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Top Shelf Wildlife & Nature Art

This group showcases works which contain your best nature and wildlife art

Featured Work

Brown-eyed Bunny by GraceNotes

Assorted bunnies, turkeys, and deer visit our yard (Rockland County, New York) regularly. This little bunny noticed me and stood extremely still, didn’t move a whisker. I happily captured the moment before he dashed into the bushes. Nikon D60 / Nikkor lens 70-300mm / 300mm focal length / 1/500 / f.5.6 Featured in Top Shelf Wildlife and Nature Art – Nov 18, 2009
a Cute Seal Pup by Pam Moore

I captured this seal pup while in Alaska. Isn’t he cute waving Hello… It is beautiful there. / Canon 30D / / Welcome! Thanks For Stopping By And taking A Look. / All Comments and Fav’s Are Truely Appreciated. Thank You!!! / / / / / / / Featured in United States – Nov 09 / Featured in Top Shelf Wildlife & Nature Art – Nov 09 /
Start Another Day ~ Moraine Lake series by Barbara Burkhardt by Barbara Burkhardt

Feature Image – Fine Art of Landscape Photography Group Feature Image – Masters of the Scenic Group Feature Image – The Woman Photographer Group Feature Image – DSLR Users Only Group Feature Image – Live and Let Live Group Feature Image – Top Shelf & Nature Art Group Moraine Lake, Banff National Park Alberta – Canada. Canadian Rockies With an early start we were rewarded with a calm morning and a cloudless sky. I have assembled a selection of images to compile a 2010 calendar this being the cover image. Nikon D40X / 18-55mm Nikkor lens / 1/200sec / f7.1 / Iso 200 / 22mm focal length /
Queen Butterflies at Work by Rosalie Scanlon

I was lucky to catch two on the same flower. The Queen Butterfly and the Caterpiller are both toxic to predators. Image was taken at The Butterfly Estates in Ft. Myers, Fl. / with my Nikon Coolpix P80 Camera.
Dainty Damsel by Dennis Gay

THE SUBJECT: / The bulbous black eyes of a beautiful Austroargiolestes icteromelas (Common Flatwing) stare into the photographer’s lens. THE LOCATION: / This close-up was made along the boardwalk in the Kooloonbung Creek Nature Park in Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia on a very hot ‘n’ sticky late spring day. THE MAKING OF ‘Dainty Damsel’: / I was out on safari with a couple of Port Macquarie Panthers Camera Club mates when we entered a nice cool, wet and shady area of the park where to a background of frog choruses we spotted lots of Damselflies and Dragonflies zipping around. This lovely specimen stayed in one place long enough for me to draw a good photographical bead on it for a study shot. / I was using the 100-300 lens as we were likely to come across some bird life so getting used to shooting close-ups with this lens was still relatively new to me after years of using my Fuji S9600. / Canon EOS D60 & Canon Ultrasonic 100-300mm Lens#: RAW, 1/200sec @ f/11, 250mm, -1EV, ISO100, Auto focus, Hand held. / Lightroom 2.2 & Photoshop CS3. Visit the Insects & Spiders collection in my BubbleSite Gallery for more delightful damsels. Enjoy! DRAGONS & DAMSELS / (Click the links!) Austroargiolestes icteromelas – Dainty Damsel / Austroagrion watsoni / Austroargiolestes icteromelas / Ischnura heterosticta / Trapezostigma loewi / Orthetrum caledonicum / Synthemis cyantincta / Synthemis cyantincta / Synthemis cyantincta / Orthetrum villosovittatum /
Inquisitive Zebra by daisymae

Zebra in the Mara having a good stare! Featured in ’ #1 Artists of redbubble’ and ‘Top shelf Wildlife and Nature Art’.
Natures jewellery by relayer51

Spider wed with dew. taken with my nikon d60 with a 18-55mm vr lens with a hoya +4mag filter attached.
Australian King Parrot by Tom Newman

Australian King Parrot at Grants Picnic ground Sherbrooke Forest Victoria Australia. / The Australian King Parrot (Alisterus scapularis) is endemic to eastern Australia. It is found in humid and heavily forested upland regions of the eastern portion of the continent, including eucalyptus wooded areas in and directly adjacent to subtropical and temperate rainforest. / They feed on fruits, seeds or small insects. / In Australia, King Parrots are occasionally bred in aviaries and kept as calm and relatively quiet household pets if hand-raised. They are relatively unknown outside Australia. As pets, they have limited “talking” ability and normally prefer not to be handled, but they do bond readily to people and can be very devoted. / Life expectancy in the wild is unknown, but some pets have been known to live for up to 25 years.~ Wikipedia / D300; Nikkor 18-200mm ED VR / 200 mm, 1/100s,f/5.6, ISO 400
Pure Australian by Cassie Gannon

Featured “Top Shelf Wildlife & Nature Art” group Nov 09 (Thank you) What can I say… this is my favourite!! It is full of colour and taken as is. This Rainbow Lorikeet did not mind me getting so close while he feasted on this blooming beauty. I hope you all enjoy this as much as I do. Pentax K100D / F-stop: f/8 / Exposure time: 1/180sec / ISO speed: ISO 400 / Exposure bias: 0 step / Focal length: 240mm / 35mm focal length: 360
Garden Wolf Spider by Shelley Warbrooke

Garden Wolf Spider – Lycosa godeffroyi FAMILY LYCOSIDAE (fairly certain but could be wrong…). This guy was chilling out in a Bromeliad plant (of the same family as pinapples believe it or not!). Quite surprised I got a clear shot of him as my hands were shaking ridiculously.. Taken in Brisbane, Australia. Canon 400D and 100mm macro lens. ISO: 100 / Aperture: f/8 / Shutter speed: 1/25 Copyright © Shelley Warbrooke. All rights reserved. My images are not public property and are not to be copied, distributed, altered or displayed without strict written permission from the artist.
Arkys lancearius by Jason Asher

Featured in Top Shelf Wildlife & Nature Art – November 2009 AKA a Triangular Spider. This one is a female, found in my backyard in Brisbane, Australia on the 10th of November 2009. Shot with a Canon 450d and a 70-300 is usm telephoto with 68mm of stacked of extension tubes. Shutter: 1/40th (with built-in flash) / Aperture: f/16 / ISO: 200 My Images Do NOT Belong To The Public Domain. All images are copyright © Jason Asher. All Rights Reserved. Copying, saving, downloading, altering, displaying or redistribution of any of these images without written permission from the artist is strictly prohibited. Non-compliance with these term(s) WILL result in legal action.
Jumping Spider by Daniel Spruce

First go at using some el cheapo extension tubes from ebay. I must say these tubes are pretty hard to use, i could hardly see anything through the viewfinder and i felt like the lens was going to drop off at any second. I probably got this one and maybe one more out of a large batch, i do love the extra magnification not sure how often i’ll be strapping them on though. Canon 40D / Sigma 150mm / 580EXII

Recent Work

Surfing the Outflow by Chuck Gardner

This Ring-billed Gull looks as if it is “Surfing the Outflow” as it dives down to the rushing waters of the outflow at Fern Ridge Dam to catch small fish or insects in the water. I shot this ring-billed gull where the Long Tom River flows from Fern Ridge Dam in Lane County Oregon. / Taken with a Canon PowerShot on Nov 18,2009 at TV 1/807, AV F 5.72, ISO 80. and Focal length 100.00mm.
Please Don’t Shoot Me! It’s not Snipe Season Yet! by Chuck Gardner

I shot it anyway when I almost stepped on this Wilson’s Snipe as it sit hiding in the grasses frozen like a hunting dog on point before it burst out in flight. Shot at Fern Ridge Wildlife Area in Lane County, Oregon with a Canon PowerShot SX10 IS on Oct 24, 2009.
Two heads are better than one by Deidre Cripwell

This was teken in Rooiberg, South AFrica. Just pure luck that I got the timing right on this shot
Opisthoncus by Jason Asher

A typical Garden Jumping Spider found in the backyard. This guy was probably about 1cm or so long. Shot on the 14th of November 2009 in Brisbane, Australia, with a Canon 450d and a 70-300 is usm telephoto with 68mm of stacked extension tubes. Shutter: 1/80th / Aperture: f/20 / ISO: 400 My Images Do NOT Belong To The Public Domain. All images are copyright © Jason Asher. All Rights Reserved. Copying, saving, downloading, altering, displaying or redistribution of any of these images without written permission from the artist is strictly prohibited. Non-compliance with these term(s) WILL result in legal action.
coming in by GiselaSchneider

horses coming in for water. Rosebud County, Montana, USA. canon DSLR / 18-55mm lens FEATURED in: / 1. Nude Pets Group – 8/16/09 / 2. The Great Outdoors Group – 8/20/09 / 3. The World As We See It Group – 11/19/09 103 views as of11/18/09
moonlight buck by GiselaSchneider

silhouette of mule deer buck in moonlight. Photographed across the road from my home, Colstrip, Rosebud County, Montana, USA. Canon DSLR / 70-300mm lens. ISO 100 1/250 F/5.6 FEATURED in: / 1. Spirit of the Native American Group – 8/31/09 / 2. Deer Me Group – 9/1/09 / 3. Playful Photogenic Animals Group – 10/11/09 / 4. The World As We See It Group – 10/25/09 139 views as of 11/18/09
Rolinhas, casal. by AluisioRibeiro

Casal de Rolinhas.
Sweet Darkness by Kim McClain

Sunrise at Webb Lake taken with a Nikon D90 DSLR, my old film days 50 mm lens, and my old Polarizer, yes on the camera, not in it or post : ) The old way! Just like “Pink” Below. Captured this when I met I met kathy and Gina in the Babcock/Cecil M. Webb Wildlife Management Area in Charlotte County, Florida. / / / / Image also available in / / 117 views 11-9-09 / Featured in Florida the Sunshine State 11-13-09 / 149 views 11-20-09
I like the moon, what can I say? by Erik Anderson

Canon 1D Mk.II-N Canon 300mm f/2.8 L IS / with Canon 1.4x telextender on a tiltall tripod. @ ISO 50, f/8