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
Posted on August 23, 2017
by neuroticphilosopher
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Had a bunch of these emperor and fringed tulips flower in my garden past spring. I didn’t post these photos anywhere and as I tumble along my 35th year, fall is around the corner already, only mists of spring in my memories and it will… Continue Reading “Souvenir printemps”
Category: Environment, PhotographyTags: bulbs, Edges, Emperor tulip, Fringed tulip, Garden, Nature photography, Object, Orange, Purple, spring, tulips, Yellow
Posted on August 8, 2017
by neuroticphilosopher
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If you are an anthropologist, or if you are a student of colonial rule and its effects on the natives, or someone into scuba diving, or maybe someone in love with corals, or simply someone who likes the wild and untamed: the Andaman and… Continue Reading “Coral past and present: The Andamans (part1)”
Category: Environment, Photography, Politics, Travelogue, tropical birds, World CultureTags: Aborigines, Andaman and Nicobar islands, Archipelago, Architectural photography, Barracks, British army, British infantry, British Raj, Cellular Jail, Church ruins, Colonial rule, Forest, Freedom fighters, Great Andamanese tribe, Historical photographs, Independence Day, India, Indian freedom struggle, Islands, Jail, Jarwas, Kala pani, Light and sound show, Nationalism, nature, Nature photography, Old photos, Onge, Patriotism, Photography, Port Blair, Presbytarian church, Revolt, Ross Island, Ruins, Sentinelese, Thomas Cook, Thomas Cook package tours, Tips for India, Travel planning, Travel tips, Tribes, World war II, WWII
We went back to Trinidad after 5 yrs and stayed at the Asa wright nature center, Arima, again. A lot of things have changed there in 5 yrs, all of it for the better at the center. One thing hadn’t changed much, the… Continue Reading “Rain trance”
Category: Environment, Phlog, Photography, Travelogue, tropical birdsTags: Asa wright Nature center, birding, birds, Dance, Hummingbirds, Nature photography, Rain, Rainforest, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago, White-necked jacobin, Wildlife art, Wildlife photography
Especially in the tropics, where most things are good and I never could focus on mosquitoes anyway. Here is a violet sabrewing and and wild flower called Pachira Aquatica, Costa Rica. The flower, as the name suggests was growing by and practically on the… Continue Reading “Focus on whats good”
Category: Photography, TravelogueTags: Aracari, birding, Costa Rica, depth, Flower, Focus, Hummingbird, Jungle, Nature photography, Pachira Aquatica, Palm leaves, Rare, River, Shallow focus, Travel, Tropics, Violet Sabrewing
Implicit Self 