Author: Yves Roumazeilles

  • How to identify birds?

    After having shot a few hundreds (er… a few thousands) photos in Brazil, I ended up with a stack of images. Some were easy to label. Some were less esay to label. Particularly, for wild birds, the problem is to quickly determine the species that is appearing on the photo. Several solutions are open to…

  • Amazing images of Earth seen from space

    Amazing images of Earth seen from space

    Source: 11 phenomenal images of earth.

  • Red-crested Cardinal

    Red-crested Cardinal

    Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it Red-crested Cardinal (Paroaria coronata, Paroare huppé). Brazil, 2007.

  • Brazil, Amazonia, a floating life-style

    Brazil, Amazonia, a floating life-style

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  • Black-capped Donacobius

    Black-capped Donacobius

     Click on the thumbnail images to enlarge them Black-capped Donacobius (Donacobius atricapillus, Troglodyte à miroir). Brazil 2007.

  • Optimize Linux and Windows

    Optimize Linux and Windows

    You install your PC some time ago, it may be necessary to clean it up a little in order to keep or improve its raw speed. As a matter of fact, even if we are no longer in the old times of Windows 98 that were nearly forcing you to a re-install once or twice…

  • Dog or blotches?

    Dog or blotches?

    It is only a number of irregular spots, but our brain tries its best to build an image and finds a correspondence with a Dalmatian dog.

  • Parrots and parakeets, Brazil

    Parrots and parakeets, Brazil

    Blue-fronted Parrot (Amazona aestiva, Amazone à front bleu)  Monk Parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus, perruche moine or conure souris or conure veuve) Nanday Parakeet (Nandayus nenday, Conure nanday) Yellow-chevroned Parakeet (Brotogeris chiriri, Toui à ailes jaunes) Click on the thumbnail images to enlarge them Parrots and parakeets are found everywhere in South American forests. For me, it…

  • It’s time for the 2008 awards

    I wanted to thank 2007 readers and visitors, so here are the 2008 Roumazeilles.net awards: Best Guest Post Thanks to xo-fashi0n-x0 for her post of “La Cigarette“. A welcome poetic distraction from the routine of this web site. Best Commenter This one was easy since ted is a persistent commenter with interesting insight and providing…