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Highlight Gallery & New Additions-Updated 2023.3.23.

The Images in this gallery are in random order, they represent some of the best that you can see much more of in the main body of Galleries. Samples of the most recently added images are now being added to the beginning pages. All Images in this Gallery are protected by US copyright law. No images may be copied or downloaded without formal written permission from Tom Jesiolowski/Northland Arts Nature Images.
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A really great old Saguaro with unusual twisted droopy arms. Possibly over a hundred years old. 2019.3.20#138.2. Saguaro West Nat. Park Arizona.
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A really great old Saguaro with unusual twisted droopy arms. Possibly over a hundred years old. 2019.3.20#138.2. Saguaro West Nat. Park Arizona.

  • 62. ENCHANTER'S NIGHTSHADE (Circaea alpina) 2010.7.11#010.1. A plant I had posted at the very end of the Alaska Flora for a long time as an unknown asking for help on an ID. I finally got a response from Gyrd Harstad, a helpful person in Kvaefjord, Norway last night identifying it for me. I found it near Thunderbird Falls in Chugiak Alaska. It was the only one I have ever seen.
  • A Red-tailed Hawk perched on a really tall Organ Pipe Cactus. 2022.3.15#8321.4. Senita Basin, Organ Pipe Cactus Nat. Mon. Arizona.
  • A really great old Saguaro with unusual twisted droopy arms. Possibly over a hundred years old. 2019.3.20#138.2. Saguaro West Nat. Park Arizona.
  • A couple of grand old Organ Pipe Cactus groups in the Ajo Mountains. Organ Pipe Cactus Nat. Mon. Arizona.
  • A young but good looking Organ Pipe Cactus between a couple of Saguaro's looking towards the Sonoyta Mountains. South Puerco Blanco Drive, Organ Pipe Cactus Nat. Mon. in Arizona. Shot with iphone SE.
  • A rare Senita Cactus (Lyphocereus schottii) 2022.3.15#6743.3. The odd contrail is probably from a surveillance aircraft as this Cactus is less then a hundred yards from the Mexican Border. Organ Pipe Cactus Nat. Mon. in Arizona.
  • Senita Cactus showing spine detail on a young stem. (Lophocereus schottii) 2022.3.15#6761.3. Senita Basin, Organ Pipe Cactus Nat. Mon. in Arizona.
  • Senita Cactus (Lophocereus schottii) The tallest stem in the center shows the bristle like weak hairy spines on a mature plant. This area is the only place the rare Senita Cactus grows in the wild in the US. 2022.3.15#6757.3. Looks like a scene in Lord of the Rings how the Ironwood Tree grew branches like arms all around the cactus. Senita Basin, Organ Pipe Cactus Nat. Mon. in Arizona.
  • A scene in Senita Basin showing Senita Cactus, Saguaro Cactus, Organ Pipe Cactus and Ocotillo. Senita Basin in Organ Pipe Cactus Nat. Mon. in Arizona.
  • COVILLE BARREL (Ferrocactus emoryi ssp. covillei) 2022.3.15#8302.2. A young plant that is showing the distinctive spiny cage surrounding it. One of the more uncommon species. Organ Pipe Cactus Nat. Mon., Arizona.
  • Ore rock from the Franklin mine in New Jersey. #0310b4. The orange short wave fluorescence is from an uncommon mineral called Bustamite. The bright green short wave fluorescence is from Willemite. The black non fluorescing crystals in the Bustamite are Franklinite, the ore mineral for which the mine is named. Now toggle to the next image of this specimen in natural light.
  • Ore rock from the Franklin mine in New Jersey. #0311b3 The same piece described in the previous image as it appears in natural light.
  • Lark Bunting 2018.7.6#1951. A male in Breeding plumage on a calling perch in sage brush. Wyoming.
  • A Western Sandpiper on a calling perch. Near the beach of Norton Sound east of Nome, Alaska.
  • An American Kestrel. 2017.6.2#4093.5. Probably the finest one I've ever got to photograph. I still forget most of the time and call them Sparrow Hawks. On the prairie near Prescott Valley Arizona. A redo of a previously poorly developed image.
  • Tundra Swans 2015.6.23#092.3. Resting along Safety Sound, east of Nome on the Seward Peninsula Alaska.
  • A Ladderback Woodpecker. 2020.2.3#8649.3.Stretching in the sun on a cold afternoon. Prescott Valley Arizona.
  • Wild Horses 2022.1.20#8969.4. In the Kaibab forest south of the Grand Canyon in Arizona.
  • Another dark scene inside Madera Canyon 2021.12.14#1838. Santa Rita Mountains Arizona.
  • A White-nosed Coatimundi 2021.12.15#6938.3. Walks right up to my wife and I and checks us out while wandering in a Sycamore Canyon in the Santa Rita Mountains of Arizona.
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