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I think they've been available for a while, I seem to remember contributing a few of my landlord's (you know Chris; and in passing, Pat is much improved, but still in hospital where she's likely to be for quite a while yet) photographs of red squirrels. I've got thousands of drawings and photographs to work from, but the POL collection is a great standby.
http://www.isleofwightlandscapes.net
http://www.wightpaint.blogspot.co.uk
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By the way - it's a great collection of photographs, I've just looked at it again: they're really useful because they're sharp and accurate - so while you might not want to take a photographed scene and paint it, if you wanted to put something in your own composition, but lacked the necessary detailed information of a plant, or animal, it's probably available there.
One criticism though! There's a couple of critters described as Water Buffalo - they're not Water Buffalo, they're not buffalo at all (although they tended to get called that in the USA): they're Bison - either the European Bison (or Wisent) or the American version. I feel the need to point this out, because when I was very small and stayed in my uncle's house at Bristol Zoo where he was a keeper, I used to commune with Ferdinand the bison through the bars of his enclosure. Ferdinand was not a happy boy, because he was in solitary confinement there (how unspeakably cruel that was, but people didn't think of this at the time, some 55 years ago) - he used to charge the bars of his cage, and generally and understandably hated humans. But he and I had an understanding: he'd press against the bars, and let me scratch his nose. Well, this is for Ferdinand! He'd have taken it amiss to be called a buffalo and I am still here to defend his reputation, since he long ago went to join that great herd in the hereafter (I have a romantic imagination; deranged, some call it) and cannot therefore speak for himself.
http://www.isleofwightlandscapes.net
http://www.wightpaint.blogspot.co.uk
