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Arches National Park
Arches National Park is a US National Park in eastern Utah. The park is located on the Colorado River 4 miles (6 km) north of Moab, Utah. It is known for containing over 2,000 natural sandstone arches, including the world-famous Delicate Arch, in addition to a variety of unique geological resources and formations.
Artist Unknown, (Four Lightning Bolts), Computer Graphics, Film Gifs
Digital Nature Photographs by Simen Johan
Simen Johan was born in Kirkenes, in the extreme north of Norway. He moved to Höllviken, Sweden in 1979. After attending film school at Lugnetskolan in Falun, Sweden, Johan moved to New York City to continue his studies at the School of Visual Arts. He transferred to the photography program and studied under photographers Duane Michals,James Casebere, and Gregory Crewdson.
In 1993, Johan drew attention for his pioneering work merging digital manipulation with traditional darkroom techniques. At a time when digital photo processing was in its infancy, Johan found ways to exploit the medium beyond the boundaries of what was then considered possible. His images recombined fragments of faces and bodies (including his own) into new characters, which he then situated into similarly fabricated scenes.
In 2005, Johan shifted his focus towards the natural world, at the same time also beginning to create sculptural works. The images in his series “Until the Kingdom Comes” incorporate elements photographed in a wide variety of locations around the world, including both wild and captive animals.
The series on designboom here: http://www.designboom.com/art/simen-johan-digital-imaginary-animal-kingdom-03-30-2015/
Photographer Unknown, Wet Otters
Photographers Unknown, Wolves in Motion
Artists Unknown, (Mushrooms), Computer Graphics, Film Gifs
Photographer Unknown, (Snake on Tree)
Barry Lopez, “Of Wolves and Men”, 1979, Scribner Books, 320 Pages
Of Wolves and Men reveals the uneasy interaction between wolves and civilization over the centuries, and the wolf’s prominence in our thoughts about wild creatures. Drawing on an astonishing array of literature, history, science, and mythology as well as considerable personal experience with captive and free-ranging wolves, Lopez argues for the necessity of the wolf’s preservation and envelops the reader in its sensory world, creating a compelling picture of the wolf both as real animal and as imagined by man.
Photographer Unknown, (Waves Against the Cliffs)
“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
-Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
Artist Unknown, (Lightning Strike), Computer Graphics, Film Gifs
Photographer Unknown, Three Wolves
Jason Tennant, Sculptor and Painter, Rochester, New York
Wildlife and Nature Paintings and Sculptures; Wildlife Lighting Fixtures
Photographer unknown, “Echinicea”
Photographer Unknown, Starling Murmuration ( Flocking ) over Fields in Scotland
“There is something deeply awe-inspiring about the sight of any living creatures in incomputable numbers; it stirs, perhaps, some atavistic chord whose note belongs more properly to the distant days when we were a true part of the animal ecology; when the sight of another species in unthinkable hosts brought fears or hopes no longer applicable.”
Yume Cyan, “Fireflies, Nagoya City”
This long exposure photograph by Yme Cyan captures the glowing bodies of fireflies and translates them as floating yellow and green dots, dancing around a wooded area of Nagoya located in the Chūbu region of Japan.
“My brother and I used to catch fireflies and hold them in jars for a little while when we visited our relatives in Chattanooga.”‘
–Yuma Cyan