All That Is Nature

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Featured Work

Feeding by Keld Bach

Hoverfly on a Sun Rose. 60mm macro lens + 68mm of extension tubes.
solo swimmer by kathy s gillentine

I liked the calmness and the stillness of this duck floating around so I took this as a silhouette. She seems so peaceful and care free. / canon rebel xti / canon len 400mm /
The Lonely by Kenart

Isle of Lewis Western Isles Scotland / /
Bethecar Moor by JamieGreen

Featured in All that is nature A different perspective of Bethecar Moor (see Coniston Reflections) / Late afternoon on 4th January 2009. / Samsung S730
Grizzly by Chelsea Nikolaus

This happy little fella is living comfortably at the San Diego Zoo. At the time of shooting, he was enjoying the warm sunshine. / (Hehe, I just realized what I said. Let me clarify: Not the time of the shooting, the time the picture was taken. ;))
lichen drop 1 by Lenny La Rue, IPA

I said I’d get the hang of using the 10X magnifying lens after my tiny frog shots showed only a tiny dot of sharp focus in the centre of the focal point. I also said I get a drop of water as clear as humanly possible and top ‘sno-globe’. Honestly, I thought I had it with the shot of the drop coming out of its own icy base, part of this same shoot. But I think I better captured what I was really hoping for with ‘lichen drop 1’. Please let me know what you think (as if you wouldn’t! LOL!) and if it’s not worthy of my patting myself on the back, I’ll pat harder & lower and try again. :-D Taken at Cathy’s home in the forested area immediately beyond her back field (Penn Valley, CA), this photograph is of the tip of an oak tree with the moisture the night’s fog left behind. The lichen seem to thrive in the winter frost and dampness so the colours here are from very happy lichen the the tree branch. The camera was focused by physically moving my body and the camera into the point of focus within the drop. Between the slight breeze, my own breathing, my heartbeat, pressing the shutter release, and finally going with the timer but the shutter itself opening tossed the focus! Setting the tripod was an exercise in frustration because tightening any plane caused the composition to change. And the ultimate insult was having the shot completely set up and I bumped a neighbouring branch, causing the location I’d fought to shoot to bump into the lens and cream the drop. Arrrghhh!!!! Finding a new location and this drop was like a dream – the worst nightmare possible. I was FREEZING but still wearing gloves, a ski jacket, a sweatshirt, AND a t-shirt. I could do everything with the gloves on but the camera could be less than 1mm off and everything sucked. In the end I got the shot without the tripod, without bracketing, without fighting the wind, my body, or the rest of the tree. I set the camera, pressed the button, and let it shoot until the buffer filled about 5 times, praying I’d get at least a couple good ones. Of about 50 shots only this one is in focus to this degree. Well, God gave me one so I’d better not complain about it, ya know? ;-)
Oatka Creek - flooded by Stephanie M. Wood

Each time we get a huge snowfall and it melts too quickly, Oatka (pronounced Oh-AT-kuh) Creek floods like this. There is approximately 3 to 5 Feet too much water in this creek right now. To make matters worse, on top of the melt, we had rain storms. Now add, on top of Those things (yes, there’s more) the 12+ inches of snow that we got last night. ;) Can you say Holy Weather Confusion? Wyoming, NY. Kodak Z1285; Ps CS3 Extended.
What Remains by IndigoMidnight

Number 6 and the last in the Winter Walk Series A chinese lantern in January
Northern Cardinal by UnclePhooey

Male Northern Cardinal with colorful background bokeh.

Recent Work

rock face by jack01

at shelly beach low tide
Because I can, OK? by Lenny La Rue, IPA

Well actually, I need to. You hear about us California Happy Cows all the time but we have our share of problems too, ya know? First, there’s the ear tags. Nah, they don’t hurt much going in but they are BRUTAL if you snag one on a California Happy Bounder or a California Happy Bush. Stuff like that just doesn’t happen when the only thing on your ears is the fur. And who picked this colour? I mean, it doesn’t match my face, my legs, my back – simply nothing. Why a fashion consultant wasn’t consulted is beyond me. Then there’s the pies. Flatlanders call them “patties” but I seriously resent that because my name is Patty. I do some of the baking but I don’t do it all and, if I did, I’d clean up after myself! The people who just let me go my merry way don’t do any baking at all and if they did it couldn’t bake more than a cookie. They need to be cognizant of the fact that SOMEONE has to clean up after 78 cows older than me and countless little moo-ers younger than me. We all eat. We all wander everywhere. We need at least ONE place where humans do a bit of the janitorial legwork. Then there’s the lack of Kleenex. Geeeeeeeee, people! A little help here, OK??? I understand that youngsters get drippy noses from colds and they don’t always want to reach for a tissue. But I’m way too old to be caught with a booger on my upper lip! I don’t have hands so I surely don’t have fingers. What am I suppose to do? Shake my head really, really hard, just hoping it doesn’t fly off and hit me somewhere I can’t reach? Use a (gasp!) tree’s bark?? I’d never go near another tree in my life. How many of us would need to use every tree more than once? GRRRRRRRRRRRRROSS! Just LOOK at this! I’m a LADY, I’m a “happy cow”, and I’m reduced to this. At least my tongue is long enough. (I’ve been told I was rather “special” by some of the bulls but I try not to brag so let’s just keep that between us, OK darling?) But it’s not a bad life up here and California just HAS to be better than where my sister lives in Wisconsin. She says the snow tickles her tummy before the humans let her stay inside. She ALSO says the baking is removed daily when they are ‘house cows’ so I suppose it ain’t all bad there. But she’ll never be in a commercial on TV and I was on THREE TIMES! I’m willing to pretend I’m dumb as a rodeo bull while understanding what they’re saying and needing from a model. If they knew as much as I know about posing for a shoot, they wouldn’t be using all those skinny, non-baking, weed-wearing (They put on COTTON as if it’s NOT a weed!), face-painting, funny-smelling GIRLS they drool over now. We cows know what to drool over and that’s another hottie cow: 2 tons of straight up BEEFCAKE! OK, back to pretending I can’t hear what humans are saying about me unless I’m in front of a camera. THERE, I am Patty, The Dancing Queen, young and seen on the hippest scenes / Dancing Queen, big and serene on your TV screen, oh yeah! / You can act, you can moo, having the time of your life, ooo-ooo-ooo. / See that cow, know that now she’s The Dancing Queen! Rock me, Beethoven! Wooooooo mooooooo! / _____ / And the dreaded WORDY PART: Nikon D80 / Nikkor 70-300mm telephoto lens / F-stop: 5.6 / Exposure time: 1/500 / Editing program: Corel PaintShop Pro XI (moderate cleaning up, resizing, and cropping / ISO: 280 / Metering mode: Pattern / Preset: full auto (I am sooooooooooooo embarrassed to admit that) / Shot taken in the World’s Smallest Mountain Range on December 8th, 2007 at 9:59am / Tripod: yes / Winds: about 20mph gusting to 45mph, enough to topple a tripod and camera / No cows were embarrassed by this shot. / Patty was a legal adult and passively consented to the shoot. / Numerous “good” shots obtained so you may see one anywhere but it better have my name all over it, darn it! / The abuse of an ABBA song was parody and thus protected under artistic license. / ABBA actually was a great group and I own a record. / I own a Barry Manilow record too but he wasn’t a band. / Agatha from ABBA had a great album and I have it too. / A Phil Collins song is on it, if I remember correctly and he’s cool too but better in Genesis. / Phil was BEST in the band Brand X but nobody knows but TRUE musicologists. / Not a drop of 151 was consumed during the composition of the shot or blurb. / It will be now with my Shake ‘n’ Bake pork chops. See, I CAN cook, so there!
Heart of the Yucca by Katagram

Some play with Nature’s gifts /
Wart-stemmed Pincushion by Tom Newman

Wart-stemmed Pincushion / Leucospermum cuneiforme / Protea Family
Writing

My First Calendar - 2009 Spring Beauties…Just finished making my very first calendar using some of my photos that i have taken of Beautiful flowers, so check it out and let me kn…

Just finished making my very first calendar using some of my photos that i have taken of Beautiful flowers, so check it out and let me know what you think Click Here To View My Calendar
A Place Of Peace by reflector

A view across the Hunter River in Australia on a warm afternoon in December of 2008. I decided to crop out some branches on the right of the shot, but otherwise the image is straight from the camera, untouched. Image As Is, straight from a 6 MP Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-S500. F-stop: f/5.6 / Exposure time: 1/640 sec. / ISO speed: ISO-80 / Exposure bias: 0 step / Focal length: 5mm
Writing

TO NATUREand the WILD!…You have awakened the calling / -inside my secrete soul

Photographs of all that is nature!
Sunlight & Shadow by Samantha Dean

Heavy snowfall on pine tree.
Reflections by Lindsay Berman

Hockley Valley Ecology Retreat Centre, Ontario Canada, 2002 All photographic and written materials contained in this portfolio are the property of Lindsay Berman. They may not be used or reproduced in whole or in part without written permission. This includes copying, duplicating, printing, publishing, reproducing, storing, or transmitting by any means whatsoever. / Using this image or any other for any purpose and in any way, without prior permission, may lead to legal action / © Lindsay Berman, Copyright 2008, All rights reserved.
Red-twigged Dogwood at Heron Pond by Victoria Jostes

these red-twigged dogwood are showing their true colors in the snow this morning! heron pond is at taltree arboretum & gardens, valparaiso, in USA. nikon d40x 55-200mm
Lily Bouquet by kimbarose

Bouquet of Lilies afternoon.