Category: Photo

  • American Black Vulture

    American Black Vulture

    Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it American Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus, Urubu noir). Brazil, 2007.

  • A Nikon D300 goes to Antartica

    A Nikon D300 goes to Antartica

    Some field tests are more demanding than others. Jan Vermeer and PhotographyBlog brought a Nikon D300 D-SLR to the South of the world: Antartica. Dry, windy and cold. The article is interesting because it speaks about this very special environment and because it makes a good review of the new Nikon nearly-pro digital camera. There…

  • Cinnamon-throated Woodcreeper

    Cinnamon-throated Woodcreeper

    Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it Cinnamon-throated Woodcreeper (Dendrexetastes rufigula, Grimpar à collier). Brazil, 2007.

  • Green Caiman, Jacare

    Green Caiman, Jacare

      Click on the thumbnail images to enlarge them This caiman is the most common crocodilian in the Pantanal (Brazil). It eats exclusively fish. It is easy to approach it just by walking to it (it lets rodents, birds and men approach very near). Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it And this one…

  • Flight of great egrets

    Flight of great egrets

    Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it Great egret (Ardea alba, Grande aigrette). Brazil, 2007.

  • White-headed Marsh-Tyrant (Brazil)

    White-headed Marsh-Tyrant (Brazil)

    Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it White-headed Marsh-Tyrant (Arundinicola leucocephala, Moucherolle à tête blanche). Shot in Brazil, 2007.

  • Questions to ask yourself about a photo

    Questions to ask yourself about a photo

    I find that it is possible to improve yourself by looking at your own pictures like any outside critic would. For this, because it is often hard to make this schizophrenic move, I developped a number of questions I ask myself when I look at my own photos. While some questions can (and should) be…

  • Butterfly and caterpillar

    Butterfly and caterpillar

    Leucadia longwing (Heliconius Leucadia, H.W. Bates 1862) Unidentified caterpillar Click on the thumbnail images to enlarge them

  • My best wishes for 2008

    My best wishes for 2008