These are, what I believe to be the best images of birds I have taken, IN THE WILD. They are also, concomitantly, a collection of my most favorite birds till date. I have the year the photos were taken in the watermark, as I… Continue Reading “My tower of song: birding and photography”
Category: Environment, Photography, tropical birdsTags: Amazon, Arima, Asa wright Nature center, Barred antshrike, Bearded bell-bird, birding, Blanchiseusse, Chestnut-colored woodpecker, Collared aracari reaching for a berry, Costa Rica, Double-striped thick knee, Endangered, Falcon, Ferruginous pygmy owl, Golden headed tanage, Green Honeycreeper, hoatzin, horned screamer, India, La Selva, Laughing Falcon, Nature photography, Northern Jacana, Oil-bird, Palm tanager, Peru, Photography, Purple honeycreeper, Rare birds, Red-legged honeycreeper, Rufous sibia, Tiger heron, Tobago, Tortuguero, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago, Trinidad piping guan with epiphytes, Trumpeter swan, Water-birds, White-necked jacobins in the rain, White-tailed nightjar, Yellow-headed caracara, Yellowstone National Park
These are some of the monkeys I have seen in south and Central America . A little factoid I learned in Belize was that to record what would pass for dinosaurs calls in the Jurassic park, the… whoever is responsible for making such recordings, went… Continue Reading “Monkey business”
Category: Photography, Travelogue, World CultureTags: Amazon, Baby monkey, Boat, Costa Rica, Howler monkey, Monkeys, nature, New world monkeys, Peru, River, Rocking boat, Spider monkey, squirrel monkey, Sugar, Tortuguero, Wildlife photography
Some more shots from the amazonian villages.. These people warm my heart and soul and showed me I have both. Really really.. Ribereños are the people living along the river (amazon and its various tributaries and rivers that join to make the amazon).
The top photo is that of a chick, that of one of a typical amazonian bird, the Hoatzin. This one is being brought by the villagers.The bottom is that of the sunset, I photographed earlier, perhaps a little later.. perhaps more modified, probably… Continue Reading “Amazon: the mysterious”