Landscape photography is not so much about what is contained in the image, but what it portrays about a place. While a landscape photograph might be a wide-angle image of a pristine lake or an ocean sunset, it might just as well be a dormant plant in a winter pond. If the lake, the sunset and the dormant plant image each reveal something significant about a place, its inhabitants, or its conditions and evoke an emotional response in the viewer, they qualify as landscape photographs in my gallery.
The word mammal comes from the Latin mamma, meaning breast, because female mammals produce milk to nurse their babies. Nearly all mammals give birth to live young, and all are warm-blooded, maintaining a near-constant body temperature regardless of environmental conditions. They are vertebrates and use lungs to breathe air and are the only animals that grow hair. Mammals probably appeared on Earth some 200 million years ago.
Of all the nature shots I've explored so far, nothing compares to the exhilaration obtained from bird photography. There is always that dynamism of imminent movement that puts the heart beat in a crescendo. The variety of colors, forms and behaviors of birds keeps the interest in looking for more to photograph. One is mesmerized with the elegance of the nesting or the forcefulness of hunting flights. The challenge is not on capturing bird images. The challenge is capturing satisfying moments.
Fishes can be found in almost all large bodies of water in either salt and fresh water, at depths ranging from just below the surface to several thousand meters. However, hyper-saline lakes like the Great Salt Lake do not support fish. Some species of fish have been specially bred to be kept and displayed in an aquarium.
