Rusty Crevice Dragon Paper:Canvas - Hahnemuhle Daguerre

Rusty Crevice Dragon Paper:Canvas - Hahnemuhle DaguerreA Rusty Crevice Dragon absorbing heat from desert sandstone. It was night, the desert as dark as a crypt. A solid days hiking and an escarpment to descend. My hiking partner emerges out of the ether to tell me theres a dragon warming itself on the red sandstone further down the trail. Im happy, they stomp off after showing me where it is. I can hear a cursing in the night and then the word photographer I call back, Let me know if you find anything

A diminutive species that returns to shore in the fading light to feed its chick in burrows carved into coastal sand dunes

however this male was more curious than territorial

turquoise seas and the sounds of birds in the rainforest canopy

A bright pink coral reef garden resting in the crystal clear shallows of a tropical island

Flamboyant decidous trees in Autumn colours carpeting a hillside in the Southern Alps

Be generous with kind words

Look for the elements in a scene that sing to you most

and the anemone has a defender from polyp eating fish and a gardener to keep it clean of algae

including the staggering beauty of the Persian ceilings and muqarnas

the larger workers known as ‘majors’ adopted a soldier ant role guarding the perimeter

Of the birds that survive many find themselves in the illegal pet trades of Europe and the USA

The world falls asleep