

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/01/arial-photographs-of-tulip-fields-by-normann-szkop
Wow! Now this is human planned miraculous natural beauty! Aerial photos have always been an inspiration to me, and I've got pages of notes for planned pieces, but I just had to share this one! Such a gorgeous photo of such a gorgeous landscape.

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/01/submergence-an-immersive-field-of-8064-suspended-lights-by-squidsoup
Okay, this isn't obviously Nature inspired other than the natural beauty of geometry and infinity, light, space, color, illusion, but it is part of today's inspiration story nonetheless.
As an artist, I am constantly scanning the world, my immediate world, and the photographed world beyond. I have literally thousands of photographs of my own that I collect for inspiration. I refer to my photo albums constantly and am overjoyed by the advent of Facebook pages like thisiscolossal.com's
Another big favorite of mine for inspiration is also on Facebook, I Fucking Love Science, shares stunning photographs and information of science's most stunning moments in biology, geology, chemistry, astronomy, physics, maths, and so on. These all serve as a foundation of my notes for future works based on images of nature -- it's a life's work.