Living nature
1161 creative works found
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Macro of two fallen leaves with droplets of water.
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Most people don’t die until the last moment; others start twenty years in advance, sometimes more. Those are the unfortunates. Louis Ferdinand Céline (1894-1961)
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Thanks so much to Tony for the inspiration! Although I am posting this, I am not finished my friend ! 20 + layers and counting, but the story will go on!!!!! Im tired for now though! LOL Thanks to Linda, Dennis, and whomever else I am forgetting ! Lord Knows I love you!!!!!! I get a little crazy after 1 am go figure ! LOL I will see life as a learning process…. A process that shall prepare me for my final destination…........ Destination above all destinations….......... Where pain and tears will never be again…...... Where love will rule the land, and peace will be forevermore…... One day, It will be finished….......... Oh what a day that shall be…........... / I love you each and everyone ! Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your comments, your friendships, and your love! Today, as I walked outside and stretched my hands towards heaven, I knew that one day, IT SHALL BE WORTH IT ALL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! / Forever, / Bonita ©2008 BMoore Photography & Design….................................... / www.bamagirl38.com
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I stand, I stare / I wonder, where? I pray, I breathe / to stay, or leave? I live, I lie / I wonder, why? I love, I pain / I feel the same. I give, I get / and yet, and yet? Shot on Werneth Low, Hyde. Overlooking Manchester City Centre
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Title chosen by my daughter, One of the images from our trip to the Calgary zoo today
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Experiment with metallic blue paper and using my flash…
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Compainion photo to ‘Beginning’ http://www.redbubble.com/people/dafoeoflenin/art/1660466-2-beginning The stamen of an alstroemeria flower…
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NIKON D50 / SIGMA 70-300mm / 1:4-5.6DG lenz THE AFRICAN ELEPHANT – Loxodonta africana Location Captured: “Krugr National Park” South Africa. The adult male African elephant is the bulkiest and heaviest of all land mammals. / The weight of a prime bull can be as much as 6000kg with the heaviest recorded just over 6500kg. / African elephant sub-species occur throughout east and west central Africa, where only the forest elephant is significantly different, but only as regards its smaller size and darker hide. / The elephants of the Far East are markedly different both in shape and temperament. / Although there is only one sub-species in southern Africa, the habitat tends to influence their behavioral patterns and even appearance. / There are two major extremes of habitat in which elephant are found in our sub-region-the arid and waterless Kaokoveld and the dense forests of Knysa (Cape Province). By far the largest proportion of elephants is, however, found in the bushveld country. The desert elephants of the waterless Kaokoveld need just as much food and water to survive as the other elephants. They are extremely careful in their eating, stripping off only the food needed, as if aware of how delicately balanced is nature in their arid and sparsely vegetated habitat. The Kaokoveld elephants are tall, scrawny and tough. The possible extinction of these endangered desert elephants holds severe threat for the ecology of the Kaokoveld. They are the only creatures able to keep open the watering points in the shifting sands and if they disappear so will much of the fauna of the area dependant upon this water. / Elephants are generally placid, but can be extremely dangerous if threatened or when they are in season. There are two aggressive behavioral patterns: If the animal is not serious about its intent, but just wishes to assert itself or show dominance, it may make a mock charge, trumpeting loudly, with the trunk probably extended and the ears flapping. If, however, the animal is intent on mischief, then the trunk may be rolled up for protection of left dangling, the ears are laid flat against the head and the tusks pointed directly at the quarry. The charge made is deadly in its silence. / Undeniably the glory, yet the downfall of this magnificent beast, is the bulk and quality of its ivory tusks. The heaviest recorded pair was an incredible almost 200kg, recorded from an animal from central Africa. The record in our region is no more than 90kg. / Elephants live to about 70 years, or sometimes slightly longer, with their age-span strictly controlled by their dentition. They have only six pairs of molars, with two in use at a time. As one pair is used they move forward along the jaw and are worn and splintered away by constant chewing and the roots are finally absorbed. That pair is replaced by the next which are longer and wider. Finally, when all six teeth on watch side have been worn away, the elephant has attained old age. Now unable to chew its food, it dies from a lack of nutrition. / The female differs from the male in having a slightly more angular and prominent forehead and a slightly straighter back. Tusks are generally smaller, although this becomes noticeable only when compared to tusks of older bulls. The entire weight of the massive skull and tusks is carried by the forelegs which are larger than the back legs. The front feet are more rounded than the hind, which are smaller and more oval. When the elephant flaps its ears blood supply in the heavy concentration of blood vessels near to the surface on the back of the ears cools, lowering the body heat of the animal. / Elephants do not go of to die in special “elephant graveyards” as popular legend would have it. Their remains do not litter the veld as the scavengers, large and small, ultimately remove all evidence even of this the largest of all land animals. Due to their large size they do not have predators in the normal sense, but poaching and culling have taken their toll of the African elephant. / These social animals are ruled by matriarchy. The senior cow in the family takes care of the needs of the family. Sometimes families join to form herds, but the larger bulls join the herd only when the cows are in oestrus, leaving again after their task is done. / Bulls rarely fight over the cows and may mate with several in the herd. A single pinkish coloured, hairy calf is produced and rarely a twin. A clear place near water is chosen for the birthing and sometimes other females attend to guard the mother. The young are at risk and are strictly guarded by the mother and herd. / FOOD: Elephants are strict vegetarians: tree-bark and roots, leaves, soother branches, grass and fruit is eaten, such as the baobab fruit and acacia pods. / They consume prodigious quantities of food. Where man has interfered with nature and elephant populations permitted to expand unnaturally, the vegetation has suffered severely. Large branches are ripped off and the tender components eaten, smaller trees are sometimes toppled to make their tender crowns available, even the huge succulent, soft pulp baobab tree trunks are chewed around until topple and the entire tree is eventually consumed.
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I was listening to Moby and before I knew it this simple cactus shot turned into this… I think Moby was affecting my brain, haha. So enjoy my insanity!
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Don’t eat them… haha…. This is growing in my front yard, but I have no idea what kind of tree it is. It has pretty blossoms in the spring though. Enjoy!
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Winter Symmetry Wall Art December 2008 /
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A lone Fallow Deer hind stands on the edge of a dark forrest in the Scottish borders. / Living by natures clock. Something we stopped doing many years ago. / I think that’s why we’re so messed up. / Intended as a Canvas print & best viewed large. / Happy New Year everyone. /
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Oh Dream Now I’m Dreaming So Peaceful & True / May It Wisk Me Away & Take Me To You ….. ©2009 BMoore Photography & Design / Bamagirl38
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Taken in ‘Roman woods’, Cambridge. NOT ‘as is’
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I find this bird to be one of those birds that is a pleasure to watch.. they are usually found alone.. and they must dry their wings , before diving again, due to no oil glands on the wings. Lakes Park. Fort Myers, Florida. Sony DSC H 7 ** / This is a clickable image
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Simply water droplets and the patterns they make… This is condensation on a water bottle, I used my macro lens for this one and the background was my computer screen. :D Enjoy!
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Today I have awaken to a new day, and this one, indeed, even more beautiful than the one before…............ ©2009 BMoore Photography & Design / Bamagirl38 / Always Be More !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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East opens the day at dawn, / Releasing the Sun / From night’s ebony box. / The mind awakes / with childlike delight. / Spring fills the breeze / with sweet flowers and the / shimmery sound of bells. / Here the birds unfurl their wings / and all the world takes flight. Elizabeth Barrette Ostara brings an optimistic energy as we celebrate the beginning of Spring and a turning point as the Northern Hemisphere once again tilts back towards the Sun. Until this tilt takes place, now is the time of balance – equal day and night – yet also a time of anticipation, as from this night forward, the light once again conquers the darkness. Spring Waltz Photograph of one of my favorite fairies (large collection), played with in photoshop7 and fractilius (redfield plug-ins). HAPPY SPRING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Show our children the importance of trees and nature for a healthy environment and earth. Their future depends on it. Featured in Art and Stories Made for Children / Featured in Earth Keepers group. / Featured in First Things group. / Featured in Fantastic Primitive Art group. © 2009 Anne Hale. If you like this design, see my other designs: / / /
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I surrender to green glow. I fall into the grace of foliage that grows with sweating hands and naked limbs that bend with storms and fears and regrets and pull themselves back to the sun and continue to seek solutions from light and the drizzle of summer rains and the sound of whispering time brushing against green leaves. Always waiting for nothing and everything without expectation. Living in Trees is acrylic on canvas 36”x48”
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Digital finger painting (with a mouse), completed through the wee small hours. I’m having trouble sleeping, too many images in my head. Even when I’m asleep, I’m drawing in my dreams. I’m having so much fun experimenting with digital, it’s a new medium for me and I just love it. FEATURED in ‘Creative Cards’ August, 2009 / FEATURED in ‘Lifeline’ August, 2009 /
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Digital art inspired by natural wonders in life! :) FEATURED in the “Fishlike” group!
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Canon 350D / F/5.6 / 150 seg / ISO-100 / 55mm Please view larger, thank you xxx
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