Smithsonian American Art Museum/National Portrait Gallery

A few nice image gallery images I found:

Smithsonian American Art Museum/National Portrait Gallery

Image by Anamorphic Mike
HDR image

Best when viewed large on black

ICN Gallery with Window Painting, Riusuke Fukahori - Goldfish Salvation

Image by Dominic's pics
Part of a Set / Slideshow. See also the related gallery Set.

Four pairs of images have been merged using Hugin. The perspective / projection is equirectangular. The exposure and white balance for the interior and street have been independently modified.

The creation of the gallery window painting is documented in this flickr set:
Riusuke Fukahori Live Painting

Artist: Riusuke Fukahori 深堀隆介
Curator: Hisami Omori
Gallery: ICN Gallery London [map]
Exhibition title: "Goldfish Salvation"
On view from 1 December 2011 to 11 January 2012

ICN (International Creative Network) Gallery website: www.icn-global.com/
Artist's website: goldfishing.info/ (in Japanese 日本語 - or ponder the Google Transmangleation!)

This and other exhibitions at the ICN Gallery have been documented by "Haikugirl" Ali [Alison] Muskett in photos in these flickr sets - Goldfish Salvation, Ryo Arai & Itaro Yamamoto, Ohaku Tea Boxes - and also in her blog postings - Goldfish Salvation, Ryo Arai & Itaro Yamamoto, Keiko Masumoto, Ohaku Tea Boxes.

Nice American Photo photos

A few nice american photo images I found:

american-avocets_mg_8489

Image by mikebaird
American Avocets (bird) (Recurvirostra americana) were the highlight of the day and were seen in quantity (100s) during a kayak outing ( kayak.morro-bay.com ) in the Morro Bay, CA Morro Bay Estuary, Sunday Oct. 28 2007 28oct2007 Photo by Mike Baird, Canon 20D with 100-400mm IS lens handheld - bairdphotos.com flickr.bairdphotos.com photomorrobay.com surfmorrobay.com morro-bay.com

american-coot_K8P0377

Image by mikebaird
This American Coot (Fulica americana) is a bird of wetlands and open water of the family Rallidae, as seen in the Cloisters City Park pond, Morro Bay, CA photo by Mike Baird bairdphotos.com Canon EOS-1D Mark III with 100-400 mm IS lens on tripod 20sept2007 - taken at the relatively high ISO setting of 1000

See Joyce Cory's Jumpcut at www.jumpcut.com/docentjoyce to www.jumpcut.com/view/?id=1720A0D0672B11DCB0ED000423CF3686 to see a cute slideshow involving this bird "American Coot (Fulica americana) development is observed, from 3 days after hatching through the 15 week."

American ipecac

Image by cotinis
American ipecac, also called Carolina Ipecac, Euphorbia ipecacuanhae. This is a very low plant, and was easy to miss. At the annual burn site in the Sandhills Gamelands, near Hoffman.
See USDA Plants, and Josh Rose's photo from a previous DNHS trip.
PCCA20080322-9772A

Cool American Photo images

Check out these american photo images:

American Airlines 777-200

Image by matt.hintsa
An American Airlines Boeing 777-200 approaches Heathrow's runway 27R. Photo taken from the Hounslow West Underground station.

American Avocets (Recurvirostra americana) in the Morro Bay, CA

Image by mikebaird
American Avocets (Recurvirostra americana) in the Morro Bay, CA Estuary during a kayakmorrobay outing 09Feb2008 - Photo by Mike Baird bairdphotos.com , Olympus Stylus 770SW waterproof point-and-shoot camera. Morro Rock is in the background.

The lack of image quality when viewing the original size illustrates the limitations of point-and-shoot cameras.

American Kestrel (1 of 5)

Image by myoldpostcards
The American Kestrel is the smallest falcon native to North America. Found throughout the country, the American Kestrel has been described as one of the most color raptors in the world. This photo was taken at the Hazel and Bill Rutherford Wildlife Prairie State Park in Peoria County, Illinois, about 10 miles west of downtown Peoria.