male – Outskirts of Bangalore, Karnataka
Nature Photography
Bird of the Day: Boneparte’s Gull (Sheep Creek, Alaska)
Bird of the Day: Crimson-backed Sunbird
Photogenic Food
We mentioned recently that we are crowd-sourcing a new way of looking at decor for Cardamom County. National Public Radio (one of the great investments made by the tax-payers of the USA, in collaboration with loyal listeners who donate funds to their local stations) has a food-focused blog that has introduced us to a photographer of Indian heritage who grew up in the USA and has traveled around the world doing what photographers do: seeing the world through the lens, differently than we might otherwise see it. Here he is concerned, curious and creative in his exploration of what is in the food we eat:
These intriguingly abstract images are part of a photo series called Naturally Modified — the brainchild of photographer Ajay Malghan. To create them, he shines colored lights through thin slices of fruits and vegetables onto light-sensitive paper. So what you end up seeing isn’t a picture of the food itself, but an ethereal image of its shadow. Continue reading
Bird of the Day: Turquoise-browed Motmot
Bird of the Day: Yellow-breasted Apalis (Mole National Park, Ghana)
Bird of the Day: House Finch (Cornell University, Ithaca)
Bird of the Day: Bare-throated Tiger Heron (El Cuyo, Mexico)
WED 2013: “Namaskaram”
Join the palms of your two hands and point your fingers towards the sky. In India, this simple gesture, “namaskaram”, is more than just a greeting; it is a sign of respect. Yesterday, as part of World Environment Day and Raxa Collective’s food crisis initiative, I returned to the local homeless shelter to donate additional meals to the residents, and although I am separated from these individuals by a language barrier, I am able to communicate with them through a simple gesture of namaskaram.
Bird of the Day: Blue-tailed Bee-eater (Point Calimere, Tamil Nadu)
Bird of the Day: Maroon-tailed Parakeet
Bird of the Day: American Pelican (Horicon Marsh, Wisconsin)
More love for the cicadas
After our post yesterday on the 17-year emergence of periodical cicadas, here is a fantastic body of work on one of nature’s most intriguing creatures
by Samuel Orr. A natural history filmmaker and time-lapse photographer he has been following and filming the various broods of periodical cicadas since 2007 (multiple broods that come out in different years across the eastern part of the United States). After filming some 200 hours of footage, and he is now working towards an hour documentary that focuses on the 17-year periodical cicadas for which he just started a Kickstarter campaign. Continue reading


















