Archive for nature photography

Under a Cerulean Sky


Braided gold
Flows through liquid hands
Summoning the world to

Rivers carve
Under a
Cerulean sky.

Crisp air,
Absorb. Inhale…

Through the
Stretch, giving
To Nature’s
Luminous faces.

-Allison LaBine

Image: © Mac Stone



Howl at the Night

Posted in Animal Kingdom with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 8, 2014 by allisonlabine


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An aurora is a natural light display. Colorful blue, red, yellow, green, and orange lights shift gently and change shape like softly blowing curtains. Auroras are only visible at night, and usually only appear in lower polar regions.

In the ionosphere, the ions of the solar wind collide with atoms of oxygen and nitrogen from the Earth’s atmosphere. The energy released during these collisions causes a colorful glowing halo around the poles—an aurora. Most auroras happen around 60-620 miles above the Earth’s surface.


The moon orbits the Earth at an average speed of 2,300 miles an hour.

The moon’s gravitational pull on the Earth is the main cause of the rise and fall of ocean tides.

The airless lunar surface bakes in the sun at up to 243 degrees Fahrenheit for two weeks at a time. Then, for an equal period, the same spot is in the dark. The dark side cools to about -272 degrees Fahrenheit.

The shape of the moon appears to change in a repeating cycle when viewed from the Earth because the amount of illuminated moon we see varies, depending on the moon’s position in relation to the Earth and the sun. We see the full moon when the sun is directly behind us, illuminating a full hemisphere of the moon when it is directly in front of us.


There are five subspecies of gray wolves in North America. Their coat colors can range from pure white to brown, gray, cinnamon or black.

Wolves live and hunt in packs within territories, ranging from 50 to 1,000 square miles.


Social creatures, gray wolves have a complex communication system that involves body language, barking, growling, “dancing,” howling and scent making.

Wolf pups are born blind and deaf, and must be cared for until they mature at around ten months of age.

New research has revealed that the common ancestor of dogs and wolves was a large, wolf-like animal that lived between 9,000 and 34,000 years ago. Based on DNA evidence, it lived in Europe.


Posted in Inspiration with tags , , , , , , , , on October 6, 2014 by allisonlabine

“Imagination encircles the world.” – Albert Einstein

Image: Joyce Tenneson

Image: Joyce Tenneson

Image: Vincent Munier

Flying with Butterflies


I watched you race across the field
Flying with the butterflies…
Wonder Alight
In Your Eyes and
Eternal Sunshine in Your Smile.
My heart opened and my
Soul Sang:

You are
You are Love, child of this Earth.

Then you took my hand,
Your Laughter Riding on the Wind–
And you Soared;

In Innocence,
In Wonder,
In a Soul Set Free…

Words and Photos: Allison LaBine

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Poetry of the Earth


The poetry of Earth inside a petal
the beauty of motion inside a breeze…




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Japanese Wisteria

Ocean on Fire

Posted in Oceanic Exploration with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on September 24, 2014 by allisonlabine



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Surfing one of the world’s largest waves – real time footage

Surfing one of the world’s largest waves in slow motion

For all of time


Across the universe and for all of time…

Words and photo by: Allison LaBine