Beautiful Pictures, they really brightened my day..Great Job!

These pictures are awesome. Amazing mother nature’s creations and adaptation to life. Love these kind of picrures what a great photo spot. nea

Love it. Beautiful pictures

Cute pictures of animals. The picture of the huge iceberg is not fake, isn’t it? What type of camera techniques do they use to shoot the iceberg portion under the sea?

Beautiful Pictures, I love them.
This nature, this is one of enjoying.
Thanks

just beautiful

These pictures are so unique. It is really motivating to want to get into photography and appreciate nature in every way. Thanks for posting them.

Amazing ligtherning. thanks

Wonderful, I really enjoyed them. Thank you.
Made me happy.

Its wonderful that in a world preoccupied with money, ideology, weapons, killing and environmental degredation that people can take time out to put together a collection of such touching scenes. It is what Teihallrd de Chardin called “one act of love that makes the universe ripple, however slightly”

This is really Nature at its very best, and to think that the big cajunas in in the government do not really care to conserve this marvelous gift. Maybe you should send this joyful photographs to Bush and his gang; maybe just maybe they would think about cleaning our environment and stop hunting.
I enjoy them almost to tears of joy. Myriam

Simply Wonderful Well done

Awesome!

Nice pictures. However, the driver nuzzling up to the polar bear is NOT wise! I also have a question about the iceberg. How did they get it lit up so well FROM BELOW?

Enjoyed them very much. Totally awesome & entertaining.
The lightening was picture perfect.

Beautiful pictures….thoroughly enjoyed them!
Thanks!

Beautiful Pictures. The iceberg picture, however, is not real. I read an article from the guy who did it and he explained how he used 2 different pictures to achieve it. Is is quite pretty, though…

Excellent pictures! Great captures of instant moment images.

Every day beauty that we all miss except the few that actually see. Awesome

The best, the biggest and the purest artist of all artists is a Mother Nature. Rudy, from South China.

Great Pics Beautiful what a wonderful way to end the day

Holy cow! This is awesome! I loved these images. Thank you SO MUCH for sharing them!!!

thank you for reminding us about the beauty that exists in this world:)

WoOoOooOW!!!! what else can I say…Thats our Beautiful world, and we need to protect it*:)
Thank u 4 sharin’ the pics
~Ecuador~

The picture with the ape reading the “Origin of Man” is very profounding, in its own way. I love it.

I do not appreciate the picture with the poor puppies hanging from a clothes line. Whoever would do that to those poor animals is selfish and mentally disturbed. I do not find it cute or endearing, and it definitely does not fit with your “mother nature” theme. How could you for a second find that “natural”? It ruins the spread.

Elise if you would pay attention to how the dogs were on the clothes line you would see that they were not being strangled by there neck thats why they were wearing that so cute little suits.

Dogs, along with many other animals like cats and raccoons, hold their puppies by the neck when they are young. These puppies are being hung on the wire in a very similar manner. Although I agree that it is not “natural” (but then again neither are a lot of these pics), it is still cute and not at all harmful to the puppies.

Awsome! I too found the “hanging pups” picture somewhat out of sync with the other pics, which all lifted my spirits and brought a smile to my day. Except, yep-you guessed it! An otherwise fantastic photo shoot. Great job!

I have many pictures like these,except for the lightning shots.My Dad was in the Air Force and one of his duty stations was Eilson AFB,Fairbanks Alaska.We lived there for three years (1965 to 1968)We lived at the edge of town while waiting for base housing,every morning and each evening I would take photos in our backyard.There would be Moose,Polar Bear,Caribu,Eagles,quite large Ravens,Snowshoe Rabbits,Artic Fox,and many others I can not recall the names of.I also have many snaps of the Aurora Borealis(northern lights).After a child was killed by a Polar Bear looking for food in the dumpster,my dad wouldn’t allow us to be outside too early or late in the evening anymore.Alaska is one of my favorite and most beautieful places I have ever lived.Unfortunately we were also there for the earthquake that destroyed Anchorage,and flooded Fairbanks,Thanks for bringing back those fond memories.

so neat! all these pictures made me smile and brightened my day! :]

Wonderful shootin’!!

hum thats cool and all, especially the one with the cat and the eagle, considering eagles have a nasty tendency to eat cats…

those pictures were awesome

I loved the pictures, mother nature can really be something! My kids loves the animal ones. They were so cute.

sorry for those who liked the “origin of man” but its a horrible photoshop….and for that matter 90% of them are largely due to man made objects. dog in a boat with the whale. dog with a floaty. puppies on cloths line. these are not nature shots. good photos perhaps, but not courtesy of mother nature by any means

I want to save the animals in the artic the poor things are dieing because of pulousion

I love them so much! My brother likes pictures of buildings better than of nature. but my favorite one was the polar bears snuggling together. So cute. one time I put a picture of dolphins on the computer and mt brother put a picture of the Eiffel Tower.

I love the pictures! They are so cute! Everyone made me laugh and say awww!!

I just love the cat ones and the dogs they are soo cute!!!!!!! The lighting one was awesome and cool

back to the puppies on the clothesline…
they look fine. i love animals, including puppies, and i enjoyed the picture. i found nothing “selfish”, “mentally-disturbed” or “out of synch” about it. it’s an interesting image & my hat’s off to the photographer for the idea!
now, had the puppies been hanging from their ears or limbs, THAT would be cruel — the doings of an extremely uncaring & disturbed person! but they weren’t. instead, they all appear comfortably perched in hammock-like garments. what’s wrong with that?
as a critical photographer myself, i am guessing that what some people may actually be reacting to (negatively) is the dark exposure & poor quality of the print, making the eyes all look dark & a bit lifeless. i think this causes some to assume that the pups are uncomfortable or in pain, etc, but they clearly are not.
in any case, to me, this demonstrates that the “tone” of a picture can release certain emotions in the viewer, without the viewer even being aware of it.

nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i really like it!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jeff writes in regard to-the-puppies-on-the-clothesline picture and the engaging commentary made by Elise:

“instead, they all appear comfortably perched in hammock-like garments. what’s wrong with that?
…as a critical photographer myself”

Manipulating animals to have them pose in unnatural situations that we humans find amusing or touching, is both wrong and phony. It would be similar to taking a picture of a goldfish in a toilet bowl- haha, funny, a goldfish presented as a turd”- and then have Mr. Critical Photographer say:”Oh well, as long as nobody flushes it, it’s OK, I can tell by its eyes!”

This said, I hope to God that Jeff will never post any of his pictures, because I wouldn’t know how to handle “the release of emotions without being aware of it myself”, unless it is a picture of him stepping on an IED.