Hoy por la tarde durante una breve jornada fotografiando aves decidimos terminar la jornada aprovechando los últimos rayos del sol en la desembocadura del Arroyo Apepú en Nemesio Parma; mientras caminábamos hacia uno de los extremos con mayor cantidad de vegetación acuática de este lugar observábamos lo habitual de encontrar aquí. Las golondrinas pasaban sobre […]
Category: Wildlife
VOTE for the Best Photo of the Week 09 Aug 2014
Welcome to the newly designed “Best Photo of the Week” competition. Voting is now easier and a lot more fun. First click an image and browse through the slideshow. Then select the three images you like best of all and click the VOTE button at the bottom of the page. After registering your vote you […]
Canary Clan
With this image I take you back to Zimanga Private Game Reserve for a brief interlude. You will remember I posted some images on my blog after our family’s visit to this amazing place last month. This photo is from my first session in the Mkhombe bird hide – where the action was coming thick […]
Daily Dose of Cute
I went backpacking in the Ruby Mountains the last 5 days and had some much needed quality time with PIKAS! I don’t get to see them often enough so I was ridiculously excited to find a quite a few of them. They aren’t really easy to find, see (but easy to hear with their adorable […]
Two Young Kings
I thought it apt to post something that is NOT a “wider-showing-environment-animalscape” for a change, to show you that I do photograph tight, close portraits as well when I am in the field. I was privileged to spend some quality time with these two brothers in Etosha last year during a week’s intense photography and […]
Taguató común, Roadside Hawk, Buteo magnirostris
Antes de ingresar al Parque provincial Ing. Crovetto y aprovechando de que la niebla que nos acompañó durante casi todo el camino se despejó un poco, aproveché para fotografiar a este Taguató común que estaba perchando en un gajo sin hojas de un Paraíso antes del cartel de ingreso al parque. La baja temperatura del […]
Results of the Best Photo of the Week Ended 26 Jul 2014
We are delighted to announce the results of our latest “Best Photo of the Week” Competition. This week the First Prize is shared by Paul Marto and Dave Richards for their outstanding photos “Mandarin” and “Male Lions Fighting” respectively. Third Prize goes to Charles Orfang for “The Chase” (click on thumbnails for full scale view). […]
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald – review
The arcane world of falconry is infamous for a snobbery that dates back to the medieval period, when different raptors were pegged to a hierarchical list of feudal stations. So the noble peregrine was for princes, the dainty merlin was milady’s bird, and – as we know from Barry Hines’s novel – it was just […]