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Surrealism. In the course of every day life one is always confronted with having to make a choice about something. For every choice one makes, one must be prepared to pay the consequence. Adam and Eve had a choice. You can always think what the consequence may be in the land of Bryce. / © Dave Moilanen 2007
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I was born in the Chinese Year of the Snake. Created this a couple of weeks ago for fun. This is a self portrait with my cat Levi’s eyes. :) /
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This is an irked bluestripe garter snake giving me his death glare. See, we aren’t supposed to have this species of snake in my area (Gainesville, Florida), which meant that I just had to capture him for a few photos. To get to him, I had to lunge into cattails and grasses by a pond (nevermind that I nearly fell in) and grab him and pull him out. Understandably, he wasn’t happy about this, and he let me know by biting me. Repeatedly. So I crouched on the ground with the snake in my one bloody hand and my camera in the other and took some photos. This one I think came out the best, as it shows his serious (and justified!) annoyance at me. It was a great experience on the whole, and I wouldn’t hesitate to do it again. :) 100% of the profits from the sale of my work featuring reptiles will be donated to Wildlife Warriors Worldwide in honor of Steve Irwin who educated the world about these amazing creatures.
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I have been wanting to do a follow-up to Colors of Nature, but I wasn’t sure how I wanted to present it. Since I have already done flora, I wanted to do something with fauna, and something unique… Then it struck me how amazingly colorful snakes can be, and how that is something most wouldn’t think to notice. So, I present to you these beautiful snakes, all of whom are wild and were captured, photographed, and released in and around north and central Florida. The colors here are completely natural; I’ve not altered them at all. The snakes are: corn snake (aka red rat snake, Elaphe guttata guttata), yellow rat snake (Elaphe obsoleta quadrivittata), rough green snake (Opheodrys aestivus aestivus), and bluestripe garter snake (same one as in Feeling Blue Thamnophis sirtalis similus). I only wish I had photos of orange and purple snakes to complete the spectrum. :P / . / This is currently not for sale as a laminated print because the border won’t print well with the text on the laminated prints, since RB adds their own border. If you would like to purchase a laminated print, please let me know and I will post a version without the text. :) / . / 100% of the profits from the sale of my work featuring reptiles will be donated to Wildlife Warriors Worldwide in honor of Steve Irwin who educated the world about these amazing creatures.
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To better VIEW THIS PHOTO select option VIEW LARGER One 100% of profit from this image sale will be donated to GRAND Tetons National Park,USA and receipt of donation will be disclosed in JOURNAL Glacier view captured early in the morning at *NATURE’S BEST inside Grand Tetons National Park,Wy..Stood there and said to myself this is a GLORY of God’s country…..Enjoy my photo and thank you everyone for support.. / TECH: Nikon D200 camera, telephoto Nikon 80-200 mm lens…F8 at 60/sex shutter speed.. To EMAIL ME please do so at myart4u@earthlink.net If you like WORK please visit my other pieces by clicking on any icon bellow / / WORK in this GALERY is COPYRIGHTED and solo owned by artist….DO NOT COPY …not for personal or comercial use……Any reproduction, modification, publication, transmission, transfer, or exploitation of any of the Content, whether in whole or in part, without express written permission is prohibited. All rights reserved !!! / BUYERS if interested my work is available in 6,10 and 12 megapixels high resolution…..Make a request through REDBUBBLE it is available for immediate delivery after payment is received….
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Oil Bites / It’s ironic, we take something that exists naturally in the earth and use it to poison the planet. Detail: / Selected other RubyRed shirts: /
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Oil on canvas 100 X 100 cm. Completed 1995. “I saw the angel in the marble and I carved until I set him free” – Michelangelo The Dream was the first painting that I had completed from a vision. Painting The Dream was a very interesting process for me. I was concerned how others would react to a non-Aboriginal person using a style normally synonymous with Aboriginal art, i.e. dot painting. For this reason, when it was completed, I was hesitant to show it to anyone for some years. In November 1999 I succumbed and included The Dream, along with The Awakening, in a Sacred Art exhibition that featured six local artists. The exhibition began with a special welcoming ceremony performed by the Aboriginal Elders of the region. Afterwards, the Aboriginal Elders approached me and asked questions about my visions and paintings. They said they liked my work. I was so happy and relieved to hear that. Local dignitaries, including the Governor of South Australia, Sir Erik Neal, attended the public opening. To my surprise Sir Erik Neal invited me to display The Dream at Government House (his official residence) for six months to which I agreed. After the exhibition, The Dream featured in the main boardroom of Government House to be viewed by visitors from all over the world. The story of The Dream is about the creation of our universe. The snake (Rainbow Serpent) represents the Creator. The centre shows the creation of our universe, with the hands representing the creation of spirits in all dimensions and the eggs, the creation of life. The greens and browns represent land and all things that live on the land. The shades of blue and purple represent water and all creatures that live in water. The branches and red berries represent nourishment and sustenance. / At this stage in the story, Creation is not complete; hence the black (unfilled) background at two corners. The Rainbow Serpent has entered a sleep state and has begun dreaming our future. The Dream is the first of a series showing the transition of the universe from Creation to enlightenment. The next of the series is The Awakening.
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Taken by a professional stunt driver under controlled conditions (maybe or possibly) The TAC (Traffic Accident Commission) warns that driving with your knees while taking photographs is dangerous and should not be tried at home or anywhere.
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Oil on canvas 61 X 61 cm. Completed April 2008. “All living beings have the Buddha nature and can become Buddhas” – Buddha Buddha Within illustrates the story of personal awakening. My understanding of the personal awakening process is that when undergoing the final awakening stage, the kundalini (rainbow serpent) becomes an intense fire (red/orange beside the tree trunk) shooting through the spine engulfing the body. The energy (green vortexes) required is enormous. As the kundalini reaches the crown chakra, it fully opens and all earthly limitations drop away. This being is no longer tied to a religion or faith but now embraces them all as represented by the sacred symbols in the tree. The consciousness now resides in the higher self and is one with the universe and all that is. When the transformation is complete sonic waves (the four vertical crystalline waves) travel out into the universe to let all of creation know of the grace that has taken place. All life is naturally drawn to the radiant and divine being that has become pure Buddha consciousness (centre). At each of the chakra points on the Buddha is a Swarovsky crystal in the relevant chakra colour. Crystal magnifies the properties of the chakra energy. / Buddha Within is divided into four quadrants (earth, fire, water, air) and the five elements including precious metals (bottom corners). The red veins dividing the quadrants represent the lower dimension (inner earth). The higher dimension is represented by the white equilateral triangle. If you look closely, you can see the texture of the underlying branches in the tree. These were meticulous painted before adding the covering of leaves. The tree must be complete in the physical, in order to emit the complete energy of the life form. Imbibed in the painting is sand from a sand mandala created by Gyuto Monks. They had spent a week painstakingly building an exquisite sand mandala. Upon its completion the mandala was ceremonially deconstructed and the sand poured into the local river for healing, accompanied by prayer and the blasting of Tibetan ceremonial horns. Some of the sand is held back and distributed to those who attend the ceremony: it holds sacred healing properties. I used some of the sand from this mandala, mixing it in the purple paint used for the crown charka encircling the white triangle and Buddha. Buddha Within is the third in a series and preceded by The Dream and The Awakening.
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medusa
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A redo of this Python to make it more suitable for print.
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The Wife and I were outside with our visiting son. We are getting the ponds and yard ready for prime weather.. I heard my wife do an OMG. So I went over to see whats up… This is what I captured. My Wife thinks it was terrible. I viewed it as a bit exciting to see how nature works live. This is the one pick I decided on. It really did not take long and the snake wanted his lunch to go and was not going to wait for me to capture him.. Got Lucky.. Soon more nature stuff.. I will have more time to play after yard work is done.. LOL..
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The Iconic Oxbow Bend/Snake River view of Mount Moran in the Grand Teton National Park. in it’s Fall Colors
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This was made just for fun, until it drove me crazy getting the texturing sharp enough to look like real skin.
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This is the Florida cottonmouth, a snake that I love and respect dearly. Cottonmouths have such bad reputations, and it makes me so sad because they are such fantastic creatures. There is a commonly held belief that they “chase people away from their nests” and “aggressively stand their ground.” These ideas are simply a total misinterpretation of their behavior. Snakes are not humans; you cannot interpret their actions in human terms, you must interpret their actions in snake terms. First of all, cottonmouths don’t ever nest. In fact the only snake in the world that nests is the king cobra. Second, when a cottonmouth or any snake moves toward you on the ground, it is not an aggressive move; rather, they are fleeing. See, snakes have poor eyesight and they get confused easily when scared. They look at you and see something big and mistake you for a tree or some other form of shelter under which they can hide. Thirdly, what we see as a cottonmouth “standing its ground” is really just the snake remaining motionless in the hopes that you won’t see it. If it flees, you are more likely to see it and eat it (at least that is what it thinks). This cottonmouth is giving me its characteristic open-mouthed defensive display. In the hundred or more cottonmouths with which I’ve interacted, this is the one and only time I have ever witnessed its defense display. And it only threatened me because I was being annoying, laying on the ground in front of it on my stomach with my camera in one hand and a stick in the other trying to move the brush away from it get a clear shot. As soon as I put the stick down, the defense display stopped and the snake turned and left. This shot was taken across the road from my house north of Gainesville, Florida. 100% of the profits from the sale of this image will be donated to Steve Irwin’s Wildlife Warriors Worldwide.
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This is a southern black racer (Coluber constrictor priapus) that I found stuck in some netting that was very tight and cutting into his body. He would have died had I left him, so I picked him up and brought him home to get some scissors to cut off the netting. Now, racers are very high strung, and most don’t appreciate being handled too much. There have been exceptions, but for the most part, if you pick up a racer, you are probably going to get bitten (the bites are really just scratches, and they aren’t venomous). Given the state that this guy was in, I figured he might be a bit more sedate; I figured wrong. He struck at me over and over and over again, obviously not caring that I was trying to save his silly life. Somehow he managed to never make contact, but it certainly wasn’t for lack of trying. When I got him back to my house, i put him in my lap and cut away the netting. Surprisingly, he held completely still the entire time and didn’t try to strike once. But as soon as the last piece of netting was cut away, he shot out of my lap and immediately turned to strike at me (he missed again). Ingrate! There was no light outside at this point, so I put him on the vanity in my bathroom to take a few shots. Bathrooms don’t provide the best lighting, hence the extremely shallow DOF from shooting at f/2.5. When I was done, I carried him to a part of my property to be released. He didn’t actually try to strike at me at this stage, which I guess for a racer is thank you enough. :) 100% of the profits from the sale of my work featuring reptiles will be donated to Wildlife Warriors Worldwide in honor of Steve Irwin who educated the world about these amazing creatures.
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Water soluble pastels drawing/painting. The tags say it all peeps :) This was inspired by a girl whom took nude pictures of herself and then complained that they had more views than her other pics. She was calling men pervs and peepers for looking but not commenting. The very next day she loaded another nude of herself, Just boobs and a look on her face that resembled a deer caught in the headlights, I couldn’t believe the confusion ! I was so angry that I drew/painted this picture in five fierce hours straight. I couldn’t make sense of it, not one little bit….............................. After all these months I have finally decided to write a description but you can put it all together with what you see. PINK VIDEO
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Morelia tracyae, the Halmahera Island Scrub Python.
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Western Green Mamba – Colouration is usually lime green with yellow on the tail … scales create a fishnet effect. Length is 78 inches on average. Their bite can be rapidly fatal (≈30 minutes) if envenomation occurs. They are listed in the same family as coral snakes. Classification / Kingdom: Animalia / Phylum: Chordata / Class: Reptilia / Order: Squamata / Suborder: Serpentes / Family: Elapidae / Genus: Dendroaspis / Species: Dendroaspis viridis Location: Jacksonville, Florida (USA) Zoo Found in the RB PAX Mosaic.
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oil
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The cliff face shimmered slightly as the craft slipped softly into the blue. They hugged the sheer wall until they were well clear, then dipped into the powdered soft whiteness beneath. It had been a while since their last meeting. Hopefully this one would go better…
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A meeting between a Banded Water Snake and a white rat.
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Just a bit of fun. One of my daughters needed a cover for her religious studies folder. Maybe I was the wrong person to ask.
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