Seiler Rankin
@cloudbadger
Illustrator, designer, sculptor, musician, photographer. Fascinated by the natural world and the sciences that attempt to describe it. I generally try to uplift the viewer with my art.
A "Fern Tree" in Willow Creek State Preserve. #Photography #Photos #Fotografie #Fotografía #Trees #CaliforniaNatives #Botany #ForestFriday
An unknown wildflower in the Sequoia National Park. #Photography #Photos #Fotografie #Fotografía #Wildflowers #CaliforniaNatives #Botany #ForestFriday
An American Kestrel hunts a meadow in the high Sierras. #Photography #Photos #Fotografie #Fotografía #Birds #Ornithology #Raptors
A thousand year old tree in the Humboldt Redwoods State Park. #Photography #Photos #Fotografie #Fotografía #Trees #CaliforniaNatives #Botany #ForestFriday
Bull Creek State Wilderness, California. #Photography #Photos #Fotografie #Fotografía #Trees #CaliforniaNatives #Botany #ForestFriday
The mossy floor of a Redwood forest. #Photography #Photos #Fotografie #Fotografía #Trees #CaliforniaNatives #Botany #ForestFriday
Humboldt Redwoods State Park. #Photography #Photos #Fotografie #Fotografía #Trees #CaliforniaNatives #Botany #ForestFriday
Found a mighty Root Borer Beetle (Prionus californicus) on its back. They fly but land poorly. I let this one grip my finger to get up. Members of the longhorn beetle family and native Americans ate them. #Photography #Photos #Fotografie #Fotografía #Entomology #Insects #Bugs #CaliforniaNatives
Three different California Toads from recent night walks in the desert mountains. #Photography #Photos #Fotografie #Fotografía #Amphibians #Herpetology #Batrachology
Coulter Pine. #Photography #Photos #Fotografie #Fotografía #Botany #CaliforniaNatives
Buckwheat growing on a Granite wall. #Photography #Photos #Wildflowers #CaliforniaNatives #Botany #California #Fotografie #Fotografía #Bloomscrolling
Deer Weed (Acmispon glaber). #Photography #Photos #Wildflowers #CaliforniaNatives #Botany #California #Fotografie #Fotografía #Bloomscrolling
Good Fortune! #Photography #Photos #Fotografie #Fotografía #Rust #Entropy
California Newt eggs in a vernal pond. #Photography #Photos #Fotografie #Fotografía #Amphibians #Herpetology
A mature Ant Lion. #Photography #Photos #Fotografie #Fotografía #Entomology #Insects #Bugs
A garden of Lichens covering a boulder in the Eastern Sierras. #FungiFriends #Mycology #Lichens #Photography #Photos #Fotografie #Fotografía
A young Brook Trout (returned to the mountain stream). #Photography #Photos #Fotografie #Fotografía #Fish #Icthyology
Amazing emerald waves off the coast of Cambria, California. #Photography #Photos #Fotografie #Fotografía #Seascape #Waves #WaveHarmonics
My son, a verified tree lover. #Photography #Photos #Fotografie #Fotografía #Wilderness #Trees
Alpine beauty in the John Muir Wilderness (Eastern Sierras). #Photography #Photos #Fotografie #Fotografía #Wilderness #NaturePhotography #California #PublicLands
Building a clockwork fish. Original digital art by me (no A.I.) #Art #Artwork #Artist #Illustration #VisualStorytelling #BlueSkyArtShow #ArtChallenge
A cabin in Quebec (not my photo). #Photography #Photos #Fotografie #Fotografía
A melanistic (albino) Raven in Vancouver, Canada. #Photography #Photos #Fotografie #Fotografía #Ravens #Corvids #Birds #Ornithology
A very healthy California Toad I met tonight. And a Brown Widow Spider (maybe its on the Toad's menu?) in the first pic. #Photography #Photos #Fotografie #Fotografía #Amphibeans #Toads #Herpetology
I walked up on this scene from a distance, convinced that this warm and peaceful moment would break before I could snap a photo... Gus the old mule and Finn watched the Quail settle into the trees as the sun set. #Photography #Photos #Fotografie #Fotografía #Mules #AustralianShepherds
An island off Portugal. #Photography #Photos #Fotografie #Fotografía
An untended hedge maze in Spain. #Photography #Photos #Fotografie #Fotografía #Entropy
Leonardo DaVinci's excellent bridge design. #Engineering #Design #Photos