THE ART AND BEAUTY OF NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY --- A CLOSE LOOK OF OUR NATURE WORLD
By: Fely  Sorensen



"Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty."---Albert Einstein


According to definition, nature, in the broadest sense, is the natural, physical, or material world or universe. "Nature" can refer to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. Nature can refer to the general realm of living plants and animals, and in some cases to the processes associated with inanimate objects – the way that particular types of things exist and change of their own accord, such as the weather and geology of the Earth. It is often taken to mean the natural environment or wilderness or –wild animals, rocks, forest, and in general those things that have not been substantially altered by human intervention.


The art of photography is more than a visual art in a sense that taking images of our nature world is an internal appreciation of balance, harmony and beauty.


 In photography, the sky is the limit. You can take images not just from your travels but almost everywhere around us.  The beauty of taking images is the enjoyment and freedom to explore photographic art possibilities and documenting memories in that moment of time.


We, humans are part of nature, and like every other species on the planet, we depend upon healthy ecosystems for our survival. Nature provides us essentials like clean water, food, medicines, even recreational retreats. All of us are part of a miraculous web of life interconnected with Mother Earth.


These images may encourage viewers to appreciate the beauty of our planet Earth and to celebrate each moment that we're out in nature. 

These images may serve viewers to inspire and raise awareness to protecting wildlife and the environment, and have respect for nature in all of its wonder and significance.


Spring, summer, fall, and winter- each season comes to us in each quarter of the year. Each has their own individual environment, but they each share something in common. They carry a unique, sometimes hidden beauty about them.

"Looking up the cliff from down below can be an exhilarating experience."

"Even birds can brave cold weather."

"There is no better designer than nature." --- Alexander McQueen

"Flowers are like human beings. They thrive on a little kindness." --- Fred Streeter

"Nature is the art of God."

"Every flower is a soul bloosoming in nature." --- Gerald de Nerval     

"Nature always wears the colors of the spirit." --- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life." --- Charles Darwin

"Each season has its own wonder, its own special place, and purpose in the pattern of creation."

"How beautifully leaves grow old, how full of light and color are their last days."

"Never lose an opportunity of seeing something beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting."

"Delight in the beauty that surrounds you."

"In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect, trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they are still beautiful."

"All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness within."

"In all things of nature, there in something of the marvelous." --- Aristotle

"Everything has its own beauty but not everyone sees it."--- Confucius

"Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own."

"Nature is not a place to visit, it is home."

"Each moment of the year has its own beauty, a picture which was never before and shall never be seen again."

"Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience."

"God gives every bird its food, but he does not throw it into its nest."

"It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds."

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."

"It is not enough to understand the natural world, the point is depend and preserve it." ---Edward Abbey

"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings." --- William Blake

"Each life needs it's own quiet place."

"The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated." --- Mahatma Ghandi

"An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language." --- Martin Buber

"Mankind is only animal that can stand up for the right of other animals."

"Seeing wildlife is like seeing celebrities, only better."

"The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children."

"There's a hidden message in every waterfall, if you're flexible falling will not hurt you."

"The earth has music for those who listen." --- William Shakespeare

"Plans to protect water and air and wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man." --- Stewart Udall

"Every sunset brings the promise of dawn."

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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Survival Mode

• Annual plants are so called because their life cycles extend for only one year; these plants do not go through dormancy. Perennials, however, die out and go dormant to survive the cold winters. The perennial plants shed their leaves and shut down the growth process; otherwise, their tender appendages would freeze and die during winter.

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In colder climates, most plants die out, or go dormant, during the winter months. This period of rest is critical to the plant's survival. With the onset of winter's cold, the plant undergoes hormonal and cellular changes that cause it to shrink back into the soil for protection

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THE ART OF NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY --- FOSSILS
By: Fely Sorensen

The art of photography is more than a visual art in a sense that taking images of our nature world is an internal appreciation of balance, harmony and beauty. The beauty of nature reflected in art is just another reminder of our need to protect it. Being outdoors can lift our spirits and stoke our creativity.

For centuries, the tides of the Bay of Fundy eroding the fossils along the shore near the town of Joggins, Nova Scotia.  The cliffs are the best known record from Earth's "Coal Age" when lust forest covered the region.  According to the Joggins official website, at Joggins Coal Age trees stand where they grew, the footprints of creatures are frozen where they once walked.

The exposed layers of rock reveal the world's most complete fossil record of life in the "Coal Age"  when lush forests covered Joggins and much of the world's tropics 300 million years ago.  The swamped forests produced massive quantities of organic matter that over million years, created the coal deposits for which this period of history is named.  Joggins Fossil Cliffs was once a swamped and  as seen in the picture above looks like today and it is the 15th UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The daily high tide erodes the cliff, the stone fossils fall out of the coal and are left on the shore when the tide recedes. Fossils have also been found in the area deep shaft mines and in drilling core samples hundreds of feet down. Joggins is one of the easiest places in the world to find early Pennsylvanian coal fossils.

The famous Fundy tides have exposed layers and layers of fossil-bearing sediments including impressive fossilized tree trunks.

Just by walking the beach at Joggins, you may find numerous examples of wonderfully preserved fossilized plants, reptile and amphibian foot prints,  if you are very lucky remains of these remarkable creatures that once inhabited the Coal Age forest of Joggins. 

Fossils are art of nature in general sense that:  they are impressions of a prehistoric organisms preserved in petrified form or as a mold or cast in rock. They are indeed precious gift from the geologic past and that's the beauty and art of nature worth capturing at any  time possible.

With careful observation and interpretation, you may find your own missing piece of time's puzzle.  As you explore the beach of Joggins, remember that every rock holds the possibility of discovery.

 At Joggins Fossil Cliffs, visitors love wandering and looking fossils but not allowed to take home as keepsakes but take a picture or pictures of your discovery.  These treasures have to remain in the site to others for study and research.

Petrified forests are rather common in the West and are often made up of a wide variety of trees.  The trees in this area are ancient pines that grew here about during the great Age of Reptiles, about 150 million years ago.

Petrified Log In The Valley Of Fire

Petrified wood is wood that has laid outside long enough to become a fossil. All the organic things have been removed by sun, wind, water, and time, and have been completely replaced with minerals.  Logs and stumps washed into Valley of Fire about 225 million years ago and are visible in two locations.  The logs are several colorful tree trunks lying close to the road, safely fenced off for all to enjoy.




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THE ART OF NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY --- ROCK FORMATIONS
By: Fely Sorensen

The art of photography is more than a visual art in a sense that taking images of our nature world is an internal appreciation of balance, harmony and beauty. The beauty of nature reflected in art is just another reminder of our need to protect it. Being outdoors can lift our spirits and stoke our creativity.


ROCK FORMATIONS

The art of nature are those things that have not altered by human intervention.  Nature refer to the realm of various types of living plants and animals and in some cases to the processes associated with inanimate objects -- the way that particular types of things exist and change to their own accord, such as the weather and geology of the earth, matter and energy of which all of these things are composed. 

The tidal action of the Bay of Fundy has sculptured the rock formations into intriguing shapes.  Advancing and retreating tides and the associated waves have eroded the base of rocks at a faster rate than the tops, resulting in their unusual shapes and forms. 

Bay of Fundy, Hopewell Rock

Over hundreds of million years ago through the millennia as the earth's crust twisted and tilted the rock layer broke into blocks creating fissures. Rain and ice whittled away at fissures separating the cliffs into chunks of rock.

Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick

At low tide the viewers can explore the ocean floor to appreciate more closely the natural elements of the environment and an awesome opportunity for photography.

Walk on the ocean floor in the shadows of the majestic flower-pot rocks, unique formations carved by erosion over thousands of years.

Bay of Fundy, Hopewell Rock

These amazing red rock formation images  are at the Valley of Fire State Park, are just different and uniquely shaped.  They can be viewed throughout the park.

The Valley of Fire is a site of  red rock formations and sand stones. These rock formations have formed over many millennia by strong winds and rain slowly washing away the materials holding the sand grains together. 

The rocks weakened over time, allowing  the shapes that we see today and they could slowly disappear.  
 

Valley of Fire, Nevada

Valley of Fire

Valley of Fire, Nevada

Valley of Fire, Nevada

 At Red Rock Canyon, the gray carbonate rocks of the ancient ocean have been thrust over the tan and red sandstone in one of the most dramatic and easily identified thrust faults to be found.
The movement of this fault forced the older gray sedimentary rock over the younger red rocks, forming the varicolored landscape that can be seen in the mountain today. A thrust fault is a fracture in the earth's crust where one rock plate is thrust horizontally over another.

Red Rock Canyon, Las Vegas

The Grand Canyon ,nearly two billion years of Earth's geological history have been exposed as the Colorado River and its tributaries cut their channels through layer after layer of rock while the Colorado Plateau was uplifted.  The Colorado River has driven the down-cutting of the tributaries and retreat of the cliffs, simultaneously deepening and widening the canyon.

Grand Canyon, Arizona

Include isolated, scenic, or spectacular surface rock outcrops.  These formations are usually the result of weathering and erosion sculpting the existing rock.

Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia

The unique landscape of Peggy's Cove and surrounding areas was subsequently carved by the migration of glaciers and the ocean tides.

Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia

 Along with the ebb and flow of the glaciers, the ice ridge eventually melted and shifted and in the process scooped away and scoured large sections of rocks.

Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia

 As melted land glaciers flowed back to the oceans the changing tidal flows and rising sea levels filled the scarred areas with water, forming coves and inlets.  The movement of the glacial ice and rocks left scouring marks in the bedrock that are still visible.

Canyon Saint Anne, Quebec

Canyon Saint Anne is a spectacular, steeped sided gorge and all started  billion years ago when hard rock formed the canyon's walls and bottom.  This metamorphic rock was formed at a high pressure in the extremely hot depth of earth then rose to the surface through movements in the earth's crust.


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