8x10 Photograph puffy white clouds purple flowers by the water by Aktie9's shop

This is my fav photo of the sky since it is so soft looking, and intriguingly warm. It's what I consider "relaxing art" something that makes you comfortable and relaxed. I often look at photos to calm myself when I'm stressed & it really works well, especially of the skies or nature. I have lots of other photos of the sky, as it's one of my fav subjects to shoot. My husband rolls his eyes whenever the sun sets, as he knows I'll he beaded out the door, looking for the next beautiful view to capture. I want to get as many of them as possible. I think of making a book or zine of them soon, sometime. I wanna show the people more of the natural world, so they will care for it better. It's my life goal. Get folks to change their minds and take better care of the earth.

For the rest of the month in my shop. ***25% of sales for the Month of August is going to the EFA Charity of the Month. See our website here: http://www.efaartistshelpinganimals.org/ In addition *ANY* animal item in this shop is a 100% donation to the COTM also. This month I won the choice of charity. I chose Winslow Farm Sanctuary in Norton Massachusetts! See their site here: http://www.winslowfarm.com/*** I also always have some sort of a deal going on. It might not be advertised on the shop heading, to get announcements & BOGO sales please follow me on FB,http://www.facebook.com/3AmArtPr, or my www.3amart.blogspot.com site.

Macro Black Sapphire Blue Butterfly Art Photograph Print 5x7 by aktie9's shop

This is a photo of a butterfly I captured at an indoor Butterfly garden. Original Fine Art Photograph. This can be printed in any size. Just ask. This listing is for an 5x7, but I can change it for any size or create a custom listing. Description: Macro Black and sapphire blue Butterfly taken at The Butterfly Place in Westford, Massachusetts. Very fine details of this butterfly.
I donate a few photos, the entire amount to team EFA charities of the month. I also sometimes do a percentage. Right now, i'm raising money for Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary.
I'm doing 20% of all sales, and I'm also donating to Sea Shepherd's, Gulf Cleanup campaign.

Orange YOU glad I had some Sun today 5x7 digital archival print by aktie9

This is a tiger lily blossom taken up close, with a macro lense on my digital camera. I have these in several other shades in my flickr account, for other options. Seek Aktie9 on flickr.

I donate 10% of sales from my etsy shop to charities. This summer I'm giving 100% of the proceeds on my Polar Bear photos to the ecotarium.org to help with the resident Polar bear, Kenda and her care.

I also do some work with rescues, getting the word out, passing messages along to folks. I fostered a dog for two years, I've given rides to dogs needing to get to safe havens. I have two rescued dogs, of my own. One I found on the city streets, one I adopted via http://www.occretrieverrescue.com/ .

I'm also pairing up with a person I met through the Plea for Bea Fund drive, and Facebook, to make a group on facebook, possibly elsewhere that rescue minded folks can join along with all the rescue organizations. This way the rescue people can get the word to the rescues, and rescues can get messages to folks who can raise money for them, send messages to their friends and so forth. It's a effort to get across helping others idea, and to make it easier for us all to network and band together. It will likely be called S.N.A.R.E AKA: SNARE - Social Networking Animal Rescue Ethic. It's still in the preliminary stages so I will defenitely let EFA know when we've got it up and running.