Featured Work
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"Hitching a Ride" by Martin Smart
Featured in “Americas ~ Rural, Urban, Wild, Free” October 2009 A mother Common Merganser with two of her ducklings on her back getting a free ride and eleven more following behind – and, believe it not, there is a fourteenth following just out of picture! / Common Mergansers are fish-eaters and have serrated edges to their bills to assist in gripping their prey. Along with other species of Mergansers, they are often called “sawbills” . They also eat mussels and shrimps; and the young birds mainly eat aquatic insects. / I photographed this family for a couple of hours at French Creek, Vancouver Island BC and it was amusing to watch the antics of the duckings who made frequent attempts to climb on to their mother’s back, whilst on the ocean and also when they were resting on the seashore. Several times whilst on the ocean mother would dive under to get them off her back only to find that as soon as she resurfaced they would attempt to climb back on again! / The ducklings would also swim around on their own for food but never too far away from mum to whom they would swiftly return if there was any threat of danger – such as a Bald Eagle that was flying past looking for an easy lunch! Canon 20D / 1/1000sec f8 ISO 200
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Wild Horses of Montana by Ken McElroy
Family group of wild mustangs on Montana’s only preserve in the Pryor Mountains. Canon EOS Digital Rebel, Canon 75-300mm IS, 210mm. 1/800 @ f/5, ISO 100. Handheld. / Processed with Adobe Lightroom 2.2
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Fern 4 by Stan Wojtaszek
I like the way the sunlight made the fern’s leaves translucent. / Dryden, ON. Olympus E-410, 70-300mm All rights reserved. Top Ten Challenge Placement; / Flower and Foliage: Foliage-Your Best Shot – February 28, 2009 Group Features: / DSLR Users – March 13, 2009 / Freedom to Shine – April 12, 2009 / Color and Light – October 22, 2009 / Americas – Rura, Urban, Wild, Free – October 25, 2009 !
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Bull Moose by Gary Lengyel
Bull moose, Grand Teton National Park. He was pretty close. Fortunately there was a small river between us which would have slowed him down just enough for us to get to some safety should he have decided to charge. As it was he was quite content with letting us shoot for a couple of hours. Nikon D300 AF-S Nikkor 200-400mm f4/G IF-ED VR lens
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Moonlit by MsTique
This is Geronimo, my neighbor. Taken just behind the house last winter when we moved here from town. And WHAT a view! Although it was snowing when I took this, snow effects are added… as are Night Effects. I took this by daylight. Geronimo has since moved away but there are many other horses on the ranch. Doc, his father, has this paddock now.
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A Letchworth Autumn by lianne
The middle falls at Letchworth State Park, in Castile, NY are the highest – dropping some 107 feet – and widest of the three cascades on the Genesee River that roar through the 17 mile gorge we proudly call – and others have as well – the “Grand Canyon of the East.” In some places along the river, the rugged rocky cliffs are as much as 600 feet high. Extraordinarily beautiful no matter what season we are in, Letchworth offers particularly stunning views and glorious color when the leaves reach their peak about mid-October. Letchworth State Park, Castile, NY, Oct. 22, 2009 Sony DSC-H9 – Point and Shoot
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Red-Tailed Hawk Banking Away by A.M. Ruttle
The red-tailed hawks (Buteo jamaicensis) are back in the valley of Jackson Hole, Wyoming… spring must be springing! Canon 40D, Canon 100-400 IS lens, f 8, 1/640, focal length 400mm. Featured in: / - The Birds Group, March 2009 – thanks so much!! / - Top Shelf Wildlife & Nature group, April 2009, thanks so much!! / - 300+ Go Long group, August 2009 – thanks so much!! / - Earth Keepers, October 2009, thanks so much!! / - Wild Birds in Flight, October 2009, thanks so much!! / - Americas ~ Rural, Urban, Wild, Free, October 2009, thanks so much!!
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The Singular Embrace by Sharon Mau
Featured Art 23 September 2009 / Islands of the World Featured Art 14 September 2009 / All Water in Motion Pa’ako Beach / Makena Maui Hawai’i Fine Art Photography / Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved Natural light and sensational colours, the sunset on this evening was dazzling. I love the lavender light. This is a composite of three images all taken on Pa’ako Beach at sunset on the same evening, stitched with Curves WB adjustments. The Deeper Meaning of Aloha “The lover lowers her gaze and the Beloved / raises it until lover is engulfed in oceans too vast to / circumscribe and around their margins fly continuous bands of / singing birds The lover closes her lips around silence the way / light enters a room and obliterates darkness and the Beloved suddenly starts singing inside the / lover’s mouth until even the stars like wandering animals / in their constellational shifts bleat and bay across / vast astronomical distances making them as small as the moisture bead on the lover’s lip and the / Beloved’s eye-gleam from as far away as / deep undersea The lover stands to embrace the Beloved / and the Beloved stands to embrace the lover And the lover stands to embrace the Beloved / and the Beloved stands to embrace the lover and the echoes from their movements blow rainbow / lights stuttering against earth’s canyon walls and icebergs / break off and slide into black waters And the Beloved stands and the lover / shrinks within the microscopic compass of all her / insignificant acts until each breath / obliterates her / and the Beloved stands to embrace the lover / until the whole world rises to a standing position within that embrace An Ant gnaws at a redwood tree and it / falls in a straw across a single heartbeat We’ve never left God’s glorious dimension and need only look not within us nor around us / but through the sphere of that Glance the Beloved takes and / blows into a ball of sky and crashing waves which is all the lover offers through the paucity of / her multifaceted “I” The singular embrace“ / from: The Ecstatic Exchange / poetry of Daniel Abdal Hayy Moore / Ramadan Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi / Shooting Date Saturday 09 May 2009 18:08:59 / WhitePoint 0.31 0.33 / Aperture Priority / ISO 100 Centre Weighted Metering / Lens Aperture F/7.1 (5.66) Pa’ako Beach / Makena Maui Hawai’i
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Torres del Paine by Bob Wickham
This awe inspiring view across Lago Verde to the mountains of Torres del Paine National Park, may be the first view of the mountains for many people. / Patagonia, southern Chile Canon 5D mk II and 24 – 105 mm L Lens My Images Do Not Belong To The Public Domain. All images and writing are copyright © Bob Wickham. All Rights Reserved. Copying, altering, displaying or redistribution of any of these images without written permission from the artist is strictly prohibited.
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Kentucky Falls by Allan Erickson
In the coast range, Kentucky Falls upper fall cascades over 80’, in the Siuslaw National Forest, Oregon Pentax istDs Best viewed larger!
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Time to Think by Steve Buffington
Taking time off from the game we call Life can be pretty valuable. I think it is good as a recharging time before getting back into the mix. For Life is not an individual sport, but a team activity. But even the superstar needs some time to rest on the sideline. (Taken in Malibu California (Rock Creek State Park) in the middle of a night with a full moon. A flashlight was used for some detail painting, but otherwise it is just ambient light. The camera used was a D300 using a Nikkor 17-55 f2.8 lens. Exposure time was 4 mins at f11) Featured in California Sound in October 09 / Featured in Jpeg Cast Offs in October 09 / Featured in The World as We See It in Oct 09 / Featured in Survivors and Friends in Oct 09 / Featured in Americas ~ Rural, Urban, Wild, Free in Oct 09 / Featured in Night Photography in Oct 09 / Featured in the RB magazine Inside Solo in Oct 09 -2nd place finish in the Autumn feelings Challenge in the group Buyers Club. / -3rd place finish in the Contemplation Challenge in the group All About Your Best Work. / —3rd place finish in the Time challenge in the The World as We See it group.
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Recent Work
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Volcanic rock with pink trim by Linda Sparks
Constructed of local volcanic rock, this Flagstone, Arizona church is certainly the most unique and unusual church I’ve seen. The rain scuppers are five foot long snakes in pairs coming out from the roof. The pink trim is like a beacon. Probably ethnic architecture, but I don’t know whose. Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ-18
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Fluid by Linda Sparks
This stretch of rock gives me the watery feeling of looking into a lit aquarium. Upper Antelope Canyon, Arizona Panasonic Lumix-DMC-FZ18
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Purple cathedral by Linda Sparks
Deep moody purple highlights the curves and undulations that reach upward to the canyon’s rim. I was entranced by Upper Antelope Canyon’s many faces. Page, Arizona Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ18
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Snack Time by Carl M. Moore
Canon Rebel EOS T1i w/ Canon IS USM 70-300mm, f/5.6, 1/400sec, ISO-200, 300mm / Buelah, Co
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Home Sweet Home by Teresa Burnett
This guy was just lounging around his front room enjoying the autumn color in the Japanese Garden in Portland Oregon. Canon Rebel XTi Canon 70-300mm lens
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Liftoff by Gayle Dolinger
Great Blue Heron takes flight over Bombay Hook Wildlife Refuge in Smyrna, DE Nikon D90 w/Nikkor 30-700mm lens / Flash: Not Used / Focal Length: 300.0mm / Exposure Time: 0.001s (1/600) / Aperture: f/5.6 / ISO: 400 /
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No Bull Here by MsTique
Buck’s Barn / Near Galena, Illinois Come on in, the shopping’s great! / (Can’t miss the place; just look for the bison)
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Peace and Tranquility by aussiedi
Fish Lake alongside highway 126East, Oregon. edited in PS using Orton / /
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Roots #2 BW by JimGuy
View taken along Mississippi River near Minneapolis Minnesota, USA
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Myrtle Beach, South Carolina by Alyce Taylor
A glorious sunrise over the soft, sandy beach of the Grand Strand in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The Grand Strand is a 60+ mile stretch of uninterrupted beach on the shores of Long Bay, on the Atlantic Ocean, in North and South Carolina. Captured with a Canon Digital Rebel with an 18-55mm lens.
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It's Turkey Time by BarbaraManis
I couldn’t resist! This shot was taken in Madera Canyon, near Green Valley, Arizona. Nikon D-80 / 18-135 mm lens at 135 mm
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Roots #3 by JimGuy
Twisted roots of a tree near the bank of the Mississippi River near Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA Nikon D300, Tokina 12-24mm
About This Group
- The Countries of North America
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Canada, Cayman Islands, Clipperton Island, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Isla Aves, Jamaica, Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Navassa Island, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Saint Barthelemy, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint-Martin, Saint Pierre and Miquelon,
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Andrés y Providencia, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands,
United States Virgin Islands, etc. - Rural America, Urban America, Central America, South America
- The Countries of Latin America
Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil (Brasil), Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Falkland Islands (UK), Suriname and Guyane (French Guiana), Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Guyana, México, Nicaragua, Panama, Perú, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela, South America, The Americas …..... - Fine Art Photography, Multi-Media, Paintings, Digital Art, Sketches and Drawings, Arts and Crafts, Clothing, Literary Works
- People, Places, Architecture, Landscapes, Skyscapes, Seascapes, Streetscapes, Nature, Wildlife, Signs, Cities, Towns, Villages, Culture, Country, Landmarks, Music, Theatre, Parks, etc.
- National Parks, State Forests, Rivers, Lakes, Streams, Creeks, Ponds.
Gift Shops, Rappelling, Rock Climbing, Diving, Beaches, River Banks, Shoreline, etc - Cafè, Museum, University, Waterfowl, domestic animals, livestock
- Culture, Dance, Traditions, Cars, Motorcycles, Playgrounds, Theme Parks, etc
- The sky is the limit when it comes to art regarding the Americas.
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