mammals
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Another early career painting that I found hanging in a family member’s home. I give many paintings as gifts to family members, but our son actually bought this one from me and I had never taken a picture of it after all of these years. / This painting was done around 1980 and I used a US postage stamp as a guide. / Painted on self stretched artist canvas, with oil paint. and is 24”X24” unframed. !
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