 WATER |
 ROCK |
 DESERT |
 SKY |
 TREES |
 PLANTS |
 ANIMALS |
 MAN-MADE |
 PATTERNS |
 CLOSE-UP |
it is rare that i photograph man-made things when i'm traveling around looking for beautiful things in nature, but artistic construction like this will make it into the photo collection.
Palace of Fine Arts
amongst the ruins in MachuPicchu
Window to the Past
Having such a small body and graciously long wings, the Tiger Longwing doesn't flap quickly like most butterflies. Instead, it creates a very elegant slow-flutter to navigate through the rain-forest foliage in Brazil. It's motion is very different from what i'm accustomed to in the northern hemisphere, and i found it quite mesmerizing.
Tiger Longwing
i'm keeping my distance and using my longest lens as this female hunter is sizing up lunch.
Lioness
i just couldn't pass up a side trip to Mars to grab a couple of surface shots! Or maybe i just happen to be inside a volcano crater and the surrounding red-rock landscape looks much like a Martian world.
Mars
a walk in the woods during early autumn in Indiana
Woods
My friend and master gardener was showing me the sites and we came across her favorite of all trees, the chionanthus virginicus, or fringe tree. In late spring it blooms with drooping clusters of white flowers. I now understand her passion for the tree as is had a very soft friendly appearance with a lovely scent from it's quantity of blooms.
Fringe Tree in Bloom
a cluster of purple vanda orchids in Brazil
Vanda Orchids
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