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The Amazon Kingfisher is about a foot (30cm) long with a long heavy bill. It is found from the Mexican states of Sinaloa and Tamaulipas south through Central America into Colombia and Venezuela and separately east of the Andes in every South American country except Chile, reaching as far south as central Argentina.
Photographed May 7th in Costa Rica on tour with Neotropic Photo Tours, led by Juan Carlos Vindas.
Amazon kingfisher just emerging out of the water with its catch. From the moment they leave their branch to dive in for the fish and come back up it seems it's just a second. I took hundred of shots this day and most of them show only water or just a part of this fast moving bird.
Pantanal, Brazil
Teatro Amazonas
Ornamentos sobre as colunas do piso térreo – é uma homenagem aos grandes dramaturgos e compositores clássicos.
Manaus
Amazonas, Brasil
Art week Gallery Theme
18 June to 24 June our theme is:
~~~ My Favorite Museum ~~~
SEASPAN AMAZON
London Gateway
ANTWERP >>> LONDON GATEWAY
IMO: 9630391 - Built 2014
Container Ship - 337m X 48m
Rio Verde makes a 90º turn to the left and narrows right before it plunges over the cliff.
Located near Baños de Agua Santa, Ecuador, Devil Falls (Pailón del Diablo) is the tallest cascade in Ecuador at 262 feet (80 meters) high. It's formed where Rio Verde plunges into the massive canyon formed by Rio Pastaza on the eastern slope of the Andes. Rio Verde narrows suddenly and all the water is forced through a narrow rock chute so that it is hurled with great force at an angle over the side of the cliff into the caldron below where it continues down a steep crevasse to Rio Pastaza. Rio Pastaza is the traditional gateway into the Amazon basin that begins in eastern Ecuador. It was known to the earliest Spanish colonizers who formed multiple expeditions to find the legendary city of gold, El Dorado. Many died trying without ever finding the city, of course.
By far the most common kingfisher that we encountered during our time in the Cano Negro Wildlife Refuge in Costa Rica was the Amazon Kingfisher. This female was quite a great model.
We will be doing this trip again next spring, if you think you might be interested more information is available here: www.texastargetbirds.com/group-photo-trips/2018-costa-ric...
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Chloroceryle amazona
While taking a dip in the Amazon today, I saw this Piranha staring at me intending to nibble on my toes. :-))
The third installment in mine and Bartu's Amazon collaboration: Destruction.
There are many threats to the Amazon forest, one of them being small illegal gold mines that both destroys and poisons the forest by ruining the soil and dumping mercury waste. This build portrays such a mine.
This is a more somber theme than the previous two, as is the intention. Colors are more muted, with more olive and dark green. The dark tan ground is mostly exposed with vegetation struggling.
The whole setup is very makeshift and temporary, and nothing here is made to last. People are here to get what they can and then move on, giving no care to what state they leave things in. I tried to portray this by making things rather messy and cluttered.
One of the things I was pondering for a while was the inclusion of minifigs in the build. I've had many interesting conversations on whether it would be wise to include them or not. It was important for the build that the issues were not trivialized by making it childish or less natural. With a medium that is often seen as a toy this can sometimes be tricky. For this purpose I went with flesh heads rather than yellow ones, and made sure to avoid any polarizing facial expressions, like the standard "bad guy" faces.
Though certainly not innocent, the workers are not the main culprits in this, but rather other people who are far away from what is actually happening, bear the biggest blame. Often these people who are the main cause of this are not even found in South America, but may reside in Europe, Asia or North America, and this was something that was unfortunately not possible to portray in this build.
When it comes to Lego techniques, much of the focus here was on the man-made parts, which I don't build that often. The nature is not really something new, but I do like the staggered wedge plates technique for a varied incline.
On his side, Bartu created some fantastic sounds, made by on his violin, mimicking the sounds of ongoing destruction of the forest.
Hope you like the build, and that you feel this issue has been properly portrayed.
Amazon Kingfisher (Amazonasfischer - Chloroceryle amazona), January 2017, Los Dos Laredo Park, Texas
Arguably the longest river in the world, the Amazon meanders its way from the towering Andes in Peru to the sweeping coastline of Brazil, where it empties into the vast Atlantic Ocean. The Amazon River and its tributaries is located in Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, and Brazil. The entire river measures over 4,000 miles from its source to the river mouth. However, the exact length of the Amazon is arguable as the location of its start and end points have both been disputed historically. The Amazon River is currently alleged to be 6,992 kilometers long.*
*https://www.rainforestcruises.com/amazon-river-peru-map
A composite image of the wreck of the Amazon under southern starry skies. I'm not sure about posting this as it's not my usual style: I like to use infrared, long exposures, modified lenses and tilt-shifts to create an interpretation that is still strongly linked to the subject in front of me. In this case I've combined a single 2-second image of the shoreline with a 21-minute night sky exposure taken 3 weeks later from my backyard.
I really like the end result but it just doesn't feel honest, in the way of my usual techniques.
A candid photo taken in the Amazon area a few miles up river from Iquitos, Peru. A black and white cropped edit from a previous upload.
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SEmetro_2020-07-08__MG_7373 Here she is perched nicely and the first one I have seen since last year
Arguably the longest river in the world, the Amazon meanders its way from the towering Andes in Peru to the sweeping coastline of Brazil, where it empties into the vast Atlantic Ocean. The Amazon River and its tributaries is located in Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, and Brazil. The entire river measures over 4,000 miles from its source to the river mouth. However, the exact length of the Amazon is arguable as the location of its start and end points have both been disputed historically. The Amazon River is currently alleged to be 6,992 kilometers long.*
*https://www.rainforestcruises.com/amazon-river-peru-map
Another snap shot of one of my husbands Amazon Tree Frogs. The eyes are amazing they also have a blue tongue .
Milk frogs are highly arboreal and in nature rarely if ever come down from their home in the trees which is why they require extra habitat and frog supplies. Provide perches above ground such as cork bark, bamboo trigs etc. Artificial plants or live plants can also be used.
If you like, join me on a journey down the Amazon River. From Iquitos in northern Peru to Belem in Brasil. A cruise of 4200 km
Visit Amazon River Now!
Place: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Glint/213/27/22
Full of wonderful plants reproducing real life on the amazon river!
The fourth and last installment of mine and Bartu's Amazon collaboration - Regrowth :)
Of all four builds I found this to be the hardest. Not in terms of time and effort, but in striking a balance. The idea is to show nature reclaiming land that has been misused, showing that nature has the strength to recover. At the same time, I didn't want to show it too overgrown, as nature needs time, lots of time, to grow back. I also wanted it to be clear that this was a new forest in the making.
As such, there had to be enough vegetation to show that nature was taking over, but not so much that the signs of human interference were lost in the build. I'm not confident that I got all the way there, but it was a good try hopefully :)
Not much in terms of innovation in this build. Basically a lot of the same things that I used in the third build, but broken and covered.
Hope you enjoyed the build! I think it's one of those that could be improved quite a bit on hindsight, but I think it still turned out ok :)
This image, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission, shows the Amazon River meandering through one of the most vital ecosystems in the world – the Amazon rainforest in South America.
This image has been processed in a way that shows water bodies, such as the Amazon River, in blue. The Amazon river begins its journey in the Andes and makes its way east through six South American countries before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean on the northeast coast of Brazil. The river has a length of around 6400 km – the equivalent of the distance from New York City to Rome.
The Amazon is considered the widest river in the world with a width of between 1.6 and 10 km, but expands during the wet season to around 50 km. With more than 1000 tributaries, the Amazon River is the largest drainage system in the world in terms of the volume of its flow and the area of its basin. As a consequence of its ever-changing flow, older riverbeds can be seen as thin lines around the main river at the top of the image.
One of its tributaries, the Javari River, or Yavari River, is visible as a thinner blue line weaving through the tropical rainforest. The river flows for 870 km, forming the border between Brazil and Peru, before joining the Amazon River.
In the image, cities and built-up areas are visible in cyan, for example the cities of Tabatinga and Leticia with two airports are easily identifiable in the far-right. The yellow and orange colours in the image show the surrounding Amazon forest.
The colours of this week’s image come from the combination of two polarisations from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 radar mission, which have been converted into a single image.
As radar images provide data in a different way than a normal optical camera, the images are usually black and white when they are received. By using a technology that aligns the radar beams sent and received by the instrument in one orientation – either vertically or horizontally – the resulting data can be processed in a way that produces coloured images such as the one featured here. This technique allows for a better distinction of features on the ground.
This image, acquired on 3 March 2019, is also featured on the Earth from Space video programme.
Credits: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2019), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
Dedicated to my friend Maria Rafaela (LightSpectral). Happy birthday to you!!!
Thanks, Ilca, once more time. You made the difference. Amazon River, Brasil.
Have a good day my friends.
Esta é a primeira de algumas fotos que revelam um lugar especial, no Amazonas, e que infelizmente "ainda" não conheço: São Gabriel da Cachoeira.
Quando as vi, não pude resistir e quis "guardá-las" aqui, assim como mostrar a quem acessar estas páginas, um pouco dessa linda terra.
(os créditos das fotos são de Elizeu Malvão, militar e marido de uma grande amiga minha, Cleo, que viajou a trabalho p/ esse "paraíso" e gentilmente cedeu as fotos p/ editá-las aqui)
Amazon Spheres | NBBJ / Site Workshop (landscape design) | Seattle, Washington.
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Arguably the longest river in the world, the Amazon meanders its way from the towering Andes in Peru to the sweeping coastline of Brazil, where it empties into the vast Atlantic Ocean. The Amazon River and its tributaries is located in Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, and Brazil. The entire river measures over 4,000 miles from its source to the river mouth. However, the exact length of the Amazon is arguable as the location of its start and end points have both been disputed historically. The Amazon River is currently alleged to be 6,992 kilometers long.*
*https://www.rainforestcruises.com/amazon-river-peru-map