Reptiles Wall Art
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This is from a series I produced a few years ago in my homemade, primitive yet functional darkroom. Sadly, my enlarger now lives in the bottom of a cupboard :(
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Taken with a 100mm macro lens so i was pretty close. Fortunately he didn’t move! Extremely rare gecko, Naultinus elegans punctatus, found only in a tiny range of New Zealand. Canon 20D Featured in: “New Zealand Made” / Featured in: “The Fine Art of Photography” / Featured in: “MacroPhotography” / Featured in: “Canon DSLR” / Featured in: “Wildlife, Landscape & Nature Photography” / Featured in: “All that is Nature” / Featured in: “The 500 to 5000 Views” Highly Commended in the North Shore Salon of Photography. Views: 2535 / Fav s : 69
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Bradypodion pumilum – Western Cape, South Africa SEE HOW THEY GIVE BIRTH
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Crested gecko, Rhacodactylus ciliatus – perhaps the cutest reptile around.
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They are amazing creatures. This one was showing off its mating colours. / ( Veiled Chameleon)
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Taken at Adelaide Zoo, South Australia, through glass. This python looked like his eye was watching my every move. This image featured in Top Shelf Wildlife and Nature Art in September 2009. Many thanks! And featured again in Zoophoria in September 2009. Thank you! And yet another feature, this time in South Australian Artists in September 2009. Thanks again!
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Why yes, this would make a great Valentines Day card. Thanks for asking!
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Copyright © Bullock Photos – www.bullockphotos.com 2291 views
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Copyright © Bullock Photos – www.bullockphotos.com Eastern Water Dragons 1007 views
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Copyright 2008 © Bullock Photos – www.bullockphotos.com 2776 views
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Rough Knob Tailed Gecko cleaning his eye. Copyright © Bullock Photos – www.bullockphotos.com 1774 views and counting
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Green Tree Snakes often show beautiful glimpses of Blue in their colours. Copyright © Bullock Photos – www.bullockphotos.com 4317 views
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Copyright 2008 © Bullock Photos – www.bullockphotos.com 2028 views
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FINALIST IN THE NOVEMBER + DECEMBER 2008 NATURAL DEVELOPMENTS GROUP. This Thick-tailed gecko Underwoodisaurus milii was found during hand searches in spinifex in western NSW. We enjoyed his company during this early morning photo shoot. This species is reasonably common, in particular, through the granite outcrops of the great dividing range. Click on ‘View Larger” for better viewing. Steve is the Principal Ecologist at EnviroKey, a specialist ecological consultancy that undertakes surveys, research and education programs across Australia.
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Every summer these little guys climb the fence posts … Catchin’ a few rays and keeping an eye on the neighbours!! :) LOL Agamid – Central Netted Dragon (Ctenophorus nuchalis) / Mullewa, Western Australia. Canon 400D : Sigma 50-500mm : f11 : 1/500 : ISO250 : FL500mm WON the Australian Wildlife Book – Back Cover challenge. FEATURED IN THE AGAMIDS – DRAGONS OF THE WORLD GROUP PLACED 1st IN THE AGAMIDS – DRAGONS OF THE WORLD GROUPS “NEW AVATAR” CHALLENGE
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A extreme eye closeup of a very large Ghariel. Gharials inhabit four river systems of the northern Indian subcontinent. Easily recognizable because of their unique appearance, both male and female gharials have long slender snouts and webbed hind feet. Gharials are among the largest living crocodilians. A mature male can grow to more than 20 feet in length, and a female can grow up to 13 feet in length.
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We found this beautiful creature in one of the remotest jungles in the world while on an expedition for the BBC. The ancient volcano, Mt Bosavi is home to some of the rarest and most amazing wildlife I’ve ever seen.
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No room for complacency…............ Canon 450 D , EFS 18/55 mm lens
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Western green mamba (Dendroaspis viridis). West Africa. / Closely related to the Eastern green mamba and the Black mamba. Although it has a similar, dangerously neurotoxic venom as the black mamba, it is not as potent and injects smaller quantities. It is also not as nervous as its cousin. Found mainly in trees but does sometimes venture to the ground to bask or chase its prey. Featured in: – RB Homepage Nov. 2009
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Mixed media (liquid gold leaf, oil pastels, colored pencils, silver ink, liquid silver leaf, black marker) on paper, 19×25 inches. This photo does not do the original artwork justice as you can’t see the different metallic bits so well in the photograph. (There are two different types of silver used, for example, which you can differentiate in person, but not so well in the photo). But you get the idea at any rate…. Artwork is inspired by the Tree of Life / World Tree / Serpent Tree mythologies found across various mythologies. View more of my artwork online at lynnetteshelley.com Thus sayeth Wikipedia “Chthonic serpents and sacred trees In many myths the chthonic serpent (sometimes a pair) lives in or is coiled around a Tree of Life situated in a divine garden. In the Genesis story of the Torah and Biblical Old Testament the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is situated in the Garden of Eden together with the tree of immortality. In Greek mythology Ladon coiled around the tree in the garden of the Hesperides protecting the entheogenic golden apples. / Níðhöggr gnaws the roots of Yggdrasil in this illustration from a 17th century Icelandic manuscript. Similarly Níðhöggr (Nidhogg Nagar) the dragon of Norse mythology eats from the roots of the Yggdrasil the World Tree. Under yet another Tree (the Bodhi tree of Enlightenment), the Buddha sat in ecstatic meditation. When a storm arose, the mighty serpent king Mucalinda rose up from his place beneath the earth and enveloped the Buddha in seven coils for seven days, not to break his ecstatic state. The Vision Serpent was also a symbol of rebirth in Mayan mythology, fuelling some cross-Atlantic cultural contexts favored in pseudoarchaeology. The Vision Serpent goes back to earlier Maya conceptions, and lies at the center of the world as the Mayans conceived it. “It is in the center axis atop the World Tree. Essentially the World Tree and the Vision Serpent, representing the king, created the center axis which communicates between the spiritual and the earthly worlds or planes. It is through ritual that the king could bring the center axis into existence in the temples and create a doorway to the spiritual world, and with it power”. (Schele and Friedel, 1990: 68) / The Sumerian deity, Ningizzida, is accompanied by two gryphons; it is the oldest known image of two snakes coiling around an axial rod, dating from before 2000 BCE. Sometimes the Tree of Life is represented (in a combination with similar concepts such as the World Tree and Axis mundi or “World Axis”) by a staff such as those used by shamans. Examples of such staffs featuring coiled snakes in mythology are the caduceus of Hermes, the Rod of Asclepius, the staff of Moses, and the papyrus reeds and deity poles entwined by a single serpent Wadjet, dating to earlier than 3000 BCE. The oldest known representation of two snakes entwined around a rod is that of the Sumerian fertility god Ningizzida. Ningizzida was sometimes depicted as a serpent with a human head, eventually becoming a god of healing and magic. It is the companion of Dumuzi (Tammuz) with whom it stood at the gate of heaven. In the Louvre, there is a famous green steatite vase carved for king Gudea of Lagash (dated variously 2200–2025 BCE) with an inscription dedicated to Ningizzida. Ningizzida was the ancestor of Gilgamesh, who according to the epic dived to the bottom of the waters to retrieve the plant of life. But while he rested from his labor, a serpent came and ate the plant. The snake became immortal, and Gilgamesh was destined to die. / Ancient North American serpent imagery often featured rattlesnakes. Ningizzida has been popularised in the 20th C. by Raku Kei Reiki (a.k.a. “The Way of the Fire Dragon”) where “Nin Giz Zida” is believed to be a fire serpent of Tibetan rather than Sumerian origin. Nin Giz Zida is another name for the ancient Hindu concept of Kundalini, a Sanskrit word meaning either “coiled up” or “coiling like a snake”. Kundalini refers to the mothering intelligence behind yogic awakening and spiritual maturation leading to altered states of consciousness. There are a number of other translations of the term usually emphasizing a more serpentine nature to the word— e.g. ‘serpent power’. It has been suggested by Joseph Campbell that the symbol of snakes coiled around a staff is an ancient representation of Kundalini physiology. The staff represents the spinal column with the snake(s) being energy channels. In the case of two coiled snakes they usually cross each other seven times, a possible reference to the seven energy centers called chakras. In Ancient Egypt, where the earliest written cultural records exist, the serpent appears from the beginning to the end of their mythology. Ra and Atum (“he who completes or perfects”) became the same god, Atum, the “counter-Ra,” was associated with earth animals, including the serpent: Nehebkau (“he who harnesses the souls”) was the two headed serpent deity who guarded the entrance to the underworld. He is often seen as the son of the snake goddess Renenutet. She often was confused with (and later was absorbed by) their primal snake goddess Wadjet, the Egyptian cobra, who from the earliest of records was the patron and protector of the country, all other deities, and the pharaohs. Hers is the first known oracle. She was depicted as the crown of Egypt, entwined around the staff of papyrus and the pole that indicated the status of all other deities, as well as having the all-seeing eye of wisdom and vengeance. She never lost her position in the Egyptian pantheon. The image of the serpent as the embodiment of the wisdom transmitted by Sophia was an emblem used by gnosticism, especially those sects that the more orthodox characterized as “Ophites” (“Serpent People”). The chthonic serpent was one of the earth-animals associated with the cult of Mithras. The Basilisk, the venomous “king of serpents” with the glance that kills, was hatched by a serpent, Pliny the Elder and others thought, from the egg of a cock. Outside Eurasia, in Yoruba mythology, Oshunmare was another mythic regenerating serpent. The Rainbow Serpent (also known as the Rainbow Snake) is a major mythological being for Aboriginal people across Australia, although the creation myth associated with it are best known from northern Australia. In Fiji Ratumaibulu was a serpent god who ruled the underworld and made fruit trees bloom.”
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