This is our new puppy and my old boot!
Small clawed Asian otter / / / / Portfolio Areas / Tigers / Wildlife / Macro / Landscape / Birds / Abstracts / Cats~wild and domestic
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Two more in the series after this one… Enjoy!!
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Praire Dog, can you belive they are endangered? /
A shot of a purple Finch eating at my birdfeeder.I’m still practicing,birds are not that easy to catch…. :))Birds always make a great card to give. / /
views: 1161 / favs: 45 My origami calendar I folded the mother duck out of trace paper around the time I saw ducklings on the way to work; can read about that here. I can’t remember how big the paper was; I believe 13×13mm. The two little ducklings in the centre were folded from 6×6mm pieces of trace paper while the little one at the back was folded from a 5×5mm piece of trace paper. I know mother duck is just behind the 4cm mark, but the duckling at the back is infront of the 1cm mark, hence the duck family is a 3cm spread ^ _ ^ New version added August 21, 2008 / Looks great on a card! Although maybe distracting at work; lol. / Also available at Zazzle / This work has been featured in: / Ebony and Ivory / Numbers One to a Trillion / Waterfowl / Little Things To Make You Smile / Weekly Theme Challenges / Color Me a Rainbow / Boredom Competitions on the 24/7 / / Works by Category Origami / Drawings,Paintings and Graphics Flowers, Trees and Plants / Water and Waterscapes / Scenery/Skyscapes / Light, Shadow, and Reflections / Still Life Living Creatures / Human Portrait Japanfluence / Canada / Europe / / / More Sample Origami Fly / / / Born from the Hand / Born from Fingers / / / Born from the Pinky / / / / 3cm Family Swim / / / Arctic Playground / / / / Sailing Along The Lifeline / / / Life is a Journey / / / / Born from the Cell / / / Origami Surgery / / / / Surprise! / / / Love Birds / / / Hummingbird / / / / ‘Serenity’, the Firefly spacecraft (My own design) / / / The Search for Water / / / Nessie’s Lair / / / / Origummy / / / Red String of Fate / / / / Bloomed from Fingers / / / The Blooming, the Withering, and the Everlasting / / / Spring Beginnings / / / Little White Peacock in a Field of Color / / / Thumbelina’s Flower / / / Lily / / / / Remembrance / / / Every Little Peace / / / Penguin in a Snowstorm / / / Monkey Mischief / / / / Monkey Bars / / / Bigfoot meets BIG foot / / / Money Pond / / / / A Little Spell / / / A Little Thanksgiving / / / / Heartbeat / / / Tough Shell, Delicate Soul / / / / The Key to Peace / / / / Snow Flower / / / Snow Flower / / / Born from the Cell: Behind the Scenes / / / Glass Horse / / / Folded Cup (My own design) / / / Bubbly Planes / / / I Hope God Likes Chocolate / / / Guardian Angel / / / / Substitute for a silent mouth of sorrow / / / Silent Language of Flowers / / / Soul Taker / / / /
Jumping Spider (Olympus 510) / The jumping spider family (Salticidae) contains more than 500 described genera and over 5,000 species, making it the largest family of spiders with about 13% of all species (Peng et al., 2002). Jumping spiders have good vision and use it for hunting and navigating. They are capable of jumping from place to place, secured by a silk tether. Both their book lungs and the tracheal system are well-developed, as they depend on both systems (bimodal breathing). Jumping spiders are generally diurnal, active hunters. Their well developed internal hydraulic system extends their limbs by altering the pressure of body fluid (blood) within them. This enables the spiders to jump without having large muscular legs like a grasshopper. The jumping spider can therefore jump 20 to 60 or even 75-80 times the length of their body. When a jumping spider is moving from place to place, and especially just before it jumps, it tethers a filament of silk to whatever it is standing on. Should it fall for one reason or another, it climbs back up the silk tether. Jumping spiders are Scopula bearing spiders, which means that they have a very interesting Tarsal section. And the end of each leg they have hundreds of tiny hairs, which each then split into hundreds more tiny hairs, each tipped with an “end foot”. These thousands of tiny feet allow them to climb up and across virtually any terrain. They can even climb up glass by gripping onto the tiny imperfections, usually an impossible task for any spider. Jumping spiders also use their silk to weave small tent-like dwellings where females can protect their eggs, and which also serve as a shelter while moulting. Jumping spiders are known for their curiosity. If approached by a human hand, instead of scuttling away to safety as most spiders do, the jumping spider will usually leap and turn to face the hand. Further approach may result in the spider jumping backwards while still eyeing the hand. The tiny creature will even raise its forelimbs and “hold its ground”. Because of this contrast to other arachnids, the jumping spider is regarded as inquisitive as it is seemingly interested in whatever approaches it. (Wiki)
A silver bosunbird chick, barely days old, sitting in-between its broken egg. Christmas Island, Indian Ocean Territories, Australia. Taken with Canon 5D and 28-105mm L Series lens @ 105mm. / As is – no editing.
East Greenbush, NY USA / Olympus E510 / The Megachilidae are a cosmopolitan family of (mostly) solitary bees whose pollen-carrying structure (called a scopa) is restricted to the ventral surface of the abdomen (rather than mostly or exclusively on the hind legs as in other bee families). Megachilid genera are most commonly known as mason bees and leafcutter bees, reflecting the materials they build their nest cells from (soil or leaves, respectively); a few collect plant or animal hairs and fibers, and are called carder bees. All species feed on nectar and pollen, but a few are cleptoparasites (informally called “cuckoo bees”), feeding on pollen collected by other megachilid bees. Parasitic species do not possess a scopa. The brightly colored scopa leads to a colloquial name used occasionally in North America – “Jelly-belly bees.” Megachilid bees are among the world’s most efficient pollinators because of their energetic swimming-like motion in the reproductive structures of flowers, which moves pollen, as needed for pollination. Ironically, one of the reasons they are efficient pollinators is their frequency of visits to plants, but this is because they are extremely inefficient at gathering pollen; compared to all other bee families, megachilids require on average nearly ten times as many trips to flowers to gather sufficient resources to provision a single brood cell. / North America has many native megachilid species, but Alfalfa leafcutter bees (Megachile rotundata) are an imported species used for pollination. The most significant native species is Osmia lignaria (the “Orchard Mason Bee” or “Blue Orchard Bee”), which is sold commercially for use in orchard crop pollination, and which can be attracted to nest in wooden blocks with holes drilled in them (which are also sold commercially for this purpose). (wiki) /
To see my entire origami collection, see here. I’d be more than glad to switch images around to suit personal preferences or create new customized calendars. A customzable version is available at my Zazzle store here / Cover: Every Little Peace / January: Born from the Hand / February: Red String of Fate / March: Nessie’s Lair / April: Born from the Cell / May: Little White Peacock in a Field of Color / June: Sailing Along The Lifeline / July: Surprise! / August: 3cm Family Swim / September: Born from Fingers / October: A Little Spell / November:Fly / December: Arctic Playground / / / / Check out the buyer’s booth photo And images of each page are available to see here BUT BE AWARE that some pages are different then than they are now.
a cute collection of our small friends
Fractalius
Lion cub up a tree in Serengeti, Tanzania. This is by far my most popular image – just take a look at the features and challenge placements below! Winner of the Cubs challenge in the Big Cats group. Winner of the Close-Up Animal Protrait challenge in the Indigenous to East & Southern Africa group. Winner of the Eye Contact with the Big 5 challenge in the Eye Contact group. Finished 6th in the Big Cats December Avatar challenge. Finished 5th in the Exotic Animals It’s All in the Eyes challenge. Finished 8th in the A Whole Lot of Cute challenge of the All Animals Great and Small group. Finished 5th in the Lions challenge of the Fauna, Flora, and Landscapes of South Africa group. Finished 10th in the Staring you in the Face challenge of the Fauna, Flora, and Landscapes of South Africa group. Finished 9th in the Animals of Africa! challenge of the All Animals Great and Small group. Featured in Big Cats. Featured in African Arts and Writing. Featured in All Animals Great And Small. Featured in Baby Animals. Featured in Fauna, Flora, and Landscapes of South Africa. Featured on the RedBubble Home Page on 7/13/2009. Also, to its credit: - Over 3000 views. / - Over 50 comments and favorites. / - 2 postcard sales!
As mentioned in my Penguin in a Snow Storm, I saw mobii’s Origami Penguin Tee shirt, and wanted to give it a go myself. This is the scenario I had in mind for it, and the first penguin I folded (the one in Penguin in a Snow Storm folded from a 7×7mm piece of paper) was too small, so I folded two bigger penguins with 14×14mm pieces of paper. The one on the left is flying up a bit after the right one stomped onto the other end. The seasaw is a cotton swab, and the “ice”, upon which the penguins and seesaw are reflected, is a plastic container. For a better idea of scale: / This work has been featured in / Color Me a Rainbow / Little Things To Make You Smile This work won 1st place in this challenge but the record got lost due to this accident. But I’m very thankful to the host Pene who has re-accepted my work into the group and made a special note in the challenge about my winning work. / / / / / It looks great on a card! More sample origami
I’ve been a little obsessed with Photoshop these past couple of days..hope I haven’t scared you away..lol
Not my usual style…..but how cute are these guys?
oldschool Easter bunny sitting on an empty beach, Crete 2009 FEATURED IN REDBUBBLE ART&PHOTOGRAPHY May 2009
Saw this frog hanging outside the glass of my dinning room window. The grass from the backyard made up the background. Photo By: Jose O. Mediavilla
WINNER of the challenge Walkways with an Animal TOP TEN in the challenge Solid Black and Solid White Cats and Dogs Dancing dog??? / Nikon D60 / Lens: Nikkor 18-200mm / 1/500 f/5.6 ISO320 / as is
Hannah has 2 new pets! This is Kiki the gerbil. Took me at least 1/2 hr to get them both out of their cage today! They are living in our old hamster’s cage, the problem is it has tubes etc and only one place to get them out! They just scurry around at a 100mph and are impossible to catch! Canon EOS 500D
Winter can be dark and long in the northern climates…thank goodness for little chickadees, they will put a smile on ones face, even on the darkest of winter days! / Digitally painted in PainterX with a wacom tablet. 2009 12 18 Featured in ‘REDBUBBLE FEATURED ART & PHOTOGRAPHY’
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