Our favorite Wilderness Portrait images celebrating nature through underwater, landscape, and wildlife fine art photography. "Nature might have made Sphinxes in her spare time, or Mona Lisas with her left hand, blindfolded. Instead, she gave the grain of sand, the polished river stone, the Grand Canyon." --Jerry Russel

In this gallery you will find many of the publically viewable Wildernesss Portraits images displayed with the most recently added images at the top. "Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.” --Pearl S. Buck

Abstract wilderness patterns, designs, textures, shapes, figures and images as found in nature. "Nature is the art of God." --Thomas Browne, Religio Medici (1635)

Deserts and other wild arid lands as visualized through fine art photography. "What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote." --Edward Abbey "The real desert ... is a land which reveals its true character only to those who come with courage, tolerance, and understanding. For those the desert holds rare gifts." --Randall Henderson

Wildlife and landscape fine art photography of the "Land Down Under", the world's smallest continent, Australia. "Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong, under the shade of a coolibah tree, and he sang as he watched and waited 'til his billy boiled, "You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me"

Autumn nature photography celebrating the extravagantly colorful displays of the fall wilderness. "Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." Lao Tzu

Underwater and landscape fine art photoraphy of Belize, Central America. "Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair." --Kahlil Gibran

Photography of children in the wilderness and other settings. "A Baby is God's opinion that the world should go on..." Carl Sandburg

Photography of the clouds and sky celebrating the atmospheric beauty of the heavens above the wilderness. "God writes the Gospel, not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers, and clouds and stars....." Martin Luther

Wilderness and wildlife images that (unlike the rest of the site) have had significant digital manipulation. "The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances." Atisa

Wilderness photography of Florida and the Florida Everglades, USA. "I love the land of winding waters more than all the rest of the world." --Chief Joseph of the Nez Pierce (1840-1904)

Flower photography celebrating their colorful diversity in the natural wilderness habitat. "Flowers are the earth laughing." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

Insect photography celebrating their diversity in the natural wilderness habitat. "What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls a Butterfly." --Richard Bach

Wilderness landscape photography celebrating the grand scenic vistas of nature. "The wise man knows that it is better to sit by the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the world." --Zhuang Tzi

Mountain fine art photography celebrating the soaring peaks, deep valleys and grand vistas of the wilderness high country. "The mountains are calling and I must go." --John Muir "It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves." Edmund Hillary

Wilderness night photography celebrating celestial and landscape images of nature after sunset as the world grows dark. "Silently, one by one in the infinite meadows of heaven, blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels." --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The oceans, seas, lakes, rivers, streams and other wilderness waterways as visualized through fine art photography. "I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean." --Lee Ann Womack

Orchid fine art photography presenting the diverse and colorful flowers of these unique plants. Many of these plants were grown by the photographer. "When the emotions are strong one should paint bamboo; in a light mood one should paint the orchid." --Chueh Yin "In my examination of Orchids, hardly any fact has so much struck me as the endless diversity of structure." --Charles Darwin

Underwater and landscape fine art photography of the Red Sea, Sinai, Egypt. "But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea." --Deuteronomy: chapter 1 verse 40

Wilderness photography demonstrating the insignificance of man in relation to vastness of nature. "The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn." Ralph Waldo Emerson

Magical moments surrounding sunrise and sunset, dawn and dusk. "Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow." --Helen Keller

Underwater fine art photography celebrating the beauty of nature within the oceans, seas and other waters of the world. "The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever." --Jacques Yves Cousteau

Wilderness photography of the incredible back country of Utah, USA. "Utah will yet become the treasure-house of the Nation." Abraham Lincoln

Wildlife nature photography celebrating the animals, birds, fish, insects and other creatures of the wilderness in their natural habitat. "Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life." --Charles Darwin

Winter nature photography celebrating the frozen beauty of the wilderness under fridged conditions. "In the winter, far beneath the bitter snows, lies the seed, that with the sun's love, in the spring, becomes the Rose." --Bette Midler