Yanacocha Reserve, Ecuador
Bird of the Day: Sapphire-vented Puffleg Hummingbird
Yanacocha Reserve, Ecuador
Nature Photography
Bird of the Day: Lemon-bellied Flycatcher (Darwin, Australia)
Bird of the Day: Hudsonian Godwit nest (Beluga, Alaska)
Bird of the Day: Blue-faced Malkoha (Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary, Karnataka)
Bird of the Day: Snow Geese (Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge, NY)
Photo credit: Benjamin Van Doren
Bird of the Day: Sandwich Tern (El Cuyo, Mexico)
Bird of the Day: Black Bulbul
Munnar, Kerala
Bird of the Day: Asian Paradise Flycatcher
male – Outskirts of Bangalore, Karnataka
Bird of the Day: Greater Yellowlegs (UC Santa Barbara, California)
Bird of the Day: Eastern Screech-Owl (Magee Marsh, Ohio)
Bird of the Day: Blue-tailed Bee-eater (Mysore, Karnataka)
Sophie Olsen, Come To Kerala!
It has been a while since we extended one of these invitations. More frequently than we realized, these invitations have some connection to water. This exhibit on Sophie Olsen’s website, which came to our attention due to a blog post by Jessie Wender on the New Yorker’s website, leaves us wanting to learn more about the people she has photographed. With the photograph featured in Wender’s post there is just a small bit of context:
OLSEN: Diving down to the ocean bed without any equipment, Ngui is searching for fish to bring home to his family, on the Surin Islands, off the coast of Thailand. This photograph is part of a larger series about the sea nomads called the Mokens. Traditionally, one Moken family lives for as many nine months of the year on a boat; their children learn how to swim before they can walk.
So, what better than to invite Sophie to come to Kerala and tell us more in person. Until then, on the Dazed website there is an archived blurb about this exhibit that looks like about as much as we will learn for now: Continue reading
Bird of the Day: Barn Swallow (Mysore, Karnataka)
Bird of the Day: Great Egret (Coal Oil Point Preserve, California)
If You Happen To Be In New York City
Charles Marville: Photographer of Paris
January 29 – May 4, 2014
…As the exhibition of his photographs at the Metropolitan Museum makes clear, Marville was the right man for the job. For starters, he was a local. His father was a tailor, his mother a laundress. He grew up on a cramped street near the Louvre that later vanished to make way for one of Haussmann’s imperial avenues. Like Baudelaire, his contemporary, Marville honed his eye on Paris; the city taught him to see…
Brought to our attention by a post on the New Yorker’s website today, from which the snippet of text above is taken (and where you can see 10 excellent images from the collection the text describes), this exhibit catches our eye because it has to do with both the history of photography and the cultural heritage of a lost form of Paris:
Exhibition Location: Galleries for Drawings, Prints, and Photographs, Second Floor, Galleries 691-693
Press Preview: Monday, January 27, 2014, 10 a.m.–noon Continue reading
Bird of the Day: White-crowned Sparrow (Point Reyes, California, USA)
Bird of the Day: Bare-throated Tiger Heron courtship vocalizations (El Cuyo, Mexico)
Holi, 2014 Edition
Each year, we in the south of India wish to be in the north of India for this celebration that marks the end of winter. We have linked to some great photo spreads in other publications, and this year choose the Reuters photojournalists’ snapshots to mark this year’s Holi.
Bird of the Day: Blue Rock Thrush
Munnar, Kerala
PhotoSingularities: Morning Star
Dawn: Mt. Lamborn, the peak to the left, is the highest point in Colorado’s Delta County – to its right is Landsend Peak. Both mountains are visible throughout the North Fork Valley Continue reading
