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  Cheetah
  by Mundy Hackett

  US$5.10

  Cheetah – original photograph, digitally accented / / Name: Acinonyx jubatus (Cheetah) Distribution and population / Once found throughout Asia and Africa, the species is now only scattered in Iran and various countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Home ranges in Namibia for males can be up to 1500 square km and for females, 1200-1500 square km. Only 12,500 cheetahs remain in 25 African countries, and 200 cats survive in Iran. Namibia has the world’s largest number of cheetahs, yet over + 3,000 remain the wild. Conservation status / Protected species in Namibia. Endangered under the United States Endangered Species Act. Listed on CITES Appendix I. (Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species.) Ecology: habitat and diet / Cheetahs thrive in areas with vast expanses of land where prey is abundant. Cheetahs have been found in a variety of habitats, including grasslands, savannahs, dense vegetation, and mountainous terrain. In Namibia 95 percent of cheetahs live on commercial farms. A cheetah’s diet consists of small antelope, young of large antelope, warthog, hare, and game birds. Physical characteristics / The cheetah has a slender, long-legged body with blunt semi-retractable claws. Its coat is tan with small, round, black spots, and the fur is coarse and short. The cheetah has a small head with high-set eyes. Black “tear marks,” which run from the corner of its eyes down the sides of the nose to its mouth, keep the sun out of its eyes and aid in hunting. Adult body length 112-135 cm;tail length 66-84 cm; shoulder height 73+ cm; weight 34-54 kg. The male is slightly larger then the female. Adaptations and specializations / The cheetah’s flexible spine, oversized liver, enlarged heart, wide nostrils, increased lung capacity, and thin muscular body make this cat the swiftest hunter in Africa. Covering 7-8 meters in a stride, with only one foot touching the ground at a time, the cheetah can reach a speed of 110 km/h in seconds. At two points in the stride, no feet touch the ground. Social behaviour / Cheetahs have a unique, well-structured social order. Females live alone except when they are raising cubs. The females raise the cubs on their own. The first 18 months of a cub’s life cubs learn survival lessons on knowing how to hunt wild prey species and avoid other predators such as the leopards, lions, hyenas, and baboons. At 18 months, the mother leaves the cubs, which then form a sibling group, staying together for another 6 months. At about 2 years, the female siblings leave the group, and the young males remain together for life. Males live alone or in coalitions made up of brothers from the same litter. Some coalitions maintain territories in order to find females with which they will mate. Fierce fights between male coalitions, resulting in serious injury or death, can occur when defending territories. Cheetahs hunt in the late morning and early evening. They capture their prey by stalking – until the prey is within 10-30 meters – before chasing. The prey is suffocated when a cheetah bites the underside of the throat. Chases last about 20 seconds, and rarely longer then 1 minute. About half of the chases are successful. In Namibia, cheetahs use play-trees (trees with sloping trunks and large horizontal limbs, usually camelthorns) to observe their surroundings and mark the area. Cheetahs make chirping sounds, and hiss or spit when angered or threatened. They purr very loudly when content. Cheetahs do not pose a threat to humans. Sexual reproduction / Sexual maturity occurs at 20-23 months. The gestation period is about 95 days, and the average litter size is 4-5 cubs. Cubs are smoky-grey in colour with long hair, called a mantle, running along their backs; they are up to 30 cm long and weigh 250-300 grams at birth. The mantle has several purposes: it is thought to camouflage the cub in dead grass, hiding it from predators, and to work as a mimicry defence, causing the cub to resemble a honey badger. Life span / Studies have not been conducted in the wild on longevity; 8-12 years is average in captivity. Cub mortality is high for the species in both the wild and captivity. On average 30 percent of all cubs born in captivity die within one month of birth, and in Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park, about 90 percent die before reaching 3 months of age. Ecology: natural history / Cheetah relatives had worldwide distribution until about 20,000 years ago, but the world’s environment underwent drastic changes in the Great Ice Age. Throughout North America, Europe and Asia, about 75 percent of the mammal species vanished. Only a handful of the modern cheetah remained, having gone through a “bottleneck”, and inbreeding occurred for the species’ survival. In c1700 BC the Egyptians were the first to tame the cheetahs and cheetahs have been kept in captivity for some 5,000 years. However, they breed poorly in captivity. The many parks and reserves of Africa offer protection for only a small amount of cheetahs. In these parks, lion and hyena numbers increase, and the cheetahs cannot compete with these large predators which kill cheetah cubs and steal their prey. Evolution has favoured speed and not strength for this species. Therefore, most of the cheetah population is found outside of protected reserves. Threats to survival / Decline in prey, loss of habitat, poaching, and indiscriminate trapping and shooting threaten the survival of the cheetah throughout its range. Conservation efforts / To help this sleek hunter of the African wild win its race against extinction, we must (1) help protect its habitat and insure a place for it on Namibian farmlands, (2) aid in the conservation of the wild prey base, (3) halt the indiscriminate capture and removal of the cheetah, (4) improve livestock and game management, and (5) educate everyone about the need to conserve biological diversity, and the predators’ unique role in a healthy ecosystem. Cheetahs in captivity / Cheetahs are wild animals. Capture of wild cheetahs threaten the survival of the species in two ways. First, the removal of individuals reduces the species’ genetic diversity in the wild. And secondly, cheetahs do not breed well in captivity. The Asian cheetah is nearly extinct because of its capture for private use. Special dietary requirements, special needs, and unpredictable behaviour make this a poor pet. Wild instincts remain intact even with tamed and captive raised animals. This information was excerpted from THE CHEETAH CONSERVATION FUND For more information, and to learn even more about the cheetah and efforts to ensure its survival visit the THE CHEETAH CONSERVATION FUND and THE NATIONAL ZOO

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  Sumatran tiger
  by Mundy Hackett

  US$4.99

  Sumatran tiger – original photograph, digitally accented / / Name: Panthera tigris sumatrae (Sumatran Tiger) Description: The Sumatran tiger has the darkest coat of all tigers. Its broad, black stripes are closely spaced and often doubled. Unlike the Siberian tiger, it has striped forelegs. Sumatran tigers are the smallest tiger subspecies. Males average 2.4 meters (8 feet) in length from head to tail and weigh about 120 kilograms (264 pounds). Females measure approximately 2.2 meters (7 feet) in length and weigh about 90 kilograms (198 pounds). Distribution: The Sumatran tiger is found only on the Indonesian island of Sumatra in habitat that ranges from lowland forest to submontain and montain forest with some peat-moss forest. Biology: The Sumatran tiger eats wild pig, big deer (called rusa), and small deer (called muntjak or barking deer). The specific range size of this tiger is not know, however the population density is approximately 4–5 adult tigers/100 km 2 (39 mile 2) in optimal lowland rainforest. As elevation increases through submontain and montain forests, the number of tigers in any given area decreases because there is less prey available. Status in the wild: 400-500 wild Sumatran tigers were believed to exist in 1998, primarily in the island’s national park areas, but no island-wide census or monitoring system has been possible. Tiger numbers have continued to decline because of poaching of tigers to supply the illegal trade in tiger parts. The last remnants of lowland forest are being eliminated to establish oil palm plantations and for shifting agriculture by recent settlers from other areas of Sumatra and Indonesia. Ongoing road development makes many formerly inaccessible mountain areas accessible to illegal logging even on the steepest slopes, and many mountainous areas are being converted into plantations for coffee and other products for international markets. Tigers are legally protected but are not highly valued. Captive breeding: For three years, the Indonesian Zoological Parks’ Association (PKBSI) has been working with the Tiger Global Conservation Strategy to develop a conservation program for Sumatran tigers. In addition to the 65 Sumatran tigers living in Indonesian zoos, there are 55 tigers managed by North American zoos, 100 in European zoos, and 12 in Australasian zoos. This captive population is descended from 37 wild-caught founders. The Indonesian Sumatran Tiger Masterplan now has the potential to function as the heart of the Sumatran tiger population worldwide. It is designed to preserve sufficient genetic diversity to reinforce both captive and wild populations, thus fulfilling its goal to ensure that the in situ tiger program comprises verifiable founders permanently identified and registered in the Indonesian Sumatran Tiger Studbook. It also extends the capabilities of Indonesian zoo staff to professionally manage their tiger programs in Indonesia, and at the same time serves as a model for other range country tiger management programs in Southeast Asia.

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  Wilderness lost
  by Mundy Hackett

  US$5.10

  Brown bear aka Grizzly bear (Ursus horribilis), captive zoo animal, digitally accented Wilderness lost The victims of human beings come in all shapes and sizes, from the largest to the small. Gone are the days of grizzlies roaming the prairies of North America for roots and wolf pack leftovers. Everything associated with the prairies is turned to dust, blown to the corners of the globe. One has to travel far to seek out the last truly wild places, those nooks of nature that only the sun and clouds visit with regularity. Someday they too will be but a destination on someone’s itinerary. The wandering, restless soul keeps wild places in their hearts, and when they venture forth into the wood they feel the ripples of time and days gone by flowing like the unstoppable river throughout the hollow skeleton of what once was a place of mystery and passion. The great bears have been pushed to the limit, needing protection even in their remaining strongholds, where man is still a visitor. Golden aspens and billowing birch trees, where the sky is the only rooftop and every direction provides a window. We seek so much to regain the things we destroy, in nature and in love, so why should we weep at the humbleness and sad truth of a mighty creature napping in a concrete jungle? Because one glimpse into its eyes reveals the genes forged from rivers and floods, mountains and valleys, winters of endless desolation and summers of famine and frivolity with cubs. Wilderness was a catch phrase, now it is but a ghost, and time marches on leaving the ramshackled remnants of a once great species. Mighty bear, the hunter, the spirit, symbol of what was and still should be American Wilderness. He, the gentile beast, should spend lazy days napping and berry picking and sratching in thickets of tender alders, pondering as only a wild bear ponders the cottonwood seeds. And yet this is not the way the story goes, this bear goes by the name of Bruce. “The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.” / -Edward Abbey /

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  Coyote pups
  by Mundy Hackett

  US$5.10

  Three coyote pups playing on a summer’s day. Taken in 2005 in Boone County, Missouri on private land.

• Discourse and the unexpected
  by Mundy Hackett

  As many of you may or may not know, in addition to my degrees in science I hold a BA in Philosophy, and I am alaways trying to join appro…

  As many of you may or may not know, in addition to my degrees in science I hold a BA in Philosophy, and I am alaways trying to join appropriate literary quotes with my journal posting when it is deemed proper. So in the spirit of joining my artistic journal with some philosophical wisdom, I want to start the rest of this journal posting with the following quotation from the Famous English Philosopher John Locke (English philosopher, 1632-1704) – “There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.” Well said dear John, and everyone here at the bubble knows all too well how much discourse I have had in the past few weeks. I have even many times behaved as a spoiled rotten child who would not stop touching their sibling, even after the parental units had warned several times of possible groundings and timeouts! So as many know I would proceed to offload my work, whine and threaten that I won’t stay a couple of times, but I literally have received hundreds of emails and bubblemails, not to mention the huge public outpouring of support in other Redbubble locations like journals and forum threads and various works of art…...and so what is my point…...my point is that the encouragement, Redbubble brand of love and support, and the faith in my personal integrity by more friends than I can count has all made up my mind for me that there is absolutely no reason for me to feel I need to go nor need I be ashamed of standing up for my ideals and the stanchion of truth, honesty and the pursuit of a community where these traits are fostered by all involved. I really like the following quote, and I think it really hits home for me today of all days: All the water in the world, however hard it tries, can never sink the / smallest ship unless it gets inside, and all the evil in the world, the / blackest kind of sin, can never hurt you in the least, unless you let it in. Anonymous I lost my head many times in fits of reactionary actions over the past few weeks, and all along I should have let Redbubble do their thing. Peter and his staff have it all under control, and much like ones tax returns things never go as swiftly for an individual as one would like in the business world. Peter only wants the truth, fairness to all deserving of it, and the Redbubble image to remain free of controversy and deception on our part. I am all for that, and I should have more faith in Peter and RB because they did their job and they did it quite well. Now I am going on and on and digressing a bit, and i need to come back round the other side to the BEST reason for this post! Somehow, throughout all of my ups and downs, taking work off and putting work back on, I was DISCOVERED by an interior designer in New York looking to adorn the walls of a pediatricians office with some lovely and colorful artwork. Somehow, by hook or by crook, she came across some of my work and we started talking. Long story short, thanks to my work here on display at Redbubble, thats right, here in the Lion’s Den, I just closed the largest single sale I have had in 2+ years! How unexpected is that! The designer purchased 7 different images at $300 per, and they will be blown up to somewhere between 2’ x 3’ and 2’ x 4’ and placed on the wall of Rye Brook Pediatric Associates, Rye Ridge Plaza, Rye Brook New York. If anyone who reads this is somewhat local to that area of New York state please by all means go by for a visit and tell me how they look! The following are the images that are going up on the wall even as we speak: TILT / / POETRY IN MOTION / / STRIPES / / BLENDED / / TROPICAL / / BASHFUL / / and OOPS / I mean I was literally blown away, and I owe it all to Redbubble friends and members who stuck it out with me through these times of trial and tribulation. So in a more concise way, I just want to say thank you friends, because of you not only have I not left a community that is forgiving and embraces those who get hammered on when the chips seem down, but you also helped my wife and I out in a time of tremendous economic uncertainty in America. I won’t go on with all the sappy stuff, but I easily could. SO I AM STAYING THANKS TO YOU FRIENDS Bless you all, and I hope that my unexpected success thanks to all of you in a time of great uncertainty will help those in the future who may be in doubt of what to do or are bogged down in things they have little control over. I wouldn’t do anything different except to let Peter and Redbubble take the reins from the get go no matter how long their professional and sound process took, it is really the best way! Have a great week! And thank you all for commenting on my recent uploads, and I guess I need to get these that I sold loaded back since they appeal to someone out there!

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  Layan
  by Mundy Hackett

  US$5.10

  Snow leopard / /

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  Panthera oncia
  by Mundy Hackett

  US$5.10

  Snow leopard moment. Portfolio Areas / Tigers / Wildlife / Macro / Landscape / Birds / Abstracts / Cats~wild and domestic

• Pay it forward
  by Mundy Hackett

  We all have artists on our watchlist that we think are wonderful, but who may not get the recognition they deserve or their work just get…

  We all have artists on our watchlist that we think are wonderful, but who may not get the recognition they deserve or their work just gets passed by in the influx of daily work here on Redbubble. I would like to form a journal entry here that serves the purpose of bringing awareness and traffic to these underappreciated artists, so my proposal is that anyone who wished to come into this journal and post 1 or 2 links to artists on their watchlists whom they absolutely adore. This idea was originally begun by JULIE LANGFORD so please be sure to visit her journal HERE too for more amazing work! Also feel free to link to their images as well, and try not to repeat the same artists as have already been mentioned and promoted. This way we can get the word out about so many of these tremendous hidden talents here at Redbubble. I have two artists I would now like to introduce to you that I have on my watchlist: David Linkenauger and Shelley Spillenaar David is one of my fellow home state photographers and takes really nice waterscape images, and Shelley in my mmind has a wonderful eye and a keen sense of capturing the right moment with animals. Please go take a look at the wonderful work of these two artists, and if you like what you see be sure to tell them so and maybe even add them to your watchlist! Also, be sure to scan your own watchlist for someone who you think deserves more attention than they are currently getting in the world of Redbubble! Let’s make this a huge success!

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  Mayfly I
  by Mundy Hackett

  US$5.10

  Mayfly – (Hexagenia limbata) / / A member of the insect Family Ephemeridae, this is the largest of all North American mayflies. It is commonly found on slow moving rivers and stillwaters across North America. Taken in Tryon, North Carolina. (He) stretched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only a wisp of air, to save a fragment of the spot that she had made lovely for him. But it was all going by too fast…and he knew that he had lost that part of it, the freshest and the best, forever.* / -F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)

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  Goldeneye
  by Mundy Hackett

  US$5.10–US$42.51

  Snow leopard

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  Common yellowthroat on cattails
  by Mundy Hackett

  US$5.10

  “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” / -Michelangelo

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  Snow leopard
  by Mundy Hackett

  US$5.10

  Snow leopard, digitally enhanced to reveal fur texture and drama. / /

• *THE TRUTH*
  by Mundy Hackett

  If anyone out there is wondering what in the hell has been going on with me and Redbubble over the past few weeks you can get a bit of an…

  If anyone out there is wondering what in the hell has been going on with me and Redbubble over the past few weeks you can get a bit of an idea by reading Peter’s Comments in regards to this matter HERE While Peter is obviously not in the habit of naming names, saying someone is right and someone is wrong, I think anyone with a good head on their shoulders and a bit of an objective mind can put two and two together. I think you all can figure out who these key players are, and what works have suddenly disappeared. I took alot of crap from alot of people in the community because you all did not know the facts of the case and I could not tell them to you. I still can not, but it should become blatantly clear now to everyone why I was so vehement in defending myself when I was called a liar, a jealous artist, an idiot, a person who is just mean and nasty for no good reason, someone who had no valid motive, etc. I am sure many of you who said such things still feel this way even after the truth in a somewhat vague and cryptic way has been spilled out by Peter and Redbubble. I had hoped that there would be a bit more forthcoming on the part of Redbubble and alot more accountability by the guilty party, but I will have to settle for what it is. I will still not be bringing my work back online because there were some assurances made to me by Peter as conditions of me keeping my work here that are clearly not going to be honored, and that is his perogitive. Nonetheless I felt I had a right to direct everyone to his thread in order to offer some clarity to all those who are confused or have been on the sidelines just wondering what in the hell has been going on. From my perspective it was never personal, it was all business. I went about it in the wrong manner, and now Redbubble is forcing me to take my medicine by way of taking away my group Natural Developments without consulting me or my membership. I think it is wrong as I was only responding to the attacks on me. I did not name any names nor did I ever instigate anything directly. the guilty always reveal themselves through vehement denials while offering no hard proof. This is exactly what happened here in this case. Redbubble was slow to act, but that is water under the bridge. I wish you all well, and at least you can know some of THE TRUTH

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  Unforgiven
  by Mundy Hackett

  US$5.10

  This is a captive animal that resides at the Living Desert Museum in Tucson, Arizona. Cougar, one of the most maligned carnivores in North America. Like the grizzly bear and timberwolf, these large carnivores need lots of space to live, and when they go after livestock it is because they either are sick and malnourished from overpopulation as a result of human habitat destruction, or from a lack of natural prey also a direct result of human encroachment upon their native habitat. A big cat is going to do what evolution created a big cat to do and that is hunt and kill. As they say in sports, don’t hate the player (i.e. cougar), hate the game (i.e. habitat destruction)! / / I will donate 100% of any sales proceeds from this image until the end of this controversy to the group of Bianca’s choosing!

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  Fall's hope
  by Mundy Hackett

  US$5.10

  whitetail deer fawn

• Tigers 4 Tigers ~ I am very proud of this!
  by Mundy Hackett

  I am going to take a moment to toot my own horn, not something I do on a regular basis. I have just received the final pdf proof for a p…

  I am going to take a moment to toot my own horn, not something I do on a regular basis. I have just received the final pdf proof for a promotional calendar for 2008 that will be distributed at the University of Missouri and throughout the world to faculty, friends, alumni, and students to increase awareness for wild tiger conservation! The calendar features only photography of yours truly throughout, and so in a sense it is like having a solo gallery show! As many conservation saavy individuals might already know, the tiger in the wild is one of the iconic symbols of endangered species worldwide, numerous organizations have been created to focus on increasing awareness on all of the tiger species worldwide and their precipitous decline towards extinction. All tiger species in the wild are endangered, some more severely than others. Several sub-species have already been lost. You can read more about the first of it’s kind “Tigers 4 Tigers” program started at the University of MIssouri by going here MizzouT4T The two images I I have posted in this message are the opening page of the inside of the calendar as well as the back page of the calendar that talks about me personally and my work. I ask that when you have time you visit the T4T page and read about the program, and if you feel so inclined offer a donation to either T4T, or any other conservation effort, globally or locally, because there is always more that needs to be done to preserve the beauty that exists in the world! Thank you all for listening to me, it is truly an honor to have been a part of this worthy project, and it is exactly the type of conservation effort that weds real on the ground work with the beauty of art that can help stem the tide of the rapid decline of magnificent creatures like the tiger in the wild! Mundy

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  Bringit
  by Mundy Hackett

  US$5.10

  Snow leopard with a glaring stare. Portfolio Areas / Tigers / Wildlife / Macro / Landscape / Birds / Abstracts / Cats~wild and domestic

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  Io moth
  by Mundy Hackett

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  Io moth.

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  Spots
  by Mundy Hackett

  US$5.10

  Snow leopard

• EVERYONE AT RB SHOULD SEE THIS!
  by Mundy Hackett

  Inspiring, and makes one feel such a gamut of emotions, but especially that of thanks and hope! Legless Photographer...

  Inspiring, and makes one feel such a gamut of emotions, but especially that of thanks and hope! Legless Photographer

• Check this out~!
  by salsbells69

  Hi all, Hope this finds you well ~! One of, if not, my favourite photographer and confidant Mundy Hackett has come up with a great …

  Hi all, Hope this finds you well ~! One of, if not, my favourite photographer and confidant Mundy Hackett has come up with a great idea..so please..go take a look :)) Mundy Hackett Cheers Sal xx

• Playing the Popularity Game Without Caring if You Win or Lose
  by Stephen Mitchell

  This started out as a response to Mundy Hackett’s recent article on his Journal...

  This started out as a response to Mundy Hackett’s recent article on his Journal , but like always … it got a bit long! So whilst it was originally aimed at Mundy, I’ve slightly modified to be aimed at anyone facing the same concerns: Online popularity is near impossible when you consider the ever-changing face of the WWW with a million images, articles and myspace pages being uploaded every few seconds … I’d have thought you’d be too busy marketing, selling and enjoying your photography to have time to worry about commenting, reciprocal or otherwse! So it surprises me that this issue is of any concern to anyone at all. Redbubble serves as a great gallery for our REAL-WORLD friends, family, plus potential and repeat clients to see what we enjoy, love and have available for sale. As for commenting and reciprocation … they rarely, if ever, equate to dollars in the bank. Yes, the whole RB community is so overloaded that nobody can stay on the surface for too long without being drowned in the masses reaching up for their five seconds of fame. So be it. We enjoy photography, right? WE’re selling, right? WE’re still here, WE have an established face and name, and WE’re in for the long-haul. That’s what matters. You and Me. US. As long as the minority (who have talent, skill, tenacity, and a ongoing desire to become better) continue to present their BEST work, they will succeed in selling their artwork on RedBubble. Not just showing off their artwork, but presenting to their clients what makes them good and how they are improving. Isn’t this what we are aiming for? By presenting my response here, I realise I open this up for discussion. Play nice. Pretend Mundy is your next client. DISCLAIMER: / This article probably doesn’t say any more than what’s been said a million times before. Yeah, well, sometimes it helps to rant a bit. This has been my turn. NEXT!!

• Denzil won the Mundy Hackett tiger raffle!!!!
  by Denzil

  Wow! What a morning – wildlife rescue (see other journal entry), and then …................ I received a BubbleMail from Mundy to say t…

  Wow! What a morning – wildlife rescue (see other journal entry), and then …................ I received a BubbleMail from Mundy to say that I had been the lucky winner of his first raffle – the beautiful tiger portrait, TILT!!! I was so excited when Mundy emailed me that I couldn ‘t even write a BubbleMail back for a little while. This is the best thing, I’m so happy, I can’t wait to receive it, and show it off on the Buyers’ Booth. Wow, what a morning!

• Recommendation: Mundy Hackett
  by Anita Donohoe

  Mundy Hackett is an outstanding wildlife photographer. His images are compelling and his descr…

  Mundy Hackett is an outstanding wildlife photographer. His images are compelling and his descriptions add much to the experience of viewing his photos of wildlife. Mundy has just uploaded Pawprints which shows us a mother tiger gracefully walking away with her awkward cub following behind. With this photo, Mundy has interpreted a poem, Footprints in the Sand. The combination of photo and description is a tribute to motherhood. Visit Mundy’s portfolio, and you will understand why I recommend him to you. RedBubble has so many talented artists, and I would like to see with each public view of an image a Recommend button available next the the one for Favorite. A Recommend button could help choose which artists RedBubble admin might interview as a feature on the Community page.