Bird of the Day: Brown Capped Pygmy Woodpecker (Masinagudi, India)
Nature Photography
Sand Scripture
Not to be confused with sand sculpture, sand scripture is the graceful story a million grains of sand tell of the passing of time. Sand isn’t only found on the beach – riverbanks, empty fields, and desert dunes host the legion grains, akin in countlessness to the untold billions of stars in the universe. The ocean’s tides tell stories, however, with the pliable mass of silica as the medium.
Bird of the Day: Purple Gallinulle (Isletas de Granada, Nicaragua)
Bird of the Day: Baya Weaver flying to nest (Pudukkottai, India)
Kerala’s Caterpillars
More than once I have failed to successfully (by my standards) photograph a butterfly’s larva due to insufficiently sophisticated equipment. However, those days are coming to an end, inching forward step by baby step, in odd undulating motions eerily akin to a caterpillar’s rolling gait.
Culinary Landscapes
In this season of Thanksgiving and other food focused festivals, it seemed appropriate to highlight the artist Matthew Carden. He and his wife Jennifer Carden clearly have a loving relationship with food that doesn’t take itself too seriously. Continue reading
Bird of the Day: Lesser Ground Cuckoo
Playa Ocotal, Nicaragua
Bird of the Day: Cinnamon Hummingbird
Playa Ocotal, Nicaragua
Bird of the Day: Flightless Cormorant (Western Galapagos Islands, Ecuador)
Clear-Winged Forest Glory
These are the first good shots I’ve gotten of any glories before. I have seen Stream Glories (Neurobasis chinensis) in Gavi, but they were far too shy to be able to photograph them. Walking through the forest the other day, however, a single Forest Glory (Vestalis gracilis) flew past me into the undergrowth. Careful not to lose sight, I followed it, only to discover a total of five damselflies lounging about in the shade. Continue reading
Little Pics
This crowdsourcing of microscopic imagery arrived long before the invention of the smartphone and networked communications: the amateur has long made a mark with the microscope—in the early years, by hand drawing images that appeared underneath the lens, and, in more recent times, with the added realism brought by the photograph.
Bird of the Day: Tropical Kingbird
Playa Ocotal, Nicaragua
Keyhole To The Jungle
Another vertical panorama, the Keyhole is a more artistic than depictive, unlike most of my photographs. I was struggling to get the shots I wanted to use in the picture (there were about 10) because of the lighting differences between the rocks on the bottom, the undergrowth in the lower third, the canopy, and the skyline. Getting an even light level in all the shots was complicated, requiring checking each shot and retaking them multiple times to ensure accuracy. After over 20 minutes I finally felt satisfied, and laboring twice that long in the digital darkroom resulted in the following image Continue reading
Bird of the Day: Turquoise-browed Motmot
Playa Ocotal, Nicaragua
Bird of the Day: Common Cactus Finch (Galapagos Islands, Ecuador)
The Meditative Power of Blue
Color theories have abounded since the time of the Greek philosophers. Whether through the use of adjectives (cool, warm, soothing, exciting), metaphor (green with envy) or similes (green as grass) different parts of the spectrum have been awarded a range of emotional and descriptive attributes. Continue reading
Treeorama!
Pretty neat tree, right? See more below… much more! (not for the faint of bandwidth) Continue reading
Bird of the Day: Common Potoo
Morgan’s Rock, Nicaragua
Coromandel Marsh Dart
I love this picture because of the clearly visible veins on the leaf the damselfly is perched upon. This male marsh dart (Ceriagrion coromandelianum) was photographed in Panganad, Kerala, the same day as Continue reading
Bird of the Day: Black Necked Stilt (Morgan’s Rock, Nicaragua)
