A gharial on the Chambal River.
© Sharp Photography / Wikimedia Commons
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A fluffy Sharp-Shinned Hawk. 🗡️
[Edit no. 2: WRONG. This is a Cooper's Hawk. I'm leaning on @hawkpartys' expertise here: "This is a Cooper's Hawk. See pale nape, dark cap, thick tarsi, graduated tail feathers, and large white undertail coverts."
While I based my ID on size compared to another nearby hawk, maybe this is just a small individual. To quote the National Audubon Society, and to reassure myself, "Lots of birders—expert birders—have come away shaking their heads and jotting down “Cooper’s/Sharp-shinned” in their notebooks."]
photos by me, 2024-03-13, Whitsett Park, Nashville, TN.
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Sharp-lobed Hepatica
Hepatica acutiloba
These gorgeous spring ephemerals are usually found in woods with rich, somewhat alkaline, well drained-soils across eastern North America. Their flowers can vary in color and petal count. The hepatica plants pictured were growing on wooded hillsides featuring dolomite rock outcrops.
March 30th, 2023
St. Francois County, Missouri, USA
Olivia R. Myers
@oliviarosaline
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Alaskan Coastal Brown Bear, Lake Clark NP, Alaska, USA
by Sean Sharp
Landscape Photography Magazine & Wild Planet Photo Magazine
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🎨Winslow Homer
Winslow Homer | The Gulf Stream - 1899 - Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
The Gulf Stream shows a man in a small dismasted rudderless fishing boat struggling against the waves of the sea, and was the artist's statement on a theme that had interested him for more than a decade.
Chronologically the first of a series of major works painted by Homer in the last decade of his life, The Gulf Stream was painted in the penultimate year of the century, the year after the death of his father, and has been seen as revealing his sense of abandonment or vulnerability.
Winslow Homer | After the Hurricane - 1899
After the Hurricane, perhaps it's the sequel to The Gulf Stream, "is among Homer’s most astonishing and ambitious watercolors for its sheer technical virtuosity and epic subject matter"
An earlier painting 🔽
Shark Fishing - 1885
Homer in his studio. In 1859, he opened a studio in the Tenth Street Studio Building in New York City, the artistic and publishing capital of the United States.
Until 1863, he attended classes at the National Academy of Design, and studied briefly with Frédéric Rondel, who taught him the basics of painting. In only about a year of self-training, Homer was producing excellent oil work. His mother tried to raise family funds to send him to Europe for further study but instead Harper's sent Homer to the front lines of the American Civil War (1861–1865), where he sketched battle scenes and camp life, the quiet moments as well as the chaotic ones.
Winslow Homer - Prisoners from the Front - 1866 - now housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
Winslow Homer - Home, Sweet Home - 1863 - National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C
Winslow Homer - The Army of the Potomac - A 'Sharp-Shooter on Picket Duty' during the American Civil War - 1862 - wood engraving on paper. Smithsonian American Art Museum
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