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I would like to present my hand painted oil on canvas painting (recreation) of the artwork ICE RESOLUTION. I made this piece with the same amount of soul and emotion just like the first original painting. This piece is created with oil paint on artistic canvas using my unique technique of a palette knife. The artwork has texture, you can feel the strokes by touching the painting. By purchasing on this site, you are buying directly from the artist Leonid Afremov. I guarantee your satisfaction and the best customer experience.
We love Leonid's art! We have five on our walls now, and are always tempted for more... they look even better in person!
I've just discovered your art and it is truly amazing. You envision the world in all of these phenomenal colors and feelings. I wish I could see or feel these. I will hopefully one day be able to buy a piece of your work. Until then I will try and find a print. Anyway I just wanted to say thank you for showing me the world from a more hopeful and fantastic view. Wishing you all the best for a Merry Christmas and a wicked new year!
My painting, "When Dreams Come True" just arrived in New Zealand. Oh its amazing! I love it! :D You guys are just fantastic. I will definately be ordering more of Leonids artwork from you guys! Met my expectations and beyond! Thank You!! Thank You!! It will be framed and have a pride of place in my home in the Earthquake City of Christchurch. I will also recommend you guys where and when I can :)
I would like to present my hand painted oil on canvas painting (recreation) of the artwork ROMANTIC MOOD. I made this piece with the same amount of soul and emotion just like the first original painting. This piece is created with oil paint on artistic canvas using my unique technique of a palette knife. The artwork has texture, you can feel the strokes by touching the painting. By purchasing on this site, you are buying directly from the artist Leonid Afremov. I guarantee your satisfaction and the best customer experience.
Thank you so much. I never thought I would be able to afford one of your original paintings let alone 3. Your style has inspired me to start painting again.
I received my 'Spirits by the lake' painting today and I can't stop looking at it. It is very subtley different from the original but this does not distract in any way. The subject matter, and the combination of colours are beautiful. It's taking pride of place in my living room. Thank you Leonid.
Posted on 14 February, 2018 by Africa Geographic Photographer of the Year 2018	in Animal Encounters, Multimedia, Photography, Wildlife	and the Africa Geographic Photographer of the Year 2018 post series. — 10 Comments ↓	
We’re halfway through our Photographer of the Year 2018 and entries are filling up our inbox at an incredible pace. Last week, we featured a photo in our Weekly Selection gallery of a honey badger charging an oryx, taken by Dirk Theron. It caught our attention and we wanted to know what happened next! So here Dirk shares with us this amazing wildlife encounter that he managed to capture on camera. Feedback from experienced bush folk is that this honey badger could have rabies – hence his emaciated state and elevated aggression levels. This little guy reminds us so much of this famous YouTube video: “The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger” (“Honey Badger Don’t Care”).
I was sitting at one of my favourite waterholes (because of the perfect afternoon light it receives) in Etosha National Park in Namibia, and there was not much going on, except for an old oryx hanging around. I was starting to get a bit bored and was about to leave and head back to camp when I saw movement in the distance. I was pleasantly surprised when I realised it was a honey badger approaching.
The honey badger is launched into the air by the oryx, it’s shadow almost left behind by the force © Dirk Theron
The badger went straight to the water and started drinking, ignoring the small number of animals that were around. The next moment it stopped drinking and without warning started attacking this oryx!
The oryx would take a few steps back while the badger charged, then the oryx would slam the badger flat on the ground with its head, hooking the badger with its horns and tossing it easily five or six metres into the air. The first time the badger fell I thought it was dead, but it would just get up (albeit a little unsteady), shake itself and charge again!
The honey badger preparing to land and continue the fight after being flipped by the oryx © Dirk Theron
This routine repeated itself about four times until the oryx decided it best to get out of there, so it turned around and made a hasty retreat! I was left stunned.
The next day I was sitting at the same waterhole, thinking about what happened the previous day when, (believe it or not) the same badger came trotting up to the water.
I could not believe what I was seeing when, again without warning, the badger started attacking a black-backed jackal!
I managed to get a few shots with my camera before the badger chased the jackal off into the bushes. I have never seen anything like this before, absolutely amazing!
Africa Geographic Photographer of the Year 2018, brought to you by Land Rover South Africa, with stunning prizes from Canon South Africa and Tanda Tula, will run from December 2017 to the end of April 2018. Click here for more details.
Africa GeographicWildlifeConservationOl Pejeta Conservancy loses one of its northern white rhinos (not to poaching)
Posted on 20 October, 2014 by News Desk	in Conservation, News	and the News Desk post series. — No Comments	
It is with great sadness that Ol Pejeta Conservancy announces the death of one of the northern white rhinos, Suni.
Suni was one of the four northern white rhinos residing on Ol Pejeta Conservancy. He was born 34 years ago at the Dvůr Králové Zoo as the first-ever northern white rhino to be born in captivity. Together with one other male and two females, he was translocated from the zoo to Ol Pejeta in 2009.
Rangers found him on the morning of October 17th, 2014, dead in his boma. Suni was not a victim of poaching and we have yet to establish the cause of his sudden death. The Kenya Wildlife Service vets will conduct a post mortem as soon as possible. In 2006, his father Saút died in the Dvur Kralove Zoo by natural causes at the same age as Suni was now.
There are now only six northern white rhinos left in the world. Suni was one of the last two breeding males in the world and no northern white rhinos are known to have survived in the wild. Consequently the species now stands at the brink of complete extinction, a sorry testament to the greed of the human race.
The Ol Pejeta Conservancy will continue to do what they can to work with the remaining three animals on Ol Pejeta in the hope that their efforts will one day result in the successful birth of a northern white rhino calf.
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