Nice Photos Of Animals photos

A few nice photos of animals images I found:

Always cute

Image by paraflyer
Can't get enough of these cute little animals.

This photo has been published on following website:
www.environmentalgraffiti.com/offbeat-news/5-endangered-s...

Beautiful Animal

Image by Denise ~*~
Young Giraffe at the Albquerque Zoo
2007

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Orphan Works Act

If you don’t register every photo and work of art in government certified private databases, you are about to give the legal right for anyone to infringe on your copyright.

“The Orphan Works Act of 2008”, (H.R. 5889) and the “Shawn Bentley Orphan Works Act of 2008” (S.2913), were released to the House of Representatives and the Senate recently. While at first glance the law seems to be a ‘last resort’ for a search for the owner of any photograph, artwork or sculpture, the devil, as they say, is in the details.

An “orphan”, as it relates to this legislation, is an original creative work such as a photograph, graphic image, or sculpture, which is still protected by its term of copyright, but the copyright holder can’t be found. Actually, this bill makes it easy for searchers to pretend it’s hard not to find copyright holders!

REGISTRIES WILL REMOVE YOUR COPYRIGHT PROTECTION!
CONTACT YOUR LEGISLATOR:
Go to www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml to quickly find the phone number, address, e-mail of every U.S. Senator, U.S. Representative, Governor and State Legislator. Please be polite. Threats only work against us artists. We need to make a professional impression to be taken seriously.

Make yourself be heard. Protect your creations. Every voice counts and so does your right to control your own creations. YOU NEED TO WRITE LETTERS NOW!

We only have a few days to make ourselves heard, as the Senate and House will only allow a short time for comments. Call them, send e-mails and fax letters.

excerpts from www.sellyourtvconceptnow.com/orphan.html

Please read up on this, become informed and based on that decision: NOTIFY YOUR CONGRESSMEN of your opinion!!!! You can tell them how you want them to vote! If enough people speak out against this, we are sure to make a difference! MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD!

This affects EVERYONE, not just professional photographers (I'm not one). You could lose copyright to your own personal snapshots as well.

I was baffled!

Image by Trev Grant
This mallard sized duck was seen in the park today.
Quite tame it came on its own with mallard and Canada geese to be fed from bread being thrown in for them.

The colouring is so precise that it would appear easy to identify but a quick internet search showed nothing similar.

It appears to be a Ruddy Shelduck but ISN'T!
It's a Cape Shelduck (also known as South African Shelduck).
The grey head gives the identification.

Thanks to Dave Appleton from the Flickr Group:
Birds and Wildlife UK and its ID thread for a positive identification.
He says:
"Trev, your duck is actually a Cape Shelduck (also known as South African Shelduck). They don't occur here naturally so if it was in the wild then it must have escaped. Escaped birds do turn up from time to time. It differs from Ruddy Shelduck mainly in having a grey head (females have a white face)."

Some internet facts:
This is a 64 cm long bird which breeds in southern Africa, mainly in Namibia and South Africa. In the southern winter, many birds move north-east from the breeding range to favoured moulting grounds, where sizable concentrations occur.
This species is mainly associated with lakes and rivers in fairly open country, breeding in disused mammal holes, usually those of the Aardvark.
Adult Cape Shelduck have ruddy bodies and wings strikingly marked with black, white and green. The male has a grey head, and the female has a white face and black crown, nape and neck sides.


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