Richard's Notes

My flickr contact roddh got a shot of a fisher in a tree in his backyard. They can be pretty fierce little animals.

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Dogs and sleds
The Big Picture has a great collection of dog sledding images from various parts of the world.

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Japanese Macaque monkeys
The Frame has a wonderful collection of images of macaque monkeys in Japan. Love the last few images that show all the photographers around the hot springs. Fantastic.

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Looking Fabulous in Fur
Absolutely stunning animal portraits by Rob MacInnis.
I take the conventions from the fashion world and apply them to the underclass barnyard animal,” Rob MacInnis said.
Rob’s site has more images: Rob MacInnis.

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100 days in Glacier National Park
This summer, Glacier Park Magazine editor Chris Peterson undertook a photographic project to take photos of Montana’s Glacier National Park over 100 consecutive days, starting on May 1, 2009, for a traveling photo show in 2010 to commemorate Glacier’s Centennial. He used a mix of film and digital cameras, including [...]

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Spectacular macro photography
Looks like a Russian or Greek site. Amazing work.
[via Greg Newman]

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The Big Picture: Pushkar Mela.
Thirty amazing images by AP photographer Kevin Frayer of this five day camel and livestock fair in Rajasthan, India.

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The Big Picture: World Animal Day 2009.
Absolutely incredible collection of animals from all over the world. Wow, this is really a must see.

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A Dog’s eye View
Tom Ashbrook/OnPoint interviews Alexandra Horowitz, a psychologist specializing in dogs on how dogs perceive the world.
This is a fascinating discussion, well worth listening to whether or not you have a dog (we don’t).
But the way they sense the world is vastly different from our own. These “creature of the nose,” she says, [...]

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Washington, Connecticut. A monarch rests in the butterfly garden at the Macricostas Preserve, Steep Rock land trust.

A large grasshopper crossed my path and attached himself to a leaf.

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On This Earth
A collection of Nick Brandt’s incredible photographs of animals in East Africa. This is both a show of prints and a book.
The book at Amazon: On This Earth: Photographs from East Africa
Nick’s work reminds me a bit of the etherial quality of Gregory Colbert’s Ashes and Snow work. Frankly, I like it [...]

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The Big Picture has a wonderful collection of animal images in: Scenes from the zoo.

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One of my flickr contacts in Austria, roswithawesiak posted a spectacular image of goldfish in a small pond with reflected trees. Wow, this is great.

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The Big Picture: Horses at work and at play.
A wonderful collection of images of horses in all corners of the world.

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The Big Picture has a fantastic collection of animal images: World Animal Day.
Great variety, the baby white rhino toward the end is my current fav. What an expression.

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Naturescapes.net is a resource and a community of landscape and animal photographers, articles, discussion, workshops, and a store. Looks like a friendly place to ask questions about all things nature photography.
[via Dale Allyn]

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New York City. The guy on the right is puffed up, strutting around, doing his dance and the chick on the left is going "uh, whatever."
He eventually gave up on her and tried another female. No luck there either. In the end he was all puffed up strutting around with not a female in sight.
Need [...]

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My flickr contact Lenny nails a blue dasher dragonfly with his big lens and extender. An absolutely amazing image, congratulations Lenny.

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Washington, Connecticut, Macricostas Preserve. This little flower is about one half in across (this is not a daisy) and after going to all the trouble to set up the tripod and get things lined up, an intruder dropped in. I figured he’d leave soon enough but he stayed for twenty minutes so I gave up, [...]

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Pasadena, California. The Huntington Garden. I found a clump of yellow daisies in the herb garden and there were a few bees working them. This is another bee that seems to be more successful in collecting pollen, or, is really well hung, or both.

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