One must suffer for your art correct? Well this might fit, I headed out this cold December dawn a year ago with temps at -5 and windchill at -30. A bit chilly and I learned that if you take a glove and grab a metal tripod leg your hand will stick at least for a few moments. I hope the image was worth it! The frozen surface of Mud Lake just after dawn one cold winter morning. The long shadows of the tree stumps making eerie lines across the ice and skiff of snow on top.
Goddess of the Earth I was inspired to do this for an online photoshop contest. This piece won. The model is called ‘Iza’ , and has a great stock library on DeviantArt. I have a great fondness for Photoshop and the freedom it gives me. The practice of applying textures to human skin can have some remarkable results. This is supposed to represent Gaia in her natural form, born of Chaos.
The Canada Goose is a national symbol of our country Often described as a powerful and majestic bird as it takes to the air. (Please check back in about eight to ten weeks.) Note. / This image promted a fellow Red Bubble artist to create the inspiring prose you see here. Hence the collaboration of Greg Smith, photographer and Ann-maree, writer. (Bubble name “Bellavista2”) A perfect card for “Graduation Day”. Enjoy! (Nikonians – d2x – f2.8 70-200 VR lens)
A bitterly cold morning on the surface of Mud lake. The rising sun offered little warmth but it did outline the frost on the cat tails and reeds.
The Canada Goose is a national symbol of our country Often described as a powerful and majestic bird as it takes to the air. (Please check back in about eight to ten weeks.)
Patterns of mud after a rare intense desert rainstorm - formed in a normally dry stream bed (wadi) and photographed in early morning light - after only a few hours of desert heat it was back to dust. Featured in “Abstracts from Nature” Oct 17 – 2008 / Featured in Photowriting Nov 2 2008
An old fishing boat still moored, laying on the mud flats at Port Augusta, South Australia.
The fog is rising, the mud is flying and Mouse is on the run. / /
There has been one sale of this image. In November 2008 this image was featured in the group, Buyers R Us. In February 2009, this image placed third in the U.S. Parks Wildlife Shots challenge hosted by the AMERICA’s National Parks and WILDLIFE Habitat group. A thousand Yellowstone wonders are calling, ‘Look up and down and round about you! John Muir – 1898 The temperatures were in the single digits on this cold, snowy January morning at West Thumb Geyser Basin, which is one of the smallest geyser basins in Yellowstone. A incredibly scenic area along the shore of Yellowstone Lake, West Thumb only has a small amount of geyser activity. However, the basin more than makes up for it with its diversity. Despite its small size, it has paint/mud pots, hot springs, pools, lake shore geysers, and fumaroles. Fumaroles are small openings that release steam and other gasses. You can see in the foreground the muddy, soupy waters inundating the paint pots. The white area beyond the tree line in the right hand side of the photograph is Yellowstone Lake. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Please don’t copy or download this image. My photos may NOT be reproduced and/or used in any form without my written permission. If you want this photograph, I would be honored for you to purchase it. ©2008-2009 Patricia Montgomery | Bucks Mountain Galleries | All rights reserved.
1970 Chevy Blazer “Freak Show” giving it all he had at the local mud races at Dennis Anderson’s Muddy Motor sports track in Currituck, North Carolina. /
Death Valley, California, USA tour 2008 Click Here / / . / WARNING / ©2008 Globalphotos All rights reserved. / All photographs, text and images by Globalphotos are the exclusive property of Globalphotos – protected under Australian and international copyright laws. / These images may not be reproduced, copied or manipulated without written permission. / No use for Public Domain. / Use of any image for another photographic concept or illustration is a violation of copyright.
On route to Monument Valley, USA 2008 Dawn, cold and very beautiful :) ©2008 Globalphotos All rights reserved. / All photographs, text and images by Globalphotos are the exclusive property of Globalphotos – protected under Australian and international copyright laws. / These images may not be reproduced, copied or manipulated without written permission. / No use for Public Domain. / Use of any image for another photographic concept or illustration is a violation of copyright.
The common worker with a common temptation.
Was sitting on a small rocky crag at Mud Lake having a quiet moment. This chipmunk arrived and began thrashing about in a bush just a few feet from where I sat. Intent on getting to the berries on a bush that could not support his weight, he resorted to all kinds of gymnastic type maneuvers. Very entertaining.
/ “Still Life with Wellingtons” is another of my larger works that I promised to start adding to my RB gallery…just finished today, it has all the components of my favourite style of painting; lots of texture, trompe l’oeil, and a touch of surrealism in the subject matter…the shiny boots contrast nicely with the rough wood and the rusty nail….it will fit in perfectly with the Spring Fever collection, but really belongs with the Portfolio collection…the whole is totally imagined…I created the wood panel as I went along and it was such fun, I had to restrain myself from adding more knots…I found Elizabeth Bishop’s words to be truly an inspiring accompaniment to the painting”... Watercolour on Saunders Waterford Rough paper… “It was cold and windy, scarcely the day / to take a walk on that long beach / Everything was withdrawn as far as possible, / indrawn: the tide far out, the ocean shrunken, / seabirds in ones or twos. / The rackety, icy, offshore wind / numbed our faces on one side; / disrupted the formation / of a lone flight of Canada geese; / and blew back the low, inaudible rollers / in upright, steely mist.” Elizabeth Bishop, The End of March / The Sap Bucket
Wild horse in Utah after getting out of the watering hole.
...always get me down
on the beach, Porthcawl
We had another large rainstorm last night the first rain in 10 months and in this narrow limestone canyon in the mountains these mini-mud dunes form – in a day or so they will return back to dust. Late afternoon light in the canyon. for a natures macro challenge (if I made it in time) The photo won the Earth Exposed challenge in “Natures Macro Canvas” so it was worth the time to run out and get the photo hours before the challenge closed – thanks to everyone who voted for it. Taken the same time from above
Wild horse in Utah’s desert
I loved taking these shots at yellowstone, because the colors are amazing there, and the volcanic activity etc is also amazing…the park is not to far from where I live and I figure all the volcanic activity in my own mtns could even be related to yellowstone. The earth is very much alive in this whole area. I mean several States, and if you hike you will find even more that you would never see any other way. Mother nature is full of peace and rage both, and this is a perfect example of that to me.
This is my first upload of photographs taken at the Kooragang Wetland Centre in Newcastle. Formerly an Industrial Zone, it is located at the edges of Suburbia and has been reclaimed for the sake of the environment. It’s a photographers dream in so many ways. It has 4 different eco-systems and the amount and variety of wildlife and plants blows the mind.
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