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Tony Stromberg

Equine Photography by Tony Stromberg

Tony Stromberg is internationally known for his unique ability to capture the true power, beauty and spirit of the horse through his photography. He also teaches equine photography workshops at various locations throughout the world, and does private assignment work as well.

A master at bringing out the true essence of horses, both wild and domestic, he also loves documenting the magical dance of relationship that can develop between horse and human. Tony Stromberg has had two books of his work published, “Spirit Horses” and “The Forgotten Horses”; and his new book HORSE MEDICINE has just been released.

“Although I was formally schooled in Design and Architecture, I made a career change in my early twenties and followed the path of commercial/advertising photography in San Francisco, with emphasis on conceptual work that blurred the line between commercial and fine-art photography. Towards the end of a 20-year span, I turned my lens toward a more personal and meaningful subject matter… horses. Over the last 10 years, I have produced a very large body of work in this genre. Although I also do some still life fine art photography, my primary body of work focuses on horses.” – Tony Stromberg

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Floyd Elzinga

Steel Sculptures by Floyd Elzinga

Rotten stumps, broken branches, invasive species, ravaged trees as well as polar opposites and dysfunctional objects; these are the things that excite Floyd Elzinga. He has made a career out of highlighting and glorifying these through three dimensional sculpture, relief work and environmental installations for over 15 years. Current themes in his work focus on broken landscapes, portraits of trees and the aggressive nature of seeds.

Floyd received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design in Halifax, NS. He was initially drawn to steel, due to its malleable, plastic and forgiving nature, and he continues to utilize its range of colours as well as the way light plays off the surface. He has been exploring traditional metal working techniques to create textures and depth the same way a painter would use a paintbrush.

Elzinga’s Pine Cone Colony installation was featured at The Campbell House Museum during Toronto’s 2010 Nuit Blanche ( Bottom two images of steel pine cone in a fire).  Public commissions of his work can be seen in the lobby of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Toronto, as well as Rockcliffe Park Village Green, Ottawa, and the Canadian side of the Queenston-Lewiston Bridge.

Nunzio Paci

Anatomical Paintings by Nunzio Paci

Taking the analogy comparing blood vessels and tree branches literally, Nunzio Paci creates oil and graphite paintings that connect humans back to nature. Paci’s works look almost straight from a medical textbook except for one flaw—the trees and animals that sprout from his subjects’ mouths, chests, and necks. Paci ultimately takes a painterly approach to his works, paint dripping down the canvas to add balance to his extreme detail.

Paci’s practice centers on the relationship between man and nature, especially focusing on the visual overlap of our intrinsic and extrinsic systems. The beautiful and minimally colored works could be interpreted as extremely morbid as Paci shows us our ultimate fate when nature takes over.

Nunzio was born in Bologna in 1977 and now lives and works in Italy. Nunzio Paci currently has a solo show including several of the pieces you see here at the Palazzo del Podestà in Bologna through October 12. Nunzio explains the work by saying, “My whole work deals with the relationship between man and Nature, in particular with animals and plants. The focus of my observation is body with its mutations. My intention is to explore the infinite possibilities of life, in search of a balance between reality and imagination.”

Leopard

Leopard

The leopard is one of the five “big cats” in the genus Panthera. It is a member of the Felidae family with a wide range in regions of sub-Saharan Africa, West Asia, the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia to Siberia. Fossil records found in Italy suggest that in the Pleistocene it ranged as far as Europe.

Compared to other members of Felidae, the leopard has relatively short legs and a long body with a large skull. It is similar in appearance to the jaguar, but is smaller and more lightly built. Its fur is marked with rosettes similar to those of the jaguar, but the leopard’s rosettes are smaller and more densely packed, and do not usually have central spots as the jaguars do. Both leopards and jaguars that are melanistic are known as black panthers.

The leopard’s success in the wild is due to its well camouflaged fur, its opportunistic hunting behavior, broad diet and strength to move heavy carcass into trees, its ability to adapt to various habitats ranging from rainforest, steppe to arid and montane areas and to run at speeds up to 58 kilometres per hour (36 mph).

Lemurs

Lemurs

Lemurs are primitive primates found only on the African island of Madagascar.  They share many traits with ancient primates, including communicating mainly by scent, wet noses, and having divergent digits rather than fingernails.

It’s believed that the ancestors of lemurs came to Madagascar on rafts of vegetation some 62 to 65 million years ago.  Since then, they have diversified enormously; previous to the arrival of humans on the island, there were lemurs as large as gorillas.

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Little River Canyon National Preserve

Little River Canyon National Preserve, Alabama

Little River is unique because it flows for most of its length atop Lookout Mountain in northeast Alabama. Forested uplands, waterfalls, canyon rims and bluffs, pools, boulders, and sandstone cliffs offer settings for a variety of recreational activities. Natural resources and cultural heritage come together to tell the story of the Preserve, a special place in the Southern Appalachians.