Below are some of my favorite
images which I suggest as fine art
for home or office. Click any image to see more from that area:
Left: We met these children near
Samrung & New Bridge, between Tolka and Chomrong, a Gurung tribal
area in the Annapurna Range of Nepal
Himalaya mountains, on the trail
to the Annapurna Sanctuary. Humans are the most interesting animal.
Mammals:
Above: Wild guanacos (related to camels) graze beneath Los Cuernos
of Paine ("The Horns", 8,530 feet / 2,600 meters), which are comprised
of a pinkish-white granodiorite intrusion formed 12 million years ago,
topped with an older dark crumbly sedimentary rock, and exposed by
glaciation
and freeze-thaw erosion. Torres del Paine National Park, CHILE.
(Click the image to see more from the area.)
Wild guanacos, Torres del Paine National Park, CHILE.
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Sea lion. Galápagos Islands, ECUADOR. (Click the image to
see more from the area.)
Left: The tassles on this friendly llama mark who owns the llama,
as it grazes on communally-managed land in the Cordillera Raura area.
(Click the image to see more from the area.)
Below: Bison (or American Buffalo) in Yellowstone National Park,
Wyoming:
Below: Young alpaca shorn with a mohawk, PERU.
(Click the image to see more from the area.)
Left: A horse grazes beneath Cerro Fitz Roy (3405 meters / 11,170
feet). El Chalten, ARGENTINA.
(Click the image to see more from the area.)
Above: A bicyclist stops to pet a horse, with nice views of the
Cascade Mountains near Sultan,
Washington. (Click the image to see more from the area.)
Left: Female moose with two calves at Eagle Creek Campground, near
Anchorage, Alaska. (Click the image to see more from the area.)
Below right: Kangaroo mother with joey at our campsite in
Flinders
Chase National Park on Kangaroo Island, South Australia, AUSTRALIA.
This
is a great place to view kangaroos, brushtail possums, birds, echidnas,
and other wildlife.
(Click the image to see more from the area.)
Above: Tasmanian Devil,
Bonorong Wildlife Park, Tasmania. (Click the
image to see more from the area.)
Below: The historic Dog Line Memorial on Eaglehawk Neck in Tasman
National Park on the Tasman Peninsula. Tasmania, AUSTRALIA.
(Click the image to see more from the area.)
Left:
We visited a nice koala conservation park on Kangaroo Island,
South Australia, for close views of cute but sleepy koalas. AUSTRALIA.
(Click the image to see more from the area.)
This curious Common Brushtail Possum climbed atop our camper one
night, in the campground at Flinders Chase National Park, one of the
best
places to view wildlife in Australia. Kangaroo Island, South Australia.
(Click the image to see more from the area.)
Young mountain goat, Kootenay National Park, British Columbia,
CANADA. (Click the image to see more from the area.)
Below right: Adult mountain goat at a salt lick, Kootenay
National
Park, British Columbia, CANADA.
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Above: Mountain goat, Bearhat Mountain, Hidden Lake.
Glacier
National Park, Montana, USA.
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Below: Mountain Goat and Mount
Daniel. Alpine
Lakes
Wilderness
Area, Washington.
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Mountain Goat. Alpine
Lakes Wilderness, Washington. (Click the image to see
more from the area.)
Feisty young Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep climb a road cut, on the
Bow Valley Parkway, Banff National Park, Alberta, CANADA.
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Left: A bull elk looks for females in fall rutting season at Mammoth
Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.
Below: A hairy goat on the island of Crete, GREECE.
Left: Bottle-nosed dolphins surf the compression bow wave of our
ship, offshore from the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. Dolphins are
actually mammals which lived on land at some point in their evolution
but
they later adapted completely to the sea.
Below right: A captve coati (coatimundi), in Sonoran Desert
Museum,
Tucson, Arizona.
Below:
Water buffalo at Phewa Lake
(or Fewa Tal), in Pokhara, Nepal.
Left:
I photographed this Danfe (or Danphe) Pheasant, Nepal's National Bird,
north of Namche Bazaar, in Sagarmatha National
Park, in the Khumbu
District of Nepal.
Below right: A Great Blue Heron rests in the forest on Fidalgo
Island,
in Deception Pass State Park, Washington, USA.
(Click the image to see more from the area.)
Below: Masked Boobies. Galápagos Islands, ECUADOR.
[Published
full-page in Eagle-Eye Tours Travel Schedule 2006.]
Left: Brown Pelican, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, South America.
(Click the image to see more from the area.)
Above right: Blue-footed Booby on nest with two chicks. Galapagos
Islands, Ecuador, South America. (Click the image to see more from
the area.)
Left: Blue-footed Booby. Galápagos Islands, Ecuador.
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Blue-footed Booby. Galápagos Islands, Ecuador.
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Above: Magnificent Frigatebirds nesting. Galapagos Islands, Ecuador,
South America. (Click the image to see more from the area.)
Left: Vermilion Flycatcher on Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos Islands,
Ecuador, South America. (Click the image to see more from the
area.)
Below right: Magnificent Frigatebird male flying with his bright
red pouch displayed. Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, South America.
(Click the image to see more from the area.)
Above right: Affectionate Swallowtail Gull pair, Galapagos Islands,
Ecuador, South America. (Click the image to see more from the area.)
Short-eared owl on Kalalau Beach, Kauai. (Click the image to see
more from the area.)
Cattle egret, seen here on Kauai, in the State of Hawaii (not native
or endemic to Hawaii). (Click the image to see more from the area.)
A dove on Kauai. (Click the image to see more from the area.)
Below: A wild nene, a goose native to the State of Hawaii, walks in Haleakala National Park, Mauai. (Click the image to see more from the area.)
Left: Sacred Ibis, a bird commonly seen in Sydney, AUSTRALIA. (One
of the many pleasures of Sydney is the abundant population of unusual
flying
creatures, including big fruit bats (flying foxes) in the downtown
Royal
Botanic Garden.) (Click the image to see more from the area.)
The kookaburra (a big kingfisher) has a wonderfully raucous call
that can sound like human laughter. My wife Carol watched one
kookaburra
swoop down, grab a pork chop off a camper's plate, and fly back up into
a tree! Grampians (Gariwerd) National Park, Victoria, AUSTRALIA.
(Click the image to see more from the area.)
Above: Three pelicans preening and grooming, on Coalmine Beach,
Walpole-Nornalup National
Park, Western Australia. (Click the image to see more
from the area.)
Left: Andean Goose, Torres del Paine NP, CHILE.
(Click the image to see more from the area.)
Below right: a mated pair of Andean Geese, Torres del Paine NP,
CHILE.
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Chinstrap penguin, Aicho Island, ANTARCTICA.
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Gentoo Penguin, ANTARCTICA.
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image to see more from the area.)
Above: Gentoo penguin colony, in ANTARCTICA.
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Above: Photographing
Gentoo Penguin chicks, Aicho Island,
ANTARCTICA. (Click the image
to see more from the area.)
A wild turkey in Zion National
Park, Utah.
Below right: A fighting cock in Llamac Village, PERU.
(Click the image to see more from the area.)
Left: Wild cormorant. San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, BELIZE. (Click
the image to see more from the area.)
Below right: The call of the Australian magpie is full of
fascinating
bells and whistles, and is found throughout most of Australia.
(Click the image to see more from the area.)
A rare King Vulture, Belize Zoo. (Click the image to see more
from the area.)
Jabiru stork, largest flying bird in the Americas, 4-5 feet tall,
wingspan 9-12 feet. Belize Zoo, BELIZE. (Click the image to see
more from the area.)
Kea, alpine parrot, NEW ZEALAND.
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Below right: Parrot, in the Belize Zoo, BELIZE.
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Left: A rarely seen (and rarely photographed) grey morph of
the Chilean hawk, or Peuquito (Accipiter chilensis) perched
on a limb of Nothofagus, in the forest near Hostaria Balmaceda,
on the
"Seno de Ultima Esperanza" (Sound of Last Hope), 5 hours by boat
from
Puerto
Natales, CHILE.
A captive Barn Owl, in the Sonoran Desert Museum, Tucson, Arizona.
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Left: Galápagos Tortoise. Santa Cruz Island, Galápagos
Islands, ECUADOR. [Published
in Wilderness
Travel 1990 Catalog.] (Click the image to see more from
the area.)
Frog in gorge near Micro Papingo village, Zagoria, Epiros, Greece.
(Frogs are amphibians.) (Click the image to see more from the
area.)
Blue Tongued Skink, Bonorong Wildlife Park, Tasmania, AUSTRALIA.
(Click the image to see more from the area.)
Left: Galápagos Land Iguana, Galápagos Islands,
ECUADOR. (Click the image to see more from the area.)
Above: Sea iguana in breeding colors, Galápagos Islands,
ECUADOR. (Click the image to see more from the area.)
Spines of a sea iguana in breeding colors, Galápagos Islands,
ECUADOR. (Click the image to see more from the area.)
Sea Iguana head closeup, Galápagos Islands, ECUADOR.
(Click the image to see more from the area.)
A male iguana (above left) has
a spiked crest, and the female
(below)
does not, MEXICO.
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A harmless nurse shark swims at Shark & Ray Alley in the
beautiful
turquoise Hol Chan Marine Reserve, in the Caribbean Sea. The
Belize
Barrier Reef Reserve System is the second longest coral reef in the
world,
and was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1996. BELIZE.
(Click the image to see more from the area.)
Seattle Aquarium: This tropical fish eats coral. (Click the image to see more from the area.)
A ray in Shark & Ray Alley, Hol Chan Marine Reserve, Belize
Barrier Reef. (Click the image to see more from the area.)
Left: Starfish come in red, orange, purple and magenta colors at the Seattle Aquarium, Washington. Starfish or sea stars
are any echinoderms belonging to the class Asteroidea. The "star fish"
usually hunt for shelled animals such as oysters and clams. They have
two stomachs, one used for digestion, and the other stomach can be
extended outward to engulf and digest prey much larger than its mouth.
Most starfish have 5 arms, which can be regenerated if lost.
Below: The Giant Pacific Octopus (Octopus
dofleini) can be found along the Pacific coast from Alaska to southern
California. This closeup view of octopus leg suckers is at the Seattle
Aquarium, Washington.
Below right: Ripples on the water surface distorts this view of an orange and red sea anemone at the Seattle Aquarium, Washington.
Below right: Metallic green beetle on a thistle, Aoos River
Valley,
Zagoria, Epiros, Greece.
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Left: Pretty blue butterflies on Church Mountain, North Cascade
Mountains, Washington.
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Below Right: Swallowtail Butterfly on Mount Dickerman,
Washington.
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Left: Blue Morpho butterfly on a Panama hat. Chaa Creek Butterfly
Breeding Center. Belize offers a startling variety of tropical life.
BELIZE,
Central America. (Click the image to see more from the area.)
A black and red insect shares this purple thistle with a moth in Switzerland. (Click the image to see more from
the area.)
Left: A hoverfly on a daisy, on Mount Dickerman,
Mount
Baker-Snoqualmie
National Forest, Washington. Hoverflies are expert hoverers, and they
mimic
the appearance of wasps & bees as a defense. Syrphid, flower, or
hover
flies are in the Family: Syrphidae, of which there are 1000 species in
North America (in the Order: Diptera, Class: Insecta, Phylum:
Arthropoda).
Hoverfly larvae commonly eat aphids and other small, soft-bodied
insects.
Adult hoverflies feed on pollen, nectar, and honeydew, and are true
flies
with only two wings instead of four which most insects have (such as
bees
& wasps). (Click the image to see more from the area.)
Below right: A camouflaged Crab Spider (Family Thomisidae) kills
a bee in this thistle flower. Crab Spiders can change their coloration
to match the flower within 24 hours, and are widespread in Washington
and
other states.
(Click the image to see more from the area.)
This green spider is perfectly camouflaged to hide in the center
of this datura flower blossom. Anza-Borrego Desert State Park,
California. (Click the image to see more from the area.)
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Copyright 2006 by Tom Dempsey. Photographs or text may not be copied without permission.