Breathtaking Images Of Wildlife By Jürgen Schulmeister

Puma

The first official portrait of Barack and Michelle Obama has been unveiled for the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago ahead of its grand opening scheduled for June 19, 2026.  

Titled The Obamas: Springing Forth, 2026, depicts the couple sitting at a desk. It will be on display in the museum's Hope and Change Lobby, which is free to the public.

4/19/2025. Found my new favorite cactus this morning. Claret cup hedgehog. Sedona, Az.

It rained last night.

APY Lands Art: The Living Story of the Seven Sisters

Across the vast deserts of South Australia, the APY Lands have become home to one of the most dynamic and internationally celebrated movements in contemporary Aboriginal art. Rich in colour, cultural authority, and spiritual depth, APY paintings often draw upon the great ancestral narratives of the Western Desert, especially the epic Seven Sisters Dreaming that stretches across Australia through an immense network of songlines.

Artists from communities such as Amata, Ernabella, Fregon, Indulkana, and Mimili transform ancient cultural knowledge into powerful contemporary works filled with sweeping landscapes, sacred sites, ancestral journeys, and vibrant fields of colour. Their paintings are not simply images of the desert but expressions of Country itself—recording relationships between people, place, ceremony, and law that have endured for countless generations.

Vincent Price - The Tingler (1959)