Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
- Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
Various works by Nick Sheehy
Australian-born illustrator Nick Sheehy originally studied bronze sculpture in Tasmania, but then decided to study illustration after re-discovering his love for drawing in London. Now living in London in England, Sheehy enjoys drawing eccentric, pixie-like characters that resemble those from his childhood imagination.
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It’s an unusual sight for most of us, beautiful birds captured on camera, not in the freedom of flight, but tangled in the confines of mist nets. Photographer Todd Forsgren captures birds in unusual poses. Inspired by the work of Audubon, bird-watcher Forsgren’s photos shows fascinating bird species captured in mist nets, the thin barely visible nets that act like huge spiderwebs used by researchers to collect data on birds.
Unlike Audubon’s original subjects which were shot, stuffed/mounted, then painted, Forsgren’s subjects are only briefly captured by researchers before being released (after being weighed, measured and given leg rings). The photographs are poignant and beautiful glimpses at some rarely seen species in often awkward poses, which Forsgren describes as the “fragile and embarrassing moment before they disappear back into the woods, and into data”.
On that note I read a blog post today on NPR and it was talking about how nine of the 12 forest birds in Guam have gone extinct thanks to an invasive species known as the brown tree snake, and Guam plans to drop dead mice laced with painkillers (from a helicopter!) in an attempt to kill those snakes.
I'm interested to see how that plan pans out.
Article for the curious: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/02/22/172695707/dead-mice-are-going-to-be-dropped-on-guam-from-helicopters-really?sc=17&f=1001
Hey, these are really cool!
These photographs by Luke Stephenson of show birds are absolute lush! Make sure you take a stroll through “The Incomplete Dictionary of Show Birds” it is SO worth it!
Go for it.
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YOU HAVE A 3DS?!?!
I have a date with a big fish by ZERG118
Reminds me of those animation illustrations prior to the actual...well...animation.
