Category: Photo
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Amazonia, landscape in 2007
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Brazilian bird
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Manaus, Brazil
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).
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Brazilian parrots and parakeets
Yellow-crowned Parrot (Amazona ochrocephala, Amazone à front jaune) Monk Parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus, Perruche moine) Click on the thumbnail images to enlarge them Assuredly, parrots and parakeets from Brazil are difficult to identify scientifically. Each species and sub-species is only differing from the next by a few details in feathers. Anyway, colors are pretty impressive.
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Toco toucan, in flight
Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it This bird is supposed to be very easy to spot, but it’s only one of the three toucans I saw in nearly three weeks. Toco toucan (Ramphastos toco, Toucan toco). Brazil, 2007. To give you an idea of the difficulty of shooting some of these bird pictures,…
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Canon camera museum
Canon has been a major manufacturer of photo cameras for many years. Is this worth a museum? I don’t know but they decided that they could not wait for somebody else to build it. Canon opened an online virtual museum of its cameras: the Canon camera museum. The Camera Hall is a database of historical…