Out of the Void Posters
Out of the Void Poster by Bebops





I am constantly astonished and entranced by the myriad forms of life on this planet. To quote one of my very favorite authors, Annie Dillard, in
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, "the creator has pizzazz".

I hope to display a variety of animal images on this blog to delight us all. I have created many products featuring wildlife and pets for my Zazzle stores, Bebop's Place and Bebop's Weddings, using my original photographs and designs. I am also constantly amazed at the gorgeous animal products available from the rest of the Zazzle community. I am hoping others will enjoy this blog and even be moved to purchase some of these lovely items for gifts or just for the pleasure of having such beauty around.



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Saturday, February 2, 2013

This deck of Bicycle playing cards features the fabulous Polyphemus Moth (Antheraea polyphemus). It is a huge tan colored creature, with a wingspan of 6 inches. The most notable feature of this amazing moth is the large, dark eyespots on its two hindwings. The eye spots are where it gets its name – from the Greek myth of the Cyclops Polyphemus.



This binder features a gorgeous golden, orange and brown tortoiseshell cat sitting on a red pillow, staring out the window into a midnight blue sky. She casts a shadow on the gold colored wooden windowsill. I have digitally enhanced my original photograph to achieve a painterly effect. You can customize the text on the spine to suit your needs or delete it entirely.



This mousepad features an illustration of a cute little Maltese poodle mix puppy in a seated pose set against an orange background with a pattern of pink and orange butterflies.



Psychedelic and Hypnotic Decorative Pop Art Design Owl

Saturday, January 26, 2013

This deck of Bicycle playing cards features a gorgeous golden, orange and brown tortoiseshell cat staring out the window into a midnight blue sky. She casts a shadow on the gold colored wooden windowsill.



This mousepad captures a tree trunk that has been almost completely gnawed through by beavers. The tree is on a rather steep creek bank and chewed at the perfect angle to roll down into the water. What incredible animals they are! Mainly nocturnal, these large, semi-aquatic rodents are famous for building dams, canals, and lodges (homes). They are the second-largest rodent in the world. Their colonies create one or more dams to provide still, deep water to float food and building material. The water also acts as a protection against predators.



In the words of the designer of this lovely kitchen towel: "Hummingbirds are fun to watch as they flit from flower to flower in the garden with their wings beating at a furious pace. I've illustrated this hummingbird in a linear style approaching a pink lily blossom and set the subjects against a soft green floral print fabric design."



Great 2" binder for all cat lovers. Persian cat portrait on the front and brown tabby kitten on the back. Change all text to your liking or remove it wherever you don't want it.

Saturday, January 12, 2013

Here is a mousepad featuring the caterpillar of the Black Swallowtail Butterfly (Papilio polyxenes), also known as the American Swallowtail, Parsnip Swallowtail or Parsley Worm. This species lives and dines on members of the parsley family (including carrots, dill, fennel and parsnips). What a lovely green creature, with repeating black bands spotted with gold and yellow that create an interesting abstract pattern. This one is on a leaf surrounded by intense green foliage.



This deck of Bicycle playing cards features two black and brown ants on a silver gray metallic gradient background.



Here's a pillow with the perfect design for horse lovers featuring a cartoon of a pony horse sitting on the grass in a field surrounded by daisies on a sunny day.



“A surprise for dinner” makes an adorable letterhead, recipe page or page for your garden club notes. The design features the Chef Dog fixing a surprise, a bone wrapped with a candle, ready to serve. On the front of the invitation, Chef Dog’s expression shows pride while serving the surprise. Fuchsia wrapping paper leans against the wall. Pots and pans hang on the wall with a purple bone shaped clock. The background is turquoise with green paw prints and has a yellow border with blue dots. Personalize with name and other information.



This sticker features a curious little fish photograph! Perfect for the sea life lover!

Monday, December 31, 2012

This deck of Bicycle playing cards features two Red Efts, the terrestrial juvenile stage of the Eastern Newt (or Red-Spotted Newt). This curious orange fellow with red spots has just emerged from the pond to spend two or three years on land before heading back to the water as a full grown salamander.



This laptop skin features the Great Blue Heron, a large wading bird in the heron family Ardeidae, common near the shores of open water and in wetlands. He is the largest North American heron. Notable features include slaty flight feathers, red-brown thighs, and a paired red-brown and black stripe up the flanks; the neck is rusty-gray, with black and white streaking down the front; the head is paler, with a nearly white face, and a pair of black plumes running from just above the eye to the back of the head. The feathers on the lower neck are long and plume-like. Because this is the breeding season, he also has plumes on the lower back and an orange bill. He is standing in shallow water and his feathers are backlit by the luminous sunlight. Fit this skin to your computer by choosing from the options on the right.



Dogs stretched canvas print photographed by Gal Ashkenazi.



Hilarious cute yellow labrador puppy dog playing a red guitar cartoon design is unique and fun and a great gift idea. He's full of personality. Can also add custom text when ordering.

Saturday, December 1, 2012

This set of Bicycle playing cards features the incredible luna moth, a lime-green, Nearctic Saturniid moth in the subfamily Saturniinae. With a wingspan of up to four and a half inches, this lovely creature ranks as one of the largest moths in North America. This adult moth has just emerged from the cocoon and is waiting on the bark of a tree trunk to dry and harden. The adults do not eat or have mouths. They live for only one week and emerge as adults only to mate. With lime green color and distinctive eyespots this is a very mysterious, magical looking being.



“The Master” cat is loaded with attitude and shows it by wearing a snazzy fuchsia and green striped tie. Tail and nose in the air, this cat is oblivious to the adorable bugs flying around him. Fuchsia paw prints and green dots are tossed randomly on an orange background with the text reading “The Master”. A whimsy multi-color border surrounds the image.



This holiday ornament features a chubby red squirrel just asking to be loved! She will be so cute hanging on someone's Christmas tree.



Cute spotted jellyfish! Perfect for the sea life lover!

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

This deck of Bicycle playing cards features a gentle brown white-tailed deer looking right out at you from his hiding place in the woods. His big ears are alert. The face has white markings around the eyes and nose. The image is set on a bronze gradient background.




A close up of the curious Rainbow Lorikeet - Location Mt Tamborine, Queensland Australia




Symbolizing the good, wet and sweet in life, these donut bearing narwhales make a pretty crest-like form on bags.

Monday, September 17, 2012

This Case-Mate iPhone case features a typical winter scene: a sweet brown cottontail bunny rabbit with big ears is huddled under a pine tree seeking shelter from the snow.




Adorable closeup photography of a young owl sitting on a tree branch adorns this 2013 calendar poster. Customize bottom text with Your Business name or a quote.




A humorous deck of cards with a sober expression dog and the text - POKER FACE. Would be great for the guys poker night or in a fraternity house. Even the facial expressions of the face cards are funny. You can easily change the style of the cards.

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

This set of Bicycle playing cards features the incredible luna moth, a lime-green, Nearctic Saturniid moth in the subfamily Saturniinae. With a wingspan of up to four and a half inches, this lovely creature ranks as one of the largest moths in North America. This adult moth has just emerged from the cocoon and is waiting on the bark of a tree trunk to dry and harden. The adults do not eat or have mouths. They live for only one week and emerge as adults only to mate. With lime green color and distinctive eyespots this is a very mysterious, magical looking being. CLICK HERE TO SEE THE ENTIRE WILDLIFE PLAYING CARD COLLECTION




This is a striking design featuring three dolphins circling our Planet Earth. The shirt says "Earth Day is Every Day."




Artistic yak mousepad

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

This set of Bicycle playing cards features a brilliant red Northern Cardinal. This scarlet creature is truly the king of backyard birds! He is off by a blue sky background. CLICK HERE TO SEE THE ENTIRE WILD BIRD PLAYING CARD COLLECTION




“Bug Off” cat is definitely being bugged by these cute whimsy bugs buzzing around him and perching on his head. This yellow cat is wearing a purple turtleneck sweater with pink stripes. Orange flowers and purple dots are tossed randomly on a green background with the text “Bug Off”. The image is enclosed with a colorful whimsy border.




This necklace features original artwork by Melissa Rohr.

Monday, August 13, 2012

This deck of Bicycle playing cards features the spectacular male Indigo Bunting perched on a branch. This tiny bird is not often seen. He is shy and tends to avoid humans. His habitat is farmland, brush areas, and open woodlands. He has incredibly brilliant iridescent blue feathers and a very sweet song. Here he is set against a lovely pastel blue sky.




A wonderful sticker with a black and white version of our popular image of two alpine/oberhasli mix young does standing together facing opposite directions. One sister looks at the camera while the other stands watch.




From the artist:

"A digital painting of a wolverine in the northern wilderness. I do not know if you have ever heard the term "roaring silence." Roaring silence is encountered only when it is extremely quiet; no cars, no airplanes, none of the typical man made sounds. You can hear the stillness and it is quite loud. It's the sound of the planet, or the universe. I am not sure what causes it. It is becoming ever harder to experience.

The wolverine is one of those species which needs large quiet spaces to survive. The wolverine resembles a small bear. The animals frequent remote boreal forests, taiga, and tundra in the northern latitudes. The wolverine, Gulo gulo (Gulo is Latin for "glutton"), also referred to as glutton, is the largest land-dwelling species of the family Mustelidae (weasels). It is a stocky and muscular carnivore, closely resembling a small bear. The species has a reputation for ferocity and strength out of proportion to its size, with the documented ability to kill prey many times its size. With short legs, broad and rounded head, and small eyes with short rounded ears, it resembles a bear more than other mustelids.Though its legs are short, its large five-toed paws and plantigrade posture facilitate movement through deep snow.

Wolverines are solitary, requiring much room to roam. Individual wolverines may travel 15 miles (24 kilometers) in a day in search of food. Because of their habitat requirements, the animals are found primarily in remote reaches of the Northern boreal forests and subarctic and alpine tundra of the Northern hemisphere, with the greatest numbers in northern Canada, the U.S. state of Alaska, the Nordic countries of Europe, and throughout western Russia and Siberia. Their populations have experienced a steady decline since the 19th century in the face of trapping, range reduction and habitat fragmentation, such that they are essentially absent in the southern end of their European range. It is, however, estimated that large populations remain in North America and northern Asia. Recently compiled genetic evidence suggests that most of North America's wolverines are descended from a single source, likely originating from Beringia (the area of the Ice Age land bridge between present day Alaska and Siberia) during the last glaciation and rapidly expanding thereafter, though there is considerable uncertainty to this conclusion due to the difficulty of collecting samples in the extremely depleted southern extent of the range.

The adult wolverine is about the size of a medium dog, with a length usually ranging from 26–42 in., a tail of 6.7–10 in., and a weight of 20–55 lbs, though exceptionally large males can weigh up to 71 lbs The males are as much as 30% larger than the females and can be twice the female's weight. Shoulder height is reported from 12 to 18 in. It is the largest of terrestrial mustelids; only the marine-dwelling sea otter and giant otter of the Amazon basin are larger. Wolverines have thick, dark, oily, fur which is highly hydrophobic, making it resistant to frost. This has led to its traditional popularity among hunters and trappers as a lining in jackets and parkas in Arctic conditions. A light silvery facial mask is distinct in some individuals, and a pale buff stripe runs laterally from the shoulders along the side and crossing the rump just above a 9.8–14 in. bushy tail. Some individuals display prominent white hair patches on the throat or chest. Like many other mustelids, it has potent anal scent glands used for marking territory and signaling. The pungent odor has given rise to the nicknames "skunk bear" and "nasty cat."

Wolverines, like other mustelids, possess a special upper molar in the back of the mouth that is rotated 90 degrees, towards the inside of the mouth. This special characteristic allows wolverines to tear off meat from prey or carrion that has been frozen solid. Wolverines eat a bit of vegetarian fare, like plants and berries, in the summer season, but this does not make up a major part of their diet. —they are tenacious predators with a taste for meat. Prey mainly consists of small to large-sized mammals and the wolverine has been recorded killing prey such as adult deer that are many times larger than itself. Prey species include porcupine, squirrel, beaver, marmot, rabbit, vole, mice, shrew, lemming, caribou, roe deer, white-tailed deer, mule deer, sheep, moose, and elk. Smaller predators are occasionally preyed on, including martens, mink, foxes, canada lynx, weasels, Eurasian lynx, and coyote and wolf pups. Wolverines often pursue live prey that is relatively easy to obtain, including animals caught in traps, newborn mammals and deer (including adult moose and elk) when they're weakened by winter or immobilized by heavy snow. The diet is sometimes supplemented by bird's eggs, birds (especially geese), roots, seeds, insect larvae and berries. A majority of the wolverine's sustenance is derived from carrion, which they depend on almost exclusively in winter and early spring. Wolverines may find carrion themselves, feed on it after the predator is done feeding (especially wolf packs) or simply take it from another predator. Whether eating live prey or carrion, the wolverine's feeding style appears voracious, leading to the nickname of "glutton" (also the basis of the scientific name). However, this feeding style is believed to be an adaptation to food that is scarcely encountered, especially in the winter.[14]Wolverines easily dispatch smaller prey, such as rabbits and rodents, but may even attack animals many times their size, such as caribou, if the prey appears to be weak or injured. These opportunistic eaters also feed on carrion—the corpses of larger mammals, such as elk, deer, and caribou. Such finds sustain them in winter when other prey may be thinner on the ground, though they have also been known to dig into burrows and eat hibernating mammals.

Males scent-mark their territories, but they share them with several females and are believed to be polygamous. Females den in the snow or under similar cover to give birth to two or three young each late winter or early spring. Kits sometimes live with their mother until they reach their own reproductive age—about two years old. Wolverines inhabiting the Old World (specifically, Fennoscandia) are more active hunters than their North American cousins. This may be because competing predator populations in Eurasia are not as dense, making it more practical for the wolverine to hunt for itself than to wait for another animal to make a kill and then try to snatch it. They often feed on carrion left by wolves, so changes in the population of wolves may affect the population of wolverines.

The world's total wolverine population is unknown. The animal exhibits a low population density and requires a very large home range. The range of a male wolverine can be more than 240 sq mi., encompassing the ranges of several females which have smaller home ranges of roughly 50–100 sq mi. Radio tracking suggests an animal can range hundreds of miles in a few months. Female wolverines burrow into snow in February to create a den, which is used until weaning in mid-May. Areas inhabited non-seasonally by wolverines are thus restricted to zones with late-spring snowmelts. This fact has led to concern that global warming will shrink the ranges of wolverine populations.

The PBS series Nature released a documentary, "Wolverine: Chasing the Phantom" as episode #166 on 14 November 2010. This 53 minute documentary focuses on the efforts of a number of naturalists in the United States to track wolverines, collect genetic data, and learn more about wolverine populations, individual behavior and social behavior. It also tracks the raising of two male wolverines in captivity at an Alaska nature reserve from birth to maturity, and profiles the naturalists making these efforts."

Monday, July 30, 2012

This deck of Bicycle playing cards features a gentle brown white-tailed deer looking right out at you from his hiding place in the woods. His big ears are alert. The face has white markings around the eyes and nose. The image is set on a bronze gradient background.




Big Cat wildlife scene on 1.5 Inch binder with Leopard fur pattern and matching banner. Animal lovers will enjoy this photograph of a Leopard reclining on a tree branch. Banner has artful curl and distressed effect. Back of Album has two black cat print accents. Text area on banner is ready for you to customize with your name, date or other information.




The designer of this great pillow said, "Sweet boxer puppy dog pillow. The image is in a frame. You can substitute your own image that is a 4x6, or the same aspect ratiio, and tilt it 10% clockwise (if you have photoprocessing software). The frame will then work with your image. I am pleased to be designing and supporting American Mojo products as I too am a single mom and think it is a wonderful idea for single mothers. Why not show your support for single moms by buying their products. There are thousands upon thousands of items to choose from here on Zazzle! Have a great day and thanks for stopping by..."

Friday, July 27, 2012

This set of Bicycle playing cards features the Great Blue Heron, a large wading bird in the heron family Ardeidae, common near the shores of open water and in wetlands. He is the largest North American heron. Notable features include slaty flight feathers, red-brown thighs, and a paired red-brown and black stripe up the flanks; the neck is rusty-gray, with black and white streaking down the front; the head is paler, with a nearly white face, and a pair of black plumes running from just above the eye to the back of the head. The feathers on the lower neck are long and plume-like. Because this is the breeding season, he also has plumes on the lower back and an orange bill. He is standing in shallow water and his feathers are backlit by the luminous sunlight.




A cute postcard for feline lovin' people: Cat sleeping on a box in a bookshelf between a lot of books after a long day of ...reading? It's a cat's bookshelf! Beautiful cat postcard for cat lovers and book lovers, library lovers and furniture lovers... This postcard will do great in libraries or bookshops!




This cute toddler's shirt features black and white vintage line art drawings of a curious giraffe, an elephant and a zebra.