Maverick Arts 2014 Glamour Cat calendar. In January, the fashion boutiques start season of tremendous sales. It’s time to fill up wardrobe

Maverick Arts 2014 Glamour Cat calendar

2014 Glamour Cat calendar is another creative photoart work by Paul Cocken. British publisher Maverick Arts employed creative photographer Paul Cocken to shoot the cats for 2014 calendars. After shooting them in a studio, the photo artist applied some photo manipulations to make cats models look glamorous. Paul Cocken has worked with meerkats and guinea pigs last year. Witty and funny stories by Paul Cocken had left no one indifferent.
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Sanctuary for cats by Craig Grant

Sanctuary for cats Caboodle Ranch
Craig Grant bought a piece of wood in Florida away from the city in order to turn it into a nursery for all rescued by him cats. He now lives there with the cats, and the cats give him the love, care and friendship. It’s hard to believe that once Mr. Grant did not like cats, until meeting with a cat named Pepper, acquired by his son. Craig was surprised to discover that each cat is unique with its character and manner of communicating. Within a few months Craig has saved a lot of stray cats, and when the space in the house was not enough, the idea was born to create a forest nursery. Mr. Grant has built many beautiful little houses for cats and decorated the area with flowers.
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The history of Hermitage cats of St. Petersburg

Hermitage cats of St. Petersburg
Officially kept in the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia, cats have lived here since its foundation. In particular, they prevent intensive breeding of rats and mice in the State Hermitage Museum. Meanwhile, in April 2012, there were 70 cats in the museum. According to the director of the Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky, cats have become a very important part of the Hermitage and the significant part of Hermitage Legends. Noteworthy, the history of the Hermitage cats reckoned with imported from Holland by Peter the Great cat, who lived in a wooden Winter Palace. However, in the XVIII century in the Old Winter Palace badly bred rats spoiled the building, gnawing holes in the walls. According to the most popular version, the cats appeared in the Hermitage thanks to the founder of the Hermitage, the Empress Catherine II. She, after visiting Kazan, noticed that there were no rodents because of the large number of cats.
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The rare baby tree kangaroo has been bred in captivity at Zoo Miami. It is the first baby for the three-year-old mother. Matschie tree kangaroo pandaroo

Matschie tree kangaroo pandaroo is a panda crossed with a kangaroo. The New Guinea 3-year-old tree pandaroo has just had a first baby of her own. The mother is from the Gladys Porter Zoo, Texas, and the 5-year-old father is from the Bronx Zoo, New York. The rare baby tree kangaroo has been bred in captivity at Zoo Miami. The endangered Matschie tree kangaroo, from New Guinea, was quickly reassured by its mother as she leaned forward to lick it. The hairless joey is confined to the pouch where it will continue to develop for several months before venturing away from its mother.
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Beautiful meteorite photographs by Jeff Barton

Beautiful meteorite photographs by Jeff Barton
These psychedelic images look like looking through trees at the sky. In fact they are photographs of the colorful interiors of meteorites. The space rocks are usually known for their dull exterior, but 66-year-old scientist from Texas Jeff Barton has shown the dazzling world beneath the grey surface. He has photographed hundreds of 4.5 billion-year-old meteorites by using a standard SLR camera and a powerful microscope to zoom in on fragments of the rocks.
According to Jeff Barton, he began studying thin sections of rocks and meteorites in 2004. He taught himself how to identify minerals in thin sections by measuring index of refraction with a microscope. Now he uses a spectrograph and computer software, and he started taking photographs of the colorful bits in the meteorites. ‘Variations in optical glass and in mounting lenses can alter the polarization of light passing through the lenses. “Making the photographs takes a matter of seconds to minutes, depending on how thoroughly you want to document the section and what you are trying to learn from it”, says Jeff Barton.
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Sunset. Photo art by Vladimir Stadnik Summer landscapes

Vladimir Stadnik Summer landscapes

Vladimir Stadnik is a professional photographer from Kiev, Ukraine. There is no information about the biography of the photographer, and we can only guess about the life of the photo artist by his photographs. Beautiful nature with its landscapes, sunsets and sunrises, and a gallery of portraits of beautiful women who are also a part of this nature. Women’s portraits are taken against the background of nature. Here is a small set of his pictures accompanied by quotes about summer.
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Red abstract Stone paintings by Min Klementiev

Stone paintings by Min Klementiev.
By cutting and polishing variegated stones – jasper, marble, porphyry, layered chalcedony or agate, master stone-cutters reveal the amazing world inhabited by real and fantastic images of bizarre lines and spots. Lilac winter morning and red autumn sunset, blue silhouettes of snow-capped mountains and olive expanses of the steppes. Russian artist Min Klementiev from an early age loved the beauty of a polished stone. Original compositions, images, stories were constantly before his eyes. Gradually the idea to create a painting of the stone from the beginning to the end by himself took possession of him.
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Known as Santa Rita, Napoleon, Veranera, beautiful ornamental plant Bougainvillea

Beautiful ornamental plant Bougainvillea has different names in different countries. For instance, In Honduras it is Napoleon; in Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay it is Santa Rita, in Colombia, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Costa Rica and Panama – veranera. Also, in Colombia, Cuba, Panama, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic and Venezuela it is “Trinitaria”. Bougainvillea loves the sun and is growing very lush. Its beautiful flowers have a variety of palette – purple, red, pink, magenta, orange, white, or yellow color. The beautiful plant, Bougainvillea has thorny woody vines growing to 12 m, scrambling over other plants with its spiky thorns. Such Bougainvillea flower as glabra is called “paper flower” because the bracts are thin and papery. By the way, the town of Locarno in Switzerland is famous for its bougainvilleas, which comfortably grow in the mild Mediterranean climate.
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Mother Earth. Montreal 2013 competition of horticultural art – Land of Hope

Montreal 2013 competition of horticultural art
Mosaicultures Internationales Montreal 2013 (MIM2013) is the world’s most prestigious competition of horticultural art. Traditionally, the competition takes place at the Montreal Botanical Garden (ranked third largest in the world). Noteworthy, 200 of the world’s most talented horticultural artists compete for the Grand Honorary Jury Award and the People’s Choice Award. Meanwhile, MIM2013 conveys the importance of preserving the incredible wealth of life on Earth.
Participating nations create a work of mosaiculture that represents something of their culture. In addition, they present a drawing on the theme of Land of Hope. Land of Hope is competition’s key theme, a strong message about the planet’s biodiversity. Impressive cultural kaleidoscope of 40 works from Europe, Asia, America, the Middle East and Africa.
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