Tacacori, Costa Rica
Bird of the Day: Palm Tanager
Tacacori, Costa Rica
Nature Photography
Bird of the Day: Alexandrine Parakeet
Pench Tiger Reserve, Seoni, Madhya Pradesh
Bird of the Day: Great Blue Heron (J.N. Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge, Sanibel Island, Florida)
photo credit: Stephen Crafts
Bird of the Day: Eastern Bluebird (Atlanta, Georgia)
Bird of the Day: Painted Stork
Ranganthittu Bird Sanctuary, Karnataka
Bird of the Day: Eurasian eagle-owl
Daroji Bear Sanctuary, Karnataka
Bird of the Day: White-crowned Parrot
Tacacori, Costa Rica
Bird of the Day: Little Egret (Hebbal Lake, Karnataka)
Ancient Trees: Portraits of Time
Photo by Beth Moon. Via thisiscolossal.com
For obvious reasons, we’re big fans of trees. We’ve shared a piece on tree-sitting (which is, of course, linked to tree-hugging), and featured an environmental history essay that included some hypothetical dendrochronology. Now, we’re happy to find some amazing photographs developed in the almost lost art of painstaking platinum/palladium processing by Beth Moon.
Photo by Beth Moon.
Abbeville Press on Beth Moon’s book of photography, Ancient Trees: Portraits of Time:
Beth Moon’s fourteen-year quest to photograph ancient trees has taken her across the United States, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. Some of her subjects grow in isolation, on remote mountainsides, private estates, or nature preserves; others maintain a proud, though often precarious, existence in the midst of civilization. All, however, share a mysterious beauty perfected by age and the power to connect us to a sense of time and nature much greater than ourselves. It is this beauty, and this power, that Moon captures in her remarkable photographs.
Bird of the Day: White-bellied Woodpecker
Nagarhole National Park, Karnataka
Bird of the Day: Indian Roller
Kabini River Lodge, Karnataka
Bird of the Day: Spot-billed Duck
Mysore, Karnataka
Bird of the Day: Ringed Kingfisher
Bird of the Day: Black-billed Cuckoo (Appledore Island, Maine)
Bird of the Day: Fiery-billed Araçari and Red-lored Parrot
Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica
Bird of the Day: Whiskered Tern (Hesargatta Lake, Outskirts of Bangalore)
Photo credit: Drishti Hoskote
Bird of the Day: Red-breasted Parakeet
Kaziranga National Park, Assam
Bird of the Day: Spotted Owlet Trio
Lalbagh Gardens Bangalore, Karnataka
Winning Wildlife Photography of 2014
2014 Wildlife photographer of the Year invertebrate category winner: ‘Night of the deadly lights’ by Ary Bassous (Brazil). Photograph: Ary Bassous/2014 WPY. Via The Guardian.
We’ve always loved wildlife photography, and the explosion of competitions over the web in the last decade has created the type of arms race for the best shot in which the audience always wins. Folks over at The Guardian know what’s up: they’ve compiled some of the most amazing wildlife photographs from various competitions over the course of 2014, so we have an even greater pool of shots to enjoy.
Bird of the Day: Yellow-throated Euphonia
Tacacori, Costa Rica
