Category: Digital photography
-
Cocoi heron
Click on the thumbnail images to enlarge them In my eyes, this is one of the nicest great herons, despite being very common in Brazil. Cocoi heron (Ardea cocoi, héron cocoï).
-
Whistling Heron
Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it Whistling Heron (Syrigma sibilatrix, Héron flûte-du-soleil). Shot in Brazil, 2007.
-
Master your D-SLR, LifeHacker guides
LifeHacker published a series of articles about the basics of a Digital SLR (Single Lens Reflex) camera. It’s worth reading if you are not pro-photographer. Part 1 : Program mode Part 2 : Manual mode It could be useful to quickly master your latest Christmas gift.
-
Whale ancestor found
We all knew that the whale was actually a terrestrial mammal gone back to the sea a few million years ago (this is most visible in the presence of vestigial leg bones that are not associated to externally apparent legs or fins), but it was a bit difficult to say exactly what the ancestor looked…
-
Did you backup?
A backup, this is nearly nothing. But it can help you, it can save you, when disaster will strike. Since when didn’t you backup? Some ideas: Remember to copy the contents of your Flash memory card (even more if you store a lot of JPEG images on your big Flash card) Copy the data files…
-
Herons in the Pantanal
Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it Rufescent Tiger-heron, (Tigrisoma lineatum, Héron tigre). Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it Green-backed heron, (Butorides striatus, Héron strié).
-
Fires in the bush, Pantanal
Click on the thumbnail images to enlarge them Forest fires are not only happening around the most populated areas (Greece, South of France and California). Sometimes, for reasons still to be clarified (criminal or not), wild fires willl start in the bush or the forest. Like this one in the Pantanal (Brazil, 2007).
-
Nature abstract art
Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it
-
Hyacinth Macaw
Click on the thumbnail images to enlarge them One of the most spectacular birds in Amazonia: Marvellous deep cobalt blue feathers on a one-meter long body, 1.5m wide wings. Hyacinth Macaw (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus, Ara hyacinthe). Brazil, 2007.