Lee Hurley Galleries
Animals
The beautiful and sometimes odd, but always fascinating world of creatures both great and small.
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Finding and photographing the ever elusive creatures that inhabit this wonderful world of ours can be a daunting task at times. It can take from minutes to years to capture the perfect shot of some animals. Photographing animals requires being prepared to spend many long hours waiting in bitter cold or scorching hot temperatures for your quarry to arrive. Their arrival may last just seconds before they become aware of your presence, causing them to bolt in just the blink of an eye. But I cannot think of anything I would rather be doing.
Birds
BIRD-LIKE DINOSAURS
Interesting Fact
Many of the characteristics of early and modern birds appeared first in theropod dinosaurs. Feathers, wishbones, modified "flapping" forelimbs and hollow bones are found in the coelurosaurs." - Australian Museum
If you would like to learn more I would highly recommend checking out the Australian Museum Website.
Flowers & Fauna
Beautiful Flowers, Plants, and Trees
FUN FACTS
1. Small pockets of air inside cranberries make them bounce and float in water.
2. 84% of a raw apple and 96% of a raw cucumber is water.
3. A pineapple is a berry. Wait, What?
4. A notch in a tree will remain at the same distance from the ground when the tree grows
5. Onions contain a mild antibiotic that soothes burns, fights infections, relieves itch of the athlete’s feet.
6. The family of rose plants, in addition to giving us fragrant flowers, give us apples, pears, plums, cherries, almonds, peaches, and apricots.
7. Avocado has the highest calories of any fruit. Approximately 167 calories per hundred grams. Health conscious people, Alert!
8. One more! Peanuts are beans.
9. A bushel of corn can sweeten 400 pop cans.
10. Asparagus is a member of the Lily family that includes other members of onions, leeks, and garlic.