Courage by Brooke Pennington © All Rights Reserved, Brooke Pennington, United States, used with his permission See More Still Life of Roses, Tulips, a Sunflower, and other Flowers, by Rachel Ruysch, 1710 Pluto: Stunning Nightside Image Reveals Pluto’s Hazy Skies, NASA, 2015 San Francisco: Beautiful Photography by Brandon Doran NYC Dance Project Captures the World of Dance in Sublime Photography View of the Kremlin by Johanne Gottlieb Lohrer, 1813 The Blues by Kerri Farley Composition BA220, by Karol Hiller, 1937 Midsummer by Albert Joseph Moore, 1887 Spirograph by Jim Babson A Small Dutch Vessel Close-Hauled in a Strong Breeze, by Willem van de Velde, the Younger, circa 1672 Blue Dancers by Edgar Degas, circa 1899 Terminal: Around the World and Back in Time by Timothy Neesam New Red Spot Appears on Jupiter, 2010 NASA Captures Colossal Coronal Mass Ejection from the Sun, August 2012 Sweetheart by Jacky Parker The Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice, Italy, by Canaletto, circa 1730 The Beauty of Greece & the Greek Islands by Marie Therese Magnan, Part 2 Magical Urban California: Extraordinary HDR Photography by Michael Chen Playtime at the David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage: Brilliant Photography by Poulomee Basu Summer Evening on Skagen’s Southern Beach, by Peder Severin Krøyer, 1893 Bees on Sunday by Bùi Linh Ngân Earth: Blue Marble 2012, Eastern Hemisphere White Kingdom by Katarina Stefanovic Closer to Heaven: Beautiful HDR Photography by Nik Chavannes Apple Tree with Red Fruit, by Paul Ranson, circa 1902 The Basilica San Marco, Venice, by Helen Allingham, Early 20th Century Breton Brother and Sister, by William Bouguereau, 1871 Piazza of St Mark’s, Venice, by William Logsdail Roses and Lilies, by Franz Bischoff Abstractions by Gordana Adamovic-Mladenovic by Laura Posted on October 6, 2012 Posted in Big Picture, Photography | tagged animals, cat, life, mantids, mantis, nature. The permalink.