Lesley Smitheringale on July 13th, 2008

I had a lovely time today presenting Tammy’s owners, Beres and Carol, with the finished pastel pet portrait of their beloved Bichon Friche.  Tammy, the gorgeous model herself was there to enjoy the moment and it’s always the best time to see a portrait go to the owners who were thrilled.

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Lesley Smitheringale on June 27th, 2008

After looking at the portrait for a long time, I realised there were quite a few areas I needed to fix up such as the snout and the eyes so I worked on it for a few hours again today fixing up the most obvious proportion errors I had made.  I think it’s a lot [...]

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Lesley Smitheringale on June 1st, 2008

These advertisements promoting Florette Gourmet Salads show skillful and highly creative rendering in Photoshop. It took me a while to understand what this was about though but essentially it’s about the salads being so wonderful that we do not want to eat meat, therefore all the animals have reached “old age”.
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Lesley Smitheringale on April 26th, 2008

The National Geographic Site of which I am a huge fan allows photographers to submit photographs to “Your Shot” where 12 photos are chosen each day and displayed in the “Daily Dozen”. Two photographs are then chosen each month from the “Daily Dozen” to be published in the National Geographic Magazine so it is excellent [...]

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lesart on April 17th, 2008

I found these rather cute animals icons which are free for personal use.

l to r: bugs sigma and tiny animals vista
available to download from http://www.freeiconsdownload.com/index.html

These icons are originally from http://www.iconshock.com/web-icons.php and there are more free icons available at this site also.
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lesart on April 9th, 2008

There’s a slight chill in the temperature here in Brisbane and I thought it timely to show you this adorable polar bear family I came across. Unfortunately, I don’t know who took the photographs and I am unable to acknowledge the artist but I couldn’t resist them.
       
         
      
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Research Group James, originally uploaded by giles.breton.

Giles Breton is an avid photographer who was lucky enough to accompany Andy Rouse, world renowned wildlife photographer, on a trip to Rwanda in February this year to see [...]

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lesart on February 21st, 2008

This is a fantastic article, written by Virginia Morell with stunning photographs and video by Vincent J. Musi.  The article discusses the intelligence and cognitive skills of a variety of animals.  I know that my cat ‘Domino’, for instance is fairly intelligent and she has devised several ways of getting my attention when I ignore [...]

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lesart on February 19th, 2008

I recently visited Melbourne and took a few photographs at the Zoo which I have added to my galleries.

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lesart on January 31st, 2008

Amazingly graceful antics from these unusual animals …

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