Enjoy natural beauty with these fascinating artworks expressing the magnificence of nature.
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Originally first published in 1970 and based on a photograph by nature photographer Patricia Caulfield, Andy Warhol made prints of the Mandrinette flower with each print featuring the blooms petals in various colours. The Mandrinette flower is an extremely rare native shrub found on the mountains of Mauritius, an island off the southeast coast of Africa.
Chris Tuff is an international, award winning Photographer and Director. ‘I have always been driven by the deep-seated compulsion to create images. By the time I was nine years old I was taking photographs, developing films and making prints. My renewed focus on my first love, stills photography, has brought me full circle – back to where I started.’
A beautiful setting of a lone figure amongst an epic mountain landscape. In April, 2014 Felicia was chosen by the best selling US Magazine, Popular Photography, as one of only Five Young Photographers Worldwide under the age of 20, to look out for in the future.
A misty, overcast afternoon in the Vatnajökull National Park in Iceland leant itself to this monochrome long-exposure of rock, ice and crystal clear deep water, as the remnant of the glacier eventually made its way to the Atlantic Ocean.
Another exquisite image by Dalgliesh depicting a horseshoe bend in the Grand Canyon, Arizona USA.
This was shot in a very remote spot in the Scottish highlights and this scene reminded me of that of a tranquil Indian lake. I found the whole area magnetic and was both captivated and hypnotised by the sheer beauty of such an isolated spot.
Mossbrae Falls in the Shasta Cascade area in Dunsmuir, California, is one of the most scenic waterfalls in the USA. The falls are fed by springs which course down from the canyon wall, creating the effect of many waterfall streams falling into the Sacramento River. This nightime shot gives the scene an eerie feeling to it, as if we have stumbled upon the waterfall in our dreams.
Hamish Root spent a long period of time chronicling life and the landscape of Norway’s Lofoten Islands. The stunningly remote landscape is a fair cry from the increasingly urbanised centers of the world. Here, we look out across snow dunes towards an approaching storm.
Shot in Alberta Canada, this abstract photograph of one of Canada’s iconic pine forests resembles the paintings of Lee Ufan. Blurred by movement, Darwin creates a faint ‘trace’ of the forest.