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Stonechat. Finished wood engraving, first test print, which I'm very pleased with and the photo that the engraving is based on, taken on one of our regular walks on Ilkley Moor.

#birds #NaturalHistory #nature #art #PrintMaking #WoodEngraving

100x100mm lemonwood block engraved with a stonechat perched on a young, growing and unfurling, bracken frond, with a foreground of bracken and other plants, receding through shrubs along a path to a stile in a drystone wall, with more moorland beyond. The bird locks inquisitively at me. An engraving tool and a pencil are included for scale.

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A print of the engraving in black ink, made by hand burnishing on Somerset satin paper..

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My photo of the stonechat, one of many on Ilkley Moor.

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20d

#nature #naturephotography

Frog sticking their head out of water, directly facing the camera among various grassy plants.

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24d

Happy Summer Solstice!

https://ez-lorenz.pixels.com/featured/golden-rays-of-sunlight-evoking-a-sense-of-awe-ez-lorenz.html

#Summer #Solstice #Sunset #Washington #PNW #Photography #Nature #ArtForSale #WallArt #Prints #HomeDecor #GreetingCards #Gifts #GiftIdeas #FediGiftShop #Puzzle

Golden rays of sunlight burst through scattered clouds, creating a dramatic sky over the silhouetted landscape of trees and houses of Bellevue, Washington with the Olympic Mountains in the background.
The blend of dark clouds and vibrant sunlight creates a stunning contrast, evoking a sense of calm and awe.

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18d

The world’s only alpine parrot – the curious, clever, and often mischievous kea 🦜

Photographed here in its natural habitat in Otira, New Zealand, with the snow-covered Southern Alps as a backdrop. These endangered birds are full of personality and play a vital role in our mountain ecosystems.
Let’s protect what’s left.
#Kea #AlpineParrot #NZWildlife #Conservation #NaturePhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #SouthernAlps #NewZealand #BirdPhotography #Canonphotography #BirdConservation #Nature #Winter

A kea, New Zealand’s native alpine parrot, stands in the foreground on a ledge. Its feathers are olive green with hints of orange and teal, and it’s facing sideways against a dramatic backdrop of snow-covered mountains and rocky alpine terrain near Otira.

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18d

An American Painted Lady looking a little rough around the edges. Can relate. 🧡

ᏥᎫᏫ (tsiguwi)

#Insects #butterfly #nature #naturephotography

An American Painted Lady on my butterfly bush

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18d

My burgundy lacecap #hydrangea #plants have gorgeous, multicoloured #foliage 😍

#FoliageFriday #leaves #Summer #Wsanec #leaf #botanical #perennials #nature #Saanich #VictoriaBC #YYJ #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #Zone8 #textures #VeinsOfLife #garden #LeafLife #ombre

Composition: A rectangular collage. The top portion is composed of three horizontally aligned, tightly cropped close-ups of hydrangea foliage. The bottom features a lower angle view of a large leaf against a soil background.

Visual Elements: Close-up textures of hydrangea leaves showing color variations: green to red to brown with detailed vein structures. The lighting emphasizes the leaf veins and color gradients. The primary colors are shades of green to red.

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17d

#RoseCampion & #ButterflyBush - part of our #pollinators #garden in front yard.

#Bloomscrolling #florespondence #floral #Summer #Wsanec #flowers #botanical #perennials #nature #Saanich #VictoriaBC #YYJ #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #Zone8

Close-up, slightly high-angle shot of a flower garden. Dominant hues are shades of pinks and purples. The foreground flowers are extremely bright pink, out-of-focus, and take up the bottom third of the composition. Small purple flowers form the primary flower cluster, with stems covered in soft white fuzz. The background partially reveals a grey rooftop and green trees. The scene is well-lit, with overcast lighting.

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17d

I have posted a few fogbows previously featuring the Cradle Mountain too. This one is more minimalist with only a tree and some layers.

#mountains #Australia #landscape #LandscapePhotography #nature #naturephotography #fog #sunrise #dawn #AntonGorlinPhotos #foto #fotografie #photo #photography #minimal

mountain scenery with some layers and fog and reflecting in a lake. a single tree in the middle with a fogbow hitting the tree with its end and curving to the right. Morning warm light painting distant peaks and starting to paint the closer areas too.

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Birds are amazing. But considering how much of my life I've spent watching and studying them, I've thought surprisingly little about just how incredible feathers are. Talking to engineers who still can't build anything to match a feather gave me a whole new understanding and appreciation for these absolute marvels of evolution.

My latest for Smithsonian magazine:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/articles/engineers-are-racing-to-harness-dazzling-magic-feathers-they-havent-solved-mystery-yet-180986759/

#birds #nature

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22d

#SilentSunday

#animals #nature #photography #Alaska

A female moose and her two cubs foraging in a slough

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17d

El Capitan

El Capitan is one of the first landmarks that you will see as you drive into Yosemite Valley. This granite wall rises 3,000 feet off of the valley floor and is truly a sight to see. From the valley floor El Capitan is visible as you enter into the park and is prominently displayed to see from most points in the valley.
I love sitting below this monolith trying to spot climbers.
https://pixels.com/featured/el-capitan-bill-gallagher.html
#ElCapitan #BillGallagherPhotography #Yosemite #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Nature

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15d

I had to rescue a baby rabbit trapped in our garden fence. Hopefully the little guy gets back to his group. I put him within sight of 6 other rabbits. It was hard convincing Ellie not to touch it but human scent would mark it so I used beekeeping gloves that smell like everything but humans.

#wildlife #nature #rabbit

A baby cottontail rabbit sitting in the palm of my hands.

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18d

I send thanks to the buyer from North Carolina who purchased a framed print of

Ripples -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/ripples-steve-henderson.html?product=framed-print

May the image bring you to a place of calmness, tranquility, serenity and joy.

#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #abstract #water #nature #sunlight #sun #reflection #blue #sale #artist #decor #wallart #impressionism

Framed art print of an original oil painting depicting the surface of a lake with the sunlight dancing across it.

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15d

The beginning of the day is bright, promising, alert, as we think of the many things (I hope pleasant) we have to do.

But evening is quiet, easy, slow, a time to reflect upon what we have accomplished, and to relax into a state of rest.

Nature does this every day with sunrise and sunset, and when we follow her lead, we do so as well.

Long Shadows in Zion art print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/long-shadows-in-zion-steve-henderson.html?product=art-print

#travel #utah #zion #nature #art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #sunset #landscape #peace

Art print of an original oil painting depicting a sunset view of a Southwest landscape in Utah, USA.

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I send thanks to the buyer from Utah who purchased a tapestry art print of

Wilderness Lake -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/wilderness-lake-steve-henderson.html?product=tapestry

May the artwork fill your home and walls with the majesty, peace, and beauty of wild, unspoiled nature.

#art #artwork #nature #mountains #oregon #travel #hiking #camping #USA #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #landscape #wilderness #peace #peaceful #quiet #calm #color #colorful #impressionism #painting #notai #noai #painterly #trees #lake

Tapestry art print of an original oil painting depicting a high alpine lake surrounded by mountains.

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18d

Around where we live, summers tend to be hot and dry; come August there may be a ripping thunderstorm that brings much desired water, but for the most part, the rains wait until autumn.

And how we wait for, and love, those autumn rains!

After an Autumn Rain art print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/after-an-autumn-rain-steve-henderson.html?product=art-print

#weather #storm #rain #art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #landscape #nature #climate #trees #road #journey #artist #wallart #travel #washington #USA #autumn #fall #color

Art print of an original oil painting depicting a country road in autumn, with hills in the background.

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15d

Spring and autumn are unpredictable and capricious -- you never know if the day will be warm or cold, calm or blowsy.

But summer . . . you wake up and know that the day will be warm, then warmer, then hot, because that's what summer is: sleepy and quiet, the landscape resting under the season's heat. As we can, too.

August 2 framed print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/2-august-steve-henderson.html?product=framed-print

#summer #weather #nature #hot #art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #climate #country #rural #peace #peaceful #USA

Framed print of an original oil painting depicting a country landscape in the middle of summer.

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15d

#Lavendar & #catmint in #PollinatorGarden. Good companion #herb plants. Both draw in thousands of #pollinators 🐝🦋

#Bloomscrolling #florespondence #floral #Summer #Wsanec #flowers #botanical #gardening #perennials #nature #Saanich #gardens #VictoriaBC #YYJ #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #Zone8 #plants #photography

A low-angle, medium shot of several lavender plants. The composition is dominated by the lavender in the foreground. Small violet flowers are in full bloom at the top of the stems. The background includes a clear, blue sky with a few green trees and reddish-pink flowers. The image is brightly lit, with strong contrasts between the purple blooms, green foliage, blues sky and earth tones.

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A ground-level shot of vibrant green foliage with tall stalks of purple-pink catmint flowers extending towards a clear, bright blue sky. The flowers are in full bloom, creating a dense, natural setting. Overlapping foliage and treetops appear in the background.

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We are wayfinders

Navigation and spatial awareness sustained humans for tens of thousands of years. Have we lost the trail in modern times?

By Michael Bond

https://aeon.co/essays/why-are-we-losing-the-wayfinding-skills-of-our-ancestors?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=0cc815d99f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_07_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972

Anthropology at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/4343

#Books #Anthropology #Nature #Travel

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12d

Breaking: Astronomers have found a likely new interstellar object passing through our solar system.

A11pl3Z seems to have the most extreme hyperbolic orbit yet measured. More observations coming soon.

https://earthsky.org/space/new-interstellar-object-candidate-heading-toward-the-sun-a11pl3z/ #science #nature #space

Filipp Romanov captured the new candidate for interstellar object, A11pl3Z, on July 2, 2025. Filipp wrote: “I confirmed new interstellar object candidate A11pl3Z remotely using iTelescope.Net T72 (0.51-m f/6.8 reflector + CCD) in Chile.”

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15d

#SilentSunday

#Washington #PNW #MarineLife #Snail #Nature #Photo #PhotoOfTheDay

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I was just photographing this beautiful butterfly caterpillar on the little-traveled road when someone tapped me on the shoulder and quietly said, "Look over there!"
Had we not stopped for the caterpillar, we would have been very close...
Btw, this is the caterpillar (second photo for sure) of the Mourning Cloak butterfly (Nymphalis antiopa).

#wildlife #blackbear #butterfly #caterpillar #nature #closeup