Category: Images
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Our Second Biannual Caption Contest
OK, so it’s actually been almost 27 months since our first caption contestprevious. The photograph this time is not part of our regular collection, nor will it ever be, most likely. Nancy took this picture on our trip with Natural Habitat Adventures to Uganda and Rwanda in 2015 to photograph Mountain Gorillasdetails. As you can…
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Nancy Wins Award In F.W.F. Photo Contest
The Florida Wildlife Federationabout just announced the ten winners of its annual photography contest. Nancy had entered seven images covering seven of the eight categories for which her pictures were eligible and wound up winning the Flowers categorylink with her image “Ghost Orchid.” We were hoping Nancy’s favorite image, “Osprey Family,” would win an award,…
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Our Newest Teacher’s Poster, Pupating Monarch, Is Ready
Less than four months after creating our “Pupating Monarch” imageblog, the new posters are ready. We first mentioned these four years ago in Teacher’s Special – Laminated Poster Of “Emerging Monarch” Is Ready!. They are the same size, specifications, and price as our original poster ($15 for 17″ by 28″ signed poster, laminated on both…
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A Nighttime Solar Eclipse?
When I tried to print our second 26″ by 36″ canvas copy of “Eclipse Over Long Pine Key”, the colors were as shown below. I thought one of the ink cartridges must be empty, or the printer had a clogged nozzle or something. I pulled out the roll of canvas, performed a cleaning, and did…
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What’s Wrong With This Picture?
This barely retouched picture (not even cropped – only overcoming camera sensor limitations), which Nancy took a while back (at my request), shows something that most people never see. Another good question might be, “What aspect of this photograph gives the best clue about where it was taken?” There may be more than one correct…