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Family of Karen in the north of Chiang Mai. Karen's are an important ethnic group in Thailand. Karen's are very welcoming but it was really helpful to have a local guide to communicate.
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Famille Karen au nord de Chiang Mai. Les Karens sont un groupe ethnique important en Thaïlande. Les Karens sont très accueillant mais il était utile d'être avec un guide local pour pouvoir communiquer.
We took a small trail up to Pfaffenberg, next to Lauterburg on the Swabian Alps, Albtrauf. We walked right through small trails with big fir trees, covered in snow. From the viewpoint Pfaffensturz we could see Mt. Rosenstein (735 m) partially covered in mist. Was a nice, small winter hike, with very pleasant wind, temperature and snow conditions. Thanks to my close friend, photographer-buddy and local guide Nicky! :-)
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While heading back from the morning tour we came across this female jaguar just a few hundred meters from our flotel. She was very nervous and only gave us a few seconds before disappearing in the bushes. She also had a prt of her tail missing. Local guides knew her and she wasn't seen for a very long time, so very lucky to have such a special moment. I had my camera already stowed but as we saw some raptors just a few minutes before this jaguar encounter i still had it out...luckily. So i learned again to be ready at any time ...
Pantanal, Brazil
Northern Sea Otter - Enhydra lutris kenyoni
This pair of otters put on quite a show, playfully grooming in Cordova Harbor.
This was a consolation prize for the very slow birding. A local guide/friend told us "we should have been there last week". Usually this is a good spot for shorebirds, but we saw almost nothing.
I had the opportunity to visit - together with a local guide - one of the poorer sections of Soweto Township near Johannesburg, South Africa. I also visited a development project called "Kliptown Youth Program" (KYP).
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Jordan is an amazing country and as usual I have made a short film to capture our experience to this stunning ancient land. Have a look; I am sure you would like it.
Exploring the Timeless Beauty of Jordan
This is one of the image that was always in my mind when I went back to Jordan this April. Unfortunately; it is way more complex to arrange the logistic for this image than capturing the image itself. So I had to improvise.
Just to make sure that I don't misguide anyone; I will add in how this was captured.
Access to the archaeological site of Petra is not possible after sunset. However; with a local guide I made some arrangement where they allowed me to stay there 2 hours after the sunset. But the Milkyway would only align like this close to midnight and I will be kicked out by 9PM.
So how would I capture the image? Well that is where some planning came handy. After some careful map study; I found a hill outside the archaeological site, but high enough to give me an unrestricted view of the Milkyway and also points to the right direction.
So the plan was; I would capture the Monastery between 20:30 and 21:00. The go out and climb that hill and stay there till mid night to capture the Milkyway and blend them together to come close to how it would look around mid night at that location itself.
There is a local Bedouin shop just next to the Monastery and they have installed some powerful LED lights and that was completely ruining the image. So I requested them to switch it off. But they can't it is lit with solar and light sensor. There are no switch to switch it off. They understood the problem and one of the person of the shop covered it with his jacket. So kind of him. But it was still creating a little ambient light. Initially I was a bit sceptical about it; but in fact I liked that effect from the ambient light.
However; it felt a bit flat. That gate of the Monastery looks so mysterious. I had to do something about it to make it some kind of gateway. To hell or heaven; I let you interpret that. At the same time I needed to make a contrast. So the red light of my head torch came into rescue.
I hate taking images of architecture that looks like falling off the frame and all the straight lines of the wall converging at the top. This is exactly what happens when you capture such grand architecture with a wide angle lens. As at this location I would only capture the Monastery; I tool my trusty 17MM Tilt Shift lens with me. With the tilt function it helps keeping the lines of the architecture exactly how it should be.
We were kicked out of the place by the security at 22:00. After the 45 mins walk to the parking I let my guide go and went to the base of the hill. Parked my car. Swapped the camera, grabbed the astro gears and climbed an hour to the top of the hill.
Now a surprising thing happened. The city of the Petra is behind the Monastery, so it creates good amount of light pollution. However where I went is behind the city of Petra and I am looking at a direction where there are no cities for around 80 KMs and I would capture the Milkyway a bit high in the sky, so no light pollution. I would be honest; this means; if I would have captured the Milkyway from exactly the location of Monastery; I would have had way more light pollution.
But after all those effort; I would take it. The mid night arrived and I captured the Milkyway exactly on the angle I wanted it to be and later an easy processing of the foreground and the Milkyway separately and blend them together made this image possible.
For some who wants to know equipment; here are some details.
Monastery (Foreground)
Canon R5
Canon EF 17MM TSE
F4 ISO 400 4 Minutes for the Monastery
4 light frames and 1 dark frame
F5.6 ISO 100 15 Seconds for the Monastery Gate
Sky
H-Alpha Modified Nikon D850
Sigma 28MM F1.4 Art
Benro Polaris Astro Tracker
F4 ISO 400 4 Minutes
4 light frames and one dark frame
F2.8 ISO 1600 4 Minutes (Using a 12 NM H-Alpha Filter to boost the red Hydrogen Alpha light intensity in the image)
4 light frames
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I had the opportunity to visit - together with a local guide - one of the poorer sections of Soweto Township near Johannesburg, South Africa. I also visited a development project called "Kliptown Youth Program" (KYP). There I took this portrait of a schoolgirl.
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El Parque Nacional de Andasibe-Mantadia es un área protegida de 155 kilómetros cuadrados que consiste principalmente de bosque primario que se encuentra en la región de Alaotra-Mangoro en el este de Madagascar. La elevación del parque oscila entre 900-1250 metros de altitud, con un clima húmedo. La precipitación media anual es de 1.700 mm, con una precipitación de 210 días de cada año. Esta selva tropical es el hábitat de una gran especie de la biodiversidad, incluyendo muchas especies endémicas raras y en peligro de extinción, incluyendo 11 especies de lémures. Dos componentes del parque son el Parque Nacional Mantadia y la Reserva Analamazoatra, que es más conocida por su población del lémur más grande de Madagascar, el Indri.
Este es uno de los parques en Madagascar más fáciles para visitar desde la capital, Antananarivo, con un viaje de 3 horas en coche hacia el este por una carretera asfaltada, la Ruta Nacional 2 (RN 2). Si bien la sede de Analamazaotra y del parque son paseos cortos desde Antsapanana sobre la RN 2, un transporte especial debe estar contratado en los hoteles locales para llegar a Mantadia. Las caminatas van desde 1-6 horas y suelen estar disponibles en las dos partes del parque. Se requiere un guía local para los visitantes que entran en el parque.
La principal amenaza para éste parque viene de la desaparición de hábitat contiguo fuera del parque. Esta desaparición ha sido causado principalmente por la tala y sustitución de selva tropical con especies comerciales de eucalipto australiano y bosques de pinos chinos, y en menor medida por la tala y quema para el cultivo del arroz, que se ve agravada por la extremadamente alta tasa de crecimiento de la población y la pobreza en el Madagascar rural.
Para hacer frente a la amenaza de desaparición del hábitat, las reservas se han creado en las cercanías de Andasibe-Mantadia que potencian los recursos de equilibrio con la protección del medio ambiente, y el intento de crear alternativas económicas y ambientalmente preferibles a la sustitución de los bosques nativos por eucaliptos y pinos.
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Andasibe-Mantadia National Park is a 155 square kilometre protected area, located about 150 km east of Antananarivo, consisting principally of primary growth forest in Alaotra-Mangoro Region in eastern Madagascar. The park's elevation ranges from 800 to 1260 meters, with a humid climate. Average annual precipitation is 1700 mm, with rainfall on 210 days of each year. This rainforest is habitat to a vast species biodiversity, including many endemic rare species and endangered species, including 11 lemur species. The park's two component parts are Mantadia National Park and Analamazoatra Reserve, which is best known for its population of Madagascar's largest lemur, the indri.
The national park was nominated in 2007 to become part of the World Heritage Site of Rainforests of the Atsinanana.However, its forests were not selected for the final list.
This is one of the easiest parks in Madagascar to visit from the capital city, Antananarivo, with a 3-hour drive east on a paved road, Route Nationale 2 (RN 2). While Analamazaotra and park headquarters are short walks from Antsapanana on the RN 2, special transport must be arranged or hired from local hotels to reach Mantadia. Hikes ranging from 1–6 hours are typically available in both parts of the park. A local guide is required for visitors entering either part of the park.
The Analamazaotra (or Périnet) Special Reserve (ASR), known locally as Andasibe after the nearby village, was once part of the larger Mantadia National Park which also included Maromizaha Classified Forest to the southeast and Anosibe an’ala to the south. However logging and deforestation for farming has resulted in these parks now being isolated.
The main threat to this park comes from the disappearance of adjoining habitat outside the park. This disappearance has been caused primarily by logging and replacement of rain-forest with commercial Australian eucalyptus and Chinese pine forests, and to a lesser extent by slash-and-burn cultivation for rice agriculture, which is exacerbated by the extremely high population growth rate and poverty in rural Madagascar.
To address the disappearing habitat threat, reserves have been created in the vicinity of Andasibe-Mantadia that balance resource extraction with environmental protection, and attempt to create economic and environmentally preferable alternatives to replacing native forests with eucalyptus and pine.
In 2006, the Madagascar Biodiversity Partnership and Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium, in collaboration with Madagascar National Parks and Eaux et Fôret initiated the Analamazaotra Re-introduction/Translocation (ART) project to reintroduce two endangered species of lemur back into the park. The aim was to take lemurs from threatened areas where habitat loss means the incumbent population is unsustainable, and relocate them to the relative safety of the Analamazaotra Special Reserve. The program followed the IUCN re-introduction/translocation guidelines, with family group monitoring before and after translocation.
By 2014, the ART project had reintroduced three groups comprising 26 diademed sifaka and 8 black-and-white ruffed lemur into the park. The project's multi-disciplinary team tracked the reintroduced groups using radio collars, and collected fecal samples to evaluate biomedical, genetic, habitat, nutritional and reproductive characteristics of the lemurs.
The project has so far been very successful, and visitors to this popular reserve have been lucky enough to see two generations of babies born at the park. The ART project also helps the local community by education and provides two local guides.
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Kenya. Baringo county.
BARINGO LAKE and the POKOT PEOPLE VIDEO
Morning guided hike with Augustine. (local guide, living in the village next to Soi Safari lodge
Echis pyramidum is a species of venomous viper endemic to Northeast Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Three subspecies are currently recognized, including the nominate subspecies described here.
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While talking to a local guide he told me that every night when he is finished working he looks up at the milky way and is still astonished by its beauty, even though he has seen it hundreds of times already.
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Taquile (Spanish: Isla de Taquile; Quechua: Intika) is an island on the Peruvian side of Lake Titicaca 45 km offshore from the city of Puno.
The inhabitants, known as Taquileños, speak Puno Quechua.
Taquileños are known for their fine handwoven textiles and clothing, which are regarded as among the highest-quality handicrafts in Peru. Knitting is exclusively performed by males, beginning in early boyhood. Women spin wool and use vegetables and minerals to dye the wool to be used by the community. Women are also the weavers of the Chumpis, the wide belts with woven designs worn by everyone in the community of Taquile.
Taquileans are known for having created an innovative, community-controlled sustainable tourism model, offering home stays, transportation, lodging for groups, cultural activities, local guides and restaurants.
We arrived in the middle of a parade of bikini beauties, drone fliers, and their long-suffering local guides. All the other visitors took turns standing on the rock for their social media selfies. Nobody understood why I did not wish to be the star of my photo! It was literally incomprehensible that we would come to a waterfall and not take a selfie.
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okaaay, ô_õ here i’m again with my bazooka lens, ^o^lols i was aboard on this tiny fiberglass boat with my crew when mr. Sempurno *the boat rower* told mr. Agus *my local guide and translator* that a big lens was pointing at our direction. no doubt, another spy shoot of me! lols ò_ó it was Con Foley’s big lens ^o^lols. a wildlife photographer whom i’d a great opportunity to meet on that day.
let’s be perfectly honest, no glamorous looking person can be seen here ó_ò hahah… ó_ò sweat was pouring my face, dripping into my eyes and camera’s viewfinder; i was feeling like i was inside of a turkish bath fully dressed… and hOly mOley, mites, ants and spiders had plugged my pores and, left annoying itching red pustules. lols and also in this marvelous technicolor scenario my hair was a soaking wet mess inside my hat. ^o^ but hey, i loved the show that was rolling in front of my eyes, although this performance was only for no more than 20minutes per day. ö_ö ö_ö ö_ö
photography taken at Taman Burung Lagoon
Nusa Dua – Bali – Indonesia
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okaaay, ô_õ aqui estou outra vez com a minha lente bazuca, ^o^lols eu estava a bordo neste barco minúsculo de fibra de vidro, com a minha equipe, quando o sr. Sempurno *o remador do barco* disse para o sr. Agus *meu guia local e tradutor* que uma lente grande estava em pontaria em nossa direção. sem dúvidas, outro spy shoot de mim! lols era a enorme lente de Con Foley ^o^lols. um fotógrafo da vida selvagem quem eu tive a grande oportunidade de conhecer nesse dia.
ò_ó sejamos perfeitamente honestos, nenhuma pessoa glamorosa pode ser vista aqui ó_ò ahuahuah…ó_ò suor diluviava meu rosto, goteja nos meus olhos e no visor da câmera; sentia-me como se eu estivesse no interior de um banho turco completamente vestida… e nOssa, pequenos parasitas, formigas e aranhas haviam plugado os meus poros e, deixaram pústulas vermelhas que coçavam irritantemente. lols e também neste maravilhoso cenário tecnicolorado, meus cabelos eram uma massa encharcada dentro do meu chapéu. ^O^ mas, êi, amei o show que rolava na frente dos meus olhos, ainda que este desempenho era só por não mais do que 20minutos por dia. ö_ö ö_ö ö_ö
fotografado na lagoa de Taman Burung
Nusa Dua – Bali – Indonésia
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Sunset at Lake Lhanquihue, at Puerto Varas, Chile.
Its figure ideally synthesizes what a volcano is. Its unique colors, as well as its slopes and a summit that remains covered with white, unspoilt snow almost 365 days a year.
Standing almost 60 kilometers to the Northwest of Puerto Varas, it reaches a height of 2,661 meters above sea level. Its great height makes it visible from every point in the district of Osorno, even in some places on Chiloé Island. Therefore, it represents an impressive and typical postcard of the region. With its classical blackish dark green color and ornamented with arms of eternal snow, its presence attracts the thousands of tourists who visit it every year. Looking at its summit is mesmerizing and it is the destination for various climbing excursions.
The volcano may be ascended from Puerto Kloker, Ensenada and Petrohué. Ascents take approximately 6 hours and, in most cases, groups are organized to climb in the company of a local guide. It is advisable to wear thermic clothes, sunglasses, sun protection, water and, of course, comfortable climbing footwear.
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It is difficult to know exactly how many Glossy Ibises have occurred in Britain as birds can wander widely, and stay for a long time. My first two sightings involved two birds that wandered around Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Kent from 1975 to 1992, though their favourite spot was Stodmarsh in Kent. They are smaller than most people expect, only about the size of a Curlew. There were lots of Moorhens feeding on the marshy grassland at St Aidans and it didn't stand out as being noticeably larger than these when scanning with binoculars. This view in the sunshine shows the green and bronze gloss on the wings that gave rise to its name, though prior to 1812 (Pennant) it was known as Black Ibis. Its scientific name Plegadis falcinellus comes from the Greek and Latin words for a sickle, from the bill shape, though Falcinellus (Latin for little sickle) was an Italian name for Glossy Ibis.
The ancient Greek authors recognised three different types of ibis; Glossy, Sacred and Bald. Fredrick Hasselqvist (1722-52) was a student of Linnaeus and then became one of his "apostles". Hasselqvist visited the Middle East (Asia Minor, Cyprus, Egypt and Palestine) to assist Linnaeus who regretted the lack of information from this region. During his time in Egypt his local guide persuaded him that the Cattle Egret was actually the Sacred Ibis of Ancient Egypt. Hasselqvist died on the way home from his trip but his papers reached Linnaeus, who perpetuated the myth by bestowing the scientific name ibis on the Cattle Egret; Ardea ibis (now Bubulcus ibis).