Category: Digital photography
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Wriggling tropical life (macro photography)
Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it Shot in Brazil, 2007.
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The real web site of Yann Arthus-Bertrand
After showing you a fake Flickr web site for Yann Arthus-Bertrand, here is his true web site on Pikeo.com: Yann Arthus-Bertrand While we’re at that, let’s point you to the latest effort from Yann Arthus-Bertrand: a layer for Google Earth, that allows you to find his photos from “Earth from Above” on the map by…
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Amazonian landscape
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Scarlet-headed Blackbird
Will you be able to find the female bird in this flock? Click on the thumbnail images to enlarge them This small bird is quite difficult to approach, but we were lucky to meet several of them in Brazil this year. Scarlet-headed Blackbird (Troupiale à tête rouge, Amblyramphus holosericeus).
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Savanna Hawk
Click on the thumbnail images to enlarge them Savanna Hawk (Buse roussâtre – Buteogallus meridionalis) in Brazil.
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Hot pixels, stuck pixels, Minolta/Sony solution
Sometimes, on a digital camera, there are small defect on the sensor. They translate into a pixel or two which seem to be either black, colored (hot) or white (stuck). This is ususally not much of a problem, but it can be very annoying. On my reliable but old and still alive-and-kicking Konica-Minolta Dynax 7D…
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Black and red dragonfly
Click on the thumbnail images to enlarge them If you know the exact name of this dragonfly, I’ll be happy to learn it. It is quite common in Brazil (both in Pantanal and Amazonia) when you have a small water bed.
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Latest whale news: talk and faeces
Did you know that whales not only sing but their songs are being decoded into talk? University of Queensland researcher Dr Rebecca Dunlop thinks she now understands a lot of what they are talking about through their thumps, whistles and clacks. Also about whales, Stacy DeRuiter at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts started…
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Macro shot of rose flowers
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