Grab forty winks. Saw logs. For a species that’s habitually short on shut-eye, we humans sure have come up with myriad ways to talk about it. We also spend a lot of time and money studying sleep, or the lack thereof. Yet, in spite of decades of inquiry, researchers still don’t have a good fix […]
Picaflor vientre negro (Black-throated mango)
Estas son algunas fotos de la sesión fotográfica que le hice al Picaflor vientre negro el 27 de Diciembre en el patio de casa, siesta nublada fresca y con un poco de llovizna que hizo desaparecer a las abejas y por suerte tuve mucha actividad de picaflores durante toda la tarde. Algunas gotas de agua […]
The Mountain Apollo
Parnassius apollo pyrenaicus – Papilionidae – Parnassius The Apollo’s mating plug or Sphragis is visible on the photo below: It is particular to the females of this lepidoptera family.It is deposited by a male into the female genital tract and later hardens into a plug assuring the male that only his sperm cells will fertilize […]
Know When to Stop
I shoot RAW almost exclusively. Therefore every shot I take needs at least a bit of post processing; usually only noise reduction (anything shot at iso 400 or above with that darn 7D), and a few minor curves adjustments to set the white & black points, brightness, and contrast. Sometimes I’ll do a little dodging […]
Hooded Merganser – Lophdytes cucullatus
What I love about winter in New England is that the pond start to freeze up and it concentrates the ducks and other birds into smaller areas that have open water. At a local pond in Plymouth Massachusetts, it becomes much easier to photograph and observe hooded mergansers. I was able to observe and photograph […]
Bonaparte’s Gull
There are several Bonaparte’s Gulls that have been hanging around the rte 417 bridge over Lake Jesup. This morning I drove by there on my way into work, and three of them were hanging around Overlook Park. A couple of them were flying circles around pier where I was standing. One in particular was very […]
Monjita blanca (White monjita)
La foto es un asco, se nubló, cambiaron todos los colores, se apaga el contraste y el contraluz jugó en contra, pero como la Monjita se posó bien cerca no estaba para desaprovechar la oportunidad y a pesar de todas las contras le saqué una foto.
Golden Winged Cacique
The wet season in South East Brazil runs from November to March. In the atlantic forest, the rain is almost permanent. Sometimes, however, it is possibly to use this critical photography condition as an advantage. This photo was taken on a cloudy day, under a thin rain in the forest of Ubatuba, Brasil . The […]