Critters ... Sampler

I used to joke that I would only shoot animals if they got in the way of my fine-art landscape shots.

However, there is something simultaneously energizing and soothing about encountering critters in the wild. They present both personality and metaphors for our human lives/interactions. I am called to photograph the "essence" of animals and some of their life experiences. Here are a few photos of our fellow creatures living their lives viewed as Animals' Art...
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Ice pack polar bear, after the kill, with symbiotic (and rare) Ivory Gulls (Greenland Sea, Spitsbergen, Svalbard)
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Massive polar bear on the floating ice pack, after her last kill of the season, with symbiotic (and rare) Ivory Gulls (Pack...
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Ice pack polar bear, after the kill, with symbiotic (and rare) Ivory Gulls (Greenland Sea, Spitsbergen, Svalbard)
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Failing Spirits
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Mothers Day
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Ring-tailed lemur are large strepsirrhine primates. Scientifically, in the family Lemuridae, one of five lemur families, and ...
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Hanging in There
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Ebullient
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Regal Awakening
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Sanctuary
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Dusk & Dawn, first in flight
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Wild & Rugged
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Ms. Personality
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Horseplay
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Surviving Wild by the Sea
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Naturally Eureka
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Greater Earless Lizard
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Jackson Chameleon
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In Situ Locavore
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Windy Bookends
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The Armendaris Grant runs south from the Bosque del Apache NWR to below Truth or Consequences. Its 600 square miles encompass...
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Falkland's Conflicting Echoes
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Lacewing
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Paper Kite
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Blue Morpho
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Malachite
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