Thursday, June 18, 2009

Shadow Arts Pictures | Junk shadow art Gallery

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Stone Sculpture By The Sea | Sculpture Statue Art

Worlds beautiful stone sculpture

White fright ... taking place from October 16 until November 2, Sculpture by the Sea is Australia's largest annual outdoor exhibition of sculpture.

The free outdoor exhibition, now in its 12th year, stretches for two kilometres along the Bondi coastline.

The display features over 100 sculptures from seven different countries, including this marble sculpture titled New Man.

Mongrel Sculpture Country-Nil Tenur

Gone to the dogs ... six-month-old Maltese puppy Mylo investigates a sculpture titled Mongrel Country-Nil Tenure.

Colorful character Sculpture Statue Art

Colorful character a jogger passes the rendered polymer plaster work The Drifter by Australian artist Stephen Marr.

Stephen King's sculpture Carbon Trading

Give him a hand ... Stephen King's sculpture Carbon Trading.

Colorful sea view Sculpture


Colorful sea view ... Will They See Us? by Ngardarb Francine Riches. some Most Famous Surviving Greek Sculptures

Reflective Sculpture artist Koichi Ishino

Reflective ... Form of Scenery by Japanese artist Koichi Ishino.

Slip, slop, slap Sculpture near sea

Slip, slop, slap ... Tim Kyle's On The Beach shows us the importance of sun screen.

Strange forces Sculpture

Strange forces ... Soldier Scale 1:1 by Ruth Belotti & Steve Rosewell.

Pet portrait Sculpture

Pet portrait ... Lisa Charleston and son Huxley admire the sculpture Every Dog Has its Day.

Walk on sea Sculpture

Walk on Sculpture by ... Phenotype by Tim Wetherell.

Scrabble scramble Sculpture art

Scrabble scramble ... a jogger passes the timber and aluminium work by Australian artist Emma Anna.

Lock it up Sculpture art

Lock it up ... a boy and his dog enjoy the mild steel and bronze work She Thought, by Australian artist Mark McClelland.

High tree Sculpture

High tree ... a woman admires the forged steel and concrete work Fragment, by Australian artist Kevin Draper.

sculpture bronze

Worth the wait ... Waiting by Andy Townsend and Suzie Bleach.

Worlds beautiful stone sculpture gallery

Spiral attraction ... a woman inspects a work by Japanese artist Keizo Ushio.

Beautiful Cactus Flowers | Barrel Cactus Flower

How anything so prickly and uninviting as a cactus can produce something as delicate and beautiful as a cactus flower seems a miracle. But then again, don’t we all hide our most sensitive qualities under a prickly exterior sometimes?

Beautiful cactus Flower

Cacti showing their (almost) true colours at Huntington Gardens in San Marino, CA:

cactus face or cactus pizza

What do you think, cactus face or cactus pizza?


Beautiful pink cactus flower

Tiny miracle – a beautiful pink cactus flower with ants crawling over it for good measure:

Beautiful small pink and orange flowers

Beautiful small pink and orange flowers, captured in Sacramento, CA:

Many cactus flowers are night blooming as they get pollinated by nocturnal insects like moths or small animals like bats. Depending on the cactus species, the flower shapes can be tube-like, bell-like or wheel-shaped. Sizes range from one fifth of a centimetre to 15-30 cm.

A field of cacti or cactus soldiers

A field of cacti or cactus soldiers?


sea of cactus wool

A bit of yellow in a sea of cactus “wool” – a true winner, taken in the Peruvian Andes at an altitude of 4,000 m:

Cactus cupcakes flower

Cactus cupcakes, anyone?

A shining star among the cactus flowers

A shining star among the cactus flowers:

Except for the Rhipsalis baccifera cactus species that can be found across the tropics of the world, cacti are prevalent in the Americas but with their growing popularity, have been imported all over the world. Among the most common and well-known are Prickly Pears, Barrel cacti, Saguaro cacti (featuring in most Western films), Aztekium cacti, and Echinopsis a.k.a. the hedgehog cactus that can be found as houseplants on many window sills.


barrel cactus flower

The many flowers of this barrel cactus have matured into fruits that themselves seem to form a flower again