The Bizarre and Incredible World of Plants, Seeds: Time Capsules of Life, Fruit: Edible, Inedible, Incredible
Wolfgang Stuppy and Rob Kesseler
Kesseler and Stuppy have produced a few of the most beautiful micro-photography books I have ever seen. Focusing on the minutiae of plants – seeds and fruits – they highlight these miniscule life-capsules that we rarely see or think about. Tiny seeds and exotic fruits are blown up into gorgeous art-forms. The text of the books is also quite interesting, but is totally overshadowed but...
Extreme Birds
Dominic Couzens
Holy heck! Who knew birds were so interesting and diverse? I mean, yes, lots of colors, some in the tundra, some in trees, some in water, big feathers, little bills, twit twit, caw caw. But birds with neurotoxins on their feathers? Or ones that create and use tools? How about birds that perform dances cross-species to help one species mate? Here are birds that kick their prey to death…including humans! Some birds spend their entire lives building intricate nests, replete with pebbled walkways up to the “gate” for no other purpose to interest a mate… who then builds her own nest. Other birds don’t mate until they are 18...
Pheromone
Christopher Marley
On our honeymoon last year we stopped by the gallery in Prairie Edge Art Gallerie in South Dakota. A few of Marley’s insect pieces were on display and we were fascinated. Each piece is a small collection of real, exotic insects. Pheromone shows many of his pieces, along with some additional macro-photography. Often the insects are laid out into a pattern to show wing color gradation or sizing. Other images are show incredibly sharp and clear close-ups of insects so oddly constructed they don’t seem real. All the images are stunning. While Pheromone focuses solely on Marley’s insect work, his online portfolio also contains minerals, sea-life,...
A Collaboration with Nature
A Collaboration with Nature by Andy Goldsworthy
The artwork of Goldsworthy is about nature and impermanence. Like artist Robert Smithson (Spiral Jetty), Goldsworthy’s works are meant to erode and disappear over time. The only records are photos. Working with whatever is at hand, Goldsworthy sculpts and creates with leaves, rocks, ice and twigs. Short commentary on each photo describes the piece, the weather and its decay and destruction: “Stacked ice – sound of cracking” “Leaves torn between the veins stitched together with pine needles. Hung from a tree. Raining, calm, cold.” Check out some of Goldsworthy’s images in Google’s ...