Technology opinions and digital photography
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Bears are just like you and me
This is the only logicial conclusion after watching this cute little YouTube video:
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Edward Snowden: Media black out
It is quite interesting (or revealing) that a recent interview of Edward Snowden, the guy who blew the whistle on NSA practices of spying on everybody’s email and phones, has received essentially no media coverage in the US and the UK. It appears that large media outlets are actively participating in a campaign to smear…
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Next wildlife trip
For those who are tracking my moves, I’m happy to tell that I’ll go soon to Kenya. In the Masai Mara park that I know a little and love a lot. Photos should come from it.
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Scottish sounds
So, usually, they’d say that Americans language is gibberish deformed by a slang accent which makes Shakespeare cry. Sometimes, they’d say that Texans are the worst. But these Scottish people are really great. So utterly impossible to understand that their verbal exchange seems poetic and stripped of any useful meaning. Some kind of automatic writing…
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Polar bear
Polar bear (Ursus maritimus, ours polaire) Svalbard, June 2013.
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Polar fox
One of the nicest and cutest little mammals is observable in the Svalbard archipelago. This one was so unafraid that it came in the middle of our group in order to pee, clearly meaning “this is MY place; You’re just invited here”. Polar fox or arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus, renard polaire) Svalbard, June 2013.
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Polar bear, king of Svalbard
Our paths crossed those of several bears (four at the end of the trip) in very different weather conditions. But it was possible to shoot some snapshots of the king of the North. Polar bear (Ursus maritimus, ours polaire) Svalbard, June 2013.
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Svalbard reindeer
Sometimes, it is said that if Santa Claus lives at the North Pole, his reindeers come from Svalbard. And we met some of them, of course. Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus, renne or caribou). Svalbard, June 2013.
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Svalbard: A seal
It was a long time in coming, would say some of the obsevrers here. Here come some photos brought back from a wildlife destination much colder than my usual travels of the past. No big cat in the icy Svalbard archipelago. It was in June this year (2013) that I traveled to Spitzberg while the…
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