Mark R. Courtney

Photograph of a rabbit with thick, rust-brown fur hunkered down in the snow between dry, beige plant stems.

Winter rabbit

Ink and watercolour painting of a larch tree by a gate, with a footpath leading past. The landscape is dark and wet, with a dark grey sky where large flocks of Lapwings and Golden Plovers are gathering. Near Boltby, North Yorkshire, UK

The Larch trees along the western edge of the North York Moors take a battering from the winds, which leads to some beautiful forms. This one appears to be guarding the way…
a scene from a dull November day, with plover flocks swirling.
Ink and watercolour painting.
#art
#nature

A calico cat named Midge lays on the corner of a butcher block counter bathed in sun. One front paw hangs straight down over the edge of the counter as she looks off to the right like a fashion supermodel

Look at this icon of cuteness

#cats

Photograph looking straight down at the patterns in a flat stone with a few smaller rocks strewn atop, all with extra contrast from the light coating of morning frost.

Photograph of a fallen log with a smaller chunk of splintered wood resting against it, a coating of frost highlighting all the splits and textures of the wood.

I like how frost can emphasize the textures already there
#Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography

Photograph of a cluster of dried leaves with frost crystals formed around the edges like fringe.

Photograph of the split top of a fallen log lined with upright frost crystals creating a fuzzy ridge atop the dark wood.

Photograph of dried, hanging leaves, dark against the backlighting but lined brightly around the edges with frost catching the light.

We had some solid frost a few mornings this week
#Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography

Ground-level photograph of snow blown into a miniature dune among golden coastal grass.

Photograph of morning light breaking through the trees to illuminate a snow-covered log embedded in a large frozen puddle.

Photograph of the dark water of a creek at a point where it spreads out to move around rocks, fallen forest debris, and the contours of the ground, all of which are blanketed in clean, bright snow.

Some recent snow stuck around longer than usual for southern New England. (Though now gone with days rising back above freezing.)

#Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography

Abstract landscape in two hemispheres. The bottom contains a night sky that bleeds into the daytime hemisphere above. There is a network of lines and nodes that span the width of the painting. by Kindra Crick #mixedmedia

‘What Emerges in the Night’
mixed media and cold wax on board

Our brains keep working while we sleep, turning over the puzzles of the day and letting new connections and solutions rise to the surface.

Day 19 #artadventcalendar

#sciart 🧠 #painting #art

Black and white photo looking out over a series of low mountains. In the foreground is a broken and slumping post and rail fence. Low dark clouds are stratified overhead.

#LandscapePhotography
#Photography #BlackAndWhite

A dried but still standing thistle plant against a grey background.

#ArtAdventCalendar #Day13 a quiet day out in nature.

Photograph of a handful of sanderlings gathered closely on a seaweed-covered rock with waving water behind them. The sanderlings, with their gray and white feathers, make for a bright crown atop the dark rock.

Sanderlings crowding a rock around high tide
#Birds #BirdPhotography #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Photography

Photograph of a deer in some brushy woods. The deer is paused with its tail toward the camera, aware but not spooked, and its head is turned to the side showing off a decent set of antlers.

White-tailed deer encountered in the woods where I tend to roam
#Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Photography

Photograph of an array of small, fluffy seed head clusters atop a twiggy plant, light beige against a deep brown background.

Photograph of a cluster of small seed heads atop an upright stem, some open puffs and others still closed, all against a muted brown backdrop.

Plants in early winter mode
#Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography

Photograph of the moon in the blue sky with some out-of-focus, bare tree branches reaching toward it from the edge of the frame. The moon is slightly fuller than half, the dark side fading away into the blue.

Morning moon (from a few days ago)
#Photography

Photograph of a deer in a brushy field of seasonally dry plants that reach to its shoulders. Only its head and back are visible, and some of the plant seed heads rise to the level of of the deer’s alert ears which are angled slightly back though its eyes seem to be scanning the brush ahead.

White-tailed deer in a tall field
#WildlifeWednesday #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Photography

Photograph of a brown and white hawk launching from the tip of a dead, bare tree against a clear blue sky. The hawk fills the left of the frame with spread wings, and its dangling talons have left behind the dead tree perch to the right.

Red-tailed hawk taking off
#Birds #WildlifeWednesday #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Photography

Photograph of a bird’s nest built of dry grass and mud, solidly ensconced between the thin, upright branches of a tall bush.

Nest left behind
#Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography

Photograph of a wide feather caught on a bare plant stem. The outer edge of the feather fans out in a subtle black, and it shifts to white and fluffy where it once attached to a bird but where it now clings to a twig.

Feather left behind
#Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography

Block print of an Emperor Moth in interference blue on black paper. There are topographic lines in graphite radiating away from an absent moon with pinpoints of white ink in a star-like pattern. by Kindra Crick #artist #art #pdxart

‘Nocturne Blue’
4” x 6”

Block print, graphite and interference pigment

#artadventcalendar #printmaking #sciart #entomology

Dreamy sepia-toned landscape photo showing a small mountain range in front of a much larger mountain range, with an intricate cloudscape in the sky. Hiking photography.

This is a view of the Organ Mountains and the Doña Ana Mountains, as seen from the top of Redhouse Mountain, located north of Hatch, New Mexico.

Black and white photo looking up at the structure of Hungerford Bridge, a central point with straight lines radiating out from it, against a mostly clear sky with a few high clouds.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 9:
Hungerford Bridge
London, August 2017

A watercolor painting of a Siamese fighting fish in pinks and reds. His fins flow around him gracefully and there is a lot of motion in the feel of the image.

#ArtAdventCalendar day 10
#watercolor
#betta
#marinelife
#fish

Red-bellied Woodpecker flying off a snowy branch to the left. Snow flying from its feet. Branches all covered with snow.

Red-belly on the move in a winter wonderland. Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary, Chicago. 12.7.2025
#birds
#woodpeckers

Photograph looking down at a patch of small, shelf-like mushrooms crowding the top of a fallen log, pale against the dark bark and dwarfed by the surrounding brown leaves.

A bit of autumn still left on the forest floor

#Mushrooms #Fungi #FungiFriday #FungiFriends #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography

A watercolor painting of a blue teal shuttered window. The shutters are closed but there is a flower box full of green and purple and pink tumbling down from the window. On a set of stairs on the left side of the painting there is a lounging orange cat.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 3

#watercolor
#cats
#window
#mediterranean

Photograph looking along a narrow, curved support made of layered wood that leads up to the wooden slat ceiling of a large, open pavilion. The support catches the low morning light making the near curve glow against the dark ceiling and highlighting a decorative, angled gap near the top. The entire photograph is just these woods of various shades running at various angles.

Pavilion structure
#Architecture #Photography

Ground-level photograph looking through a gap underneath a fallen log at the low sun angling in to light a tuft of grass and bed of dried leaves.

Photograph of the sun peeking around the edge of the jagged remains of a tall tree stump, the bright glow radiating out from behind the dried, decaying wood.

Playing hide-and-seek with the sun in the woods this morning

#Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography

Photograph of a rust-red leaf among other autumn leaf debris with its edges highlighted by light morning frost.

Photograph of a ground cover plant with tiny green leaves with each small leaf outlined by frost crystals.

Morning frost season continues

#Frost #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography

Photograph of shelf-like mushrooms, mostly white with brown rims and faint bands, hanging along a fallen log. The various sizes and connected groupings and lines of how the mushrooms have formed makes for an artistic flow.

Naturally decorated fallen log

#Mushrooms #Fungi #FungiFriday #FungiFriends #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography

A great egret, white with an orange beak, in profile, framed by part of a wooden railing, with steely blue water in the background.

Great egret
#photography #birds #egret #nature 📷🦉🪶

Photograph of a rust-red leaf floating above rocks and shells just under the water's surface near shore.

Photograph of a large, wet rock near shore. The dark rock is solid but covered in carved out pockmarks and has a single orange-brown leaf sitting atop it as the only splash of color.

Photograph of dark-shelled sea snails on a flat slope of rock leading down to the water where the waves occasionally splash over them.

Along the Narragansett Bay coast this morning

#Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography #RhodeIsland